Why?

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1 It's certainly good to be back again tonight out here at this Chatauqua, and to be back with the victory in my heart of the Lord Jesus.
Just a little tired; I haven't slept since night before last. I went home, picked up my family. My old Ford backslid. Or, it never backslid; it's just wore out. And so I had to take it in the garage down there, and then get up here, and it's in the garage now. So it's just about gone. So, we are very glad to be here.
And now, we got two more great nights, Friday and Saturday. And we're expecting our Lord to do great things in these nights. And we just don't know what lays ahead yet tonight. I like that, because you can be expecting just anything to happen. We don't know just what time that God might just come into us here and just give us another Pentecost. That's what we need. And I would be so happy to be right in it with you, to enjoy the fellowship, freshness of the Holy Spirit. And I tell you, our lands really need it.

2 We just had a case down home. I looked in the paper this morning of a woman that shot a man to death right in the back, and was freed in the courts. Said she went blind when she was shooting. The opposite attorney said, "You sure are a good shot when you're blind."
But it just goes to show what money can do to pull a case over. Murder seems to be a very light thing. And crime is on the increase.
'Course, you all are seeing in the papers of these rock-and-rollers and what happened, and down here in this park and what happened. And wasn't enough evidence there, because some judges' and mayors' daughters was in that. So, they didn't have enough evidence of a hundred people to press charges.

3 Brother, all things are wrong except God. There's only one thing that's left is right, and that's God. Only one justice, and that's God. But there is coming a day that when the righteous Judge will give righteous judgment, and the world will be judged by Him, Jesus Christ. We're so glad to know that, that no matter what takes place here, there's coming a day. So, we're looking forward to that day, and pressing on towards the mark of the high calling in Christ, expecting anytime for Him to come.
You know, I don't see many things left but what would hinder Him from coming to fulfill all the prophesies concerning His return. Brother Sullivan, could you say "Amen" to that? [Brother Sullivan says, "Yes, sir."] I believe that. I am too, brother. That just anytime, He could return.

4 You know, I think that our meetings are most surely too short. When the people are gathered together, would it not be nice now if we had about three or four weeks of this where we could have afternoon instruction services, and preach on the second coming, and lay the Scriptures out, and talk of them. And have a ministerial meeting every morning at ten o'clock where ministers would get together in fellowship? Oh, if God willing, I can just feel it in the wind. I'm going to have me a big tent one of these days, so we can pitch it somewhere and stay for four to six weeks at a staying. And then... We believe then if something... After the people's prayed for...
Many times, people doesn't understand how to take a hold of healing. In little short meetings like this, you can't instruct them. You've got sinners there, so you have to preach the Word. You've got to make altar calls. You have to think about the anointing of the Holy Spirit under discernment. And all these things, and just a night or two to do it in.

5 And then, like a person being healed: if they're not... See, faith don't know any defeat.
A young woman come to me some years ago. It's when ladies begin to wear those, what they call scandal skirts in our country. It's kind of split up on the side. And she was a Christian girl of a certain denominational church. And she said, "Brother Branham," said, "do you think it's wrong for we Christians to wear these kind of skirts?"
And I said, "What kind is that?"
And she said, "It's a scandal skirt."
I said, "The first place, I don't see what a Christian want to wear anything that's scandal." But I said, "If it... Why are you asking me? There's a question in your mind. And as long as there is a question in your mind, don't do it." That's the best way to stay away from wrong. If there's one question in your mind, stay away from it. But then when it is perfectly clear to you, then go ahead. Then you can do it with faith.

6 That's the way I try to do my meetings. With four hundred and something major cities here in America calling, besides the world, I lay them out and pray until I'm sure in my heart that God is calling me to a certain place. Then I go. No matter how bad it turns out, whatever it is, I always find out it's God working, maybe with one person.
It's best to always obey God, and don't have no questions. Now, if there's a question in your mind about receiving the Holy Ghost, whether it is for today or not, you'll never receive it like that. You can't do it. You've got to know that the promise is to you. And you are... And then if there's anything in your life that condemns you, you just might as well make that right first, because He will not come in over the top of that, see. You've got to make it right. Then when we have everything clear, and understand perfectly, then we can go to walking.

7 Jesus said in Saint Mark 11:24, "If you say to this mountain, Be moved; and don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you have said will come to pass, you can have what you said." Not "what I said"; "what you said." See, if you don't doubt in your heart but believe that what you have said will come to pass, you can have what you have said.
But now, before you can have that... And the way I always try to think of that, there has to be the right kind of a motive and the right objective. And if your motive is right, your objective is right, and your faith is right, because that you feel that it's the will of God, nothing can keep it from happening. Just think of that.

8 I don't care what it is. If you say to the mountain, "Be moved." And maybe, if you've got to go over the mountain for a purpose, not to say... Somebody would say, "Oh, I'm a great man of faith. I move that mountain." It'll never move.
But if there's something over the mountain that you've got to get over there for to do the will of God, you can't get over it, under it, around it, and yet something in your heart is telling you to go, you speak the word. Don't you doubt. And maybe when you speak the word, only one little grain of sand will fall. But it's on its road. The next day, a spoonful may drop; the next day, a teacup full. You'll never notice it. But if you'll just hold steady, knowing that it's being done, after awhile the whole thing'll fall in.
That's the way it is by Divine healing. When you see the working of the Holy Spirit, the Word laid on, and the Holy Spirit anointing that Word, and proving it that He is here in our midst to vindicate Himself and to give to you the promise, then you accept your healing.

9 If there's sin in your life, get it out. If there's condemnation, get it out. If there's doubt, get it out. Until you can see perfectly that it's God's will, it's God's plan, and you're included in that, then say, "Sickness, in the name of Jesus Christ, get away from me." And remember, you might not feel any better for a week. But as soon as you said that word, something happened. God has to keep His Word. That sickness shakes, and he begins to turn loose. He will go if you'll just believe it. Don't doubt.
Like Peter walking on the water, He said, "Why did you doubt? Oh, ye of little faith." Just because he was sinking, that had nothing to do with it. Christ had commanded him, and His Word was enough. That's the way we should think it too. Well, that's off of my text for tonight. But, that is true.

10 Now, we are going to try to get into the prayer cards, if there's any of them left tonight, just whatever the Holy Spirit will. And then tomorrow night, we will try to give out some more prayer cards. I think we've got a bunch left over from the first or second night, because the Holy Spirit has been doing such a marvelous thing among us. Oh, how we ought to appreciate that. And I'm sure that you do. There would not be one ... room for any doubt.

11 I wish to say this just in a way of testimony. There's so many things that I could say. As I drove up just a few minutes ago, there was a young woman come to meet me. And she said, "Brother Branham, I don't want to interrupt you, but," she said, "I just couldn't keep from telling you this."
I said, "All right, sister."
And she was holding the prettiest little chumpy baby in her arms. And she said, "When you were here the last time, I was in the prayer line. And when I got close to you, you said, 'What you are here for, sister, is not for any ill thing, but you are losing your children with miscarriages. And you're wanting me to ask God to let you have a baby.'" And I said, "That's an honorable thing."
And she said, "That is right, sir."
And said then something, as it always does, "Thus saith the Lord, go home for you shall have your baby." And tonight, she showed me a little plumpy sweet baby that God gave her in His amazing grace.
The lady's here somewhere. I believe her name is Mrs. York she told me. Are you here close, Mrs. York? Here she stands right here now with the baby in her arms.
Oh, the same God of the Old Testament is the same God today. He never fails. So, I have a woman that I know of now that...

12 Seeing some of my Canadian friends sitting here from Canada. About fourteen years ago, this woman being around forty-eight years old, came into the meeting: a German Canadian. And she said the Lord told her in the prayer line, through the discernment, that she was barren. And the doctors had said that she would never be able to have a child. And said, "You're also suffering with the dreadful disease of tuberculosis."
And she said, "That is true, sir."
I said, "Go to your home, for you are healed of your TB, and you're going to embrace a lovely little eight pound boy baby, Thus saith the Lord."
She went home and was solid and well. The doctors said her case was retarded. So it was no more fooling with it.

13 After about eight years passed... You can see the woman's age now. She said she got into a church that told her, said, "Sister, if that would've been of God, it would have happened." And she believed it. And as soon as she made her stand against it, she broke again with TB. And then, the preacher, not aiming to, I don't believe, he said I was a psychiatrist, that I was a mind reader, and I was just reading what was on her mind. And her loyal husband stood up and said, "But he told her, 'Thus saith the Lord.'" And the preacher laughed at him. And his wife took to bed with TB.

14 I was in northern British Colombia on a hunting trip. Coming down to Edmonton, I stopped for about two hours. And there was about seven or eight thousand people had gathered. And after the service... I didn't have my ... nothing but a little dress coat. And a man come up, and he said, "Brother Branham, I'll give you my overcoat." I was hot and sweaty.
And I said, "No." I said, "Aren't you Brother Doble?"
He said, "I am."
"Oh," I said, "the welfare of your wife."
And he said, "Brother Branham..." Told me the story. Said, "She's real bad with TB."
I said, "Why did she doubt it?"
He said, "Well, Brother Branham, it lingered so long; she begin to doubt."
I said, "I don't care how much she doubts. I saw that vision. She was holding a great big plumpy baby boy. And it shall come to pass regardless of what she says or what she thinks, because God's already said so. A vision cannot be hindered."

15 Fred Sothmann, a good friend of mine, is sitting present now. About two years ago, I guess it has been, Brother Fred, or three, we was up in Saskatchewan, Prince Albert, I believe it was, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, and in the arena. And a telegram came in. Mrs. Doble was on her road up there within the space of three days of having her baby. And they brought her in a special car, because her that age, they was afraid she could not go through it. I prayed for her.
And she said, "One thing, Brother Branham, I confess my sin of unbelief." But said, "One thing I want to ask you for a confirmation. You said it would be a boy."
I said, "It will be a boy."
And just as soon as they could return her home, she had a eight pound baby boy that's running around in Canada tonight of a mother over fifty years old, because God keeps His Word. He never fails.

16 Let us pray. Lord, while we're in this, that we call time, it runs out so quick. But one day, we will step out of time into eternity. And we will sit down by the river beneath the evergreen tree. And there, we will meet our friends and testify, and praise His name forever. I'm expecting to see millions of them there that we have preached to and ministered to.
But while we are here, Lord, in the heat of the day, we pray tonight that You'll give us Thy grace and Thy mercy, and may every sick person that's here---sick of sin or sick of their body---may this be a 'Thus saith the Lord' for them tonight. May we meet them later, as we did this lovely woman tonight, Mrs. York, in another time, maybe in a great tent somewhere, and hear them testify that it was at the Chatauqua that Your mercy came down and healed them, saving them, and filling them with the Holy Spirit. Grant it, Lord
Bless the few words that shall be read from Your Word. We wish to read them, because our words will fail, but Your Word is eternal and it cannot fail. Bless the efforts that we put forth, healing the sick and saving the lost, bringing the backsliders back home. For we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.

17 This faithful pastor... Got a little note wrote here, "The altar's on your right." That shows a real faithful pastor, wants to see the lost saved. That's what we're here for, to see the lost saved and to bless the people. And you're always a blessing to me.
In the book of Jeremiah, the eighth chapter the twenty-second verse, I read.
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is ... the sickness of the daughter of my people not recovered?
I want to take a text, if we would call it, on this subject: Why?

18 God, when He makes a way of escape, or sends a shower of mercy, and the people ignore it, God asks, "Why?" He's got a right to ask, "Why?" When He makes everything ready and presents it, and then the people turn it down, God wants to know, "Why did they do it?" And He has a right to ask, "Why?" for He did it for our good.
Like in the first chapter of II Kings, after the death of Ahab, that wicked king of Israel, Ahaziah reigned in his stead, which was his son. And he was just as wicked as his father and mother, Ahab and Jezebel. And while he was walking up in the top of his palace in Israel while he was king over them, he fell through. And when he did, a great sickness set in upon him, and he was almost dead. And he called two of his soldiers and sent them over to Ekron to inquire of the god, Beelzebub, if he was going to get over that sickness or not. He did it secretly.

19 And when they were on their road going, doing this wicked thing... There is no wickedness but what God knows about it. There was a little old bald-headed prophet sitting down in a little mud hut somewhere in the desert. And the Angel of the Lord come to him and told him what was going on. And He said, "Go up there and stand in the road."
And he cut across the desert and up over the hill, and he stopped the two soldiers. And he said, "Go back and tell that king, 'Is there no God in Israel? Is there no prophet in Israel that you might consult these things, that you'd have to send up to Ekron to the god, Beelzebub? Is that the reason? There's no prophet here or no God to consult, you have to go to such resources as that?'." Said, "Go tell him, 'Thus saith the Lord,' that he will not come off of that bed, but he's going to die for his wickedness."
The soldiers turned and went back. And when they got back to this king, he said, "Why did you return?"
Said, "We met a man, and he told us thus."
The king said, "What kind of a looking fellow was he?"
Said, "He was hairy all over, and he wore leather on his loins."
And the king said, "That's Elijah, the Tishbite." He knew he had done wrong.

20 There was a God in Israel. There was a prophet in Israel. But it was because of the king's stubbornness. It was because of his wickedness and his willful sin, that he didn't come and consult God about it. And he lost his life.
So is it today. We don't need so many UNs. If we are a Christian nation, let's call God on the scene. The reason there is no balm in Gilead... Sure, there is balm. There is a God in America. There's a God here. It's because of the stubbornness of the people that they don't want to consult Him. They'd rather take the advice of some intellectual student, than to come to the blessed Holy Spirit that God sent to the earth. It's the reason that we are in such a condition today. It's not because there isn't a God, it's not because the Holy Spirit isn't still real; it's because the stubbornness of the people. It's because they want to sin. It's because they desire to do those things. That's what's in their heart.

21 It's like a man dying on a doctor's steps. If a doctor has a remedy for the disease that the man has, and the man sits on his steps but refuses to take the remedy, he will die there. And it isn't the doctor's fault. He's got the remedy, and he's willing to give it, but the man's too stubborn to take it.
And so is it today. There's no need of any man dying in sin. There's no need of all of this stuff that's going on. God's got the remedy. And the people sit on the church steps and die because they won't receive it. They die in sin sitting in the church in the pew, because they won't receive it.

22 There's a balm in Gilead. There's a Physician there. But the people won't take His medicine. The local church member, lukewarm, thinks he's too good to take the medicine of the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is God's medicine. It's the cure. But the local church member won't do it. They'll go to church. They'll put their name on books. They're willing to pay their tithing. They're willing to do anything like that. But when it comes to taking the medicine, they won't do it.

23 Now, how do we get medicine? The first thing, science begins to search out until they find a certain toxin. And then they inject that into a guinea pig. And they see how the guinea pig reacts with it. And if the guinea pig recovers, and it works out perfectly, then they'll give it to the human being.
Now, not all human beings are made like guinea pigs. You can give some medicine to a man, it'll help one and kill the other. So, you might have an excuse for that, because medicine will help one and kill the other. So you might happen to wonder about that, but you don't have to wonder about God's balm, God's toxin, the Holy Ghost. It'll cure every time it's applied. It's been tested and tried, and it's perfect. The guinea pig cure is all right.

24 The sin of the world today, the greatest disease, is not the heart disease; it's the sin disease that's killing the world. That's what's breaking up the nation today, breaking up the whole world, is sin. And there's plenty of cure for it. But the people won't take it. They don't want nothing to do with it.
Just like the man sitting on the doctor's steps. Here comes a man out had the same disease and he's well. Another one comes out and said, "That's fanaticism. I ain't going in there." He will die there, because he rejects to take the medicine.
And so is it. A man will die and sink into dark eternity without knowing God if he refuses the baptism of the Holy Ghost. God's toxin is for him.
Some people say, "I just can't keep from sinning." "Brother Branham, I got a cigarette habit. I just can't quit it." "I got a drinking habit. I can't quit it." "I got a temper. I just can't get rid of it." You're only stalling. You're just refusing to use God's toxin. It'll cure it, if you'll just take it. And sometimes it's hard, but it always does you good. It takes bad tasting medicine sometimes to do you any good.

25 My old mother, an old Kentucky mama... We lived down there in the hills where we eat black-eyed peas and corn bread, rendered meat skins to get the grease to put in the corn bread. And every Saturday night, mama'd give us a bath in the big old cedar tub. How many of you Kentuckians ever seen an old cedar tub? Sure. And I want to tell you: There was no change in the water, just add a little bit more warmer water to it, from the first to the last of nine boys. And then, the next thing was to take place on Saturday night to keep from taking pellagra, the food we had to eat, she'd make us take caster oil. I can't stand the smell of the stuff yet. And I'd come holding my nose. And I'd say, "Oh, mama, it makes me so sick."
She said, "If it doesn't make you sick, it don't do you any good."
So that's the way it is with the Gospel. It's got to make you sick first at your sin so it can do you some good. Hold your nose and take it. You may have to act like a, I don't know what, but it's good anyhow. It'll cure sin every time.

26 Yes, the reason people don't want to take it, is because of their style and their pride. I see it's getting to creep into us Pentecostal people: a little pride. We don't want to do it. "I don't want to get down there at that altar and boo-hoo."
Let me tell you something. I've got a mixed audience here, but I want you to understand this in the light that it's given. Any birth is a mess. I don't care where it's at. If it's in the pig pen in the barn, if it's in a house, or a pink decorated hospital room, a birth is a mess. And so is the new birth a mess. You can't come up starchy and say, "I received Christ as my personal Saviour." Nonsense. Get down there at the altar and stay there until you are born again. It's a mess, but it brings life. I don't care what scale or what level I have to come onto.

27 My Baptist brethren told me, said, "Billy, you're going to be a holy-roller." I didn't care if it was holy-roller or holy-jumper, whatever level it was, I wanted new life. Didn't care what it was, what level it was. When you're ready to receive it, you'll come and get it. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousness, they shall be filled.
The old darky down in the South was so happy with the Holy Ghost. And his boss said, "I'd like to have some of that there heart felt religion."
Said, "Well, boss, you can have it."
Said, "Well now wait," said, "When I get ready for it and I'll tell you."
Said, "All right, I'll be waiting for you."

28 So, one day it was a rainy day. Oh, the rain was just a pouring. And the boss said, "Mose, I'm ready to get that Holy Ghost you're talking about."
Said, "All right, boss, I'd be glad to go with you."
So, he said, "Let's go over to the corn crib. The corn's all out of it now, and it's just been swept out. It's nice and dry and clean."
And they walked over there, and Mose said, "But boss, this is not where you get it."
He said, "All right, we will go up in the hay loft." Said, "It's nice and soft, and the smell of hay." Said, "We will go up in the hay loft"
And when they climbed up there, Mose looked around. He said, "But this is not where you get it, boss."
He said, "Then Mose, where do you get it?"
He said, "Follow me," said Mose. And he begin to roll up his britchy legs, and he walked out into the pig pen plumb up to his knees, and he said, "Here's where you get it."
"Oh," he said, "I don't want to come out there"
Said, "I didn't think you was ready for it at the beginning." That's it. When you really want God, I don't care how it comes, you are willing and ready. You will receive it.

29 Anything's got to die before you can get life. And life only comes by death. Life is by death.
You take a grain of corn and you plant it. Except that grain of corn will lay there, and not only die but rot, then it'll spring forth new life out of that rotten mess. And until man gets those ... all the human made psychology beat out of them by the Holy Spirit, and lay there till they're rotten to their own ideas, then they will receive the Holy Ghost. When you can get all the creeds and stuff beat out of you, rotted it out of you till it's dead and rotten. That's awful bad, but that's the only way I know to say it. You understand it. Till it rots, then new life will come.

30 But as long as there's any hopes for it not to rot, new life won't come. That's why we get up from the altar so many times without the Holy Spirit, because we don't rot enough to our own ideas. We've got to meet God on His level. I like to meet Him there, because that He never has failed me.
The new birth is no different from any other birth; it's a mess. You ought to seen what mess I was in when I got it. And every once in a while when it comes upon me again, I get messy again with it. I cry, and boo-hoo, and carry on till I guess I don't look very good to look at, but I got something on the inside of me that's taking me on and on and on and on and on. It's new life. I don't care what it looks like; I want to know what it is. That's the main thing.

31 Now, there was a time when there wasn't any toxin for smallpox. There was a time when the Salk vaccine for the children in polio, they didn't have that. But they got it now. They've got it.
There was a time when there wasn't a cure for sin. There was a time when, under a law of death, God caused cattle to die, and sheep to die. And under that, an atonement was made for sin, but it only covered sin. It didn't do away with it. So man had an excuse. He could go back and his heart wasn't changed. Each year, he would come and offer a lamb for cleansing and for his sin.
But now, there's no excuse. There is plenty of toxin in the house of God. And it's for a sin cure, be for sin a double cure. Save from wrath and make me pure. There is toxin in the house of God.

32 Now, when doctors investigate medicine for their patients, it's tried by a guinea pig. But when God wanted to give the test for the human race, He never inoculated a guinea pig, but He inoculated His Son. The Lord Jesus took the toxin of God's Holy Spirit.
And His action on earth proved what it was. When they spit on Him, He prayed for their forgiveness. When He was riled upon, He riled not back. It showed that the toxin held. When they killed Him, and He died on the cross bleeding and bleating, He was praying for their forgiveness. The toxin kept good. Then finally a Roman spear embalmed His body by smashing into His heart and blood and water poured out. They said, "Now it's gone. He's give up the Spirit."
The earth shook. He died until the sun would quit shining. He died until the stars refused to shine. He died until the earth was so black you could feel it. He died and went to the lowest regions of hell bearing our sins. You could not go deeper in hell than He went. You could not suffer harder than He suffered. You could not die deader than He died.

33 But brother, on that first Easter morning, the toxin went to work. It broke the seals of death. It smashed the devil in the face. It rolled back the stone, and the Son of God lived again. He's alive for ever more. The toxin worked.
God put it on His own Son to prove it, that it would work. God was made flesh and dwelt among us. That's how God was in Christ. God come and took this toxin Himself in a human body that He created Himself, the Son of God. And He lived in that, and He took the toxin. But on Easter morning, it proved that it held.
Then He had some people that was ready for it. When they put the finger... Some of them so doubtful of the medicine, they were sitting on the steps until they touched His side. There was some more done turned back to backslide on the road to Emmaus, but they seen Him do something like He did before His crucifixion. They knowed the toxin was working.

34 Oh, brother. You're going to call me a holy-roller anyhow. It still works just as real as it was then. There is a balm in Gilead. There's a toxin for sickness. There's a toxin for healing of soul and body. It's in the house of God today where:
There's a fountain filled with blood
Drawn from Immanuel's veins;
Where sinners plunged beneath the flood,
Lose all their guilty stains:
That dying thief rejoiced to see
That fountain in his day;
There may I, though vile as he,
Washed all my sins away.
Don't tell me better. I've been inoculated by Him. It takes the desire of sin out of your heart and puts a hallelujah there that nothing can compare with it, when you're inoculated. Say, "I don't think I could hold out." Get inoculated once.

35 Now, I will prove to you what God's balm and inoculation is. The first candidates was a hundred and twenty. They went up in the upper room for inoculation. He said, "I have been with you, but now I'm going to be in you." They went up for the inoculation. And all of a sudden, there came the Serum from heaven like a rushing might wind and flaps of fire burning. And it inoculated a hundred and twenty.
So much joy filled their souls, till they spoke in other languages and run out through the streets shouting and acting like a bunch of drunk men. They didn't care what it looked like. They didn't care what anyone said. They come to God's level to get it. If you ever get it, you'll come to the same place. That's the only place He gives it, is on that level.

36 It worked so well till a few days after that, there was a man that was about to condemn a people called the Gentiles. And inoculation went to work and he saw a vision. There was the same man started walking to the gate called Beautiful. And inoculation started working when he seen a man lame from his mother's womb. He didn't want to pronounce, "If you'd only seen Jesus when He was here." He was inoculated too. "Such as I have, I will give it to you," he said.
Oh, I'm so glad there's plenty of Serum. Yes. Plenty of it.
It worked so well till when one was a dying, and they was building an executor's block to chop off his head. How's the inoculation going to work, Paul? He said, "I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course. I've kept the faith. Henceforth there's laid up for me a crown, that the Lord the righteous Judge will give me at that day. Not only me, but everyone that'll be inoculated."
Then they said, "The grave will mold you," said the devil.
He said, "Grave... Oh death, where is thy sting; grave, where is thy victory." But thanks be to God who's inoculated us through the Lord Jesus Christ, because He lives, I live also. Sure.

37 You're going to be asked why you didn't get it; plenty of serum.
On the day of Pentecost, when they seen all this carrying on, there's some honest hearts there, and they wanted to be candidates. So they said, "What can we do? Is there a physician here?" God asked the question, "Is there no physician?" Thank God we still got physicians. "Is there no physician here?"
There was one stepped up by the name of Doctor Simon Peter. He said, "I'm going to write you a prescription, and it'll last forever; for it is unto you, and to your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call can get it."
Dr. Simon Peter's prescription is just as good tonight. If you don't believe it, come to the office and fulfill it. Hallelujah! Oh, sure. The inoculation is good. It'll hold. It's good; it's good.

38 Now, when we see Him inoculating, seeing the signs that He did returning back, it shows they're inoculated with the same thing.
Brother, if the Holy Spirit will work the same in the members of the church that Christ has saved, then they'll raise up from the dead just the same as He did. No wonder we can say, "Death, where is your sting; and grave, where is your victory."
If it healed the sick in that day, the same inoculation will do for you today. If it was an antidote to sin, an antidote to sickness, it's the same thing today.
Then brother, sister, upon those basis, let me ask you this final question---is this: Why is there so much confusion among us? Why is there so much sin in our midst? What's the matter? Is it because there is no balm in Gilead? Is it because there is no Holy Ghost? Why, then, is the church in this shape? Why, then, is it because there's no Physician?
Oh, yes there is. There is. But you'll die on his steps under his ministry, not knowing God or either being healed, unless you'll take the prescription that's been wrote out for you. "I'm the Lord that heals all thy diseases." Can you believe it? May the Lord bless you as we think about it while you bow your heads.

39 O Lord, we are so glad that there is a balm in Gilead. We are so happy that there is a Physician there. Then at the day of the judgment, this self-righteous America, England, and other great nations who's heard the Gospel is going to be asked, "Why didn't you receive it?" When anointed physicians goes forth to handle the Word, and the results follows every one that comes, then there is a balm in Gilead.
Here sits before us tonight, alcoholics, wretched women, immoral men that once walked the street with lust, today are sainted. There are women who drank and stuck needles in their arms until the earthly physicians could do nothing for them. And today, they're witnessing up-and-down the streets of the amazing grace of Jesus Christ. There's barren women packing babies in their arms, because they were inoculated for the keeping of their children. There are those that were blind can now see. There are those that were lame can now walk. There are those that had cancer, dying, and now alive because there is a balm.

40 No matter how much the unbeliever shakes his head and walks away, that doesn't take away the toxin. There's plenty of it tonight in the arms of Christ. We pray, Lord, that You'll inoculate every person here tonight that has a desire to sin in their heart. Take it away from them, Lord, "My grace is sufficient," said the Holy Spirit.
Now, we pray, Father, that You'll heal the sick, give mercy to them who are in need, for there is a balm in Gilead, and there is a Physician there. The great Physician is there, the One who never lost a case, never lost a patient, and cannot lose nothing. But said, "All the Father has given me, I will lose nothing, and I will raise it up at the last day." The great Physician. He shows His presence with us night after night. And we pray, God, that He will do the same tonight by saving the lost and healing the sick. For we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.
Oh, I want to see Him, look upon His face.
There to sing forever of His saving grace;
On the streets of glory let me lift my voice;
When cares all past, home at last, ever to
rejoice.
Don't you want to see Him? Let's sing it.
Oh, I want to see Him, look upon His face.
(Now worship Him.)
There to sing forever of His saving grace;
On the streets of glory let me lift my voice;
Cares all past, home at last, ever to rejoice.
Doesn't that make you feel good? Oh, I love Him. Don't you love Him? Let's sing that good old song, "I Love Him, I Love Him, Because He First Loved Me." How many knows it? How many's Christians here tonight, raise your hand? Now, put your hands down. How many would like to be Christians, raise your hands? God bless you. God bless you. That's good. God bless you, sir. God bless you. Back over here... All right. Make that surrender to Him right now, right where you're sitting. Make that surrender while we sing, "I Love Him."
I love Him, I love Him (Raise your hand now.)
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.
Oh, I hope and trust that God just saved your soul then. [Brother Branham begins humming "I Love Him."]
Because He first loved me (was inoculated)
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.

41 Oh, don't you just love Him? Don't you like to just worship and feel that goodness of His mercy? "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for Thou art with me."
The message is over. Just worship in your heart. Paul said, "If I sing, I will sing in the Spirit. I worship in the Spirit." He's here. I know He's here. Oh, I just love Him. Just in your own way now, while the piano and organ and so forth, is playing, just worship Him. Close your eyes.
I love Him, (Lord, we love You.) I love Him
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.

42 Now, with our heads bowed... The sinner friend, if you don't know Him yet and you know that He's present, would you like to walk up here? Let me shake your hand right here and pray with you just a moment. You're invited. While we're singing, if the Holy Spirit should speak to you... "I want to go up. I won't be ashamed of Him. I'm going to go up and stand tonight. I really mean it. I don't care what my neighbor thinks." No, you're coming to be borned again. It'll be a mess. They'll laugh at you, and talk about you. But are you willing to bare the reproach of Christ? As Paul said to Agrippa, "In the way that's called heresy (that's crazy), that's the way I worship the God of our fathers." Would you join his rank tonight?
I love Him,
Because (I will be waiting.) me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.
[Brother Branham begins humming.] God bless you, my brother. Come right around here. [Brother Branham prays for a man at the altar.]
Would there be another who would say, "I want to accept Him."
He's going right on around, so he can finish the thing. He had some habits. I told him about it. The Spirit of God is here. He's going right around now to make that right.

43 [Brother Branham prays with the people at the altar.]
Let us pray. Lord, as this woman and this little boy kneeling here, on this step may they come and realize that they're on Jacob's ladder, moving upward now from the earthbound sins and things that's kept them from having fellowship with God... The Blood of Jesus Christ... give them Eternal Life and fill them with the Holy Ghost, in Jesus' Name. God bless you sister... Go right right over there... Dear God, as these little children sojourn, they're come consecrating their life to Thee. They're just little children, and I solemnly... the faith... I pray that You'll bless them. May they be filled with the Holy Ghost every one... And with the Blood that... Christ, will so be soothing to them that they'll never no more... unto them...
God, save this... give to her a... Let Thy Holy Spirit...
Lord, forgive the sin, Lord... heart might be... Then, Lord...
Lord Jesus, hear her prayer, Lord, grant tonight...

44 [A brother asks for personal workers, a brother hums while Brother Branham continues to pray with the seekers] Lord, I pray... Lord... [Gap in the audio]
Purchased my salva... (Is there another sinner would like to come?)
Calvary's tree
... realizing...
[A brother asks for more personal workers as Brother Branham continues to pray with people at altar]... I pray that... power of God... Lord, I pray... forgiven of his sins. May this be the time the Holy Spirit... Blood of Jesus Christ.
I love Him, I love Him
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.

45 Are you sure you don't want to come? Those little children, young men, making confessions standing here, tears running down their cheek, out of rock-and-roll parties and things. That's what God wants to see. That's the purpose. The healing can wait just a minute. We want healing of the soul. If you get healed of your body, it's possible if you live long enough, you'll get sick again. But if you're ever healed of your soul, you'll never be sick again.
[Blank space on tape.] ... the truth that you have to die before you live.

46 All right. How many believes that that great Holy Spirit is here? (What was them prayer cards you give out first night? What? A.) We give out prayer cards A's first. We want to get rid of them. How many has prayer card A?
All right. Before anybody comes, how many doesn't have a prayer card at all, and you want God to heal you? Raise up your hand. Raise up your hand now so I can see who you are. All around, everywhere, not a prayer card, but you want God to heal you.
All right. Let's just be in prayer just a moment. You take your burden to the Lord. Now, if I call someone with a prayer card, you let me know it's a prayer card. I will ask you if the Holy Spirit... Because a lot of them people with prayer cards will come.
Now, just be reverent. If God, without the prayer cards, will prove... How many's been in the meetings before, let's see your hands. Pretty near all of you, I'm sure, see.

47 Jesus looked upon the audience. He said to Peter, "Your name is Simon, and your father's name is Jonas."
He said to Nathanael, "I saw you before you come here when you were under the fig tree."
He told the woman at the well, "Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I have no husband."
He said, "That's right; you've got five."
She said, "I perceive that You are a prophet. We know the Messiah will do that."
He said, "I am the Messiah. I'm He that speaks to you."
She run into the city saying, "Come, see a man who told me the things I've done."
He perceived their thoughts, knowing what they were doing. That was the sign of the Messiah then. And if Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, it's the sign of Messiah tonight. Is that right?

48 This that you might know before I call the prayer cards, because I'm going to line them up here and pray for them here at the altar without discernment. I want you with prayer cards, not discernment; you that hasn't got prayer cards, let's see what the Holy Spirit will say. Just pray.
There was a woman one time, touched His garment. He didn't see her do it, neither did He feel her do it with His physical body. But He turned and said, "Who touched Me?"
Everybody said nothing; they denied it. But He looked around till He found the little woman. And He said, "Thy faith has saved thee." Is that right? Told her she had a blood issue, and her faith had saved her.

49 And now the Bible said He is the High Priest tonight that can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities. Do you believe that? with all your heart? All right. See if you can touch Him. I will yield myself to the Holy Spirit, and see if some of you little women, little men, or whoever you are out there can touch Him. Somebody in this direction, yield yourself. Believe Him. Touch Him by faith, see if He's the same Jesus.
Way... That's so far back, I... Keeps holding there. Just a moment.
Here it is again. This little woman sitting right here suffering with trouble in her head. The little lady looking at me kind of ... long hair, looks like hanging down her back, shaking her head. You have head trouble, don't you lady, or your did have it. You don't have it now; it's gone. Are we strangers to one another? Have you got a prayer card? You don't? You don't have a prayer card? We don't know one another? If we don't know one another, shake your hand like this, that we don't know one another, first time of meeting. Was that right, what was told you? All right. You have what you asked for. Go home and be well.
What did she touch?

50 I see a young man sitting right down below her there. Real thin. He's shadowed to death. It's a young kid. He's got a dark shadow over him. It's leukemia. Do you believe, sonny boy, that God will heal you? Raise up in your seat. Stand up to your feet. I don't know you. You was just sitting there praying. Is that right? Raise up your hand if that's true. Do you believe Jesus Christ makes you well? Go home. I condemn that cancer in the name of Jesus Christ. The shadows of death passed from him.
Someone else... I see a little woman waving her white handkerchief down there, got a yellow dress on. She's crying. That light's hanging over her. Have you got a prayer card, lady? You don't? Do you believe me to be God's prophet? Do you believe if I will yield myself to the Holy Ghost, He could tell me what your trouble is? You got heart trouble and a nervous condition. If that's right, wave your handkerchief back and forth. You're healed. Go home. Jesus Christ makes you well.

51 Somebody else in this direction, hasn't got a prayer card, raise up your hand so I can see who you are, praying. Pray.
Here's a lady sitting right here, praying, at this row here. There's a light hanging over her. She's not... No, it's not nothing wrong with her; she's got her child. And the child, a little girl, has something wrong. It's one side of her face didn't grow right. If you'll believe with all your heart, the child's face will be normal, if you can believe it. Go home and receive it. Be made well for the kingdom of God's sake.
Back in here... Here's a lady sitting right down here. She's got a white dress on. She's praying. She's raising her hand. Do you believe that God will heal that heart trouble for you, lady? If you do, stand up on your feet. All right. I want to ask you something. While you were praying, "Lord, let him call me."... I don't know you. If that's right, wave your hand. All right, I don't know you. You were praying for me to call you. You touched the High Priest. As soon as I spoke your name, something happened. A real warm feeling went over you. If that's right, wave your hand. Your heart trouble's gone. You can go home and be made well in the name of Jesus Christ.

52 Do you believe it now? Now, how many has prayer card A. Come line up right along the side of this place here: Prayer card A.

53 [Gap in the audio.] ... believer of the Lord Jesus? Do you believe if I will pray for you, lay hands upon you, you'll get well? We can't take this whole line in discernment; you know that. But we can pray for you. After all, the prayer of faith shall save the sick. Is that right? Now, I want you to look at all those people out there.
While these people are coming through the line, how many will pledge that they'll be praying for them? Raise up your hands out there.

54 Now, new prayer cards will be given out at six o'clock tomorrow afternoon again. We're going to pray for everybody that's got a prayer card. Everybody that has a prayer card, we're going to pray for them. Now, you don't necessarily have to have a prayer card.
Now, this is for prayer card A---A. I think they got some more out. Billy said He give out some C's or B's, or something. B's. Well, now, hold them. You're next. See, this is for A. This is for A. We promised them a long time.
Now, if you all will just be reverent and pray, this is a healing service. Now, I think I'll get right down here at the end of this row, or somewhere in here, so the people right at the end of the row ... and pray. Now, everyone, keep your heads bowed and pray. Everybody, if you're sincere, and believe the Holy Spirit is here...

55 The anointing... I have the anointing upon me now. Now, I'm coming down to lay hands on you while the anointing is upon me. That's the reason I had this discernment first.
That man with that kidney trouble sitting out there. Go home, sir; you're healed. God makes you well. Forget about it now, sitting there in the dark.
All right. Now, believe with all your heart.
Come here now. [Brother Branham continues to pray for the people in the prayer line. Blank spot on tape.]

56 Saint John, "Know ye what I have done unto you?" Now look. While we are praying, we don't ... like that we don't take time for the discernment, because... Oh, there was a few in there that was real bad cases, and one sinner. So, it was... That had to be called out. But otherwise, it was while the anointing of the Holy Spirit was with me, I was laying hands on the sick.
Now, with all my heart, I pray for you. That's all I can do; I'm just a man, see. Now... But the Holy Spirit is here, and will reward you if you will believe that the sickness, and disease, or affliction of your body is condemned, see. It's condemned. It can't stay with you no longer. Now, you watch.

57 I prayed for a woman that her hands was knotted up. And she might've been looking for her hands to straighten. It could've been that we could have took that woman there for maybe a half hour, stayed with her until you seen differences beginning to come. Then it would cut others out, see.
Now, maybe at one of the nights, we will do that. Will you see... Till I can see in the audience something that's really fixing to happen, I will bring that patient, maybe, to the platform here. Crippled, afflicted, healed just the same... They just watch for something to happen. That doesn't mean it hasn't happened. Something's ... You may not see a difference for...

58 Here some time ago, I was at a meeting. And as a woman come through, she had ulcerated stomach. And it said, "Thus saith the Lord, you're healed." Another woman came through, had a big knot on her neck. "Thus saith the Lord, you're healed." They went home believing that.
Weeks passed. That woman tried to eat with that stomach trouble. She was so bad, she couldn't stand nothing in her stomach. But still, she held on.
One morning, while the children had gone to school, she took some oats out of one of their plates and begin to eat it; she was so hungry. A real strange feeling came to her; never bothered her. She got some toast and buttered it, ate it. Then she fried two eggs and drank a cup of coffee; never hurt her. It was gone.

59 She was happy. She run down the street to tell her sister that had the big knot on her neck, that hadn't moved. They'd called them fanatics because they'd believed. And she said when she got there, that woman was screaming, jumping up-and-down. She run in, she said, "You know, I'm healed of my stomach trouble."
Said, "I just got up awhile ago, I've shook every sheet. That knot's gone; I don't know what happened to it."
See, what happened? God don't always come just in an instant. You remember when Daniel... The Angel told him He tried to get to him for twenty-one days.
If the Angel of the Lord, who is here, is the Angel of God, it proves Himself to be. And if I've asked the blessing with the sincerity of my heart upon you, and with the same sincerity you've met it, and there's no doubt in your mind at all, you just hold to that and watch what happens. It has to happen. It's got to; it's God's Word. It's God's promise. He has to do it.

60 Now, how many of you believe you're going to be well, regardless of what, see. You're going to be well. You have to be.
Now, here's a container of handkerchiefs. And now, let us pray for them.
Lord, we are told in the sacred Word that they taken from the body of Paul handkerchiefs and aprons, and evil spirits went out. That was the same Paul who could look steadfast upon the man and tell him he perceived he had faith to be healed; the same Paul, who was upon the ship that night and the Angel of the Lord stood by him and told him, "Fear not, Paul. None's going to be lost." And he could run forth in the midst of the waves and sing. The storm just as hard as it ever was storming, maybe harder. "But be of a good cheer," he said, "for the Angel of God, whose servant I am, stood by me last night and promised me deliverance." They seen that Angel working through Paul.

61 Lord, we're not Saint Paul, but You're still Jesus. The same Angels of God, the same Holy Spirit... And I lay my hands upon these handkerchiefs, and ask that in the name of Jesus Christ, may every person that touches these handkerchiefs be made well. Grant it, Lord.
And Father God, it was said one time that Your children was coming from bondage, going into the promised land of good health, prosperity. And the Red Sea got in their way. God looked down through the pillar of fire and frowned upon that Red Sea, because it was holding His people from the blessing. And the sea got scared and rolled back, and Israel went over to the promised land.
O Lord, as You see these tokens of Your Word, which we most solemnly believe to be the truth. And as I press these to my heart, Lord, let the God of heaven not look through again, as much a pillar of fire, but through the blood of His own Son Jesus that gave the promise of healing. By His stripes we're healed. And when these handkerchiefs are placed upon the sick, may the devil turn them loose, and may they go to that promise that God give them: "By His stripes, we are healed." I send them to the sick and the afflicted in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

62 I solemnly believe with all my heart that Christ will heal every person that wears those handkerchiefs. There's no doubt in my heart. I do not doubt. God said it. So why could I stand here and challenge. In Africa, a half a million people ... or, India rather... In Africa, thousands times thousands of witch doctors and all kinds of superstitions, "Come forth and prove you're God." Don't you be afraid. Jesus is still Jesus. God's still God. There's not enough devils in torment can challenge His Word. And not nothing can withstand when unadulterated faith rests upon any promise God gives. It's the truth, and it'll stand through every fiery trial. Amen.
Do you love Him? Let's sing once while they're still back there shouting and receiving the Holy Ghost. Let's raise our hands as we sing "I Love Him." Will you give us a chord, sister, some...?
I love Him, (Let's stand now.) I love Him
God bless you, doctor. Do you want to dismiss the audience? See you tomorrow.
The Lord bless you, real good. Brother...

Why?

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1 Thank you, brother. Let us bow our heads now for prayer. Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee tonight for this assembling together again. Night after night in these revivals we assemble, and we've did this, Lord, year in and out. And sometime, we don't know when or where, but we know we'll have to assemble for the last time and we'll be called to answer. I pray, Father, that if there be some here tonight who does not know You as their Saviour, that this will be the night that they'll make preparations for when that call of summons to come on high, to stand at the judgment, may they be ready to go, all washed in Calvary.

2 Father, we pray for those who are sick and afflicted that's in the building tonight, and others outside. And here's some handkerchiefs laying here, and cloths, that's to go to the sick and afflicted. We do this because it is written in the Scripture that they taken from the body of St. Paul handkerchiefs and aprons and placed them on the sick. Evil spirits went out of the people and diseases left them. Now, we know that we're not St. Paul, but we know that You're still Jesus Christ, the one who healed the sick.

3 We're told one time in the Scripture when the children of Israel was following their commission, going straight in the line of duty, that the Red Sea got in the way of the line of duty of the children of God going to a promised land. God looked down through the pillar of fire, and the sea got scared and opened up a way, and they crossed over as on dry land.
Now, Lord, when these handkerchiefs which are going in the line of duty, going from here where the children of God are praying, when they're laid upon the sick may God not only look through the pillar of fire but through the blood of His own Son who was striped and wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed. May He look through that promise and that suffering yonder at Calvary, and every sickness and disease move back, that these people might move into the promise of God. "I would above all things," said the apostle, "that you prosper in health." Grant it, Father.

4 My brother down there standing by the organ that some lovely family let us have to play the music of God, they're wanting to present this to You, Lord, as a public service. And we pray, heavenly Father, that You will bless it and everywhere it is played, may it bring conviction. May the hands that plays it be filled with the Spirit, and may it play the songs of Zion. May it cause souls ... may it never give an uncertain sound (as Paul said, "If the trumpet gives an uncertain sound..."). But may it give that certain sound and the mercies and grace of God. Bless the ones who are presenting it, all who are praying, and to all may God have glory, for we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen. You may be seated.

5 Brother David, did you get through the snow all right? Called home a while ago and said there was twelve inches new in Indiana now. Let's just stay out here. That be a good idea? [Brother DuPlessis says, "I think the Lord was good to send us here at this time so we could escape all that."] I think so too. He's good, isn't He? [Brother DuPlessis talks about Methodists seeking the fullness of the Holy Spirit.] Amen. That's very good. Well, I'll pinch hit for you again sometime. I'll try it again. Well, that's mighty fine.

6 How many ever read my little book called "Jesus Christ the Same Yesterday, Today and Forever"? Some of the old timers. I wrote it myself. It's a mess, but you just get it together and the Lord can reveal it to you. Did you notice in there that I seen a woman coming with a real ... had been a white garment and it was all spotted all over, and across her brow was wrote "Miss Wesleyan Methodist." And I said, "What's the matter with that beautiful garment all spotted up?" (As a vision.)
She said, "Well, I..."
Said, "You Methodists oughtn't to have that like that."
And said, "Well, I've been so busy."
I said, "Yes, and so many societies, you've left off all the old prayer meetings and divine healing, the power of God that belonged to the Methodist Church."
She said, "You talk like that, I'll go wake my husband." And she went and got a spade and begin to dig up by a grave called John Wesley. And the vision left me. Some day the Methodist Church is going to have a revival, I believe. So, Brother David, that might be right in line.
One of the great men come just recently, was in a motel there at my place for several days. He was writing a thesis on divine healing for the Methodist Church. That's to go in the hold in all the organizations of the Methodist Church.

7 Now, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Now, Saturday morning is the Businessmen's breakfast. I guess they've already announced it and it will be, if the Lord willing. They'll tell you Friday night in full details, I guess, if it's all set up. As far as you know, Brother Williams, where was it? That's right, for Saturday morning breakfast.
Brother David DuPlessis---not just because he's sitting here... But I've never heard him teaching, only on tape, because when we're close to one another we're together in a meeting. And so, Brother David, I've heard him on the tapes and things from Angelus Temple, and places where we've been. I think one of the greatest teachers that I know of on the message today, and he's having services out at Eleventh and Garfield each morning at ten o'clock, I think. And if you've never heard him teach, I sure would advise you to go out and hear him. The boys tell me on the records stand (I'll tell you how much it is), I think they sold (now I may be wrong on this) I would say ten of my tapes and ninety of his, so you know who it's going to, that's... He's got a great ministry in teaching. So we'd appreciate you going out and hearing Brother David.

8 Now, tonight I wish you would turn in the Scriptures for just a short time in the book of Jeremiah, the eighth chapter, and let's read the twentieth, twenty-first, and twenty-second verses of the eighth chapter of the prophet Jeremiah.
The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
I'd like to take a subject and call it "Why?" You know, when God is so good to us to make a way for escape of danger and we do not accept that way, then God asks, "Why?" I think He has a right to ask why, for He's went to all His trouble to make this way for our good and place it before us, and then we turn right around and refuse it. He's got a right to ask us why? Why did we do it?
Instead, we'll try to make some way of our own. But men are prone to make his own way. He proved that in the Garden of Eden---he made hisself a fig-leaf apron. And man has always tried to project his own ideas with God's, and make God's idea come to his idea. But we're not to do that. We're to take God's provided way and ask no questions about it. Just go on and do it and live it the way God made it, for after all, He knows what's best.

9 One time Brother DuPlessis and I was talking---some time ago---about the leadings of the Holy Spirit, and he gave me a word that stuck with me, like something growed around me. He said, "Brother Branham, I've always found it this way, that if I will just let the Holy Spirit lead me, don't take any thought, if He leads me contrary to what I'm thinking, just let Him lead and be simple in it. Just follow the Holy Spirit and it always comes out right."
Then I thought, "Brother DuPlessis, we are full-fledged brothers," for that's just the way I like it. Let the Holy Spirit lead, because it's God's provided agent to lead us.

10 Now, God makes a way for escape, makes a way of salvation, makes a way for healing, all these things, and then we continue on. He asks "Why?" One time in the Bible there in the book of the Kings, there was a man who was king over Israel, and he was an evil man, son of Ahab. And his backgrounds had been evil to begin with.
And your life today will reflect in your children. You must remember that. A few days ago Demos Shakarian called me, and he said, "Brother Branham..." We was talking about little Joseph, sitting in here somewhere tonight, my little son. Six years before he was born, I saw him in a vision. We had a little girl, and the baby had to be born cesarean on ... because of the health of the wife. And so the doctor said that she could have no more children. Said it was finished. And then I said, "There'll be another one."
He said, "It just can't be, Mr. Branham." Said, "You're going to kill your wife."
And I said, "But, doctor, the Lord promised me a son, and his name's going to be called Joseph." A couple years after that we knew we was going to have a baby at our house, and some of them asked me, "Is that Joseph?"
I said, "I don't know."
And when it was born it was a little girl, and now if they didn't razz me. They said, "You meant Josephine."
And I said, "No, I meant Joseph."
The doctor said, "Now, it's impossible for her to have another one."
I said, "Oh, no, she'll have another one. She's going to have another baby and it's going to be Joseph." And then four years later she was to be mother again, and they said, "Is this Joseph?"
I said, "I don't know, but Joseph is coming."
So that morning the nurse came down and brought me... Said, "Who is Reverend Branham?"
I said, "I am he."
She said, "Reverend Branham, you have a fine seven-pound-three-ounce boy."
I said, "Joseph, you've been a long time getting here, honey. Daddy's kind of glad to see you.
She said, "You called him Joseph."
I said, "The Lord told me to call him that six years ago."

11 Demos asked me, he said, "Brother Branham, does your children see visions?"
I said, "Joseph has already seen visions." He seen, about six weeks before it happened, a neighbor boy fall on a motorcycle, and told us just how far he would skin hisself, what limb it would be. We thought the little fellow dreamed a dream, but he had not. And the boy fell at the spot he said, skinned his leg just the same way, just as perfect as it could be, and the child is three years old. See, it reflects.

12 Paul told Timothy to stir up the gift that was within him that come from his grandmother Lois. We find out that in the seventh chapter of Hebrews that Paul, speaking on tithe paying, that he said Levi, who had an order from God to receive tithing of his brethren, paid tithes, for he was yet in the loins of Abraham when he met Melchisedec, which was his great-great-grandfather. And it was accounted to him for paying tithing. Your life will impress your children and have ... influence your children by the example you set before them. And I think it's a good thing that we put every effort we can before our children as godly parents. Make an example, be an example.

13 And this man had had a lukewarm father in the gospel, and a infidel or a heathen mother, and he couldn't be very much to begin with. And he become king by rights. And one day he was walking around and fell through the lattice in his house, off of the porch, down, and taken sick, and was going to die, he thought. So being an Israelite and king over Israel, he sent two of his trusted servants up to Ekron to find out and consult Beelzebub, the god up there, whether he was going to get well or not.
You see, even a man when he's in a condition like that, there's something in the human being that lets him know that there's something supernatural somewhere. There's somewhere he can touch. Now, he ought not have done that, but he thought no one would know about it but these two men. But somewhere out in a little adobe hut out there in the woods, God spoke to the prophet Elijah. He said, "Go up and stand in the road, and when these soldiers come by, ask them the question, 'Is there no God in Israel? Is there no prophet in Israel that you could consult, that you'd have to send up to Beelzebub?' " What a reproach upon the nation!

