Why cry? Speak!

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1 ...in the house of the Lord. So good to be here, and in the service of the Lord our God.
Now, this is always a privilege for me to come to church, but to come to Brother Junior's here, it's just a little extra privilege. I've knowed Brother Junior for some time, and I was so glad to see him get in this good old Gospel way and go out preaching the Word. See the Lord blessing him and the people all honoring him, that's just wonderful.
Now, I know there was some people here this morning that had drove a long ways and got to go back tonight perhaps maybe go to work tomorrow, for many miles and down in Ohio ... or, up in Ohio, I meant to say. And I kind of lost my directions ... up in Ohio. And then we promised that tonight we would have a prayer line. So we don't want to hold you too long (It's hot.) and then for our prayer line.
But we know that you have already been blessed by the singing and whatever you have done; it's been blessed for you. And we're trusting to God now, that He will just continue to be with us and bless us and give the desire of our heart. Now, you put everything you got right into the service, all your attention, all the honesty and sincerity that you can. And I've been in prayer this afternoon now for the service tonight.

2 And now, I hope to get back and be with you again soon. And you all visit us up at the Tabernacle. We feel that this little church is a sister church to the Tabernacle. That's what is it; it's just a little sister church of the Tabernacle---this, and up at Brother Graham's, and around. And so we're happy to visit our little sister tonight. And we trust that little sister will grow, and grow, and grow to a great lady. And I believe she will too, by the grace and the help of the Lord.
As Paul told Timothy, "Be instant in season, out of season, be instant, reprove, rebuke, with all long-suffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they'll not endure sound doctrine; but after ears ... itching of their ears; will heap teachers..."

3 So we are ... knowing that God being with us is one of the greatest things.
I was in the room this afternoon praying, and I thought, "What is a greater something to know than you are saved." Now, just tell me what would be greater.
I said to a friend of mine, Brother Evans. I said, "Brother Evans, if I had a little button here that I could press, and I would go back to twenty years old, and would be twenty years old for ten thousand years, and be king over all the earth, and never get a bit older, just stay that age; have everything in the world in my own hands, and live in luxury for ten thousand years, and then be lost at the end of the ten thousand years, or press another button and die immediately with eternal life." I said, "I'd press the button for eternal life and not even take the second thought." For what if...
And then he turned and he said, "Correctly."

4 What if we had lived ten thousand years, and tonight at eight or nine o'clock our ten thousand years was up. There you are. So there's nothing greater than eternal life. And it's for all of us: "Whosoever will may come."
Now, God is not going to hold a man responsible because he's a sinner, because he was borned a sinner. But what God is going to hold a man responsible for, is because that he remains a sinner. He don't have to remain a sinner, for there is a provision made for his justification through Jesus Christ. So we are trusting tonight if there be some inside or out who has not yet accepted Christ, that this will be the night that something will be said or done that'll wake you up to the place that you know you need Christ. And then if you just accepted Him as your personal Saviour, and have not yet received the Holy Ghost, I trust that tonight you will receive it.

5 I see some of the Tabernacle folks here. I'm going to say this about the big sister. One thing that the Tabernacle needs up there at our church, at the Tabernacle at Jeff., is a rededication and a refilling of the Holy Ghost, right. Everyone to get down to the altar and pray until they get a renewing of the Holy Ghost. The whole church be filled with the power of God. That's what we need. Not only the Tabernacle there, but the body of Christ, universal. It needs a refilling.
I like... David said one day, "Restore to me the joy of my salvation." Now, he had not lost his salvation, but the joy of it. And when it comes to a place that I can't enjoy my religion, my salvation, there's something wrong somewhere; because it is joy unspeakable and full of glory. One of them said, "Taste and see the Lord is good. It tastes like honey in the rock." Oh, I'm so glad that I have tasted that. The Lord is good. And I love honey, but I never tasted any like that. That's the best that I know.

6 Now, we're going to hurry right into the service and see if we can let the church out early so the people can go to their places of worship ... or, work tomorrow, and their homes. And now we are anticipating a great meeting out on the west coast right away. And we're asking and soliciting the prayers of this church, and all these people to pray for me.
This morning there was something happened. I've never went hardly to a little church unless God especially done something for me. I just love that. And this morning, after I had gotten through preaching, perfectly in order, the Holy Spirit fell among us, and gave a message through Brother Jackson that has just stuck with me all afternoon. Frankly, I'm getting the tape so I can play it over and over. I can get it. For recently I've been feeling (My wife here knows, I've been telling her.), that the Lord was going to visit me with some way, right away. And it might have been that message this morning, because it's give me a different view. It gave me a text that I wish to speak on for a few moments.

7 I wish to read now out of the book of Exodus the fourteenth chapter, and the fifteenth verse:
And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward:
May I read the sixteenth also:
But lift ... up thy rod, ... stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall pass on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
May the Lord add His blessings to the reading of His Word. And now, let us bow our heads just a moment for prayer. And if there's any peoples here that would like to be remembered in this prayer, may you let it be known to God by an uplifted hand. The Lord grant to you your desire.

8 Lord, we now solemnly and honorably and childlike, walk on the sacred grounds of prayer. We lay aside every weight, every sin, every thought that does so easily beset us, that we might run with patience the race that's set before us. And as we move into these blessed sacred sands of prayer, knowing this, that Jesus said, "Ask the Father anything in my name, I will do it." And again it is written: "If ye abide in me and my word in you, ask what you will and it shall be done unto you."
Then we come, Lord, not in the name of this little church, or in the name of its pastor, though we love them; or not in our own name, because we have nothing to offer through it; but we come in that all sufficient name of the Lord Jesus who gave us the promise that if we ask in His name we could receive whatever we ask. And we would not want to ask anything that was amiss. We would want to ask only that which would be pleasing to You. You know our conditions; You know what we have need of; You know what this little church has need of and what each individual has need of. We had prayed Thee, Lord God, to give to us severally as we have needs. May the great Holy Spirit move down upon this building, and around these people, and sanctify this group that the Holy Spirit might have the right away through every heart here tonight, from the least of the children to the oldest. Grant it, Lord.

9 These hands that were lifted up, You most surely seen them, Lord; if a sparrow could not fall in the street without You knowing it, how much more do You know when a child of Yours lifts its hand towards heaven for bread. We are promised that it will not receive a stone instead. We know that You shall give them the bread that they ask for.
And we would ask to remember all that's sick and afflicted. So glad to hear from Brother Rogers, that he said he felt well enough to go to work. We are so glad for that, Lord. Praying that You will heal him, that that cancer will not have the right of way but will be stopped by the blood of the Lord Jesus. By faith we place the blood of the Lord Jesus between the death cancer and our brother. Now, we ask for all that's needy everywhere, get glory to Thyself, honor Thy Word, Lord, as we have read it, and give us a great healing service. For the glory of God we ask it in the name of the Lord Jesus. Amen.

10 For our text tonight I would like to use the three words: "Why Cry? Speak." And for a subject I would like to use: "The Attitude of People Towards God's Anointed." Just for a short time, perhaps twenty minutes, or thirty, then we will start the prayer line.

11 God had called Moses, a special calling. And when God calls a man and anoints him for a certain duty, He expects that man to carry that out to the letter. God doesn't want to give a man a commission and him hem-haw around about it. He wants him to go straight forward and do just exactly what he's commissioned to do. Don't look right or left. Just move forward.
And the children of Israel had been in bondage for some four hundred years. But God had promised that He would visit them. And God keeps every promise that He makes! He cannot lie; He's God! And the time had come for this visitation. And I believe tonight, paralleling, that God made a promise that He would return again. And I believe that we are near that time. This morning when I was speaking on that subject, I could almost feel the current, as to say that the nearness of the Lord Jesus...

12 Now, Moses being called for this purpose, but he was a man; God trained him eighty years before He ever was able to use him. Forty years in the palace and forty years in the wilderness. God can train a man, take Him a hundred years for thirty minutes work. God knows how to train. What the schools had put in Moses forty years had taken forty years to get it out.
But one time in the presence of the anointing, one time in the presence of the burning bush, he knowed more about God than he had learned in books in the eighty years of his life. God trains His men, then anoints them. Gives them experience, takes them through the rigored training, down through the sands of burning punishment, trying, testing. Not only does He do that to His prophets, but He does it to His children. Every son that cometh to God must be chastened and tried, tested by His Word.
See, when the pinch comes, the strong time, when it faces death, are you able to stand there on the Word of God, say, "God said so. That settles it."

13 And God had called such a man, and that man was Moses. But Moses, a great deal like us, every time it come a place that something had to be done, Moses called out, "O Lord, what must I do in this place?" Now, isn't that just like we do? God had blessed him and anointed him above his brethren, give him a message and a ministry that had not been on the earth since that day ... until that day. And yet every time something taken place, Moses went off to God with it. "Lord, what must I do? What must I do in this case?" God got kind of tired of it, I believe. Said, "Why you crying to Me? Speak to the people and go forward."

14 My, if any time it ever looked like they ought to retreat, was then. But God has no retreat! There's no place to retreat in God; go forward. The doctor says it's cancer, go forward! If he says it's TB, go forward! If the devil says you can't give this up, go forward! If your home says that you're going to be a fanatic, go forward! The church turns you out, go forward! There's no retreating back, go forward! Speak and go forward. Speak what? His Word, and go forward, "Thus saith the Lord," and move on. Cry to the people.
But the people then rebelled, and said, "It would've been better that we died down in Egypt. It'd a been better that we had our graves marked then from the hyenas and the vultures that picked our bones in this wilderness. Why did you bring us out here?" After they had seen that God had approved Moses to be His servant.

15 When God comes into a person, or to persons, into a congregation, into a man or a woman, He vindicates His presence. God proves that He's there. For when God comes, supernatural signs begin to appear. This person becomes a changed person. They're not no more like they used to be. Sin has vanished from their life. Fear and doubt has vanished (flusteration). They're solid, stable; live or die, it's Christ! They don't care what comes or what goes; nothing shakes them. They move forward.

16 And Moses fretted with the people, and the people fretted to Moses. And he said, "What must we do?" And "Go forward" was the answer. Now, they said, "We are out in this wilderness, and the armies of Pharaoh is approaching us. They're camped just behind us." But Moses knew to obey God.
And if God sends a representative, and He anoints this representative, and sends it into the world, the people must obey that representative. It's always been that way, all down through the Bible. Moses is called for the job; God has said in the Word He would do it; He promised that He would send such a thing in that day to deliver them. And God did His part: sent Moses. And the children of Israel, just because little stumbles and things come along to try them, they failed to march with Moses.
Now, isn't that just like today? We see the message come forth, we see the church rise to a place on the wings of the Holy Spirit until the power of God thrills every person in there. The glory of God falls around, and signs and wonders take place; less than a week, Satan is permitted to come into that congregation. Why does he do it? God permits it! And then the church begins to murmur, fall back. "Maybe it wasn't so." There's where we fail! That's the failing of the church! Regardless of what takes place, it's God! Move forward!

17 Well say, "There's Brother So-and-So. I shouted the victory with him, but he's back..." No matter what he done, that has nothing to do with you. "Well, so-and-so professor said that that wasn't right, that wasn't of the Lord." No matter what professor said so, you are the guy that stood on the sacred grounds. You are the guy was at the burning bush.
What, professors in Egypt... What if Pharaoh would have said to Moses, "Oh, you just imagined you seen a bush; you thought you had a ... that was a roaring in your ears."
Moses knew where he stood! Moses knew what talked to him! And every man that's born of the Spirit of God knows what talks to him when the Holy Ghost comes. It speaks of peace that passes understanding.

18 Moses was called. Then after Moses receiving his call, he went down to Egypt. Then he's got to get the people to believe him. Now, he was the anointed prophet of the Lord, but the people didn't believe him. Though God proved it by signs and wonders that He did. And because they didn't believe Moses, the servant of the Lord, then they fell in the wilderness and everyone of them died that left Egypt. Not a one of them was saved. Everyone died and perished besides Joshua and Caleb, that started out. Because they murmured and complained against the vindicated message that God had spoke in the Bible.
Oh, when I think of that! When God promises anything, God keeps His Word. And when God confirms that Word to you, then believe it. God promised in the last days "He'd pour out His Spirit upon all flesh, and your young men would see visions, the old men would dream dreams, and upon my handmaids and maidservants will I pour out of My Spirit." He'd show signs in the heavens, and in the earth, and great signs and wonders would take place in the last days. And here we are in the last days, and God is keeping His Word. The Holy Spirit's here! And it vindicates the coming of the Lord Jesus. And the people turn it down and murmur against it. Just like it was...

19 That's our deliverance. Moses was the sign post of the deliverance of Israel according to God's Word. The time drew nigh; God sent Moses; he was God's light for that day. And today the time's drawing nigh. Atomic bombs are ready; the world's going to be blown to pieces pretty soon. Ashes all over the earth, nothing but volcanic ashes. The time is at hand. And God promised He'd pour out His Spirit and take His church out! And the Holy Ghost is here representing that. With signs and wonders proving that He is the same Jesus Christ in the form of the Holy Ghost doing the same work that He did when He was here on earth. Blinds the people; the Gospel always blinds the people if they don't open their eyes. You either walk or it blinds the people.
Yes, every case in the Bible, when God sent a messenger and that messenger was received, there was a revival in that time. But if they was not received, there was no revival, but just chaos followed the unbelief. So is it today, nothing less. I think today...

20 I'd like to make mention of one woman that I think of in the Bible, and she was bad to begin with, rotten to the core. A young beautiful woman, by the name of Rahab. She was a heathen to start with, and she was a prostitute on the street. But she heard that there was a God, not an idol that sat dumb, or a declaration of creeds, but a God who lived among His people and anointed them, and signs and wonders was following them. She heard about it.
One day two representatives come to Jericho. And quickly---her on the street as a prostitute---she called them, took them into her house, said, "They're after you." And she hid them. And I like her attitude. She never said, "I will believe when I see the great anointed Joshua do some signs. If I could've seen Moses do some of the signs, I would've believed." But she said, "I have heard."
Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word. "I have heard that the God of heaven, who is the real God, is with you all. And He's done great signs and wonders. He dried up the Red Sea; He brought plagues upon Egypt. We see how He had turned the enemy over to your hands, and our whole country is trembling because of it. I'm asking mercy."

21 She didn't say, "I will have to see this God first. Let me take my judgment, and take what my scripture says about that and..." She'd never found it. But faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Word of God. And she believed.
And when these words was brought back to Joshua... The word Joshua means "Saviour," like Jesus does. When it brought back to Joshua, God's anointed, her house was permitted to stand. And when the people marched thirteen times around the walls of Jericho and sounded the trumpet, every place on that wall fell but her house, because she believed before she seen anything. She accepted it. She said, "They're servants of the most high God, and I will receive it upon the basis of hearing it. I believe it." Faith cometh by hearing. She heard it; she believed it; she accepted it.
And notice, they said, "Bind this scarlet string that you let us down with, bind it in the window." That red spoke of the blood of Jesus, the atonement. And every place in that wall fell but Rahab's house that set on top of the wall. God honored her and she saw as great a miracle performed there, as there it was drying up the Red Sea, for the hand of Jehovah was over that little place to protect it. She had accepted it. God's anointed, God's servants went over there, anointed, and she believed it. Before she seen miracles she believed it anyhow and accepted it.

22 Elijah, the prophet of the Lord, anointed. Oh yes, God anointed him to be prophet. He was pastor Elijah. I don't imagine Jezebel would have wanted to call him that. But he was her pastor just the same. God made him her pastor. So she hated him. And God told him, said, "You go up on the mountain and you sit down there. I've commanded the crows to feed you. I will water you from the brook Cherith." And he sat down there.
And the king said, "Go get that fanatic and bring him down here." And the soldiers, all armed, with the command of the king, they started up the hill, and Elisha probably raised up and said something like this, "Gentlemen, this is a holy spot. I've been called of God to be His prophet. He's commissioned me to stand on these grounds and proclaim His message. And the message that I have for you, 'Don't you approach this ground. (Amen.) Stay off of here, the uncircumcised. Have you not read when Moses, the servant of the Lord, crossed over the river and the uncircumcised tried to impersonate him, they all drowned. Stay, off of this ground.'"
"Ah," they said, "That old quack, what school is he from? We will go in anyhow."
Elijah said, "If I be a man of God, let fire fall from heaven and vindicate my ministry."
And about that time fire fell and burnt up fifty. The king might've said, "Lightning struck them. So he sent another fifty and the same thing happened.

23 Unbelief! Men who mock and scoff and make fun of the anointed church of the living God shall perish someday in a hell. Won't only be burning for a few minutes; it might be a long time.
So it's holy ground; God's anointed stands on there. No uncircumcised or unclean thing can enter that spot. That is true. If the impersonators try to act like that they're doing it, you'll find out they'll soon come to naught.
But what does the impersonators vindicate? That there is a real. There's a real God. There's some people who wants to... They don't believe it, but they want to act like they believe it. But a person that knows God is a man that's born again of the Holy Ghost and filled with the power of God with a "Thus saith the Lord" and goes forward. They know something has struck their heart. They know that they're right.
So Elisha was a man of God, anointed, that they did not believe.

24 Look at David when he sat with Nathan the prophet. David, a man after God's own heart, and he was the anointed. God anointed him king. David was not only a king, but he was a prophet. So Nathan was a great prophet of the nation. David is more or less a poet than a prophet, song writer, musician. And prophecy really in its original, is more like a song when they prophesied.
Then one day while the prophet and the king was sitting together, David said, "It's not right for me to live in a house of cedar, and the ark of my God under a tent."
And I want you to listen to notable words of Nathan. He said, "David..." (Oh, don't fail to get this now. Get between the lines.) " David, do all that's in your heart, for God is with you." Oh my, when I think of that! "David, do all that's in your heart for God is with you. Why cry to me. God is with you, speak and go forward!"
God's anointed you, move on! Don't hem-haw around, say, this, that, or the other. "Should I believe God? Should I trust Him for this?" Trust Him for every breath that you draw.