14 And what a reproach it is upon the nation today to find out that people sometimes who call themselves Christians go to ouija boards, and spiritualist meetings, and all kinds of tommyrot like that, and fortunes, and telling fortunes and things like that, which is of the devil. Is it because there's no God in heaven? Is it because that He doesn't have prophets in His church? Is it because we don't have gifts and revelations and interpretations in the church to consult God? Why would we have to go to such a low degraded thing as that? God's going to ask us, "Why? Why?"

15 Now, it wasn't because there wasn't a God in Israel. It wasn't because He didn't have a prophet. But it was the king's own evil stubborn ways is what did it. And it isn't today, because the American people flock to séance meetings and devil-possessed things like that to consult for the future, it isn't because that we haven't got a church that's got God in it. It's their own stubborn ways. They don't want to associate with them kind of a people. That's the same thing that this king did not want to associate with Elijah, because Elijah always called out his sins.
Sometimes it's rough to serve God. There's only one thing to do---that's come to the hewing line, toe the line with God. Leave your own thoughts go, because God's going to ask for a reason for these things someday. And when we're asked to give a reason, then what are we going to answer?

16 Now, and then it was his own stubborn way that he didn't want to have any fellowship with this godly prophet. Yet he was an Israelite. He was in line to have the blessing of God upon him, and was under the blessing by his birthright as being an Israelite; but yet refused to accept God's way and went some other way. God's going to ask us at the day of judgment, "Why didn't you receive the Holy Ghost? Why wasn't you born of the Spirit? Why wasn't you this way and that way? Was it because we didn't have any church to teach it? Was it because there wasn't a preacher in the land that preached the baptism of the Holy Ghost? Why did you do these things?" When God's made a provision, and then people refuse to walk in it, then He's going to ask why.

17 Like a man dying on the doctor's doorstep because he won't take his medicine. The doctor has the prescription. He has the remedy for the disease the man's got, but he sits on the doctor's doorstep and refuses to take his medicine. Then he dies on his doorstep. It isn't because the doctor didn't have the prescription. It isn't because there was no medicine for his sickness. But it's because the man's own stubbornness to refuse to take the doctor's medicine, and he dies. So you cannot blame the medicine or the doctor, because both was there ready for service; but it was the man who refused.
And God's got the Holy Ghost tonight for every believer that wants to receive it. We got anointed preachers in the land that preaches it daily and nightly, but it's the people's own stubborn way that they love darkness better than light, that they'd rather live in the world than to walk in the gospel light. Oh, people, you don't know what a pleasure it is to walk in the light, the light of the Lord Jesus, have fellowship with Him! It's glory divine to have fellowship with the Holy Spirit.

18 Now, you cannot have fellowship with the world and with the Holy Spirit at the same time. You've got to abstain from the things of the world, live clean, honorable, upright, and holy. Then the Holy Spirit will dwell with you, and will work with you, and will perform miracles through you, and will heal you, give you joy, peace, and love, and long-suffering, goodness, gentleness, patience and faith, if you will walk in God's way. There's plenty of Holy Spirit.
I've often wondered why would people want to take a substitute for salvation when the skies are full of the real. Why would you eat out of the garbage can, when a nice clean table is set and ready for you? It shows there is mentally something wrong. I think that's what's the matter with the nation today. I think when a person will refuse to receive Christ, the Holy Spirit, in their hearts, to walk, let Him lead them like He did in the book of Acts, there's something wrong with that person mentally. I believe it.

19 Now, they say too much religion will make you go crazy. Too much of the wrong thing will make you go crazy, but the religion of Jesus Christ, if you are crazy it puts you in your right mind. You are not right until you are born again. You are not mentally right until you have been born again. A man is not in his right condition until he's born again. He's a beast at heart until he has been born of the Spirit of God and the spirit of nature is taken out of him, and the Spirit of God takes its place to rule. That leads him and guides him into all truth and life. That's right. And if a man does not do that, knowing without that he's hell bound, there is something wrong with his mind.
Why doesn't the people receive it? Why? We would put a rodeo in town, there'd be in this city of Phoenix here (I suppose half a million people or maybe more), I don't know the population, but one third or more of the crowd would come, and pay five dollars a ticket to get in, which is all right if you want to go. Then we could put some television star here with a rock-and-roll party, and I'd say nearly 50% of Phoenix would go.

20 And then we put a gospel meeting here where Jesus Christ comes in presence with us all, to bless us, and to show and prove to us by His Word that He's the resurrected Son of God, and we'll just get a handful out of the city.
But what is it? "No man can come to me except my Father draws him first." I feel it's the cream of the crop, the elected. "My sheep hear my voice, and a stranger they don't follow." Depends on what's on the inside of you, drawing you, moving you. It's the elect always that God speaks to and sends His message to.
Now, they're going to be asked someday, "Why? Why didn't you? Was it because there was no meeting in Phoenix? Was it because the Holy Spirit wasn't preached in Phoenix in this generation?" When it comes up to the judgment, why, we're going to have to stand there, every one of us. We'll stand there and give an account. And Phoenix is going to be left bare, because there's many, many churches in here preaching the gospel, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, praying for the sick.

21 Well, you say, "We've had a lot of..." I don't care what you've had, surely you've got enough discernment to know what's right and wrong by the Word. See, watch the Word.
Now if the man laid on the doctor's doorstep, and died there because he refused to take the doctor's medicine... Now, if there's no medicine in there, that's different. But if there's medicine there and a doctor who knows how to give it, then if the man dies with his disease it's not the doctor's fault, neither the medicine's fault. It's the man's own fault because he died. You don't have to.

22 Now, in medicine, sometimes ... there was a time when there was no toxine for typhoid fever. There was no... Just recently they got the Salk vaccine for the children, for the polio. There was a time they didn't have it. They got it now. There was a time there was no inoculation for typhoid fever, and tetanus and typhus shots. They didn't have it, but we got it now. And now, there was a time when the toxine of God wasn't too good. It was all right but it wasn't perfect. But it's changed now. It's perfect now.
Now, how do they find medicine? How do they find about a remedy, how to give medicine? The first thing, they take it into the laboratories, and begin to mix different chemicals together, and they come to an idea that this thing tested against a certain germ, that it kills the germ and leaves the good germ of life live. Sometimes it kills off---the antibiotic, and so forth---take off some of the good germs, the good and bad. But, usually it's tested to kill the bad germs for your body. And then there ... next thing they do they get a guinea pig, and they inject this serum into the guinea pig to give him the disease, and see how it acts in the body of a guinea pig. If the guinea pig survives it, then they give it to you.
Now, all people, it won't work on all people, because sometimes they can give you, like a dose of penicillin, and it'll help one and kill the next one he gives it to. You have to take a chance on it when you're taking medicine because it's not perfect.

23 But I want to say tonight that the balm of God, the Holy Spirit, it isn't a hit and guess or hit and miss; it is perfect. It's good for all! It is a balm of God, balm of Gilead. It's there for every sick, sin-sick soul.
Now, they say today that number one killer in America is heart trouble. I differ with them. The number one killer in America today is sin---not heart trouble, but soul trouble. Inside of the heart, the soul that's in the heart, that's the number one enemy. We have so many people...
I hear them say, "Brother Branham, I want to live right." I've had young girls and young boys to tell me, and old people, "I want to live right but I just can't keep from drinking, I just can't keep from lusting, I just can't keep away from these places." There's just one thing---you haven't tried the balm. When you take this balm of Gilead, God's balm, it'll inoculate you from all sin and things of the world. It puts such a love of God in your heart until the things of the world becomes dead to you. Certainly. It's the great balm of Gilead. It's the balm of God's healing balm.

24 You say, "I wish I could." Well, you can! There's plenty of it. We got ... the heavens is full of it. We got preachers across the land preaching it. We got people across the land being inoculated by it, and sin problem leaves them because they receive God's inoculation. The sinners, drunkards, gamblers, gangsters, bootleggers, prostitutes, all of them come to Calvary and are inoculated with the balm of God's glory and His power, and sin question is settled forever.
"He that heareth my words and believeth on him that sent me has everlasting life and shall never come to the judgment but has passed from death unto life," because he's been inoculated with the Spirit of God that's killed the things of the world and made him a new creature in Christ Jesus---a new creation. He's inoculated. All the old things pass away. New life comes in, new desire comes in. And if you haven't got that, "except a man be born again, he will in nowise see the kingdom of God." And then at the day of the judgment the world is going to be asked for a reason, "Why didn't you receive it?"

25 Just as the people are dying on the doctor's doorsteps, men and women today are dying in the church pews. Sinners come to the place, like borderline believers, men and women dying in the church pew, and going out in eternity to meet God without hope. It isn't because the gospel isn't preached, it isn't because that there isn't enough balm for them. It's because they refuse to take the balm, they refuse to take the doctor's medicine---the new birth.
As I said the other night, the new birth is a mess. I don't care where you go at, it's a mess. Any birth is. It's a mess, and the new birth is a mess. It makes you do things that you didn't think you would do.

26 I remember one time I was preaching in my Tabernacle years ago, and there was ... I was Missionary Baptist. And the First Baptist Church downtown, the Sunday school teacher was up there, and standing on the outside. And I always did believe in holiness. I believe that a man, if he's born of the Spirit of God and led by the Holy Spirit, he'll live right. He has to, because the life of God's in him. And then this little fellow was their Sunday school teacher. We didn't believe ... our church didn't have any baseball team. They did down there, because they'd bring them in playing Sunday baseball and things, and we didn't believe in it.
So this fellow said, "Billy, I was up to hear you the other night."
I said, "Yes? I didn't see you."
He said, "Oh, I come up, I stood outside." Said, "Was a big crowd inside and I didn't want to stand in." Said, "I stood outside." But said, "I appreciated your message, but I just simply couldn't understand what you were saying because some woman raised up back there and started crying, run up there to the altar with her hands up, crying." Said, "I didn't get the last part of your message." Said, "And that woman started crying," he said, "I just felt like ... I almost froze to death."
I said, "Brother, you better change a whole lot. If you ever get to heaven you will freeze to death up there, because there's going to be plenty of screaming and shouting up there."
And he said, "Don't you think that's emotion?"
I said, "Sir, anything without emotion scientifically is dead." And any church, or any person that's born of the Holy Spirit, that hasn't got a little emotion about them is dead.

27 Watch. When a baby's born, it doesn't cry, it doesn't whimper, it doesn't make a whine, what's the matter with that baby? It's born dead. That's what's the matter with church members tonight. A lot of church members, they're born dead. What does the doctor do to bring life to the little baby? Jerks him up by the heels and gives him a little protoplasm stimulation, right, as hard as he can spank him till he squalls out. What the church needs tonight is a good old-fashioned, God-sent spanking to it that'll call it back out again, shake life into it. That's what the church needs.
When the birth comes, there's crying comes, there's slobbers comes, and just a lot of things happen when the birth comes. But people don't want that. They think they're too classy, too stiff to receive it. And God's going to ask you why.

28 Person who will get a grammar school education, stick the hat on the side of their head, and put a fifty dollar coat around it, and walk out here thinking you're something, remember you was born just like anybody else was born. You had the same messy birth that anybody else had. Let me tell you, you're nothing anyhow to begin with. And then the only way you'll ever get out of that condition is to be reborn by the Spirit of God, and it does something to you that makes your head in above the eagles because you're reborn. And God's going to ask you, "Why didn't you receive it? What's the matter? What was the cause?"
Well, it's not going to be because you say, "I never heard it preached," because you have. If you didn't go to a church, you heard it on the radio or sometime you seen it in the papers, or tracts on the streets. You've heard it. God's going to say "Why didn't you? Why? I made the way. I sent My man. I sent My apostles. I sent My prophets. I sent My Holy Spirit. I showed signs and wonders. I proved by these operations of these gifts, and by the preaching of the gospel through the Bible, that that was Me. Now why didn't you receive it?" There you are.

29 Reminds me like in ... someone asked me the question the other night about Hebrews 10. "For they who willfully have sinned, willfully, and have to renew themselves unto repentance, why, there's nothing left for them but the fearful looking for the judgment. He that despised Moses' law died under two or three witnesses, how much sorer punishment supposed though worthy who has trod the blood of Jesus Christ under their feet, and counted it an unholy thing, and done despite to the works of grace."
I said, "You read over in Deuteronomy 14, where that those spies, Israelites, went with Caleb and Joshua right up to the border-land, and they tasted the grapes that come from the land, but when they went back they were unbelieving and cowards. Said, 'Oh, we can't take it, it's too much for us. Oh, they look like grasshoppers ... we do, up beside of them. The cities are all walled in. We cannot take it.' But Caleb stilled them, and Joshua said, 'We can take it. We're more than able. Yet we be in the minority, but we can take it.' Why? Those spies was looking at conditions, what the price they'd have to pay, but Caleb and Joshua was looking at a promise of God. God said, 'I have given you that land! Go possess it!' "

30 Glory!
The Holy Ghost is for whosoever is called to this wedding supper. I don't care what price you have to pay, go get it! God said it's yours. If you don't get it, then He's going to ask you why didn't you get it. Why? It was there for you. If they didn't possess the land, why? "There was too many against us," they said.
Well, God said, "If I'm for you, who can be against you?" It's there, what's the matter? There's something wrong with the individual.
Now, watch. He said, many...

31 You take a young minister feels a call of God in his heart. He'll repent of his sins, go off to school and get his education, which is fine. He'll come back and he still smokes cigarettes, maybe. Maybe he's still got a lustful spirit. And he'll say, "I don't want that, Lord. Take it away from me."
The Spirit of God will come and sanctify his soul and take that desire away from him. Then he'll be brought right up to the borderline, sit right in the meetings and watch the working of the Holy Spirit, see others get healed, hear them speak with tongues, and see signs and wonders done. They'll sit around and watch it, but afraid to put their hand on it. That's that borderline believer. That's the fellow, if ever turns away, there's no more remission for him.
Stand right up here and even look over into the land---"who has received a knowledge of the truth." Had a knowledge of the truth, knowed that that was right, but because of prestige... "Oh, if I do this, it'll do this, and if I accept that, it'll do this." See, they refuse it, walk away from it. And He said, "And count the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified..." That far, to bring him up on the step to look over into it, and have a knowledge of it. He was saved and sanctified, but comes up here to look over to receive the Holy Ghost, that new birth, he wants nothing to do with it.
He'll say, "Oh, I guess that's all right for them kind of people, but me... Oh, it's all right, but... I will some day." Now, there's the trouble. That man is sick and don't want to take the doctor's medicine.

32 Oh, my, it reminds me of Mama used to give us castor oil. We was raised out in the country, and had to take meat skins and boil them, out in an old ... render them out in an old dishpan, and make the bread with it, and have cornbread and black-eyed peas. I don't know whether you all know what that is or not. How many Southerners are in here has eat that? Turnip greens? Oh, my goodness, if I had a straw tick tonight to sleep on, I'd feel at home, then. Notice, and they'd take and make that. And every Saturday night us little kids all had to take a bath. About eight or nine of them little Branhams standing up. And I was the oldest one, so I got the last bath, but same water the first one had it. Just pour a little more in out of the old teakettle in the old wooden tub.
And then every one of us going to school had to take a dose of castor oil so we'd feel all right for school Monday morning, our systems all ... that food we had to eat. And I got ... I can't stand the smell of the stuff yet. And every time I'd come, I'd hold my nose. I'd say, "Mama..." I was the oldest, I had to take it first. I'd say, "Oh, Mama, it just gags me, I just can't do it."
And she'd say, "If it doesn't make you sick it doesn't do you any good."

33 That's the same way with preaching the gospel. If it doesn't stir you up to make you sick enough... It'll do you good. It's the doctor's prescription. It's what the doctor ordered. Hold your nose and take it, that's the best thing. It'll take starch out of you. It'll do that. It'll wilt you down. It'll make you do things that you didn't think you would do. It might make you a little messy, but it'll certainly straighten you out. That's right.
Oh, if a person, how will you give an answer to God when He asks, "Why didn't you do it? Why didn't you receive it?" I imagine, to see the virgin Mary---to some of you Catholic people---it was kind of a bitter dose for her after giving birth to the Son of God; but yet before she could ever go into heaven she had to climb that little old outside ladder that led up into the upper room, and stay there until she was so full of the Holy Ghost till she staggered like she was drunk. And if God made Mary do that before she went in, how are you going in anything less than that?
God's going to say, "Why didn't you?" Going to be asked to give a reason, "Why didn't you?" Think of that. But God's going to ask why and you've got to give a reason why. What you going to say about it? Why? Why didn't you do it?

34 The doctor leave you medicine, say, "Why didn't you take it?" The next thing your fever's high. "Why didn't you take it? Why didn't you? How can I doctor you unless you take my medicine?" How can God save you unless you take His medicine? How can He heal you unless you take the medicine?
As I said, heart trouble's not number one---sin trouble. And what is sin? Sin is not smoking cigarettes, sin is not committing adultery, sin is not drinking, swearing. That's the attributes of sin. There's only one sin, that's unbelief. Any man, if he lives as holy and pious and as good as he can be, and yet say that the days of miracles is past, and deny the Scripture saying "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever," that man is a sinner because he is an unbeliever.

35 Them Pharisees were just as holy as they could be. The traditions of the elders they kept. Clean, upright, swell, fine educated; and Jesus said, "You are of your father the devil." He was the Messiah. He was the one that showed forth the power of the living God, and fulfilled the Scriptures that was spoke of Him. And then they were asked, "Why?" Because their elders said ... their elders said. But Jesus had fulfilled the Scriptures.
So will it be some day when they are asked why didn't they receive the Holy Ghost. The church is here, the preachers are here, the power of God is here, Christ is here. The signs and wonders that He promised in the last day is here, and we're going to be asked, "Why didn't you receive the Holy Ghost?

36 Why?" God made a way. Then why don't you receive it?
Now you could kind of straighten this medicine proposition out. You can kind of wonder about that, because it helps some and kills some. It's not too accurate, because every person's body is not like a guinea pig, and we all are different one from another. I want to get on that this week if I could, how that one tries to impersonate another. You can never do that. God never made two people alike. You just go the way the Holy Spirit leads you. We might take the millions that's in the world, and no two of them has got the same thumbprint. Right. God made them different. He's a God of variety. He made them different. Don't try to impersonate the next fellow. You do what God tells you to do and stay with it, because there's no one in heaven or in earth can take your place. God made you for a purpose, stay with that.

37 Now, we find out that this medicine, when they inoculate this guinea pig, that was a animal. They inoculate, and then they give this serum to a human being. It's not too sure. That inoculation might not work on you. But I'll say one thing---God's inoculation will work on you. It's perfect. Why? There was a sample of it given forth until the real serum come, by the blood of bulls and of goats and sheep, and so forth. It wasn't too much, because it was animals.
But one day the holiest thing of heaven come, the Son of God. He wasn't Jew nor He wasn't Gentile. He was God, neither Jew nor Gentile. So your race lines can't mean nothing.

38 We all know that the bloodstream comes from the male sex. The germ of life comes through the male. And in this case Mary had the egg but the germ, the blood cell, came from God, the Creator, who made it. So you can't say Jesus was a Jew. He wasn't, He was God. So then God, the great Holy Spirit, overshadowed the virgin and created a blood cell, not with any sex desire to it at all, but holy. And that cell formed in there and brought forth the Son of God. And through that virgin birth, and that vicarious suffering and death at Calvary, through the shed blood, brings forth a sanctified church to fill it with the Spirit that created it. Amen. That's it! That's the gospel. You're going to call me holy roller anyhow so you might as well get started now. That's right. Oh, nothing but the blood of Jesus!
Oh, precious is that flow
That makes me white as snow.
No other fount I know,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus. (That's it!)
What can wash away my sins?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Oh, precious is that flow.

39 What healed me? The blood of Jesus. What saved me? The blood of Jesus. That's all my hope and theme. That's all my cry, that's all my plea, nothing but the blood of Jesus. Now, that's God's application. It makes you a different person. You're born anew.
Now, when God got ready to try His toxine, His balm... Balm is the ... He said, "Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Then why, why is the daughter of my people not recovered from her sickness? Why is she still in this condition? Is there no balm, is there no physician, no one to help her, no one to tell her the truth, no one to give her the right medicine? Why is she sick like this?"

40 I wonder what God's going to say at the day of the judgment if we keep separating ourselves from one another? What's the matter with the balm? What's the matter with the power of God, with Jesus Christ? He said, "... this will all men know you're my disciples when you have love one for the other." What are we going to do with that? Is there no balm here? Is there ... is there, what's the matter with us? Why? Why is the church still sick? Not because there's not enough balm to draw us together. It's not because there isn't a physician, the Holy Spirit. But what it is, is because that we willfully reject it, that's the reason.

41 Now notice again, when that balm was (balm, I call it toxine) ... when that toxine was tested, God never give it to a guinea pig. He gave it to His Son, to Jesus Christ at the bank of the Jordan. Down through life it held. And a few minutes, a few days after God gave the toxine in His own Son, in His own flesh, God made flesh and dwelt among us... Some people call Him Jesus, just a philosopher, just an ordinary man, just a prophet. He was more than a philosopher, He was more than a prophet, He was more than a man. He was God manifested in flesh, virgin-born. The Holy Spirit, the Spirit overshadowed Mary, brought forth a tabernacle, a man's body, which was the Son of God that God dwelt in, reconciling the world to Himself. He looked like God, He acted like God, He spoke like God, He healed like God, He was God made manifest in the flesh. He was more than a man, He was God manifested in the flesh.

42 And that death tried to anchor its stinger in that flesh there, he found out then that there was something different from anything else he'd ever stung. He could sting a prophet, and he'd die. He stung a prophet and then he'd sting another one. But when he stung that Son of God there, it anchored that stinger and pulled it out of him. Today death doesn't have any sting because the flesh of God caught the stinger and pulled it out of him.
The devil didn't know that was Him. All the time He said, "If you're the Son of God, do this. If you're the Son of God, do this." Put a rag around His face... And He seen them visions and so forth. The devil had his agent put a rag around His face like that, and hit Him on the head, and said, "Now, if you are the Son of God, tell us who hit you." See, Jesus kept that to Himself. But He wanted that devil to anchor that stinger, and then He'd take the stinger out of him. Oh, but when he stung Him there at Calvary, he hasn't got any stinger no more. He can buzz and hum and make a lot of noise, but his stinger is yonder. Hallelujah! It's anchored in Calvary. No wonder that Paul could say, "Oh, death, where is your sting, grave where is your victory? But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." Oh, my!

43 When God got ready to try His toxine, He inoculated His own Son. When they jerked a handful of beard out of His face and spit right in His face, He turned the other cheek to them. I wonder if we've been inoculated like that. When the devil tested Him, said, "Say, you're a miracle performer, let me see you heal this one here. Let me see you do this."
What would we do if we had the power? We'd turn around, probably do it and say, "See, I told you I could do it." But He was inoculated. It held. He done only what the Father told Him to do. If we had that much power given unto us, I wonder if we wouldn't put our thumbs in our vest and say, "Now, you understand here, you see, all you people, you have to come over to my denomination, because I'm the one's got it," see.
What about Him? He was inoculated. What did He say? "I can do nothing until the Father shows me. Verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in himself, but what he sees the Father doing: that doeth the Son." The inoculation held.

44 When He went to Calvary it held. When He went to death, it held. God proved that inoculation would keep you from sin. Not only that, but on Easter morning, blessed be the name of the Lord, the inoculation held. After He was dead three days and His body in the grave, the inoculation held. He rose from the grave on Easter morning by that inoculation. All the people began to look around and say, "That inoculation looks good to me," the real believer.
So He said, "I tell you what we're going to do."

45 We find out there was one coming from Emmaus, two of them on the road. A man walked out, walked along, talked with them all day, sat down, acted like He was going on by. And He done something just like He did before His crucifixion, before His death. They knew that that was the Lord that had raised. "Oh," said, "did not our hearts burn within us as we talked to him along the road? We find Him doing things just like He did before His resurrection, before He had died, rather. We find after His resurrection that He performed and did just like He did afterwards. They knew that was the resurrection and life. He is the only one, the only one!
There's no church, there's no minister, there's no prophet, there's no nothing that's got eternal life but Jesus Christ, and He's the sole giver of eternal life. "No man can come to the Father except by me," said Jesus. Amen.

46 How you going to meet Him on church creeds? How you going to meet Him on denominations? How you going to meet Him on handshakes and sprinkles? You know better than that. You've got to be born again! "Come to me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest." No other one. Then we're going to be asked why.
Then a hundred and twenty of them became candidates for this. He took a hundred and twenty little cowardly Jews, after they'd seen all this go by. They'd seen His miracles, they'd seen the inoculation holding on Him. They seen it when He was railed upon, He railed not again. They seen His sweetness and meekness. They seen His power to heal. They seen His power to raise up from the grave. And in all that they were still cowards. The serum was there but they had not received it as yet. They went upstairs and shut theirself in the room by a little candle, oil candle burning up there, there for ten days and nights waiting for the doctor to come. Oh! All of a sudden they heard the sound as a rushing mighty wind. Here come the inoculation and He inoculated a hundred and twenty. Brother, they went into a fit nearly when He inoculated them. What happened? All kinds of shines, they jumped and danced and spoke in tongues and run through the streets; but they was inoculated.
That's what they're afraid of. They're afraid of the serum. It'll make you act funny, but, oh, my, what a feeling, what a safety to you when you're inoculated! "Except a man be born again he cannot even see the kingdom of God."

47 Men don't understand it. You'll think the people are crazy till you get into it one time. Did you ever see a fellow drunk on opium? Why, he can get on opium, smoke an opium pipe. I don't care how sick he is or what about it, oh, the whole world is just his, that's all. Now, that's of the world, the doctor's opium. But God has an opium. Where do you get opium? From the lily. He was the lily of the valley, and at Calvary they crushed the opium out of Him. Now, you can get inoculation, and every day's Sunday. Oh, these are not drunk on new wine ... they're not drunk on strong drink, but they're drunk upon this new wine---the power of God, the Holy Spirit poured out upon them from on high! There's the way. You say, "But, Brother Branham, that was for them people back there."
Oh no, no, no, no. The people there said, "Men and brethren, how do we get inoculated?"
Now, they had a doctor in the bunch. Did you know that? Doctor Simon Peter. Yes, sir. "Oh," he said, "there's plenty of balm here. I'm the physician right now."
"Give me your prescription. What must we do to be saved?"
He said, "Repent, every one of you, be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise, the prescription, is good for you and for your children, and for them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call to be inoculated."

48 I tried his prescription, you can try his prescription. Repent and be baptized, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and see if the Holy Ghost don't come into you.
How long will this prescription... ? Don't you never go to writing out any man's theory. If you do, you're going to get in trouble, you'll still be in sin. But you take His theory, His prescription, the promise. Now, they say, "Oh, that old prescription was for a long time ago."
Oh, no. Doctor Simon Peter, Jesus' physician that He sent, He said, "I give you the keys to the kingdom. I'll give you the ... I'll give you the bowl to stir it up in, and you just mix a little repentance and water baptism and all these things together, and mix it all up together. Find out. Take a big dose of it and find out what comes out."

49 Oh my, the first thing you know... You talk about new wine. When you drink that, something will happen to you! Oh, they went forth everywhere preaching, the Lord working with them, confirming the Word with signs following. Oh, how glorious it is to know!
God's going to ask on the day of the judgment, "Why didn't you take the prescription?" It's wrote here in the Bible, here is the reason, here's the Holy Ghost.
Say, "Well, Lord, I thought it was..."
"My physician told you that it was for you and for your children and for them that was far off, even as many as got sick. Even as many as got sick, the healing balm is for them." There is a balm in Gilead for the sin-sick soul.

50 Listen, friends. We're scattered about. You'll join the Assemblies, then you'll join the Oneness, and then you'll join the Church of God, and then you'll go to the Independents, then to the Methodists, back to the Baptists. Back again around, and around, and around, packing you a letter. Forget it. The thing you need is inoculation. Then it don't make any difference what church you're in, you're inoculated. You're born into the church of the living God.
The Pentecostal has a lot of scavengers. That's exactly right. They all do. Jesus had one out of twelve, so we won't do as good as He did, I'm sure. Sure, we got them---impersonators, actors, trying to act like something they haven't got. Just the same there's some that's got it. Right. If you see a counterfeit dollar, it shows it was made off of a real one.

51 Search the Scriptures, friends.
Join the church ain't enough. Now, joining a church is fine. I believe that every person should join the church. I absolutely believe that every person should stand at their post of duty. When their pastor's there preaching, or evangelist or something, I think they ought to stand at their post of duty. They ought to support that church with everything they got in them: with their tithes, with their offerings, with anything that they're called on to do, be willing and happy. If your pastor asks you to do something in your church, you should do it. That's good; but don't let that just be the only thing. Get inoculated first. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Get the Holy Spirit first, then the rest of it comes on all right. Then you go get into whatever you wish to, whatever church of your choice.

52 Now, this Bible has the treasures. This Bible said that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Peter said, "The promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." Jesus said, "The works that I do shall you do also." Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man," a ministry working through human flesh like you. You and I together will do the same thing. Just before the coming of Christ, this will be taking place. All the prophets spoke of it. The Scriptures lay to it and everything.
Don't stand off from it and say, "Well, I wonder." Take the Bible. Jesus said, "Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life and they are they that testify of me." That's how you're going to know. Search the Scriptures. Is the Holy Ghost for you? Is the Holy Ghost for these people? Is the Holy Ghost for this generation? The Bible said it was. Is this the generation that the signs of the believers was to follow? Search the Scriptures. It said it would be so. Both former and latter rain would be poured out in this generation. What generation? The one that sees the fig tree putting forth its buds yonder, Israel returning to be a nation. When all these things are taking place, then these things will be taking place in the church. Here they are.

53 Oh, you've got it, friends, and don't know it. You've got the opportunity, you've heard it preached. How many in here will be honest with me and say, "Brother Branham, I never did receive the Holy Ghost yet." Raise up your hands, be honest. Just raise up your hand, say, "I haven't received the Holy Ghost." God bless you, lady, that's ... God bless you, that's good. God bless you that's ... God bless you, that's sincere. You know you haven't received the Holy Ghost yet. Well, you can, for the promise is unto you. You say "But Brother Branham, I'm a Presbyterian." I don't care what you are like that. You're a creature that Christ died for and the promise is to every generation and to every person. "Whosoever will come let him..." [Gap in the audio]

54 ... and I believe she had sold her house, and she had sold all she had, and all of her goods, and she was on starvation. And so the county come up to investigate the case. She wasn't old enough yet to draw the old age pension, so they just come up to investigate the case, and they said, "Well, lady, don't you have any relatives?"
She said, "Yes, I have one of the most precious boys."
"Oh," said, "where is he at?"
Said, "He's in India."
"Oh, over in India. What does he do over there?"
Said, "He's a businessman."
"A businessman in India."
Said, "Yes."
Said, "He's a darling boy." Said, "He's a businessman."
And said, "Does he never send you any help?"
Said, "No, he doesn't."
Said, "Don't you ever hear from him?"
Said, "I hear from him all the time." And said, "He sends me the prettiest pictures I ever seen, but," said, "he never sends me any money." And said, "That poor darling boy must be just so much burdened that he just don't know how ... he can't send me nothing because he's so burdened with his business. And yet he's such a sweet boy. He tells me that he's just prospering, and how good everything is going on." And said, "But I know because he don't send me any money, he can't afford to do it, but he sends me some of the prettiest pictures."
And the man said to her, "Well, lady, what kind of pictures are they?"
She said, "Oh, I haven't lost a one of them. I've got every one of them." Said, "I keep them in my Bible."

55 And she went over and pulled out of the Bible about a hundred thousand dollars worth of Indian drafts from the bank. She didn't know what they were. They had pretty pictures on them. But she didn't know what they were. She was a rich woman and didn't know it. She found her treasures in the Bible.
And, brother, let me tell you something tonight. That woman had stuff to eat, clothes to wear, she was rich and didn't know it, and tonight you are rich and don't know it. In the Bible here may be hid from your eyes that God has wrote promises here that will make you rich in spirit, rich in life. Oh, it'll do things for you that you didn't think would ever be done. Now, they're in here. Why not look them up and claim them? They're yours.
Every promise in the Book is mine.
Every chapter, every verse, every line.
I am trusting in His love divine,
For every promise in the Book is mine.
"Whosoever will, let him come and drink from the fountains of the waters of life freely."
Then we're going to be asked for a reason, what then? You've heard the old song, "What then, what then?" When the last is opened what then? When the ones that reject the message will be asked to give a reason, what then?

56 Someday the trumpet will sound for its last time. The Bible will lay closed on the pulpit, the mimic will make his last act, the sun will be setting in the west, and the arms will be stacked for the last time, and then we'll be asked to give a reason for what we have done with these treasures that's been sent to us. It's a book of treasures. Let us bow our heads while we think of it.

57 Our heavenly Father, the riches of God is sent to us by a letter, a message of the Bible, that the Holy Spirit was ordained of God our Father, through the blood of His Son, Jesus, to bring us this message. He is the true witness of Christ, for it is written, "When He, the Holy Ghost, is come, He will bring these things to your remembrance," that in here ... reminds you that you've got treasures and riches untold in the pages of this Book. Not only that, but He'll show you things to come.
And the works that Christ did, He said the Holy Spirit would do it in us. We're so happy to know these things are true. Now, You said, and it's been written in the Bible, "As many as believed on Him, to them gave He the power to become sons and daughters of God."

58 Now, I pray tonight, Father, that You'll give power to these people who has not received the Holy Spirit, or those here that might not even be saved, to this night accept the message that's in the Bible. As Peter said at the day of Pentecost, "The promise is to you and to your children."
The prescription---I made it that way, Father---the prescription would be good for each generation, that everyone would have a right to receive it. Now, Father God, I pray that Your grace and Your mercy will bring to pass and manifest this Word. May each of these people receive what they have come for tonight. May there not be one person go out of here but what will be made whole of their sickness, their disease of the sin of their soul, of their unbelief, of their superstition; return to their church to be a better member of that church than they ever was, that they too might scatter light that there is eternal life through the name of Jesus Christ. Grant it, Father. Amen.

59 [A sister gives a message in tongues. Someone else interprets.] Now that message just then going was for a certain person. It wasn't speaking to the church as a whole, it went to a person. Just somebody, you'll feel it, you'll know.

60 The Holy Spirit is present.
Now, I appreciate you people and how that some of you come up under good training. I have noticed many times when the Holy Spirit would give a message, sometimes people knows... You feel so good, and a message on your heart, but see how orderly that's been each night? See, they never interrupt the message, because if the message on the platform is anointed, let them hold their peace. Now, the spirit of the prophets is subject to the prophets, see. And then after the message is over, did you see the Spirit speak and give the interpretation? See, it's just exactly scriptural and in order. That's the way the Holy Spirit granted it to be.

61 Now, somebody in here feels the effect of that message.
Now, while you're waiting just a moment, while I ... see, there's no... I know it's right, and I do believe in altar calls, people come up and confessing, and so forth like that, but in the Scripture it was as many as believed on Him. See, as many as believed. It might be somebody in here that's been halfway seeking the Holy Spirit, running around, or some sinner that doesn't know God, and just maybe went and made three or four trials and didn't ... just kind of unconcerned. That message is sinking right down in their heart right now, ever who it is. This would be the hour for you.

62 Now, the Holy Spirit giving these messages, doing the works, doing the things that God ordained to be done. Now, how many in here is sick and needy? Raise your hand, say, "I'm needy. Raise up my hands to God, I want to be healed physically of my sickness." All right. The Lord bless.
Now, that you might know now ... I don't feel it here tonight, but many times I have felt it, where people think you're reading their mind. Mind-reading. You look at somebody on the platform and talk to them, see. But anybody who knows one principle of mind-reading knows that that's wrong. Anybody that knows psychology knows that's wrong, see. Now, remember, them two spirits is so close together till it'd deceive the very elect. "As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses..." That's superstition perceptions, now, but you find out we got a lot of things going on in the world today under the name. But you see no one can ever take the picture of a spook. It isn't there, see. But the angel of the Lord, they've got the picture of it. You've got it here. Many many times, time after time. And the things that God does is lasting, see, that you might know the Spirit of God.

63 Now, the Bible said... Now, let's see, "As the days of Sodom." Let's hold on that. Usually it's "touch His garment." Let's think this. Lord, tonight, for the sick people, let's take it was the days of Sodom. The angel of God that was in that flesh gave a sign to Abraham that the time was at hand that Sodom, the world, was going to be destroyed. How many remembers the story? Sure you do, in Genesis. Now, Jesus, over in the New Testament, said just before the end time, the coming of the Son of man, that same thing would reoccur. "As it was at Sodom, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man."

64 Now, I want you sick people out there...
Now, I do know there's somebody sitting here tonight that I know. That's Brother Williams sitting right here, and these three fellows sitting right here. I know them, these three men from Arkansas and right in here, these three men. Outside of that, Brother Gene Goad, sitting here, which him and Brother Leo are my associates. But out in there, as far as I can see... It's hard (any of these ministers'll tell you that), to even recognize anybody out in there, see, from here. But let's pray, and let's just ask the Lord if He'll help us, and let His mercy be upon us.
Now, the prayer cards, we don't have any of them, because we've taken them up, and they don't ... we don't ... haven't given them out. And Friday night is going to be the prayer line again for every one. We're going to give out a whole group of prayer cards, anybody that wants them, bring them right across the line like we did the other night, see. Therefore we get everybody prayed for. But, now, you don't need that prayer card. You don't need it. The only thing you need to do is have faith that I've told you the truth.

65 God, when He said... At Samaria, when this woman received this sign, what they going to do if they didn't believe it? What the Jews going to do, when Nathanael said, "You're the Son of God, the King of Israel."?
He said, "Because I told you where you were at, or told Peter who he was, and so forth, you believe? Then you'll see greater things than this." And you people who'll believe His message and His Spirit today will see a greater thing, because you'll see a resurrection someday, and we'll see the Lord Jesus.

66 Now, I'm going to turn my back to you while you pray. I'm going to talk to Brother DuPlessis. I just want... You had a nice meeting up there, Brother DuPlessis. Brother MacNally sitting back here, old friend. You, as ministers, I wish to say... All right, now, you watch.
Somebody in this audience is coming in contact with the Holy Spirit, behind me, back in here. That you might know... Now, I want every sick person to be praying, every one of you sick, praying. Now, I feel in my own makeup that the Holy Spirit, somebody is touching Him. Yeah, there's plenty of them now.

67 There's a woman sitting in this direction right here over here that's just contacted the Holy Spirit. She's suffering with a heart trouble. She's sitting right down there. She's having trouble with taking salt in her food and things. You believe with all your heart, lady. Stand up. That's true, isn't it? Now, it's all over now, you can go home and be well. Tell me what she touched. What did she touch? The Holy Spirit. You believe now? "If thou canst believe..."
Now, I turn my back again to the audience. You pray. You see, people, you don't have to be looking. Standing here now I see a woman. She's praying. She is wearing glasses and she's praying for her eyes. Yes, because they're getting dim. Here she is sitting right here, right back in here with glasses on. She's been healed once before in my meetings. That's right. That is right. Now, that's true, what you was praying about. All right. Now, you go home, believe with all your heart, and be made well.

68 Now, I look in this direction. There's a man sitting here praying, but it isn't that man. There's another man, standing up here before me. He doesn't ... if I could see him... He's got a bronchial trouble in his throat. He's sitting way back there in the back. Kind of a reddish-looking shirt on, a-praying. There, sir. Now you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ now? You should. All right, you can go home and be well now, sir. Your faith makes you well. Have faith in God.
That lady sitting right down here had the same thing, bronchial trouble and so forth, too, sitting there. Mrs. Nixon, there's ... that's your name. All right, stand up on your feet. I don't know you, do I? That's right. That's who you are. There's your trouble. Your faith has made you well. Go home.

69 Do you believe with all your heart? What about somebody back in this way now? You pray. Father, this has to be You, because the angel of the Lord, He had His back turned to the tent. Let it be known that You're still the same God, that they can touch You just in all things. I'm looking at a man, and he looks to me like he's Spanish, and he's got something wrong with his side. He's got a poison in his body that he got from a work that he's doing. He's also ... he's got a message on his heart or something on his heart---he wants to preach. His sympathy is for the sick and afflicted, especially on hospitals. His name is Mr. Lee. If you believe with all your heart, Mr. Lee, there you are, Jesus Christ gives you what you asked for. I do not know you. Is that right, sir? I'm a stranger to you. That's right. Go receive what you asked for now. Jesus Christ makes you well.

70 Around the building, do you believe His presence is here? Do you believe the angel of the Lord? Now there is the Word, there is the promise, there's the reaction of it, there's the promise fulfilled. Now, how many wants to get saved and filled with the Holy Ghost? Come stand here just a minute now. You're really interested, and want the Holy Ghost, and want to be saved, come up here now and stand around the altar. God bless you. Come on up if you want to come. I don't care who you are, just come up here. This is the time to get things right.
Then we'll have prayer for the sick, the rest of them just the same. But I felt checked in the Spirit, "That's enough." It was at least three, wasn't it? It was more than three, wasn't it? Three's a confirmation. That's the way I like to see people come, with no altar call, or no singing, or nothing, just rise up and say, "I'm aware that God is present. I come. I come because I'm aware of God's presence. I want to be right. I'm going to be asked for a reason someday, and I'm coming now to confess my faith in God and believe that I'm going to receive it right now."

71 Don't doubt. Don't have a doubt now. If you doubt one bit that you're not going to receive what you come for, it won't do you one bit of good, see. You got to come believing. But right now in the presence of God, in the presence of the Holy Ghost that's here to confirm the Word, come, because that you know He's here, and you know that He'll give you the desire of your heart. That's what He's here for, is to give the desire of your heart. Will you come? That's good. That's fine. That's right. Going to wait just a second longer to see what the Holy Spirit would do, whatever He would call.
See, it seems to me, friends, if you were here with one speck of doubt... Now, remember, I'm going to look at you, and you're going to look at me one day for the last time, and the next time you see me and I see you will be in the presence of God. Then there'll never be another chance. You only get one. That's it. And if you've got one speck of doubt about your experience, or if you're not a Christian at all, or you're doubting your experience, why don't you come now? See, if the enemy (like I spoke on last night, the too many voices) if the enemy's trying to say "You're too tired. "Oh, I won't get it," tell him he's a liar. Tell him that you're going to get it tonight, and tell him, "I'm going to determine I'm going to get it tonight." That's the way to do it.

72 Now, how many Full Gospel ministers are here, or Presbyterian, Baptist, whatever you may be, that believes that people can receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost today as well as they did back there, and the prescription is for them? Raise up your hand, ministers. I know you're interested in souls. Come stand along here with them now, that you might help lay hands on them. Come right up, stand right along here, and lay hands on them. That's good.
Now, what did I tell you? Is there no balm in Gilead? Sure. Is there no physician there? Look at the physicians coming. These physicians of the Word. They certainly believe it. Look at them. Isn't that wonderful? Look at the ministers here in this little crowd of three or four hundred people here tonight. Look at the ministers---twenty, thirty, forty ministers standing here, ministers who believe it. Now, you doctors of the Scriptures, do you write ... you prescribe the prescription that was give on the day of Pentecost? Do you prescribe that? Sure, it's a double cure, double cure.
Rock of Ages cleft for me
Let me hide myself in Thee.
[Brother Branham hums "Rock of Ages"] With our heads bowed now, quietly, Rock of ages, cleft for me.

73 Oh, in the hour of your death, in the hour of your death, how you'll long to hear that, "Let the water and the blood, from Thy flowing wounds supply. Be for sin a double cure, save from wrath and make me pure." You're here to die. Now the only way you can be born again is to die first, so that you can be born again. We're going to offer prayer.

74 Now, our heavenly Father, I bring these people sweetly and humbly to You in the name of Your Son, the Lord Jesus, to be sure that my prayer is offered for them, to be sure that I have did all that I know how to do that they will receive You, being that You have been so good to take these old frail bodies of ours and to let the Holy Spirit speak through them. It certainly taken a sanctifying grace of God to do it, because we are sinners and of no good at all. But the Holy Spirit has taken the blood of Jesus and cleansed our hearts, and sanctified our lips, like He did the prophet at the altar. And now the Word of God, spoken Word of God, flows forth to vindicate His presence to this generation, before it shall pass into eternity to give an account.
Many have come tonight around this altar to receive the Holy Spirit. Father God, we pray that not one of them will leave here until they're filled with the Holy Ghost. May they be filled, every one of them, with the power and the resurrection of Christ. Grant it, Lord. And may the sick and afflicted in here be healed. Whatever is wrong with the sick and afflicted, may the power of God come and heal each one of them. I offer this prayer to You sincerely with all my heart, in the name of Jesus, for His glory.

75 I want the ministers to walk up close now, laying hands on them. Now, Brother David and you brethren, come right down here along the altar. Now, there's no need of just playing at this. There's not a bit of need of that. You're here to get the Holy Ghost. Are you? Do you want it, really want it? Well, now it's for you. Or if you've never received Christian baptism, will you promise God to be baptized if you haven't done it? Will you promise God that you'll let Him just use you in any way, no matter what comes or goes? You'll take His Word for it?
Now, how many believers are in the building that they're going to receive the Holy Ghost? Raise up your hand, you believe that they're going to receive it. Raise up your hands.

76 Now, I'm going to ask the pastor here to lead this prayer, because he's probably been in Pentecost a lot longer than I have, and I want each one of you pastors here, or you preachers, evangelists, whatever you are, you members, all of us to pray with one accord while Brother leads us, and I want each one of you to pray. I want you people to pray, and believe you're going to receive it now. All right. Let us bow our heads. [Brother leads in prayer, other ministers pray.] O God. Yes, Lord. Yes. Fill with the Holy Ghost right now. Grant it, Lord. Come, Lord. Yes, grant it, Lord. Pour Your Spirit, Lord, balm of Gilead be poured in.

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1 All things are possible, Lord I believe;
Lord, I believe, Lord, I believe,
All things are possible, Lord, I believe.
Let us just bow our heads now for prayer. Our heavenly Father, Thou knowest the heart of man, and how we thank Thee for this time of spiritual fellowship and worship with these dear people in the presence of the Holy Spirit. O God, we pray that You will bless this little church, and all of its affiliated little churches everywhere, the school. Bless Thy people everywhere, Father. Get glory unto Thyself, and speak to us now further in the Word. We ask in Jesus' name. Amen. You may be seated.

2 Brother Williams, both senior and junior, Brother Osborn, and brothers and sisters, may it never die, may it stay alive. I am so happy this morning to know, after all these ... about fourteen years, to come back into this church and find that same glorious spirit moving among the people. It is such a jewel, such a presence of God. It is so scarce. I'm sure this morning you don't realize how well off you are. It's such a rest for my eyes to look upon people's faces and see the glory of God shining forth. Brother Tommy and I were sitting there, even watching little girls and little boys enter into that worship of the Lord. See women---young girls, middle aged, old and all---washed faces and clean, men expressing from their hearts. I'm sure it's... You're just used to it because it's an every day occurrence for you, but to me it's a jewel.

3 One time there was an old fisherman coming from the sea, and a man going to the sea for rest. And the man had worked. He was an artist. And he said he was going to take a rest, so he went down to the sea. He had never seen it before. He had read about it, saw the pictures of it, but he had never seen it before. And on his road that morning down to the seashore he met an old salt, or old sailor, coming from the sea, and he said, "Where goest thou, my good man?"
He said, "Oh, sir, I'm going down to relax myself. I'm going down to the sea." He said, "I'm so anxious to smell the salt from the briny waves as they play back and forth, and frolic on the shore. I want to hear the scream of the sea gull as it passes over." And he tried to explain how he was ... what he was going to do.
And the old salt said to him, said, "I don't see nothing so attractive about it, but I've been on it for forty years. I don't see nothing attractive about it."

4 I think that's what's the matter, see. You just don't realize. You're just right in it all the time, see. But to me, it's a bouquet from heaven. It's something real. See, you can get so used to anything until it isn't attractive to you much. But when it comes to the place that when you've read about it, you've heard about it, and then walk right into it, there's just something, you're kind of stumped for words to say.
I had a little jubilee a few weeks ago at Brother Outlaw's church, out in Arizona. I just didn't understand. I go ... my work amongst the people, and I try to visit every organization, denomination, trying to work the best that I can, standing between the breaches for the people. When I walked up there that day and looked over that group, and heard that choir sing, like this morning, and see those young men and young women standing there, just in the ... their faces glitter, and look out and see an old person sitting there, their eyes just as shiny, the power of God, I just took down my collar and throwed back my coat. And then come into it again this morning. Maybe if I'd've ... to go over another week now, kind of ... so good.

5 Brother Williams, God ever be with you and your son in this great work. Brother here, the missionaries and so forth, how I appreciate this. Never, never get away from it, friends! Stay with it. Stay with it, see. Don't never let that spirit of worship and that clean holiness ever die among you. Keep that light burning, for it's the life line of the church. That's right. It's Christ in His church.
I could just stand and talk to you a long time, but I got another meeting coming up in a little bit. And usually before those healing services I like to stay just in the presence of God for a while and get there and pray, and watch and wait till I know His presence is there. And they're going to have a prayer line this afternoon, I believe.

6 I can't promise just when, but I wonder, if passing through... I got your address here now. I didn't know where you was at. I come down this turnpike quite often going west. If I happen to come through here on a service night, I'll come in if you'll sing again for me like that. That'd just be fine. I like that. Now, I never could sing. I can't carry a tune to save me.
But you know, one of these days, when you all get home in your great big mansion up along on top of the hill, you know, and there's a little cabin, I think, for me, way down in the corner of the woods down there. So, one morning you stand out on your porch watching across the hillside, and seeing the morning stars singing together, way down in the woods you hear a song coming up, "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound," you say, "Well, praise God, old Brother Branham made it. There he is down there, just a-singing away." It'll be amazing grace all right when I get there. So, I'm so grateful for His blessings.

7 I want to call your attention this morning to Jeremiah, the eighth chapter, the twenty-second verse:
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
That's a mighty small text, but it isn't how small it is; it's the value that's in it. Many people go by quantity, but it's the quality we're talking about.

8 Here some time ago there was a little boy, that I was telling you about, found that ... up in a attic across the river from where I live, he found an old postage stamp, looked yellow. And he had ice cream in his mind. So down the street he goes to find the stamp collector, and he asked him, "What'll you give me for this stamp?"
"Oh," he said, "I'll give you a dollar." Why, he thought he'd only get a nickel, so he sold it for one dollar. A little later that stamp collector sold that same stamp for five hundred dollars. Later it went into the thousands of dollars, and I don't know what the value of it is now.

9 Now, it wasn't because of the little piece of yellow paper, because that wasn't worth picking up off the floor. It's what's on the paper that counted.
And that's what this is here---it's what's on the paper. The Bible was purchased by Brother Kidson. Brother Kidson gave me this Bible about fourteen years ago in Houston, Texas, where I'd held one of my first revivals, and I've preached out of it ever since. The Bible probably cost about twenty dollars; but them words that I read in there is eternal life to everyone that believes. It's God's Word.

10 I want to just take one word for a text. "Why?" "Why?" You know, if God makes a way for escape for His people and they don't accept it, then He wants to know why. Why did they do it? Why? And we're each one going to give an account for it. When God makes a way for healing and people don't accept it, then He asks "Why?" He's got a right to ask why if we don't accept what He gave us.
One time in the Bible there was a king, and he was a king of Israel, and he was the son of Ahab and Jezebel. And one day when he was walking out on the lattice of his porch he fell through the porch and hurt himself. He got real seriously sick. And then he called two of his men and sent them up to Ekron to find out from the god Beelzebub, the great god of that country, whether ... to consult him whether he was going to live or die. And way down somewhere along the creek bank, in a little old mud hut, was the prophet Elijah. And God spoke to Elijah and he went and stood in the road. And he stopped these two messengers, and he said, "Go back and tell the king, why would he send up here to this god? Why would he send to this god up here, a strange god? Is it because there is no God in Israel? Is it because there's not a prophet in Israel that he could consult about these things? Why then would he send up there?"