25 It was the great General Stonewall Jackson, who's been my favorite general since Joshua. Stonewall Jackson was asked one time, "How can you stand with just a handful of men when the opposition is so great?" That's how he got his name of Stonewall. He would not budge. He knowed no retreat. What could we accredit a man like that to? A man, when the Yankees come down by the thousands, and he stood there in the minority. But they'd never move him. He stood like a stone wall. All of the rest in the rebel army had retreated back. Lines come along, said, "What's the matter with Jackson? Why isn't he going?" He said, "He stands like a stone wall!" That's where he got his title.
The other generals asked him, said, "Mr. Jackson..." A little bitty fellow, black-headed and blue-eyed. Only was about five feet two inches tall, very modest, mild speaking little fellow. Said, "Mr. Jackson, how can you stand in such opposition?"
Bashful like, he kicked his boot on the ground, he said, "I never take a drink of water unless I thank God for it first." That's where it is; there's no retreat in God.

26 "Speak and go forward!" That's right. That's God's commission to His church. We have no time to slack. They say, "The revival's over." It isn't over, go forward! "It's time that Pentecost is played out." It isn't. It's time for Pentecost to rise in the name of Jesus Christ and go forward. There's no retreat. There's no sin on the same ground. Let's move with the Spirit, or the Spirit will move on to somebody else and leave you standing. You follow it. "Do all that's in your heart, for God is with you."
When Jesus came, the Bible said Peter said on the day of Pentecost, "Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you (How?) by signs, miracles, and wonders, which He did in the midst of you all. For you all yourself is a witness to this."
What was He? He was a sign working One, anointed. Another place it said, "Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you." God's approval was upon Him. How did He approve Him? By signs, wonders.
Jesus said, "If I do not the works of my Father, then don't believe me. But if I do the works of my Father, then believe the works if you can't believe me as a man."
In other words He said, "If you can't believe I'm He, you'll perish in your sin. But if you don't believe Me, at least believe the works that I do." Oh, He was approved of God by signs.

27 Nicodemus well expressed it when he came by night and he said, "Good Master, we know that Thou art a teacher come from God." Amen. They couldn't hide it. "We know that You're a teacher come from God, for no man can do the things that You do, the works that You do, 'less God was with him."
They realized that He was approved of God, anointed of God. He was God's servant. The church had to recognize it though they hated Him. They called Him a devil; they tried to find all kinds of excuses. But when it come to face the facts, they believed that He was the anointed One. But they thought more of their tradition than they did the anointing of God.
Men and women today will join some social standings in the church, join some intellectual group because they love to get into intellectual sessions; when they know that the Spirit of God has life and moves! Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And the way He was then, that's the way He is now, and will be forever! And the messenger of God is here, the Holy Ghost. To reject it is death; to receive it is life. Approved.

28 How does people accept it? Now, the Holy Spirit has one message, "Speak the Word, go forward." That's right. Don't cry to me; there's the Word. Speak it and move forward, "Thus saith the Lord." That's the message of the Holy Ghost.
Now, the people began to murmur; they fell. We don't want to murmur. What is the works that Jesus did? He said, "My works declare Me. My works proves who I am. My works vindicates Me." When God sent Moses, the works vindicated him. When God sent Elijah, the works vindicated him. When God anoints a man, His works vindicate him. When God sent the Holy Ghost in this last days, the works vindicate it.
Joining a church, joining an organization, accepting a creed or a doctrine; if that's the Holy Ghost, then there has always been a Holy Ghost in all kinds of religions. But this Holy Ghost has to be the same Holy Ghost that it was back on the day of Pentecost, or it's not that same Holy Ghost. Yes, it has never changed; it's the same Spirit; it has to live forever.

29 Jesus said, "The works that I do, he that believeth on Me..." Saint John 14:7. "He that believeth on Me the works that I do shall he do also." He that believeth on Me. No man can believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of God until he's received the Holy Ghost. You're only taking it by faith and accepting it. You can't say that it is. You can say, "I believe it is." But no man can call Jesus the Christ until the Holy Ghost is in him. The Bible said so. The Holy Spirit has to come in first, then He gives a witness. You know yourself that Jesus is the Christ because He lives in you.

30 Then that same Holy Spirit introduces Himself to the people, and "these signs shall follow them that believe." And the church laughs at it and makes fun of it. We're just living in that day, the atmosphere getting charged up for an atomic bomb, for judgment. The church is getting ready for a rapture. We're waiting, anticipation, waiting; the church is waiting the coming of the Lord. The world is shaking, wondering which one is going to get the bomb first to the other one.
We don't care which one gets there; we're going here. So it doesn't matter which one gets there. It doesn't have a thing to do with us. We're just rejoicing, happy, and believing that one day we will hear a sound from heaven, and here He will come . And His church will be caught up in the air to meet Him and be with Him.

31 "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also." Peter said, "Jesus of Nazareth, a prophet, anointed, anointed and approved of God among you all, which you all yourself know." The Bible said also that God anointed Jesus Christ with the Holy Ghost, that He went about doing good, healing the sick. That was the sign that He was what He claimed to be. That's the way God sends it. That's the way it's supposed to come in the last day. And the Holy Spirit that comes in the last days isn't to draw us to a creed, isn't to draw us to a church. It's to draw us to God, and supernatural signs is to follow that Holy Spirit.

32 What is the signs of the Holy Spirit? If Jesus of Nazareth was a man approved of God, anointed with the Holy Ghost, let's see what kind of a message He had. What did He do? How did He act? See His action, then we can follow His actions.
We find that when He first come on to His ministry to the age of thirty, when He was anointed with the Holy Ghost, the first thing He did, He met a man by the name of Peter. And He told him, said, "Your name is Simon, and you're the son of Jonas."
And he believed Him. Why?
Moses had spoke before His time, and he said, "The Lord your God shall rise a prophet just like me. That'll be the sign you'll know: He will be a God-prophet. That Messiah will be both God and prophet, and He will do the sign of a prophet when He does."

33 Like the Jews today, Lewis Pethrus sent over a million Bibles to those Jews, New Testaments. They comes from down in the other parts of the world, they'd never heard of Jesus. Been down there for twenty-five hundred years. They begin to read that New Testament, and they said, "If this be the Messiah, we know the Messiah will be a God-prophet. If this is the Messiah, and He's not dead, but He's alive again, let us see Him do the sign of the prophet; we will believe Him. For our Messiah is a God-prophet."

34 Jesus said when He met Peter, he said, "Your name is Simon, and your father's name is Jonas." And Peter fell at His feet. He knew that that was who was spoke of. Strictly away went after... Philip went for Nathanael, and told him what he'd found. And when Nathanael came up before Him, He said, "There's an Israelite in whom there's no guile."
Said, "Rabbi, when did You ever know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you when you were under the tree, I saw you."
He said, "You are the Son of God; You're the King of Israel." They knew who that was.

35 That Samaritan, when she said ... He said, "Bring me a drink.", that woman, the nation of Samaria, said, "Oh..."
Said, "Bring me a drink."
Said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans such things as that. I'm a woman of Samaria."
He said, "But if you knew who you were talking to, you would ask me for a drink. I'd give you waters you don't come here to draw."
The conversation went on for awhile till He saw where her troubles was. He said, "Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I have no husband."
Said, "That's right. You've had five, and the one you're living with now is not your husband. You said it well."
She said, "Sir!" Quickly the Spirit of God on that woman! "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet! We know that the Messiah is coming, and when he does, he will tell us these things, but who are you?"
He said, "I am he!"
She dropped that water pot and away she went. She got a drink out of a well that was bubbling up in her soul. She run into the city and said, "Come see a man who's told me the things that I've done. Isn't that the very Messiah?"

36 That was Him yesterday. That's Him today. That's forever the same. "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever." Why do we linger? Why do we wonder? Do we wonder whether God will heal or not? We have seen Him heal the thousands, blind, sick, lame, halt. Those that are dead and pronounced dead, raised up again under the power of the prayer of faith. The Holy Spirit reveals and hundreds are healed---blinded eyes, deaf ears. The world try to ignore it, they try to shake it off, but they can't. It comes right back again. It's before them. You can't shake Him off your hands.

37 When Pentecost first sprung up forty years ago, they said, "It won't last, it's a bunch of holy-rollers." Last? It's the fastest growing church in the world! Last year it produced a million five hundred thousand converts, which is beyond all the rest of the churches put together. One million five hundred thousand last year. There you are.
It's not burning up, it's... It's not burning down; it's burning up. Yes, they say, "They're crazy." They try to shake the people away from them. They try to take the people, "Get away from that group. Don't you fool with them. There's nothing to it; get away from it."
Just the same, "If I be lifted up, I will draw all men to Me."

38 When one great sign goes forth from the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, they spoke with tongues. And they believed it. Many hundreds and hundreds poured into it. Then it come to a place, they try to shake that away. God pushed right in and give interpretations on top of it. Then as soon as He got through with that, God sent prophecy in behind that. He said, "If there be one among you that's unlearned and one that speaks in tongues; but if there be one who prophecies and tells the secrets of the heart, they'll all fall down and say, 'God is truly with you.'"
What is it? There's that Messiahic sign again coming in. Yes, sir. "If one reveals the secret of the heart, the whole congregation will say, 'Truly God is with you.'" Messiahic sign. That's what would be.100 We see that.

39 More they try to shake, more God is going to do. And one day, He's going to get tired of shaking them. He's going to get tired of pushing that church around. And when He does, He's going to get enough and He's going to turn one string of judgment, and He's going to reach down with an Everlasting hand and pick up His church. She'll fly away, oh glory, fly away in the morning. Oh my, I long to be there; I will be. On that morning when she takes the wings of the morning and flies away into the arms of her lover. Oh, what a day that'll be.

40 Today we're living... Why do we worry? Why do you wonder? Why do you wait? Speak and go forward. Don't cry out, say, "O Lord, is it Your will to heal today?" Sure, it's Your will. "Thus saith the Lord" it's His will.
"Can I receive the Holy Ghost?" Say, "Is the days of miracles passed?" Certainly the days of miracles is here forever. The Holy Spirit is here!
"Does man speak with tongues today?" The Bible said so: "These signs shall follow them that believe."
"Does man interpret messages?" The Bible said they do! That settles it. "Thus saith the Lord."
"Speak, don't cry. Speak and go forward." God don't want a bunch of crying babies. He wants men that's got backbone, not wishbone. "Wish I had it, wish I could do this." Backbones that'll stand in the breach! Amen. Claim the victory! Claims are called out in the midst of darkness. No matter what anyone says, we speak and go forward. Believe the message. God is here; He will vindicate His message. God is here. He's the same God that He was back yonder on Galilee. He's the same God that He was in the days of Moses. He can't fail. Do you believe it?

41 The Holy Spirit is come, the signs of the Holy Spirit. Jesus said, "If I don't do the works of My Father, then believe Me not. But if I do the works of My Father, then you believe Me." When He told the woman at the well something that she had wrong with her, she said, "That's the Messiah."
He said, "The one that believes on Me, the works that I do shall he also, and more than this shall he do, for I go to the Father."
Now, the King James has got "greater." If you take the original, it don't say "greater." How could anything greater be done? He stopped nature, He healed the sick, He raised the dead, He cleansed the lepers. Oh, He done everything. But He said, "More of it you'll do. For I will not only be with you but I will be in you to the end of the world." Do you believe it?

42 Let us pray.
Lord Jesus, just one word from You will mean more than all the preachers in the world could speak. Just one word, Lord. "Speak, don't cry, speak, go forward." I can see You one day coming down off the mountain. You were hungry. You looked upon a tree. You was expecting to find some figs there, and there was no figs. And You looked at that tree and said, "You'll never bear no more figs!" And He walked away, and the next day about noon when they passed by, the tree had begin to wither. And one of the apostles, by the name of Peter, said, "Behold the tree, how quick it withers since Thou did curse it."
He said, "Verily I say unto you, if you... If you shall say to this mountain, be thou plucked up and cast into the sea, and don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you have said will come to pass, you can have what you said." Oh God, what a promise. Who did it come from? The Creator of heavens and earth. He was in the world, the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. We thank You, Lord, for this promise. He that believeth on Me, the works that I do, shall he also.

43 Now, Father, to follow this message, if You will just speak tonight something in the line of supernatural, that perhaps maybe someone here that never did have an idea that You still lived in that manner, that they believed maybe that You resurrected, that somewhere in a far off land that's called heaven, that You lived there, and commissioned all of us to have our creeds and so forth. How foolish it is for a person to accept that only because they have not been taught the Bible. You said, "I will be with you to the end of the world. I will be in you, and the very works that I do shall you do also." "It's not Me that doeth the works, but the Father that dwells in Me." You said to the disciples, "Take no thought what you shall say; it's not you that speaks. It's the Spirit within you that does the speaking."
Oh, how we thank Thee, most Holy God, for these promises. I'm so happy to know it. My heart is thrilled to know that right here, me already fifty years old, and living here in the shadows of time, at the evening time of my life; and seeing the evening time of the world's history, near the coming of the Lord Jesus, and to know this great truth rests within my bosom, it burns like fire; it's joy unspeakable and full of glory. There's a zeal there that calls out to scream to the world, "Oh, receive Him, ere it's too late." Grant, Lord, that tonight that the perfect example that Christ gave us will return to us tonight in the power of His resurrection. Grant it, Lord, for the glory of God, we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.

44 I love Him, I love Him
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.
I love Him (Now, get in the spirit
of worship.) I love Him
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.
Lord, oh Lord, come now. We believe You and we are asking You to anoint us. Anoint Your servant, Lord. Take my eyes and my lips, my mind, my intellects, use it to Your glory. Speak through Your servant, Lord. Hear through the ears of the congregation, give glory, get glory to Thy name, Lord. May there not be a feeble person in our midst when this service is over. Now, I have spoken, Lord, to the people. Now, You speak, and we will go forward to believe You, that you're here with us. Fear not, little flock, it's your Father's good will to give you the kingdom. We believe that, Father. Now, take this service, Lord. This is as far as I can go. It'll take You from here on, Lord. In the name of Jesus Christ, help me. Amen.

45 [A brother from the audience gives a prophecy.] Amen.
That's called the Spirit of prophecy. Falls upon different ones. Now, He made a promise, He gave us a promise; that means that He's here, see. Now, Junie is a timid little fellow. That isn't like him to speak like that, but when the anointing catches, you see, it's a different thing then; that's right. Sometimes the Spirit of God cuts like a two-edged sword, you see. And it does things. Now, we're thankful to God to see these things.

46 Now, I believe that Junie and Billy set here awhile ago, is that right? Yes. To give out prayer cards, or something, said there was some of the people come. And we was expecting a few more, maybe from the outside and so forth. But they said there wasn't too many. So we will line up what we got, maybe at one time. We will begin at number one and line all the people up and pray for everyone of them. So we will see if the Lord will reveal anything to us in the prayer line. We will start from number 1, line the group up. Who has number 1 card, will you just come. [Gap in the audio.]
The great physician now is near,
The sympathizing Jesus,
He speaks the drooping heart to cheer,
Oh, hear the voice of Jesus;
Sweetest note in seraph song,
Sweetest name on mortal tongue,
Sweetest carol ever sung,
Jesus, blessed Jesus.

47 I was watching in the line. I'm not sure, I don't think there's anybody there... This girl standing right here, she spoke to me this morning and told me that she was here from somewhere, and that she'd been healed once in the meeting. But she never said anything about herself; she just said she'd been healed once in the meetings. I believe that was right. And the fellow behind here, I don't believe I know either of those, or this lady. I don't know... I know Sister Funk, this one here; that's the one that I know, right here. She's the only one that I know in there so far.
Now, if anybody comes in the line, and if I know them, well, I will try not to say anything, you know, more than prayer, because you'd think that them people had said it to me. But now we don't know that the Holy Spirit will say anything. He may not. But here is a perfect, perfect, brother. Now, there's one thing, is to say something, another thing is to see it proven. The Bible said prove all, a-l-l, all things, then hold fast to that what's good.

48 Now, if Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He doesn't change, then He will have to act in His church, then...
Now, how many knows that Christ is the Spirit of God? We all know that. He's the anointed One. Jesus was the anointed. There's where people who believe that there's three or four different Gods, get all mixed up, see. God is a Spirit. Jesus was the body that the Spirit of God dwelt in. Made Him Emmanuel, God, tabernacled on earth. He was God. Jesus Christ was God. Yet He was the Son of God; His flesh was the Son of God cause God created it, but inside He was God. "It's not Me," said Jesus, "does the works. It's My Father that dwelleth in Me. And that day you'll know that I'm in the Father, the Father in Me, I in you, and you in Me." There you are.

49 Now, I believe that this lady is... I don't know her; I don't think I do. If I have, I don't know you now. I've forgotten you. I guess that's right. Yes, that's right. And that lady there, I don't believe I know her. This lady, or that... I don't believe I know anyone besides Sister Funk. If that's about right raise up your hands, if I... That's right. All right, sir. How many out there that knows that I don't know you, and yet you're sick, raise up you hand, and say, "I'd like prayer, I..." And you believe that the Holy Spirit could touch you, do something for you, then just raise up your hand, say, "I'm in need of prayer." Raise up your hand. God bless you. Two people there, the lady here, all right, someone ... lady back there.

50 Now, you don't have to be up here. There was a woman one time that touched His garment, and He turned around and said, "Who touched Me?"
Why they said, "All's touching You."
He said, "But I've gotten weak; virtues went out of Me." He said, "I got weak, virtue... I perceive that strength went out of Me."
And He looked around till He found the woman and told her of her blood issue, and she said it had stopped. Is that right? The blood issue had stopped because she had believed Jesus Christ. How beautiful.
And Jesus Christ is the High Priest tonight that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Just touch Him, believe it.

51 How many that does know me? And yet you know I don't know what's wrong with you, but you want God to heal you, raise up your hand. Now, just look this way and believe. Have faith.
Now, the Bible claims that Jesus is the same, claims that the works that He did would be done by those who believed in Him, especially in the last days. You believe we're living in the last days? Now, remember, the signs of God to the intellectual is foolish. It takes a spiritual to reveal it. Just like babies. Now, the prophet said, "There'll come a day..." (Now, that was about twenty-five hundred years ago.) " There'll come a time where it won't be a night or a day; it'll be a dismal day, but in the evening time the sun will break forth. It'll be light." How many ever read that prophecy? Sure, light.

52 Now, what does it mean? The sun geographically rises in the east and sets in the west. And anyone who knows history, knows that civilization has traveled from the east to the west. China is the oldest civilization we have. All right. From the east to the west has went civilization. Now, east and west has met. We are the most civilized world, supposedly. Most civilized people is in these western people. They're more modern; they have all the modern things and so forth, because civilization has advanced as it traveled westward.

53 Now, what fell on the eastern people? Jesus Christ came on the eastern people, and the Holy Spirit came on the day of Pentecost. It showed great signs and wonders. Then, it left. And it come a time after about two hundred years after the death of Christ, about the second round of an apostles, then they come into the three hundred day, according to the pre-Nicene fathers, the history, of the sacred history of the church. That they formed what was called the early fathers, and they formed what's known today as The Roman Catholic church in Rome. Therefore they made their first organization. And Rome... When the Catholic church says that it's the mother church, it absolutely is the mother of organization churches. It's the first church to ever be organized.

54 Five hundred years it went in the Catholic church until Martin Luther. He protested the Catholic church by refusing to call the communion the literal body of Christ, and protested it, and throwed the communion on the floor. And He was given a penance to crawl on his knees, and refused to do that, and formed what we know as the Lutheran church. (They had free press paper and so forth.) Then they organized it, and made an organization like unto the Catholic church, organization. That went on for several hundred years.
Along came Zwingli; after Zwingli... He was kind of an off-cast. He believed that Jesus was the Son of God in so much that He was called the Son of God, but the Son of Joseph, that He wasn't divinely born. Now, the Swiss people hang to the Zwingli doctrine. Out of there come Calvin. Calvin went forth, and out of Calvin come forth others till we found John Wesley. He rose up in the days of the Calvinistic church of England, which was the Anglican people, the Anglo-Saxon. From that came forth the Holiness group which was called the Methodist. And when they did, they formed a church called the Methodist church. Out of the Methodist church came forth from that one to another, then came the Presbyterians, from the Presbyterian came forth the Baptist, and the Baptist to the ... one to another, on down, on down, on down till the last church to be formed is Pentecostal.

55 And the Pentecostal blessing that come in the form of the Holy Ghost, they organized it. That's absolutely. God never did organize a church, and I don't believe ever did endorse an organization. The Bible speaks against it and claims that the harlot, the Roman church, will be burnt with her children. That's exactly true.
But out of there it's come a day that the prophet said that wasn't night nor day, dismal. They've had enough light, they'd say, "Well, we fuss, we're Baptist, we're Lutheran, we're so-and-so, we're that." Because of organizations, little truths that they found in the Bible. Luther organized upon the just shall live by faith. John Wesley organized, sanctification, second definite work of grace. The Pentecost organized on speaking in tongues as the evidence of the Holy Ghost. All those things are true; that's light, but not all of it. And when you draw a creed you have to stay with that, you can't move, so the Holy Spirit moves out and goes somewhere else. Then they organize it. Now, that's exactly sacred history.

56 But now it's come a time, the evening lights have come. Civilizations come over and now the sun's setting upon civilization. The end is here, the end of the world is here, the end of time is here, the end of the church is here; all things have come to an end. And just as the sun sets, the same sun that rises in the east sets in the west. God promised it shall be light in the evening time, by the prophet. The same Son that rose and showed the Holy Ghost through Jesus Christ back in the early days on the eastern horizon, is shining in the western horizon in the last days showing the same signs as Jesus prophesied would be. It's the scriptures, friends. But, it's up to you what you think of it, you see.

57 Here's a woman, walk this way, sister, just as you will. As far as I know I have never seen the woman; I don't know her. She's just a woman, walked up here. She may be a member of this church; she may be a member of the Tabernacle for all I know. I don't know. Just a woman. If I've ever seen her before today, I don't know, I don't know. But, God does know the woman. Well now, if Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, then she's here for some cause; I don't know what it is. What if this was just like the woman at the well? Don't have to be the same kind of case but it could be just a man and a woman meeting the same way. Maybe the woman's a critic, maybe she's a Christian. Maybe she's up here just suspicious, to try to find out something. Maybe she's up here because she's sick. Maybe she's up here standing for somebody else. I don't know; that's true. I can't tell you. But God does know.

58 Then if... Let's say she is sick, because it's a healing service. Perhaps she is, might not be. But if she is sick, and she's standing here to be prayed for, God knows I don't know nothing about her. Well then, if I don't know the woman, know nothing about her, and then she's seeking Jesus for healing, I'd tell her this, that "By His stripes you were healed."
Now, healing was just like salvation. You don't get salvation tonight. When Jesus died, He paid for your sin; you just accept it. See, when He died, He took away the sins of the world. When He died, He healed every sick person. The complete debt was paid.

59 Now, what if Jesus is here tonight in a form of a man, like He was when He walked in Galilee. Or if He had on this suit and was standing here and she was standing that close to our Lord. What a... I'd sure love to stand like that to Him. What if she was standing there and He was standing here. And He would say to her, "Woman, believest thou that I am He? If thou believest not thou shall perish." She'd say, "Yea, Lord, I believe that You're He." "Well, what do you seek?" "I seek healing, Lord." "My child, can you not believe that I did that when I died back yonder when I said it was finished? Was not the Scripture written that said that I was wounded for your transgressions, with My stripes you were healed?" That's it.
Well now, she'd wonder, "Wonder if that is the Lord, that He... Anyone could say that. Any man could preach that, because it's in the Bible. But if that's really Him, He'd know my heart, because He knowed the heart of the woman at the well. And He promised that same thing."

60 Now, He never said He'd come back in a body form and do it, but He would send the Holy Ghost that would dwell in us, that that Holy Ghost would divine the secrets of the hearts. For He will show you things to come, reveal the secrets of the hearts. Is that true? He promised it. Then if He's the same and I...
I say this, that I believe that this great Spirit that's among us is the Holy Spirit. I believe that He called me for this purpose. Doesn't make me any more than the man that got saved this morning, just your servant, your brother. Makes me less than you, because I'm sent to serve you. I am a servant to the public, a public servant, is a minister, to serve the public. To be the underdog, to take this knocks and drives of the public, whatever it is, stand there. And if you haven't got grace enough to smile and take it, then you ought to go back to Calvary and reconfirm your commission. That's what you're supposed to do.

61 Now, but if Christ is here, then let Christ speak. I don't know the woman, God knows. I don't know the woman. I don't know nothing about her. But if I've told the truth, then Jesus Christ has to stand by His Word, because it is the truth. Does that make it right? All of us believe that. All right.
Now, here's where the showdown comes, is the Scripture right, or is it wrong? Now, here's where it is, not in some dark rooms, it isn't out yonder where the devil works; it's right here before the House of God. Right here before the anointed saints and the children of God, the purchase of His blood.

62 Here we stand, both of us, before God, before this holy platform, this Bible, the Holy Spirit present. Now, what's going to happen? I'm a man just like you are. Now, it has to take divine, has to take Spirit, or it won't work. But I know that He's here. He made the promise; He can't go back on the promise.
Now, Lord, from henceforth, I pray that You will manifest Yourself that people might see that You're the Son of God. And this is permitted by You to fulfill the Word to we Gentiles. The Jews saw it in their days, the Samaritans saw it in their days; but the Gentiles didn't see it, because it was hid from them. And You said they'd have their day. Now, it's the Gentile's age, and You're showing them. If You revealed Yourself as Messiah to the Jews by telling Peter who he was, telling Nathanael where he was. And You revealed Yourself to the Samaritans by telling the woman that the trouble she had, then You cannot pass the Gentiles with just joining church. They have to receive the supernatural, because You're the same yesterday, today, and forever, and You make Yourself known the same. Grant, Lord, it'll be so to fulfill Thy Word. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I ask it.
And Father, I pray that You will protect the people, because we realize that if evil spirits be upon these sick people, they'll go to critics or whatmore. So I pray that You will protect and give mercy to all of us. We ask in Christ's name. Amen.

63 I just want you just to answer. First, I want to talk to you like our Lord talked to the woman at the well.
Now, you say, "Why are you doing that, Brother Branham?" Catch your spirit, just like He did. Said, "Bring me a drink."
She come brought a drink ... was going to bring a drink, but she said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans such."
He began to talk to her. "But if you knew who you were talking to."
Now, upon this, we're strangers, meeting our first time. Then you're here for some purpose. I don't know what it is. But if the Lord God will reveal to me what you're here for, or something that you have done, something that you are looking to be done. And if He could tell you what you have been, surely He'd know what you will be. For you'll know whether that's the truth or not. You know whether that's true, because you're the one that lived that part of life. But if He can tell you what you have been, then can tell you what you will be, you certainly feel good about doing it, wouldn't you? Sure would. So that's the secret of it, see. That's the power of it. That's the Holy Spirit to reveal Himself as He comes.

64 Now, you're a woman, me a man, we're standing here, you got a spirit or you wouldn't be standing here. I have spirit, I wouldn't be standing here. I perceive that you are a Christian, because just as quick as your spirit catches here, it's welcome. The Holy Spirit, which is above us, recognizes you as His child.
Now, I had no idea whether the woman was Christian, or a sinner, or a blasphemer or what, but that Spirit... And now, if the congregation... How many ever seen the picture of that Angel of the Lord, that they got in Washington D.C. Here it is, right here between me and the woman.

65 Now, if you'll admit, or you know that something's near you, a real sweet feeling. That's right. So the people will know it, just raise your hand so they see it. A real sweet feeling. I'm looking right straight at that light. It's moving right between me and the woman. Now, if that pillar of fire followed the children of Israel in the wilderness, it was in the burning bush that talked to Moses. When it was represented in a man, Jesus, He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." I AM was the one in the burning bush. And the works that I AM did when it was in Jesus, promised it would come in the last days and do the same thing again. Here it is. Same pillar of fire. Scientists know it, the world knows it, the church knows it, we know it, here it is. Will it work, is it the same thing? Certainly, it's the same thing.

66 There's some blood disease wrong with this woman. I see the blood, looks like it's thin or white. Oh, it's diabetes. She have sugar diabetes. That's right. I don't know the woman; let her be the witness. A test, we're showing something that was sugar diabetes. That's what's wrong with you. That's true. Now, you say, "You guessed that, Brother Branham." We will see if we guessed it. Besides that, she suffers with a tremendous nervousness. That's right. You got something wrong with your legs, also. That's "Thus saith the Lord." It isn't guessing, is it? You're not from here, you come from the South, you're from Texas. Your name is Miss Christian. Go back, you're healed.
Now, it isn't guessing, is it, friends? It's the Spirit of the Lord. If thou canst believe. Just a moment. She's just rejoicing now, having a wonderful time in the Spirit, see. Something happened to her. The curse left the woman. If you'd been suffering like that, you'd probably be feeling the same way.

67 All right, lady. Now, do you believe that the Lord Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever? If the Lord Jesus will speak through me and tell me what's your trouble, you'll know whether it's the truth or not. You're not here for yourself; you're here for somebody else, your son. The son has a lung trouble, and trouble with the bowels. Now, that handkerchief that you wiped the tears with, put it on him; don't doubt, he will get well. Don't doubt. God bless you, sister.
How do you do, lady. Now, this woman standing here is shadowed to death. You believe the Lord can heal you? God heals cancer, you know that. Cancer of the breast. That's right. But you're accepting your healing. You're Mrs. Woodward. Return, believe with all your heart; it'll leave you. If you can still believe just like you are now, you'll not die with it. God bless you, go on your road and rejoice. Have faith.

68 This is the lady, I believe, that spoke to me this morning, said she'd been healed in the meeting before. All right. Seven years ago. All right. (Just move up off the fan there, if you can. Maybe you can hear me a little better. Just move this way a little closer.) Then as far as I know, we're strangers to each other. No more than just saying, "How do you do?" to you, this morning. Now, I told you if you wanted something for discernment, better wait till tonight, so that we can get together in the room and let the Holy Spirit reveal something, maybe that would help us.

69 Now, you're very sick, because you can't hardly stand there. And you want to believe; you're trying to believe. You was once shadowed to death too, that tubercular, or something like that that you had years ago. And now, you got trouble in your throat, and you're afraid it's cancer. You're afraid that that's what it is. You're wondering if that is true. Also you want prayer. You're praying for something or someone that's in your home. That's right. You are from Ohio, Mrs. McCarol.
O Lord God, creator of heavens and earth, cast away the fear from this child. If You spared her life years ago from that shadow and see it pass away, it could be likewise tonight.
I condemn this devil. Leave the woman in the name of Jesus Christ. May she return and be well, come into a future meeting giving testimony of this healing, in Jesus Christ's name. Amen.
Don't doubt a bit, go home get well. Sure, I believe you're all right. Just walk on out there rejoicing and giving praise to God. If thou canst believe all things are possible.

70 Do you believe, sir? Do you believe me to be His prophet? Just His servant, see, let's say it like that. We're strangers to one another. I don't know you and you don't know...
Now, there's something happened somewhere. Something happened in the audience.
No, it wasn't, it's again. It's somebody you're praying for, it's a child. That's right. All right. It was a child. I thought it was a child in the audience, but it's your child. Oh, it's several things wrong. It's up for a hernia operation and so forth. You're from Illinois. Return back. The child will be healed. God bless you. The Lord bless you.
Thou believest? Have faith in God, don't doubt.
I know this man sitting here in a corner. I don't know his name, but I know that he come here... He comes down every once in a while; he's from Michigan. But he's sitting there praying. I don't know what his trouble is till right now, but I do now. So I'm going to tell him because I believe it's going to help him. Your back troubles left you, sir. Have faith.

71 Do you believe with all your heart, sir? It's blood trouble, diabetes. And you're not from here either; you're from Georgia. You're Mr. Johnson. Go back, believe with all your heart; it'll leave you.
Now, oh... I don't know you, I don't believe. But I seen Mrs. Shire appear here. Is Mrs. Shire in the building? Oh, she's praying for the same thing's wrong with this woman. You got stomach trouble, and you got stomach trouble. That's right. It's that demon trying to hold each one of you. You're healed. Go on and be normal [unclear words].

72 You don't believe that, do you? You believe God will heal him and make him well? The little boy? Afraid it's TB. But you believe that God will make it so that it'll be all right? Don't worry, Sister Funk. It'll be all right. God bless you.
Who else has got prayer cards? Look, about one or two more, I guess.
Is that your mother? I see her standing by you then. She's got a goiter she wants prayed for.
If thou canst believe, all things are possible. Just have faith in God. Just any of you. Look and live. Do you believe it? Why, Christ is here.

73 Feel different now, don't you, sis? Now, you go home and be well now. ["Do you believe I'll be well?"] Well, sure. Certainly. Sure. Amen. Just, see, you've got that complex wrapped around, you see. But the power of it broke just a few minutes ago. Now, just keep believing, press right on, go forward, speak. "By His stripes I'm healed." Stand right up to it. You just go on and be well. Everything will be all right. It's all light around you now where it's dark when you was here, on the platform. You're all right. The blessings on you now, if you'll just keep on going.
Blessed be the name of the Lord. Do you believe with all your heart? I just feel like the Holy Spirit wants to do something right outstanding. Amen.
Stop crying over there, lady. Your praying for a friend that's in the New Albany Hospital with TB.
Do you believe He's here? Well, let's bow our heads just a moment now.

74 Holy Spirit of God, while my flesh is trembling, anointed with Your presence; not only mine, but others in here; the power of Your resurrection lives among us just now. We are aware that we're standing before the living God who shook Mt. Sinai. Not only that, but He will shake the earth at His coming. Who raised up Jesus from the dead, and standing here in this little church tonight. Lord, we could not build a place that would be worthy for You to come to. But in Your humility, You've come to the humblest. We're so thankful for that. You have visited us. You've proved Yourself among us. We believe Your Word. Lord, I've spoke it as Your servant. Now, may we go forward as the message has bid us. May we go forward in the power of His resurrection.
May there not be a feeble person. May the Holy Ghost just completely take into this building now, and heal every person that's here. May there not be any sickness left among us. May there not be one doubt among the people. May there be such a shaking among the people just now, that they'll feel that all things are well. Grant it, Lord.

75 While we have our heads bowed, I want person who you're setting next to, I want you to lay your hands on the person next to you. Just lay your hands on them. Inside or out, no matter where you are, lay your hands over on one another. I don't care what you have need of, that doesn't matter a bit. I don't care where the person is---might be across the seas, across the ocean. No matter where he is, God covers all space, fills all time. He's omnipotent, He's omnipresent, He's infinite, He's here now. He hears your prayer. The Bible said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." And each one of you are a believer. "If they lay their hands on the sick they shall recover." You've got your hands on one another, you're connected up here as a group. Now, I want you to pray for each other. Pray in your own way. Each one of you, just start praying, pray for the next person. Say, "Lord, heal the person I got my hands on."

76 Lord Jesus, as they are praying, hear their prayers, Lord, that they might know that it isn't just one servant. They are Your servants. We're all one, we love You, Lord. Our different phases, our different creeds, our denominations never separates us from the Living God. We are now in His presence. We're thankful and grateful that You're here. We're unworthy of Your presence, but we pray that You will answer our prayer. We're doing this according to Your Word. You said, "These signs shall follow them that believe; if they lay their hands on the sick they shall recover." And they're laying hands on each other. Let the great Holy Spirit who can reveal the secrets of the heart, that was promised by the Bible, the living resurrected Jesus who promised to be with us till the end of the consummation, let Him now perform the work that He promised. We believe You, Lord, as we commit this audience into Your hands, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

77 Upon the basic authority of the written Word of Almighty God, by the evidence of the Holy Spirit, who is here present, that knows the secrets of the heart, and reveals the secrets to the people; upon the presence of Him, the basis of God's Word, I pronounce each and every one of you healed, in the name of Jesus Christ.
May you go and never be sick no more. May God bless you and protect you. I hope to see you again real soon. Until then, the service back to the pastor, Brother Jackson. God bless you.