11 I wonder today---sometimes in our churches, when we, like coming in here this morning---why would a man want to go to a roadhouse? Why would a young woman want to be on a dance floor? Why would people want to drink whisky and to try to soothe their aching hearts, when all this blessing and power of God is here for us? Why would we want to sign ourself away to some denominational creed when the power of the Holy Ghost is here to make us happy and free? Why would we want to do it?
It reminds me of a man dying on the doctor's doorstep with a disease that the doctor has a remedy for. Now, if the doctor has the remedy, and the man has got the sickness, and the man will come to the doctor's porch and because he dies on the porch refusing the doctor's remedy, why, there's no excuse. Certainly not. If the doctor has a remedy for the disease that he's got, and he's got plenty of the serum, of the toxine, to inoculate the man from the disease, and the man dies on the doctor's doorstep, it's not the doctor's fault. Neither is it the fault of the toxine. It's because the man won't take the toxine. That's exactly right. It's what reason he dies---because he refuses to take the toxine. That's the reason he dies.

12 And that's the reason today that people are dying, in the church pews, of sin, is because they refuse to take the toxine that God has given---the remedy, for their cure of heartache, of ills, and sicknesses, diseases of the heart, soul and mind. People just refuse to do it. They say, "Oh, that's a bunch of holy rollers. That's a bunch of Pentecostals," and they go ahead and try to hush that blessed thing that God give them.
Did you ever think why does a man drink? Why does a man... ? Why does women, young girls, go out and look like Mardi Gras, and get out into these dives and things? It's because that there is a place in their hearts that's thirsting for something, and God created them to thirst, but to thirst after Him; and they try to hush that blessed holy thirst with the things of the world. Why, you're perverting the very thing that God give to people to thirst for Him. You are trying to satisfy it with the things of the world. It will not work. It never will work.
And then if the devil can't get you to do that, he gets you just to put your name on a church book and call yourself a Christian. He tries to satisfy it with that. But there is no satisfaction until God Himself comes into the heart to control and to satisfy the people, and bless them and give them the things that He created in their heart. He wants to fill that space. There's nothing else in the world that will fill that. Don't you all never forget that.

13 Young ladies, these little girls along here, beautiful little things, you'll be brought up here to have long hair and dress right, but you'll be a target for Satan. Keep the power of God over you all the time. Don't never let it leave, this great precious jewel that God has come into your heart with, the baptism of the Holy Ghost, giving this happy and joy. When I was a boy, a kid, I tried every thing I was big enough to do; and a lot of things I wasn't big enough to do I tried it anyhow. But I never found nothing that satisfied until God filled me with the Holy Ghost, and that put something in my heart that's given me a perfect satisfaction. Yes.

14 You know how they work on a toxine for a disease. Now, the prophet asked, "Is there no balm [which is toxine], is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Isn't there no physician or no toxine? Then why hasn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered?" What's the matter with it? What causes it? There's no excuse.
Now, how do they find toxines? The first thing they do, science works on a certain ... different kinds of chemicals, and they mix it together in the laboratory. And they put germs under the test and pour this toxine on it, then take the good germ and the bad germ and work together till they can find something that'll kill the bad germ---unless it's an antibiotic---and leave the good germ. Now, when they think they've got it perfected, they take that serum and give it to a guinea pig, and find out if that guinea pig will live or die. Now, sometimes it won't work on human beings. You can't be sure about medicine, because sometimes a medicine that will help one will kill the others. And they're working on some kind of a medicine of something to try to cure the cancer.

15 The other day when the communists raised up with that bottle, shook it before the world, and said, "We've got something here that will take a paralyzed man, after he's paralyzed, muscles condition has stopped acting, and bring those muscles back." That's a disgrace to the church. Deliverance wasn't given to communism; deliverance was given to the church. That's right---the church of the living God.
And I tell you, instead of probing back on back thoughts, the church ought to be moving ahead in the power of God---taking all this great power that we have among us and not... I love to blow the whistle. I just love it---there's that much kid about me yet. I like to hear the whistle blow but yet keep a lot of steam in there to make the engine run also, you know, as she goes down the track. If we could only find where this great power that God has give us... It'll heal diseases, it'll discern the thoughts of the heart, it'll raise up the dead, it'll do great and mighty things if we'll just keep it right.

16 Now, they say number one killer is heart disease. I differ with them. Number one killer is sin disease. That's the killer of the nation, is sin disease. Sin is unbelief. It gets into the church, winds people around some kind of a man-made theology, a bunch of creeds. And the first thing you know, that person becomes an unbeliever. Yet religious, but unbeliever.
Religion is a strange thing to work with, because the antichrist is so close like the real thing till it'll fool the very elected if it's possible. Cain offered a offering just the same as Abel did. Made an altar, got down, worshipped, put his offerings on the altar. He did everything just as religious as Abel did, but he come in the wrong way. God could not receive it.

17 And Jesus said, "In vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrine the commandments of men." We've got to get the right track. I say this, that man will never be able to come to God till they get on God's solid track that leads to the place.
We've got to get the right disease killed. We've got to get the right disease and the disease that's to be killed is sin disease---unbelief. And we'll never get it until we get the right toxine. We've got to get the right toxine, and that right toxine is in the economy of God somewhere or He'd have never wrote the prescription. That's right. It'll never do it till we get to that spot, get to that place. Let's search it and see where it's at, see if there is a prescription, see what the toxine is. Then when we find that, then we've got the killer.

18 Now, some people says, "Well, now, wait just a minute. You know, I just can't keep from smoking. I'm a church member, but I just can't keep from it. I go to dances, and I just can't keep from it." You know what's the matter? They haven't took the toxine yet. They haven't been inoculated, because this toxine was not tried in a guinea pig. God never put it in a guinea pig. He put it in Himself, and He tried it in Himself to see if it would work.

19 Now there was a time when the toxine wasn't too good, because it was put into sheep, and goats, and heifers, and so forth; but now it's been proven in God Himself. He was the one who come and took the toxine.
On the bank of Jordan He was inoculated. When the heavens opened and the Spirit of God come down to dwell in Him, He was inoculated. He walked along the Jordan bank. He cast out devils. They spit in His face, and He turned the other cheek. They pulled handfuls of beard. It was put under every test that it could be put under, and it proved to be true. He never asked a guinea pig to take it; He took it Himself. It was a man-size job. So God was made flesh and dwelt among us to take the toxine upon Himself. He was the one who discovered it. He was the one who tried it on Himself. He didn't ask anyone else to take it; He got it Himself in His own body.

20 Then we find out, at the day at the cross when He come facing death, the toxine held. The toxine was proved, it was right. There He found out when they spit on Him, He could still pray for them. When they drove nails in His hands, He said, "Forgive them: for they don't know what they're doing." He practiced what He preached. He did exactly, because the toxine that He was inoculated with, it held out.
One asked one time, "Can my sons sit at the right and left hand?"
He said, "That's not mine to give, but can you be inoculated with the same serum that I've been inoculated with? Can you take God's inoculation?" Then on Calvary it proved out that it held, it was all right. Now the proof comes, will it raise the dead? But on Easter morning the inoculation still held, for the seals broke around the grave, the angel of the Lord came forth, and it rolled out the stone and the Son of God who was in the grave---God Himself made flesh among us---He came forth to prove that the inoculation would hold. In temptation, in sickness, in death, and in resurrection, it would still hold. It still holds.

21 "Why is the daughter of my people sick? Is there no balm in Gilead?" There's plenty of it. He poured it out from on high. When the disciples saw, and the people that were called to eternal life, saw that inoculation that could turn the cheek on that side and that side, one that could go in the face of death and have an assurance that the Scripture was right... When a man's inoculated with God's inoculation (which is the Holy Ghost---will agree with every word that God said), they'll never [unclear word] the Bible to take some theology of some man. He'll take every word that God wrote. It'll say, "It's the truth, it's the truth."

22 Jesus had a truth, because God said to the prophet, "I will not suffer my Holy one to see corruption, neither will I leave his soul in hell." That was the needle that punched into His veins, but on Easter morning He knowed that He'd came out of there, because the Bible had said so, and corruption sets in in seventy-two hours. Three days and nights He would have to rise, or the Scripture would be broken. So, the Scriptures cannot be broken. It cannot be broken! God promised it. Just live it right to the letter.

23 There was a hundred and twenty wanted that same inoculation one day. [unclear words] Oh, praise God! Jesus said, "If you want the inoculation, go up there at Jerusalem and wait. Don't get excited---just wait. I'll send it. We've got a whole prescription of it upstairs." And they were waiting, and all of a sudden there came a sound from heaven. The inoculation was on its road, like a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. Cloven tongues sat upon them like fire, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. What was the matter? They'd become inoculated.
Oh, when they got out in the street, and they began to see the manifestation of God, then the people began to cry, saying, "Well, what meaneth this? What is all this about? And what must we do to be saved?"

24 Now, God put a preacher ... not a preacher, but a doctor in His church. "Is there no physician? Is there no serum? Is there no balm? Is there... ?"
There's plenty of balm. They seen it. Now they got a doctor that'll write the right prescription. Yes, sir. Dr. Simon Peter told them what to do. He said, "Repent, every one of you, be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." Peter never said this is just a prescription for today. It's a prescription to your children, and to your children's children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. That prescription worked on them, that prescription worked on me, that prescription will work on you, that prescription will work on every one that the Lord God calls!

25 Now, what's the matter with the world? It's sin-sick. Here's a prescription wrote out. There's plenty of toxine. I've felt it all over me this morning. It's still all over me now, and I know that that toxine has eternal life in it, for it raised me from a little old sinner to make me a Christian, a believer on God. Something stirred my soul. It sent me throughout the world. Tommy Osborn, different ones, it'll send you.
What's the matter with the church? It's because they refuse to take the prescription. That's all there is to it. "Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician?" Oh, yes, we got physicians, we got balm. We'll not give them some false prescription. We'll write the right thing out for them just exactly.

26 Peter said, "This is the prescription." Dr. Simon Peter had the right idea.
He said, "What must we do? How long will it last?
He said, "To you, and to your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call."
This prescription will work. It'll inoculate the people from sin if they'll just take the prescription. What must we do to be saved? And he wrote out the prescription. There's balm in Gilead, there is toxine, and there is doctors also. So why does the people die? Why does the people die in their sins? Because they refuse to take the prescription and have it fulfilled. Do you believe that? Holy Spirit's here now. This is God's toxine for every sin-sick soul, God's toxine---the Holy Ghost. Oh, I feel like ... if it wasn't so late, I believe I could preach right now, just kind of getting myself wound up, just feeling good

27 Let us bow our heads.
Lord Jesus, great giver of eternal life, great Father of the spirit of the righteous, we thank Thee, O Lord, for Thy goodness and for Thy mercy. I want to thank You, Lord, for this little church, for all it stands for, and its goodness, and the things that it's done in Thy name. O Father God, the Bible said that He is a rock in a weary land, and the name of the Lord is a mighty tower: the righteous run in at it ... into it, and are safe. Oh, in this weary land where we travel and see people swallowed up in the world, churches formal, indifferent, dying in sin because they refuse the toxine, what a wonderful thing to come into the presence of that rock in a weary land. Oh, may this church always stand that way, Father. May it stand filled with toxine. O Lord God, grant it. May weary souls fall in here and be saved. Grant it, Lord.

28 Give them ... bless our Brother Williams, both of them, senior and junior. Bless this missionary going into the field, the associating pastors, and different ones from different churches. Our most gracious Brother Tommy Osborn, Lord, be with him as he travels from place to place around the world. Give him souls.
Keep this little church---as it is written---a shelter in the time of storm, that we might run in, and out of the mission fields, and have our souls charged, have the refreshments, O Lord, to sit down in the shade of the earth and hear the angel of the Lord talk to us. How thankful we are for it. Pray that it'll never ... may the lights never go dim, may the barrel never be empty or the cruse run dry, Lord. May the children of God be fed from real doctors that'll write the prescription clear and clean, and preach the Word and not compromise on any of it. May there come a Holy Ghost revival through here, Father, as the brother said a while ago. May it burn into every heart until sin-sick souls can be inoculated from sin, so that they can have the confidence and hope of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus coming for them in the last day. Grant it, Lord. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

29 Such a wonderful time. Oh, this is like heaven to me. Anyone sick, raise up your hand, say, "I want to be prayed for." God is the healer. God is the great healer. For the last 45 minutes there's been a name keeps coming before me. I don't know why. Maybe it'll be in the meeting, or somewhere. I don't know. The name's ... it's somebody praying or somebody fixing to want something. I don't know what it is, but whatever it is, the Lord will grant it. The name seems like it says Kozard or K-o-z-a-r-d, or something on that order. It just looks like I keep seeing ... there's something ringing in my ears of Kozard, a Kozard or something like that, K-o-z-a-r-d. Maybe somebody would be in the meeting somewhere, that it'll happen, but it just keeps ringing out in my heart. And then before me I keep seeing the name---somebody praying for something somewhere. Now, the Lord Jesus knows all things. He provides and prepares for everything. Now, if you're sick, let's bow our heads for prayer. O Lord...

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1 ...standing just a moment for prayer. Let us bow our heads. Each that has a request, let it be known by lifting up your hand to God. Hold your request on your heart now as we pray.
Most gracious and holy God, we come into Thy divine presence now by the way of prayer, asking first that You forgive us of our trespasses as we forgive those that trespassed against us.
And there is many requests tonight, Father. You see their hands, and You know the desire of their hearts and what is in there. I'd ask, along with my hand up too, that Thou would give us the desire of our heart, and especially the healing of our bodies, and the joy of our salvation to be restored to us in such manifold blessings of God that we desire. And may it come upon us, Lord.
And we pray that You'll bless the ministers everywhere, all across the nation and the world. Tomorrow being the Sabbath, and there will be churches, and the doors open, and the people coming and going, and the ministers preaching and praying for the sick. O God, we pray that You'll anoint every one of Your servants tomorrow with great messages and hear their prayers for the sick and the needy. Save the lost. And get glory to Thyself, for we ask it in Jesus' name, Thy Son. Amen. You may be seated.

2 It's such a privilege to be back at the tabernacle tonight to continue on the second night ... or this, the third night of our gathering together. And we are sorry that we do not have the ample seating room to take care of those people who stand for hours, and we know their limbs ache. But I do pray with all my heart that the God of heaven will reward you for it in your... And you standing and waiting the way you are, and many of you sitting here sick and needy.
Now, I just asked Billy Paul, my son, if Gene or any of them or himself give out prayer cards again; and he said they did not, because we're anticipating immediately after the service tonight a baptismal service. Down in the basement, I believe, is where the pool is.
I remember the last time I was here and they had a baptismal service. I believe they slipped me into some of Brother Lyle's coveralls. And he's a little taller than I am, so I had to roll them up at the bottom, and they stuck me down in this pool and got the water too hot; like to scalded me. But I did that what I thought was right and baptized all that I knew I could baptize.

3 Now, tomorrow... I just learned from Brother Moore that I am to speak after Sunday school tomorrow morning, right after the Sunday school service.
Now, you here that have churches that you go to, we wouldn't want you to miss your own service. You stand at your post of duty. Always when your church has services, and you're here locally, why, it's your place to stay at your church, see. And if you have no church and would like to come, why, we appreciate it.
And then when we're praying for the sick, and if you have loved ones, I believe, if you'd just say to pastor, "Will it be all right for me to take Mama, Sonny, or somebody over to be prayed for?" I'm sure he'd say, "That's all right," you see, if you're coming to have someone prayed for. But if you only would just believe it, your pastor has the same authority to pray for the sick as I do, see, or anyone else. You don't have to go to a special meeting to be healed. You don't even have to be prayed for. You just receive Him. That's all is necessary.

4 Last evening the Holy Spirit did something special. We didn't have any prayer cards, so He just went out through the building. Wasn't that a marvelous thing how He did that?
You see, divine healing does not lay in a man anyhow, see. It's in a finished work, your faith in a finished work. And a gift of healing is merely a gift of faith for healing, see. Now, a gift of healing does not have to even be a pastor. It can be a lay member. The laity can have this same thing, see.
I remember one time at Meridian, Mississippi, I believe it was. I was holding a meeting, and it was raining. I was there with a man named Brother... He was one of the cooperating ministers or he was one that was sponsoring it through this other churches. Seems to me like his name was either Bigsby, or Busby, or something like that, down in Mississippi. Busby, that's probably who it was, a football player, used to be.
And it was in an auditorium, and there was a testimony came which was astounding, and the testimony was that... I sent Billy down to give out prayer cards so that they won't have like an arena. It's a church, although it was a auditorium, but we're still... It's church as long the church is meeting there. Wherever it is that's ... the people are the church, the called out.

5 And the testimony came in later, that there was a little lady sitting on the front seat, just a common little church girl that, (little mother)... And there was another lady walking back and forth with a baby. And the baby was wrapped up in a blanket, and it was raining. The little lady could have no place to sit down. It was just packed and jammed out into the streets, and the people standing with umbrellas.
And so this little lady sitting there, the Holy Spirit spoke to her (just a little member of the Body of Christ), and she said... The Holy Spirit said to her, "Go, pray for that baby." And when the lady turned, she was holding a prayer card in her hand.
"Oh," she said, "Father, I cannot go pray for that baby. Brother Branham will pray for that baby tonight." Like that had anything to do with it, but she said, "I just can't pray for that baby."
And as she walked back and forth, it just kept getting on her heart more and more. "Go pray for that baby."
And finally she said, "Perhaps maybe to get it off of my heart, I can just give the lady my seat anyhow," because she looked like she was worn out, and said that the...

6 She said, "How do you do, Sister?" Said, "You look so tired with the baby and I'm not ... haven't got my baby, so would you just take my seat and sit down here?"
And she said, "Thank you, Sister. I don't want to take your seat."
She said, "Yes, you must do it, because I see that you're tired and worn out." Well, she sat down. She said, "Just before you sit down," said, "I notice that you have a prayer card in your hand."
Said, "Yes, the young man gave it to me a few moments ago as he went out the door."
And said, "Well, Brother Branham is going to pray for your baby tonight."
She said, "I hope so. I hope my number's called tonight."
And she said, "Oh, I'll pray that Brother Branham will call your number tonight." And then she said, "If I, being a Christian ... I just can't get it off my heart so if you will just excuse me, it would relieve my feelings if you would just let me say a little prayer for your baby."
"Why," she said, "Certainly, Darling. Go ahead and pray for the baby."

7 And she held it out; and the little mother laid her hands upon the little baby crying, and said, "Lord, I do this, because to take it off my heart. I pray that You'll heal the baby when Your servant, Brother Branham, comes and prays for it. Let it be healed." And she sat down, the other lady with the baby, and this lady goes and climbs a way up in the balcony. I believe it had two balconies, and she was in the top balcony.
About five minutes after that, I come in, and after I got through preaching I said, "I will call prayer cards number 25 to 50," or something like that. You know the way I usually do, start along somewhere, where the cards are mixed up and just call a group out so that the people won't rally, "I got number 1 or number 2" or whatever it is.

8 And happened to be that this lady was about the third or fourth one in the line. Well, the little mother up in the building, you know, up in the top, she was so happy. She said, "Oh, thank you, Lord. Oh, I'm so glad for that little mother; that was on my heart so for that poor little sick baby."
When the little baby got into the prayer line, come up close to where we were standing ... where I was standing, I looked at her. Now, we got it on the tape, you know, and said... That's how I caught it, and it said, "Sister," said, "your baby is suffering with a (I forget what it was, some kind of a disease or trouble.)" Said, "You've come from a certain place, and you are so-and-so, Mrs. certain name," and said, "but your baby is already healed," said, "because the Holy Spirit spoke to that little lady standing up there in the balcony. She's already prayed the prayer of faith for your baby," see.
The compassion of that mother for the baby would've went far beyond what I'd have had for it. You see? So the gift of healing... If God ever speaks to your heart to go pray for somebody, you do what God tells you to do. See, see? Always follow the Holy Spirit.

9 Last night speaking... We believe that we are living in the last days (You believe that, don't you?) just ere the coming of the Lord Jesus. And then how that God in the beginning when Jesus came on earth, He said, "If I do not the works of my Father, then believe me not; but if I do the works of my Father, then believe the works." If you couldn't believe Him as a man, why, believe the works that follows the man.
And we found out talking last night that God first revealed Himself in a pillar of fire. Then He revealed Himself in His Son. Now He reveals Himself in the church (See?), same God: Father, Son, Holy Spirit (See?) in the church. All right. God above us, God with us, God in us, is what it is.

10 Now, then we find out that when Jesus was on earth, He said, "I come from God, and I go to God." That's right. Well, when He died, buried, resurrected, and ascended on high, we realize that God ... that the Logos, or the pillar of fire that followed the children of Israel through the wilderness, that was Christ. That was the anointing.
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." I like that word, "I AM," don't you? Not, "I was," or "I will be." "I AM." You say the days of miracles is past, you make Him say, "I was." But He didn't say that. "I AM. Before Abraham was, I AM."

11 Now, we find out then that when He... After His resurrection and ascension, He returned back to God that He was that led the children of Israel through the wilderness, and He was back a pillar of fire again.
Paul on his road down to Damascus, he was stricken down by a light, and none of the rest of them saw that light, but Paul saw it. And when he was stricken down, he heard a voice saying, "Saul, Saul, why persecuteth thou me?"
He said, "Who are you, Lord?"
He said, "I'm Jesus."
He came from God, and He went to God. We find out that in this last day the Holy Spirit has come back into the Pentecostal move. We have it's picture, the same pillar of fire. Now, that same pillar of fire that was then, that was manifested in human flesh and showed a Messiahic sign to the people... Now, we know that the Messiah as we have studied, the sign of the Messiah, He was the God-Prophet.
That's what all true Israel looked for, was a prophet, because that God had said, "If there be one among you, who is spiritual or a prophet, I, the Lord, will make myself known to him, and if what he says comes to pass, hear him. I'm with him. If it doesn't, then don't hear him."

12 And Moses said, "The Lord your God shall raise up a Prophet likened unto me." And we find out that when Jesus came, that He done the sign of the prophet before a man named, let's say Simon Peter. His name was Simon then and He said...
As soon as he walked up to Him, He said, "Your name is Simon. You shall be called Peter. Your father was Jonas."
Oh, that was perfectly that Prophet. And Nathanael saw it and ... or, Philip saw it and run told Nathanael, "Come, see who we've seen, or who we've found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
And he said, "Could there be anything good come...?"
He said, "Come, find out." No doubt he told him the story about that as he crossed over.
Then Nathanael, being a staunch Hebrew and a believer, as soon as he walked into the prayer line, or the audience, wherever it was, well we find out that Jesus said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there's no guile."
He said, "Rabbi, when did You know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you."
That did it. He said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God, the King of Israel."

13 Now, there's three races of people on earth. If you believe the Bible, there's only three races: Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people---Jew, Gentile and Samaritan. Peter with the keys at Pentecost opened it to the Jews. Philip went down and preached and baptized them down in Samaria. But Peter came down and laid hands on them, they received the Holy Ghost, and the house of Cornelius. He had the keys that opened it to these three people.
Now, there's two races of people looking for a Messiah to come: the Samaritan and the Jew. He only comes to those who look for Him. Is that right? Sun of righteousness... Those who look for Him ... will appear in the end time, healing in His wings.

14 Now, notice. Now, when He made Hisself known to the Jews by His Messiahic sign... He must pass by Samaria, He had need, though He was going to Jericho. And the woman come out. We know the story how He contacted her spirit first and begin to talk to her and said, "Bring me a drink."
And the conversation... They had segregation. She said, "It's not customary."
And after a while He found what her trouble was. He said, "Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I have no husband."
He ... she said, "Thou hast said well." He said that to her. "For you've had five husbands, and the one you're living with now is not your husband; so you did well."
She said, "Sir..."
Watch the difference between her and them priests, rabbis. They said, "He's Beelzebub," when He did that, and they said...
He said, "That's unforgivable; to call the Spirit of God an unclean thing is blasphemy." See?

15 But this woman knowed more about the ministry than lots of preachers know today. Although we think she was a harlot, but she said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. We know that when the Messiah cometh, He will show these things." She was taught, she knowed what she was looking for.
He said, "I'm He that speaks to you."
Upon this she left her water-pot and run into the city and said, "Come, see a Man Who's told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah? Isn't that what the Messiah is supposed to do?"
"Yes." And the men believed Jesus because of the saying of the woman that Jesus was the Messiah, because He showed the Messiahic sign.

16 Now, not one time in Scriptures did He ever do it to the Gentiles. No.
But He said, "As it was in the days of Noah eating, drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage; and in the days of Lot..." Now we took it... Notice. In the days of Lot there was three classes of people. There always is three classes. Everything's in a trinity and trinity by one.
Notice. There was... In the days of Lot there was the unbeliever, the Sodomites. There was Lot, the lukewarm church and his family. There was Abraham, the called out, sitting out in the desert by a choice. Not because he had to, but by choice he took the way with the Lord's despised few.
When the angels came down and spoke to him, They were... I believe it was a theophany; I truly do, because it was God. Two of them (a modern Billy Graham and so forth) went down into Sodom and preached to the Sodomites and to the lukewarm church. And they never done any miracles, only blinded them. And preaching the gospel blinds the unbeliever. We know that. Preaching of the Word blinds him that believeth not.

17 But watch the sign that this Angel done out there to the elect church. He had His back turned to the tent and was a stranger, and He said, "Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?" Is that right? Told him he was married and his wife's name was Sarah. A stranger. And watch. The Bible specifically says, "She's in the tent behind You," behind the man. God manifested in flesh, this man was. Abraham called Him Elohim, the Almighty, see. What He is going to do in the last days? "In the tent behind you." What kind of a mind reading or mental telepathy is that?
And He said, "I am going to visit you." Now, remember "I." "I" was God that made the promise. This same man said, "I." And "I" is a personal pronoun. All right. "I will visit you according to the time of life." And Sarah laughed within herself in the tent, you know. And the Angel said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" Behind Him... Sarah denied it. God would've struck her right there, but He couldn't, because she was part of Abraham.
Our sins would ruin us if we wasn't a part of Christ. He can't strike the church, because we're Christ's, see. Sarah and Abraham were one. Christ and His church is one. Our sins are covered by His blood, by His faith. Not ours we're trusting in, His finished works.

18 Now, remember, Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." Otherwise, a visitation of the same thing. Now, if God showed His sign at the end of the Jews and at the end of the Samaritan dispensation, and let the Gentiles get in just on common theology, He did wrong. He's infinite. His first decision how to do anything always remains the same. That's the way we have faith in His Word, because what He says He can't change it.
I can change mine, because I'm finite. He's infinite and cannot change His Word. Therefore when God says anything, lay your soul on it, because it's true. That's the only way you can ever have faith, is believe what He said. That's the only way you can please Him is to believe what He said.

19 And did you notice right now at the last hour, when we brought in where that this last great conference, where Khrushchev with five nations of the east; Eisenhower, the leader, five nations of the west represented; and the ten toes of the image; they would not mix. And Khrushchev took off his shoe and beat it. Spiritual mind would pick that up right quick (See?) on the desk, see. They will not mix.
Next thing is the coming of the stone that's hewed out of a mountain without hands, that'll roll into the Gentile kingdom. It'll be finished.
Just before that time, He's going to send this angel to what church? To Sodom? No. To the lukewarm? No. He sent it to the elected, called-out church. What kind of a sign did He show? The same thing that He did here last night: God, Elohim, manifested in the person of the Holy Ghost in His church. Oh, my. Why it ought to send us a million miles in the sky with shouts and praises of His glory.
These things was happening just before... Not the water fell. He give the morals of the people which would be ... but in the Sodom, you remember, He left that alone. That's spiritual interpreted. We're at the end time, friends. Think of that tonight. If sin hangs on your life, think of it.

20 Tomorrow, if God is willing, I will send the boys over ... or tell from right here now to give out the prayer cards tomorrow evening about six o'clock, I think. Is that about right, Brother Moore? About six o'clock tomorrow evening.
Now, while we're here tonight, pray. Who knows what God will do? We don't know. He's God! And if God will do one thing supernatural to prove that He's here, infallible proof, then the only thing you have to do is say, "Yes, Lord. I believe it."
South Africa where tens of thousands times thousands, were seated. One sign, and twenty-five thousand in wheelchairs, cots, and stretchers, seven big van-loads was picked up at one time. Thirty thousand raw heathens broke their idols on the ground and come to Jesus Christ.

21 Oh, my. We're so indoctrinated with everything, and so flusterated and afraid. Don't be afraid. The other night I preached on that, "Be Not Afraid. It is I." The only thing that could help them... They were dying, drowning; Satan was going to take them, and they thought He was a spook, a spirit. The only thing that could help them. And that's the way it is today.
The only thing that can deliver you from cancer, the only thing that can deliver you from heart trouble, (medicine has no remedies for that), the only thing that can help you is the thing that you're afraid of, afraid it's a spirit of some kind. It is a Spirit, a Holy Spirit, Christ made manifest in our lives. Believe Him now.
Now, tomorrow night we will pray for the sick. And tomorrow morning, if the Lord willing, if I'm to speak (Now this, if the will of the Lord), I wanted to speak on the subject after Sunday school, "It Wasn't So From The Beginning."

22 Now, let us turn tonight to the book of Jeremiah, and I will just speak to you just a short time on a subject. Let's turn to Jeremiah and begin with the eighth chapter and the twentieth verse and read the twenty-second inclusive. And listen close to the reading. My words will fail. God's Words cannot fail. I'm a man. My words fail. God's cannot. They must be. The twentieth verse:
The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment has took hold on me.
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
And if I should call it a text, I would like to take them little three word ... three lettered word, rather, "Why, why?" Let's pray once more, can we, just before we approach it?

23 Father, Thou art the stream of all our comfort; as blind Fanny Crosby said once, "More than life to me." And we're sitting here tonight in this Life Tabernacle, a tabernacle that bears the name of Life. Not only does the name on the outside "Life Tabernacle," but Lord, the people on the inside, we have eternal life, because we believe on Thee.
For it is so written in the Word, "He that heareth my words and believeth on Him that sent me has everlasting life, and shall not come into the judgment, but has passed from death unto life." How we love these words, because they are life to us. Your Word is life. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us."

24 And it is so graciously written again in the book of Hebrews by Paul, we believe, the fourth chapter, that the Word of God (which is Christ) sharper than a two-edged sword, cutting to the asunder, even to the marrow of the bone, and (conjunction) a discerner of the thoughts of the mind. That the Word, the Word that is Spirit, the Holy Spirit, can discern the thoughts that's in our mind.
How we thank Thee for this, Lord: The Holy Spirit with His power to heal the sick, and to set the captive free, and to give deliverance to all who are in bondage. We pray tonight, Lord, that You'll liberate every soul from bondage.

25 Take the man or the woman that belongs to church and doesn't know You as their personal Saviour, may they receive You tonight as their Saviour, go back to their church tomorrow morning and take hold of the pastor's hands and say, "Pastor, I've been a member here for so many years or months (or whatever the case may be), but last night I truly surrendered my heart. I now am a Christian. Jesus is my Saviour. I found Him sweet and dear to my soul. I've passed from death unto life. My whole motive and my objectives are different now. I love Him, and I will be a better member of this church than I ever was before." Grant it, Lord.
May many be filled with the Holy Spirit, the sick healed, God receive glory. Help us now as we meditate on the great word, question rather, "Why?" For we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.

26 Now, why? That's a question, and there's no one has a better right to ask it than God, and He asked it in the text tonight. If God makes a way of escape for His people, to escape a horrible thing, or sickness, or death, or the eternal death, and then the people fail to receive that, God asks, "Why? Why didn't you do it?"
Now, that's going to be a great thing on the day of judgment, when God is going to ask we, tonight that's assembled here, that will not accept Him as our Saviour and be filled with His Spirit, "Why didn't you do it? Why?" And we're going to have to give an answer to that. Just remember. We're going to answer for every word that God has written. Why didn't you? Why? And you'll have no excuses at that day. We will have to stand before God.

27 Now, just like the king of Israel when he was the son of Ahab and Jezebel... He lived up in Samaria. He was a wicked man. He was like his papa ... or his mother. He worshipped his mother's god, Baalim. And one day while he was walking up on the porch, he fell through the lattice and hurt himself. He got sick, and then he called two of his footmen, soldiers, and sent them over to Ekron and asked to consult the prophets of Baal ... or Beelzebub, rather: "Was he going to get well or not?"
But you know you can't hide anything from God. Way down in the wilderness somewhere was an old preacher that knowed God. His name was Elijah. God reveals His secrets to His servants, and the Holy Spirit came to Elijah and said, "Go up and stand in the way and stop them."
And Elijah took off up the hill on the road that passed over the mountain to the other city, and he stopped the soldiers in the road and said, "Go tell this king that he's not coming off of that bed."

28 Why? Why would He send over to ask Beelzebub about anything? Is it because there is no God in Israel? Is it because there is no prophet down here? Is it because God has not made Hisself known in Israel? Is it because God has not provided a prophet to consult these things by? Then why would he send over there?
He wanted to know why, and when the men returned back and brought the message, the king said, "What sort of a man was this?"
He said, "He was hairy and had a piece of sheepskin, or leather wrapped around his loins; and the king knew that that was Elijah, the prophet who had the Word of the Lord.
It wasn't because there was no God in Israel. It wasn't because God didn't have a prophet for them to consult, but it was the king's own stubborn ways. He just didn't like Elijah. He didn't like him, because Elijah would always correct him in his sins, and a prophet of God is always truthful with the Bible, regardless of what it is. He's got God's Word, and he lays right with it. And it will stir up a man; and if the man is honest and sincerely, he will want to make that thing right. But if he doesn't, then he turns against the messenger, tries to drown the voice.

29 Sometime ago I read an article in a newspaper in Phoenix, and the paper said that there was a prospector killed because he had got some money and he was on his road in. And a foul man was following him and his dog raised up to bark, and the man was all day dreaming what he was going to do with the money when he got in, and he got his gun. He went to the door and shot the dog.
A little later on the outlaw came in and killed the prospector and took his money, many years ago. And it was confessed by the man before he died. What did the prospector do? He was so wrapped up in what he was going to do with his money, till he took his gun and stilled the voice that was trying to warn him.
That's the way men and women are doing today. They're going out, maybe join church to find out (if it just don't soothe them a little bit) and try to stop the voice of God that's trying to warn you of an oncoming judgment. Trying to say, "Why, it's fanaticism or it's something else." Just won't sit still long enough to listen. No, it isn't because we haven't got a God. It isn't because He hasn't got salvation for us. It's because that we don't want to listen to Him.

30 Just like a man that goes ... that'll die with his disease on the doctor's doorstep. The doctor has a remedy to give the man for his disease, and he can help him with his medicine, but the man will not listen to it. He just refuses to take the doctor's medicine. Well, the man could be so close to the doctor till could ... he'd sit on his doorstep and die, die right on his office steps or live door neighbors to him, and die with the disease that the medicine is laying in the doctor's office to cure him with. Now, it isn't the doctor's fault. It isn't because there's no medicine there. It's because the man refuses to take the remedy. That's right. He dies because he refuses to take the remedy that the doctor has for his disease.
So is it in the church today. Men and women die in the pews in sin because they refuse the remedy. There is a balm in Gilead. There is a physician there, but people refuse to take the remedy. They don't want it. It's a dangerous thing to refuse a doctor's medicine. If you've got scarlet fever, or pneumonia, or whatever it is, and the doctor gives you the medicine, and you just pour it out, that's a dangerous thing (That's right), because you might die.

31 But how much more dangerous is it to pour out the balm of God, God's remedy. Make fun of it and call it fanaticism, blaspheme the Holy Ghost. There'll be no excuses when you're asked, "Why?" It's a dangerous thing to do that, dangerous to neglect your body. Well, the medicine, if the doctor's got it for your ailment... More dangerous to neglect the balm for your soul, because God's got it.
Now, you can't lay it on say, "Well, it ain't... It's the doctor's fault." No. "They haven't got the medicine." They got it. You can't say... It isn't God's fault. It's your fault if you don't get it. It's here for you and an invitation to whosoever will: Methodist, Baptists, Presbyterian.
Pentecost is not an organization. I know they try to organize it, but you can't. Pentecost is an experience that goes to Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterian, Catholic, whosoever will let Him come. Black, white, yellow, brown, whoever he is. It's God's remedy. It's His balm for sin. There is a balm in Gilead. Some day we're going to ask why we didn't take it.

32 Now, sometimes in taking medicine... Sometimes the medicine's not... It's good. The Bible says it is. "A merry heart doeth good like medicine." Notice, but sometimes medicine won't always work the same on the person, and you have to take a chance on that.
I was amazed here in Africa (if there might be a doctor near) how that God takes care of His people. A native told me that when they got a sore that wouldn't heal up, they would go out under an old wild orange tree and get an orange that was covered all over with mold and rub that mold in that sore. Penicillin. They knowed it hundreds of years ago, and we just found it out recently. Then we think they're dumb.
God takes care of His own. If we'd spend more time praying, there'd be more things done.

33 Now, we notice that sometimes we can give a patient penicillin for pneumonia, it'll kill the germ. And then sometimes we give it to another, and it kills the patient. You can't be too sure about it.
I was talking one time, making expression how that medicine did not heal; medicine is only an aid to nature---when I was interviewed at Mayo's. That's what they told me. Cut your hand. Medicine don't heal your hand. You put medicine on it to keep it clean while God heals it. God builds tissue. Medicine doesn't build tissue.
If I broke my arm and said, "Doctor, you're a healer, heal my arm"; he'd say, "Mr. Branham, you need mental healing." That's right. The doctor can set my arm. That's what he does. He studies it how to put it together, but God has to heal it. That's right. Because He furnishes the calcium and the life that knits that bone together. God heals it. So Psalms 103:3 says, "I'm the Lord that heals all thy diseases." That's correct. It's God. God heals every...

34 There never was a medicine that healed. Any medicine that'd heal a cut in my hand would heal a cut in my coat, as I've often said. You say, "Medicine wasn't made for your coat; it was made for your hand." Let me cut my hand and die right here then. You sew my hand up, and take me down to the morgue, and embalm my body with a fluid that'll look natural for fifty years, and give me a shot of penicillin every day, and put salve on it; and in fifty years from now if my body was still there, the cut would be there too, for it won't heal my body. You say, "Life's gone out of it." Then which one healed, medicine or life? Life. Tell me what life is, and I will tell you who God is. God is life, eternal life to help this life.
Someone said then, "What about penicillin? Shoot penicillin into you."
I said, "Well, penicillin is just like rat poison. You got a house full of rats eating holes in the house. You put out some rat poison and kills the rats. It doesn't patch the holes. Penicillin kills the germ, but God has to heal the cells that's been damaged by it. So God is the healer. It's correct.

35 Some medicines will work on some people, where it will kill the next one. You can't be too sure about it, but I want to say one thing: God's balm for sin heals everyone. Whosoever will, there's ... whether he's ... what nature he is or no matter who it is, God's balm is the cure for sin, the double cure. I love that old song we used to sing, "Be for sin a double cure." I love that.
Now, God's balm, there's no... Don't have to worry about that, that'll take care of itself. I've often wondered... And I've got many fine doctor friends, and they study the medical journals and so forth, and sometimes I get one to study. I like to think how God's doing in the medical profession.

36 You know how they find medicine? Well, science puts different chemicals together and tries it out; and after a while they got a formula built up; and that formula, they shoot it into a guinea pig. If the guinea pig survives it, they try you a round. Let's see how it'll work on you. They try it on a guinea pig, and if it works the guinea pig all right, then they'll try it on a human. Therefore all humans are not like guinea pigs. Therefore, so they kill some, makes the others well.
I've heard it said that, in the journal, that the heart trouble was number one killer in the nation. Not to be different, but not to disagree with those loyal men, but I'd say this. I differ this much. Heart trouble is not the number one killer. Sin killer is the number one killer. Sin! That's what kills soul and body. Sin, number one killer.

37 And you've heard the old expression, "I just can't keep from sinning. No one can keep from it. I've just got to smoke. I've just got to take a drink now and then. I've got to do these things." You know why it is? Because they don't take God's remedy, His inoculation from it. God's got a balm that'll inoculate you. That's right.
They're afraid of it. They're afraid they'll do something unusual, afraid they'll get out of the regular routine, afraid the church won't agree with what they're doing, afraid their neighbors won't agree. What do you care about your neighbors as long as God agrees? As long as your experience agrees with God's Word, what about it? Stay with that.

38 Oh, it's the new birth. They're afraid of that. The new birth is like any other birth. It's a mess. I don't care what kind of a birth it is, it's a mess. If it's in a pigpen, or if it's in a barnyard, or in a pink decorated hospital room, it's a mess. So is the new birth a mess. It'll make you do things you didn't think you'd ever do, but out of that mess comes life. Hallelujah! That's it. Out of a mess comes life. Life comes out of a mess. Life comes out of death.
Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone. But as long as it dies and rots, then out of that rotten mess comes forth life. Until a man or a woman is ready to die to theirselves, die out to their creeds, die out to their own ideas, and out of that rotten mess bring forth a new birth of glories and shouts and praises of God that makes him act different, changes his nature, changes his life, changes his motives and changes his objectives...

39 But they're afraid of it, afraid it'll make them cry and ruin the make-up on their face, the women. Afraid it'll spoil the appetite of the cigar for the men, see. They're afraid of it. They don't want it, afraid somebody will call them holy-roller or a fanatic. If they'd called the Master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call them of His disciples? Sure. If they didn't call me that, I'd get down and pray and say, "Lord, what's the matter with me?" The world knows its own, but you are bought with a price. You are a different people, a holy people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation; you are a kingdom.

40 Sometime ago I was going with my wife to the grocery and we found a surprise. We hadn't seen it in so long. Excuse me, sisters. There was a lady with a dress on. Hadn't seen it in so long. I said, "How do you know? If I had a camera, I'd take a picture. I ought to go shake her hand."
And she said, "Billy, I want to ask you something. Them women, some of them, sing in choirs. They go to churches, and they say it's all right."
I said, "But the Bible said that a woman that'll put on a garment pertains to a man, it's abomination in the sight of God." Exactly what He said.
She said, "Well, why is it we do that and we believe that, we Pentecostals?"
I said, "Because we are not of their race. We're not in their kingdom. We are a different kingdom."
"Oh," she said, "We are Americans, aren't we?"
I said, "No." I said, "We live in America. That's true, but we've been born."

41 When I went into Finland, the brothers was all going to go down and take a sauna, one of the Finnish baths. I felt kind of funny. I didn't do it. Dr. Manninen said, "Come on, Brother Branham." There was no soap, in them time right after the war...
I said, "Thank you. I don't believe I want to do it. I don't know why." Brother Jack laughing, because he was there. Well, the brethren all went up there and went in a room, and I don't know why I didn't want to, but I just sat out there. Here come a little blonde-headed woman along with a big bunch of towels, going right in that room where those men was undressed. I said, "Hey [there, Lady]. Stop."
She looked around and waved at me and walked on in. Here come about a dozen more taking those men out there and giving them a bath. After it was over, I said, "Dr. Manninen, that isn't right."
Said, "No more than your American nurses do. They're trained from baby-hood to be scrub women."
I said, "Anyhow, it's not right. It isn't right. God put clothes on people and separated them from that. It's not right."

42 We go into Germany, we find people with a German spirit. Finland, we find people with a Finnish spirit. To my surprise, at San Angelo in Rome, (as low as that goes), there was a sign to the American women to please put on clothes in honor of the dead.
Used to be France led the fashions; we do now. They come over here to find out how these women are dressing. They're far beyond them. Oh, it's a shame. It's a disgrace. It's not because the Word hasn't been preached. God's got somebody that won't compromise with sin. There's the doctors, and there's balm. You receive the Holy Ghost, you'll dress different. You'll act different. You'll be different. You'll live different.
Because you refused the remedy, that's all. You refused the remedy, afraid of the new birth.

43 The wife said, "Well, what kind of a kingdom do we belong to."
I said, "Each man in his own domain, in his kingdom, he acts that way. The people out there, Germans act like Germans. Swiss act like Swiss. French act like French, and Americans act like Americans."
"Well," said, "aren't we Americans?"
I said, "Potentially, yes. We live here, but when we're born from above, we have a Spirit that come from a holy place, where people are holy and a holy God, a holy Saviour; and you are a royal priesthood, a holy people. You are bought with a price. You're sure... You're an alien."
I wished I could sing this old song:
We're pilgrims and we're
strangers here,
We're seeking a city to come,
The lifeboat soon is coming,
To gather the Jewels home.
Oh, I love that. Pilgrims. Abraham, and Isaac, Jacob was seeking a city to come, confessing that they were pilgrims and strangers, but they were looking for a city whose builder and maker is God. They'd tasted of the heavenlies, and a man that's been born of the Holy Spirit is no more of this world. He's seeking a city and a kingdom where holiness reigns, where God lives, seeking a city to come.

44 Afraid of the new birth. It only makes you a different person. If you're not a different person, then you're not converted. You might be converted into a denomination. You might be converted into a different atmosphere or something. But when you're converted to God, then you live holy.
I believe in holiness. I can prove to you by the Bible---and I don't care what you do---you cannot offer God a gift without holy hands; He won't receive it.
The gifts in the Old Testament had to be sanctified at the altar. The priest, before he could go in to offer it, had to be anointed and sanctified, or the gift was refused. God will not accept the gift by unholy hands. That's right. It must come through holy hands or He won't accept it.
Afraid of the new birth. What makes it? Because it's kind of messy to them, but it brings forth new life. I'm so glad.

45 You know there was a time when there wasn't any toxin on the earth for smallpox. Many died with smallpox because there was no toxin. Diphtheria, no toxin, but now you can get inoculated from that. When an epidemic breaks out in the city, quickly you go down and get a smallpox vaccination or a diphtheria shot. They got toxin. I'm thankful for that. I'm glad of that. I'm glad we got it. And the Salk vaccine for little children, I thank the Lord for that. Pray that He will give us more and more.
I believe if we just warm up to God, there's things here for us. We was made out of the earth, you know. If we just warm up to Him, and pray to Him, and quit our wickedness and things, all these things would be found. That's right, but for you who believe, He's got a remedy beyond that. Certainly He has. Now, it's all made and ready for you.

46 There was a time when the toxin, there wasn't any; and many people died from the diseases. But now you can be inoculated. There was a time when God's balm wasn't perfect, because it was drawn from the veins of animals, and it only covered sin. It didn't divorce it, but there's no excuse now. God one day made a toxin.
I'm going to say something. He didn't try it on a guinea pig either. He gave it to His Son. He inoculated Him at the Jordan when the Holy Ghost came down upon Him. Every eye watched Him as He lived. He lived the life of God. He looked like God. He acted like God. He lived like God. He prayed like God. He healed like God. He raised the dead like God. He was God. God was... He was inoculated from the things of the world, and they watched Him. In the hour of His death, the inoculation held.

47 When they knowed He was that Prophet, and a Roman soldier put a rag around his head and closed his eyes, and took a stick and hit Him on the head and said, "Now, if you be a prophet, tell us who hit you and we'll believe you." The inoculation held.
He don't mind the devil. "I do what the Father shows me. I only do what the Father shows me to do." Proved that the inoculation held.
When men, they reached over and got his face and jerked out big handfuls of beard, hawked, the big drunken spit and put it in His face, the inoculation held. When His own children cried for His blood, the inoculation held. What did He say? "Father, forgive them. They know not what they do."
When He was riled upon, He riled not back. The inoculation held. All hell was looking to see if that would hold. He was making a way for you and I, making an example.

48 When He died at the cross, the inoculation held. On Easter morning (Hallelujah!), it proved it was so. The inoculation... Death couldn't hold it. Life and death can't exist in the same place. He rose up on the third day. The inoculation held. And as He ascended on high, people begin to long. They wanted the inoculation, for there'd finally... There had been a serum. There'd been a serum given by God that would raise up the dead from the grave, and they wanted inoculation.
When I first heard of it, I wanted it too. I'm so glad that we still have plenty of it: inoculation from sin. And when all...
There was a hundred and twenty become patients right away, for they seen it would hold in temptation. "I could speak to my Father, and straightway He'd send me twenty legions of the angels." He could've done it, but you know like I preached here to you one time, "The Lamb and the Dove." You remember it. The dove only had ... he led the lamb. The lamb can't lead himself. The dove led him and the lamb has one thing: that's wool. But he forfeits that willfully, the only thing He's got.

49 People say... A lot of times women say to me, "Brother Branham, that's my American privilege if I want to dress the way I want to dress." That's right.
Men say, "If I want to take a sociable drink, they sell it out there, there's no law against it. That's my American privilege." That's right. But as a Christian you'll forfeit your American rights if you're a lamb. If you're a goat, you won't. But if you're a lamb, you'll forfeit your rights because you're of another kingdom. The dove is leading you.
They seen it held in the hour of temptation. It held in the hour of death, and when He was in the grave three days and nights, the inoculation held. On Easter morning an angel rolled the stone away, and the Son of God rose again, and He ascended on high.

50 He said, "Now, if you all want to be inoculated, go up there and wait in the city of Jerusalem. I will send the serum right back from headquarters."
Oh, I'm so glad. Oh, that great inoculation, what would you give for it if it was in a doctor's office tonight? You'd go down and say, "Doctor, give me this shot, and after I live an ordinary life and die and all that..." First thing you know one morning, going to raise back again to a new life and never die with that one. "Give me a shot, Doc." Wouldn't it be worth some money? But it's free tonight. You don't have to buy it. It's already paid for. There's balm in Gilead. Excuse me. I get beside myself when I think about it.

51 These people, when they become inoculated, they act funny. Usually they do when something happens substantially. Makes them become funny when they take this shot. Strange thing of it was, they all got drunk, look like, or they thought they were drunk. They were dancing and acting like a bunch of drunk people, and the people that wasn't inoculated said, "These men are full of new wine."
Men and women, listen my Catholic friend. The virgin Mary was in there, and if the virgin Mary, the mother of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, had to go up to Pentecost and get so full of the inoculation of God's Spirit till she acted like a drunk woman, how are you going to get in it anything less than that? Just think that over. How are you going to make it? No matter what church you belong to. She belonged to a holy church too, but she had to get inoculated. That's the only thing that would raise up. There had to come life in. She became inoculated.
Now, when they got this inoculation, they went out into the streets and begin to act real strange---dancing, screaming, running around. People no doubt laughed and said, "They look like they're having a fit." But they were branded.

52 I remember when I used to ride on the range. Out in Colorado we had cattle. Hereford Association grazed the Troublesome River Valley. Every spring we'd have to bring ... brand these calves. And when we went to branding calves, sometimes they'd get pretty good size cow before ... a yearling before he'd get branded. Maybe had to throw him down, take this hot branding iron and stick on him. The fur would burn, and oh, my. When they'd turn him loose, he had a running fit; but, brother, he was yours. He was branded. It hurt a little bit, but we knowed where he belonged after that. It might hurt your pride and burn a little of your ecclesiastical fur off, but you'll know where you belong from then on. Inoculation, certainly.
They was inoculated. They were doing something. They begin to speak with other tongues. Those men said, "Now, what meaneth all of this? Well, we hear them people, they're all Galileans. And why do we hear them speaking in our own tongue wherein we were born? That must be the wonderful works of God."

53 And then there was a little fellow stood on a stump there and begin to preach to them. They had plenty of... They said, "Can we get this inoculation? We'd like to have this. What can we do to be inoculated?"
Now, the new serum had just been poured out, so they had plenty of balm, and they had a doctor there. His name was Dr. Simon Peter. That ought to make some of you clergymen feel real good. Dr. Simon Peter, he spoke for the serum. They said, "What can we do to be inoculated?"
He said, "I will write you a prescription." He said, "Repent every one of you and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall be inoculated." That's right. He said, "Besides all of that, I'm going to make this a lifelong prescription. This prescription can't be fooled with no more. Don't nobody else try to write one like it. Keep this prescription, because it's for you and to your children, and to them that's afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." This same prescription's good for them. That's the inoculation.