Why cry? Speak!

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1 Let's just remain standing a moment, as we bow our heads. Is there a special request? If you would, let it be known as you lift your hands to God, and say by that, "Lord, You know my need."

2 Heavenly Father, we are indeed a privileged people this morning to be assembled in the house of God, when we know that there's so many that would want to be in the house of God this morning and are in hospitals and beds of sickness, and Thou has given us this privilege to be out here today. And we never come, Lord, to be seen of each other, though we love our fellowship one with another, but we could do that at our homes; but we have come here to fellowship with He who has brought us together as beloved children and brethren.
We thank Thee now. And the only way that we know to correctly fellowship with Thee is around Thy Word; Thy Word is the truth. We gather here for spiritual strength; we need it, Lord. We must have strength to endure the crosses that we bear. We pray that You'll send the great Holy Spirit today, and will strengthen us all. Grant the requests of your people as they have assembled and raised their hands to You that they have need of such things. Answer each one, Lord.

3 We thank Thee for sparing the life of our Sister Ungren last night in the accident on the road up here. Thou was gracious to them, Lord, and we thank Thee for that.
And now, we pray, heavenly Father, that You will continue to be with us, and help us as we journey on---each and every one of us. Give us Thy undergirding power and the faith of knowing that Thy never-failing presence will be with us. That hour when we cannot help ourself, we know the angels of God are encamped about those who fear Him, and they'll bear us up lest anytime we dash our foot against a stone. We pray now that You'll give us of Thy blessings for the Word, and speak through us---in us, in Jesus Christ's name. Amen.

4 I am grateful that the sunshine of the outside, the solar sun, is shining. It was very bad this morning, and I think in this country especially, we have so much gloomy, weary weather; and to see the sun shining, coming out, it's very good.
The little family reunion today---I meet my brothers up at my sister's house and some of our relation around the city and round about... There's a big bunch of the Branhams, if they'd all come together from Kentucky, and here, I guess we'd have to rent the city; there's so many of them. But just a little homecoming... We used to all meet at Mama's house and she was the old tie-post that held us together, kind of. But God taken the tie-post to heaven, and I hope that we'll all meet there someday.

5 And now I spoke the other day---I said, "You know I believe that I will cut my Sunday messages down to about twenty minutes or thirty, and then pray for the sick,." And I thought of that this morning, and I thought last night when Sister Downing called me and said that---called Billy and said that she and Sister Ungren on the road up had slid across the road and had had a wreck. And while Billy was still at the window, along... (I don't know what time it was, maybe this morning sometime; I'd been asleep for quite a little bit.) I looked down at Brother Wood's; the lights was out. And I just knelt to pray, and when I did something just said to me, "It's all right." So then I told Billy, "Tell her everything, I thought, would be all right."
I'm so glad to see them in this morning. Sitting in the house of the Lord back here after ... on the road... A people that love you that much to come for hundreds of miles to hear the Gospel; then I thought, a twenty minutes message and as slow as I am, they would be no good. So I thought I would just ... that long.
So then here Brother Ungren, her son, this morning singing, "How Great Thou Art." He has---He means more to him this morning than it did yesterday afternoon, because the great God of heaven spared his precious, darling mother and sister.

6 Now, today we are expecting a great time in the Lord, and I had two or three different texts here that I was looking at, and I couldn't figure just which one I would talk on this morning. One of them was "Cast Your Cares on Him, for He Cares for you." Now if He cares, why not you? So then, another one, Billy Paul ... or not Billy Paul, my other son, Joseph, brought me this text a long time ago. I was sitting in the room one day, and he said---looking up towards the picture, (and Billy, or Joseph is very fond of boats like little boys---boats and horses, you know) and he said to me, "Daddy, has Jesus got a boat?"
And I said, "I don't know."

7 So then after he got up and went out I happened to think "Has He got a boat?" and I took a text from that, just marked it down here on my book: "Has Jesus Got A Boat?"
I happened to think when He was here on earth He had to borrow a womb to be born in, a grave to be buried in, a boat to preach from, but He's the pilot of the old ship of Zion. Sure He has. But in those texts that I was thinking---thinking maybe I could get them later, before we leave to go back.
You know, I like to speak from the Tabernacle here, because it's our own church. We feel at liberty to say whatever the Holy Spirit says. At other places, even though the men wants to make you welcome, you feel kind of a little cramped because that you're in somebody else's church, and you want to be a gentleman enough to respect their thoughts and their doctrine.

8 Had a wonderful time this week down at Brother Burcham's place there. I went into the factory where they made the cheese. (I see he, and his wife, and son, and them are present this morning.) Always thought that a cheese factory would be something like other places I've been in. Oh, kind of sloppy and dirty. My, I can say one thing, you can sure rest assured that place is not dirty. That was the cleanest place I ever went into, especially in a factory. And I didn't realize---I thought, oh, maybe they'll make a hundred pound of cheese a day, and they make six tons each day!---and three of the factories going. I thought, "Oh my, who eats all those cheese." But the Lord has blessed this man and had the privilege of being in his home, a very lovely home---a fine consecrated wife. And there's no reason why they shouldn't live for Christ each day as they're doing. Met his sons, and they're very fine children. We're so grateful for this fellowship that we have one with another.
Found out their former pastor was a man that I know---Brother Gurley, a very fine man of the United Pentecostal faith that I met years ago---Jonesboro, Arkansas. And I didn't know that they were ... that was his pastor, though.

9 Now, remember the services this evening, and then the Lord willing, next Sunday again we hope to speak. And then I think the following Sunday then I have to go to Chicago; then I'll be gone for awhile. Have to take the family back home back to Arizona so that they ... the children can enroll in school again, and then we'll quit pestering the pastor---taking his services up. So we are very grateful to Brother Neville for his hospitality. You know, I've been inviting and he's so... I like Brother ... a man like that where there's no guile; there's no selfishness; there's just genuine Christianity. I like that.

10 Now, we're going to read some of the Scripture and then pass the comments, and I don't know just what time that we'll get out on these long messages, but I think... I was talking the other day about speaking so long, and someone said, "Well now, if you just spoke a few minutes, and you speak kind of in mysteries anyhow, we'd never be able to understand it." Said, "Just keep on talking, and after awhile it comes out." He said... So maybe the Lord wants us to do it that way.
Let's just bow again.

11 Lord, Thy Word lays open on the pulpit and realizing that someday it'll be closed for its last time, then the Word will be flesh. And then we're grateful for this time this morning, and open to us by Thy Holy Spirit, the contents of this Word that we shall read. May the Holy Spirit teach us today the things that we ought to know, and may we then in return listen closely to every word, weigh it deeply, and then may those who are listening by the way of tape, may they listen close, and may we be able to catch what the Holy Spirit's trying to reveal to us; for we realize if He should anoint us, then the anointing is not in vain; it's for a purpose---that it might work to the good to the Lord. And may our hearts and understanding be open, Lord.
May we have freedom to speak, and freedom to hear, and access to faith to believe what we have heard as it comes from God's Word, that it might count up to us eternal life in the great day that is to come. Bless us today; condemn us when we're wrong. Let us know the faults that we have, and bless us in the way that is right, that we might know which way to go and how to act in this present world, that we might bring honor in our living here to Jesus Christ, who died to give us life in the great hereafter. We ask this in Jesus' name. Amen.

12 Now, I want to read just out of two places out of the Scriptures this morning, and one of them is just found over in the book of Exodus; frankly, both of them are out of the book of Exodus. One, the 13th chapter, and 21st and 22nd verse, and the next one is the 14th chapter, the 10th, 11th, and 12th verses. Now, I'll read from Exodus 13:21.
And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night ... a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:
He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
Now, in Exodus 14 and the 10th verse.
And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD.
And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.
I'm going to read a couple more verses.
And Moses said unto the people, Fear ... not [Now listen close here.] ... Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew ... you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.
The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
... the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:
But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went ... before their face, and stood behind them:
And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; ... it was a cloud of darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on the right hand, and on the left.
And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them in the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked down unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fights for them and against the Egyptians.

13 The Word of the Lord is so great, so good, there's just no way to stop reading it. It just becomes life as we read it. I think in this text this morning, though it's being taped, I want to say this in beginning: it finds... I find myself... And the reason that I... Yesterday while in study---and I come upon this subject, and then I thought, "I'm just going, if the Lord willing, to speak upon that because it drives me down." And I hope it drives us all down that we might see, and cause us to look up, and to study a little bit in comparing the day that was then unto the day that is now.

14 I want to take three words for a text, and that is: Why Cry? Speak! God said to Moses, here in the 15th verse, "Why criest thou unto Me? Speak to the people that they go forward." And, Why Cry? Speak!
Now, we've got quite a subject, and I'll try to hurry through as quick as possible as the Holy Spirit leads. I want to think of the ... of this text of Moses crying out to God in the time of trouble, and God rebuking Moses back, right when trouble was in session. And it's just nature, seeming like for a person to cry out, and then what a rebuke it is for God to turn around and rebuke him for saying it---for crying out to Him. It looks like it's a very hard thing.

15 Many times when we look at the Scriptures in our own way of looking it seems very hard, but if we study a little while, we find out that the all-wise God knows just what He's doing. And He knows how to do these things and how to deal with men. He knows what's in man. He knows him. We don't. We only know from the intellectual side. He knows what's really in the man.
Moses was born in this world a gifted boy. He was born to be a prophet, a deliverer. He was born with the equipment born in him, as every man that comes into the world is born with this equipment. As I firmly believe in the foreknowledge of God, the predestination---

16 not that God is willing that any would perish, but all might come to repentance---but being God, He had to know, and does know the end from the beginning. See? If He doesn't, then He isn't infinite; and if He is not infinite, He isn't God. So He wasn't willing, certainly, that any should perish, but He, knowing who would perish, and who would not perish.
That's the reason---the very purpose that Jesus came to the earth was to save those that God through his foreknowledge seen that wanted to be saved, because the whole world was condemned. And I don't see how we could teach it any other way than the foreknowledge of God, and the Bible plainly says that He knows the end from the beginning and can tell it. Therefore, when a person tries to be something that they are not, they're only making it an impersonation, and sooner or later it'll find you out. Your sins finds you out. You cannot cover them. There's only one covering for sin. That's the blood of Jesus Christ, and it cannot be applied unless God has called you from the foundation of the world.
That's what that blood was shed for---not to be tramped upon, and made fun of, and jabbed at, and evilly spoke of and so forth; it was for a direct purpose. That's right. Not to be played with; not to be impersonated by saying that the sins are covered when they're not, and no man can have his sins covered lest his name was put on the Lamb's book of life before the foundation of the world. Jesus said Himself, "No man can come to Me except my Father draws him, and all that the Father hath (past tense) given Me will come to Me." So you can't make the words lie. They are there for truth, and for a correction.

17 And Moses was born with a gift of faith; great faith Moses had. We see it after awhile coming out in him. And he was born in a great family, as we know how that his father and his mother come from a family of Levi, which the story here previously to this in the book of Exodus, so beautifully gives the life of this great character. And he was one of the greatest characters of the Bible, for he was strictly a type of the Lord Jesus.
He was born in a very odd birth, like the Lord Jesus; he was born in a time of persecution, like the Lord Jesus; he was born to be a deliverer, like the Lord Jesus; he was hid of his parents away from the enemy, like the Lord Jesus; and he come to his time of service like the Lord Jesus; He was a leader like the Lord Jesus; he was a prophet, like the Lord Jesus; and he was a law-giver like the Lord Jesus.
And we find out that he died on the rock, and he must have rose again, and everything ... because eight hundred years later he was standing on Mount Transfiguration, talking to the Lord Jesus, see. Angels packed him away. No one knows where he's buried; even the devil didn't know that. Frankly, I don't believe he ever was buried. I believe that God packed him away, and he died on the rock that he had followed all the days of his life. And he was a perfect type of Christ. He was a king over the people; he was a law-giver; he was a sustainer to the people; he was everything in type that Christ was.

18 Now, then, see that he was born with this great gift and quality within him. Then it only taken something to flash across that to bring that thing to life. See, the seed of God is actually placed in us from the foundation of the world. And when that light first strikes that seed, it brings it to life, but the light first has to come upon the seed.
Like I've talked many times of the little woman at the well---her in that condition. Though she be an ill-famed person, though her life was degraded, and she was in that condition---because that traditions had never touched her. But though when that light first struck her, quickly she recognized it, because there was something there to respond to it.
When the deep calls to the deep, there must be a deep somewhere to respond to that call. And Moses here was born this prophet, but he was raised in an intellectual school in Pharaoh's palace. The Pharaoh Seti, that he was raised up under, was a man that still had honor and believed Joseph being the prophet of the Lord. But there come Rameses after Seti, and Rameses did not care about Joseph. And so therefore, there's when the trouble started now---when there raised up a Pharaoh who did not know Joseph.
But these great qualities---let's speak of them just a little while before we get to the main part of the text. I have an odd way of setting a text and then building to it, and the Lord help us this morning as we build to it.

19 Moses, being born with this great gift of faith, then he was anointed and commissioned at the burning bush to deliver God's people. Now, see what great qualities this man had! He was born for a certain thing. God had a purpose in it. God's got a purpose of you being here. If you can only be ... get to that place, how much trouble you save God and yourself, too.
Moses born, (and then he was) afterwards he was brought to the place where he was anointed. And notice the seed laying there with an intellectual conception, with all the faith that he was born to deliver this people, and yet it never come to life until that light from the burning bush flashed across it---until he seen, not something he read about, but something he seen with his eyes---something that spoke to him, and he spoke back to it. Oh, how that did bring things to life.

20 I think any man with a ... or woman, boy or girl---and I think in the intellectual conception of what they think the Word is and so forth, never can have a full foundation stand until they have met that light that brings that Word to a reality. I think no church in its practice, no matter how intellectual and fundamental it might be, that church cannot thrive until the supernatural is made known among that people, and they see it---something that they can talk to that'll talk back to them that a-vindicates this written Word.

21 Now remember, when Moses met this burning bush that Word was a-vindicated exactly. It was the Word. Moses didn't have to worry, "What's this voice all about? What is this being here?" Because God had already wrote on the Scripture in Genesis that, "Your people will sojourn in this strange land, but they'll be brought back after four hundred years---will come back into this country again, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet fulfilled."
Now hundreds and hundreds of years before God had said that Israel would sojourn and be mistreated in a strange country and would stay there four hundred years, but God, with a mighty hand, would bring them out. So you see with this burning bush, Moses knowed this intellectually, and the seed that was born in him was laying in his heart. And he tried through his intellectual experience with the Word to try to bring them out---to deliver them, because he knowed he was born for that purpose. He knowed that the time the Scriptures all said that they'd already been there four hundred years.
Just as we know now, as a man asked me a few moments ago about the coming and the rapture. We know we've lived the time out. The time of the rapture is at hand. And we're looking for a rapturing faith that can pull the churches together and give it some supernatural strength that can change these bodies that we live in. When we see a God that can raise the dead off the floor, or out in the yard and bring him back to life again and present him before us. When we see a God who can take a cancer that's eat a man to a shadow, and raise him up to a strong healthy man, that ought to give rapturing faith to the people. That when that light flashes from the sky, and the trumpet sounds, the body of Christ will be quickly gathered together and changed in a moment and taken into the heavens.
Yes, there's got to be something like that happen, and our schools of theology can never produce that, yet they intellectually are all right, but you've got to meet that light! You've got to find that something.

22 And here Moses basing his great call upon the Word, (and it was great) until one day he met this light, and the very Word itself spoke back to him. Then he got his anointing. That anointed, what he had in him---that on the inside, the intellects that believed it, the faith that was based upon his belief in God that separated him from his mother. And now when he strikes in the presence of this light, it anointed that that he believed, see.
What an anointing, and he was commissioned. Now, we know intellectually he'd heard his mother. He knew what was going to take place, and he knew he was living in that day. But here he found out that he was a failure, so he might've ... his faith might've dropped back a little bit. But then when he comes to the bush, God said, "I have heard the cries of my people, and I remember my promise to their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I have come down."
I, there the personal pronoun. "I have come down to deliver them."

23 And now, and may I just add this if it... God forgive me if it sounds sacrilegious: "I do not work upon the earth only through men. I am the vine; ye are the branches, and I only declare myself when I can find a man, and I've chose you, and I'm sending you down to take them out." See? Now notice, "I'll be with your mouth and I ... you take this rod."
And Moses said, "Can I see an evidence that You'll send me and You've anointed me and You're going to do these things?"
Say, "What you got in your hand?"
He said, "A stick."
Said, "Throw it down."---it turned to a serpent; he fled.
He said, "Take it up"---it turned back to a stick. Said, "Put your hand in your bosom"---took it out, and it was leprosy; put it back, and it was healed.

24 Said he saw the glory of God.
There was no more question to Moses. Did you ever notice, he never run to the wilderness again? He knew he was anointed. He knew where all these things that had been in his heart. These great fine qualities, and they were anointed. Now he's ready. He's ready to go; so down towards Egypt he goes. God had said, "I'll be with you," so that settles it. If "I'll be with you," that's all Moses had to know for this great call in his heart. And now, God said, "I'll be with you."
Now, God also had vindicated Moses' claims. Moses claim, "I met the Lord." And He said, "Tell you I Am sent me." See?
Now they said, "Here's a man, another Jew, probably some of these fanatics that's been coming along all the time with all kind of scheme to take us out of bondage." And you know how people are when they're slaves or in bondage for something, there's always some kind of a gimmick coming around, you know, to do it. So Moses---God promised Moses, "I'll be with you; I'll be in you. My words will be your words. You speak my words, and just say what I say."

25 And now when Moses went down and gave them this call and stood before Pharaoh and told him the Lord God of the Hebrews said, "Bring the children out," and he wouldn't let them go. So he performed a sign before the elders and before Pharaoh, and the signs that God did.
He said, "Now tomorrow about this time the sun will go down. It'll be darkness all over Egypt." And it come to pass, just exactly. And then he said, "There's coming flies upon the land," and he stretched forth his rod and called for flies, and flies come. And he prophesied, and everything that he prophesied happened just exactly the way ... it was God, see.

26 God had called him from his birth, put qualities in him of great faith, and then come down with his presence and anointed that great something in him and sent him down with his Word, and he was properly a-vindicated of his claims. No matter how many quacks had raised up, how many of these other things had happened; God was speaking, and Moses was identified. Moses... What Moses said, God honored! I want you to never forget that Word. What Moses said, God honored, because God's Word was in Moses. "I'll be with your mouth. It'll speak the right things."
Now, what God says, He speaks it through Moses, and it confirmed and a-vindicated his claims.

27 Also, he was told by his mother of his mysterious birth, and how that the time of hand come close to the hour that there was to be a deliverance. Amram and Jochebed, the son and daughter of Levi, begin to pray to God to send a deliverer. And it take ... when you see the time of the promise drawing nigh, it sets people to praying and to hungering. And no doubt that Jochebed had told him many times (his mother---she was his tutor also as we know the story) and had told him how that she had prayed. "And, Moses, when you were born, son, you were a proper child. You were different. There was something taken place at your birth."
"I gave a drama on it for the children not long ago and said while Amram was in the room praying, he saw an angel pull his sword and point it towards the north and said, "You'll have a child, and he'll take the children north to the promised land." Giving a drama for the little fellows so they'd understand it. Their intellect hasn't come up to the place that you adults, and can grasp the things as the Holy Spirit reveals it to you.

28 Now, though his mother told him these things and he knowed this, yet he needed another touch. The teaching was fine, but he needed a personal contact.
That's what the world needs today. That's what the church needs today. That's what everyone needs, as sons and daughters of God. In order to be that, you need a personal contact. See? Something, no matter ... you know the Word's true; you know it's right. But then when it contacts, and then you see the thing done, then you know you're on the right road. See? And watch, it'll always be scriptural. It'll stand right with the Scripture because this did.
Amram's prayer was just exactly with the Scripture. Their prayers is with the promised Word. God promised at that time to do it. They prayed for it, and here was a proper child born. And they...

29 Watch! Oh, how I love this, see! In the hour that Pharaoh was putting to death all the children, see? Putting them to the sword, guardenian sword; they stabbed these little children to death, fed them to the crocodiles---the little bodies---until the crocodiles were perhaps fat upon the bodies of Hebrew children.
But the Bible said that the parents did not fear Pharaoh's command to kill the children. They wasn't a-scared because they seen something in this baby to begin with. They saw it, that this was an answer of prayer.
And now Moses had all this as a background, so Moses knew he was sent for the very purpose to deliver the children of Israel. See, all the background just heaps up. When you get anything and can bring the Bible saying, "This is going to happen," and here it happens. "This is going to be at that time"; here it happens. "This is going to be at a certain time," there it happens, then it all accumulates together and draws a picture for us.

30 Oh, how this Tabernacle this morning, how we people of this hour, Brother Neville, as we see the gray striking our hair and our shoulders stooping, when we see the world weaving and rocking as it is, and how we can look around and see the promise is drawing nigh! I think many times if someone could just bounce into it at once and wouldn't understand it or would understand it rather, come into it at once, it would almost send you to eternity, just with a ... such a rapturing thing and never knowed it. Just, oh, break through the things that we have seen, and know, and understand, and all bounce in at one time. The man or the woman, boy or girl will just probably lift up their hands and say, "Let's go, Lord Jesus." You see? Oh, how the hour is so close!

31 Moses knowing that he was born for that purpose, looked out of the windows and watched them Hebrews as they toiled. Looked back here in the Scripture, and it said, "And they shall sojourn four hundred years; (See?) but I will bring them out with a mighty hand." Then when he comes back after a commission, anointed, know that he was born---and his faith, look---by faith he saw those people and knowed they were the children of God because the Word said so. They wasn't of the world, wasn't like the rest of them. They were different. And they were cranks and fanatics to the high glamour of Egypt, and he was to be the son of Pharaoh, taking the kingdom over and next, but he...
There was something down in him, a real faith that looked not at those things---the glamour that he was to inherit. He looked at the promise of God, and he knowed that the time was drawing nigh. And what that man must of thought of...

32 I want to talk it over with him some day when I meet him on the other side.
You say, "That's crazy, brother..."
No, it isn't. I'm going to meet him by the grace of God. Yes, sir. I'll talk to him someday---Moses himself. And how I would like to ask him just how when he seen his preparation, how the frustration the devil say, "Ah, the people ain't going to believe you. Ah, there's nothing to that,"

33 but when that seed come to life up there, something struck him, and he knew there was something going to take place. He knew---looked at the clock and seen what time it was. And he knew and how he must of thought as he watched.
Now, when he got all this together, all this great thing that he seen---the Scripture time, the prayer of his mother and his father, and he was born a peculiar birth, an odd child. And all along there'd been something way down in him, and now he slips off and tries to think he'd take his military training from his school and deliver the children, and that failed. Then he goes up into the wilderness and marries a lovely Ethiopian girl, and they had a little boy named Gershom.
And one day while tending the flock, all at once he seen a bush up on top of the mountain, burning. And he went up there and not an intellectual, not an imagination, not a delusion, an optical illusion, but in him there was the God of Abraham in a light, a pillar of fire back in a bush---that fire, like waves going out, but it didn't bother the bush. And the voice of the Scripture, the voice of God spoke through there and said, "I have chosen you. You are the man. I raised you up for this purpose. I'm proving to you here by signs you're going down to deliver the children because my Word's got to be fulfilled."
Oh, his Word of this day's got to be fulfilled! We're living in the hour. No matter what anyone else says, the Word has to be fulfilled. Heavens and earth will pass away but not his Word.

34 Now, when Moses got all this together and seen by every direction, it anointed his faith. Amen! Oh my! What a thought. This, itself, seen in the Scripture pointing right straight to what it was, and the speaking of God, and the evidence of it there, it anointed what faith he had in him, to go to work. What ought it to do to us!
We need a repentance. We need a revival. I'm saying myself, I need a shaking. I need something. I said I was speaking to myself this morning, or about myself, I need a wakening up. And when I think of that great evidence---everything's so perfectly laid out there. And it anointed the faith of Moses, and my, he seen there was nothing.

35 Here he run from Egypt when actually he could have started a mutiny or something, and he could have rose up and started a revolutionary in Egypt and could have took an army and fought, but you see ... and had many thousands on his side. But instead of that he was a-scared to even do that---with armies on his side. But now here he comes back forty years later, eighty years old with only a stick in his hand. Why? What was burning down in his heart had become a reality. He was anointed then, and he knowed he had thus saith the Lord. There was nothing going to stop him now. He needed no army. God was with him; that's all he needed ---God with him.
Oh, when you know God has sent you to do a certain something, and you see it moving up there, there just isn't nothing can take its place. That's all.

36 I remember times when the Lord has told me about certain things was going to happen, and then I move up and see it laying right there---oh what a feeling! The situation is already under control. That's all, see? Because God said so.
I remember... Many of you remember about the little boy being raised up in Finland, and then ... from the dead, been killed by an automobile. And I stood there on the side of the road and started to walk away from that child and turned and looked back, and something put its hand on my shoulder, and I thought it was Brother Moore---and nobody was around me.
And I looked back, and then I looked up at the mountain. I saw... I said, "Well, I've seen that hill somewhere, but we didn't come up this way. We come another way. Where is that hill?" And I looked and seen that car down there wrecked---seen that little boy there with his ... laying there with the "crock-like haircut" (as we call it here); the eyes turned back like Brother Way's was the other day when he fell; and the little foot run through the sock where his little limbs was broke; and blood out of his eyes, and nose, and ears; and seen his little short trousers and tied up by buttons here along the side of his little waist and his little stockings up like long stockings like we wore many years ago.

37 And I looked around, and there it was exactly---exactly the way the Holy Spirit had told me two years before, when all of you wrote it in your Bibles across the nation that it would happen.
Oh there ... then the situation is in hand! No matter how dead he is; no matter what anybody else says; it's all over. He's got to come back.
I said, "If this child doesn't raise up from the dead, then I'm false prophet; I'm a misrepresentation of God; for in the homeland two years ago, He told me this would happen." And there these ministers and all---it's wrote on the flyleaf of our Bible, and here it is exactly. Read it off the flyleaf how it would be in a country lapping rocks, and so forth---be killed on---be on the right-hand side of the road. I said, "There it is; nothing can stop it." The situation's already under control.
The faith that was within my heart was anointed. Oh, if I could only explain that! The faith that God... I had in God, that told me, had it never failed; told me, "The situation is under control now. Here's exactly what I showed you two years ago, and here it is laying just exactly in order. The only thing you have to do is speak the Word!" And the little boy rose up from the dead. See?

38 I was thinking and looking back at Brother Fred Sothmann sitting there, and Brother Banks Wood, and them the other day up on the Alaskan Highway, how I stood here at the church and told you all of an animal that looked like deer horns forty-two inches and a silver tip grizzly bear. I'd never been there before and how that the ... that I was going to get this, and how it would be, and how many would be with me, and how they'd be dressed. You know it, everyone of you, weeks and weeks before it happened.
And there, when I moved in there, not knowing it, there laid that animal. And I went and he ... it was impossibility, if a hunter would know or be listening to this tape, how you can't walk up in the face of an animal; it'd jump up and run. But he didn't.

39 There he hangs in my den room. There hangs the silver tip just exactly the way ... and a rule laying there, a tape measure to show his exact ... and a horn will at least shrink two inches or more when it's green on the animal and when it dries, but this never shrank. It's still exactly on the nose forty-two inches. See? There lays the silver tip, it's seven foot long just exactly and everything exactly the way it was, laying there now.
But when this man said to me, "Now, look Brother Branham, we got this animal that you talked about but you told me you'd get a silver tip grizzly before you got to the bottom of the hill, back to where them boys are---that with the green shirt." I said, "It's thus saith the Lord. God said so."
"But Brother Branham," He said, "I can see all over everything here for miles; there's nothing. Where's he coming from?"

40 I said, "That's not for me to question. God said so, and He's Jehovah-Jireh. He can bring a bear there. He can put one there." And He did, and there he is.
It's a situation under control. And when Moses saw that he was raised up for this purpose and he had met face to face this great God who had made the call, and had anointed him, and identified him, and said, "This is your call, Moses. I'm sending you. I'm going to show you my glory, and here I am in the bush, burning. Go down there; I'll be with you." He didn't even need a stick. He had the Word, the vindicated Word. There he went.
It anointed the faith that was in him. And it anoints us when we see that we're living in the last days, to find out that all these signs that we see being taken place that's spoke of in the Scripture would take place in the last days. All the way from heaven to the political powers, and the nature of the people, and the demoralization of the world and among the women, and how they would do in the last days---and how the men would do, and how the churches would do, how the nations would do, and how God would do. And we see it all laying right here on us.
Oh, it anoints our faith. It moves us out into great cycles, see. It separates us from other things of the world, see. No matter how little we are; how much a minority we are; how much we're laughed at, made fun of---don't make a bit of difference. That's all. We see it. There's something within us. We were predestinated to see this hour, and there's nothing going to stop us from seeing it. Amen! Sure, God has spoke it. It's already happened. We see it. Oh, how we thank God for this! Oh! Then it brings out your faith when we see these things happening here.

41 Now, here again we read that Moses esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt. Now, he esteemed the reproach of Christ. Now remember: the reproach of Christ. See?
There's a reproach in serving Christ. If you're very popular with the world, then you cannot serve---you're not serving Christ. No. You cannot, because, you see, there's a reproach that goes with it. The world always has reproached.
Way back there thousands of years ago, there was a reproach that went with it. And Moses, to-be pharaoh, (he was the next coming pharaoh, Pharaoh's son), and he was coming the next pharaoh with favor amongst the people, and yet he regarded (esteem means to regard) ... he regarded the reproach of Christ greater things than all that Egypt could afford to give him. Egypt was in his hands. But yet he knew to take the way of Christ was a reproach, but he was so happy to know that there was something within him, that made him regard this approach of Christ ... reproach of Christ rather ... greater than all the glamour that he inherited. He had an inheritance inside of him that was far greater than what the outside inheritance had given him.

42 Oh, if we could be like that today and let the Holy Spirit anoint that that we have within us, that faith, to a godly life, consecrated to Christ.
Now, with such faith as this that he had, he noticed and he regarded that reproach an honor.
Today somebody can say, "Hey, are you one of those people? Those ah...?"
"Well ... ah ... ha..."
You're just a little ashamed of it. But he regarded it a greater treasure than all the world, because that there was something in him that he could speak out and say, "Yes, I regard this. This is highly honored. I'm glad to be one of them." See? "I'm glad to number myself as a Hebrew and not an Egyptian."

43 The Christians today should say the same thing: "I'm glad to regard myself a Christian, to abstain from the things of the world and the order of the world"---not just as a church member, but as a born-again Christian who lives according to the Scripture. Though I be called even by the members of the church a fanatic, yet I esteem that a greater ... greater thing than what if I was the most popular person in the city or in the nation. I'd rather be that than President of the United States or the king over the earth. (You see?) I esteem that so highly, because God in his mercy before the foundation of the world saw me and placed a little seed in there that my faith would fly above these things of the world, and now He's called me, and I regard my place---

44 as Paul said he regarded his office---was high. Oh, that God had called him from being a great teacher like Gamaliel, but Paul had been called to be a sacrifice for Christ.
Now, the same thing. Notice, with such faith he never relied on his sight---what he could see. Now, he seen nothing out there but a bunch of mud-handling people, slaves in prison, being killed every day, beat with whips, made fun of. Their religious beliefs was fanatic. And there was a pharaoh sitting on the throne that didn't know or regard anything about their religion. He knowed nothing about ... he's a heathen, so he just...
What a picture of today. And there it is, a different religion and how that if this Moses, yet in the very seat with the President or the great men, Pharaoh, to take his place at his death, and he was an old man. And yet Moses thought that that call ... he looked out there. And the same window that Pharaoh looked out of, because he was in his home... And Pharaoh looked out and seen those people that were lifting up their hands, and they'd take a whip and beat them to death because they were praying. They'd run a sword through them because they even failed to disobey at anytime and making them work till their little old bodies would fall out and give them half enough to eat. Well, there wasn't nothing but a bunch of fanatics, not hardly human;

45 and yet Moses, that faith in him looked upon them, and he said, "They're God's blessed people." Amen. I like that.
With such faith... His eyes didn't fall on the glamour of Egypt; it fell on the promise of God. His eagle eye of faith seen beyond the glamour of Egypt. You remember he's becoming an eagle now; he's a prophet, and his eagle eye raises above those things. Oh how I like that!
How oft today... Today, Christians rely on their senses of what they can see or what they can understand, instead of their faith---to rely on what you see with your eye and the glamour. Like you women--- I'm always calling to you about you must let your hair grow out; you mustn't wear make-up; you must act like ladies and Christians. You look out upon the street and see the women today dressed immorally. Well, you think, "Well, she belongs to the church; why can't I do that?" See? "And she cuts her hair; why can't I do that? Well, she seems to be just as sweet and as much intellectual ... and personality that I haven't even got. Well, why can't I do that? I ought to do it." When you do that, you paralyze your faith. See? You don't give your faith a chance to grow. Start on that.
As I said ...

46 someone said, "Brother Branham, the country---the people regard you as a prophet. You oughtn't to be bawling women out like that and men out for these things. You ought to be teaching them how to prophesy and receive gifts."
I said, "How can I teach them algebra, when they don't even know their ABC's?" Now, just start from that. Clean yourself up, so that when you walk out on the street you look like a Christian anyhow, see? And then go to acting like one, see? And you can't do it within yourself. It's got to have Christ come within you, and if that seed's laying in there, and that light hits it, it's going to come to life. If it doesn't come to life, there's nothing there to come to life because it sure proved it on others. It comes to life immediately as soon as the light hits it.

47 That's a rebuke to women, I know, that's listening in to this tape or will listen in to it. It's a rebuke to you, sister. It should be. It should be, because it shows... I don't care what you've done. You might've been religious all your life. You might have lived in the church. Your father may be a minister, or your husband might be a minister, but as long as you disobey the Word of God, it shows there's no life there. When you see the thing brought out and the life of the Holy Spirit, watch it when it strikes others. See what they do. If it brings it on them ... no wonder...
What a rebuke to those Pharisees that called Jesus---when He could perceive their thoughts---they called Him "Beelzebub," and that little prostitute said, "Why, this fellow is the Messiah. The Scriptures says He'll do this." See? That predestinated seed was laying there, and when the light struck it, it come to life.
You can't keep it down, you can't hide life. You can take a ... pour concrete upon a bunch of grass and kill it in the winter time. The next spring where is your most grass at?---right around the edge of the concrete, because that germitized seed under that stone when the sun begins to shine, you can't hold it. It'll wiggle its way around through there and come right out at the edge of that and stick its head up to the glory of God. See, you can't hide life.
When sun strikes botany life, it's got to live.

48 And when the Holy Spirit strikes the scriptural life that's in a man, it brings forth its fruit right there. So regardless of how true and honest you are, how you say you're not speaking ... saying these women wearing these bad clothes and things out there, just a common striptease for the street; though you don't believe you are, you can't make you believe. You can prove that you're innocent of an adultery, but in the Book of God you're committing adultery. Jesus said, "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her in his heart already. And you presented yourself in that manner. See, you can't see it unless that life is laying there.
You look at somebody else, you say, "Well, I know Sister Jones---Brother Jones is a minister, his wife does this and does that." I don't care what that does, this is the Word.
Jesus said, "Let every man's word be a lie, and mine be true." It's the Bible, and when that light really strikes it, it's got to come to life. It just has to come to life.