54 If a doctor goes and writes a prescription, a real good doctor, he knows just how much of certain things to put in there. One has to upset the other one. If it don't... If you go to putting some more in, or adding something to it, or taking some away from it, you'll kill your patient. Some quack druggist add something to it or take something away from it, might kill the patient.
That's what's the matter with our church move today, the reason we got so many old dead churches. They've tried to fool with that prescription. It's God's prescription. There is a balm in Gilead, and there's a physician there. Don't fool with the prescription.
Shake somebody's hands and take them into fellowship. That don't take the repentance. No, sir. Sprinkle somebody with a salt shake full of water, don't take the place of water baptism. Quit fooling with the prescription. There is a balm in Gilead. There is a physician there.

55 Now, what are you waiting on? Why are you going to turn the prescription down? The doctor's here: the Holy Spirit. He was the one who wrote the prescription. They used it all through the Testament, on down for three hundred years or more, unto the Nicene Council. Then they begin to get men into it, and begin to meddle here, and sprinkle and pour, and all other kind of forms and things. But back to the original prescription! There's the prescription. The reason people's so full of sin, they don't take God's prescription. They join church instead of being born into it, try to take something else besides Acts 2:38. That's God's prescription.
"Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?" Yes, there's balm in Gilead. Yes, there's physicians there. Plenty of them. Sure. Tell you the truth about it. "Then why is the daughter of my people, the daughter, the little church on this day..." The prophecy goes to this time. "Why is the daughter of my people then, the daughter of my people, which was back in the beginning, who use this same prescription, why is the daughter of my people still sick? Why? Is there nobody to tell you the truth?" Sure. Is there no balm there, still the Holy Ghost? There's hundreds sitting right here tonight can prove the Holy Ghost is right. Sure there is.

56 Then, brother, if you haven't been inoculated from sin yet, take God's prescription, and there is a balm in Gilead, and there's a physician there. There's a tank of water downstairs and a altar here.
Let's bow our heads. Lord, You have been God of old. You're God and change not. If You ever write a prescription, You great physician, it cannot be changed. We remember the prescription that You wrote and said, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. He that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe: In my name they shall cast out devils, speak with new tongues, take up serpents or drink deadly things, would not harm them. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." Your last words to Your church...
Immediately after that, You spoke to the apostle Peter in the form of the Holy Spirit when it had been just first poured out. I called him a doctor tonight, Lord, just to make a point. It was the Holy Spirit, the inspiration, the knowledge that the Holy Spirit had wrote the formula, and we thank Thee for this.

57 There's people here, perhaps, in our audience that's never accepted this formula. They might belong to church or something, but as far as receiving the Holy Spirit and being inoculated---a Spirit in there that takes their old nature out, puts the new nature in---they've never did that yet. I pray Thee, Father, that tonight that they will receive it, that the sinners will come to You, and will receive You as their personal Saviour, be filled with the Holy Spirit. Grant, Lord, that those who goes into the water, not one of them will go into the water tonight without coming out with the baptism of the Holy Ghost.

58 May this be a memorial night that'll be remembered a long time because of Your presence and You, the great doctor, here to perform everything that You promised, giving life to those who are dying, healing sickness to those who our beloved doctors cannot touch: heart, cancer, blind, deaf, dumb, paralyzed. Something that You've not put into their hearts yet or in their minds what to take away that. Maybe there is nothing left but just the blood. But we know, Lord, that that inoculation there cures all. We thank Thee for it, Father. Pray now that You'll get glory out of the service. We ask it in Jesus Christ's name. Amen.

59 I love Him, I love Him
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.
Don't the old-fashioned gospel just scour you out? Feel clean? Let's just bow our heads reverently. Now, let's sing it slowly and softly now with a worship in our hearts to God.
I love Him, I love Him
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.

60 Let's just hum it. [Brother Branham hums.] I wonder with our heads bowed as the music sweetly plays on, the girls if they will. Would there be in Divine Presence some sinner that would say, "I want to love Him, Brother Branham. Truly I do. I've always wanted to. I wished I had the courage tonight to receive Him as my personal Saviour." Would you just raise your head ... or hand, rather, while nobody's looking? Way up in the balcony, way back in there. I believe I see some colored people back in there, way upstairs. Raise up your hand now. God bless you. God bless you.
God bless you. I see your hand. God bless you. "Oh, Brother Branham, if I could just be sure that Jesus is here. I believe you told the truth. I believe He did say that. 'The Works that I do shall you do also.' And you tell us that we're at the end of the road."

61 Back over here in the wing to my right, raise up your hands. God bless you. God bless you. That's right. Way back in there. That's good. "I believe, Brother Branham, that it's true, yet I have never had just anything I could put my hands on to say it's supernatural. I've heard great messages on the Bible, but I never did see the Holy Spirit come and do anything. And especially when you were talking tonight, that that was the Messiah. And He showed a Messiahic sign, and you said He showed it to this generation; and He promised He would do it... Like it was just at the days before the burning of the earth in Sodom, He would show that same sign. He'd work in human flesh and do that same thing just before the burning of the earth."
"If I could see Him, something I could lay my hands on to know that Christ is right here, I'd receive Him as my personal Saviour." Would there be another that hasn't raised their hand, raise your hand? I can't see too good in the balcony way up there. Seems like... Yeah, I see the hands, the colored people. God bless you up there. Yes. Down in the lower floors here anywhere... Standing in the galleys back there, back in the... Round back in the wings somewhere, anywhere... God bless you here, brother. God bless you. God bless you, little man. Bless you.

62 Our heavenly Father, now that the time has come that I have spoke of You, telling that You're the great physician, and You have the inoculating power to do things, that You are not dead, that You died truly, but You rose up again the third day, and You're alive forevermore.
And You commended ... or commissioned Your church to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature that would believe; and he that did believe and was baptized would be saved. And You said, "The works that I do shall you also." And the way that You made Yourself known to the Jews and to the Samaritans...

63 Now, Lord, the Gentile church has had two thousand years of theology. They've never seen that until this age. The prophet said, "It'll be light in the evening." We know that the sun rises, geographically, in the east and sets in the west. The same sun that rises in the east is the same sun that sets in the west.
The prophet said, "There'd be a day that would not be day nor night, a dismal day, just enough light to join church and a few things like that. But in the evening time, the evening lights would shine."
You rose on the eastern people to the Jews, the Samaritans, shined that light upon them. Now, we've had this long two thousand years, the day of dismal wars and troubles; but the evening lights has begin to shine, the same Son of God with His same power, showing His same signs just as the sun is going down at the western horizon. We cannot go no farther, Lord. We're at the west coast. It'd be back east again. Lord, shine on us tonight. Show us Thy presence if it pleases Thee.

64 I ask that You will grant that the messenger of the covenant that met Abraham there before the burning of Sodom, when He had His back turned to the tent... And the spirit that was within Him, who Abraham recognized to be God Almighty, the great El---Elo---Elohim, the self-existing one, manifested in a body of flesh that eat a calf, eat butter and milk and corn bread, and then vanished right in the sight of Abraham: Elohim.
When He was manifested in flesh by a virgin birth, promised that in the last days this sign would happen just before His return to the Gentiles. Here we are, Lord. You keep Your Word. I've told this people that they were saved when Jesus died for them. They were healed when Jesus died for them. Confirm Your Word.

65 If You will just do it tonight, Lord, the people will realize that You're here. You could not heal them, because You've already done it. It remains their faith to manifest it. Will you come tonight, Lord, and prove Your presence, if we, Your humble servant has found grace in Your sight?
If Thou would anoint me, Your servant, Lord, You'd have to anoint Your audience too, because it has to be through both. For we realize that when You were here on earth, when You went to Your own people, it said, "Many mighty works He could not do because of their unbelief." So is it tonight.
Here, Father, we commit ourselves to Thee and humbly wait that You'll manifest Your grace and love to us. Then we will ask the sinners to come forward to receive the prescription. In Jesus' name we ask it. Amen.

66 Before God, the holy angels, I say I will go forward in spirit to challenge the enemy that is unseen among us; that is sickness, diseases. They are devils like cancer. Cancer is the medical word, I think, "crab," you know, the sea animal, legs, but he has a life. A cancer is a cell, a wild cell, as I understand it (I'm not a doctor) ... but a multiplication of cells. So are you a multiplication of cells. Your life come through holy wedlock by the will of God, but where did this cancer come from to take your life? He's a devil.

67 Jesus said, "When the deaf and dumb spirit went out of the man (deaf and dumb spirit), he could speak," see. Spirit. That poor brother might have went to a good doctor and he looked him over. He said, "Yes, sir. I find it. You got a dead nerve in your ear and that's what makes you deaf." Now, why wasn't he dead nerved all over, see. It's like an unseen force gripping him. Something the doctor can work on, he can see with his hands... He's got two senses that he works with: that's what he can see with his eyes, what he can feel with his hands. See, taste, feel, smell and hear is the five senses of the body.
Now, if he could see it, if he could work on it... But see this thing has got that nerve killed; he can't see it, like a transparent band or something. Now, it's a deaf spirit. Take that off of there, nature will actually revive itself.
Just like a stalk of corn, this flower growing up. If it's laid on a clod and twisted over, just remove the clod, it'll grow back right. You have to have... You have to find causes before you find cures.

68 If you go into a doctor's office and tell him, "I'm sick at my stomach," and he gives you some aspirin and sends you home, he's either too busy to fool with you or don't care. A good doctor will take you in. It'll cost you a little more, but he will examine you till he finds the cause, and then go to working there.
Now, not as a medical doctor, but as a servant of Christ, I know the cause. It's sin. What is sin? "Brother Branham, I don't sin." Unbelief is sin. "He that believeth not is condemned already." Unbelief is the only sin there is. He that believeth not is condemned.
Lying, stealing, committing adultery, that's not sin. That's the attributes of unbelief (That's right), attributes of unbelief. If you believed, you wouldn't do those things.

69 Now, the Holy Spirit promised to come in the last days and show to the Gentile race that He was Messiah, that it would be... God was above us in the Fatherhood, God with us in the Sonship, now God the Holy Ghost in us. You know that. "A little while and the world seeth me no more, yet ye shall see me, for I will be with you, even in you to the end of the consummation." How long? To the end; the world ends, He will still be there in you. God in you.
Now, if the Holy Spirit... If this is the Holy Spirit, and this angel of God that they ... science took the picture of, hangs in Washington, D.C., copyrighted, the only supernatural being that's ever photographed. I say to you in Christ's name, it ain't two feet from where I'm standing right now. That's right. That's right. That's the reason I'm saying what I'm saying. He's here.

70 There isn't a person I'm looking at in this building that I know. Yes, I do. I know this Brother Ed Daulton, this Baptist preacher brother sitting right over here from up in Kentucky, and them two boys sitting by him. Outside of that I don't see one soul that I know.
How many in here's sick and needs Christ for your healing, physical, or for some loved one, or something that you need of Christ; and you know I don't know you, know not what you're wanting? Raise up your hand. All right. Just have faith. Then in your faith believe God with all your heart.
Now, be real reverent. And then... Now, just take your time, and don't be nervous. Then when you do believe that and to... I will quote a Scripture out of the book of Hebrews as soon as I make this quotation.

71 Jesus of Nazareth, our Lord and Saviour, was on His road to raise up a little dead girl of a priest, and there was a woman who had a blood issue. She had tried to be healed through the physicians; and they'd tried hard to heal the woman, but they couldn't do it. She had an issue of blood, perhaps menopause or something; it couldn't stop. I can see the little pale thing; she said within her heart, "If I can only touch that man's garment, I will be made whole." Do you remember the story?
And she touched His garment, and He said, "Who touched me?"
And Peter rebuked Him, saying, "Everybody's touching you. Why'd You say such a thing?"
He said, "But I got weak, virtue has gone from me," strength.
Now, you say, "Oh, I'm sick tonight, Brother Branham. If Jesus is here, I'd touch Him right now." Would you do it? Sure you would. All right. I want to tell you He's here, see.

72 Now, if He was standing here wearing this suit that He gave me, if you'd walk up and say, "Lord Jesus, will You heal me?"
He would say, "I have already done it. Do you believe?" That's where... "According to your faith be it unto you," He said, see. It's already finished when He died at Calvary, but He can make Hisself present here to show that He is alive and not dead. He promised that. That's our consolation.
Aren't you happy in these dark hours when the world and nobody knows what to do? Yet we know where we're standing. We know, see. He's here. We believe Him. Here He is, and scientific proved that He's here by their pictures and things. The church in the millions around the world sees His power, see it working, and there's...

73 Remember, there's something great that's fixing to happen. It ain't the hour yet. Something will take place, and you'll know one of these days, before long now. Don't let it be too late. You remember, lot of times these things pass over, and you don't know it. The Catholic church didn't know when they burned Joan of Arc for a witch that she was a saint. Didn't know Saint Patrick the same way. They didn't know Jesus was the Son of God till He was dead, buried, and rose again. They realized what they'd done. Don't turn this Holy Spirit away, for someday you'll realize what you've done, see. Don't let it be like that.
Now, He's here, and the Bible says if you want to touch Him... Hebrews... Any of the clergymen around knows this. The Bible says that He is right now a High Priest sitting at the right hand of the majesty of God, that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Is that right?

74 Does Hebrews 13:8 say He is the same yesterday, today, and forever? If He is the same High Priest, if you'd touch Him, He'd act the same way. Is that right? Same thing He did down there when that woman touched Him, He'd do the same thing, because He promised He would do it, according to what He did then when He was talking to Abraham, see.
Do you believe it with all your heart? May the Holy Spirit come by Divine gift, not nothing within myself... Just like this microphone. It's a mute unless... It's a dumb mute without something making the noise on this side of it. So am I a dumb mute; without something speaking through me, I don't know you. You touch Him, and when you do that, you set something afire that sends the Holy Spirit down.
If I can release myself and humble myself to get my own thoughts out of the way, your faith in God will turn Him around; and He will use this Holy Spirit in me to do the same thing He did to the woman that touched His garment. You won't have to have your prayer card and come up here, because you haven't any prayer cards anyhow, see. We're going to give them out tomorrow. Just have faith.

75 Now, listen. Don't no one disturb, make any noise. Just believe and pray now for a moment. As I turn my back, see if we're at the end of the road. God, it's to Your honor and glory we ask it.
Almighty and all faithful God, who keeps Thy Word in every generation, never failing but always there to prove Yourself alive. One day coming home from the resurrection, many did not believe on You, and there was one named Cleopas and his friend was on their road down to Emmaus. And when they walked with You all day, and You'd talked with them, yet they did not recognize You until You got them in the room, shut in.

76 There's many here tonight, Lord, that's walked with You through the years, and still they don't realize how You kept them from accidents and the different things that's happened, let them be alive to be here tonight. And while we're shut in like Cleopas and his friend was, do something like You did then. When You did something just like You did it before You were crucified, they knowed that You were the same Jesus, for no one done it that way but You. And they run quickly and told others, "Truly the Lord has risen."
Now, Father, do tonight in this audience like You did in the days when You were here on earth, because it's just exactly with Your promise. Speak, O God, while we humble ourselves and submit our lives into Thy hands. If You'll only do it once, Lord, once more, then the people here will be asked for a reason why they didn't follow the prescription of the Bible, for they see that truly God is working through His church and through His people. May I humbly ask this, our kind, loving Saviour? In the name of Jesus Christ, I ask it. Amen.

77 All right. You can raise your head. I'm looking right down this way at a woman that's got her head up praying. I do not know her, I've never seen her in my life, but right over her hangs that light, the pillar of fire. And I'm watching it as it's moving. The woman was praying for me to turn and call her, and she's suffering with a rectal trouble. If you believe with all your heart, you may be healed.
Little lady is from... She might know who it is. She's from Fort Smith, Arkansas. Stand up to your feet, little lady, with the little shawl on your back there. Your rectal trouble has left you---hemorrhoids by name. Now, I solemnly hold my hands. I never seen the woman in my life to know. You don't have a prayer card, do you? Because there's no prayer cards. I do not know you. If that's true? We're strangers. Raise up your hands so the people might see. I never... Is what He told you, was it the truth? Wave your hand if it's the truth.

78 I want to ask the audience something. Who did the woman touch? She raises her hands; she's never saw me, and I've never saw her. And yet the Spirit of God is here to go back to her, the same one. She had faith like the woman that touched the hem of His garment. She never touched me; look how far she is from me. She touched the High Priest. That proves that He's here.
The lady sitting right behind there on the end, the little feathered hat, she's praying too. Do you believe me to be His prophet? You're suffering in the back from an accident, a wreck. That is right. Besides that, you have arthritis. That's correct. Complications... You have a loved one that you're praying for. A son, nervous break. You have a husband you're praying for. He's an alcoholic. That's "Thus saith the Lord God."
Do you accept Jesus Christ now? If those things are true, raise up your hand so the people will see. If I do not know you and you don't know me, wave your hands. I know it. Do you believe with all your heart now? Then go receive what you've asked for. Here she is. If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believes. If you believe... You have to believe first.

79 See, now, see... Only way I will ever know what I've said to the woman is on the tape. That wasn't me talking; that was Him. But there's something still hanging with the woman. She's wondering. Oh, it's a her ... a boy, nervously. No. Here it is. It's an evil spirit that caused the boy to have a breakdown, and it's on this fellow over here. He's just had a breakdown too. He's from Georgia. He's a minister. Rev. Farrell, your breakdown is over, sir. Your nervousness is gone. Jesus Christ makes you well.
Now, to this man, I never seen him in my life. We're totally strangers to one another. Ask him. Was those things true, sir? Wave your hand if that's true. Ever what He told you was the truth? I do not know you. No, sir. Now, who's here that knows him? Christ, is that right? Say, the man sitting by you there, also, that you might believe and know that I am His servant, not me... You're praying for your wife also from Georgia. Have a good courage; it'll be all right, if thou believes, if you can believe. Do you believe? If thou canst believe, all things are possible.

80 Little lady sitting here praying with a spinal condition in the neck right over here. You're from Baton Rouge, Miss Hauntz. Stand up. Receive your healing. I don't know the woman, never seen her in my life. We're total strangers. If we're strangers, wave your hand, sister, so that they'll know. You have faith and believe.
There's that Angel standing right back here. See that light? Can't you see that? It's a woman's got a spiritual problem. Mrs. Hanes, her name. Mrs. Hanes, you believe with all your heart. He will be all right. You accept it now? I don't know you. I've never seen you.
A lady sitting by you there praying also. She has a bowel trouble. Do you believe God can tell me who you are, lady? Miss Jackson, you believe with all your heart. I challenge your faith.
Here if you people up in the audience back there in the back... Can you hear me, you colored people? Raise up your hands. Way up. Third from the end out here, that colored lady's suffering with a kidney trouble. The one sitting next to her suffering with kidney trouble also. You accept your healing? Raise up your hands if you accept your healing. All right. Go home. Christ makes you well.

81 Have faith and believe. Don't doubt. God is here. You people in those chairs and things, I can't heal you. I can tell you what's wrong with you if you'll believe it: spastic, polio; it's right in your back. If you'd believe with all heart, you could move your chair, and go home, and be well if you believe it. But you have to believe it with all your heart.
Who is this laying here on a cot? That man? Yes. That's caused from an operation, run him blind. That's true. Tumor operation on the brain paralyzed him, made him in that condition. I can't heal, but the Holy Spirit is here. Do you believe the angel of the Lord is in the midst of the people? Do you accept Him as your healer?

82 Our heavenly Father, as I ask these people to lay their hands on each other and pray, I ask that You'll confirm Your Word further to say this: You said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." I pray Thee, Father, just now while Your divine presence is with us, may each and every person that's in divine presence as I feel myself weakening, may You, Father, heal everyone of them. Let them know that it is Thee. "Be not afraid; it is I," saith the Holy Spirit, the only resource of help in the time of trouble.
Come, everyone, receive the balm of Gilead. Be inoculated from all fears and doubts. Receive the Lord as your healer and Saviour. In Jesus Christ's name I ask it. Amen.

83 I charge every man in here, and every woman, boy, and girl, in the name of Jesus Christ whose presence is here that knows that no mortal man could do these things on earth. That's right. It's absolutely got to be the Spirit of God, and I charge any clergyman to deny that the Bible doesn't promise this will happen just before the end time, see. And the Bible is fulfilled tonight. Jesus Christ, the resurrected one, the one you call the third person is the same person that's in our midst now working in our flesh, as God worked in the flesh of His own Son, Jesus Christ, is working in the flesh of adopted children through Jesus Christ as He promised.
"A little while and the unbeliever will see me no more (not till the end of the world), but ye shall me, for I will with you, even to the end of the world." Here He is tonight. I wonder tonight, in the presence of this great Holy One, how many of you would like to have the prescription said over you? Would you like to come and accept Him as your Saviour? Rise and go downstairs with us and be baptized. Would you do it while we sing a song? If you will, "I Love Him."

84 I wonder if you'll rise and come up here and stand where I can pray and lay hands on you, that you might receive the Holy Ghost. That's how you receive the Holy Ghost is by laying on of hands. The Bible says that. Are you aware that Christ is here? Raise your hand. "What does hinder us?" Philip said to the eunuch ... or eunuch said to Philip, rather, "What hinders us? Here's water."
Peter said on the day of Pentecost, "Repent, everyone of you, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." That's the one that you see working here. "For the promise is unto you and to your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." Follow that correctly and find out what takes place. That's what I did, and that's what took place. You do it, and it'll take place with you.
I love Him, (With our heads
bowed now) I............
Great Holy Spirit, Your presence is here, healing all over the building. Now, may those, Lord, who are without You, that doesn't know what this great Holy Spirit means, doesn't know even the forgiveness of their sins, may they come forward now, Lord. In the name of Jesus, I ask.

85 Won't you rise now and come here in the Presence? God's going to ask you at the day of judgment, "I appeared in Shreveport on that Saturday night. I preached the Word through a uneducated person. I preached My Word. I showed Myself alive to confirm My Word." And you'll be asked to give a reason, why didn't you accept it.
God bless you, my brother. Come right here. God bless you, my sister. Someone else? If a person has never been baptized yet in Christian baptism, there's no other formula in the Bible, no place at all...
If you are a sinner, come forward. If you're a church member, come forward. If you've never been baptized by the prescription that Peter laid out in Acts 2:38, I charge you before God and the angels. Why is it you will doubt me as a prophet when I stand here and tell you the truth, and know that the prophet has the Word of the Lord? That's his divine office. I tell you the truth. I ask in Jesus Christ's name that every one without water baptism (You've been sprinkled or whatever way), come and be reconciled to God. Follow the prescription. "Upon this rock I will build My church. The gates of hell will never prevail against it."
I love Him, (Rise to your feet
now and come, will you?)
I love...... (Won't you?)
Because He first loved me;
And pur..................

86 Come now. Why? Why are you not coming? Why? Say, "My church believes in sprinkling; my church believes something else."
I'm asking you why by the prescription that God gave. There's not another prescription in the Bible contrary to it. If there's anybody can show me a prescription contrary to that for salvation, come do it. It's not there. It's God's prescription. Why will you not...? Is there anyone here that has followed God in this order? Raise your hand. How many here has followed God in this order? Maybe all of you have.
If you haven't, then you're going to be asked at the judgment. Remember the same God that is upon me, the same Spirit telling me to ask this and to make this challenge, says to me now, "He will ask you at the judgment, which you may come before morning, why didn't you do it?" "Thus saith the Lord."

87 We can't play church no more. God is in our midst. You feel that terrible awe? Are you aware of what that is? It's the Holy Spirit calling, moving, trying to move in. Once more so I will be sure that no blood will be upon my hands at the day of judgment. Remember I charge you before God: come.
I love Him............
[Congregation continues singing. Brother Branham moves away from microphone and prays for the people, the words not always distinguishable] God, in Jesus Name... In the Name of Jesus Christ, may she healed. In the Name of Jesus Christ... In the Name of Jesus Christ...

88 Almighty God, Your promise of Your Word, may it be manifested in this my brother. May he receive the Holy Ghost in Christ's Name... Father God, in the Name of Jesus Christ... Fill my sister... Fill them with the Holy Ghost, Lord... In the Name of Jesus Christ... In the Name of Jesus Christ... as he's coming for his baptism,... water... In Jesus Christ Name... on my brother. May my brother receive the Holy Ghost, his faith is in You until death takes him... Father God, in the Name of the Lord Jesus... You Who are present now, may You send the Holy Ghost upon them...
Come, Sister dear. Come, come right up. Each one now, right up here so... Yes, Sister. Our heavenly Father, by the anointing of the Holy Spirit, may our sister receive the Holy Ghost. As Peter went down and prayed for them and laid hands on them, and the Holy Ghost came on them, I pray that while she receives her water baptism, may the Holy Ghost come upon her. I pray in Jesus' name.

89 Would you come forward now, just stand real lovely and quiet just a moment. All right. Heavenly Father, as this strong looking young fellow stands here, may as the water covers him, may the Holy Spirit fill him. May he be used to Your glory, Lord. It's Your promise. In Jesus' name. Amen.
Have I missed one, someone? Laying hands on them, that's the promise. "Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost; for the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." That's the prescription. Is there another before we offer this prayer and go to the pool, that's never been baptized?
Heavenly Father, under the unction and conviction of the presence of the Holy Spirit, this man comes with bowed head and heart. As he receives the water baptism, may he be filled with the Holy Ghost, in the name of Jesus Christ.
O God, creator of heavens and earth, author of everlasting life, and giver of every good gift, send Thy blessing upon my sister. May she receive this blessed Holy Spirit, as she goes to the water to obey Your commandment. Through Jesus Christ I ask it. Amen.

90 Oh, what a solemn moment! The awe of the Holy Spirit! It just seems like somebody's grieving it. I don't know. Maybe it's me, see. I trust it's not, because I made an awful statement just a few moments ago, not knowing. Even heard myself say it, charged this audience before Jesus Christ that they'll answer why at that day. No excuse, (See?) because He has done manifested Himself by His Word, through His Word, in His people, and He's here. Show me anywhere else. Is that all now? Another? Come, Sister dear. I'm so glad to know that you've come to Christ. [Unclear words.]
Our heavenly Father, the wait was worthwhile. I pray that You'll bless my sister now. Fill her with the Holy Spirit as she's obeying and coming down. She wants to be inoculated from the fears and cares of life. May the Holy Spirit, the great serum of God that takes away sin, may it come into her life and guide her throughout her journey, in Jesus' name.
Just remain right there just a moment. Is that finished? Everyone now? Remember everyone feels now that...

91 Just think of it, friends. I'm sure if we could've just had some kind of a something we could pinch with our hands and realize what's taking place here now... We're unaware of it. I say these things, maybe in riddles to you; maybe you do not understand it. But I could only let you have what I know now, what I feel now and know what's present. A great hour of decision, this church has come to its hour. It comes to its Mount Transfiguration in this fellowship.
Things has took place that wasn't even ever thought of, but was prophesied a long time ago would take place. This is the hour of decision for many. I'm so happy that these come. Think of it. The great Holy Spirit of God that met Father Abraham out there has come down into our midst, working in mortal lives (each one of us walking through this building), just exactly what He said He would do.

92 We see the great meetings and conferences that was spoke of twenty-five hundred years ago just take place a week or two ago. We see the atomic age.
I was quoting last night a prophecy that was given me back in 1933 of seven things would take place: Germany, the Siegfried Line, and the president election, and all these other things. Five of them has already taken place, two left: the coming of the control of a woman in the United States to take over, maybe a church to take over to rule... Watch. It's "Thus saith the Lord."
And then I seen them create an automobile that didn't need a steering wheel in it. I seen that Maginot (Maginot Line, it was instead of the Siegfried) the Maginot Line eleven years and told the people. It's wrote on paper. He's never one time... I charge any person in divine presence, or in the world, to ever tell me one time that the Holy Spirit ever spoke and said these things that it didn't come to pass, see. That's right. Oh, what an hour that we're living in. What a moment right now. A hush like a death somewhere, see.

93 Now, is there another? Is there someone else that would like to come at this moment, would like to walk up here and say, "I have never received the Holy Ghost, Brother Branham? I'm a church member. I've never been baptized in Christian baptism. I've been sprinkled, or poured, or what more, but I want to come according to the way the Bible tells me. I'm not ashamed. I want Christ. I'm coming right now."
I'm just going to say... One more time we will sing, and remember then till tomorrow morning then. Then we will take these audience here right downstairs. I think everything's ready, and the baptistery is filled, and we're ready to go into the baptism just...
Here's one more person. God bless you, sister. I like to lay hands on you because the Bible [unclear words]. Heavenly Father, may she receive the blessings of God. She's walking down now...

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1 Thank you, brother. You may be seated. My wife said, "Bill, I kind of admire you on this meeting, going down to Texas where all that nice weather is."
A while ago I called her. I said, "How cold is it?"
She said, "Not very cold. It's just about zero. But what're you-all doing down there?"
I said, "Just raining and sleeting as hard as it can." I said, "The summer must have went on west to take its vacation." It's sure left the lower part of Texas, hasn't it? I see that we got a slick rainy ride tomorrow so we solicit your prayers.
I didn't expect there'd be anybody out. I thought all Texas was afraid of bad weather, but I see some of them are not. So we're happy that you're here tonight, and happy that we had this... You showed us this great fine meeting, one of the nicest meetings we've had in years---your fine spirit and cooperation. I want to thank these pastors, each and every one of you, for your fine cooperation. I didn't get to eat dinner with you---just had a breakfast with you all. But I'd like to go over and see how your wife can cook grits and biscuits, and, oh, my, I imagine it'd be fine, be dandy. I appreciate our little organist here that's been so sweet, helping us---all you people.

2 And they tell me that they give a love offering for me. All the expenses are made, brethren? If it isn't, turn it right in on that, see. And if everything's all right, and there's no particular need of it, I put it in the work of the Lord as I travel on. May God ever bless you. And I believe it said in the Scripture, "In so much as you have done it unto the least of my little ones, you have did it to me." So I am that least one, so you have did it unto Him, see, that you did. I know it's a portion of your living you're sharing with me for the gospel. I pray that God will so richly bless you. And when life is finished here, at the other side you'll be rewarded, if not here; a hundred-fold here, and eternal life on the other side.

3 Your faith has been tremendous---how you have got together and pressed your faith on and blended in your faith. If it wasn't for that faith the meeting would not have been what it is; but it's because that you have believed, and believed with me, and I appreciate it. I've told my brethren, and told the friends that's called me up from different parts of the country, that it was tremendous how the people here in Beaumont had certainly put their faith and prayer behind the meetings, and helped.
There's no doubt but what everything, when it makes a little history or just something unusual, you have the pro and con of it. You have the good and the bad. You have to have the night to enjoy the day. You have to have bad weather to enjoy good weather. That's the way life is. We have to have bad people to make the good people show up. And so have to have a false to make a real. I'm not saying this because I was asked to say it. I'm saying it because it's out of my heart.

4 And I want to say to you, all you people, you churches, I wouldn't want you to think that I was a person that tried to disagree with all churches, and they're all wrong and I'm the one's right. If I've left that impression, forgive me. I didn't mean it like that, but I meant to say that there's not an organization in the world, I don't believe, of Christian religion but what's got good people in it, and they've got God's people in it.
I do not agree with organization, because that the organization... Now listen close. If the organization'd say, "We believe this," with a comma, all right. But if, "We believe this," period, that's all wrong, see. If you end your doctrine with a comma: "We believe this, plus as much as God wants to add to it"; but when you say, "We believe this, period, and that's all," then you shut God right out of it. And that's the way organizations do. They end it with a period.

5 Now, such things taken place. One of our brethren, because that he had prayed for years, and he had prayed for me to come here... And I want to tell you how the Lord worked. I had great stacks of invitations, world-wide. I put all my American revivals together, and then my foreign overseas, the first of every year. I start Christmas week and we pray over them the week through, because we're usually home then. And so we prayed over it. And immediately my mind was attracted to Texas---Houston ... or, not Houston, but Beaumont. And then in ... I said, "You got anything from Beaumont?" The secretary brought out invitations, several of them, and I said, "Let's see." And I just picked up one like that, laid it... Picked out one and I seen this little pastor's name. I said, "Contact him." See, just, "Contact Brother..."

6 And then the brother, with good intentions, with no ill feelings... And if some of the state men are here, presbyters or whatever it is, brethren, don't do something evil that you'll be sorry of later. Be a Christian, be a gentleman. The little brother meant no harm. He was only trying to follow out and was thankful for a prayer being answered. That's all it was, just being thankful for God answering his prayer. He didn't mean to be evil, and I don't think he is. He's a good brother---fine, sweet brother.
And then when his good brother, one of the... He belongs to the UPC, which is called among the people, "Oneness." And some of the trinitarian-believing brethren come in. His heart's hungry for fellowship, and when his trinitarian brother came, what was he... ? Nothing to do but put his arm around him. Now, brethren, if you excommunicate a man from your Assemblies for such as that, God have mercy on your sinful soul. When I get to a place, or any organization that can't reach its arms out and get a brother from anywhere, God be merciful to you.

7 Assembly brethren, and you Church of God, Foursquare, and all of you, I'm sure you can appreciate a stand that a gallant brother would take like that. I'm sure that you Assembly brethren appreciate that, you Foursquare and Church of God and trinitarian-believing brethren. This brother reached out his heart. He didn't have the heart to say, "Stay away," because he loves you. Now while he's in his part when he's down, having to grind hard, and relied upon that all the time, if anything should happen and the brethren should put him out of the organization because he fellowshipped with you, remember that.
Have fellowship one with another, and forget your little differences, and be brothers one with another and strengthen him. Lend him a hand and pat him on the back, say, "Come on, brother, we're right together." That's the way to do it. That's the way to do it. You'll find out one thing, brother: criticism will only get you in trouble. That's right. Don't never down anybody; lift them up.

8 I'm going to tell a little story about this just comes on my mind. There's not many here tonight so we got a good time to speak. We'll pray for the sick, give my little farewell message to you. And I would like to say that... Here some time ago I was in Ohio. We were having a great meeting. It's been about four or five years ago, maybe six. And the meeting got so heavy till I had to move out into the country. The little motel I was staying, so many was around---or hotel, rather---I moved out into the country. I'd been fasting for something special to happen, something that would win the hearts of people.
You know sometimes when we're praying for others, we're the one that gets the help many times, when you're praying for others. Like at nighttime when I say, "Put your hands on one another. Don't pray for yourself, but pray for the other fellow. He's praying for you." The Bible said, "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for the other." That's the way we want to do. Let the Baptists pray for the Methodists, and the Methodists pray for the Baptists, and the Oneness pray for the Twoness, and the Twoness pray for the Twoness and Threeness and Fourness and whatever more comes along. Everybody pray one for another, that our faith won't fail in that one glorious One that we all love, Jesus Christ.

9 Now, so I moved out into the country about three miles out of the city. And so we had been having dinner over at a little Dunkard restaurant where the... I believe it was the Mennonites. And they were a fine bunch of people that believes in holiness. And them little ladies dressed just as nicely and godly, with their clothes hanging nice on them, and long hair, and clean as a pin. I just loved to eat there. And they were attending my meeting and we just had a wonderful time. So on Sunday they closed the little place up. They was at the meeting. And especially on Sunday they didn't run it.
So I'd been fasting for about two or three days, and I was just going to preach that afternoon. I thought, "Well, seems like..." You never want to fast until you're led to fast. Then if you get hungry, it's time to eat. "Afterwards Jesus was afterwards an hungered." Some of this thing, these people fasting, saying, "I'm going to fast forty days," and the false teeth falling out, and losing weight, and... My, you better stop that. You wait till God leads you to do that, some of those things. Be led of the Spirit.

10 I've had people, after a certain book was wrote and put out about fasting, people come to my line. Women, pregnant and things like that, come in my line---lose their mind, go in the insane institution from that, see. Of course you can't do that. Just because somebody else done it, that's no sign that you're supposed to do it. Let God lead you to do what you're doing.
If you're led to, when you get hungry it's time to eat. When God puts a fast on you, you don't get hungry. It's God dealing with you. "Jesus was afterwards an hungered," see. After his fast was over, He hungered. So, however, let that ... you just judge that by yourself. Your pastor is more apt ... a better position to tell you those things. If I said wrong, forgive me.

11 But, however, I'd been fasting for a couple days, or three, which is about as long as I can ever fast because I'm on the move so much. So then I thought, "Well, I'm just going to preach this afternoon, so I'll just ... I'll go over and get me a sandwich." And I thought, "Oh, oh, they're closed." Over across the way was just a regular little old common American restaurant, typical. Well, I just slipped over there while they were down making the preliminaries. So I just thought, "I'll get me a hamburger and that'll kind of press out the wrinkles till I can... Tonight I'll eat after service."

12 So then I got my ... went over to get a hamburger. And I walked in the place. And when I walked in the place, the very atmosphere, you could tell you wasn't amongst them believers. Over to the left was some slot machines---and a policeman standing there, about my age, with his arm around a woman, playing a slot machine. Now, gambling's illegal in Ohio, and there he was playing the slot machine---a man that was supposed to uphold the law breaking the law. And a man that was supposed to be a ... set an example of morals and things, and with his arm around a woman where he'd ought not to have it, and a man my age. Well, I guess he was married and had a family. I don't know. Then I thought, "My goodness."
And I looked back, and there was a table of a bunch of these boys, them motorcycle guys with that duck-looking haircut, and motorcycle jackets, and overalls pulled down on their hips or... Any ... they need a real good old-fashioned southern daddy, with a hickory with the ten commandments on the end of it. That's exactly what they need. You call it... What's happened to the American people? You know what? They call it juvenile delinquency; I think it's parent delinquency. That's exactly right. "Spare the rod, you spoil your son." That's what Scripture says.

13 And there they was, sitting back there, and a young lady, pretty young girl... And one boy standing there, kind of a leader of the pack, with his boots, sitting up on the table and his arm around that young lady where it was very ungodly---around her hips, like that---and hugging this waitress up to his arms. Well, I stood there. I thought, "My goodness."
I looked over on this side and there sat an old grandma, about as old as my grandmother. And the poor old thing had on these tights or shorts, or ever what you call it; and her poor old arms, flabby flesh; and she had her toenails painted the same color of her lips, and great big black spots under her eyes here where she'd painted some kind of stuff; and her hair was colored blue. Now, you know human beings don't hardly have that greenish-looking blue. So I thought, "Well, poor old thing. Maybe that's all right. Maybe she likes that."
But I looked, and she was with two old guys, and they were drunk. And one of them, right there in the summer time, had a big old army overcoat on, with a big scarf wrapped around his neck. And they had beer sitting on the table.

14 I thought, "Oh, I wouldn't eat in here for nothing." So I thought, "God, how can You, being holy, look at such a thing?" I thought, "Is my little Sarah and Rebecca going to have to come up under such stuff as that as Americans? My two little girls, that I'm trying to raise for God to be missionaries or pianists or something (maybe marry a little preacher) that'll help him in the work of the Lord? Try to raise them clean and righteous girls to make real women, and they have to come up under such atmosphere as that."
I said, "Father, with the spirit that I got that You gave me---my spirit being sanctified by the blood of your Son---and that looks evil to me, how can You stand to look at it? Why don't You just smite the thing and wipe it off the earth?" My righteous indignation might've arose, see. We don't want to say it was temper, but it was just something. It was the same kind of indignation Jesus had when He looked upon them with anger and beat them out of the temple, you see.

15 And I looked around and I seen all that, and I thought, "And my little Sarah and Rebecca is going to have to come up under such? God, look like if You're holy and how great You are, look like You'd just blow the thing off the map like that. How could You stand it?" I thought "Oh, my."
And I felt something going, "Whew, whew, whew," like a whipping. That's the way that light when it comes up, it's whipping like a fire. And I noticed it was standing close to me. I stepped back behind the door. I put my head against the wall, and I said, "Heavenly Father, what...?" I thought ... now here's what I was thinking. "Do You want me to call down judgment?" Now that just shows how a human being can get so far away.

16 I stepped back. I thought He was going to ask me just to go out there and say, "All of you, I rebuke you every one, you sinners. Repent or die!" see. And I thought that's what He'd tell me to do. I wouldn't do it unless He told me. So I went back there, and I thought He was going to show me.
When I did, I seen, looked like---when I opened my eyes after I knowed He was behind the door there with me---and looked like something turning. I began to look, and it was a world, this earth, and all around it was a mist, like a red mist a-blowing all around it. I looked far up above there and I seen Him.

17 Then I looked down and I saw myself. Looked like I come right onto the earth. And everything that I would do was mean, my sin would start up to meet God. And before it could get to Him, Jesus acted like a bumper on a car between me and God, see. It hit Him, and He'd hold his side, the tears would run out of his eyes, and I'd hear Him say, "Father, forgive him, he doesn't know what he's doing."
I watched myself as a little boy, the things that I done. And I'd see every time I'd do something evil, why, it looked like it would start up. And God would've killed me for it, and I ... because He's holy. Sin cannot stand in his presence. But I seen that mist a-blowing around, and that blood of Jesus acted like a bumper between me and being slain by God. When I got up close to where He was at, and I looked, and there laid my book laying out before Him. And on there was my name, and every bad thing that I'd ever done was wrote right on it. And I noticed every time that I'd do something wrong, I'd done it, He'd catch it. And it'd hurt Him, and He'd catch his breath, like, and tears would run down his cheeks. And He'd say, "Forgive him, he doesn't know what he's doing."
I thought, "Lord, did I make You suffer like that?" I thought, "I love You. Would I make You suffer like that? You mean my sins did that?"

18 He nodded his head to me, and I could see that ... looked like you see Him in the picture, with the crown on Him, like that, blood in his eyes and face. And He looked at me, and looked like tears all matted his beard together, blood stains all over his face. I said, "Did my sins do that to You?" He nodded his head to me. I said, "God, forgive me. I wouldn't want to hurt You like that, Lord. I love You with all my heart." He took his side, patted it with his hand, took his finger like this and wrote on my old dirty book, "Pardoned." Took it and throwed it over behind Him, like this, into the sea of forgetfulness, laid out a new book. I said, "Lord, I thank You. I'll never try to do anything wrong."
He said, "Now I freely forgave you. I freely forgave you, and then you want to destroy her."
And by that time the door had come back, and I was looking right at the woman sitting there. I wanted to destroy her, after I was freely forgiven. I just pulled the door back together where I'd been moving my arms while the vision was on. I pulled the door back there. I said, "Father, forgive me. I'll go right to her and I'll apologize."

19 I stepped out the door. One of those old men, drunk, sitting there with her, said, "Do you think the rain'll hurt the rhubarb?" And got up and excused himself, walked out to the rest room. I kind of strolled over that way, and this policeman still playing the slot machine. And I walked over kind of where she was at. I said, "How do you do?"
Poor old thing looked up and said, "Oh, hello."
And I said, "Could I sit down?"
She said, "Thank you, I have company."
I said, "I didn't mean it like that." I said, "I just want to say a word to you. I want to ask you to forgive me."
Said, "What did you ever do to me?"
I said, "Will you wait just a minute, let me tell you?"
Said, "Yes."
I said, "I stood in the door..." And I told her the story. I said, "Right back behind there He showed me where I was wrong."
She looked up, and looked like it sobered her. She looked up, she said, "Are you Brother Branham?"
I said, "I am."
She said, "You're that minister down here."
I said, "Yes, ma'am."
She said, "I'm ashamed for you to see me like this."
I said, "Will you forgive me?"
She said, "Certainly." She said, "Sit down."
I said, "Thank you," and I sat down at the little booth with her.

20 And she said, "I want to tell you something, Brother Branham." She said, "I passed by and seen your meetings. I seen it advertised and I went in." Said, "I was simply ashamed of myself." She said, "What would you believe if I told you that my father was a Methodist minister?" Said, "I got two daughters. Both of them are Sunday school teachers."
I said, "What happened?" She told me about a letter from her husband and he run off with another woman. She started in drinking, just started off... She said, "I know I'm past redemption." Strictly a legalist, you see. Said, "I'm past redemption."
I said, "No, you're not. No, you're not."
She started crying. She said, "Brother Branham, you think I'm not past redemption?"
I said, "Why did He say that to me then a few minutes ago?" I took her by the hand, knelt down there on the floor, and there she gave her life to Jesus Christ. You talk about slot machines stopping and everything else, everybody in there. And we was crying and praying. She got up, went out to go home, a new life.

21 See, God showed me that in my own heart wasn't right because I was trying to condemn her, and not looking at what I come from too. So if we can always remember, look back to the pit where we was hewed from, things will look a lot different, see. We don't want to condemn no one. Love everybody.
Whenever you lose that real genuine love that's in your heart, you've lost everything. Just don't never forget that. When you lose love, it's all gone. Now, remember that, the love this little brother had for all of you. And we'll remember the love of the brethren here. Brethren, whatever you do...

22 I'm not saying all you organizations break up and make one organization. It'll never be that way. You'll never do it. You'll just go through life just the same old thing, banging, and fussing, and stewing. That's wrong. Keep your organization. Stay in there if you can. That's all right. But reach out an arm, love everybody else, and have respect. Give him a little blanket too, because he wants to get covered also. It's set far enough for all of us. Room, room, there's plenty of room. There's room at the fountain for me. Room for all of us. And just remember that.

23 If I could see every Pentecostal church---the Foursquare, Open Bible Standard, Pentecostal Assemblies of God, United Pentecostal Church, and all the rest of them---put their arms around one another and forget their differences, just fellowship one with another, I'd say, "Let thy servant depart in peace for mine eyes have seen thy salvation." And as long as Satan has got you shooting at one another, he just sits back and takes a vacation. He don't have to fool at all, see. I pray that I'll live to see the day.
And if you don't do it within yourselves, some kind of a persecution will hit this nation one of these days. You'll long for one another then, brothers of like precious faith. So why go through the punishment, when we can have a little piece of heaven on earth right now? God be with you.

24 I want to come back. I heard you ask them, said for me ... wanted me to come back. I'll come back some day, the Lord willing. I'd like to bring a tent and set it up out here somewhere, right in between the cities around here, and let us all come together and have fellowship one with another, try to build up the churches.
Every one of you has got something to do now. Every one of you get right in your church and work just as hard as you can for your local church, see. But don't never criticize. If you know something bad about the other side, don't say nothing about it, see. Keep that to yourself. The enemy's just listening to hear that, see. Don't let him know nothing. Don't speak nothing out, then he won't know nothing about it, see. Keep it to yourself and pray.
Say, "Well, the poor brother did wrong." But don't down him. He's down anyhow. Try to pick him up, see. Lift him up. Be the good Samaritan, see. Try to pick him up. If you can't even talk to him, pray for him till it is that way. Just keep him on your heart, because his soul's worth ten thousand worlds.

25 Now let us pray. Our heavenly Father, as we want to bow to give thanks to You for this great people down here, your servants, I thank You for Brother King, Brother Petty, for all the rest of them, Lord, these fine brothers, these wonderful sisters, their churches, their members; and for those great people in the city, to the business places, how they've been so nice. We thank You for this auditorium, for this people that let us have it. God, have... They always throwed their doors open everywhere for me, when rains, and storms, and things... God, may they live to the coming of the Lord. Grant it. Bless the custodians, all the members of the lodge, all. May they all find rest and peace in Christ. Grant it, Lord.
Bless these fine policemen that's been watching the yards out here---that little fellow the other night that come out and looked over at me and said that wonderful compliment. Father, I was almost out then, just dropping out from the anointing, to being... I didn't have a chance to say much to him. If that boy isn't saved and how he ... the compliments he said about the meeting... I pray, God, that he'll receive the Holy Ghost (grant it, Lord), be in glory. If I never see him on earth again, may I be able to shake his hand. A man like that would make any city a good policeman.

26 This little fellow I talked to at the door just a while ago, God bless that man. We just thank You for everything, Lord. You're so good to us. We pray now that You'll continue to bless us as we travel on towards the west coast.
I pray that You'll bless Brother King now. And we've talked of his troubles, and we pray that You'll be with him and all the other brothers. And, God, the only one thing I can do... A human being couldn't do it, but may your Holy Spirit constantly bind these hearts together of these people until they are one in Christ Jesus. Grant it, Father.
Give us a great service tonight. Many of them has come over slick roads, and out in this rain and storm, to get here tonight to hear the closing service. I pray that You'll bless them. May there not be a feeble person in our midst tonight. I ask that, Father, for your glory. May the power of the Holy Ghost come in tonight and give the exceeding abundance above all that we could even do or think. Further we wait on You. In Jesus' name, speak to us. Amen.

27 All the little parcels in here, you can pick them up as soon as we are ... I pray over them. I want to wait till the anointing of the Holy Spirit comes upon me to pray for the sick.
Now, over in the book of Jeremiah, the twenty-second verse:
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? Why then is the health of the daughter of my people not recovered?
I want to take the subject in closing tonight of asking the question, as God did, "Why?" Now I hope we won't be long---twenty, thirty minutes---then we can pray for the sick. "Why?" If God makes a preparation or a place of escape and then the people fail to walk in it, God's got a right to ask why. Don't you believe that? He's got a right to ask why.

28 If ... you're not condemned because you're a sinner; you're condemned because you don't accept Jesus as your Saviour. Now, God would be unjust to condemn you and not make a preparation for you to come out of it, because you were born in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies. No matter who your parents was, or what they were, you're still just a sinner, as any other child, when you're born in this world.
We're all born in sin. We could not save ourself. We could no more save ourself than we could take our boot straps and lift ourself over the moon. We could not do it. We're totally helpless. And therefore God would not condemn you on those basis because you are a sinner. He'd condemn you because you refuse to take the way of escape. So therefore it isn't God, it's yourself. You condemn yourself. And when you condemn yourself, there's nobody to pity but yourself. That's all. You must pity yourself because you haven't accepted God's provided way of escape.
Now, when God makes these ways just wonder how He feels when He makes a way for us---for our healing, for our salvation, for our comfort, for our peace, and all these things---and we just walk away and leave them. It must make Him feel terribly bad.

29 So, one time in the Bible over in the book of II Kings, there was a king who was a king of Judah, and his name was Ahaziah. He was the son of Ahab and Jezebel. He succeeded his father Ahab to the throne. After Ahab---that borderline believer, renegade to the gospel, lukewarm church member---went over and married a pagan girl to strengthen his kingdom, brought in idolatry into Israel then. Oh, what a horrible thing he done! Then his little pagan wife took the life of precious Naboth in order that the king could take his inheritance. And that prophet prophesied what would happen to him, and what would happen to her: the dogs would eat her in the street, and would lick the blood of Ahab off of his chariot. And that's just exactly what happened.

30 I can think of the time when Jehoshaphat, a man of God, when he really should have not associated in the wrong company. A believer hasn't got any fellowship with unbelievers. A crow and a dove cannot talk together. A crow eats on an old dead carcass. A dove is one bird without a gall. If it would eat that dead carcass, it'd kill it. It's a special-built bird, a dove is. A dove only eats grain. He has no gall. He could not digest it. So is the Christian---has no gall of bitterness in him. They cannot eat the things of the world. A crow could eat the things, wheat, and he can also eat carcass. He's a hypocrite.

31 And a dove, I want to tell you something, dove does not have to find water for a bath. Did you ever pick up a little dove? Rub your hand over him. He's oily. There's something from the inside comes out and keeps him clean. Oh, my. His body's oiled, from a oil from the inside coming out. Amen. I don't want to get started on that, I'll get off my subject. But he keeps his body, his feathers, his garments, clean by an inside oil. Every time he works his body, that works up there on his feathers and keeps him perpetually, all the time, clean. Oh, the blood of Jesus Christ sanctifies the believer day and night.

32 And Ahab went down and had some fellowship with Jehoshaphat ... or, Jehoshaphat with Ahab. And he... Whenever you see some of the unbelieving world, "Would you come out to our little card party, dear?", be careful.
"Well, you know you work here and your boss wants you... We're just going to have a few little social things tonight." Stay away from it. Get away from it.
"Well, it's Christmas, you got a right to have a little clean fun." Don't you believe that. Stay away from it. Shun the very appearance of evil. Stay out of it.

33 But Jehoshaphat weakened, and went down to see Ahab. And Ahab had a purpose. He said, "Well, we got some land up here. It belongs to us." They showed him all the great things. And that's the way the devil does---show you all the great things that he's got. See, all what he's got. Well, the glitter, the gold, kind of brightened his eyes up, you know, and he thought, "My!" It didn't brighten them up; it dulled them up.
And so finally they sat out there and he said, "Well, we go up to Ramoth-gilead, or shall I fore ... draw?
He said, "We ought to consult the Lord about this."
So Ahab said, "Oh, of course, Saul. Uh-huh. We should do it. I've got the best ecclesiastical system there is in the country." He goes down to his seminary and draws out four hundred prophets. That's right. Fine dressed, and collars turned around, and, oh, they were wonderful men. Every one of them ecclesiastical, theologians right to the dot.

34 Said, "All right, gentlemen, you're well fed and taken care of. This great thing, now, I tell you what I want you to do. Prophesy unto me and tell me whether we should go to Ramoth-gilead. See how great my robes are, and what a great bishop I am; and here's also Bishop So-and-so from up here at the other kingdom. We're going to join forces together. You know, we'll be united then, so we'll do great things, you know."
So one of them even built himself a pair of horns and begin to run through the audience, saying he was pushing all the Syrians back. "Oh, the country belongs to us, and so you're going to win by this."

35 You know there's something about a believer, if he ever was in contact with Christ, he just can't go for that kind of stuff. Yet, old Jehoshaphat sitting up there, he said, "Isn't there just one more?"
"One more? Why, here's four hundred of the highest-educated, best men there is in the country, and they're prophets. Why would we ask for one more? Each one of them has got a DLD, PhD, LLQST. Why, they're... My, you couldn't ask for more degrees. My, they know the Scripture inside-out, backwards and forwards."
Jehoshaphat said, "But you know, I got a little funny feeling. I wish we had... Is there just one more?"
"Oh," he said, "yes, but he's a holy roller and ... His name's Micaiah, the son of Imlah, but," said, "I hate him." O-o-oh.
So Jehoshaphat thought, "That sounds like a meal ticket." So, "Don't let the king say so. But I'd like to hear what he says."

36 So a runner run up there to the little shack where he was at, the little assembly somewhere up on the corner, you know. He said, "Oh, Micaiah, you know what? You must ... I got to put a bug in your ear now, see. You say the same thing that they say. You say just like they say, because I tell you that all four hundred of them ecclesiastics is saying we should do it this way. So you must say the same thing."
Micaiah said, "As the Lord God lives, I'll just say what He puts in my mouth." I like that. I like that. Uh-huh.

37 So they brought him down there. Ahab was having a raging spell. "Get that holy roller among us down here, it'll ruin our congregation as sure as the world." So then, first thing you know, when he come up, he said, "Now I'm warning you, he isn't going to say nothing but evil about me, because I know he's always digging me about my women bobbing their hair and all these things. Oh, he's a holy roller right."
He said, "I'm going to stay right with the Word though."
So he said, "Micaiah, shall I go up to Ramoth-gilead and take the thing that belongs to me, or shall I forebear?"
Said, "Give me tonight. Let me see what the Lord'll say."
So after night passed, he come back. Said, "What do you say?"
Said, "Go on up if you want to."
He said, "How long will I adjure you [He knowed there was something wrong with that.] that you only tell me the truth?"
Said, "Go on up," he said, "but I saw Israel like sheep scattered with no shepherd." And he said... Why? He was staying with the Word of God. He was saying the same thing the Word said, because the Word of God was with the prophet. And the prophet Elijah said he couldn't prophesy good against the man that was evil as Ahab. So the prophet, the Word had done said that Ahab was going to be killed, Jezebel was going to be fed to the dogs. And so what could Micaiah say any different than what the Word said? Right. He had to stay with the Word. No matter how great it sounds and how big it sounds, watch the Word. That's always truth.

38 And so this great state presbyter, or bishop, ever what it was, smacked him in the mouth, and said, "Which way went the Word of God out of me, if it went to you?"
He said, "You'll see some day." He said, "I saw God sitting on the throne and all the host of heaven was around Him. And He said, 'Who can we get to go down and deceive Ahab to get him out there and make Elijah's prophecy come true?' " God watches over that, you know. Said, 'Who could I get to go out there?'
"And a lying spirit come up from down ... probably hell. Come up and stood before him, said, 'I'll go down and get in them preachers and make them every one prophesy a lie.'"
God's Word's going to be fulfilled, brother, I don't care what takes place. John said, "God's able of these stones to rise children unto Abraham." God's Word.

39 The son of that man had taken his throne after his death. One day walking out there... He still hated them prophets. And he walked out there one day in his lattice and looking around, and he fell through the lattice and he got hurt. The Bible said he was sick. So he called some of his men and sent two of them, or a little company of soldiers, over to Ekron, over to consult the prophets of Balaam whether he was to get well or not.
So you know, God makes his secrets known to his prophets. Is that right? So Elijah down there in the mountain, back in a cave---laying on a pile of brush or something back there, his coat laying over it---the Lord spoke to him. And he went up there and stood in the road. He said, "Go up there. Stand there, because they're going up."

40 These soldiers passed around the corner. They looked. Coming strolling down the road come an old fuzzy-looking preacher, beard all out over his face, with a big piece of leather wrapped around him. He wasn't very much to look at, but he had "Thus saith the Lord." That's the main thing. Wasn't so classic.
So he stopped them. He said, "Why are you going over there to Ekron?" Said, "Go tell him, 'Why did he send over there?' Is it because there is no God in Israel? Is there no prophet here to consult? If he wanted to know something about it, why didn't he ask God? He's supposed to be the king here of Israel, so why didn't he ask God? Is it because we haven't got a God here? Is it because we haven't got no prophet down here? But because he's done this, go tell him, thus saith the Lord, he's not coming off of that bed." Oh, my!

41 I wonder today, why does men want to smoke cigarettes? Why does people want to stay home on Wednesday night and watch a television program instead of going to prayer meeting? Why is it we want to do...? Because there's no joy in the house of the Lord? What makes a person want to drink, and run around, and act like that? Is it because we don't have any God? Is it because there's no joy in the house of the Lord any more? Is it because the Holy Spirit isn't ready to bless all of us? Is there anything wrong with it?
But because that we do it, that's the reason we're accursed. That's the reason God's put this thing upon the church, this cold and dampness. We're going to other places for pleasure instead of coming to the house of the Lord for pleasure. The house of the Lord is the joy of the Lord. The joy of the Lord is the joy of his people. He wants you to come to church and worship Him, and be happy and satisfied, giving praise and honor and glory and wisdom and might and power to God. He wants you to do that.

42 And now, you know when these messengers got back, and so ... they found ... went in to this king and they said, "A man sent us back and told us such-and such a thing."
He said, "Who was he? How was he dressed?"
Said, "He was hairy all over and had a piece of leather around his loins."
He said, "That was the Elijah, the prophet of God, the Tishbite." Oh, my! He knowed what was coming.
It wasn't because they didn't have a God. It wasn't because they didn't have a prophet. But it was the king's own stupid ways. It was his own selfish and ungodly act, like his mama and papa. He hated that prophet. That's the reason today that judgment rests upon the world. It's not because we haven't got a God, not because we haven't got prophets. But it's because that the people hate the ways of the Lord and love the ways of the world. Exactly right.

43 It's just like a man, a patient, dying on a doctor's door step because he refuses to take his medicine. It's the same thing. He dies on the doctor's doorstep, with enough medicine inside for his case, but he refuses to take it. That's not the doctor's fault. It's not the serum's fault. It's the man's fault, because he won't take the serum. That's all. And that's a dangerous thing. It certainly is. You can't say the doctor was the cause of it, and you're right on his doorstep, won't take his medicine, and yet he's got something.

44 Now you say, "You believe in taking medicine?" I believe in ... anything that helps the human race is godly. Certainly it is. Exactly it is. Tell me, what would we do today without these clinics and hospitals and so forth? Certainly. I know there's some shut behind the door when I first started off, but where did it all go to? See, you've got to look at anything sensible. Anything ... if medicine, hospitals are not of God, they're anti-Christ. Burn them down, get them out of the country. Sure. But it's something to help you. Certainly.
But they ... ain't a one of them can heal you. There ain't a medicine in the world, no doctor... If he is, he's a quack. He ain't a real doctor. If a doctor tells you they got a medicine that'll heal you, he don't know what he's talking about. Mayo Brothers says there's not a medicine in the world will heal you. Said, "There's only one healer, that's God. We only claim to assist nature."

45 As I've told you, if I cut my hand, fell dead right here, all the medicine in the country couldn't heal that knife cut. You say, "No, you're dead." Well, let them just embalm my body and look natural for fifty years again, and put a shot of penicillin in me every day, and everything else, and it'd never get any better. Put salve on it, sew it up, give me all... It wouldn't do it. If it's made to heal the body, why don't it heal it? There it lays.
You say, "The life has gone out." That's right. Now, what's life and I'll tell you who God is. It's exactly right. God is the healer. A doctor can set a bone but he can't heal it. What if I was cranking my car, broke my arm, run in and said, "Hey, doctor, heal my arm right quick so I can go out, finish cranking my car. Can't get the thing started."
He'd say, "You need mental healing." That's right. He might set it, but he can't heal it. That's right. He can take a tooth out, but he can't heal the socket it come out of. He can cut an appendix out of your side, but he can't heal the place he cut, because there's no medicine that'll build cells, multiply cells. And before you could heal anything, it'd have to be a multiplication of cells. So God's the only healer. You can't make God's Word wrong. Psalms 103:3 said, "I'm the Lord heals all thy diseases."

46 I've been interviewed at Mayo Brothers, and many places, and they say that. "We're not healers. We don't claim to be healers. We only assist nature. There's one healer, that's God." So God is the healer.
Someone said to me not long ago, said, "All right, Brother Branham, I'm going to ask you a question then." Said, "What about penicillin for flu?"
I said, "Well, my, my, I hope you ain't that weak." I said, "Look, what if you got a house full of rats, eating holes all through the roof and everything. Down everywhere there's a lot ... you put out a lot of rat poison and poison the rats. It kills all the rats. That don't patch the holes. Penicillin only kills the germ, the flu germ. It doesn't build up the tissue it's tore down. Just poisons the rats, that's all. God has to patch the holes. That's all. He's the Lord that heals all of our diseases. Yes, sir.

47 And I thank God for every serum that they got--- for the Salk vaccine. Pray constantly that God'll give us something for cancer, for poor suffering people. Anything can do to help, I'm for it. Yes, sir, I'm 100% for it. And if we Christian people would pray more for such things as that, we'd be better off. The whole country would. Yes, great men, they give their lives just trying to fight back at those things that cripple children and everything. Certainly.
I certainly thank God for everything He's done for us. I thank God for an automobile. I thank God for soap to wash my hands with. And all the mechanics, all those things, I thank God for them. Certainly. There was one time we didn't have soap, you know. There was one time we didn't have an automobile. If I wanted to walk over to Phoenix I could take off, but I thank God for an automobile. I get in and trust Him, right down the road as hard as I can go, see. So we thank the Lord for those things. All things that's good, to help us, comes from God. Certainly.

48 But now, what if the patient's sitting out there on the doctor's steps and just refuses to take his medicine? And if the patient dies, it ain't the medicine's fault. "Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Then why is the health of my daughter, my people, not recovered?" Is there something wrong?
It's the same thing in the church. Men and women sit in the church and die in their sins because they refuse God's balm. That's right. It's not because there's no balm here. The Holy Spirit's here. We got plenty of doctors, physicians. So the people die in their sins, don't lay it on to God. There's balm in Gilead, and there's physicians there, but it's the people's attitude towards it.

49 Now, if you take ... like medicines. It's a horrible thing if you would refuse medicine. How much more horrible is it if you refuse God's balm for your soul? Refuse that toxine, then what's going to take place? You're lost forever if you refuse that. Oh, you ... your body you might patch around.
And then another thing, you can take medicine. What's good for one, will help one, will kill another. Penicillin almost kills a third of what it helps. It'll kill some and help the others. It's a very dangerous thing. And what'll help one, won't help the other one. But you don't have to worry about God's toxine. It helps "whosoever will, let him come." Yes, sir. It's for all. You don't have to worry about it. No danger of fooling with it.
You go to fooling with it, you say, "Well, I tell you, Brother Branham, I don't believe it's for me." Like people say today: "I just can't keep from smoking." "I just can't keep from running out."

50 A man told me not long ago, he said, "I got a good wife, but, Brother Branham, I just wasn't made for one woman." Said, "I got to run with other women."
I said, "You know what's the matter with you? You just refuse the remedy, that's all."
That's what's the matter with the people today. We can drink, smoke, lie, steal and fuss, carry on---you refuse God's balm of love that draws us together and makes us one. It's not because there's not enough power of God here to send a revival through the city. We just refuse to use it, that's all. Amen. It's here. But if you die in your sins, your unbelief, it's not God's fault. It's not the Holy Ghost's fault, not the church's fault. It's just because people refuse it.

51 They say heart trouble is number one killer. No, no. Sin trouble's number one killer. That's right. Number one killer. It's got into our Pentecostal groups. A man was talking to me today about the Pentecostal people, and he said, "You know what, Brother Branham? It's getting to be just like I don't know what." Said, "You know a lot of our people, they have their children, they bring them right in, put them on the cradle roll and come up. And that's the way. They just expect it to be that way.
As David DuPlessis once said about such a thing as that, "Why, you can't get in like that. That's what made the Methodists what they are. That's what made the Baptists what they were. They just kept bringing their children in, put them on the cradle roll, and bring them up. God don't have any grandsons. He just has sons. Sons and daughters; not grandsons and granddaughters. God don't have grandchildren. God ain't Grandpa; He's Father." Amen.
I hope I don't hurt your feelings, but I hope I scare you a little bit anyhow. God don't have grandchildren. Just 'cause you were Pentecostal, your papa and mama paid the price, that don't make you Pentecostal till you pay the same price to get the same thing they had. Yes, sir, there's plenty of it left. There's plenty of balm in Gilead yet, plenty of toxine there for sin, unbelief. Yes, sir.

52 Our Pentecostal brethren raising up, saying ... denying divine healing and such things at that. It's just because you refuse the toxine, you grandson. Not a son of God. A son of God is born of the Spirit of God. He's God's child, but God don't have any grandchildren. Right.
You know what's the matter? They're afraid of the new birth. That's all that's the matter. Let me tell you something, brother. I don't care what kind of a birth it is, any birth is a mess. If it's in the pig pen, or if it's in the stable, or if it's in a pink-decorated hospital room, any birth is a mess. And the new birth is the same. It'll make you get down and squall, and bawl, and do things that you never thought you'd do before. It'll bring forth new life as sure as the world.

53 It might mess up your theology, it might mess up your card parties, it might mess up your swimming and dancing and roller skating. It might make you grow your hair, it might make you get something different, and make you quit smoking cigarettes. It's a mess but it brings forth life. Amen. What we ought to have is birth, life. Messy---has to get messy before it gets right. Yes, sir. You have to have... Except a corn of wheat fall in the ground and rot (messy, get dirty with it)... That's right. Just die out. Get down there and...

54 A woman said to me one time, said, "I'd be ashamed. Them people down there," said, "I couldn't hear you even preach." Said, "Why, them women in there hollering 'Hallelujah, Amen, Praise the Lord,' I couldn't hear what you was saying."
I said, "If they didn't say it, it would scare me to death."
She said, "When that woman got up there and started crying," said, "just chills run up my back."
I said, "If you'd ever get to heaven you'd freeze to death." I said, "because everybody will be screaming and shouting and praising. Right."

55 What they're afraid of? New birth. That's the reason we got grandchildren in the church. Afraid of new birth, afraid of the Holy Ghost, afraid of the power of God. Afraid maybe it'll wash some of the makeup off of you or something. That's what's the matter. God send us the old time revival, bring forth the Holy Ghost again. There's plenty of it.
"Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physicians there?" Sure, there's physicians here. Plenty of balm here too. "Then why is the daughter of my people not recovered?" It's because the people refuse it. Amen. That's it. They refuse to come together. They refuse to have a revival. That's what's the matter---selfishness and things taking it over. There's plenty of balm in Gilead, there's physicians here, but the people refuse it. That's what's the matter.

56 There was a time when we didn't have toxine for typhoid fever. There was a time when we didn't have toxine for ... the Salk vaccine and stuff like that, but now we got it. That's exactly. We got it now. Thank God for it. There was a time that our toxine for salvation wasn't too good, 'cause it was lambs and things and goats. But now the toxine has been changed. Certainly.

57 How do they find remedies for medicine? You know what they do? They study up. Put so much of this in, and so much of this in, enough antidote to kill the poison, and so much ... see the case of the patient and how it was strong. You never take medicine unless you ask a real doctor about it because it'd kill you. And so then they find out.
And then, first thing you know, they squirt into a little guinea pig. If he survives it, then they give it to you. And sometimes... All human bodies are not made like guinea pigs, you know. That's the reason it kills some human beings. They give the little guinea pig the test, and if that little fellow makes it, then they give it to you. Well, that's the way they test medicine. You know that's the truth. They find a certain thing and give it to the guinea pig, and if he survives it then they give it to you. And that's the reason they kill a lot of patients, because that we're not all made like guinea pigs.

58 Well, let me tell you something. When God tested his toxine. He never got a guinea pig; He took Himself. O God! When He was baptized there by John on the banks of the Jordan, and the inoculation come down from heaven, "This is my beloved Son in whom I'm pleased to dwell in." They watched it, see if it'd hold. When they spit in his face, it held good. He was reviled, He reviled not back. When He died at Calvary, He prayed for his enemies. It held at Calvary. It held in death. It held on earth. It held everywhere. They put Him in the grave, and on Easter morning it held again. Amen.
Not a guinea pig, but a Son of God took the toxine. He took it Himself. Amen. Now I'm not getting excited; I'm getting to feel religious. Yes, sir. Who took the toxine? Oh, hallelujah! He was the one who took our sins and bore our sickness. He took the toxine on Himself. Not on a guinea pig, prophet, or something another; He put it on Himself. Hallelujah! Yes, sir. "He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with his stripes we are healed."

59 It held in the hour of death, it held in the cross, it held in Gethsemane, it held under every temptation, everything else. The toxine held. Amen. God was going to try eternal life, and He put it in a human body of his own Son. Come in and dwelt in Him and the toxine held. When He rose up on Easter morning He broke the bands of death, hell, and the grave, and come forth. He appeared to the eleven as they sat at meat and upbraided them because of the hardness of their heart and their unbelief, because they believed not them that seen Him after He had risen from the dead. Amen.

60 Said, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; he that believeth not shall be damned---for I'm going to give them some toxine. If I give them this toxine, the things that I do, they'll do also. I'm going to inoculate the whole church," He said. "... all the world. These signs shall follow them that believe. [Hallelujah!] These signs that I did, they'll do also because I'm going to inoculate the church with the same toxine. Can you be baptized with the same toxine that I'm inoculated with?"
Amen.

61 That's what's the matter today. We took some old church creed for inoculation. That's the reason sin crept in. If we get that same Spirit that was upon Him---that same baptism, that same power, that same glory, that same Holy Ghost---it'll inoculate us just the same as it inoculated Him. Take all fear out. Hallelujah! Stand in the face of the enemy and call God's Word the truth. Amen. Give you a backbone like a saw log. Take the wishbone out, and put a real backbone in it. Yes, it will. "Can you be baptized with the inoculation that I'm inoculated with?"

62 Certainly held in his life. When they spit in his face, He didn't say, "You old Trinity, you old Oneness." No, no, it wasn't that. No, no. He was inoculated with the love of God. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, whosoever believeth on him should not perish." He was inoculated---a little virgin-born body the God of heaven dwelt in. He was inoculated with God. Eternal life was his inoculation. And it held in the time of temptation. It held in the time when everybody'd forsaken Him, it held. It stayed good. [Gap in the audio]

63 ... an enemy in the face of death. And they wanted that same inoculation, because after being dead and in the grave for three days and nights---when all the heavens blacked out, the earth took a nervous prostration, and all the rocks wrung out of the mountain, and everything witnessed He was dead and He was in the grave... And on Sunday morning the inoculation held, because He said, "I have power to lay my life down, and power to raise it up again. This inoculation that I have will lay the life down and I'll pick it up again."
Brother, that's what I want. I want to hold out my arm. You don't get it in the arm; you get it in the heart. Hold out for inoculation of the resurrection, or the power of Jesus Christ. Hallelujah! Inoculation. Now you don't want to write any creed over the top of here. Just let Christ come in---that's the inoculation. He never tried it with a creed; he done it with his Spirit.

64 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physicians there? Oh, yes, we got both balm and physicians. Then why? That's what God's going to ask us---"Why?"---some of these days. Why?
They wanted to get inoculated, so He said, "I tell you what you do. You go up to the city of Jerusalem, and you climb up in that upper room, and you stay there till your inoculation comes." Oh, brother. Stay until you're inoculated, until the toxine comes down, the balm comes down.
And while they was all sitting together, singing hymns in one accord, suddenly there came a sound from heaven like a rushing mighty wind. It inoculated a hundred and twenty out there. My, what a running spell they had. Oh, my!
Like branding a calf. I used to brand calves. I always felt sorry for the little fellows. And I had to ride to bring the iron---and you Texans know what I'm talking about. And so they'd have him hog tied, and grab this old iron over there and slap it on him. I mean he'd have a spasm! He'd kick and squall and carry on there for a long time, but, brother, he knowed where he belonged from then on. He was branded. That's right. And sometimes it'll make you act like you don't have good sense, but you're branded, you know where you're at. You're one of them, filled with the Holy Ghost. Inoculated.

65 Hundred and twenty got inoculated. Oh, they were having them a time, what I mean to say. They were really getting a great time. Come out of there all inoculated, had eternal life, know that God would raise them up at the last days. And they were having a big time.
And they were so full of glory... Many of them could speak in four, five, six, seven, eight, ten different languages, but they couldn't even find one of them to use to praise Him with, so they just... God gave them a brand new language to praise Him with, for they just started to speaking in unknown tongues as the Spirit give them utterance. They was inoculated. That showed they had been inoculated. They were speaking of a kingdom where they were going to. They was inoculated.

66 Sin question was over. Peter wouldn't have to go out and weep bitterly anymore. It was all over then. He was inoculated. Yes, sir.
And you know what? Some of them people got so hungry for some of that, you know what they did? They said, "Men and brethren, what can we do? Have you got a doctor here?"
"Yep."
"What is this?"
"This is a balm."
"Got a doctor here?"
"Yes. His name is Doctor Simon Peter."
"All right, Peter, will you write us a prescription?"
"Yes. I don't want to be writing this all the time. I'm just going to write one for all the time. I'll write the prescription."

67 Now listen, brethren. You know what? If the prescription's wrote out right, don't you never take it to one of these quack drugstores that put a little bit to it, or add a little bit, take away from it. If you put anything different in it and mix that formula, it'll kill your patient. And if you take too much of the antidote out, or put too much antidote in, it won't do a bit of good. So just leave it the way it's wrote. He said...
What kind of prescription? He said, "Repent every one of you, be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For this prescription is for your children and your children's children and for them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." The inoculation. Oh, brother, repent and get right with God. Take away all the things... God promised that He'd give you the Holy Ghost. That's the prescription.

68 "These signs shall follow them that believe. In my name they shall cast out devils. They shall speak with new tongues. If they take up serpents or drink deadly things, it'll not harm them." For they're inoculated. Hallelujah! Preach it the way it is. Is there no balm in Gilead? Or is there no inoculation here? There's plenty of inoculation. Hallelujah! Glory! Whew! There's a balm in Gilead. Inoculated. Can stand the face of death. Come right in the face of...

69 St. Paul, one time, they was building a scaffold to cut his neck off there at Rome. I stood at the same place. Paul said, "Oh, death, where is your sting? Grave, where is your victory? I've been inoculated. How're you going to hold me? How're you going to speak that to me? But thanks be to God, who sent the balm of Gilead and inoculated my heart with the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Death has nothing... Future, no organization, there's nothing can ever take it away, the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. Hallelujah! As long as we're in God, there'll not be ... place of the Word.

70 Organizations, boundaries, you'll jump right across them and hug another brother, if you got the inoculation. Amen! Oh, I feel good. Oh, we used to sing a little song: "I'll fly away, O glory, I'll fly away. Some bright morning when this life is o'er, I'll fly away." I'm so glad to be inoculated. Oh, how the Son of God took his own life and injected into my life, injected into your life, and then comes down and energizes it with his presence! Oh, my!

71 You know, usually when you take a serum, every once in a while ... you're inoculated, but you have to get a booster. And what this city needs in the Pentecostal church today is a booster. Hallelujah! Don't boost it on saying, "We'll make a few more organizations." That'll ruin your prescription. Go right back and take a booster of the very same thing that come in there the first place, the same baptism and the same Holy Ghost. Amen. Amen. Glory and power in the resurrection of Christ.
Then he said, "The things that I do shall you do also, because you've been inoculated." Amen. Inoculated with resurrection power. Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine. Amen. I know you think I'm noisy, but, my, it's just the way I want you to get noisy too. Inoculated, branded. So glad I know where I belong, in the house of God. Aren't you glad, Christians? Oh, He's here. Oh, beyond the shadow of doubt. Let's bow our heads and worship Him.

72 Lord Jesus, O God, your Spirit is so rich and... "How rich and pure, it shall forevermore endure, saints and angels' song."---the love of God that reaches across the ... that goes to the depth, that reaches out for the fallen, the love of God that's shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost. Lord, we've got balm. We've got inoculations. We've got physicians here that can read the prescription. God, You're here as a druggist to fill it and give the inoculation. I pray, God, that You'll grant it to every heart tonight that's indifferent towards Christ. Grant it. Let your great Spirit come forward now and show its power. Grant it.
As I lay myself across these handkerchiefs, aprons, little cloths, may the Holy Ghost that's bringing this joy of the springs of life into this church, O God, may it sweep through every one of these little cloths. In the name of Jesus Christ may they each be blessed and the people be healed. I commit them to You, Lord, with the audience in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Amen and amen.

73 Oh, my! How glad I am. Oh, I'm so glad, I'm so glad. When I was a game warden I passed through... There used to be a little old spring. It was the happiest spring I ever seen. It'd just bubble, bubble, bubble, all the time. Summertime, wintertime. One day I sat down beside the little old spring, and I said, "What you so happy about?" 'Course it couldn't answer me. And I thought, "Now if he could answer me, what would he say?" I said, "You're happy because deers drink from you?"
"No."
I said, "What are you bubbling about? Because bears drink from you?"
"No."
"Do you bubble because I drink from you?"
"No."
I said, "What makes you bubbling all the time?"
If he could talk, he'd say, "Brother Branham, it ain't me bubbling. It's something behind me bubbling me, pushing me."

74 That's the way it is with a born-again son of God that's been inoculated by the power of the resurrected Jesus Christ. "It's not me that doeth the works," said Jesus. "It's the Father that dwelleth in me. He's the one does the works." It's not ... if somebody here that don't understand it, it's not these people bubbling; it's something down there bubbling them up. That's right. Gushers, geysers, springing up. He told the woman at the well waters would be as fountains of water bursting up into everlasting life.

75 Oh, no wonder the poet said, "It's joy unspeakable and full of glory." Amen. Whew! Oh, I feel twice my size. Yes, sir, I'm home now. I'm glad. I'm glad that we have come out. Aren't you happy? Oh, my, what God could do with this little group right now! What He could do if He could ever get one person in his grip just so He can hold that one person. He can put ten thousand to flight with that one person. With one person with genuine faith He can put ten thousand devils running as hard as they can go. Yes, sir. I am so glad, aren't you?

76 We used to sing a little song when I first come into Pentecostal people. They'd say, "I'm so glad that Jesus set me free." Certainly. You was all bound down. He give you inoculation. That did it. That's all it took. Amen.
I love Him, I love Him,
Because He first loved me.
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.
Oh, doesn't that do something to you?
I love Him (just think of it),
Because He first loved me.
(And what did He do? Inoculate us.)
And purchased (purchased the toxine)
my salvation
On Calvary's tree.

77 Oh, how happy I am. How glad I am that I ever found this. How glad I am that I ever knowed, ever come to the place where I could realize that I was nothing. And one day He picked me up, kissed me, all my tears away, and said, "You're mine now."
Oh, that just broke my heart and I said, "Lord, let me walk with the Lord in the light of his Word. Let me stay day and night in the anointing of the Spirit." Just a shame that we ever have to leave it, isn't it? It's just wonderful.
Remember, friends, I love you. The night won't get too dark, and the rain fall too thick, but what I'd do anything for you I could. Just remember, I'm your brother. I love you with all my heart.

78 Any prayer cards give out? Anybody's got a prayer card? Oh, I forgot it. Well, there's no need of calling one. All right, we don't have to. God'll heal just the same. Do you believe the inoculation? Do you believe that Jesus made a way through his blood, that He could put his serum into a believer and that believer, with that same serum in him, it'll do the same thing it did in the next man. It'll do... Oh, He's wonderful, isn't He? "The works that I do, shall you also."

79 All right, you people out there, if God will testify now... How many's sick? Let's see your hands. Wants help from God, just raise up your hands. All right. Oh, isn't He just joy unspeakable and full of glory? Now, let's just be as reverent as we can for a few minutes and just look to Him now. Don't you just sense showers of blessings? "We shall have showers of blessing, send them upon us, O Lord. Grant to us now the refreshing." Don't you like that? That refreshing, that life?

80 Brother, sister, I want to tell you something. I want you to believe me as I speak in the name of the Lord and say, "Thus saith the Lord." There's only one thing can heal you and that's God. And the only one route you can come to Him by, that's by faith. Is that right?
Now we know we believe in laying on of hands. Don't you believe that? But if you'll bear with me... You've always wondered... People say, "Brother Branham, Oral Roberts prays for five hundred while you're praying for five." I know it. That's right. Oral Roberts prays for them the way God told him to do, and I pray the way God tells me to do, see. So He obeys God, and I do too. But you see, Oral Roberts and those brethren there, laying hands on, if you'll bear with me, that's a Jewish custom. It wasn't so with the Gentiles.

81 Look at the priest. He said, "Come lay your hands on my daughter and she'll be all right---if you'll come lay your hands on her." That's Jewish, lay hands on.
But when He come to the Roman centurion, he said, "I'm not worthy that you'd come under my house. Just speak the word." What did he recognize? That Jesus had power over all sickness. He said, "I'm a centurion." That's a hundred men. A century is a hundred men. "I say to this one, 'Go do this,' and he does it. I say to this one, 'Come,' and he comes. He has to, I'm over him." What did he say so much? "I know that you're over every sickness, every disease. Just speak the word, that's all you have to do."

82 What did Jesus say? He turned around and said, "I never saw faith like this in Israel." Now we want to have it on a higher ground, don't we? Healing has already been done at Calvary. Now, if God will bring at least two to three people in this audience tonight that I don't know anything about, and will show that what I have preached to you is the truth, if He'll prove that I've told you the truth...
Now just shut yourself in just a moment. You say this, "Lord Jesus, the man don't know me." Now there's about two or three people that I know out there. I know Brother and Sister Evans sitting here, and this is their two daughters sitting right here. And then Brother Sothmann, Brother Fred Sothmann there, is one of the trustees in my church in Jeffersonville. And I think Brother ... that's he and his wife, and Brother and Sister Simpson sitting right next to them. They're back just this way a piece. Now, I just want to look at the audience just a moment. I want you to believe with all your heart.
Oh, you don't know how that ... I just felt it strike me just then. I know it's going to happen. That's just all. God's promised it. His promises is true. Will you believe it? Believe me as his servant. It's wonderful.

83 As I was telling you the other day about standing in India, you know, where them thousands was---that's just the way it was. You got it right in your hand. God give it right over. I take every spirit in here under my own control for the glory of God. Oh, what could just happen now!
See, we rejoice. That's the joy of God. That's the joy of our salvation. Is that right? You see David never lost his salvation. He said, "Restore to me the joy of my salvation." He had his salvation, but he lost his joy. Well, we got plenty of joy. We know that. We have joy---joy unspeakable and full of glory. Got it.

84 But now the power of God is something greater than joy. Power comes by settled faith. We can have a lot of joy but maybe wouldn't have no power in there to heal at all. But when we have the power of God, then we got the faith of God that moves up, takes hold of God, knows how to touch Him. Now just be praying. I'm watching for you. If He should touch me, then I'd know.
Anybody here never was in one of the meetings? Let's see your hands. Never was in one of the meetings before? One man, two men, three men, four, five. That's good. Six, six people never was in it before. I want to tell you something then, brethren. How did Jesus recog... how did the world recognize Jesus as Messiah? Because that He could tell them who they were, or what they were. When Simon Peter came up, just an old fisherman, He said, "Thou art Simon. You're the son of Jonas." Peter believed Him. When He come to... Well, we just went all through the Bible. Well, last night we taken Zacchaeus up in the tree. Blind Bartimaeus, when He touched him, He turned around and told him. The woman at the well, He told her where her trouble was, and she said, "Come see a man who's told me the things I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?"

85 He never did it unto any of the Gentiles. It only went to the Jews and Samaritans, because they was looking for a Messiah. Now they're long ... two thousand years had wandered in darkness. But now the Gentiles has had their days of training, and now there's sifting in the church now. It's come down to the end. Just as it was their end, four thousand years, them there, now it's two thousand years; because He's just taking a people, not a nation---just a people out of the Gentiles for his name's sake. They'll have his name, see. Name's sake, He takes a people from the Gentiles. But they ... He taken Israel by nation.

86 But He's the same Christ, and He promised as it was in the days of Lot, then He did, He'd do it again. How many would like ... believes that that angel of God that ... that one that met Lot ... met Abraham... ? He never went down to Lot. He stayed with Abraham. Have you read the story now many times? Now there was two of them went down to Lot, and one of them... They got them out, but this one never went down. And that was the one that was the Lord God, Elohim. And He had his back turned to the tent. First He looked to Abraham, and asked Abraham where his wife was, Sarah.
Said, "She's in the tent behind you."
He said, "I'll visit you according to life, the time of life [the twenty-eight days again]." She was a hundred years old then. She was ninety, Abraham was a hundred. And said... And she laughed. He said, "Why did she laugh?" Now He said that would repeat again.

87 I'll just do it both ways, see if it's the same God. Now, may God of heaven... And look, with this Bible... Let me say this, Christians, this Bible over my heart... Got a little unbelief slipping around. One came in last night, sat up there on the edge of the platform, hurt the meeting. God'll take care of that. Thought I didn't know it. Don't you never think that, brother. Let me say this, with the Bible over my heart, I do this not for a show. I do this because it's to fulfill what Jesus said would take place. When He come He didn't have to heal. He did it that it might be fulfilled. Is that right? This ... He don't have to do this, but that it might be fulfilled. He promised it. It's his Word. So He just permits it because of the fulfilling of his Word.

88 Can God heal heart trouble? He did then, didn't He? It's all over now. I never seen the woman in my life, but she's healed now. Does that fulfill his Word? Well, you say, "Brother Branham, what does that fulfill?" He's a high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Is that right?
"Well, I thought you said He was El, El, Elohim."
That's right.
"Well, you say He had his back turned and He found out what Sarah was doing."
Correctly.
Now, you say, "Are you Him?"
No, sir. That's Him all over this building. That's Him in you, same in me, but He has to work through somebody. There's none of us worthy. We couldn't be worthy---we're sinners---but He just chose us. I believe we were ... that gifts and callings are without repentance. I believe that God chose us before the foundation of the world, his church. Do you believe that? The Bible says so. That's right---the antichrist would deceive all upon the earth whose names were not written in the Lamb's book of life from the foundation of the world.

89 Pray out in here, someone, pray. Our brethren, it's coming from you too, back here. Now you just pray with me. We'll see where that same angel is. Now just take your time. Be reverent. We'll just take our time. Got plenty of time. Don't be in no hurry. Don't be pressing. Just sit still, say, "Lord God, that man has got his back turned to me. And I know he's just a man, so if he'd know me it'd have to be You telling him. That's all there is to it, because I'm just a stranger sitting at the meeting here."

90 Yes, there's a woman appears to me right here now. I'm looking right at her. I want you brethren to look here. Can't you see it? Look here, right at the edge of this cloth here, see, it's red, see. Look here. See that light? Now there's a woman sitting right in behind me. She's very upset. She has arthritis, and she has high blood pressure, she's bothered with an allergy, and, well, she's just got complications. Now if she just don't miss it when I turn. Her name is Miss Conn. Stand up, Miss Conn, receive your healing. Now do you believe? Have faith in God then.
"Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?"
"In the tent behind you." You see what I mean?
What about some of the rest of you? Can it happen to you? It can if you'll believe it. This little woman sitting right here. See that light just above there? Look here. She looked up at me, then she's praying. She's not praying for herself. It's for a son. It's what you was asking for, your son, wasn't it, lady? Do you believe God can tell me what's his trouble? Will you accept the healing for him? Stomach trouble. That's right. Just believe it, that's all.

91 What about somebody over in this district? What do you all believe over there? Do you believe with all your heart? Have faith. Just believe. How many over here is sick and don't have a prayer card? Just begin to melt into you now. You want prayer but you haven't got a prayer card. Well, nobody's got a prayer card, as far that's... I believe they said there was one prayer card here somewhere, probably from a meeting or something. If ... everybody just have faith now and trust. "If thou canst believe,..." Right here, look here, you here in the front row. That hernia, do you believe God'll make it well? Believe it with all your heart? You can have what you've asked for.
What about you, mister, with your head down here? Passed over the woman, come right straight from there over to the man. You're needy too, aren't you? Do you believe that Christ can make you well? Got trouble with your eyes, with your ears. You're from Houston, Texas. Mr. Webb, go back and tell them in Houston that Christ heals the sick.

92 Do you believe with all your heart now? You've had a nervous breakdown, haven't you, lady? You from Corpus Christi there, believe with all your heart. God's a healer of all afflictions. Do you believe with all your heart?
You put your hand up there a while ago, mister, with that liver trouble and stomach trouble. Mr. Rainwater, from over in Louisiana. First time you was ever in a meeting, I think you put your hand up. What do you think about Him? Isn't He a wonderful healer? Go back and tell them over there what He can do for you. It's all over now.
Sitting back there in the back, that little boy, got a mental block, hasn't he? It was caused from ... a doctor done something to him. Too much anesthetic, give him a mental block. If I'll tell you who you are, will you put your hand on that boy for me? Mrs. Howell, that's right, put your hand on the boy. I condemn that devil. Satan, come out of him. In the name of Jesus Christ I ask for his healing.

93 Do you believe? Does everybody believe? Is God here? Is this the inoculation? Is this the same Holy Spirit? The same Lord Jesus, the One that was...? How many of you is believers? Raise your hands. Hallelujah! Then put your hands over on one another and do just as I tell you now. Be real fine, put your hands over on one another. I got something now, if you'll just mind it just a minute. All right. Now I'm going to say the prayer. Surely I know what it takes to defeat your enemy now. I'm going to put words in your mouth and you repeat them back from your heart. You pray. I'm going to say them.

94 "Lord God, creator of heavens and earth, author of everlasting life, giver of every good gift, forgive my sins of unbelief and give to me of thy mercy. I believe in Thee. I accept Thee as my Saviour, my only salvation. I need your strength for my health. I cannot go forward without You. I now accept You as my healer. I renounce the devil and all of his works. From this time henceforth I will think positive. I will believe every promise. The scripture that says, "By his stripes I was healed," I now accept it. I believe it. It is mine. I thank You, Lord. I will continue testifying of my healing until I'm perfectly well." Now, hold still, keep your hands on one another now.
Now you pray. Now shut yourself in with God. Going to see something happen now. All right brethren, ministers, everybody, are you ready? Now, if God will hear my prayer here, He hears it anywhere. Now you've prayed. You've made your confession, just like you would, coming into Christian. You're ready now ... if you was a sinner, you're ready for baptism. Now being that you are a Christian, you've made your confession, and now you're ready for healing. Now, what does it take?

95 Now, God's ready to give it to you. There's just one thing above you. That's a little thin shadow of doubt. Now if we can break through that... Just like a great airplane. They tell me these jet planes, if they just struggle, and wiggle, and struggle and wiggle till they get through that sound barrier; but after they run through the sound barrier, then they're free. Now if you can just rise yourself above that little doubt barrier there, oh, brother, what'll take place! You'll run free. You'll be healed.
Now I want you to be real reverent. Hold your hands on one another, and keep shut in with Christ now, like nobody's around you but Him; and just imagine in your heart now you see Him come walking right down to you, standing right in front of you. Now open your heart and let Him in, while I pray and cast away this little shadow of darkness over you. And when it breaks, you're out of the sound barrier then, just rise and give Him praise. Every time when you feel your soul passing through that unbelief, then you're free in Christ.

96 Heavenly Father, thanking You for all that You have done---for the many healings, for the great power of God, for the many that's been saved, for the fellowship with the ministers, and above all things the fellowship with the Holy Ghost. You have not failed us one time, but has told us the truth every time, confirmed your Word with signs and wonders following.
And now, Father, this little group has staggered out through this ... slick roads and rains tonight to come here to see Jesus. We've seen You, we've felt You, we know You're here. We've got your Word in our hearts. They've confessed---they've openly, publicly confessed---that they believe, and have accepted You as their healer. Now their souls are struggling, Lord, to get through that little barrier there, that little thing yonder that's shaking them---"Wonder if it could be me? Wonder if it'll be lost?" O God, may the power of Jesus Christ raise them up right now, break away that barrier.

97 Satan, get back. You're losing the battle. Let the church come through. In the name of Jesus Christ, Satan ... away from here. I cast you out in the name of Jesus Christ. Rise to your feet and claim your healing. Claim your healing. I commit you to God by Jesus Christ in his precious name. I pronounce you healed, every one of you. Rise and accept your healing in the name of Jesus Christ.

Why?

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1 ... to Arizona to preach the gospel. And it's certainly a great privilege, I deem it, to be here tonight. When he said... We was here Sunday night, and he said that he had his prayer meeting on Tuesday night. And I said, "Well, I'll just come over and have a little fellowship with you at prayer meeting." So this is a grand time.
Glad to see Brother Williams, Brother Sonnmore, and my associate friends, Brother Sothmann, many of them here that ... people that I know personally, having a wonderful time in the Lord.
We're going from here down to Tucson now. And then, Sunday night is the healing service, you people from Tucson, Brother Norman there. It's some Assembly of God church down there. What is the name of it, Brother Norman? Central Assembly of God, at Tucson. Have a preaching service there Sunday morning; and Sunday night is the healing service---going to pray for the sick at the service. Then we're going on to California, and back east again, up into the Yukon, or British Columbia, back. And we're trusting that God will give us great success, and bless you all here.

2 I was listening to that choir. I just can't get it off my mind. You know, I like that. What it is, is real good, old-fashioned, Pentecostal singing. Oh, my! I do ... makes me nervous when I hear an over-trained voice. You know, somebody trying to sing that's ... you know, turn blue in the face, and holding some kind of a high octave---ever what they call it. And, they're not singing; they just want to be heard.
But I think there's nothing better than just a real good old Pentecostal-filled group with their hands up, singing to the glory of God. I like that. It does something to you. Paul said, "If I sing, I sing in the Spirit." So that's right. What...
We want to do everything in the Spirit. If you're singing, talking, preaching, whatever you're doing, do it in the Spirit. And that's always right. Now, we preachers know that not all the time you can preach in the Spirit.
Like Brother Moore said, his little boy David...

3 Brother Jack was here with us Sunday night, and brought a great message to us, as a builder. And he said little David kept saying, when he was about seven or eight years old, said, "Pappy, I want to preach." Well, he said one night ... said he took him up on the platform, and sat him on the chair.
And said, he said, "Well, folks," said, "David's been wanting to preach. So I suppose I'll just let him preach a little while." Said, "He sat there like an old clergyman, you know, and his little bow-tie on." Said, "He jumped down out of the chair, and run up to the pulpit, like he was going to burn the place down, you know." Said, "He stopped, and looked so depleted, and looked all around, said, 'It just won't work,' and went back and sat down again." (We ministers know there's a lot of times it just don't work.) He said he'd never been able to get a him in the pulpit since then.
But I enjoyed that singing so much---the Spirit get a hold of you.

4 I got two little girls at home. One of them's pretty good size now. About ... I guess it's been about four or five years ago, my little Rebekah was quite young then, about eight. Little Sarah was about four. I'd been out on meetings. And they're Daddy's little girls. We all feel that way, our children. And so, they were waiting for me to come home, and Mommy told them I'd be home about midnight, she thought. But they tried to stay up, but they got too sleepy, and had to go to bed.
I got in about three o'clock in the morning. And I'd just been out several services, and I was tired, as many of you brethren know how you feel then. So I couldn't rest. And I got up early about five o'clock, and was sitting in the room, in the living room, with the ... in the chair, kind of resting.
All at once I heard a scramble out in the bedroom, and here come Rebekah. She's the oldest one. She woke up first. Here she come through the room, just as hard as she could, and she jumped right a-straddle my lap, and throwed both arms around me, and begin to hugging me, saying, "My daddy! My daddy!" Oh, you know how your heart swells out then.

5 Well, she woke her little sister up. And so her little sister was about four years younger. And I don't know whether your children does or not---I suppose they do---mine, the younger one gets the oldest one's clothes, you know. It's the hand-me-downs. And Sarah had on Rebekah's pajamas, and the feet was quite a bit too long, and legs was too long. And she couldn't run very good, swinging them big feet like rabbits, you know, with snowshoes on, trying to throw them feet running.
And I just kind of thought, then, when I seen them running... Like, Rebekah, her legs was long, and she jumped right up a-straddle of my legs like that, and her feet was well balanced on the floor, you know. And she was sitting there, just hugging me, and, oh, I love her.
And I thought, that being the church---you know, the big churches that's been here a long time, settled down, knows what they're talking about. Fine trained choirs, all the octaves, and everything, just right, you know. (I guess that's right. Octaves? I got it wrong---ever what ... notes.)

6 So then, little Sarah, she, like a little Pentecostal group, see, she hadn't been around very long. She wasn't trained like that. So, she started through the room, and stumbling, falling. And about the time she got to the door, Rebekah turned around, with both arms around me, and said, "Sarah, my sister, I want you to know that I was here first. I was here first, and I've got all of Daddy. And there's none left for you." (That's what they try to tell us, see.)
So, poor little Sarah, she looked so down-hearted. Her little lips hung down, her little brown eyes. And she looked like she was about ready to cry, because all of Daddy was taken up. There was no more left for her.
I winked at her, and stuck one leg out and motioned to her, and here she come. That's all she wanted, just a little encouragement. So she jumped up on my leg, and she was kind of younger, you know, and her ... she was kind of topsy-turvy. Her legs wouldn't hit the floor to balance her. So I just took both arms and put around her to hold her, keep her from falling.
She hugged me a little bit, and she rolled those big brown eyes, and looked up at me. She said, "Rebekah, my sister, I want to tell you something." She said, "It may be that you've got all of Daddy, but I want you to know one thing: Daddy's got all of me." So, I like to get in where Jesus has got all of us. We may not have all the ... but just so He's got all of us. Just be so completely in Him, till we are lost in his goodness. And that's where I can worship Him in the Spirit and truth.

7 Now, just before approaching the Word... And I won't keep you long. I usually get out four hours, five, something like that. But tonight, we'll cut part off and make it thirty minutes. So then, I've got to go right on in other revivals, and I certainly appreciate this invitation.
Now, as I read the Word... If nothing else matters, the reading of the Word will do something for you. And I'm going to read one verse. It's not very much. It isn't ... it isn't the size of it; it's what it is. That's what counts. And it's not the paper it's wrote on. It's what's in the Word, because God's Word is eternal. My words will fail; his words cannot fail. Mine's a man, and his is God's. So if my words fail to reach the place that God has intended tonight for our gathering together, and to put something with the songs to go on, then I pray that you'll get God's Word, and it'll take the place, for it's...

8 Any time that God is ever called on the scene to make a decision, and when He makes the decision, that has to forever be his same decision. Now remember, He cannot change his mind, because He's perfect. You believe God's perfect? You believe He's infinite? Certainly He's infinite. Well, if He's infinite, well, then, He can't learn any more. Now, we're finite, so we can just keep learning, and take this back, and add something more, and take away. But God can't, see. He's perfect. Every decision is perfect. So you must always remember, keep your minds and hearts on his Word.
Oh, this is a terrible day we're living in. You know, the deceiving time is the evening time, but He promised us we'd have light in the evening time. He promised that. And as the sun rises in the east, and sets in the west, it's not another sun; it's the same sun that sets in the west that rose in the east. His prophet said there'll be a time there'd be a dismal day, not neither night nor day. But said in the evening time it shall be light again. So we've had that, and now the evening light of the finish of the day.

9 And now, always remember that ... God makes a decision, it's perfect every time. So when He says anything, it must always remain that way. So that gives us confidence that we can put our trust exactly in what He says. It's the truth, see.
Never vary from his Word. Keep his Word in your heart. I believe David said he'd hid his Word in his heart that he might not sin against it. Now, if we'd just remember that.

10 Now, before we approach the Word, we ought to speak to the Author. Don't you think so? One time I was in Fort Wayne and I used... My grammar's not very good, so I used the word of "pole-pit." And there was a man back behind the stage, I guess he must've ... way he talked, he must have taught Mr. Webster.
He said, "Brother Branham," he said, "your grammar is poor, very poor."
I said, "Yes, sir. That's right." I said, "I was raised in a big family, and ten children. And I didn't get but just a grammar school education."
He said, "Well, that's no excuse now." Said, "you're a man."
I said, "Well, that's true, too. But I'm so busy praying for the sick children, and so forth, that I don't have time."
He said, "Well, that's still no excuse." Said, "Them people out there would appreciate you more." Said, "Tonight I noticed you saying 'pole-pit.'" He said, "They'd appreciate you more if you'd have said 'pulpit.'"
Well, you know, he kind of punched me a little hard. I said, "Brother, I don't mean to be arrogant. But I do want to say this. Them people out there don't care whether I say 'pole-pit' or 'pulpit,' see. They just listen to me to tell them the truth about God; and then live the right kind of life, they'll believe it." That's right. Yes.
It's not the words. It's what ... sometimes what we say. Now, let us bow our heads.
He said...

11 I may not know the Word too well, but I know the Author real well. And I think it's better to know the Author sometimes, don't you?---know Him in the forgiveness of our sins.
Now, let's approach Him on those grounds: that we know Him, and He has forgive us of our sins; and we're approaching Him knowing that He'll certainly give us what we ask.

12 Almighty God, we're approaching Thee in that all-sufficient name of the Lord Jesus. When He was here on earth He said, "You ask the Father anything in my name, I'll do it." We believe that to be sufficient. Therefore, Lord, we cannot come in our own name. We would not have an audition with You. We could not approach Thee, for Thou would not hear us.
We could not have it in the name of our mother, our father. Neither can we have it in the name of our pastor, or our deacon, not in the name of our church, or our organization. You've not promised to hear us; but You have promised that when we approached in the name of the Lord Jesus that You would hear.
So, we come confessing our wrongs, all of our evil doings and thinkings, and asking for divine mercy and grace. We unmerit anything, Father. We have no merits that we could offer. But we come in his merits that He so freely gave to us; and told us in his gospels that if we would ask, we would receive; seek, we should find; knock and it would be opened. We believe these words to be true.
Then, Lord, we approach tonight and ask that You'll bless this congregation, this pastor; its ... all the needs of the church, its deacons, its boards, the song leader, the choir, the laity; and every church, and every Christian that's assembled here with us tonight.
Father, we pray now that You'll bless your Word, and bless the songs that's been sung, and answer the prayers that's been prayed. Save all the lost, and heal the sick, Lord. Get glory unto Thyself, for we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.