49 Now, Moses' great eyes, his eagle eye looked beyond the glamour of Egypt. The real Christian believer today, no matter what the church says, what anybody else says, when that light strikes it, they see the very vindication of God, that pillar of fire hanging there and the signs and wonders that promised the Scripture being laid and it comes to life. No matter how little it is and how many in the minority---God's group has always been the minority. See?
"Fear not little, little flock, it's your Father's good will to give you the kingdom." See? They catch it. God is obligated to send them in from every denomination, every order, everywhere, to see it; if they are ordained to life.

50 Look at old Simeon, ordained to life. When the Messiah come in the temple, in the form of a baby in his mother's arms, Simeon, back in a room somewhere reading, the Holy Spirit raised him up, for he was waiting. That life was in him. He said, "I'll not die until I see the Lord's Christ." And there was the Lord's Christ in the temple. The Holy Spirit led him from his duty out and walked down through there and picked that baby up and said, "Let thy servant depart in peace, for my eyes see thy salvation."
There was an old blind woman in the corner by the name of Anna who served the Lord day and night. She also was predicting and saying, "The Messiah is coming. I can see Him coming." Yet she was blind, at that same time when he was there, that little life that was in her that was predicted it would be there; it would be there; it would be there. Then that same life, the light, come in the building in the form of a baby as an illegitimate child, wrapped in his swaddling clothes, coming up through the building, and the Holy Spirit struck that old blind woman and she come by the Spirit, led through the people, and stood over this baby, and blessed the mother and blessed the baby, and told what would be the future for it. See?---ordained to life. See? Look at them. There wasn't a dozen of them.
There was only eight souls saved in the day of Noah. Hardly very many, but all that was ordained to life come in at that time. See how the Holy Spirit works in each age?---drawing the people.

51 Now, we find out that Moses' faith led him to watch what would be, not what was. Look at tomorrow, instead of today. Look at the promise instead of the glamour. Look at the people instead of the organization. See? God did that.
Lot could see the glamour of prosperity down in Sodom. Lot could see the possibilities of a lot of money. Lot could see the possibilities of when he looked over to Sodom and he could maybe become ... being he was a Hebrew, he might become a great man there because he was a great intellectual figure and the nephew of Abraham. So he chose to go towards Sodom.
Lot's intellects led him to see the glamour of prosperity. Lot's intellects led him to see the blessing of glamour. But his faith was so paralyzed by it, he didn't see the fire that was going to destroy that sort of a life. And that's the way people are today. They see the possibilities of belonging to a great organization. They see the possibilities of having social standing with the people of the city, but they don't see the possible... They don't see---their faith is paralyzed.
Let me repeat that so it won't be misunderstood. Women today, as I say, they want to act like the movie stars. The men today want to act like the television comedians.

52 The preachers today seem to want to make their churches like some modernistic lodge of some sort: membership and so forth. They see the possibilities of maybe becoming a bishop or general overseer or something like that if they'll go along with the church, forsaking the Scriptures when it's laying right before them with ... thoroughly vindicated by the power of God and by the living Word of God, living in the people. Yet they don't want it. They say, "We don't want to get mixed up with something like that." It would take their fellowship card. It would take their denominational order. Yet honest men like Lot sitting down in Sodom knowing that that's wrong, see. See, what do they do when they do that? They paralyze the little faith that they did have. It can't work.

53 Now, Moses give away to that and he set his faith---paralyzed the world. Either your faith will paralyze glamour, or either the glamour will paralyze your faith. Now, you have to take one or the other. And you see the Bible don't change; God don't change. He's the unchangeable God.
And now we find today that people of this day---see, they look to the big things, the big organizations. "I belong to the So-and-so, see? And they go down there and look; there's no different from the street people. There's no other things... They have a little intellectual something you want... When you talk about divine healing, the pillar of fire, the light of God; they say, "That's mental."

54 A man picked up the picture of the angel of the Lord the other day, a Baptist minister, and laughed at it, see. That's blasphemy. There's no forgiveness for that.
That's what Jesus said. It's blasphemy when you see it doing the very works that Christ did, and He said when they seen that works in Christ---He was the sacrifice---and they called Him "Beelzebub," a devil, because He was doing it. And now they say ---He said, "I forgive you for that, but when the Holy Ghost comes to do the same thing, you speak a word against it, it'll never be forgiven you, in this world or the world to come." See?
Just one word is all you have to say against it. See? And then ---because if that life---if you've been ordained to eternal life, then that life would burst forth when you seen it. You'd recognize it, like the little woman at the well and the different ones; but if it's not there, it can't come to life for there's nothing there to come to life with. As my old mother used to say, "You can't get blood from a turnip," because there's no blood in it. Now, that's the same thing,

55 and it paralyzes what little faith you have got.
Lot could see the glamour, but he didn't have enough faith to see the fire that would destroy such glamour. I wonder if we have today? I wonder if us ... the women that wants to be popular, that wants to act like the rest of the women in the church, if they see that they want to act like the rest---they can see the possibilities of being a prettier woman by being painted; they can see a prettier woman by having a younger appearance by cutting their hair, and acting like some of the others or the movie stars, but I wonder if that hasn't paralyzed their faith to know that the Bible says that a woman does that is an unhonorable woman. And a woman that puts on a garment pertains to a man is an abomination before God ---slacks and so forth and shorts that they're wearing. It just becomes so calloused till it becomes a regular routine of the people doing it. I wonder if they don't paralyze the very little faith that you had even to go to church. You see? That's the thing it does.

56 Lot did that and it paralyzed him and it paralyzed his people down there. They couldn't see it, but Abraham with an a-vindicated faith (his uncle), he looked not upon the glamour, he wanted nothing to do with it though he had to live hard and live to himself and Sarah---lived out in the wilderness where it was hard going on the barren ground, but they seen not the glamour or the possibilities of becoming popular. Sarah, the most beautiful woman in the land, Bible said so. She was fair; the fairest of all the women. And now she even stayed and obeyed her husband till even she called him her lord, who the Bible refers to plumb over in the New Testament said, "Whose daughters you are as long as you obey the faith." See---called her husband her lord.
And the angel of the Lord visited their temple or their little tent out there and told them---they didn't even have a house to live in, living out in the barren lands, and there you are. You see the day patterned back again just exactly like it was then?

57 Now, Moses with his great faith again could say, "No" to the present things of the present world, and make a righteous choice. He chose to suffer the afflictions with the people of God. He chose to go with it. Why?---his faith. He saw the promise; he saw the end-time; he saw over in tomorrow, and he let his faith loose. And he didn't pay no attention to what his eyes saw in the possibilities here that he was the Pharaoh and was going to be the Pharaoh, he looked plumb over in tomorrow.
Oh, if people could only do that! Didn't see the present world. If you look at the present world, you make a choice with it. Hide your eyes from that and look at the promise of God, way over in tomorrow. By his faith he could choose. He did choose to be called the son of Abraham and refused to be called the son of Pharaoh. How could he, when all the whole kingdom---Egypt had the world whipped. He was king of the world, and was a young man of forty years old here ready to take the throne, but he never looked at his inter...

58 Look at the women would've laid around him day by day, harems of them. Look at the glamour, sit and drink wine and watch the striptease before him as they danced and fanned him---women from all over the world, and the jewels and treasures and his army out there. The only thing he had to do is sit and eat his fine food and say, "Send army garrison number so-and-so down to so-and-so; take that nation. I believe I just want it." That's all he had to do: sit there, and them fan him, and hold his mouth open, let the lovely, beautiful stripteases of that day pour wine into his mouth, feed him his food with their arms around him---all the prettiest women in the world.
All the glamour that there was, was laying right there by him, but what did he do? He looked away from that. He knowed fire was ready for that. He knowed death laid in that line, see. He knowed that it was, and he looked over to a bunch of despised and rejected people, and by faith he chose to suffer the reproach of Christ and called himself, "I'm a son of Abraham; I'm no son of this pharaoh. Though you make me a bishop, or a deacon, or an archbishop, or a pope, I'm no son of this thing. I'm a son of Abraham and separate myself from the things of the world." Amen, amen, and amen!
By faith, did that.

59 He took the glamour away. He took the possibilities of being the next bishop; he took the possibilities of being the next archbishop or the next general overseer at the next election or whatever it was, he took that away. He refused to look at it.
Now, "if I become the bishop, I'll walk in. The people will say, 'Holy Father' or 'Dr. So-and-so' or 'Elder So-and-so.' How they'll ... all the ministers at the gathering, they'll pat me on the back and say, 'Say, boy, that guy's got something. I'm telling you.' Oh! 'Sh-sh-sh, keep still; here comes the bishop.' What he says, that's law. 'Here comes the So-and-so.'" People will fly over the world to be the ... see the pope, kiss the foot and the rings and so forth. What a possibility to the Catholics, what a possibility to the Protestants to be bishop or general overseer or something, some great man in an organization.
Looking ... oh, but you see the eye of faith looks over the top of that. And you see the end of it down there where God says the whole thing will be destroyed. Faith, that eagle eye, lifts you up above that and you see tomorrow, not today, and choose to be called a son of Abraham.

60 Pharaoh, with no faith seen God's children as fanatics---no faith. He made them slaves because he wasn't scared what he said. He wasn't afraid of God. He thought he was God. He thought his gods that he served---that he was a bishop, he was the head general overseer---his gods was the one that did it; nothing to this thing here. So he made them slaves. He laughed at them---made fun of them just as the people did today, the same thing exactly.
Moses' faith seen them in the promised land, a blessed people. It might be a hard fight to get them to the promise, but Moses chose to go with them. (How I could lay on that, but my time's getting away. See?)

61 Notice, it might be a hard thing to turn those people around. "You have to go live with them. You have to be one of them, and they're already so intellectual that you can't move them. See? But there's got to be something happen out there. There's got to be a supernatural demonstrated before them. It's going to be a hard thing. The organizations will turn you down, and all these things will happen. It's terrible what you have to do, but yet, make your choice."
"I'm one of them." His faith did that. His faith sparked. Yes, sir. He saw it.
It was a hard thing to get them to that promise, but he took his choice to go with them anyhow. Regardless of what they did to him, and what they turned him down, he went anyhow, and was going out with them.
I hope you're reading! All right. Go with them anyhow. Make me one of them, that's right, because it's your duty. Might be a hard fight and lot to go through, but go anyhow.

62 But his faith led him to take the choice of the Word and not the glamour. He took the Word. That's what Moses' faith did.
When faith looks on God's worst---remember, here was the glamour now of the world, the highest, king of the world. And where was God's promised?---in the mudhole, mud daubers, but when faith, when faith looks at God's worst, it esteems it greater and more valuable than the best the world can show! Yes, sir. When faith looks at it, when faith can see it.
When faith in the Word can see the Word made manifest, it's more to them than all the glamour and archbishopry and everything else you could speak of. Faith does it. You can see the worst, the despised, the rejected, the whatever it might be; let it be at its worst, and yet faith will esteem that a million miles higher than the best the world can produce. Amen!
That's the way we sing that song, "I'll take the way with the Lord's despised few..." See? Oh my!

63 For, you see, faith sees what God wants done.
Oh I hope this goes in! Faith doesn't look at the present time. Faith doesn't see this here. Faith looks to see what God wants, and works accordingly. That's what faith does. It sees what God wants, and what God wants done, and faith operates through that.
Faith is a long range vision. It don't lower its sights. It holds to the target. Amen! Any good shooter knows that, see? It's long range; it's a telescope; it's a binocular that you don't look around here; you don't use binoculars to look to see what time it is. See? You don't use that, but you use binoculars to look away off, and faith does that. Faith picks up God's binoculars, both of them, both sides, the New and Old Testament and sees every promise that He made, and faith sees it out yonder. And faith chooses that, regardless of what the present tense says here. He looks at the end.
He don't drop his sights down to look this way; he looks out yonder. He keeps the cross hair dead center on the Word. That's what faith does. That's the faith that's in a man that does those things.

64 Now watch. What Pharaoh called great, God called abomination. Pharaoh could've said, "Look Moses, here ... why you're next pharaoh, I hand this scepter to you when I leave here. I hand this scepter; it's yours." See? Now this is great. "You're going to be a great man, Moses. You're going to be the bishop. You're going to be this, that, or the other. Don't leave us, you stay here." But you see, he called that great and God said it was an abomination.
Now, you women think a minute---so you men. What the world calls great, God calls filth. Don't the Bible say it's an abomination for a woman to wear a garment pertains to a man? And you think you're smart in doing it, see. You're just displaying female flesh for the devil; that's all. So don't do it.
You men who live after the things of the world and huddle and cuddle after this, and you men with not enough audacity about you to make your wives and things quit doing that: Shame on you. Call yourself sons of God---looks like Sodomites to me, see. Not to hurt your feelings, but to tell you the truth. Love is corrective. It always is.
A mother won't take care of her child, correct it, and spank it, and make it mind, is not much of a mother for it. That's right.

65 Now watch what takes place now. Moses saw this by his vision and Pharaoh said that, "This is great."
God said, "It's an abomination." So Moses chose what God said.
Now notice, faith sees what God wants you to see, see. Faith sees what God sees, and reasoning and senses see what the world wants you to see. Notice, reasoning ... "Why, it's only human sense; it's only reason is this... Well, ain't this just as good." See? That's just exactly when you use those senses which is contrary to the Word, then that's what the world wants you to see. But faith don't look at that; faith looks what God said, see? You don't---you cast down reasons...

66 Reasoning sense sees what the world wants you to see---big denominations.
"Are you a Christian?"
"Oh, I'm Presbyterian"; "Methodist"; "Lutheran"; "Pentecostal"; whatmore. "I'm this, that, or the other"---that's senses. "I belong to the First Church"; "Oh, I'm Catholic"; I'm this, that." See?
You say that. Now, that's senses. You like to say that because it's a denomination, something big ... "Well, we got more members than any church in the world, see?" But there's only one real church, and you don't join it; you're born in it, see. And if you're born in it, the living God works Himself through you, to make Himself known, see. That's where God dwells---in his church.
God goes to church everyday---lives in church, He lives in you. You're his church. You are his church. You are the tabernacle that God dwells in. You are the church of the living God yourself. And if the living God lives in his living being, then your action is of God. If it isn't, then God isn't in there. He wouldn't make you act like that when He says in the Word here, his blueprint, "Don't do it," and you go do it. See, that's wrong. When you deny it, then that shows the life isn't even in you, see. That's right.

67 Faith led Moses to the path of obedience. Notice, Moses make... There is young Pharaoh; there is young Moses---both of them with the opportunity.
Moses seen the reproach of the people and counted it greater treasures than all Egypt had, and he led by faith. He followed what his faith said in the Word and it led him to the path of obedience and finally to glory. Immortal---never to die---in the presence of God.
Sight and senses and glamour led Pharaoh to his death and the destruction of Egypt, his nation and it's never come back since.

68 There you are. Look at this, you die. Look at that, you live. Now, make your choice.
That's the same thing God put before Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, see. By faith you must make your choice. Now notice, sight led Pharaoh to his death, and to destruction of his city. Moses, with his faith, never did fear Pharaoh, see. He didn't care what Pharaoh said. He cared not about Pharaoh no more than his mother and his daddy cared about the threats. When Moses was confirmed to him that he was that person that was to deliver the Egypt---or lead Israel out of Egypt, he never cared what Pharaoh said. He wasn't scared of him. Amen, amen, amen! You see what I mean.
There's no fear in faith. Faith knows about it. Faith as I've always said, it's got great big muscles and hairs on the chest. Faith said, "Shut up!" and everybody shuts up. That's all. "I know where I'm at!"
Rest of them say, "Well, maybe he does." But you've got to stand up and show your muscles. That's all; faith does it.

69 Notice, Moses never feared Pharaoh after God a-vindicated his call. When Moses believed he was called for that, but when God told him up there, "It's so," and come down and showed before Pharaoh and all the rest of them that he was sent to do it, Moses never was scared of Pharaoh.
Notice, Pharaoh used his wisdom on Moses though. Watch. He said, "I'll tell you what, I'll make an agreement with you"; (after the plagues done eat him up) said, "I'll make an agreement with you. You just go for a little worship three days. Just go so far, and don't go no farther." But you know that was Pharaoh's senses told him that. "You just go so far and don't go no farther."
Haven't we got that kind today? "If you just join church, that's all right."

70 But, you know the faith that Moses had didn't believe in a "so-far religion."
He said, "We're all going. We're going all the way. That's right. We're going to the promised land. We just don't go out here and make a denomination and stop, we go on through." Amen. "I'm going on to the promised land. God promised us."
How many Pharaohs have we got today standing in the pulpit? ---heads of organizations. "Now, if you just do this and do that, that's all... Well, see, just so far."
But Moses said, "Oh, no! No no, no no." See?
Pharaoh said, "Well, why not---if you're going to have that kind of religion, I'll tell you what you do. Just you and the elders go worship, see? Just you and the elders go worship, because you all can have that kind of religion, but don't get it among the people."

71 You know what Moses said? "There won't even be a hoof left behind. We're going all the way. We're all going! I'm not going unless they go, and as long as I'm here, I'm on your hands! Amen I'm not going unless they can go too. That's all."
Oh, what a gallant servant! Amen. "I want to take them with me. Just because I've got it---and I sit down and say, 'Well now, this is all right'---no, sir; we want the people too. Everyone of us is going." Amen. He said, "And we ain't even going to leave any of our sheep or anything behind. There's not going be a hoof left back. We're all going to the promised land, (Amen)--- everyone of us. Whether you're a housewife, of whether you're a little maid, or whether you're an old woman, or a young man, or an old man, or whatever you are; we're going anyhow. There isn't going to be one of us left. Amen. Everyone of us is going or we ain't going to stop at nothing else." That's right.
My, them religions is really in a debate there, wasn't it? Oh, my. No, Moses did not believe in this here just "so-far religion." No, he didn't believe in that. Yes, sir. Oh, my. We could stay all day on that but I got to get to my text after while and start preaching.