13 To take a text, if I should call it a text, in Jeremiah 8:22, if you'd like to mark them down:
Is there no balm in Gilead; or is there no physician there? why then is ... the health of the daughter of my people not recovered?
That's quite a statement. He asks the question why. And if I'd want to make ... say a text, I'd take those three little letters, "Why?"

14 You know, when God makes a way for anything, makes a preparation, provides the way, and we turn it down, God's got a right to ask why. If you felt led to build a church, like here in Phoenix, and the people told you that they would come, and attend the church if you would build it; and you built the church and then the people didn't come, then you'd have a right to ask, "Why did you not come? Did I not build it according to the way that I told you I would? And I've met every specification of your requirements? And now I'm asking why?"
If a man sold you a suit of clothes, and he told you that the suit would not wrinkle, and so much sales talk, and the first time you took it out, well, it was all wrinkled up, you'd have to go back and ask him, "Why did this suit wrinkle? Why did you not tell me the truth about it? I would have bought a better suit, but you told me this one was just what I was looking for. Then, why has it did this?" You've got a right to ask it. And God's got a right to ask. When He asks us, or makes a way for us, rather, and we do not follow that way, then He's got a right to ask why.

15 One time there was a king, and his name was Ahaziah. He was the son of Ahab and Jezebel. He was a king in Israel. And he fell through the lattice of his house and hurt himself, got very sick; taken his bed, to die. And instead of going out and seeking God, he sent some of his soldiers over to Ekron to require ... inquire, rather, of ... by Baalzebub, who ... whether he would get well or not; or Balaam, I believe it was, the god of Ekron. He wanted to know whether he'd get well or not.
Now Elijah, down ... the Tishbite, was down in one of his little places where he was, perhaps, praying, and God revealed it to him that this king had done this evil. You know, God has a way of knowing the secret spots. He's got a way of revealing the secrets of the hearts of men. When He was here on earth he could discern the very thoughts that was in the people's minds, because He was God's Word.

16 Hebrews, the 4th chapter, said that God's Word is sharper, more powerful than a two-edged sword, cutting to the asunder ... and even a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. The Word of God can discern the thoughts of the heart, and He was the Word. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God ... and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. So Him, being the Word, could discern the thoughts and secrets of the hearts.
How far people can get away from that sometimes. When they see it in action they want to class it something else. But it's the Word of God living in the person, discerning the thoughts and intents of the heart. Sometimes our associations cause us to make those mistakes.

17 This same scripture that I was speaking of, there was Jehoshaphat, a great man, a believer; and there was Ahab, a lukewarm believer. And Ahab had a ax to grind, so he sent up and got Jehoshaphat ... father of this king, to come down and sit with him, and have some fellowship.
There's just one thing you cannot mix. That's you cannot mix oil and water together. Neither can you mix sin and righteousness together. You never seen a black-white bird, or a drunk-sober man. You never seen a sinner-saint. You're on one side or the other. That's what's the matter with the churches today. We're compromising too much with the world; our Pentecostal groups compromising, getting back.

18 I looked at those little women up here tonight. I want to thank the Lord to see those women with washed faces---not all that there make-up all over their face. I tell you, a little Acts 2 and 4 kind of washes you up, makes... It puts some cosmetics on you that Max Factor knows nothing about. See their faces all lit up with the glory of God? That's what I like to see in them, myself.
And I believe today that our churches is letting down, and trying to compromise, or act too much like the world. I was speaking Sunday afternoon down at the Businessmen's meeting on that.
Seeing ... going back and reading the books... I'm just young in Pentecost, but seeing what they were, and hearing the testimonies then, there's something went wrong somewhere. Somewhere something went wrong.

19 Now, we see that the world has invited you, and you come to their banquet, just like Jehoshaphat did to Ahab.
And we find out, while they were in this conference that Ahab finally showed himself, what he wanted with the king of ... to come down, and he wanted to go up and take a piece of land. He wasn't able to do it himself, and he had to have the king's help.
But you know, when a man gets out of the will of God, or a church gets out of the will of God, or a nation gets out of the will of God, or an individual gets out of the will of God, God's got somebody that's going to tell you about it, somewhere. If your pastor won't, in the pulpit, there's a Businessmen's meeting, or a choir singing, or some way God's going to have of telling you the truth, and get you straightened out. He always has.

20 Now, Jehoshaphat being a righteous man, he said, "We should inquire of the Lord whether we should do this or not." That's a good ... show that he had some background. "Seek ye first the kingdom of God."
And he said, "Oh, sure. I've got plenty here we can inquire. I've got a school down here that's got four hundred prophets, well-trained, dressed and fed. They're ecclesiastical giants. So, we'll send and get them, and inquire of the hand of the Lord."

21 When they come up they began to prophesy. And with one accord, every one in one accord, began to say, "Go on up to Ramoth-Gilead. The Lord is with you. The Lord will bring you back. And the Lord's going to give you the victory." You know ... and one of them made himself a pair of horns, and he was going to... By that they was going to push the aliens back.
But you know, there's something ... no matter how much you try to polish anything up, if it's not according to the Word of God, to a Christian it doesn't sound right. No matter how you polish it up, and how pretty it's supposed to look, and everything, and how religious it seems to be, if it just isn't the Word...
You know, Christians live on sheep food, and sheep food is the Word of God. If it hasn't got the Word in it, it doesn't sound right.

22 So that didn't sound just right. No matter these men was well-trained seminary students, and so forth; but it didn't sound just right to Jehoshaphat, because it didn't co-operate with the Word just right.
So he said, "Isn't there just one more?"
"One more, when four hundred, with one accord, is saying, 'Go up. The Lord's with you'?"
He said, "But, surely, there's just one more somewhere."
He said, "Oh, yes. I've got another holy-roller up here. But he's the son of Imlah, Micaiah. But I hate him. He's always saying something evil against me."

23 Certainly. How could he say anything else? because that was his life. He needed to be corrected. God had one man who would stand out among all of them and tell what was truth. Whether it's right or wrong, tell it.
He said, "Well, better go get him."
He said, "Oh, this... Oh, surely you can believe four hundred." He said, "And they're the best. They're the best dressed, and the best polished, they're the best students. And, why, there's four hundred of them. How could you ask for another one?"
He said, "But..."
In other words, "If you'd just confess that..."
"I have a little feeling there's something wrong. It doesn't sound just right."
So, he said, "Well, we'll send up and get Micaiah."

24 So they sent a runner to him. He said, "Now, we're having a meeting, and all the clergymen are agreeing that this, and this, should be the thing to be done. So we want you to say the same thing that they say. You say the same thing they say, because they're the bishops, and the high members, and so forth. So you must say just exactly the same thing they say."
He said, "As the Lord God lives, I'll only say what he puts in my mouth."
We need more Micaiahs today, don't you think so? Just keep what the Lord God said. Let that be truth. Let what God said be true; everything else a lie.
He said, "As the Lord liveth, I'll just say what he says."
And they met him, and said, "Now, don't you disagree with any of those theologians, because you're just small potatoes, and few in a hill. So you just be careful now, because you could get yourself in trouble. And, the association's all met together, and I'm telling you what they agree upon. You have to abide by that."

25 But it didn't hit just right with the boy, somehow. It didn't seem right to him.
So when he come down there, he said, "Shall I go up?"
He said, "You wait till tonight. Let me talk to the Lord, see what he says." And the next morning he said, "Go on up, and prosper."
He said, "How many times...?" You know, even old king Ahab knowed that didn't sound right. Something had changed Micaiah's mind. He said, "How many times do I adjure you that you tell me just what's the truth?"
He said, "Go on. But," said, "I seen Israel scattered like sheep, having no shepherd."
Oh, then, the righteous indignation of the bishop raised up, and smacked him in the mouth, and said, "Where went the Spirit of God when it went out of me?"
He said, "I saw God sitting in heaven, all the hosts around him." And they were trying to find out how they could get Ahab to get out there, to fulfill the Word of God, because Micaiah was keeping himself with the Word of God, so it showed his prophecy was right.

26 In the Old Testament, they had just about two ways to test the Word of God. If a prophet prophesied, or a dreamer dreamed a dream, they took him down to the Urim Thummim. That was a breastplate. And as he told his dream, or prophesied, and it did not register on the Urim Thummim, then the conglomeration of lights, all supernatural, then they didn't receive it. But if it did, they received it.
Now, the Old Testament packed the Urim Thummim. But the New Testament still has the Urim Thummim. That's the Bible. That's right. If it isn't according to the Word, let it alone.
No matter how good it sounds, how much it sounds it would build your church up, how much it sounds if you'd let the ladies bob their hair, and you let them wear shorts and things like that (it'll make them feel better, more on the plate)... But that's not God's way of doing it. You must come back to the Word, and stay with the Word. No matter if it pulls the hide off, say it anyhow. Don't never use the gospel for a meal ticket. That's right. I'd rather tell the truth, and drink branch water and eat soda crackers, than have chicken three times a day, and hide behind something that wasn't right. Just tell the truth about it.

27 Now. Where ... we find out then that Micaiah knowed that Elijah had prophesied---and that was God's Word from the prophet---that evil was coming to Ahab. So how could he bless what God had cursed? And if his prophecy, or his vision, was contrary to what the Word was, then it was wrong.
So today, when we see all the fancy stuff handed out in the name of religion---just join the church, and come up and put your name on the book, or pack your letter from one church to the other one---that don't sound right. That don't take the place of the new birth. There's something wrong. Let the choir do what they want to, and the audience do what they want to, and so forth, and ... just so they come back, and say, well, they belong to this church. There's something wrong. It don't sound right, and it just doesn't register with a Christian. That's exactly right. Now, God made a way.

28 And why didn't this King Ahaziah go on down and ask Elijah? Elijah come up, and met him up there in the road, and he said, "Go back. And tell him, 'Why does he go over to the idol? Why does he go over to Ekron? Is it because that there is not a prophet in Israel? Is it because there's no God in Israel, that he has to go over to a heathen god and inquire at his hand?'" Said, "Go back, and tell him he's not coming off of that bed."
Now there was a prophet, there was a God, there was a power to reveal his secrets, and to tell him what was going to be the outcome. It wasn't because they didn't have a God. It wasn't because they didn't have a prophet. It was because the king's own selfishness... He didn't want to associate himself, because his mother had been against all the prophets of God, been against that same prophet. And so it made him against it also. So it wasn't because they didn't have a prophet. It wasn't because they didn't have any balm in Gilead. It was because he was too stubborn to use it.

29 And that's what's the matter today. What makes people drink, and lie, and steal, and commit adultery, and do and act the way they do? It's not because we haven't got something to satisfy that. It's because that they take a substitute for the real thing. They try to hush that ... quench that holy thing inside of their heart.
When God made a man, he gave him... He let ... the devil took his head. God chose his heart. The devil through his imagination makes him imagine anything---gives him intellectual conceptions of the Scripture. But God gets in his heart and leads him by the Spirit; makes him believe things that his intellectual don't know nothing about. Amen! That makes me feel a little religious when I think of that, see.
When God gets a hold of a man, he comes into his heart. That's God's control tower. And the reason people drink, smoke, gamble, lie, steal, and carry on the way they do, they're trying to satisfy that longing in their heart. God made them that way, so He could come in there and satisfy every longing that you have.
But, how dare anybody to try to hush that precious thing with the things of the world?

30 Now, that's the same thing the king did. There was plenty of God, there was plenty of fine prophets. But he was just too selfish to go to this prophet.
And we find out that he died, as the prophet said. When the man come back, he said, "We met a man, and he told us to come back and tell you, thus saith the Lord, you wasn't going to come off the bed."
He said, "What kind of a looking man was he?"
Said, "He was hairy all over, and he had a piece of leather about his loins." And he knew that was Elijah. His sins had found him out. It'll do it, brother, every time. Yes, sir.

31 It's just today as it was then. The people, the American people, are trying to find something. What they do ... stay home on Wednesday night, to hear some kind of a radio broadcast---"We Love Suzy," or "Lucy," or ever what it is, or some of them kind of things; hear Elvis Presley, with his rock 'n' roll, or something like that, some kind of a entertainment---and miss prayer meeting. It's not because that the Holy Ghost isn't just the same as it was when it was on Azusa Street. It's just the same as it was when it was in Jerusalem, A.D. 33.

32 Oh, we've got the medicine, we've got the thing it takes to do it; but the people don't want it. How could you sell lace-top shoes to the women nowadays, when they pay fifty dollars for just a little something or other? a glass with a sunfish in the bottom of it, or something, just a... ? How you going to do it? Yet there's twice as much leather in a pair of shoes that you couldn't sell for two dollars. They'll pay fifty for something just to be in style. The people are wanting to act like the Joneses, or somebody, matching.
I've always said, "I don't care whether my coat matches my trousers, my tie matches my shirt. I want my experience to match God's Word." That's what I want. I want an experience like they had in the Bible. And they had it, so why can't we have it? Why would we take a substitute, when the Pentecostal skies are full of genuine Holy Spirit, see. There's plenty of it. It's not because we're out. God's bountiful blessings shall never be exalted ... exhausted, rather.

33 Could you think of a little fish out in the middle of the ocean, a little fish, about a half-inch long saying, "Whew! Boy, I better go sparingly on this water. I might run out some day." Why, he could never drink it. Certainly not.
Could you imagine a little mouse, about that long, under the great garners of Egypt, down there, saying, "Well, I better not eat but just a half a grain today, because I might run out before winter's over." Well, that sounds ridiculous.
Why, it's a million times more than that to think you could ever exhaust God's bountiful mercies. Why, it's untouched resources that God's got laid up for his church. The power of God is ready to spread abroad, and take in the men and women into the kingdom of God, and give them a joy unspeakable and full of glory that no dance, whiskey, or nothing else could ever take its place. Certainly. God's got it; but it's because the people don't want it.
"Is there no balm in Gilead, or is there no physician there? Then why is the daughter of my people not recovered?" It's because they don't want it; because the nation's talking about they're going to build bomb shelters, and they're going to do all these kind of things. There's only one escape, and that's upward. You can't go downward. We're down as far as we can go now. Come up, rise up. Like the little song, going up till you strike the Milky White Way, and then you're on the endless stream. Just keep running. Oh, how wonderful!

34 A doctor ... you know, it's just like a patient dying on a doctor's doorstep, and he's got the toxin in there for the patient, to cure his disease. Now, if the patient sits out on the doctor's doorstep, and says, "Well, I got a certain disease, and the doctor's got the medicine on the inside, but I just ain't going in there. I just don't like that doctor, and I'm just not going to take his medicine."
Now, you can't blame the doctor for it if he dies right on the step. Certainly not. The doctor's willing to wait on the patient. And you can't blame the toxin. He's got plenty of it in there. But the patient... It's because the patient don't want to come in, and take the toxin. That's the reason he dies.
And so is it today, with the church. People sit right in the church and die in the pew, in sin. Is because they don't want to take God's remedy, God's cure for sin. God's got a cure for sin, a double cure. But the people don't want to take it. They die right in the church pew, a sinner. They die there without the Holy Ghost.
There's no excuse today. The papers are full---churches on every corner. There's no excuse for it. It's the people don't want it.

35 Now, I know it's dangerous if you've got a disease, and the doctor's got a toxin for that disease, and you don't go get inoculated. Like smallpox---a epidemic in the land of smallpox---if you don't go get vaccinated, you could die with them smallpox. Like the great Salk vaccine now.
You say, "You believe in divine healing, and talking about medicine?" Oh, yes. Uh-huh. God heals all sickness. Medicine don't heal no sickness. We know that. Medicine does not heal. There's no doctor'll tell you that medicine heals. Medicine cannot build tissues. It takes God to do that. Psalms 103:3 said, "I am the Lord who heals all thy diseases."
Now, you can break your arm. A doctor can set it; he can't heal it. Have a toothache, he can pull the tooth out; but he can't heal it. You got appendix. He can remove the appendix, but can't heal where he cut. It takes God to do it. He is the physician of all. Now, we have remedies, and so forth.

36 Some lady... I might say this. Some woman said to me some time ago, said, "What about, then, what're you going to say about penicillin for the flu?"
"Well," I said, "penicillin is just like you had your house full of rats. They was eating holes everywhere, and you put out some rat poison, and poison the rats. That don't patch the holes. That's right. Penicillin only kills the germ. It doesn't patch the holes, or build up the tissue that it tore down. It takes God, the healer, to do that. He's the Lord who heals all of our diseases. Certainly, I believe that, and I'm thankful to God for these toxins, and the Salk vaccine. And it's a dangerous thing to not take it. The little children, and things, to get inoculation, what would we do without such?
Now, everybody can't have faith for healing. They should, but they don't. So what would you do? You'd just have sickness, and, oh, it would be a terrible place if we had no hospitals, or things. It'd be an awful place if you didn't have hygiene, and so forth, health clinics, and what we have. We thank God for everything that we've got. Every good thing cometh from God. Certainly.

37 Now we find out that these toxins sometimes... Sometimes they're not just exactly right. You know you can take, sometimes... Like penicillin. You can take penicillin, put it in your arm, and sometimes it will help you; next time it might kill you. It don't work on all people the same. It just won't work. It's a ... it'll help some, and kill some.
I was reading not long ago where there was a nurse that had been taking penicillin for years. She took a shot, and died about fifteen minutes later. Penicillin killed her. And it was one dose of medicine that killed my father. So you have to watch about that, when you go take the doctor's medicine. And their toxins are not perfect yet.

38 But you know how they find that? They go ... the chemist goes out, and they take and get a bunch of stuff together, and make up a bunch of herbs, and so forth, and poisons, and mix them all together; and try it on different things. And then, first thing you know, when they think they've got it pretty well fixed-up, you know what they do with it? They take it, then, and give it to a guinea pig, and shoot the little guinea pig with this needle full of toxin. And if he survives it, well, then, they'll give it to you, and see how well you can survive it or not.
You know, all people are not like guinea pigs. Some people are not made just like the guinea pig, so it'll kill one, and help the other maybe. So it's a chance to take. But I'll say one thing, there's no chance to take on God's toxin. You don't have to worry about that toxin for sin, because it's a double-cure. It helps every one.

39 And I'll say today... They say, "Number one killer is heart disease." I don't believe number one killer's heart disease. I believe number one killer is sin disease. That's the killer---that unbelief. That's what's killing people. We got the best doctors we ever had, the best medicine we ever had, certainly the best hospitals we ever had, the best medicines to practice with we ever had; and we got more sickness than we ever had because we got more unbelief than we ever had. That's exactly true. So it isn't... Number one killer isn't heart trouble; it's sin trouble is number one killer.

40 Now we find out (pardon me)... That's right. But God's toxin, there's one time that God's toxin didn't work too good, because it was on lambs. You'd go... A sinner went to the altar, and went up to the priest, and he took this little lamb. And he confessed his sins, and the lamb was killed; and the blood bathed his hands, and he offered up his prayers for forgiveness.
But while he was holding on to that lamb, and his hands being bathed with its blood and its little wool, and it kicking, dying, the worshipper realized that that lamb was taking his place; that he should've died that death, but the lamb took his place.

41 But what did he do? When that blood cell was broke, the spirit that was in that blood cell, which was the life, it could not come back to the believer, the worshipper. Why? Because it was the life of an animal. So the life of an animal would not coincide with the life of a human. So therefore, if he'd committed adultery, he went out with the same desire he had when he come in. If he went out and stole, he went out with the same desire, because... He had only his conscience that he had done what was right, but the same desire was there.
But it isn't so with this toxin we have today. When a man by faith lays his hands on Jesus Christ (pardon me), when a man by faith places his hands upon Jesus Christ, and feels the pains of Calvary, and sees what He did to save your soul, brother, the worshipper once purged has no more conscience of sin. It's taken away from him. He's a new creature.

42 What happens to the believer? God Almighty come down from heaven, the greatest thing that there is, that covered all space and time. He never had a beginning, and He never did begin, and He never will end. But when He come down from the largest thing there was, and become the smallest thing that there is---a little germ of life that was conceived in the womb of a woman called Mary...
And because sin broke that blood cell and let out that Spirit of God that fell on the day of Pentecost, now the worshipper, when he puts his hand upon this lamb and receives forgiveness of his sins, the life that was in that lamb (which is God's own life), comes back to the believer, and he becomes a son of God---sons and daughters of God. Then he's in the family of God. He's a believer. Goes out with no more conscience or desire to sin. Hebrews tells us that he doesn't desire any more sin because he's become a son of God.

43 Now when the people today... The reason that they don't want this, as I said Sunday, it's because that it makes them act a little different than what they're accustomed to acting. They come to a Pentecostal church, they say, "Well..."
They hear them people sing, like I was watching this boy here awhile ago. My, he got so wrapped up there he didn't know where he was at. I was watching his feet. He had one foot wrapped around the other one. Looked to me like he had tied himself in so many knots it'd take five hours to get him out of it. But God must have tied him up there, and he was right out on his feet again.
So I thought, "Oh, my! How I like to be lost in the Spirit like that, and worship in the power and praises of God until you're carried into a dimension that you know nothing about." I like that, carried away in the Spirit of God.

44 Then I noticed that them people... A stranger come in and look, they'd say, "Oh, my! What do you know about that?" If you was only in that place with them just for a few minutes, you'd never want none of this other no more. But they try to duplicate them. They can't take it out of the Word, so they try to duplicate the new birth. They say the new birth is when you come up, and say, "I believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God. I take Him to be my Saviour." That's not a birth.

45 A great minister in my country brought a magazine over, not long ago, and he said, "Billy, I want to ask you something." Said, "Here's So-and-so," and went on talking. He said, "And you got hooked up now with the holy-rollers." And said, "Now I hear you talking here of the new birth." Said, "Don't you think we have the new birth?" They believe they have the new birth when they believe.
"Well," I said, "how much different that is from Paul's teaching." And Paul said in Galatians 1:8, "If an angel from heaven taught anything else, let him be accursed." And Paul asked them in Acts 19, "Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?"---not when you believe, but since you have believed.

46 Now the thing of it is, that they're trying to dodge that new birth. They got too much prestige. They got too much head knowledge. Whenever you get to a place that you feel you're just a little better than somebody else, when you get to a place that you think that your stand in life is just a little higher than the other one, you ain't going to get it anyhow. That's right.
But there's one thing about the new birth: it'll make a tuxedo suit and a pair of overalls put their arms around one another, call each other "Brother." It'll make a gingham dress and a silk dress put their arms around one another, and call each other "Sister," whenever you really get down to business with God. That's right.

47 Just like an old darkie down in the South, one time. He said ... he was happy and he said, "I got heart-felt religion," he said to his boss.
And he said, "Oh, there's no such a thing as heart-felt religion."
He said, "You just made one mistake, Boss. There's no such thing as heart-felt religion as far as you know, see."
And that's right. Them people don't know what heart-felt religion is. They don't know. They have never touched it. They say they can't keep from drinking. They can't keep from smoking. They've never took the toxin yet. They've never tried it. They don't know what it'll do for you, until you once get it. Then when you've got it, you know something happened when you got it. You was there, you know all about it. You've been inoculated, and things are different then. You become a new creature in Christ. Amen.

48 One day the old boss said to him, said, "I'd like to get some of that heart-felt religion."
Said, "Any time you want it, Boss."
And he said... One day it come a rain. He said, "Well, it's raining today, Mose. I guess we can ... I'd like to get a little of that heart-felt religion that makes you so happy, and singing all the time."
Said, "Come on, Boss." And he went over there, and he went out into the barn, and he said, "Now here's a nice place here on the hay. We can kneel down and get it here."
He said, "No, you don't get it here, Boss."
He said, "Well, we'll go over to the corn crib." So they went over to the corn crib. It was a nice dry place, not raining; nice, you know, the ... go to sleep with the rain pattering on the roof.
He said, "But, Boss, you don't get it here."
He said, "Mose, where do you get it?"
Said, "Follow me." He went way out, till he hit the pigpen, raised up his trouser legs as far as he could, and started walking out in the mud like that. He said, "Come on, Boss."
Said, "Where you going?"
Said, "Here's where you get it. Right out here."
He said, "I don't want it out there." He said, "I don't want to get it out there."
Said, "If you don't want it out here, and come on these terms, then you ain't going to get it at all."
So that's just the way it is. If you can't come to God's terms, you won't get it anyhow. You've got to come to God's terms.

49 They dodge the new birth. Like I said the other day, the birth is a mess. I don't care where you go. If it's in a pigpen, it's a mess. If it's in the haystack, it's a mess. Or if it's in a pink decorated hospital room, it's still a mess, any kind of a birth.
And the new birth is a mess, too. And it'll make a mess out of you. But you'll certainly get new life and be a new creature when you receive it. It'll make you do things that you wouldn't think you'd do. Yes, sir. It'll make you get down there on the altar, bawl and cry, and beat, and confess all your sins. And it'll make a different person out of you.
And then, after that it'll make you act ridiculous to what you used to act. Why, you know when people gets right with God, they ever meet God anywhere, they act ridiculous to what the old life was. Paul said, "The life I once lived, and the life I now live..." It's a different one than the one he did live at one time.

50 Look at Moses when he met God. He just had all kinds of theology. He was just as full of it as much as Carter has peas. But what happened when he met God? He was afraid to go down in Egypt, but the next morning, we find him with his wife sitting a-straddle a mule with a young-un on her hip; beard hanging down about like this, an old crooked stick in his hand, just a-praising God, going down to Egypt. Wasn't that ridiculous looking?
Someone'd say, "Moses, where you going, Father Moses? Rabbi Moses, where you going? What's the matter with you, boy?"
"Going down to Egypt to take over." Going right down to take over: a one-man invasion, just like one man going to take over Russia. Why, it sounds ridiculous. But he was just happy, and that bald head a-shining, that hair blowing back over his whiskers, going down to take over. Why? God said so. And the beauty part of it was, he did it. Amen!
That's what's the matter with the church nowadays. You've got to let God take over, and get all the other stuff out, take ... and let God get a hold of you. Take all the knowledge you got in your head out, and lay it over to one side, and let God come in the heart. He'll make something out of you, make you act different, be different. And your associates will be different. All your whole life will be different. Everything will be changed when God comes into your life. That's as certain as I know about Him. It'll change your life.

51 Now, when God got ready to try out his toxin, did you notice? He never put it in a guinea pig. He put it in Himself. Any good doctor tries out his own medicine on himself first. Now, God took it upon Himself. When God was made flesh and dwelt among us---and the life of Christ Jesus being his Son, and God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself---He took the toxin upon Himself.
When He was baptized by John on the river Jordan, John bare record seeing the Spirit of God like a dove coming from heaven, saying, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." It went into Him. The disciples, and all, watched Him to see what He would do. They watched his life, to see how He would act, to see what would take place.

52 We find Him back there when He was under temptation. The toxin held. When He was in the garden of Gethsemane, toxin held. When He was spit on in his face, toxin held. When they nailed Him to the cross, the toxin held. It was good. They found out it was good. They seen it would keep Him, when He died at the cross and they buried Him in the ground.
On the third morning, now what's going to take place? There He is. He's dead. He's buried, hid beneath the big rock, where a century of men rolled it up on ... rolled the stone over to hold him down. Now, what's going to happen? A guard stood at the door, a hundred men watching Him. What's going to take place?
He prophesied through the word of God, and said that on the third day He'd rise up again. They made the guard sure. Now what about the toxin? That Easter morning, about daybreak, there come an angel down from heaven, rolled away the stone, and the toxin held in the time of death. The toxin held, because it was God's word, God's promise, that it was the toxin that he had give, the balm in Gilead. Sure.

53 Now we find out when He rose up on Easter morning, He appeared to many of them, began to show that after the resurrection the toxin was still the same. It did the same works it did before He died. It still held.
There become 120 people interested in getting inoculated. I wish all the world would become interested tonight in becoming inoculated, because they see it held in the time of temptation. It kept Him from sinning. It held Him in temptation. When He was riled upon, He riled not back. It held Him in death. And when He died and went in the grave, it held in the resurrection, and come forth again. I like that toxin, don't you? I think that's a good cure.

54 One hundred and twenty wanted to be inoculated, so they asked Him "What can we do?"
Said, "Just stop preaching now. Lay down your credentials, and things. I want you to go up there in the city of Jerusalem, and I'm going to inoculate the whole bunch of you. You stay and wait for me."
Oh my! They went up there, and waited a long time---about ten days they was all up there, getting all the religions out of them that they ... get all the differences and everything. And finally "there came a sound from heaven like a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. Cloven tongues sat upon them like fire, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost; and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance."

55 They was simply inoculated, brother, I tell you. They sealed their life with that inoculation. They were shouting and screaming. And listen, my sister (and if there'd happen to be a Catholic person close), you pray to Mary; but did you know Mary, being the mother of our Lord Jesus Christ, yet she could not go into heaven until first she got up there, and got that inoculation? She sure did. She had to have the same.
How're you going to get there anything less than that, see. If Mary had to go up and receive the Holy Ghost... She got so full of the Spirit till she danced in the Spirit, and acted like she was drunk.
The people on the outside, the critics that had not yet been inoculated yet, said, "Well, these men are full of new wine." Thought they were---dancing and screaming, and speaking in other tongues. They said, "These are full of new wine."
Well, then, the first thing you know, they begin to find out they were talking their language. God began to give them the interpretation. They could understand what it was. And they said, "We hear of the wonderful works of God. What meaneth this?" Amen!
Let's startle the country then, startle the world. It ought to startle the world again. "What meaneth this? What's this all about?"

56 And Peter stood up and began to preach. And when he did, they said, "Now, wait a minute." They said, "We want this thing that'll raise up the dead. We want this thing that we can speak in another language that we don't know nothing about. We want something we can missionary the world by. We want this power of boldness." Trouble of it is today, they don't want it.
"What is this you got?"
"It's the balm that's in Gilead. It's the toxin."
He said, "Have you got any more of it?"
Said, "Yeah, we got plenty. We got a doctor here."
"Got a doctor?"
"Yes, we got doctors."
"What's his name?"
"Dr. Simon Peter." That was the doctor.

57 He got up, and he began to give them the prescription. And when he got through preaching, and began to putting the Word down there, and showing them that was just exactly what Joel said, what all the prophets had said, this is that, this is that, this is that, they began to see the Word of God coming together.
They said, "Say, Dr. Simon Peter, what can we do to get inoculated?"
Peter said, "No need of me writing out four or five prescriptions. I'll just write out one for you, and your children, and your children's children, them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call."
He said, "It won't do to write any more. I'll just write one eternal prescription for you." He said, "Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall be inoculated. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call."

58 Yes, brother. We've got balm in Gilead. We've got doctors. Then why is the people in the condition they are today? It's because they refuse to take it. That's all. We've got doctors. We've got the prescription. We've got the toxin that kills sin, that heals the body, that makes a new creature in Christ Jesus. But it's the people that don't want to take it. They don't want the price.

59 Now, don't you never mess with a doctor's prescription. Brother, when they study that prescription out, they put just so much poison in there, then enough antidote. If you'd put too much antidote, won't do your patient no good. If you put too much poison in, it'll kill your patient. Now, if you're... If the doctor writes out a prescription, you better take it to the right kind of a pharmacy that'll fill it out right, or you could get killed by it.
That's what's the trouble today. You've got too many quack pharmacists around. Amen. That's right. Fill it out the way it was wrote. Just the way He wrote it, that's the way to keep it. That's what he said to do. So, that's what's the matter.
There's too many dead children, too many dead churches, is because they don't want that baptism of the Holy Ghost no more. They don't want it. They want to add something instead---and shake the preacher's hand, or something or other, become a deacon, or sing in the choir, or do something else like that, to take its place.
Those things are all right, but, brother, it ain't the toxin. God's Holy Spirit is the toxin. Yes, sir. And it makes a new creature out of you. It makes a new person out of you. It straightens you up, and makes you what you ought to be. It makes your character different. What's the matter with our churches today? Why [blank spot].

60 ... bigger race of people, larger race, heavier slaves to work. Old Abraham Lincoln took off that hat, and stuck it under his arm, and said, "That's wrong. That's wrong. Man's a human being. He's not a horse." So he said, "By the help of God, I'll hit it someday, if it takes my life."

61 Here not long ago I was standing in a museum. An old colored man, just a little rim of white hair, was going along there looking for something. He looked over in that glass, seen that... He jumped back, shut his eyes, and the tears begin running down his old wrinkled cheeks. He was praying. I watched him for a little bit.
After awhile I walked over to him. I said, "How do you do, Uncle?"
He said, "How do you do, sir?"
And I said, "I noticed you praying." I said, "I'm a minister. I just wondered what excited you."
He said, "Come here."
I looked over there, and I said, "I don't see nothing; just a dress."
He said, "But do you see that stain on there?" He said, "That is the blood of Abraham Lincoln." He said, "And right here on my side is the marks of a slave belt." He said, "That blood took the mark ... took that slave belt off of me."
And said... If that... I thought, "If a man that had a slave-belt on him, and the blood of Abraham Lincoln took the slave-belt off of him, what ought the blood of Jesus Christ do to a borned-again church?" Why, it took the slave-belts of sin off of us, and brought us into the kingdom of God; and took all the evil stuff away from us, and inoculated us, and give us of his blessings, and of his power---that we might live the life of Jesus Christ, and not be associated any more with the things of the world. Oh, my! What a difference it ought to make with every one of us! But, the thing of it is, we don't want it. We don't want to fool with it. We're tired of it. Certainly.

62 (A little boy---epilepsy---I suppose they had him here to be prayed for. Is that right, sister? All right. You believe with me now. Satan, leave that child. Come out of him in the name of Jesus Christ. Would you interrupt my message, Satan? You evil thing, come out of that child. I adjure thee by the living God, pass from him. Now there it is. All right? Now I'll continue on.)

63 Now as we was down in the South, and watching the slaves, they come by one day to get a ... buy slaves. And they would buy them because that they were ... trade them from one to another. And one time they'd have to beat them slaves sometimes, and make them work, because they were homesick and away from their home.
And you know what happened one day? A buyer come by, like a broker, and was going to buy a slave. And when he noticed out there, he said, "How many slaves you got?"
He said. "About 150."

64 He went out to look at them, and all that bunch of slaves out there. And he said... They noticed all of them weary, but one young man. Brother, they didn't have to whip him. He had his chest out, chin up, right about the business. And that buyer said, "I want to buy him."
He said, "Oh, no." Said the owner, "He's not for sale."
Said, "Well," said, "he's different from the rest of them." Said, "Is he a boss?"
He said, "No. He's a slave."
Said, "Do you feed him different than you do the rest of them?"
Said, "No. He eats out in the galley, with the rest of the slaves."
He said, "Then what makes him so much different than the rest of them?"
He said, "I wondered once myself what made him different." He said, "I found out that over in the homeland, where they came from, his father is the king of the tribe. And though he's away from home, yet he knows his father is a king so he conducts himself like a king's son." Oh, what a lesson that ought to be for us!

65 Women, stop cutting your hair. Start living like Christian women. Men, quit the things that you're doing. The Christian church should conduct itself like sons and daughters of the King, living godly in this present world. Do you believe that? Let us bow our heads just a moment, now.
Would there be someone here that does not know Christ as their Saviour, and would like to be a ... to receive this balm in Gilead?
Now, I'll tell you, doctors' medicines, sometimes, if you fail to take it, you might die. And again, you might get well. But there's one thing sure. If you refuse this balm of Gilead, God's medicine for sin, you're sure to die. You're just going to die. And remember, it's not just for one, and then not for the other. It's for "whosoever will may come and drink from the waters ... the fountains of the waters of life freely."

66 If you'd like to be remembered in closing prayer, would you raise up your hand, say, "Remember me, Brother Branham. I want to be remembered."
God bless you, God bless you, and you, you, you, many around here. Now that's fine. That's good. Now, sister, to you with this little boy here, you believe with all your heart, and he'll never have another one. All right. You believe. He snapped out of it just that second, you see. God took it off of him, when he was beating his little face, and trying to get him to wake up. Feel better, sonny? Now you'll be all right. Just believe. It'll never come again.
God, what can wash away my sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Christ, the great healer, the great physician is near. See, it's... There is a balm in Gilead for the sin-sick soul. There's a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole.

67 Would you come now, while we have our heads bowed? You that does not have the baptism of the Holy Spirit, does not know Christ as your Saviour, would you come up here, and stand here? Let's pray together before we change the order of the meeting. You go right back to your seat, if you'll just come up.
How many would like to say this, "I'm coming, Brother Branham." God bless you, lady. God bless you, young man. That's it. God bless you, sir. That's right. Come right around here. The same God that could heal that little boy of epilepsy can take away sins. Of course, He can see. Will you come?

68 (Give us a chord on the organ.) " There is a fountain filled with blood," if you will, "drawn from Immanuel's veins." Come stand right around the altar here, will you now, while we pray?
There is a fountain filled with blood,
Drawn from Immanuel's veins, ...
You without the Holy Spirit, now, that wants the baptism, will you come now? Come stand around the altar. Stand here in his presence. Just stand here for a few minutes. Let us have prayer with you. You can go right back to your seat.
... their guilty stains.
Lose all their guilty stains,
Lose all their guilty stains;
And sinners plunged beneath that flood,
Lose all their guilty stains.

69 Now I want to ask you. There is a balm in Gilead. There is a physician here, the great Holy Spirit. Will you come? Now what are you going to do? God's going to ask you if you haven't received Him. When you go out the door, maybe before morning, may be the end of your time on earth. You may never live to get home. Then God's going to say, "Why? Why didn't you? There was a balm in Gilead."
The Holy Spirit's here. If you've fallen weak, lukewarm, in your experience, you'd like to be renewed again... David said, "Restore to me the joy of my salvation." He had not lost his salvation, but he lost all the joy. I think that goes to about ninety-five percent of the church today, losing the joy of their salvation. "Restore to me the joy of my salvation."

70 While these people here are praying, would you like to come up, and get your joy restored? the joy of your salvation, that God might renew the blessings and your heart be full of his Spirit and goodness? Come stand around the altar. Let's just come up and renew our vows to God. That's good. Sinner friend, come with them. Backslider, doesn't know God, come with them. Sick or afflicted? Come with them. There is a balm in Gilead. Oh, oh, my! Homesick children, wanting to go home. That's it.
There is a fountain filled with blood,
Drawn from Immanuel's veins,
(Just tell Him what you want now.)
And sinners plunged... .....
Just raise up your hands, and say, "Lord, I'm here to be renewed. I'm here to be filled with your Spirit. There is a balm now. There is a physician here.

71 Our heavenly Father, we bring to you these people. May the Holy Ghost come upon them now, Lord. They're here waiting. They know the time is running out. Just a little while, and time will be no more. And the church is supposed to go to sleep, and go into the Laodicean age.
God, may it not be so with this group. May they be filled with the Holy Ghost tonight. May you forgive these sinners of their sins, heal the sick and the afflicted here, Lord. May this be a great hour for them, as we are waiting, Lord, looking at Calvary, where there is a fountain that's filled with blood. Grant it. Grant it to us. Fill us with thy Spirit.

72 Now just don't turn loose. Take a hold. Just hold on to Calvary until you're satisfied, every portion that God promised is satisfied. That's right. Get right down to business. When you get to business, God will get to business. It's going to be up to you now, to claim those promises to you.
"Oh, God, I believe You. I'll never turn loose. I'll stay right here, till something happens to my soul." Remember, friends, this may be the last time, may be the last prayer you'll ever pray. The death angel may summon you before daylight. Now's the time to get down to business with God. Now's the time to believe it. Confess your sins, go right back where you left Him. Go right back wherever you left Him, and there you'll find Him again.
What caused you to lose your joy? Find out where you lost it at. Go right back there, and say, "God, I'm sorry. I'm starting right here." Find out where you left Him. Where did you lose your joy? Wherever you lost your joy, wherever you stopped serving Him, go right back to that spot again. Start right there. Right where you left it at, there's where you'll find Him. He'll be waiting, standing there, waiting to receive You. Lord Jesus, come to them, Lord. Grant it, Lord.
... all their guilty stains.
Lose all their guilty stains,
Lose all their guilty stains;
And sinners plunged beneath the flood,
Lose all their guilty stains.
Lose all their guilty (all their guilty
stains) stains,
Lose all their guilty stains;
And sinners plunged beneath the flood,
Lose all their guilty stains.
Believe on him, my brother, with all your heart, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
................
Wash all my sins away,
Wash all my sins away;
And sinners plunged beneath that flood,
Wash all their sins away.

73 Now just close your eyes now. There is a fountain filled with blood.
.................
... sinners plunged beneath that flood,
(That's you, friend.)
Lose all their guilty stains.
Some day He's coming. Some day we got to meet Him, friend, every one of us. Now if who's here that's repenting of your sins, and come up to the altar to be forgiven, remember I'm quoting you the Word of the Lord.
Jesus said, "No man can come to me except my Father draws him first." See, God spoke to you. Then, "All the Father has given me will come to me," see. "He that will confess me before men, him will I confess before my Father and the holy angels." We know that's the Scripture. That's what Jesus said. Now you got to base your faith right there. See, He promised it. He can't lie.

74 Now look. St. John 5:24. Think of it---a handful, and two dozen eggs (5:24). St. John 5:24: "He that heareth my words [that's what I was preaching] and believeth on him that sent me, hath [present tense] everlasting life, and shall never come into the judgment; but has ... hath [past tense] passed from death unto life"---because you believed on Him.
How are we saved? By faith. By faith are you saved, that by the grace of God.

75 Now you that's standing here to accept Christ as your Saviour, you know that it was God. When you raised your hand back there you broke every scientific rule. You know, science... According to science you can't move your hands. They're hanging down, see. You break gravitation, the laws of gravitation, because your hand's hanging down. And actually the world... If it was that, why then, if you could, just at leisure, your hands would go up like that, then your feet wouldn't stay on the ground. You'd just go on out in space.
But what did you do when you raised up your hand? What did you do when you walked up here? You defied the laws of gravitation. Why? You raised up your hand towards your maker because something spoke to your heart. Then you got a spirit in there. That spirit made a decision. "Yes, sir. I want Jesus Christ as my Saviour, raised up my hand." That defied every law of gravitation right there. A spirit in you, a Spirit by you, spoke in you, and said. "You want Christ for your Saviour." You raised up your hand.
Now watch how simple. Now, "He that will confess me before men, him will I confess before the Father and the holy angels. He that heareth my word and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into the judgment," done passed from death unto life. You have eternal life because you have believed.

76 Now upon the basis of... It's not no sensation, see. Sensations won't work. See, I've had sensations sometimes that I feel so bad I didn't know whether I was even a servant of God or not. But it ain't that. It's the Word. Jesus defeated the devil on the Word of God, see. That's where ... it ain't how I feel; it's what I believe.
He never did say, "Did you feel it?" He said, "Did you believe it?" You got to have faith. Any kind... Buddhists have sensations. I've seen them get around, drink blood out of a human skull, and have all kinds of sensations, and call on devils, in Africa. They had sensations. I've sat in the camps when they had the bullsnake dance, and screamed, and carried on. That's sensations.

77 But that goes, too. That's a pervert of the kingdom of God. Everything the devil's got, he had to copy it off of God, see. What is unrighteousness? It's righteousness perverted. What is a lie? Is the truth misrepresented. What is a bad woman? That's a good woman that's been fouled, see. It's exactly. The devil can't create nothing. He's no creator; he perverts what's already been created.
So God's Word is creative, and it is a creation---the creation of the Word of God. And when you accept it in your heart, it creates a new creature. You believe it. "Heavens and earth will pass away, but my word shall not pass away."

78 Now, upon the basis of something speaking to you---that you wanted to be saved, something spoke to you to come to the altar---you did it. Now, you confessed your sins: "Lord, I'm wrong. I don't want to be wrong. I want to be right. I want You to forgive me."
Now, He said, "He that comes to me I will in no wise cast out." When you raised in your seat you were already forgiven, see. Now can you accept Him now? Nothing on what you've done---all you've done's forgotten upon the basis of his promise, and his Spirit led you to the altar. Do you accept Him as your Saviour? Raise up your hand if you do. Say, "I'll accept Him as my Saviour." God bless you.
Now, the next thing you must do now... You're already saved. "He that will confess me before men, I'll confess him before the Father. If you're ashamed of me here, I'll be ashamed of you at the judgment." Now, you are Christians now.
The next thing you want to do is be baptized, and receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. That's God's Word. Is that right, ministers? That's as plain as it could be made. Never... Don't ... now don't let the devil tell you, "Well, I feel bad." I feel bad a lot of times. That don't have nothing to do with it. When I'm weak, then I'm strong, see, because I know there's a blessing laying ahead that Satan's trying to get me away from. I just keep going on anyhow, see. Just keep moving on.

79 Now to you people that wanted to renew the joy of your salvation, and to you that... Somewhere you've lost joy. Think back what you did. Did you neglect prayer meeting? Neglect reading the Bible? Neglected praying at your home, asking the blessing at the table?
Don't never do that. Oh, my! That's so unbecoming to Christians. No matter where you are, bow your head and pray. Don't be ashamed of Him. Pray anywhere, see. And if ever where you left that joy, that whatever weeded it out, what little root of bitterness come in...
Remember, when a man is saved, this much---like this button here---becomes eternal life in your heart. That's God. As you're able to push out all the roots of bitterness, then God begins to spread in you. Then you become a son of God.
A man was made to be god, to be a god. Do you know that? He's in the image of God, he's a son of God, he's like Him. He was given a domain (Genesis 1:26), dominion over the whole earth. That's right. He ruled the earth. He ruled the animal kingdom, and all the other kingdoms---all but the kingdom of God above. He was god; he was an amateur god. He was made in the image of God, made like God, had hands and feet like God. He was in the image of God.
What happened? Because he disbelieved God's word, it sent him right back out to shift for himself. Now God's trying to bring him back. And when you have faith, and accept Him, my brother, just let that little light begin to grow out, taking all the roots of doubt and bitterness, yielding yourself to the Spirit. Then you begin to become a son of God, a daughter of God, begin to grow in the grace of God. The Holy Spirit begins to build his kingdom within you.

80 Now, if you've grieved that Spirit somewhere, then go right back and think in your mind. "What did I start doing? Neglecting church? Did I start fussing with another denomination? Did I start picking on this one, doing this to my neighbor?" If you did, that's what sapped it out.
Go say, "God, I'm sorry. I'll go right back and make that thing right. I'll go right and do it." Then the joy will come back to your salvation again. The Holy Spirit just flew right up on the rafter. He's ready to fly right back down again, any time you want Him to come back. He does the leading. The dove leads the lamb. We know that.

81 Now, to you that's sick and afflicted, you that needs prayer for your bodies: if you need prayer for your bodies, He's your healer. "How do I get it, Brother Branham?" Well, here's how you get it: by believing. Everything that God could ever do for you, He did it at Calvary in Christ. Do you believe that? Jesus said, "It's finished."
You say, "Brother Branham, did He save me then?" Certainly.
"I beg your pardon. I was just saved five minutes ago."
No, no. You were saved 1900 years ago. You just accepted it five minutes ago. That's how, see. You accepted it. Just like I say, "Here's the Bible. Take it." You just let it lay there. It's yours, but you've got to take it first. You've got to accept it. When you accept it...
There's nothing you can do. You can't merit one thing. If my tie was crooked, and I said, "Here, I'm going to give you a million dollars."
You say, "I'll straighten up your tie. There you are, Brother Branham. I'll give you that because you give me a million dollars."
Then I never give you a million dollars, see. You done something to earn it. So there's not a thing you can do to earn it; you just have to accept it.

82 That's the same thing with divine healing. You don't... I see people get all worked up, and try to ... get nervous, and saying, "Oh, if I could just..." You know. Why, you go plumb over the top of it. You leave it behind you. You're going out there, excited, and trying to reach for something, when it's right here by you. Just simple. Just say, "Thank You, Father. You promised it to me. I now receive it." That's all. Watch what happens.
Now, mean it in your heart. Just keep saying it, over and over. Say... If you don't believe it altogether, keep saying it until you do believe it. Just keep saying it over. "I thank You, Lord, for my healing." 'Cause what is He? Christ is the high priest of our confession. Is that right? Hebrews 3. All right. He's the high priest of our confession. Then He cannot do one thing for you, can make no intercession, until first you confess that it's done. Now, is that Scriptural? High priest of our confession. Then He can only act when we confess.

83 Now, if you say, "Lord, I lost the joy of my salvation. I want... I'm sorry I stayed away from prayer meeting. Wednesday night will find me right back [or Tuesday, whenever it is.] I'll be right back." All right. Mean that. Believe it. Say, "I've confessed I'm wrong."
Now start working on it. Christ starts interceding for you. Then say, "I'm a sinner. I'm sorry that I sinned, Lord. I'm going to be a Christian from now on." Then see, you made your confession. Start right on with it.
If you're sick, say, "Lord, You are my healer. If I've sinned to cause this to come upon me, forgive me. Lord, I'm taking You at your word. You said You'd heal me. I believe it. You're the high priest of my confession. Now I'm confessing that by your stripes I was healed. Thank You, Lord." Go right on. See, then He can go to work on it, and start healing you. See what I mean? Here some time ago... People not instructed hardly knows how to do it.
A woman of the... Her husband runs the Four Rose Whiskey, there in Louisville, the big distillery. He's the president there. And she come running over to the meeting one night. Her daughter come, and she was going to be operated on, with a real bad case of gall bladder---like a cancer, or something, on the gall bladder. Oh, she was so excited, she run in... She didn't want to wait for the meetings. "Oh, no. Pray for me, pray for me! I just can't wait. My husband's coming after me. He don't want me over here." I just had to lay hands on her, and let her go.
About three or four nights after that, she said, "I feel better."
Called up the doctor. The doctor said, "Well, she's just excited. She'll get over that." And she wouldn't permit the operation. So then finally, the doctor said, "Well, just let her go then." Said, "Well, if she won't accept it now, I won't operate on her, no matter when it comes back on her."

84 In a few days, she began to feel sick again. She got all nervous. She called up the doctor, and she said... Oh, of course there was a big lot of money in it, so he accepted the operation.
And a doctor friend of mine stood in the operation, and they opened the woman up. And the thing was already gone, see. It was gone. She had the operation for nothing. One of my very personal friends said they sewed it up. "There was nothing we could do." The thing was done gone.
Well, see, she just wasn't instructed enough to know how to hold on to God. When, you got... When you accept God for anything, you stay right there with it. It'll bring you through. Just stay with that Word, his promise. Don't you believe that? Amen. I believe if we need healing, we need restoring our salvation...
What did Jesus say? Now this is his words: "These signs shall follow them that believe." Is that right? "If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." Is that right? How many in here's believers? Raise up your hands. All right.

85 Now let's tell you what let's do. If you believe that now... Now, just please, church, here's just what... I hope Brother Outlaw forgives me for this. But look. Here's what's the matter with this Tabernacle, what's the matter with every tabernacle, all of them today. You're getting away from that... See, it's just been such a fuss and a carry-on amongst the people, till they just got gross... I feel so sorry for them, see. They'll stand, say, "I wish I could take a hold of it. Yeah, I'm going to do it." And the next ten minutes, it's all faded away, see. Now, that's exactly what the Bible said would take place in the last days---be a lukewarm...
He said, "I would you were either cold or hot," see. If you're going to believe God, believe Him. If He's God, believe Him. If He isn't, why just walk away and leave it alone. See, you're trying to act like something that you're not, then. As Congressman Upshaw said, "You can't be nothing that you hain't." And that's true. See, you've got to be what you are. So in your heart, if you truly can believe that---"I am a believer. I do believe God. Well, if I believe God, I have a need, and I accept it right now."---that settles it. Don't say no more about it. Just keep on praising God.

86 That time I got healed, Satan said, "You're not healed. You're not a bit different."
I said, "Stick around. If you want to hear me testify, you just hang around. That's all you have to do. I'll sure burn your ears every day, because I'm going to sing his praises as loud as I can." And he left me. Exactly.
There's Mrs. Waldrop sitting back there. They pulled her in my meeting, when I first come to Phoenix, with a cancer, dead. That's right. The doctors brought the testimony of that cancer condition in the x-rays. There she stands. That's been about ... how many? About fifteen years ago, fourteen years ago. There she's living. Why? God's God. Same God was with us then is the same God now.

87 There is a balm in Gilead. There is a physician here. The physician said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." Now you lay your hands on somebody. Don't you pray for yourself now. You pray for them. They're going to be praying for you. Lay your hands on one another. Just stretch your hands across, if you have need. Pray for somebody, and somebody'll pray for you.
There is a balm in Gilead. There is a physician there. Now, pray for one another just the way you do at your church. "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick..." Now, mean business. Be sincere. Hallelujah!

88 Lord Jesus, we cast out the devil. You can stop epilepsy in that boy a few minutes ago; you can cast out the spirit of the devil away from these people.
Come out, Satan. We adjure you in the name of Jesus, leave them.
"Lay hands on the sick they shall recover. These signs shall follow them that believe." That's it. Pray. Pray till you reach higher ground. Pray. The prayer of faith shall bring God's blessings on you. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Believe what He's doing. Believe He's interceding for you now.

89 [Rest of tape appears to be part of another service]
Or is there no physician there, and then why is the--the daughter of My people's health not recovered? And I thought of that. Is there no balm in Gilead? We have plenty of balms. We have physicians; that's true.
And usually, when we're hunting a toxin... There was a time when there was no toxin for smallpox; there was no toxin for the--for the polio. But we have those toxins now, and they're--they're great. We appreciate them. And then I thought, "How do you find a toxin? The way you find a toxin, doctors, usually, and scientists in research, they--they find some kind of a chemical and then try it on a guinea pig, and see if the guinea pig can survive it. Then they give it to you. And sometimes those toxins are... They won't work on all people, because all people maybe not be the same kind of condition of a body that that guinea pig is, so it wouldn't work right.

90 But you know God has a toxin. And He--He never tried it on a guinea pig; He put it on his Son and it held. It held in the hours of temptation; it held at Calvary, and it proved to be right on Easter morning.
There was a hundred and twenty people desired that toxin. So they went up to the day of Pentecost, up in the upper room, and they were every one inoculated with that--with that toxin. And so then, when the sick people begin to ask, "Is there any...? What must we do." Peter wrote them a prescription. And that prescription is an eternal prescription; he said, "Because this prescription will last for you and to your children and your children's children and them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call."

91 Well, now, if a doctor writes a prescription (now, the way I understand) there's enough poison in there to poison the germ that's in the body. And he has to diagnose how strong that body is before he can give them, or fix his prescription. Well, now, if you take too much of that toxin and not enough antidote to upset it, it'll kill the patient. And then if you put too much of the antidote in and not enough toxin, it don't do the patient any good.
And I think that's what's been the matter around, until this little group here raised up. We had denomination barriers. We could just get over just so far as our Baptist or Presbyterian denominations would let us go. But in this we went right back to the original prescription, got the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and just spread It about everywhere. You see?

92 And there's plenty of--of toxin left, and it's--it's diagnosed out just exactly the way Doctor Simon Peter said diagnose it out. And if we'll just take it according to the prescription (Repentance, not shaking hands, repentance first, you see, getting right with God), it'll take the same effect upon us that it did upon them. It'll bring forth the same kind of a ministry. It proves it to this young fellow just testified here, that it... This is the message of the hour, I believe is Pentecostal message, Pentecostal grace. And why would we fool with anything else when the skies are full of the real. See? So we could take the real thing, get the--the real Pentecostal blessing. And I think that's what the world is hungering for.

93 A few days ago we... Now, I'm not Democrat nor Republican; I'm a Christian; so I don't mention these things. But I picked up an old book there that the--the Lord had gave me a vision in 1933 when I just first become a minister, going down to the Baptist Tabernacle. And He gave me a vision that morning, and I seen the first one I remember of an international affair. And I seen that President Roosevelt that was in then, and seen that we'd go to a world war. Then I seen also that--that was eleven years before the Maginot line was built, I seen Germany fortify themselves in this big concrete place. I also seen they permitted women to vote, which was wrong. And said they would--they would someday elect the wrong man; they just did it. And then...
So then I seen the time of--of the end coming, and five things that the Lord let... Seven things I saw, five of them has already come to pass. I seen a powerful woman stand up to the United States. You can write this down if you do so--it's going to happen. I don't know... She's on her road now. Exactly. And she took over. And then I seen the United States just like something had burnt it over hit it, and just something, blowed up rocks and things.

94 And then I seen the time there'd be an increase in science. I noticed there'd be an automobile... I had it wrote down there. I got it right with me now, old yellow paper, that there'd be a machine, automobile perfected, looked like an egg, would be glass over it. And there was a man and woman, the family, setting there with their backs turned to one another, playing cards, and the machine traveling itself. Something on the bumpers that would--it couldn't hit the others, going down. And I seen that on television a few nights ago. They got that thing perfected right now.
See, all those things that the Lord spoke is true. And we just got two more things left of that to be fulfilled, and that's the end time. And if there ever was a time that we ought to be trying to get people to God, it's now.

95 And I think testimonies like the young man here, and Brother Serell and... Obey Him, no matter if some people say, "Well, the spirit didn't feel right." That don't make any difference. It'll feel right if you'll take your place. Maybe you was supposed to raise it up to that place. See, if he obeyed God, praised God, and then when the man come in, he gave him the testimony that really done the work. And I'm so glad today, to be among you. And as I see my years fading out, and seeing young fellows like that coming on to, if there is a tomorrow they'll take the Gospel tomorrow.
I'll be seeing you tomorrow afternoon, two o'clock, the Lord willing. The Lord bless you. I didn't mean to take so much time, Brother Shakarian. Thank you.

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1 Thank you very much, brother. I deem this another great privilege to be here in this auditorium tonight in the service of the Lord. And now, tomorrow night is a special night for prayer for the sick, for the... I believe they give it over mostly to the people that are ... they're going to come from the hospitals and things.
Usually in the meetings when we have it set up, we have an emergency room that where that---when they have a big meeting---where the people can get in and be prayed for. Each time when they come that can't get into the prayer line, we have a room that...
Maybe they've come for flew in by plane, or something for hundreds of miles, and just have to be there that one night and go back. So we always try to catch them all.
But when we're having this type of service I feel that every person that's in the building is prayed for each night, see, because as I try to make it plain, you see, that...
If there was ...

2 I see a ... like a man sitting here in a wheelchair. If I knowed that there... If I could take a quarter and push it with my nose around this city, have that man to get up out of that chair and be made well, I'd do it. Sure, I'd certainly do it. And, now, maybe he'll live an ordinary lifetime sitting in that chair. But maybe there's a man sitting out there somewhere that's got heart trouble. In just a few hours from now he's going to be dead, unless something helps him. He's in a more critical condition than this man sitting in the chair.
Then, I would push the quarter, certainly, around the city with my nose, which would take me days to do it, and I'd probably have no nose left when I got through pushing it around. But I would do it, to see that poor mortal healed.
So, I cannot heal anyone. I never have healed anyone, but I have seen tens of thousands healed. And so, only thing I try to do is to get them to have faith in what's already appropriated for them. So, when you see... Just think, if Jesus came here tonight, and was wearing this suit of clothes that He gave me, and you'd walk up to Him, and say, "Lord, will you heal me?" He would perhaps look astonished at you, and say, "You're a believer in me? Do not you read the Scriptures?"
"Yes, Lord."
"Well, did not you read that where I purchased your healing at Calvary? I have already done it."
If you...

3 Here's what it is. If you ever seen anything in a pawn shop and then you go and redeem that from the pawn shop, you cannot redeem it the second time. It's already redeemed. If someone gives you a ticket where the price has been paid, and that article is redeemed, it's redeemed. You don't have to pay for it the second time.
There's where Moses made his sin, by striking the rock the second time instead of speaking to it, see. He smote it the first time. What did it speak of? The weakness of the blood of Jesus, that it had to be smitten for each individual. Christ was smitten for our healing. We just speak to the rock now, and it brings forth its healing.

4 But you see, we have been taught wrong, all about this here laying on of hands, and sensations. Don't never build your hopes of salvation upon a sensation, 'cause you can have all kinds of sensations. But build it upon the Word of God. There's where you can beat Satan any time---upon the Word. It's "thus saith the Lord."
I remember one night... I don't want to keep you here. I ain't going to say nothing now. I'll just ... so many things, that if I could stay here for a month I could half ... not half tell it. If I could write in books to what I have seen the Lord do, it would almost make a library in itself.
Hundreds of books wouldn't write of the things that I've seen, just know He did, in these about thirty-five years (or thirty-one years it is) of service for Him, that I've seen Him do in the meetings that I've held, and around the world.
And the great things that was startling, well, I can remember them, and think of them, but we don't write of them---just let them go, because sometimes... Jesus said, "See that you tell nobody."
After all, Jesus died for a people that God foreknew would be saved, see. Now that is true. He came to save that which was lost, but by his foreknowledge He knew which would be saved.
Now, healing certainly is for everybody that has faith enough to receive it. Salvation is for everybody who has faith enough to receive it.

5 In a meeting... If I'm not mistaken, it was right here in Illinois. Is there a little place up here called Vandalia, or something? I believe that's where it was, at Vandalia, or just across the river in Missouri. It was somewhere here, I believe in Illinois.
Coming through the line one night there was a lady... And you have to watch what He says. Now in these visions that you see here, taking place in the platform, I don't do that. You know who does that? You do it. You don't know it, but you're the one that's a-doing it.
You say, "Brother Branham!" That's exactly right, class. You do that yourself.
That's just... I wish I could explain it, but there's no way of doing it. It's just like shifting your car, and getting it into a gear, see. And just like the Holy Spirit---just a gift to know how to shift yourself out and let Him do the talking. See, shift yourself out! Then it isn't you talking; it's Him. And you do that yourself.

6 To try to make a little explanation of it (I'd say explanation) I'd say this. Maybe we're all going to a carnival. There's this carnival coming to the city, a circus. We're all up here, we ministers. We're young fellows, and we want to get in to see that. So it happened to be that I was a great big, tall, skinny fellow, and a brother here was short and sturdy. Now he'd maybe have a better chance to... He's stronger than I am.
Well, now, he could pack water. He's big and strong. He could do things that I couldn't do at all. Now, I can't help because I'd be tall and skinny, and he can't help because he's short and strong, see. "Who taking thought can add one cubit to his stature?" said Jesus.
We are what we are. And that's one thing that's hurt our Pentecostal move, and other moves, is somebody trying to be something that they're not. They're trying to impersonate someone else. You can't do that. You're just what you are. That's all. And when you do that, God will use you, just what you are. And you're just as important as anybody else.
As I said the other night, the little bitty hairspring in this watch is just as important as the main spring, because it takes it all together to make time. And when we realize our position in Christ, and then abide in that... If it's just a little housewife, stay right there, if that's what God wants you to do, see. Just be what you are.

7 And many of you remember the healing of Congressman Upshaw. Had been in a wheelchair for sixty-six years, served seventeen years in the United States government as a congressman, and so forth. Never seen him in my life.
And Dr. Roy E. Davis of the Missionary Baptist church, that baptized me into the Baptist faith, was a ... or Baptist fellowship, we call it. We believe, in the Baptist church, that the Spirit baptizes you into the body. But we're baptized... If you've been a Campbellite, and been immersed any way you want to, and you come into the Baptist church, you got to be baptized over into that fellowship. So we call it "baptized into the fellowship of the Baptist church." He was the one sent Congressman Upshaw there. That was ... and he was...
Never seen him. He just walked into the building there in Los Angeles, where thousands times thousands ... in wheelchairs everywhere. And I seen him in a vision, and began to speak, and he was healed that night. For the first time out of that chair without those crutches and things, for sixty-six years! Congressman William D. Upshaw, fine friend of Churchill and all those.
And as you all know, that ... when I went there and prayed for King George, when he had multiple sclerosis, he was healed instantly. The next day played eighteen holes of golf; and he couldn't even sit up for just a few minutes at a time.

8 And I was up at Gustav's, and Gustav's brother was a Pentecostal. And why do some of you people ... downing the Pentecostal? It's because you live here in a little city, and don't know the rest of the world. Forty percent of our government is Pentecostal (that's right), or either Pentecostal influenced.
Billy Graham said, "No longer can you hide the Pentecostal church. It's the fastest growing church in the world." What did our "Sunday Visitor," the Catholic church, make a statement? That last year alone the Pentecostals had 1,500,000 registered converts---more than all the rest of them put together. We're not a bunch of trash. We've come out of the alley, and we're up on Glory Road, the Pentecostal church. The government officials and all. I had breakfast with Mr. Nixon right there in Washington, D.C., and speaking a few days with some of the state senators.
In my home (ask my secretary), these private interviews, like we had this morning, and what we have of a morning, where the people come to find out what the Lord has to say... They stay there. We wait there until the Lord speaks. (Not like these little visions you see here. I mean ... you do them.) But doctors, statesmen, congressmen, potentates from the world over...

9 I was talking to my secretary. (That's his mother, and his father-in-law, and mother-in-law sitting right there now.) The other day, I... They are waiting, on the list from internationally ... over six hundred waiting now, from around the world.
Come in, and sit before the Lord, and we pray until He comes down and tells them what to do. Doctors, statesmen, lawyers, congressmen, and everything else from the nation over. Even, I've had doctors from Mayo Brothers' clinic. Not something just hearsay, friends---God.
So, here's what the visions are. Now in these meetings, these evangelistic meetings, you don't see one tenth of it. Ask the brethren who go with me. See, these are just little... These are something that you do yourself.

10 Now here... And I'll go back to my point; excuse me for leaving it.
But we're going to a carnival, and there's a great big (or a circus) ... there's a big board fence around it. We don't know how to get over it. So, we want to see what's on the inside. And there's no man in the world but what wants to know where he come from, what he is, and where he's going. There's only one book that can tell you, and that's this---who you are, where you come from, and where you are going. But every human being likes to look a-past the curtain, to see what's on the other side. Well, we're going to do that now, for a parable.
And now we go along, and I look at this brother. How much stronger ... great strong-looking man; me, a little skinny fellow. Well, I think, "Maybe he can do his part towards getting in to see the show, what's on the inside." Well, how am I going to do it?

11 The first thing you know, I happen to spy a knothole way up high. Now, he can't reach up there, but I can. So ... but to do it, I have to reach down and jump real high. And I get a hold just with my fingers, and pull myself up, and look through that knothole. Like to ... nearly takes the life out of me, and I hop down.
"What did you see, Brother Branham?"
"A giraffe."
"Oh, you did? What else did you see?"
"That's all I had time to see. Like to killed me."
"Look and see if you can see something else."
Now, you don't realize it, but that's you on the platform, and that's you sitting out there. You're the one that knocks the strength out of me. Last night, someone was telling me, I almost fell four or five times getting out. People don't realize that. If you'd read the Bible...

12 Do you know, if poets or prophets or so forth, they go into inspiration, sometimes they don't even know where they're at?
Did you ever read of Stephen Foster, wrote "Old Kentucky Home," "Way Down Upon the Suwannee River"? Gave America its best folk songs. He was considered a neurotic. Every time he'd write a song (inspiration), then he'd go out and get on a drunk. One time when he wrote, he come out ... he just come out of it. He got a razor, called his servant, and committed suicide---cut his throat.
Did you ever hear of William Cowper? Certainly you have. I stood by his grave recently and cried. He was considered in England a goofy guy, crazy. Anybody that's real spiritual... Science says it's just one stage away from insanity, from the world. So, it's the human mind trying to cope with that mind there. You don't realize. No one will ever know, this side of eternity, what it means.

13 So then, William Cowper finally ... the day... Remember when he tried to even get in a cab and go commit suicide? Come back and got a rope and tried to hang himself; and went down and tried to drown in the river; then wrote that famous song: "There is a fountain filled with blood, drawn from Emmanuel's veins; where sinners plunged beneath the flood, lose all their guilty stains."

14 Look at the prophet Jonah. As soon as he come out of the belly of the whale and went and gave his prophecy... As long as the inspiration was on him, giving his prophecy, he was fine. But when the inspiration left him, he sat on top of a mountain and prayed for God to take his life.
The prophet Elijah, under a vision of the Lord, fixed and called fire out of heaven. Called rain out of heaven the same day, and killed four hundred priests himself. And then when the inspiration left him, run at the threat of a woman, and was forty days and nights out in the wilderness---not even knowing where he was at, wandering around. And God found him pulled back in the cave. Now that's scripture?

15 See, people don't realize it. You don't realize what it means. You say, "If I had a ministry like that..." You'd want to get rid of it, right quick. You don't realize what it does to you. It kills you. But God has given it to you.
Critics laugh, make fun, and everything; and me standing right here, I know what they're thinking. Certainly I do. I used to call them out and say everything. But when I did, I found out it hurts. Jesus said let them both grow together. Don't pull up the tares. That's God's time, at the end, to pull the tares out---at the end of the harvest. Just let them alone, see. Go ahead. I've got a ministry to serve, God to serve, and I just do it the best I can, and then go on.

16 Well, now, when you come to the platform, that's you that's doing that, like the woman touched his garment. It's your own faith that does that. I have nothing to do with it. To me, I can do nothing. I've asked God for something over and over, for myself, for the past five years, and He won't even say a word to me about it.
My own mother was laying here dying, and saying, "Son, what shall be my end?" And my sweet old mother, I couldn't tell her until God tells me, see. He has to speak. I don't do the speaking; it's Him.
And it's not me that causes the visions here on the platform. Ask my brethren that's with me. This week I've eat nothing but crackers and milk. It's true. Fasting, waiting, seeing which way the Spirit will lead me. The boys at the door said, "There's a big smorgasbord down here, Brother Branham. How you love to go to smorg..."

17 I said, "I do, but not in healing services." Wait on the Lord. "This comes out only by fasting and praying."
Here comes tomorrow night, when cripples, and hospital cases, and dying people will be sitting here. Be ready for it, if you love people. And if you don't love people, you might as well get out of the ministry, that's all, because if your heart don't burn for them...
I'd rather you'd say something good about my son than you'd say it about me, because that's my son. And if we can't love one another, how're we going to love God, whom we haven't seen? We must find the thing... We've got to love one another. Though we differ, you've got to love anyhow. You can't bluff it; you've got to really do it. You've got to.
And the greatest power I've ever found in healing is love, when you have sympathy and love for the people, trying to help them.

18 Sometimes I scold them, and go back home, and just think, "Lord, what did I do it for?" But it's because I love them. If I have to scold my little boy for running out on the street ... He'll get killed if I don't get him off that street. Sometimes I have to whip him, correct him, say "Son, stay off of that street." It's not because I don't love that child; it's because I do love him. That's the way God has to do to us---scold us, and shake us, make us...
A real true... A person that lets his child just do anything is not a good parent. That's right. There's too much of that in America today. We need the old-fashioned mothers.

19 Now, someone comes to the platform, a lady. Here I am. I've got myself relaxed. As she comes up, who is she? I've never seen her, and don't know her. What is she? I don't know. "O God, I'm depending on You." Now, all day long I've prayed.
"What is it, Lord?" Step across to this Bible here. "God, there's your Word. You made the promise. Between me and that woman stands your Word. Your Spirit's here somewhere. God, may be one thing that might set this whole building afire. Maybe the Holy Spirit has come in and ward off all the unbelief tonight. There's nothing in here but what's going to believe me. Everything is going to believe, because I've preached it just as simple as I can; and they've read the Bible, and know it's the truth, and a promise for this day. Surely they will, Lord."

20 Then trying to relax myself, talking. The first thing you know... What am I doing? Reaching up, reaching up, find out what kind of faith that woman's got. Finally find she's got faith. What does it do? It touches. Then between her and I, I see it. Then where do I go? Here, up, up, up, grab it---"You have tumor!"
"Yes, sir."
You turn towards the audience. "He guessed that." See.
"Why, that's mental telepathy."
"Dr. Jones said it was so-and-so."
"Oh, that's mind reading." See, there you are again.
Well, what can you say? You look out there. Here sits this one, that one. Up here, down there, it is back there, it is... "God, what can I do? Well, Lord, You had to go through the same thing."

21 Now, what else did... ? What else is wrong with her? Here you go again. You're already fingers aching, as it was, hanging on there. Now your heart's aching, see. Then up you go again. "And besides that, you got TB. You were at a doctor the other day, and he told you you were... He was a tall man."
"You read their mind." Isn't that strange?
Even Christians saying, "Well, I suppose it's all right."
Well, after awhile that one passes by. Here's another one. Then you're just about sagged out, see. Here's another one. Well, there stands a whole line of them. If you don't get every one of them, boy, "They never got prayed for! Something wrong!"
See, I'm trying to use a prophetic gift in an evangelistic service. That's the reason it don't work so well. It does in Africa. It does anywhere else but the United States. Anywhere else but here it'll work. Doesn't here. People just don't get it. I don't know why, but they don't.

22 That one thing can happen in Africa; thousands will rush to the altar screaming, crying, jumping out of their wheelchairs, if they have to crawl, or anything else. They believe God, that's all. They get it.
But we've been ... see, we've been indoctrinated with so many different isms and so many different things. Somebody says it's this; somebody says it's that. "He belongs to another church. He's not one of us. He's a holy roller. He might be a medium. He might be a devil." See, in all of that, that just grieves the... Then somebody will say, "Hmph! I'll get out of here right now," see.
Now how can you have a meeting under that? You let me ask you something. Throw this audience with one accord, with one faith, one time. Let me guarantee you, in the name of the Lord, there won't be a wheelchair left in here but what people will be walking. You just try it one time and find out. I've seen it. Twenty-five thousand got from wheelchairs, stretchers, and everything else and walked.

23 But you've got to minister anyhow. This is a nation that's got the money to send me yonder. They haven't got money to bring me. I ain't got no big backing-up. Only thing I have to do is just depend on: "God, You have mercy. Do something. Wherever You lead me, I will go." And that's what I do, see.
Now, perhaps maybe the ring master comes by now. "What are you boys looking at?"
"We were looking in, sir."
"Oh! Well, come here." He's a great big fellow. Reaches down, picks me up into his hands. Said, "I'll tell you how this goes, Brother Branham. You see that show over there?"
"Yeah."

24 "Now, that's where the garland ride starts there. They come out here, and they ride around this way. They come through here, and they do this, and this does this, and this that."
"Oh, yes, sir." (Sitting in the palm of his hand.)
"And this is this, and this is this." Sets me down there at the grandstand, you know. Show me everything that's going to happen.
"Oh," I say, "thank you, sir. Thank you very much."
"Now you be a good boy."
"Thank you, sir."
"What happened? What'd you see?"
"Oh, bless God," see. I'm not tired, see. He just lifted me up and showed me.
Now, that's you using God's gift; or God using his own gift. See? Now you say, "Is that scriptural?"
Yes, brother.

25 A woman touched his garment one time and He said, "I got weak." Is that right?
But one day when He was in the home of Martha and Mary and them, God showed Him (He said He done nothing till the Father showed Him.) ... and God showed Him that Lazarus was going to die.
So He said, "You go away. And they're going to send for You." (I'll prove that.) He said, "Go away. And after four days he's going to die. And then You go back and You'll wake him. Go to the grave and wake him," and so forth, because... He had to've done it. If He didn't, He told something wrong.

26 So He went, and they sent for Him. Did He go back? "Your friend, Lazarus, is sick, ready to die." He knowed what the Father told Him, so He just went on.
They sent again, "Lazarus is sick. Come see him right quick. He's going to die." He just went on.
If you'd have sent for your pastor and he didn't come, you'd have went and joined the next church, you see. That's the reason you don't get nowhere. You've got to believe the servant God sent you, see. If he's led of the Spirit, let him alone.
Then after four days, Jesus turned around because that's what the Father, no doubt, had told Him; because He said He did nothing till the Father showed Him. He turned around and said to his disciples (He knowed the time was fulfilled), He said, "Our friend, Lazarus, is asleep."
"Oh," they said, "he's doing well."
He said ... then He told them in their own language, said, "He's dead. And for your sake I'm glad I wasn't there." So He said, "But I'll go wake him."
And when He got to the grave, listen what He said: "I thank Thee, Father. Thou has already [see] heard Me. But I just say this for those who stand by. I said it for their sake," you see. Then He said, "Lazarus! Come forth." Lazarus came forth.

27 He never said a thing about getting weak, did He? That was God using his gift. The other one was a woman using his gift. See the difference? You understand now? That's what it is. It's you that's doing it.
Now in the interviews and so forth, we have times where the Holy Spirit (like sitting this morning before a young couple), how it went down through their life, picks it up and brings it back.
And, my, here a famous doctor sat in the room recently, and asked me about a certain thing. I said, "Will you pray with me?"
He said, "I will, sir." We knelt down and prayed.
I said, "Now, you're studying of building a clinic, and there's a certain thing fixing to happen. And you looked at a certain place to build this clinic. You said they couldn't touch it for twenty-five years. But," I said, "thus saith the Lord, Doctor..."
He said, "You think the city needs a clinic?"
I said, "Yes, sir. It needs a clinic. I think you're a fine doctor, so you go..."
He said, "It can't be that, though. It can't be there." Said, "I've done fought that in court." Said, "You can't build it there."
I said, "It'll be built out of red brick. It'll have a light roof on it. It'll almost be a city block long. It'll be there, and your name will be on the front of it. I saw it. Thus saith the Lord."
He said, "I'd like to believe that, sir."
I said, "You remember when you sent me that man not long ago, that didn't even have any liver---half of it eat out---that minister? And that morning I saw those five apples come down, and a big healthy apple eat up the unhealthy apples? And I told you, 'Thus saith the Lord,' he'd live. And you said, 'How can he live without a liver in him?' I said, 'He's preaching. He's taken my place at the Milltown Baptist church.' I said, 'He's still there.' "
He said, "Oh, I remember. Rev. William Hall, the Milltown Baptist Church."
I said, "He's still there. That's been about five years ago." I said, "Your clinic will be there."
He said, "I hope you're right."
I said, "Hope?" I said, "He's always right."

28 And so, the next morning he called me up. He said, "Brother Branham," he said, "I'm freezing to death." And it was in July!
I said, "Freezing to death?"
He said, "Shivers running over me." Said, "They had a meeting in Boston last night. With all the bids in for that place, they picked me! It ain't going to have to wait twenty-five years; it's already set up. I bought the place already this morning." There's the clinic. Right there it sits.
In St. Louis just recently, a great medical meeting, he made a speech, and he told that. Got a sign of it sticking on his door, engraved in brass. He said, "If anybody ever doubts---any physician---have him to call me, collect."
You see, friends, it's not nothing... The thing of it is, you can't wake yourself up. That's all. You can't wake yourself up to the reality of what it is. You children, and you people here in these wheelchairs, you know if I could help you I'd come do it. You know that. God bless your heart, I'd certainly do it. But you're no more...
To heal a person in a wheelchair is no more than heal one with heart trouble. And the greatest thing He ever done was save a man's soul, to change his whole disposition and everything. So, you just think you're bound for all time. You're not! No, sir! I've seen tens of thousands of wheelchairs ... of people healed out of them, see. And I know...
And it is true, someone said that my grammar's bad.

29 I remember in Ft. Wayne, not long ago, I was preaching at B. E. Redigar ... where his daughter had been healed of insanity a few days ago. (Oh, there I go again. There's so many things to say.) An insane girl that was going to the "morgue," and the Catholic school wouldn't even let me in I went in as a visitor. Spoke to the girl a few minutes. I said ... told the father (I used to go with the girl's mother), I said, "Thus saith the Lord, she has her right mind." Her mother grabbed me around the waist and she said---looked to her husband---she said, "He's never wrong." I said... Now, she didn't mean me. She meant the Spirit of the Lord.

30 About two hours after that the father called me up, weeping. He said, "Brother Branham, I don't know what to say." His daughter was just only eighteen years, a teacher of music, and played the overtures and so forth---same studies that my daughter was studying. He said, "I don't know what to say." Said, "That girl instantly come to herself, and these doctors are holding a council right now." Said, "She's going home with us this afternoon." That's right. He said, "Oh, I'll blast it through the country."
I said, "Shh ... tell no one. Go ahead. Just thank God and move on," you see. Just keep going on. He's wonderful, if you'll just believe Him.
One more little thing to you people. Just because that you're here in the meeting and you accept your healing, it don't happen right away, don't pay any attention to that. It will happen, if you've got enough faith to believe it'll happen.

31 There was a woman come in the meeting one night. She passed through. She had stomach trouble. The Holy Spirit said to her, "You are Mrs. So-and-so. You came from a certain place." Said, "You have a stomach trouble." Said, "What it is, is a duodenal ulcer." Said, "It's very dangerous, and the doctor says that you might hemorrhage with it sometime, because... They've been wanting to operate." I said, "But you're afraid of the operation, and therefore... You're not able to eat anything hardly at all, but just broths and stiffer, like bouillon, and so forth."
She said, "That's right." And she said, "Is he right, Mr. Branham?"
I said, "Certainly your doctor's right." And I said, "The reason it is, is because it was caused by tension. You're under such a tension all the time."
She said, "I have been a nervous child."

32 I looked at her, and I seen her sitting down by a nice big steak, eating, you know, and eating a piece of apple pie. That's what I saw in the vision. I said, "But thus saith the Lord..."
Watch what it says, see. You're the one that's making it say this. But look what it says behind it. That's the thing, see. You say you got a cancer. You know that. But see what He says about that cancer, see. That's when you watch it.
So then, it told her. So she said, "I'm going out and eat." So she went out and eat.
And a little bit behind that come a lady that had a big growth on her throat. And the Holy Spirit told her, "That growth shall leave you, thus saith the Lord."

33 So, they happened to be neighbor women. So the next day she tried to eat, and oh, my! She liked to died. And so, she tried for two or three days, and she'd just vomit, and gag, and blood fly out of her mouth, and everything. And after about a week, her husband, being a Christian, but... He said, "Honey," said, "you're bringing a reproach upon the cause." Said, "You mustn't say things like that."

34 She started crying. She said, "Hubby, listen." She said, "That man didn't never see me in his life. And by some sort of a power that I believe was the Holy Spirit, according to what I read in this Bible, he told me what my trouble was, who I was, exactly to the letter. And told me it's 'thus saith the Lord' that I'd be well." She said, "Until that time comes, I'm going to be acting like it."
So he said, "Go ahead, burst your ulcer. Then you'll bleed to death." She just went on. 'Course he didn't have... See, it never happened to him; it happened to her. It wasn't his faith; it was hers.

35 Well, about two months passed. Nothing happened. One morning the children had left to go to school, and she was washing the dishes and she was singing. And, after awhile she had the funniest feeling come over her, she said. She come to testify of it. So, said the funniest feeling went over her. She got real hungry.
She said, "Well, the children left some oats in their plates." (You know, I guess, mothers do that.) And so she got a little bit of the oats, and eat it, and she thought ... she'd usually vomit with it. So she got a little oats and she eat it. That toast looked so good, she was taking a bite of the toast some of the kiddies had left. So, she went on a few minutes and she was still hungry---didn't vomit. So she just poured her out some, stirred them up, eat her a piece of toast. Went on washing---she just felt fine.
Fixing her house around, she got real hungry again; so she just went and fried her two eggs, some bacon, got her cup of coffee, and had a gastronomical jubilee. She just really got ready for it. So she just eat all she could. Waited till about ten o'clock. Nothing happened. She was getting hungry again.

36 So she thought, "Oh, praise God!" She said, "I'm going down and tell my neighbor."
And when she got down there, she heard someone screaming and crying. So she run to the door and shook the door and nobody answered. She thought maybe somebody had died. And so she run into the house real quick, and here this woman with a sheet in her hand, shaking it like that, and screaming at the top of her voice... And she said, "What's the matter?"
She said, "You know what?" Said, "Last night I was standing before the mirror, looking at that knot on my neck. Now look. It's gone." Said, "I've shook every sheet, and everything else, trying my best to find it. And I woke up this morning and..." [Now I've got their names and addresses, see, documented statements.]
And see, what it was, when that angel of God ... Now, anybody that's a Bible student knows that sometimes ... that God does not come right on the scene when He should come---when we think He should.

37 Remember, Daniel prayed and it was twenty-one days before the angel could get to him. Is that right? All right. How many knows that?
What happened, the very angel of God that made the promise (Not me, now. I have nothing to do with it. I didn't know them.), but said, "Thus saith the Lord..." It taken Him almost two months, but He was passing through the neighborhood, confirming that word that He had spoken. Glory to God! If that ain't the same God of the Bible, I don't know my Bible. That's happened tens of hundreds of times, friends.
So what am I saying that for? Building your faith for tomorrow night's healing service. I want you to... Now, don't bluff it. It won't bluff. You can't bluff the devil. Remember when Jesus gave his church ... like, He gave his church power in St. Matthew, the tenth chapter, to cast out devils, heal the sick and the lepers, and raise the dead. Is that right?
Now, I want somebody that doesn't believe in divine healing show me by the Scripture where He ever took that power away from the church. I want the chapter, the book, and the verse. Where He give that power to his church, I can show you chapter, book, and verse where He told them it would be at all races, all places, to all the world. Now you tell me where He said, "I made a mistake. I've got to take it back." Show it to me, some critic. It's not in God's Word.

38 Now you see, it isn't ... where you're looking at, my critical friend, is this: You're looking at the weakness. You're looking at what the people is doing about it. But don't look at that; look at what God said about it. That's it. You're looking at the wrong way. You're cross-eyed, see. And a man that's cross-eyed don't know which way he's going, see. So you just ... you look single-eyed at God, what God said. Not what people's doing about it, what the seminary said, but what God said. If this isn't the Word of God, then go get something that is the Word of God.

39 No wonder the priest has to ... the Catholic priest has to be so smart. He's got six hundred books that he has to learn that's just as sacred to him as that Bible. Six hundred other bibles, like, of other men who wrote books, that he's got to learn. Smart. There's no way to keep up with him. Talk about ... when it comes to intellectual. But God won't use that at all. That's foolish to Him. The humility of believing Jesus Christ, God expressed, makes ... that even a fool should not err therein.
Now. Now look here. Jesus in Matthew 10 had gave them power to heal the sick. They went out and cast out devils; come back rejoicing and so forth. And ten days after that time they were totally defeated on a epileptic case. That's right. I can imagine hearing Andrew say, "Step back, boys. Surely you can't do it. Let me show you how I done it over at Capernaum. Come here! Thus saith the Lord, 'Come out of him, devil!' Come out of him, devil! Hallelujah! Come out of him, devil!" The boy just kept on in the spasm.

40 And I can hear Peter say, "Ohh, remember. You all don't know. Let me show you how I done it down at Joppa. Come here. Let me have him." Pour some water on him, say, "This is the way you do it." They was all defeated. Not because they didn't have power...
Now watch. After awhile, look, coming down off the mountain there, I see Him come walking, quietly. Bible said there was no beauty we should desire Him. Maybe a little stoop-shouldered fellow. But when He come walking up to where he was, that father run and said, "Lord, I brought my son to your disciples, but they couldn't do anything for him." He said, "Will You help him?"
And He said, "I can if you believe, for all things are possible to them that believe."
He said, "Lord, I believe. Help thou my unbelief."
Brother, when that devil walked in the face of Him, he knowed He'd met him on a different level than what them disciples had. He said, "Come out of him," and the boy fell and had the worst fit he ever had. Then he straightened out and stiffened. They said, "He's dead."
"He's not dead. Pick him up."

41 The disciples come along and they said (Now listen. Here's your modern day.), " Well, Lord, I guess you took all of our power away from us. The church don't have power anymore."
"No."
"So why couldn't we cast him out?"
Said, "Because of your unbelief." Is that right?
The church still has the power. You Methodists here, you've got that power, you Baptists, Presbyterians, Nazarenes, Pilgrim Holiness. But you're afraid to use it. That's all.
What good would it do for me to have a fine hunting gun laying on the wall, and afraid to shoot it? I'd never get any game, I'm sure. Well, I might make a whole lot of fizzles, and have some backfires, and not handle it very good, Brother Gene, but I'm shooting anyhow. I'm trying awful hard. Yes, sir. So you will do that. Let's have faith and know that if we believe it... Amen. Let's bow our heads now.

42 Lord Jesus, sometimes we talk like children, and we're glad to be that. For if we know so much, You can't lead us no more. But as long as we're children, You forgive us of our ignorance and we just trust your hand. Sometimes we scream and shout and carry on because, Father, we're children. We don't depend on our own ability. We're just happy that we're ... we have a Father that watches over us. We're so happy for this.
Lord, there are people here that's sick, afflicted. Some of them are saved, some are not saved; some believe they're saved and not, some are... They're just all kinds, Father. It's all mixed-up.
Will You help us tonight, that we could have one great, mammoth, mass healing tomorrow? Grant it, Lord. May there be such a outpouring of your Spirit. Lord, I pray that You'll just grant it in such a way, till there will not be a feeble person left in the building. Grant it, Lord.

43 Now we're going to open back the pages of the Word. Now, I cannot open this Book, nor no one can, only physically with my hands. Let the Holy Spirit open it, and interpret it to us---a few words that would build our faith in such a way that all of the unbelief would fade away from us; and we'd be perfectly satisfied with the pure unadulterated faith in God---that He heals the sick, He saves the lost. And if there's any sin in our midst, Lord, take it away, please, Lord. And let us sanctify ourselves tonight through the faith in the blood of thy Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord. We ask it in his name. Amen.

44 Now here, just talking to you, and it's time to close. I've got quite a few scriptures that I've written down here, I'd like to refer to. I might not get to any of them, but for a way of context... Now, I won't be too long. Honest, I hope I'm not. But I'm just ... want to read from the book of Jeremiah, the eighth chapter, the twenty-second verse. This is a question of three letters I'm going to ask the audience tonight.
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? then why is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

45 Now I'm going to ask the question, like God did: "Why [w-h-y], why is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?" Now, that is quite a statement. But I believe that if God makes a way for anything, makes a way of escape, makes a way for it, and the people doesn't receive it, doesn't walk in it, then He has a right to ask why.

46 If you went and bought your boy a car... You say, now, "Junior, I do not want you to go to any poolrooms. Your father and mother, we are a Christian home. I don't want you smoking cigarettes. I don't want you going to dances with these modern ... dances where they drink and things. We are Christians here, Junior, and you'll bring a reproach upon our home, and upon the cause that we stand for. And I'll be real good to you, Junior. Daddy works hard. So I'm going to slave away till I save enough money to buy you a little car, because you can go to school in it, you and Sis, and ... just be nice. I'll get you nice clothes..."
And then you find out that Junior is smoking, and drinking, and going to places. Then you've got a right to ask that boy, "Why?" because you made every way for him to have pleasure, and to take his little car and go fishing and so forth, and go out riding. And then, you'd have a right as a father to ask him, "Why? Why did you do it?" Isn't that right, brethren?

47 Then, if God makes a way for his people to escape, and get away from the wrath that's fixing to come, and they don't receive it, then He's got a right to ask why didn't they do it.
I landed in Bombay, India, here some time ago. And I was reading a piece in the paper. I still have it. Or, I beg your pardon, Tommy Nichols has it now. It's coming out in the "Christian Businessmen's Voice." And it said, "The earthquake must be over."
Now, India isn't rich people, like they are in America. Now, the foreign people really think that as long as you're an American you are rich. Well, that is right, according to them, but ... according to the status they have to live in. But they have their fences, where they pick up rocks, like we did in early America, and make their fences. A lot of their homes are built out of rock and mud.

48 But one day there come a strange thing happen. And all the little birds that live in these rocks along the fences and in the big towers, all flew away from their nests, and left it---just evacuated their nests. And the cattle and sheep that when the day got hot... They'd feed early of a morning and late in the evening. But instead of... in the heat of the day they'd come and stand in the shadows of this fence to keep cool. But instead of that, they run right out in the middle of the field, and all leaned against one another---cattle, sheep, animals. And the people wondered what strange action this is. Two days it happened.
All of a sudden, an earthquake blowed the country. Them walls fell in. The earthquake shook four or five different times, for maybe two days. They had earthquake after earthquake. Finally the little birds begin to fly back into their nests, the places that was left. The cattle come back around what walls was left.
What was it? The same God that warned the birds and the animals to go into the ark for safety shows He is the same God today, see. He warned his animals to flee, and to get away from those great walls that was fixing to fall.

49 Now, if God can do that by instinct to an animal, how much more should we, who claim to be his children filled with the Holy Ghost, be warned of the Spirit to flee these things of the world and get away from them? They're fixing to crumble in.
Go to the ark of safety---which is Christ---just as quick as you can get into Him. Go quickly! Don't wait a minute, for the hour is coming when the door will be closed, and mercy will be no more. So, if God has made a way, and then... At the judgment He's going to ask why.
I used to know a song we sang, "When the last book is opened, what then?"---when the preacher has preached his last prayer, or prayed his last prayer, or something like that, the Bible's closed on the pulpit, the arms are all stacked, the taps sound out for its last time over the hills. The retreats are made, the sun's setting for its last time. The mimic has made his last act, and Hollywood is finished. What then? You're going to be asked to give a reason why you didn't come. Then, what then? What're you going to answer for? How're you going to escape it?

50 Now we want to think these things seriously for about thirty minutes, as I try to refer to some scriptures here. Now you're going to be asked---every one of you---why. When it comes to a spot that when God has made every preparation, sent the Holy Spirit and revealed and showed everything that He promised in the Bible right before you, then what are you going to do?
You know, it's something like the other day in Louisville, Kentucky. There was a woman had a little baby, and she was packing it around from place to place, and was in a ten cent store. And she'd say, "Look, darling. Look, darling. Look, darling." And she got hysterically.
And after a while she said, "Oh!" Just screamed out, and the people, the patrons in the building, began to notice the strange action of the woman. And she just fell across the table and began crying. And when they wondered what was the matter with her, they went over.
She said, "My little boy here, two years old," she said, "about six months ago he just sat and stared." And said, "I took him to the doctor. There's nothing that should attract a little boy like him will attract him." Said, "He just sits and looks blank." And said, "I shake these little trinkets and things, that ought to attract his attention, but he just sits blank. There's something wrong with him."

51 Now, please forgive me if I... I don't mean to hurt feelings, but remember, this is where correction is. This is judgment. That's a whole lot like the church is today. God has shook all kinds of spiritual gifts before us, and they still sit like they was just staring. They don't want it. You can speak against women wearing short hair. They never do anything about it. About wearing ... immorally dressed. They never do anything about it. About fussing in their denominations---one's better than this one, this one's this, and this one's this and this. And they never do nothing about it. They just go right on fussing just the same.
I wonder what they're going to do at the judgment when God says, "Why?"

52 He sent an Oral Roberts, a Tommy Hicks. Spoke in tongues, and interpretations of tongues, and give messages; and prophets, and everything else that He promised in the Bible. Every blessing, He shook it before the church, and constantly they wade on in unbelief. Then God will say, "Why?" Then what's your answer?
Now don't think I'm trying to hurt, but what's them men in these wheelchairs? Look out there at the sickness. As many times as Oral Roberts, and many great ministers of healing gifts, and Jack Coes, and things, with them... Bulldog faith grabs a hold of it, and you seen things done. Then He comes along with prophetic gifts, and shows the discernments, with infallible proofs world-around. And you sit and say, "Well, I wonder if something could happen?"
God's going to ask you, "Why?", and you're going to have to answer. Now that's truth.

53 Now, one time there was a king. His name was Ahaziah. He was a son of Jezebel and Ahab. And he took his father's place in Samaria when Ahab was killed according to the prophets. And the dogs licked his blood---just exactly what the prophet had said would take place.
And Ahaziah took his place, and he was a renegade just like his father and his mother. And one day he was walking through the lattice of his house---perhaps the same lattice as the queen of Sheba, or some other in her days, when they built the temple of Solomon. And he fell through that lattice, and hurt himself, and got sick.
And he sent up to Ekron, to Baalzebub, a devil. Sent two men up there, a group of men. Said, "Go up and consult, and ask Baalzebub, the god of Ekron, if I am going to get well, yes or no."

54 And God sent an angel down to the old Elijah, sitting down there in a little cave-door. He said, "Go up and meet them." God knows when to send, and when not to. Said, "Go up and meet them, and tell them, 'Thus saith the Lord.' "
And old Elijah walked sturdily up there, and stood in the road.
When he seen them come up, he said, "You're on your road over to Ekron over there, to meet Baalzebub, to meet their prophets, to consult whether Ahab is going to get well or not." Said, "Go back and tell him, why did you do that? Is it because there's no God in Israel? Is it because there's no prophet there? Why would you go do a thing like that, then? Go tell him, thus saith the Lord, he's not coming off that bed." Oh, my! That's God.

55 What's the matter, that we change our papers from Methodist to Baptist, to Presbyterian, and all other different denominations and things, running around? Why do we do these things? Why do we go ... why do we stay home on Wednesday nights, watching "We love Suzy," or some of them plays and television programs, and things like that?
Is it because there is no God in Pentecost? Is it because there's no joy in the house of the Lord? Is it because there is no prophet there? Is it because these things are not so? Is there is no physician there? Is there no balm in Gilead? Balm is healing. Then, "Why is the daughter of my people still sick?" Asks, "Why?" Why do we do these things? Why do we act like the world? Why does our women still dress like the world? Why do our pastors let deacons come in with two or three different wives, and serve on the deacon boards? Why do we go just like the world, and begin to act like the world, and talk like the world? And why are we doing it? Is it because...?

56 Why do we have to build great shrines that's worth millions and millions of dollars? And preaching Jesus is coming the next few days. Missionaries on the field, with no shoes on their feet, living with one meal a day. Why would we throw our money away for stuff like that? and missionaries that I know haven't got shoes on their feet. Men of God will answer for it some day. God's going to say, "Why?" That's right.
Mother in China hands you a little baby, and his little belly swelled that big, dying with hunger; and we try to ... want to keep up with the Jones's. God's going to ask us, "Why?"
Now our great organizations building tens of millions of dollars worth of buildings, and things like that; and preaching Jesus is coming soon. Our own testimony meets us in the face by the Word. No, we don't believe what we're talking about. Just become a routine, around and around and around. The fathers say it, so we said it too.
If you really believe it, act like it.

57 If you believe in divine healing, accept Him. If you believe the Holy Ghost tonight, stay there---not for ten minutes, but until He comes. Don't take no substitute. Stay there until the real thing's there, when you've passed from death to life. And, brother, the birds will sing different, everybody ... all the ones you hated, you'll love, and everything will be different when you do.
Why do we substitute something instead of it? God's going to say, "Why?" Then we're going to have to answer. Now, that is right, brethren. You believe that. All of you do, you men. Now that's where we're standing.
We should be a church on fire with faith, brother, burning. My, oh, my! Instead of that, we look like we're a bunch of little coyotes, backed up in a corner. "Well, yeah, I believe it." Uh-huh, you're backing up. Stand up there toe-to-toe to it. If we're Pentecostal, be Pentecostal!

58 If we're not, why not just break the thing down, consolidate with some other of our denominations, our Methodist brethren here, our Baptist brethren, our Pente... our Presbyterian. Or why don't you all go back and be Catholic? That's the oldest one of the bunch of them, see. Go back and be that. But if we're Pentecostal, let's be Pentecostal by experience. Rise, shake yourself. Yes.
Said, "Go tell him, what's the matter?" Why would the Pentecostal people...?
A girl asked me the other day, said, "Brother Branham, they're beginning to wear scandal skirts."
I said, "What's that?"
"Oh," she said, "the girls are wearing skirts that's cut down this way, that shows their underskirts. Do you think it's wrong for a girl to do that?"
I said, "Sister, what in the world does a Pentecostal, Holy Ghost-filled girl want to show her underskirt for? I'd just like to ask you that." If she'd been right with God, she wouldn't have had to ask that.

59 I've got a little Bible. When I first started out, I wrote a little book. Used to be if somebody'd say, "Is it wrong to smoke? Is it wrong to drink? Is it wrong to so-and-so, like that," I said, "Don't ask me foolish questions. Make this up in your mind. If you love the Lord with all your heart, you don't smoke, chew, or drink any 'shine.' " And I still stand by that.
When the love of God's in your heart, you've got no time for nothing else. You're sold out. The Bible says, "If you love the world, or the things of the world, it's because the love of God is not even in you," and your own life tells about it. I hope that's plain enough I won't have to get any plainer, see. But that's true.
"By their fruits you know them." So, shake ourselves. Let's be Pentecostal; or be something else. If we're not Pentecost, let's quit saying we are, until we get back to the real Pentecostal experience. Get back to faith, daring faith. Them disciples sealed their death with their faith. Oh, "faith of our fathers living still, in spite of dungeon, flame or sword," that's what we want---real, genuine faith.

60 You Methodists need it, you Baptists need it, you Pentecostals need it. All of us need it.
God's going to say, "Why?" Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Then why? is there no ... is there no prophet in Israel? Is there no God there? Has Pentecostal lost their God? Don't they have any more gifts in amongst Pentecostals? Have they no more prophets, gifts of prophecy, prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists, no one else to speak in tongues and give messages?
One thing, you don't reverence them gifts enough. Another thing, you don't prove them first. Then you get every kind of spirit in there speaking. When you get that spirit that don't say something that's right, get it out of there. You don't want a substitute; God's got a real one for you.

61 Some man speaks in tongues, and let him... It's a message to the church. Everybody keep still---that's God speaking. And listen and see. If it's not for the church, then it's in the flesh. If it's something to the church, and it doesn't come to pass, then that's a foul, evil spirit, 'cause God don't lie. And you'll have your church setting in order, see.
But the way it is: just let it fly loose anywhere, and somebody chewing chewing gum, and another one eating popcorn; one talking, and another one whispering, somebody trying to speak in tongues, three or four at a time; and this one trying... Oh, my! It becomes a Corinthian affair again. You ought to get it back in order, back with the Holy Spirit. Test that gift.
You say, "Oh, Brother Branham, we test that?"
Well, brother, it has to be tested right here, don't it? That's right. Don't be afraid. If it's God, it's right, one hundred percent right. But ... [blank spot].
... plumb over the top of that.

62 I was talking to the man, the editor, Bob (what's his name?) that writes "The Christian Life." He was down at... (Schuller ... not Bob Schuller. He's the Methodist brother.) I know him real well, but I can't think of his name. That writes "The Christian Life," the ... Walker. He come to Indianapolis, and he said, "Brother Branham, what about the Pentecostals?" He said, "They do this, and do that."

63 I said, "And what about the rest of them? They do the same thing, but many times their members are in the paper, the editors of the paper, and things. You don't hear about it. But," I said, "they do just as bad."
But I said, "Sometimes somebody does get off the wrong end. And then, what do you all do? You jump plumb across the real thing, and pull over to that; and this over on this side that's real wild fire, pour it plumb back over to old cold formal." I said, "It's right in the middle of the road. Goes with genuine Holy Ghost, the church. Glory! Them old cold formals on one side, and radics on the other side, it's all false from the real thing.
Isaiah said in the 35th chapter, "There shall be a highway..." You Nazarenes call it the highway of holiness. You're wrong. Not disputing your word, but it says "There shall be a highway and..." And's a conjunction. "There shall be a highway and a way, and it shall be called [not the highway, but] the way of holiness." Middle of the road.

64 Dr. Weed ... I know you Assembly brethren know... He's a darling brother, a precious friend of mine. I was preaching on that one time. Brother Weed got up. He said, "You know what... ?"
Brother Zifford, I guess all of you know Brother Zifford. He's my cousin, big Assemblies... He's at Evansville, Indiana. We had a men's meeting on that subject. He said, "Brother Branham talking about the middle of the road," said, "that's not good driving ethics." So I happened to be standing behind him. He didn't know it.
I said, "You see, Brother Weed, just how earthly you can get, you Assembly brethren?" He's a precious brother, and the Assembly is one of my great sponsors.
So, I said, "You see, you just think about the earthly things so much, and get in such a twist, till all you can think about is just the things of the earth." I said, "Sure, riding on the earth, that's bad ethics. But this road I'm talking about, you don't come back. It's just a one-way ticket."
And Brother Weed just laughed. How many knows Roy Weed? He's one of the finest men that you can get. He's been a real brother to me. And so, there you are.