72 Notice this. How beautiful---oh, I love this. You know finally Pharaoh said, "Get out!" God just plagued him with the voice of Moses. He struck everything. He done everything there was to be done. He stopped the... He put the sun down in the middle of the day; He done everything else. He blackened the day, he brought frogs, fleas, lice, everything else; fire, smoke and death to his families and everything else. He done everything till finally Pharaoh had to say, "Get out! Take all you got and go." Oh, my. Praise be to God!
I'm so glad that a man can so completely serve God till the devil don't know what to do with him. Just obey God so completely till the devil said, "Oh my. Get away. I don't want to hear it no more." That's right. You can do it---so completely.

73 See now, if God wouldn't have backed up Moses, then he'd become a laughing stock, but God was right there confirming. Everything he said come to pass.
And Pharaoh had to hold his position because he was a bishop you know, so he had to stay there. He couldn't say, "No," because it was already happening. See? He couldn't deny it because it was already happening. So finally he said, "Oh, just get out; I don't want to hear you no more. Get out of here; take all you got and go." Oh, my.

74 Now, we find Moses, here, after God had done so much for him and had showed him so many signs and wonders...
Now, for the next fifteen minutes let's lay this down here. Watch real close.
Moses come to this spot where he ... God had said, "I'm with you. You said, 'Let there come flies,' and there come flies." That's creation. Who can bring darkness over the earth but God? "You said, 'Let there be darkness,' and there was darkness. You said, 'Let there be frogs,' and the frogs even got in Pharaoh's house, in the beds, and when they piled them up, in great heaps..." Creator... "And I have spoke through you, Moses, and made my Word create through your lips. I've made you actually a god before Pharaoh." Yes, sir. "I've done all this, and here they come to a place"---a little trial come up, and Moses began to cry, "What shall I do?"

75 I want you to notice. This is a great lesson here now. I love this, see. See, Moses---if we read here, right that when the children begin to get scared---they seen Pharaoh coming after them in the line of duty...
God had performed everything perfectly; now He started them on their journey. He's got the church together. They'd been called out; they come from every denomination; they all got together. Moses went back there and said, "Lord, what must I do?"
He'd say, "Well, go do this. All right, go ahead. Now Moses, you know I've called you to do this."
"Yes, Lord."
"All right, you go speak this; it'll be"---here come the flies. "Speak for this"---here it come. "Do this"---here it come. Everything was thus saith the Lord, thus saith the Lord, thus saith the Lord!
Now, he gets into a trouble,

76 and God says, "Now, I've got them started on the journey; they're all done called out. The church is together, so I've got them on their journey. Now Moses, take them on over. I told you. See, I'm going to sit down and rest awhile."
Moses said, "Oh, Lord, look coming here! Here comes Pharaoh! The people are all ... what must I do! What must I do!" See there, isn't that just human being. Begin to cry, "What must I do!"
Here we see Moses expressingly fully human nature---always wants God to get behind you and push you into something. Now, that's us today. You want God after we've seen all we've seen, yet you want God to push you to do something, see? Moses had just laxed around---said, "God, I'm going to ask You, and see what You say."
"Yeah, yeah," you say, "Well, all right. I'll say it too." See?
But here God had ordained him for the job, proved that He was with him, and here he is; the circumstance comes up, and then he begins to cry, "What can I do? Lord, what can I do?"

77 Now remember, he had already prophesied here, for he said, "These Egyptians that you see today, you'll see no more." And then immediately begin to cry out, "God, what can we do?" After he'd done done a pretty good job in prophesying there. See, he had done told them what would happen. If the Word of God was in him, it was in him. And when he was telling that, it actually come to pass---what he said was already going to come to pass, and here he was crying out, "What am I going to do?"
Oh, if that isn't human beings. If that isn't me! If that isn't me! He'd already proved, "What you say will happen. I'm with you. And here a circumstance rose in a moment. "What must I do? What must I do, Lord? Hey, Lord, where are You at? Hey, do You hear me? What must I do?" And He'd already ordained him, and a-vindicated him, and proved and worked everything through him, and here---"God!" Oh my, fully expresses.
Man wants to rest and let God do the pushing.

78 And yet he knew that God had anointed him for this job, to do this, and God had clearly a-vindicated his claims. It was time for the people to be delivered. God through his miracles and wonders had drawed them all together in one group. (You follow me?) Drawed them all together in one group---vindicated his claims. Scripture said so. Here was a sign; here was the evidence. Here everything that he said ... then he come among them as a prophet. Whatever he said, God honored it, even to create and bring up flies and put things in existence. And everything that He had promised him, here He done it. But he wanted to wait on thus saith the Lord, see.
He should've known that the very vindication of his call was thus saith the Lord. His job that he was ordained to was thus saith the Lord. Can you get it? Why did he wait on thus saith the Lord?

79 He wanted, "Lord, what can I do? Here I've brought these children out here this far. Here's the circumstance: Pharaoh's coming; they're all going to die. What must I do? What must I do?"
He'd already predicted what they was going to do. He'd already told just exactly what to do. He predicted the end of the very nation he was brought up in. I hope you understand. Moses had already said, "You'll not see them anymore. God's going to destroy them. They made fun of you long enough. God will destroy them." He'd already predicted what would happen to them and "Lord, what must I do?" See the human nature there? "What must I do? I'm going to wait for thus saith the Lord." Yes, sir. "I'll see what the Lord says, and then I'll do it. Remember, there was a Pharaoh had raised up that didn't know Joseph, you know---in that time, right at that time, see. And Moses stood right up and predicted the end of that nation.

80 And here he was right to the place where it was to be happening, and then he cries out, "What must I do, Lord? What must I do?" See?
Isn't that human beings? Isn't that just human nature? "What shall I do?" He was already ... prophesied. God had honored everything he said, and he was called for the job, so why did he have to say, "What must I do?" If there was a need, it was just up to him to speak for it. God wanted Moses to put that gift of faith that he had given him to work. God had vindicated that it was the truth, and God wanted Moses---wanted the people to see that He was with Moses. And he, back there he waited, say "Now, Lord, I'm just a baby. Let You tell me now. Yeah, I'll go do this. I got thus saith the Lord."
"Brother, is that thus saith the Lord?"
"Yes, yes, Brother Moses, that's thus saith the Lord."
"Yeah, okay. We got it now, thus saith the Lord"---and it happened. Never failed one time. Never did fail.
And here it is under circumstances, comes up again. Now, He's got them on the journey. The church is already called out. Got them on the journey, and they're moving up. And Moses started crying out, "Lord, is it thus saith the Lord? What must I do?"
All right,

81 God wanted Moses to have faith that He'd put in that gift that He'd clearly a-vindicated. God had clearly proved to Moses and the people that it was Him by the Word and by the things that was said come to pass. It was clearly identified. There was no need of him worrying anymore about it, see. There was no more of him thinking anything about it because it was already cleared up. He'd already done these things. He'd already proved by flies and fleas that he spoke things into creation---that the Word of God was in him. So here he is going to ask Him now what to do when the circumstances lays right before him, see. Oh, my!
I hope this goes way down to us, and we can see where we're at, see? Don't it make you feel about that big? Thinking about Moses, telling his faults, and look at ours.

82 Here he was standing there, see. Knowed that the Scriptures said that that was the hour and day for that to happen, and know that God had met him in a pillar of fire. And it went right down before the people and perform these miracles and everything he'd said had come to pass, even to bringing things into creation---doing the things that only God could do---showing that his voice was God's voice. And here was the circumstances with that people that he was raising up, bringing on to the promised land, and then was standing crying, "What must I do?"
That's a human being want to just as a Brother Roy Slaughter (I believe he's sitting outside the door there) told me one time about somebody doing something to me, and I said, "Well, I did this and now that..."
And he said, "Brother Branham, let them lean on your shoulder today, and tomorrow you pack them."
And that's just the way human beings is. Lean on your shoulder today, and tomorrow you pack them. That's what Moses was doing. God had to pack him along after He'd ordained him and proved it to do it! And the people ought to have said, "Moses, say the word. I seen you do it there. God honored you there. And you're the same one today." Amen. See? "Do it!" Amen. He ought to have knowed it, but he didn't. All right.
Just as it was then, so is it now. We find out that---so he said...

83 God must just got enough of it. God must've got fed up on it. He said, "Why are you crying to Me about? Haven't I already proved my identification? Haven't I told you that I sent you for the job? Didn't I tell you to go do this? Didn't I promise that I'd do this, that I'd be with your mouth, and I'd speak through you and I'd do this and you'd show signs and wonders, didn't I promise to do it? Have not I did just exactly and destroyed every enemy from around you? And here you are standing out here now at the Red Sea right in the line of duty what I told you to do and then still hollering and crying to Me. Don't you believe Me? Can't you see that I sent you to do this?"
Oh, if that isn't human being, my! So just must have got pretty well fed up on it.

84 And He said, "You know you have need of it. You know if you're going to take these children over to that promised land ... That's exactly... You're penned up here in a corner. There ain't nothing else you can do. So, there's a need. What are you crying to Me about? What're you looking at Me for? What're you calling on Me about? Haven't I proved it to the people? Haven't I proved it to you? Haven't I called it? Isn't it scriptural? Didn't I promise to take this people to that land? Didn't I call you and tell you I would do it? Didn't I call and say I sent you to do it, and it wasn't you, it was Me? and I go down and I'd be with your lips. And whatever you said, I'd vindicate it and prove it. Haven't I done it? Then when any little things comes up, why do you act like a baby? You ought to be a man. Speak to the people!" Amen. "Then move forward." Amen. There you are. "Don't cry, speak!" Amen.
Oh, I like that. "What are you crying to me about? Just speak to the people, and go forward to your objective." Whatever it is, if it's sickness, of whatever, whether it's to raise the dead or whatever it is, speak! I proved it. Speak to the people."

85 What a lesson! What a lesson! Oh, my! At this stage of the journey where we're standing. Look where we're at now---yes, sir!---at the third pull. Notice, we're right here at the door of the coming of the Lord.
He was anointed for the job and still waiting for thus saith the Lord. God must've just got enough of it. He said, "Don't cry anymore; speak! I sent you."
Oh, God! What this church ought to be this morning! God's perfect a-vindication with the pillar of fire and the signs and the wonders---everything just like it was in the days of Sodom. He said it would return back. Here's the world in its condition, there's the nation in its condition. There's the women in the condition. There's the men in the condition. There's the church in the condition. There's everything. The elements, the signs---flying saucers and everything in the skies and all kind of mysterious things, and the sea a-roaring, tidal waves, men's heart failing, fear, perplex of time, distress between nations, the church falling away,

86 and the man of sin rising up who upholds himself above all---who is called god, he that sitteth in a temple of God showing himself---oh my! And it has come to this nation!
And the church has organized, and all of them gathered together as harlots to the whore, and everything exactly in the way of whoredom. Whoredom! What is it?---telling women they can cut their hair, telling women they can wear shorts, tell men that they can do this and they can do that and the preachers they do this, and the social gospel and things. Don't you see it's committing adultery with the true Word of God. And God has sent us his true Word undenominational, no strings tied to it, and give us a pillar of fire, the Holy Ghost that's been with us now for thirty years, and everything that He's predicted and said come to pass exactly the way He said it would.

87 "Speak to the people; and let's go forward." Amen. We've got an objective, that's Glory. Let's move to it. We're heading to the promised land. All things are possible to them that believe."
"Speak to the people. Haven't I proved it. Haven't I even had my picture made among you and everything else, and done everything that could be done to prove that I'm with you? Doesn't the magazines just a few weeks ago packed the article, when you said here at the pulpit what would take place out here three months beforehand, and there it went taking place and vindicating---even the science knows about it. And everything that I've done, and you're still waiting. Speak to the people and go forward to your objective." Amen.
Didn't Nathan tell David---Nathan, the prophet---one time sitting seeing David the anointed king, he said, "Do all that's in your heart, for God is with you." Told David, "Do all that's in your heart; God's with you."

88 Joshua was anointed to take the land for God and for his people. The day was short; he needed more time for the job that he was anointed and commissioned to do. Joshua---a man. He was anointed. God told him, "As I was with Moses, I'll be with you." Amen. "That land, I'm going to give it to them. I want you to go over there and clean out the Amalekites and all the others, the Philistines and Perizzites and all the different ones---clean them out. I'm with you. No man will stand before you all the days of your life. No man can bother you. Go on in there."
And Joshua drawed that sword and said, "Follow me." And he got over there, and here he was fighting. And what was it? He routed the enemy. They were little bunches here and little bunches there. When nighttime come they'd all get together and garrison together and come with a big force against him, and the sun was going down. He needed more light. The sun was going down. He didn't fall on his knees and say, "Lord God, what shall I do? What shall I do?" He spoke! He had a need he said, "Sun, stand still!" And he cried at nothing; he commanded: "Sun, stand still; I've got a need of this. I'm the servant of the Lord, anointed for this job, and I've got a need. Stand still and don't you shine, and moon, you hang where you're at," till he fought the battle through and whipped the whole thing out.
And the sun obeyed him.

89 No crying out, he spoke to the sun. Said, "You stand still. Sun, hang there, and moon, you stay where you're at." He didn't cry out, "Lord, now what can I do? Give me some more sunlight." He had need of sunlight, so he commanded it, and the sun obeyed him. Oh my! He commanded the sun to stand still.
Samson, anointed, raised up, ordained of God, given a gift of power was ordained to destroy the nation of the Philistines---ordained, born on the earth, anointed of God to destroy the Philistines. One day they caught him out in the field without his sword, without a spear, and a thousand of those armored Philistines run upon him at one time. Did he get down and say, "Oh Lord, I'm waiting for a vision? Oh, Lord, what must I do? Direct me now what to do." He knowed he had a need. He found nothing but an old jawbone of a mule and he beat down a thousand Philistines. Amen! He never cried to God. He used his anointed gift. He knowed that he was sent for the job. He knowed he was born for that. He knowed he was anointed with a gift, and he beat down a thousand Philistines. He didn't cry to God. God ordained him and vindicated that he was by other things that he had done, and he was a-vindicated, anointed servant of God to destroy the Philistines, and he did it! No matter what the circumstances was, he did it. He never asked nothing. That was his job. God was dealing through... He picked up that mule bone and go to beating Philistines.
How the ...

90 why, one lick with that thing across one of them inch and a half brass skulls like that would've shattered that bone into a million pieces, and he beat a thousand of them down and killed them, and still stood with it in his hand. Didn't ask no questions. He didn't cry out. He spoke. He routed them.
Oh, my! Take the Philistines. "Can I take the Philistines, Lord? I know You sent me to do it, Lord. Yes, Lord, I know You sent me to destroy this nation of the Philistines. Now here, a thousand of them around me and I ain't got nothing. What am I going to do now, Lord." Oh, my! Nothing going to bother him. He's anointed for the work. There's nothing can harm you. No, not one thing. Hallelujah!
He just took what he had and beat into them. That's right.

91 When the enemy fenced him in and said, "Now we get him in the walls, we got him now. We got him on the inside here with this woman. Now we got the door shut all around everywhere, and he can't get out. We got him."
Samson didn't cry, "Oh, Lord, they got me all fenced in with this denomination. What am I going to do? I've joined up with them. What am I going to do?" He never did that. He just walked out, and pulled down the gate, put it on his shoulder and walked away with it. Amen!
He was anointed for the job. He was called of God---didn't fence him in. No, indeedy! He took the gates with him. He didn't pray about it. He didn't ask God whether to do it or not. It was right in the line of duty. Amen! Amen! Amen! Right in the line of duty.
"Why cry to Me? Speak, and go on." Amen. "Don't cry, speak." He done quit whining and whimpering now. Ought to be old enough to speak. That's right. He knew his anointed gift of power could destroy any Philistine that stood before him. Amen.

92 But we don't know that, you see. We're still little babies with a bottle in our mouth and... He knew it! Knew that God raised him up for that purpose, and there was nothing going to stand before him all the days of his life. Nothing could destroy him. He was raised for that purpose like Moses was---nothing going to stop him. No Amalekites or nothing else can stop him. He's on the road to the promised land. Samson knew he was on the road.
Joshua knowed he was taking the land. He was a-vindicated. God's Word promised it, and the Holy Ghost was there vindicating it.

93 He was on his road so there was nothing going to stand in his way. No, sir. Right in the line of duty with God. There was nothing going to stand in his way, so he just picked up the gates and put them on his shoulders---weighed about four or five tons---and walked up on top of the hill and sat down on them---nothing going to stand in his way. He had an anointed gift from God.
He didn't have to cry out, "Lord, what must I do now." He was already anointed to do it. That was thus saith the Lord. "Get rid of them!" Hallelujah! "Get rid of them! I've raised you up for that purpose." Amen.
"What must I do, Lord? What am I going to do here at the Red Sea?"
"Didn't I tell you that I gave you a mountain for a sign out here? You're coming back to that mountain, and you're going to take these children to the land. Didn't I call you for that purpose? What are you worried about anything else standing in the way. Speak and start moving." Amen and amen. "I called you for this purpose."

94 David, he knew he was anointed, and was a-vindicated to be a good shot. He knowed that they knowed he was a good shot. David was anointed; he knowed it. And when he stood before Goliath, he never cried, "Oh, God, what must I do now? But, but, what must, I know what You did in times past; You let me kill a bear, and You let me kill a lion, but what about this Goliath out here?" He never did that; he just spoke. What did he say? "You'll be like they were." He spoke and went forward.
He never prayed a prayer; he never offered nothing. He knowed he was anointed. Amen. He was anointed and that slingshot had proved the right kind of a thing. He had faith in his anointing. He had faith that God could direct that rock right straight in the middle of that helmet there where the only place could be hit. He was standing there.

95 He knowed he was a good shot. Amen. He knowed God made him that. Amen. He knowed he'd killed a lion. He knowed he'd killed a bear, but that was with his earthly father's possession. Here's his heavenly Father's possession. Amen.
He didn't get down, "What must I do, now Lord?" He spoke and said, "You'll be like the lion and the bear, and here I come." Glory to God! Yes, sir.
He spoke and went forward to meet this Goliath (Oh, my!) regardless of his size. He was a little ruddy looking fellow, you know. He wasn't very big, he wasn't very handsome to look at---little bitty drawed-up sort of a fellow. The Bible said he was ruddy. Now, regardless of his size, and his so-called ability to do so...
You know, the bishop told him, said, "Now look here, son, that man's a theologian. See? He is a fighter. He was born a fighter and he's been a fighter from his youth; and you're no match for him."
And his brothers said, "Oh, you naughty thing. Come out here to do such a thing as that; get on back home." That didn't bother him. Why?---he knew he was anointed.
"The God that delivered me from that lion, the God that delivered me from the paws of that bear, He'll more than that deliver me from that Philistine. Here I come. I meet you in the name of the Lord God of Israel." Amen.
Didn't pray through---he was already prayed through; God prayed him through before the foundation of the world. He was anointed for the job. He had to speak and go forward. That's all there was to do about it. Just speak and go forward.
Oh, that's all there was to it. He didn't ...

96 about his denominational brothers, them scoffers standing there, too, you know. Oh, yes. They were standing there saying, scoffing, and making fun and saying (his brothers you know) and saying ... "Ah, ahh, you're just naughty." That didn't move him a bit. "You want to be different from somebody else, you just want to show off."
If that'd been showing off, it'd been so. But they only looked at the intellectual side. David knowed the anointing oil was on him. Amen. Didn't make any different to him. He said, "That Philistine will be like the bear and lion, so here I come." He predicted it before it happened. What did he do?---he killed the bear; he killed the lion. He knocked the lion down. What with?---with a slingshot, and took a knife and then the lion, he killed the lion with the knife. That's the same thing he done to Goliath. He knocked him down with a rock, and pulled up his sword, and cut his own head off right there before... What did he predict before it happened?---"And you will be as they are." Why? He spoke the word that it would be, and then went forward to make it be fulfilled. Amen. Oh, brother! He spake and took over the situation that day.

97 If there ever was a time that man should speak, it's now. (Closing just in the next few minutes if you can just bear a few minutes longer. I got some more things wrote down here, some Scriptures I want to get to.)
Peter never cried when he found a man that had faith enough to be healed, laying at the gate called Beautiful. He never got down and had an all night's prayer or all day's prayer, or a big long prayer and said, "Lord, I pray, You now, that You'll help this poor lame man. I see that he's got faith. I know he's a believer, and I've asked him, and he said he had faith---he'd believe what I told him. I've told him about what You did, and I just think now, Lord... Can You give me a thus saith the Lord for him?"
No, he knew that he was anointed apostle. He knowed that Jesus Christ commissioned him: "Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out devils; freely as you receive, freely give." He said, "Peter, go do that!" He didn't have to pray through, he was commissioned.

98 What did he say? He said, "In the name of Jesus Christ..." He spoke the name of Jesus Christ, and the man just laid there. He picked him up by the hand and said, "Stand up on your feet!" He held him there till his ankle bones got strength, and he started to walking.
Why? He never had an all night's prayer meeting. He never cried out to God. He knew positive from the lips of Jesus Christ he was anointed for this work. He spake and raised him up for he knowed he was anointed apostle for the purpose.
The people that laid in his shadow never said, "Oh, come, Apostle Peter, and cry over us and pray the prayer of faith for us to God." No, no, they never said that. They knew he was anointed and a-vindicated apostle of God. So they said, "Just let us lay in his shadow. You don't have to say a word. We know it; we believe it." Life within them ... the apostle couldn't get to them all and they themselves---they're a part of it.

99 Moses said, "It's just not me going, we're all going. We all got something to do. We've all got to be anointed." And they seen that apostle stand there and seen him heal the sick man and do the things he did---they knowed he couldn't get to them, they never said, "Peter, come and offer prayer and wait now until you got thus saith the Lord and come tell me. See what the Lord says." They said, "If we can only lay in his shadow, because the very God that was in Jesus Christ is in him, and we see the same thing doing." So they touched the border of Jesus' garment and laid in his shadow and Jesus was in this man. If that shadow can reflect upon them, they will be healed. And the Bible said everyone of them was healed. No all night prayer meetings. Saying, "Lord, if I go lay in the shadows of this apostle..." No, they knew it. The light had struck them. Their hearts was full, their faith was let loose. Amen. They believed it they'd seen it. Paul's hankies---the same way. (Now, in closing.)

100 Jesus never cried when they brought the maniac boy to Him that had epilepsy, falling into the fire. He never said, "Father, I'm your Son, and now You sent Me here to do so-and-so-and-so; can I heal this boy?" He never said... He said, "Come out of him, Satan!" He spoke and the boy was made well.
When he met Legion with two thousand devils in him---it wasn't Jesus a-crying; it was the devils a-crying. "If you're going to cast us out, (oh, my!) suffer us to go in that herd of swine."
Jesus never said, "Now, Father, am I able to do this?" He said, "Come out of him," and the devils took their flight. Sure, He knowed He was Messiah.

101 At the grave of Lazarus, (He'd been dead four days) they said, "If You would've been here, Lord, he would not have died."
He said, "I am the resurrection and life..." Not where, when, or how. "He that believeth in Me though he were dead, yet shall he live." Amen. He knowed who He was. He knowed what He was. He knowed that He was Emmanuel. He knowed He was the resurrection. He knowed He was life. He knowed that in Him dwelt the fullness of the Godhead bodily. He seen them little people there and He seen that what God had told Him---said to do and there He was---went down there.
He never said, "Now wait, I'll kneel down here and all of you kneel down, pray." He said, "You believe that I'm able to do this?" Amen. He asked for it. It wasn't Him; it was them.
"Yea, Lord, I believe that You're the Son of God that was to come into the world." Oh, my! There He is identified. Something's got to happen.
"Lazarus, come forth!" He spoke, and a dead man come forth. Not, can I? He just spoke. When the faith was met, the thing happened.

102 He speaks---He spoke and the blind saw; the lame walked; the deaf heard; devils screamed and come out; the dead was raised up ---everything. Why? He didn't pray through; He was anointed the Messiah. He was that Messiah. He knew He was. He knew his position. He knowed what He was sent to do. He knowed that the Father had identified Him to be the Messiah to the believer; and when he met that believer with faith, He just spoke the Word. Devils scattered. Yes, sir. Speak; don't cry, speak! Amen.
And He knew his God given rights, but we don't. He knew what He was; we don't.
Moses had forgot. Samson understood. Others understood. Joshua understood. Moses forgot. God had to call his attention to it. He said, "Why are you crying to Me? I sent you to do the job; speak and go on to your objective. I told you you'd come to this mountain; take them children and lead them on. Just speak; I don't care what's in your way, move it out of the way. I give you authority to do it. I spoke---you spoke flies and fleas, and creation and things like that. Now, what are you hollering to Me about? Why are you coming to Me, hollering these things? Just speak and watch it move, that's all." Oh, my! Oh, how I love it.

103 Here Jesus ... everything that He said, He just spoke the Word, and it was so. God properly had a-vindicated Him to be his Son. "This is my beloved Son, in whom I'm well pleased. Hear ye Him."
Watch Him. (I like this.) How bravely, how majestically He stood before his critics. Amen. He said, "Destroy this temple, and I'll pray the Father, and see what He does about it. Destroy this temple, and I'll raise it up again." Not: I hope to; I'm going to try to---I will do it?! Why?---the Scripture said so. The same Scripture that said He'd raise up his body, give us the authority, the power. Amen! "In my name they shall cast out devils; they'll speak with new tongues; if they take up serpents or drink deadly things; it won't harm them. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover."
"Why cry unto Me? Speak and go forward." Oh, bravely---"Destroy this temple, I'll raise it up again."

104 Oh, and remember now, (we're closing) it was that same He---it was He that said in John 14:12: "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do, shall he do also." Is that right? It was He that said so. It was Jesus in Mark 11:24 that said, "If you say to this mountain..." (not "if you pray to this mountain") " If you say to this mountain 'be moved,' and don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you've said will come to pass, you can have what you said." Now, if you say it just presumptuously, it won't happen, but if something in you---that you're anointed for the job, and will know that it's the will of God to do it, and will say it, it's got to happen. "If ye..." It was He that said this: "If ye abide in Me and my words abide in you, ask what you will, and it shall be done to you." Oh, my! Oh, my! You see what I mean?

105 Pardon this, but it's just coming up in me. I've got to say it. It was He that said that day up there inside that woods, "You have no game," and He created three squirrels standing there before us. What is it? Just speaking the word, say they'll be there, and there, and there, and there they was. It was He that did that. Charlie, Rodney, it was He down there in Kentucky. Nellie, Margie, and the rest of you, it was He, that same God that was back there and spoke to Moses and said, "Why do you cry to Me? Speak the word." It was He that brought them into existence. It's He. It's Him. Oh, my!
It was He that give the vision about a year ago that said we would go over there, and these seven seals and how there would be a great thunder that would start it off, and it'd be in the shape of a pyramid. And there the Look---the Life magazine's packing it---hanging on the wall in there. It was He that said that.

106 It was He that night when I was going down that road and seen that big mamba snake about to get my brother. He said, "You've been given power to bind him or any of the rest of them."
It was He that said that to my little gray headed wife sitting back there---it was He that morning that woke me up there in the room and standing in the corner said, "Don't fear to do anything or go anywhere or say anything, for the never failing presence of Jesus Christ is with you wherever you go."
It was He up yonder in Sabino Canyon about three months ago when I was praying, wondering what was going to happen, and I was standing there and a sword dropped in my hand, and said, "This is the King's sword." It was He.
It was He that said to me, "As I was with Moses, so I'll send you."

107 It was He that said to me thirty years ago down on the river yonder as a little boy, standing there as a little preacher on the river thirty years ago---standing there when that light the same pillar of fire come down from the heavens and stood there and said, "As I sent John the Baptist to forerun the first coming of Christ, your message shall forerun the second coming"---to all the world. How could it be when my own pastor laughed and made fun of it? But it happened just exactly. That's right. It was He that said it. Yes, sir!
Oh, how it was He that said in prophecy to the vision, "It shall come to pass." It was He that said, "If one among you prophesies or sees a vision and tells it, and it comes to pass, then remember it's not him, it's Me. I am with him." Oh my! What can I go on and say, it's He, it's He, it's He.

108 It's He that come down... When I told them that the pillar of fire was down there on the river, and they couldn't believe it. It was He down there amongst ... with that Baptist preacher before thirty thousand people that night in the Sam Houston Coliseum when that angel of the Lord had his picture taken standing there. It was He, the same yesterday, today, and forever. It was He that foretold where these things would be. It was He that said this. It was He that done these things. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. He's done everything just exactly like He said He would do it. Amen.
Why should I wait? God's a-vindicated the Word. It's the truth. Let's journey. Let's walk. Let's go on the walk of the Lord, laying aside all doubts, all sins. Clean up the house; scrub it up. As Junior Jackson's vision said, there wasn't nothing left but lamps---or his dream (if he's sitting here). Nothing left but lamps, and they had gold bands around them---in the dream that he give me the other night. Oh my!

109 Brother Collins, don't worry about that fish. It was white; you just didn't know how to handle it. Lay aside everything else contrary to it. Remember this is truth regardless of how fanatic it seems, and everything else sometimes... Move right on with it.
It's the Holy Spirit, the same God that raised up Jesus Christ from the dead. The same one that can speak things into existence, the same one that lived in the days of Moses is the same today. His call in this last day, He's a-vindicated, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." He's done... There's Sodom down there. There's a Billy Graham and an Oral Roberts out there, and the church is moving on by the same signs that He promised both places, and there they are. It's He that said it. Oh, Lord, give me courage, is my prayer. Help me, oh Lord God.
I have to quit here. It's getting late.

110 "Why cry to Me? Why are you crying to Me when I've proved to be with you? Haven't I healed your sick." He'd say? "Haven't I told you things that's happened just exactly? Your pastor can't do that ... me. He can't. He's a man. "It's Me, the Lord," that He would say. "I'm the one that did it. I'm the one that tells him these things. It's not him. It's my voice. I'm the one that raises up your dead when they drop down. I'm the one that heals the sick. I'm the one that foretells these things. I'm the one that does the saving. I'm the one that give the promise."
God, give me courage to take that sword of the Word that He put in my hands about thirty-three years ago and hold it and march forward to the third pull is my prayer. Let's bow our heads.

111 Heavenly Father, the hour is growing late, but the Word is getting precious. As we see it, Lord, time after time, never failing presence of Christ always meets with us. How I thank You for your goodness, how You've spared us and blessed us; how we thank You for it.
As I hold these handkerchiefs in my hand, Lord---it's people that has faith that believes this. May every devil, every sickness depart from them people. And I charge every spirit in here that's foul and not of God, every spirit of sickness, all diseases and afflictions---we're not laying in the shadow of man, which would be all right, but we're in the shadow of the gospel---vindicated gospel.
As the great pillar of fire moves back and forth through this building, the same one that God looked down through, and the Red Sea give up its course, and Israel passed through. But now, as He looks, it's sprinkled with the blood of his own Son---when mercy and grace... May we be obedient; may we today quit saying---crying out. May we realize that You've called us for this work. This is the hour. I speak it in the name of Jesus Christ. Let every sickness depart from this place.

112 May every man and woman that calls on the name of Jesus Christ consecrate their life anew today. I consecrate mine, Lord, upon the altar of prayer. I lay myself down and shame my own self and turn my head towards the ground from where You took me.
Lord God, I'm ashamed of my weakness and my unbelief. Forgive it, Lord; give me courage. Give us all courage. I feel like Moses---we're all on the road out. We don't want to leave one. We want to take everyone, Lord. They're yours. I claim them for You. Bless this people today, Lord; grant it. Bless me with them, Father, and thy name shall be praised; thy glory shall be thine. Give us this eternal faith, Lord, as we consecrate ourselves to Thee now.

113 Me, over this Bible, and over this stand, I give You my life, Lord. I'm depending on every promise that You give. I know they will be confirmed. I know they are truth. Give me courage to speak these words. Give me courage, Lord. Direct me in what I shall do and say. I give myself to You with this church along with it, Lord, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
My faith looks up to Thee,
Thou Lamb of Calvary,
Saviour divine!
Now hear me while I pray,
Take all my sins away,
O let me from this day
Be wholly thine!
Now, let's stand real quietly as we hum it.
......... to Thee,
Thou Lamb.......
(Let's just raise our hands to Him.)
Oh, Saviour...
(Consecrate yourself to God now.)
Now hear me while I pray,
Take all my doubts away,
O let me from this day,
Be wholly thine!

114 Now, together with our hands up: [Congregation repeats as Brother Branham prays.] Lord Jesus, I now consecrate myself to Thee. A life of service, more purely, more faith, I cry, that I might be a more acceptable servant in my coming life than I have been in the life that's passed. Forgive my unbelief and restore to us the faith that was once delivered to the saints. I give myself to Thee in the name of Jesus Christ. As we bow our heads...
While life's dark maze I tread,
And griefs around me spread,
Be Thou my Guide;
Bid darkness turn to day,
Wash all my fears away,
Nor let me ever stray
From Thee aside.

115 As we bow our heads now: Do you feel like that the morning message has done you good? Give you courage? If you would, just raise your hands to God saying, "God, I thank You." I've got both my hands up because I just feel as though that it's helped me; it's give me courage.
Some things I said, I didn't think I was going to say it, but it's already said. It was a rebuke to me. I found myself not in the way that I thought I did, but I found myself guilty of crying out all the time instead of speaking. God, help me from this hour on that I'll be a more consecrated servant. Not only me I pray for, I pray for you, also, that together as a body of Christ, called out from the world, making ready for the promised land, that God'll give me courage to speak the way---make the way clear that you won't miss the trail. I'll tell you by the grace of God. I'll follow the bloody footprints of Him who went on before us, and...
This consecrated cross I'll bear,
Till death shall set me free.
And then go home a crown to wear,
There's a crown for me.
We give this to Thee, Father---our consecration, in the name of Jesus Christ, Thy Son. Amen.

116 We thank the Lord for this---walk a consecrated life. Give yourself over---just sweetness, humility, walk in the Spirit, walk, talk, dress, act like Christians, humble and sweet; don't let this fail now. The voice of God speaks through the Word---speaks through gifts. As one gift comes, another expresses it. Another gift comes and expresses the same thing. See! That's sure right with the Word and right with the hour. God is with us. How we thank Him for it. Now, with our heads bowed---if our sister would give us a chord on...
Take the name of Jesus with you,
As a shield from every snare;
When temptations round you gather,
Just breathe that holy name in prayer.
Just do that, speak the word. Speak his name. Let's sing now as we are being dismissed:
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.........
Now, let's shake one another's hands and say, I'll pray for you, brother; you pray for me.
Hope of earth and joy of heaven;
Precious name, O how sweet!
Hope of earth and joy of heaven.
Now, with our heads bowed, let's sing this next verse.
Take the name of Jesus with you,
As a shield from every snare;
When temptations round you gather,
Breathe that holy name in prayer.
Precious name, O how sweet!
Hope of earth and joy of heaven;
Precious name, O how sweet!
Hope of earth and joy of heaven.

117 With our heads bowed now and our hearts with it, with the realization that Jesus said, "He that heareth my words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has everlasting life and shall not come up in the judgment, but has passed from death unto life."
Knowing that we, by the grace of God possess that within our bosom, with a consecration to Him this morning that our lives shall change from this day on, that we'll be more positive in our thinking. We will try to live in such sweetness and humility that believing that what we ask God, God will give it to each other. And we will not speak evil against each other, or no man. We shall pray for our enemies and love them; do good to them that do bad to us. God is the judge of who's right and wrong. But on the basis of this, and our heads bowed, I'm going to ask our good friend, Brother Lee Vayle, if he'll dismiss the audience in a word of prayer. Brother Vayle.