65 But God's going to ask us "Why?" He asked the king, "Why?" Now it wasn't because they didn't have a prophet that he could consult. No, no. No, sir. He could've went and consulted the prophet of God. It wasn't because there was no God in Israel. Sure, the God of Israel would've told the prophet about the king. But it was the king's own stubborn way.
And that's what's the matter with the nations today in the world. It's not because we haven't got a God, but science is trying to root Him out of the picture. And the people are too stubborn to stand up on the principles of God's Word. Exactly right.

66 They say, "Oh, that's a bunch of holy rollers."
Let it be whatever it may be. I've been ... I've traveled the world over several times. I've never seen a holy roller yet. There's 969 different organizations of churches recorded in Washington, and there's not a one of them called "holy rollers." That's a dirty name that the devil put on the church. There is no such a thing as holy roller. No such an organization is called "holy rollers." They call anybody that believes in holiness, holy rollers. And without holiness no man shall see God, so you see where the essence of it comes from. All right.

67 The king, he was just stubborn. He didn't want to listen to the prophet. They had a prophet. They had God. But the king was too stubborn.
That's the way it is today. People are too selfish. They talk about divine healing, yet rather lay out there and die than even to admit they believed in divine healing. People would rather... It's just like a man dying on a doctor's doorstep because he won't take his medicine. The doctor's got the toxin for the disease he's got, and the man will sit on the doorstep. And the doctor's got plenty of toxin, but he won't take it---just too stubborn to go in and take it. He'll die. He ought to. So then ... if he feels that way about it.
It's not because the doctor... Don't lay it on to the doctor. If the doctor's got the toxin, and willing to give it, and the patient's sitting on the doorstep, just too stubborn to come in to take it, don't lay it onto the doctor. It's not the doctor's fault, neither is it the toxin. It's the patient's fault that won't take it.

68 The same thing it is in the church. We've got plenty of balm in Gilead, and we've got physicians here. But people die in the pews in sin without the Holy Ghost, because they're too stubborn to come take it. And they're afraid it'll hurt their social prestige, it'll break them down. Might cost a little of their card parties, and things. Afraid they might cut up a little and act unruly. No, don't blame the doctor. Don't blame the remedy. Just blame the patient for not taking the remedy. That's where it's at.
We got toxin. We got plenty. The world is full of the Holy Ghost. It's just everywhere. We've got physicians, brother, that knows how to give the medicine. But the people won't take it. Oh, they say, "I'm Presbyterian." That don't mean no more than a hog being able to wear a side saddle in a stable of a race horse. That don't have nothing to do with it. Has nothing to do with it. Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, or Pentecostal organization, or anything else, don't mean that to God. You must be borned again!
Dying in the church pews. Not because there's no toxin. Plenty of toxin, but it's because they refuse to take it.
Now, you know what? If you refuse to take the doctor's medicine, it's dangerous. You might die if you don't take the doctor's toxin. You might die. And that's dangerous to not take it. Like the Salk vaccine, like the smallpox...

69 When I go overseas, I believe they give me so many shots I look like a guinea egg, to get into the places where they just ... the shots of yellow fever, and all kinds of toxins. They say that keeps me from taking it. I didn't want to take it, but you have to take it anyhow. So that's the way.
You say, "Brother Branham, do you believe in medicines?" Why, sure. Certainly. They're God-given things. We believe that. But that ain't what heals you. What if we didn't have health and hygiene? What would we have? The way people is accumulated on earth today, and how many things... If a hospital is not of God, then burn the thing down. It's antichrist, see. Sure. But it's of God. But they don't do no healing. They're just a place to keep you away, and to help you, and try to keep you clean while... If you're ever healed, God heals you.
A famous doctor, I wouldn't call his name, he said to me, he said, "Billy, you come in here," and the first thing..." Said, "A horse doctor has to have more sense than we do." Said, "He has to know where the horse is sick at." Said, "You come in, say what's the matter with you." Said, "You tell me what's wrong." Said, "I'm in a hurry, I write you out a little prescription.
Said, "You notice whose name's on there?" Said, "The druggist. He paid for this." Said, "I charge you ten dollars. You go over and get it filled. And he'll go back and fill it, and charge three dollars for something he paid two cents for.
Said, "You take it for three or four days." Said, "If the Lord hasn't healed you by that time, you come back to my office, and I'll charge you five dollars more, say, 'Go get it repeated again.'"
See, there you are. It's God that heals. Now, I'm not condemning a good doctor. God knows that. And I say this one thing (let me stop a minute): I have found more doctors believing in divine healing than I have preachers. That's right.
I've went from hospital to hospital.

70 Famous doctor had me to go to an old man the other day, an old doctor that (I ain't got time to tell you) that was eighty years old; been unconscious for two weeks. Brother Goad here knows of the case. Happened to belong to the same club, shooting club, that I just went into a few days ago.
And the old doctor was laying there. Famous ... one of the best doctors there is in the South, said, "Brother Branham, when you come over, just have a word with the old man."
He'd been unconscious. And while I was holding his hand he come to, and said, "Hello, doctor."

71 I said, "I'm not a doctor." I said, "I'm Brother Branham."
He said, "Well, I must've been asleep." (Yeah, about three weeks.)
I said, "I guess ... doctor, how long have you been practicing medicine?"
He said, "How old are you?"
I said, "Fifty-two years old."
He said, "Before you were nursing."
And I said, "I guess many nights you've had a flashlight down along the creek bank, an old country doctor down along the creek banks, trying to find some baby with a bellyache, or a mother in labor."
And he said, "Not a flashlight; a lantern."
And I said, "I guess then you didn't get nothing for it---maybe a setting of eggs, or something."
He said, "No, I didn't expect nothing."
And I said, "Well, you know what I think, Doc? You believe in God."
He said, "I wouldn't be here if I didn't."

72 And I said, "Do you know what I think?" I said, "Over in the glory land, they must have a little place, over in the corner where all them good old doctors that's helped so many times..." He started crying. I said, "Now I'm getting you excited."
He said, "Oh, no, no. Stay right here."
Doctor ... my doctor, standing there, a friend of mine, started wringing his hands, crying, standing back in the corner. Afterwards he said, "I've never seen anything like it in my life." Said, "What did you do to him?"
I said, "I never done one thing but put my hand on him."
God-fearing old man. He said, "No..." I held his hand. I said, "Guess you performed many a operation, Doc."
He said, "I never picked up a knife before I asked my Creator to help me and guide it."
I said, "You may be eighty-six years old, but if I had to have a operation I'd want them same hands to perform it." That's right. I said, "There must be a little place over there in heaven where you..."
He said, "Brother Branham, you think He'll let me in?"
I said, "I think so." He started crying. I hugged him up.
Here he was down there on the range the other day with a big old musket, standing there. He said, "Watch me hit that target, boys." He was back practicing, eighty-six years old. That's right.

73 Oh, yes. They got real men in there; and they got some renegades, too. Don't holler at them, 'cause we got some other renegades that calls themselves Reverend. That's exactly right. So, sauce for the goose is for the gander. Yes, sir.
A man's got toxin and Salk vaccine for these little children to knock polio out. I pray daily that God will send us something for cancer. If we can't have faith, let's get something else. Faith is the first. Let's take the next best if we can't get that. Look at the world in the condition it's in---poor, suffering humanity.
Help everybody you can. Everything that helps is of God. Let's help. Let's do everything we can, and pray for men. The thing to do, brother, is get our arms together---both medicines, doctors, hospitals, nurses, church, and all together---and put our faith in God and move forward. That's what we need. God's going to ask us why we didn't do it some of these days.

74 You remember, Luke was a doctor, too. Now God never condemned him for being a doctor, but you remember he wrote the great stories of healing. It was surprising to him to see what God could do. He was the one who wrote, "The former treatise, O Theophilus, I've wrote to you [and so forth like that], Jesus of Nazareth, what He all began to do, and say." He knowed what Jesus was.

75 Now, people dying in the pew because they refuse the remedy. Now, it is a serious thing to refuse that. But how much more serious is it to refuse God's balm! What is God's balm? The Holy Ghost. That's the cure for sin. You might refuse the toxin of the doctor, and you might go ahead and live an ordinary ... a hour, week or two, and die, and go on. You might do that. You might shorten your days. But if you refuse God's toxin, you'll die eternally. You'll be completely separated from God and mercy, for eternity. So don't you never...
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Then what's the matter with the daughter of my people, that they can't believe in divine healing no more? Is it because it's not taught? No. What's the matter then? What's the matter with the baptism of the Holy Ghost? They quit teaching it? No. Do people get it? Yeah. Well, is there plenty of balm? Whosoever will, let him come. Drink from the fountain, gushing fountain of the Holy Spirit, calling whosoever will ... physicians standing there, to pass you to it. Then why don't you come? Then God say, "Why? Why didn't you?"

76 "What are you trying to do, Brother Branham?"
Shake a faith into a people, that they'll realize. "Is there no balm in Gilead?"
Now I want to ask you something. The reason they dodge the issue is because they're afraid of the new birth. That's what it is. Oh, we Americans are so stylish, you know [Oh, my!], so much, we just got to put on what we call "the dog," you know. Everybody's got to just be like the Joneses. They got... (I hope there's no Joneses here. If there is, I don't mean it to them, but that's just a American expression, like Doe.) John Doe, I'll say. They got to be like that. We got to be so classy!
They're afraid of the new birth. Let me tell you, brother. They say, "Oh..."

77 One time I was out there preaching, and there was a boy, from a certain church that I used to belong to, come up and said, "Billy, you know what? I was enjoying your message so much until that woman got up back there, and begin to screaming and crying. Then she got all them people started crying."
"Oh?" I said. "That excite you?"
He said, "Why, I couldn't hear what you was saying." And said, "It was all right up to that time."
I said, "Oh, she was just rejoicing."
Said, "Oh, that just made chills run up my back."
I said, "Brother, if you ever get to heaven, you'll freeze to death, let me tell you." I said, "Because even the angels in heaven is screaming, with wings over their face, and over their feet, day and night, 'Holy, holy, holy unto the Lord; Holy, holy, holy unto the Lord." I said, "You're living in the quietest world you'll ever live in. If you go to hell, there'll be weeping and wailing, and gnashing of teeth. If you go to heaven, it'll be Glory! Holy, holy, holy unto the Lord, day and night. This is the quietest place you'll ever live."
He happened to play on a Colgate's baseball team. And he said, "Well, they don't do that in my church."
I said, "Well, now, that's ... I hope you don't think yours is the pattern."
And so, he said, "Well..." I said... He said, "Well, that don't look very much like a Christian to me, when a minister is speaking, to say..."
I said, "You know what? That encourages me---to hear them say 'Amen.' Means 'so be it.' "
I said, "I used to have an old dog." And I said, "He'd take anything but a skunk." And I said, "I'd get him tree under a brush pile, and the only thing I had to do was get him to get that skunk. I didn't want it myself, so... [That's how I got my school clothes, was trapping and hunting.] And I'd get this skunk under the brush pile.
And old Fritz was standing there. The only thing I had to do to get him to go under there... Raise up the pile, and he'd get back, and look at me, like that. Said, 'Master, you're not going to run me under there, are you?'
"I'd say, 'Go get him, boy. Sic him, sic him, sic him, boy. Go get him.' He'd go get him."

78 I said, "The devil's the biggest skunk I know of. When I hear people saying, 'That's right. Amen!', we've got him treed, then, brother. We'll get him pretty soon. Just let him go. Yes, yes. That's right. We got 'Amen!' " I said, "Look, I heard you the other night when Charles Nolan knocked that home run. I don't live very far from the park." I said, "Not over ... about five blocks." I said, "I never heard such a noise in all my life."
He said, "Oh, Billy! You ought to've been there!" Said, "There was three men on base. And you know Charles---went to school with him."
I said, "Sure."
Said, "He knocked a home run." Said, "Man, I'm telling you, you ought to've seen him slide in."

79 I said, "You unholy rollers down there, I couldn't even sleep for you---unholy rollers." I said, "If we're holy rollers, then you are unholy rollers," see. I said, "You'd be a poor fast-ball team if you'd said, 'Oh, yeah. I see. It's a home run.' " I said, "You'd say he wasn't very much enthused. You knock them straw hats down over one another's head, and slapping one another, and shaking and everything like that."
I said, "When the preacher gets in the pulpit, and hits one of them home runs like that, and see them saints open up the way, and see heaven come down, they holler, 'Glory, glory! I see it! I see it! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!' " I said, "They just start on the King's Highway, that's all." There it is, see. Yes. Oh, yes. They...
It's strange how they miss it. But I guess it's just to be that way. It's all cut out by God, and I guess that's the way it's supposed to be.

80 Now how does a doctor ever find what kind of medicine he has to work on a person with? Yes, they're afraid of the new birth. You know what? The reason they're afraid of the new birth because... Listen, excuse me, my sisters, will you? It's a mixed audience, but you listen to your doctor. I'm your brother.
Any birth is a mess, I don't care where it's at. If it's in the pigpen in a barnyard, or if it's in a pink-decorated hospital room, it's a mess. And the new birth is, too. It will make you squall, and bawl, and wash all that paint off of your face. It'll do things for you that you didn't think you'd do. You'll carry on like you never did think you'd do. It's a mess.
But you know, before you can be born, you have to die. And some people die awful hard. They kick and bawl, and scream, and carry on. But unless a corn of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone. If you want to bring forth fruit, die to yourself, and your own man-made theology, and be born again of the Spirit, and the resurrection. Get rid of that old spirit of selfishness, and dryness that's in you. Take on new life.
It's messy.

81 Unless a grain of corn falls in the ground and rots... Unless a man rots to his own theology, unless you rotten to Methodist theology, unless you rotten to Baptist theology, unless you rotten to Pentecostal theology, until you rot to those things, and give yourself into the hands of God... Then the old man will die, and the new man will be born in Christ Jesus, and you will rise (Amen! Glory!) in the power and the resurrection of Christ. And the life that was in Christ will be in you, and these signs shall follow them that believe. That's what's the matter. Yes, there's where it's at.

82 How do they get medicine? You know how they get medicine? They take a guinea pig, and they work up some kind of stuff---medicine---and think this ought to do a certain thing. And they shoot it into a guinea pig; and if he survives it, they'll give it to you.
You know, everybody ain't made like a guinea pig. You know, sometimes the medicine will kill you. There's been about as many killed with penicillin as there has been healed, or helped. So, you know, everybody ain't made alike, so it'll help some and kill the others, 'cause all men ain't made up like guinea pigs. But you know, it'll help some and kill the others.
But there's one thing sure. God's toxin will hurt no one, but cure all. That's right. For He said, "Whosoever will..." It won't kill you; it'll heal you. Oh, heal the broken hearted, lift up those feeble hands for joy.
Take a little washwoman, so backward she can't talk to the insurance man that comes to the door, and let her get filled with the Holy Ghost. She can give a testimony that'll shake the shingles off the top of the house. She's got something. Something's happened to her. She's born of the Spirit of God.
Take the orneriest prostitute that ever walked the street out there. The dogs wouldn't even look at her. That's right. Let her come in and get cleaned up from God. She'll be a credit to any neighborhood. That's right. That's what the grace of God does. It don't whitewash, but it washes white. That's right. Make her gun barrel straight.

83 I believe in an old-time, backwoods, sky-blue, sin-killing religion. Yes, sir, that kills out sin and self, and you're born again of the Spirit of God, and live for Him. That's the kind that saves you, brother.
Sometimes when I go back down in the state of Kentucky... You know what? Them Baptists down there in the state of Kentucky would make some of us Pentecostals feel ashamed.
You say, "Brother Branham, you said you was a Baptist?"
Yeah, I was a real Baptist, though. We didn't walk up, and take the right hand of fellowship. Brother, we got down at the altar, and beat one another on the back till we come through. When we got up from there we had something.

84 The other day in California I was in a great church, one of our great Pentecostal churches, and made an altar call. And three or four people come to the altar, and I begged for five minutes to get somebody to come to pray with them sinners. I was so tore out and wore, I couldn't hardly stand up from preaching, and I said, "Will somebody come pray?" They just sat there, just as starchy. It was a Pentecostal church. Why, them Baptists there'd make them ashamed.
I was preaching down there on Decoration Day, way back up there in the hollow---and all the horses eating corn all around, dinner on the ground, foot washing, you know---standing out there preaching, preaching on "We shall rise, hallelujah! We shall rise on that resurrection morning."
I said, "There lays my old grandmother. I held her in my arms, 110 years old, when she throwed her arms around my neck, and said, 'God bless your little soul, honey [dying], forevermore. I'll meet you in heaven.' "
About that time my old aunt, standing back there with one of them old long bonnets on, she said, "Hallelujah!" Here she come, like that.

85 An old sinner boy standing there, with a big old Landmark hat in his hand, like that, he said, "God, be merciful to my soul," and here he come down to the altar. Before he got there, there was about twenty of those old mammies around him. He got saved before he even got to the altar, brother. You know what time we eat dinner? About four-thirty that afternoon. Brother, they stayed there till they come through.
Oh, it used to be old cold formal Baptists; now it's old cold formal Pentecostals. That's right. That's where we are. That's exactly right.
Yes, they give the little guinea pig a toxin. Give it to him. If he makes it, then they give it to you, and it won't work.
But you know when God got ready to try his toxin out, He didn't give it to a guinea pig. He gave it to Himself. Amen. That's right. God became flesh, and dwelt among us in order to try the toxin on Himself. Any real good doctor will try it on himself before he gives it to his patient. That's right. And God ... that's the reason He had to become flesh.
Jehovah was a Spirit. God, the Father, is a spirit. God the Son is a man, who the Spirit of God dwelt in. We all know that. So then when... God came down and made flesh, so He could take the toxin. So on the banks of the Jordan, He taken the injection Himself.
The greatest thing that ever happened, when earth and heaven kissed, when the lamb and dove come together. The dove, the meekest bird of the heavens, God, Jehovah, represented Himself in the meekest bird of the air, the dove. God the Son, which was Jesus Christ, represented Himself in the meekest animal.

86 A lamb and the dove, they're both the same nature.
What if that dove would've fell down on a wolf, and ... said, "Days of miracles is past."? The dove would've swooped right off of him, sure. First time the wolf snorted---one of them big tempers, you know, they got like that---"I'll tell you right now! If you don't belong to mine..." Oh-oh, the dove won't stay there. The dove is meek. The lamb is led. The lamb don't have but one thing to offer. That's wool.
I heard someone tell me, say ... a woman said, "It's my American privilege if I want to smoke cigarettes."
I said, "That's exactly right."
Said, "They sell them."

87 I said, "That's exactly right. But if you're a lamb, you forfeit your rights. But if you're a goat, you won't do it. You just do whatever you want to, see." It's your right, but you forfeit it for the kingdom of God's sake. That's right. You forfeit all your rights, kingdom of God's sake. Forfeit it, certainly.
Now, we find out that God took the inoxin Himself, the toxin. He was inoculated. They watched Him through life. When they spit in his face, He said nothing about it. When they put an old dirty rag around his head, and hit Him on top of the head, said, "Now, if you're a prophet, tell us who hit you, and we'll... ," He never opened his mouth. They jerked handfuls of beard out of his face, till it was bleeding. They put a crown of thorns on his face. He said, "I could speak to my Father, and He'd send me twenty legions of angels. But my kingdom is not of this world," see.
The toxin held in the time of temptation. They took Him on the cross, and let Him thirst up there, and die; bleed till his human body run dry. The toxin held. He riled not back when He was riled on. That's the kind of toxin.

88 Everybody, as the world, was watching it. The disciples was watching Him. Then they seen Him... Till finally, when He come to the last hour, what did He say? "Oh, I was wrong. I was wrong. Take me off. I'll join your churches. I'll believe your theology."? Said, "Into thy hands I commend my spirit. Father, it's finished." Amen. Oh, God. The toxin held, brethren. The toxin held.
Then they buried Him. Somebody said, "This imposter said that he would raise on the third day. Let's make sure." So they took a hundred men, rolled a big rock up against the door, and put Caesar's seal upon it. Better not break it. What's going to happen? Where's the toxin at now? Glory to God, on Easter morning it proved what it was. Amen! It broke the seal of Caesar. It broke the seal of death. Broke the seal of the grave. Broke the seal of hell. It rose out again---hallelujah!---triumphed over death, hell, and the grave. God's toxin held.

89 There was 120 people said, "I want to get inoculated, too. I want that kind of inoculation." Don't you want that?
Jesus said, "The same inoculation I got, you'll have it also. It'll work on you just like it does on me. The works that I do shall you also, if you'll just get inoculated with this toxin that I know."
"Well, if you say that's wrong..."
Oh, it isn't either. Two came to him, and said, "Lord, let my ... one of my sons sit on your right hand."
He said, "Can you drink the cup that I drink? Can you be baptized with the baptism that I'm baptized with?"
Said, "Yes." (Other words, inoculated with the inoculation that I'm inoculated with?) Said, "Yes."
Said, "You will. But the right and left hand's not mine. That belongs to the Father to give that. But," said, "you shall be inoculated [in other words, receive the same that I have got]."

90 Now, wouldn't you like to have that inoculation? Wouldn't that be fine, to know that in life you could live that life? In life, these signs would follow you; in death, you could say, "Father, it's finished. Into thy hands I commend my spirit." Oh, my!
Then on the resurrection morning, glory to God... They might pat you in the face with the shovel, but on that resurrection morning you'll come forth again, for the inoculation holds. They saw it held in the hour of death. It held in temptation. It held in the sick bed. It held in the grave. It held in hell. It held on Easter.

91 And there was 120 desired that inoculation, so they went up to the upper room to wait for their inoculation. Amen.
Jesus said, "I'll send the serum down just as soon as you get up there and wait." Oh! Now, I begin to feel real religious. Honest I do. Glory! You'll call me a holy roller anyhow---you might as well get started.
You think Baptists don't shout? Here's one that does. I believe in it. Amen! Yes, brother. Hallelujah! Climbed ... them upper rooms, and waited for the inoculation to come.
All of a sudden there came the serum from heaven.

92 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Here come the inoculation down, the medical kit for healing, for "He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquity: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, with his stripes we were healed." Hallelujah!
The symptoms in that death on Calvary sent back the inoculation to the church, with the commission to go into all the world, preach the gospel. These signs shall follow them that's inoculated. There came a sound from heaven like a rushing mighty wind, and inoculated 120. How did they act? Just like a branded calf. Brother, here ... staggered under the impact of that inoculation. Brother, they were so drunk on the Spirit till the people thought they were crazy. They said, "These men are full of new wine."
Peter said, "Full of new wine?" He got up and begin to preach to them.

93 Now, the first thing you know, they said, "We would like to have some of this inoculation." They seen something real. The hungry-hearted church members saw something real, something that actually those people had was making them act like that. They seen that they had something, 'cause they looked like they were drunk, and yet they were religious, and yet they had signs following.
Said, "Well, now, have you got a doctor here? Is there any doctor here?"
Said, "Yeah, we got one here---Dr. Simon Peter. Come forth, Dr. Simon Peter. Tell them the prescription."
Said, "What can we do to be saved? What can we do to get the inoculation?"
"Why," Peter said, "why, you must take the kosher. You must give the right hand of fellowship. And be tried for six months first, to see whether it really works or not." Oh, mercy! That's man-made theory.
Peter said, "Repent, every one of you. Be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the Holy Ghost. [Amen!] For the..." He [unclear word] said, "I'm giving you an eternal prescription."
Dr. Peter gave them ...

94 Dr. Simon Peter, on the day of Pentecost, gave us an eternal prescription. Not join hands, shake hands, sprinkle; he said, "Repent!" Not come into the church; but he said, "Repent, every one of you. Be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you and to your children." This prescription, "Whosoever will, let him come." That's it.
"Is there no balm in Gilead? Sure. "Is there no physician there?" Certainly. That's right. "Then why is my people so sickish?" Hallelujah!
You know what's the matter? You get a real doctor that will write out a prescription, and you take it down to some quack druggist, and he goes to mixing that prescription with something else, he'll kill the patient. That's exactly right.

95 That's what's the matter. We got too many quack seminaries that's tried to make something else. "Join the church. Your mother belongs here. Put your name on the book."
Brother, don't you tamper with that prescription! You give it just like the doctor wrote it. Hallelujah! And the same results will come, if you'll follow the prescription. Don't divvy from it. Now, remember a prescription has so much poison in it. Then it has enough antidote to upset that poison. Enough poison ... he diagnoses your case, and then he gives you enough poison to kill the germ; enough antidote to upset it so it won't kill you. And if you put all antidote, it won't help you; put all poison, it'll kill you. So it has to be a balanced prescription.
And God, the Doctor, knowed how to give it to Simon Peter. And he wrote it. And he said this prescription is "for you, your children, and to them that's far off, as many as the Lord our God shall ever call."

96 Now you say Pentecost is not right.
What's the matter? What kind of a drugstore are you going to? That's what's the matter. We got card parties in the church, bunco games to pay the preacher, sell an old rooftop rooster, boil him up, about ... sell him for a dollar and a half a plate to pay the preacher; him standing up there talking about flowers and things, and never preach the baptism of the Holy Ghost. What's the matter, Lord?
That's the reason we got sickness. That's the reason we got people that don't believe in divine healing. It's because they haven't took the right prescription. Amen!

97 You get the baptism of the Holy Ghost and you'll believe in God's power. You'll believe every word God says. You'll punctuate it with an "amen" to everything that God says.
And them people didn't sit there, and say, "Well, I suppose ... I guess it's all right." Brother, when they got that, they were filled with the Holy Ghost, began to stagger like drunk men. And remember, you Catholic persons, the blessed virgin Mary was right there. And if God wouldn't let her come to heaven without she took that same prescription, how are you going to get there anything less?
Some of you cold starched Pentecostals, you cold starchy Baptists, you cold starchy Methodists, how are you going to get there anything less than that? when even the mother of Jesus Christ had to go up there and get the same thing, and stagger and act like she was drunk. If that ain't the Bible, I'll ask any professor to come disprove it. And every time in the Bible they ever got the Holy Ghost, they acted exactly the way they did there. The prescription will take the same effect every time. Amen!
What time is it? Oh, I thought it was seven o'clock. Oh, brother! Listen, brother. Listen, sister. What the world needs today is to see something real. That's what they're looking for, to see something real. I mean the real born again.

98 Now them kind that was ordained to eternal life will see it. "My sheep hear my voice." Exactly. That's right.
You say, "Well, yes. We are Presbyterian,"
"We're Methodist."
I don't care what you are. If you hear the real voice of God, and the real voice of God made them people act like that, and do like that, and have a ministry like that, the same power of God will do the same thing today if you've got it. That's right. If you received it, it will act on you like it did them. Certainly it is.
Peter said this prescription is for all generations. So you people who are making up a bunch of man-made dogma and call it doctrine, calling creeds church creeds---Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, and even Pentecostal creeds---what's the matter with you? Take God's prescription.

99 That's the reason the children are sick. They haven't got the prescription fulfilled yet.
God's got plenty of balm now. Don't worry about that. You just obey the prescription, and see what happens. Repent, and see if the Holy Ghost will come. Do as God said do, and see if the Holy Ghost will come. See if it'll take the same effect it did. What's the matter today, friends? We've got to really have it---that's what God said---something real. While I'm talking about real, let me close. Will you give me five more minutes?

100 I like to hunt. I just love to hunt, just to get to see the sunsets, and get in the woods. As all of you know, my mother's a half-breed. My mother's mother come from the reservation and draws a pension, see. So, my conversion never took it out of me, the love of the woods.
The Christian Businessmen Full Gospel, they've taken me on the River of No Return, around the world, to hunt in Africa, Asia, the mountains. Bud Branham, the Rainy Pass Lodge at Anchorage, that's my cousin, see. And sixteen planes going in for grizzly, sheep, and so forth. You hunter brothers, and so forth, if you ever go up there, let me write him, and get you in there cheap, see. So ... and I get to go up there and hold meetings, and they take me in for nothing. Because I don't have any money, so ... and that's the way...
The reason I don't have to have any money, if the Lord wants to send me to Africa, He'll say... "Brother Branham," somebody come up, say, "the Lord said to give you this."
I say, "Thank you, Lord. I knowed that." There I go,

101 see.
I don't have to beg for nothing. If the Lord don't want me to go then He'll keep me here, see. That's the way to live. I love to live that way. Just the way He says, it's all right. I ain't got nothing; don't want nothing. So, I just want his grace, is all.
I used to hunt up in the North woods. I had a hunting partner up there. And all you brethren that hunt know what a good hunting partner is. You know one another. He was one of the finest hunters, and the best shots I ever seen. You never had to worry about him. Sometimes you take a chechaco in the woods, and you get... Chechaco, that means "greenhorn." It's an Indian word. But you take him into the woods, and you just have to keep an eye on him, or get him lost.
But you never had to worry about old Burt. He knowed where he was at. He was about a half---Indian himself. So, he was a fine fellow, but the meanest man I ever seen in my life. He was the cruel heartedest guy. He used to shoot little fawns just to make me feel bad. Now, I don't think it's wrong to shoot a fawn. If the conservation says for me to shoot a fawn, that's all right. Abraham killed a calf, and fed it to God. So, the fawn part's all right; but not just to be mean. It's not what you do; it's the way you do it. So, sometimes it's not what you say; it's the way you say it.

102 And so, then this little fawn... He'd see them little fawns, and he knew---me being a minister, you know... He'd just shoot them little fellows---eight or ten of them a year---just to make me feel bad. And I said, "Burt, you are one of the finest buddies, and I like to hunt with you because you're a good fellow. But you are so mean."
He said, "You call me mean?"
I said, "You're more than that. You're wicked."
And he said, "Aw, preacher, get next to yourself." Said, "You're chicken-hearted, like the rest of the preachers."
I said, "I'm not chicken-hearted, but," I said, "man, I'm a hunter." And I said, "I'm not a killer; I'm a hunter."
And he said, "Aw, get next to yourself, Billy."
One year up there, he said... I went up, and I was a little late getting up there. The season had opened a couple of weeks. And, oh, if anybody ever hunted in the north woods, them whitetails, oh, brother! Talk about Houdini, the escape artist---he's an amateur to them when they're shot at a couple of times. They just ... like that.
And sometimes you can't see over twenty feet away from you in them woods there in Maine, where... You'd better know where you're at, or you'll never come back. For hundreds of miles, it's just level. You fall in the marsh, and go over your head ten times. And it's just dangerous hunting. If you're not a real woodsman, stay out of it, 'less you got somebody with you.

103 So we were out there hunting, and before we went out... My wife was with me, and she stayed up at the lodge at the camp. There was about twenty women up there. So Burt and I always taken across the other side of the mountain. And we knew where we were at, and was hunting.
And he said, "I got something, Billy."
I said, "What is it, Burt?"
He reached down in his pocket, and he had a little whistle. He could blow it and it sounded like a little fawn crying---that's a baby deer, you know---crying for its mammy. And "Oh," I said, "Burt, you're not that cruel. You wouldn't ... would you call a doe up with that fawn call?"
He said, "Aw, get next to yourself."
I didn't really think he'd do it, honest.

104 We hunted... There was about six inches of snow on the ground, about. Good hunting weather, tracking. We hunted all the way till noon. Didn't find a thing, not even a track. Them deer feed at night. Then daytime, they get back under the bushes, and things. You can't move them, and so... They won't move till it gets night again, unless you happen to step on one, get him out.
So then, we hunted ... about eleven o'clock, eleven-thirty. And we always pack a thermos bottle full of hot chocolate, and maybe a sandwich. And we'd climb up as far as we could. Then at noontime, we'd eat and then separate, and he'd go another way, and me another way. And we'd come back to the spike camp for that night---come in maybe ten or eleven o'clock at night.
So then,

105 we come to a little opening about the size of this auditorium in here, and he just kind of ... he was in front of me, so he just kind of hunkered down like this. (Hunker, I guess that's all right here, isn't it? There's enough Kentuckians here know what I mean when I say hunker.) So he just kind of stooped down, rather, and he reached back in his pocket like this. And he was going to get his... I thought he was getting his sandwich out. And when he did, he brought out that little whistle. And I looked at him. I said, "Oh, shame on you, Burt."

106 He blowed it, and it sounded just exactly like a little baby crying for its mother. And when he did, I looked just across the place, and a great big doe stood up. And he had eyes just like a lizard, and he looked at me with them lizard eyes like that, and I said, "You wouldn't do that, Burt." I said, "She ... that's a mother, brother." I said, "That's a mother. She thinks that's her baby."
He said, "Oh, get next to yourself, preacher." He slipped around like this with his gun.
I thought, "Oh, my!" And he blew it again. I could just see them great big eyes, and big ears sticking out like that---doe, the mother deer. She'd probably had fawns, you see. So her baby was in trouble. She was listening, them big ears up. And so, he blew it again.

107 Now that's altogether unusual, that time of day---eleven o'clock in the day. So she stepped right out into this opening. Now, that's altogether unusual, if anybody hunts deer---walked right out into that opening. What was the matter? She was looking for her baby. She was looking around like that.
Now she wasn't playing the part of a hypocrite. She had something in her. She was born a mother, and her baby was in trouble. She was looking for that baby.

108 Just then I seen old Burt... We never carry a shell in a barrel. That's bad policy. So, I see him taking this 30.06 and put 180 grain mushroom bullet... Oh, a dead shot... Pull that head down, raise it up like that, and them crosshairs in that scope right across her heart.
"Oh, God! How can that man do that? That mother looking for her baby. And then, he'd be cruel enough to blow that precious, loyal heart plumb through her." Why, across this building with that ... using that heavy load of shell he was, why, it would blow her heart plumb out of her. I thought, "How can he be that mean, just ... to that precious mother, that loyal heart, looking for her baby---out looking for her baby? And then he'd shoot her heart out of her." I thought, "Burt, you're wicked."

109 And he looked down. I seen him moving down like this. He was setting himself. I thought, "Oh, brother!" I knowed what was going to happen. I couldn't look at it.
And when I turned around to see what he was doing, the deer spotted the hunter. And she spooked. (That's a hunter's word. That means she got scared.) And she looked up. She threw them big ears up like that. Did she run? No, sir! Death or no death, her baby was in trouble. She was looking for it. Oh, my! She couldn't help it. She was a mother. She was born a mother. She wasn't playing the part of a hypocrite. She was a mother. Death or no death, that baby was in trouble and she was looking for it.
And I thought, "Surely that ought to strike that cruel-hearted man." I seen him level himself, getting ready to shoot. I turned my back. I couldn't look at it. I just couldn't stand it, to see that precious mother going to get that precious, loyal heart... But she loved her baby so much until she was going to have it blowed plumb out of her. Looking at it, and looking when that hunter was sitting there, too, and knowed that meant death to her; but she was hunting her baby.
And I turned around, and I thought, "Oh, God! Oh, how can he do it? How can he do it? That's so cruel." I was standing behind a little spruce tree. I thought, "Oh, God, how can he do it?" There was a snow bank there. "Now that precious mother's going to get her heart blowed plumb out of her. God, I can't look at it. How can he do it?"

110 I noticed the gun didn't fire. I turned around to see what he was doing. He was going like this. He was going ... shaking. He looked around at me, and those lizard eyes had changed. Great big tears was running off his cheeks. He grabbed that gun and throwed it on the ground. He grabbed me by the pants leg. He said, "Billy, I've had enough of it. Lead me to that Jesus that you talk about that's so real."
What was it? He saw something real. He saw something that wasn't put on. He saw something that was genuine. He saw a mother's love that would stand in the face of death, regardless of what it was. He saw something real; not a sermon I preached, or a song that the church sung. He's a deacon in a Baptist church now. He caught me by the leg on that snow drift. He said, "Billy, I've seen something that's real." Said, "I've had enough." Said, "Tell me about it."
I knelt down in the snow, and I said, "Burt, God said if they hold their peace these rocks will cry out. Do you love Him?"
He said, "I want the kind of love for my God that deer had for her baby." There on that snow drift there, I led that hunter to God.

111 I wonder tonight how many in here would like to have that kind of love for your Lord, like that real love that deer had? What did she do? She displayed something that was real. Now, friends, there's so much make-believe today. Let's not take that. Let's have something real.
It's so late. Let's just stand to our feet, and consecrate our lives to God. All that wants God to come into your heart, and give you an experience to be a lover of Christ, and have the love for Christ that you could face death, or anything---the kind of love that that mother deer had for her baby---raise up your hands like this. Let us bow our heads.
Yes, Lord, we got balm. There is balm in Gilead. There's physicians here. God, I pray that You'll help the people now to come, and be inoculated. Come and be inoculated from temper, from unbelief. Get ready for that great service tomorrow. Grant it, Lord.

112 With our heads bowed, how many of you wants that real Pentecostal, Holy Ghost, love of God? That's Pentecost---is real love. Would you come and stand around the altar while I pray for you? Come, move out of your position now, while you're standing. Come up here now, and say, "I want that kind of love, Brother Branham. I want to love my Lord.
God bless you. God bless you. That's right. Come from the balconies. We'll wait. Come right up. This might be the hour that all through life... What's any more greater to you, friends? No matter if you're a church member, that doesn't matter. You say, "Well, I belong to a Pentecostal church." But if you haven't got that dying love for Christ, to display before the world so the people can see, won't you come?

113 You Pentecostal people that knows that you're living a life... You got temper, and you got flusterations, and you sometimes fear, and doubt. Why don't you come on up? Come around, and show God just by coming up.
"I'm sorry, God. I want love. I want real love. I want to love You, Lord, like that mother deer loved her baby."
You say, "But my neighbors, I go to church with them." But your Lord, what about Him?
Come from the balconies, won't you? There's plenty of you up there. We'll stand right here and wait.

114 You young students here, from this college. You're going out to be the men of tomorrow, the women of tomorrow. Why don't you come and dedicate your life? We're not asking you to join any Pentecostal church. You stay a Methodist, just what you are. But you come and get this experience of the love of God in your heart, so sweet that when you go to your parish, wherever God will lead you, young man, young woman... Why don't you come and get a real inoculation from sin?
Some of you students out there smoking cigarettes, aren't you ashamed? Come here. Why, John Wesley would have turned in his grave if he'd known---you'd been his students then. Come on up here, won't you come? Get God in your heart really. Come, won't you? Come out of the balconies. All, all. Whosoever will.
The prescription's open tonight. We've got balm here in Gilead, and here's the physicians right here, to take you to the baptizing. Whatevermore you need, we have them here. Won't you come up? Won't you come, rededicate yourself to God, and have an experience? God's going to ...

115 now remember, God's going to ask you, "Why didn't you come?"
Before morning, if you get sick, you feel pains in your arms, they're coming up around your shoulders, you know what that is, don't you? You're dying. You feel your pulse coming up, your hands getting cold. The doctor runs up, says it's a heart attack. The ambulance is screaming and you feel your life... You're pressing the pillow, and you know you're going to die. God's going to say, "Why didn't you come?"
"Well, Lord, I belong to the church." That ain't what He's talking about.

116 Why? Why, why is there still sin sickness in the church? Is there no balm to cure it? Yeah, there's balm to cure it. There's physicians here. Everything's ready. Won't you come? Come now while we're waiting just a moment.
........ Saviour
Hear my humble cry;
"Make me a Christian. Make me borned a Christian, like that deer." What was that deer? She was born a mother. She was born to be a mother. Come, be born today a Christian. Come on. You'll have the same word of God. More so than that deer had. Can a mother forget her suckling babe? Yes, she might. "But I can't forget you," said Jehovah. "Your name's engraved in the palms of my hands."

117 Won't you come? I'm inviting you. And remember, at the day of the judgment when you're asked "Why?" the tape recording of this night will be played over.
.............
Do not pass me by.
Saviour.........
Come, every soul. Every soul in here having temper, flusterations, doubts. Sick people, come. If you have enough faith to obey, won't you come now, and get the real thing in you that gives you faith. It may help you to be healed tomorrow night. Won't you come down to the altar, stand here? saying, "Lord, take all my doubts away from me. Take all my doubts, and let me have something here that makes me really know. Give me something that tomorrow night when that healing line's called, I'll say, 'Lord God, there's not a shadow of a doubt in my heart. I believe You, Lord.'"
............
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.
Saviour, Saviour,
Hear my humble cry;
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.

118 Look to the other corner, a little mother nursing her little baby on her lap. If somebody would come tonight and say to that little mother, "I'm going to kill you or the baby," which would die? The mother. Sure. Why? That's hers. It laid under her heart for nine months. It's hers. Why don't you lay under his heart now? Just give your life over to Him. He died for you, that you could be saved. Now that mother could... If something happened to her, she could forget her baby. The Bible said so. But, "Never can I forget you," He said. "Your names are engraved in the palms of my hands."
Won't you come now? This is like a consecration service. Come now. One more time, so I'll be sure that I called everybody.

119 Now remember, you Catholic people... You say, "Brother Branham, I'm Catholic."
I don't care. A Catholic can be saved just the same as anybody.
"I'm Baptist." Right.
"But I'm Pentecostal." A Pentecostal can be saved just like anybody else. But if you haven't got... "Though..."
Listen. "Though I speak with tongues of men and angels, and have not love, I am nothing." That's the Pentecostals---speak with tongues of men and angels, both the unknown, and the known tongues. That's right. You Methodists, you Baptist, or Catholic---"Though I understand all the mysteries of God, can explain the whole Bible, know it all, my theology's supreme, and have not the kind of love, I am nothing. Though I give all my goods to the poor, and give my body to be burned as a sacrifice, faith to move mountains, though I could do it, and have not love, I am nothing. Where there's tongues, it shall cease. Where there's prophecy, it shall fail. Where there's knowledge, it shall vanish. But when love comes, it endures forever."
Dear, dying Lamb, Thy precious blood
Shall never lose its power,
Till all the ransomed church of God
Be saved to sin no more. (Listen.)
Ever since by faith I saw that stream
Thy flowing wounds supplied,
Redeeming love has been my theme,
And shall be till I die.
Then in a nobler, sweeter song,
I'll sing thy power to save,
When this poor lisping, stammering
tongue
Lies silent in the grave.

120 Let me live and use every ounce of my strength, my body, and all that I am, to express the love of Jesus Christ that's shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost.
Now every person in here, you around the altar, whatever your trouble is, confess it to God: "I got temper. I got habits. I'm ashamed of my life. I've done this, that, or the other." I'm going to pray for you. I want everybody to be reverent.

121 Our heavenly Father, these people have come upon the simple Word of the living God, and upon the story that happened some twenty years ago when a cruel-hearted hunter, to be mean and indifferent that day up there on that snowdrift... When he saw a mother deer display a real genuine love, he saw something real. That's what he wanted. Surely, if God could give that kind of love to an animal, He could give it to a man. There You give him that great experience of the new birth.
Now, Father, these are standing around the altar. They're women, mothers, fathers, children. God, we're standing here ready to receive that love. May they not walk up here in vain. But may they be so determined that they're going to be inoculated from their evil, their thoughts, their flusterations, their tempers, until the Holy Ghost can fall upon them, Lord, like a rushing mighty wind. Grant it, Lord. Through Jesus Christ's name I commit them to You.
I want you Christians to walk right here around here. Here's ministers walking up here to kneel and pray.

122 Now everybody in the audience, bow your heads while I'm going to ask Brother [unclear words] if he'll lead us in prayer. I commit you to Jesus Christ, the Son of God, for the desire of your heart that you come for, while we pray.

Why?

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1 Let us bow our heads just a moment for prayer. Our heavenly Father, as we approach thy throne of grace tonight, we come in that all-sufficient name of the Lord Jesus with the blessed assurance that He has given us that we would be heard, and our prayers would be attended to. We would ask first the forgiveness of our sins, and the sins of the people. And we would ask again that your blessings will continue to be made known among us, that your name might be honored.
Bless the words that's said in both song and sermon, testimony, or whatever might be done. Heal the sick, save the lost, give the Holy Spirit to those who are hungering and thirsting. And may this be a night long remembered because of thy presence. We ask it in Jesus' name. Amen. You may be seated.

2 I was saying the other morning at the breakfast, I'm always just a little bit late. And I was preaching at a United Brethren church not long ago, and I come in about an hour late. And so the minister said, "I will now introduce the late Mr. Branham."
I said, "Well, I've always been a little late. My mother said I was a full nine-months baby. Then it looked like I didn't have enough time---I only weighed five pounds. When I was married, I ... she waited for me for about an hour. I held the whole thing up---I made a hospital call and come back. If I can just be late for my funeral now, that's the next thing---if I can just put that off awhile. I don't want that to come too quick. So, I want to stay and serve the Lord."

3 It's good to be here and to have this fine audience of people out again tonight. I think in the morning, to you that live up around Los Angeles, there's a Christian Businessman's breakfast in the morning. I believe they're still holding it at the Clifton's Cafeteria, and I hope to be there in the morning.
I've learned that Brother Shakarian has been pretty ill. He's going to be there? Well, that's fine. Brother Demos Shakarian, a personal brother, good friend of mine. I'm sorry to hear about it. I heard he got a little sick, but didn't know he was as sick as what he was. Just got run down. I told him about two years ago he'd better pull in just a little bit. He looked back and said, "Practice what you preach." And so...

4 I remember the last time here, when Raymond Richey caught me by the trouser leg as we was coming into the church down here in Los Angeles---no, I beg your pardon, at Long Beach. We was going into the auditorium there that night. Raymond's a personal friend of mine, and he'd had a breakdown. He was in a terrible condition. And he said, "Brother Branham, don't go too long." He'd just come back from Korea. Raymond's getting a little far up the road too, you know. He said, "You'll kill yourself." And said then, "Look what a condition I'm in now."
And I've been along those lines, so I know what it is. And I see so much to be done, yet it looks like you haven't got time to do it, and it makes you nervous. So I just hope the Lord forgives me, that my zeal will not overcome my wisdom ... He'd give me wisdom to know how to handle my zeal, rather.

5 It's nice to be here tonight with you brethren, you back here---Brother Wescott, and all you brethren. So nice, this nice audience here. I'm just so glad to see these meetings. Look like everybody just in one heart and one accord. Look like anything could happen. The last few meetings has been that way, and I'm just so thankful to the Lord. As long as they continue like that I feel like I can just keep moving on awhile. When ... it's when you hit those crossfires, that's when it's bad, you know, and no unity. But here it's just been just one great big brotherhood. Everything is... Just so thankful for that. May the Lord continue.

6 Now, we realize that we haven't got the tinsel on the meetings that we did at the first time. Usually a revival breaks out; it lasts, according to history, about three years. A minister usually gives his best in three years. After that he lives on his reputation of what he made in those three years. I'm so glad I've placed mine upon the Word (that's right), so I can live by the Word.
I just believe this blessed old Bible. I just think it's the grandest thing. I think it is God. The Word is God in letter form. And when the Holy Spirit lines up on it, it just brings it to life.

7 I was talking to someone... We have private interviews, and that's where you have to... By the way, at home I think there was three hundred on the list when we left, waiting for those private interviews. We go in with the people, just pull the curtains down, and we stay there until... We pray until the Lord reveals by a vision what to do. Now we know the Word of the Lord tells us, and lays out the program. But there's...
Sometimes there's things in a person's life that they don't know just what to do. And there's where we stay before the Lord until it's answered. And then we hit these interviews, like we come over here. The people in this district maybe has been waiting, some of them, for four or five years for these interviews.

8 And we were speaking (I believe it was yesterday or this morning, one) that about the light shining in the last days. Now I have refrained from preaching, because I am just here to pray for the sick, and to put my net with my brethren and pull. But I truly believe that we're living in the last days. It's right at the end time. And I'd like to take a group like this---a unity of spirit and heart---and I wish we had about two or three weeks that we could just start through, having afternoon services, and morning services and evening services, and just bring the Bible as we see it.

9 And I've been so thankful. There's a Greek scholar sitting behind me, and I was with him the other day. The man is from Greece. His father is a noted minister in Greece, and he takes my tapes. And he said, "Brother Branham, I thought you were a Greek scholar."
I said, "I don't even know good English, let alone one word of Greek."
He said, "But bringing your nouns, pronouns, and everything in your teaching on your tapes," said, "I can put a line like this and it divides it perfectly, and hits right in with the Greek."
And I said, "Well, I'm thankful for that, because I always try to feel led of the Holy Spirit to say what I say. And if it said anything contrary to the Bible, then I wouldn't believe it, see. I wouldn't believe that it was the Holy Spirit, because it will always stay in the Bible. The Holy Spirit will.

10 And we were talking about this little woman this afternoon ... this morning, I believe it was, that we were talking about the little woman that I spoke of---the ill-famed little fellow---that came out to the well at Sychar, and she seen the Lord Jesus. And not recognizing Him, yet she was to be one of his disciples.
Now, I have a little funny doctrine. Now if it don't go just right with yours, you do the same way I do when I'm eating fried chicken at your house. I just love fried chicken. And when I hit a bone I don't quit eating chicken: I just throw the bone away, and keep eating chicken. So, you believe the same thing.

11 Now, I believe that the church's name was put on the Lamb's book of life before the foundation of the world, before the Lamb was slain; 'cause the Bible said the antichrist would deceive all upon the earth whose names were not written in the Lamb's book of life, slain before the foundation of the world. I believe the infinite God by his foreknowledge saw the church.
Now I know that's a ticklish subject. And remember, there's a truth to it. I don't believe it in the line that many does, but I believe that there is ... by foreknowledge God could tell the end from the beginning, 'cause He's the infinite God. Now, whether I'm part of that church (I hope I am), I'm just seeking out my own salvation with fear and trembling, staying right in the Word. And if I get out of there, then I'll pray to get back in it again. And so when that...

12 It's not a good word to use, see, but when that predestinated seed laying in that little woman, believing, watching... Yet in her sinful condition, she was watching for a coming of a Messiah. The church order in that day was so ... almost like it is today. She'd just as soon live like she was living, and ... 'cause she seen the ridiculous of how the people that professed to be religious and was nothing but a load of hypocrisy. And I say that not to be sacrilegious. I say that with honesty, and sincere in my heart, and love for everybody.
And then, when that ... when... She was standing there waiting to see what the answer of that man was when she said, "It's not customary [She was getting in the tradition then of the elders.] for you Jews to ask Samaritan, me, a woman of Samaria such a thing, or have any dealings."
He said, "But if you knew who you were speaking to, you would ask me for water." Then the question come up, and Jesus said, "Go get your husband."
She said, "I have none."
He said, "Well you have said, because you have had five, and the one you're living with now is not your husband." Quickly (watch!), there was that predestinated seed to eternal life. "All the Father has given me will come. No man can come unless he calls." See? "All the Father hath [past tense] given me will come."

13 And when that light flashed across that predestinated seed, quickly... Not like them educated scholars, standing over there criticizing. They thought they were in that group, but they wasn't. They called Him "Beelzebub."
But as soon as He hit that predestinated seed, that light flashed across it, she said, "Sir [It come to life, see, quickened it.], I perceive that thou art a prophet. We know Messiah, when he comes he'll do this kind of a work."
He said, "I am he that speaks with you." Oh, my! That settled it, see. What... "All the Father has given me..." We only sow seeds. God lodges them wherever He will. Some falls by the wayside; some comes up in thorns for a few days, and thistles choke them out and so forth; and others go into the right place. I don't know where they are. We just sow them.

14 Thank you. God bless you. Now let us read the Word. Now I want to take, if it be all right, the opportunity tonight to kind of teach just a little---nothing out of the ordinary, just a little teaching. And maybe Sunday afternoon, the Lord willing, I would like to teach a little message to the church, if the Lord permits.
So nice of these brethren here that told me, "Brother Branham, if (the nice letter and all of them signed it) we turn you into the pulpit, preach what's on your heart." Now, that's... I couldn't have no more liberty than that. And so, I'm very grateful for a group of men, ministers, shepherds...
And mostly ministers are suspicious because they have a right to be. They are shepherds, and they want to know what their flock's eating. That's right. They should know. And a man that's got dignity and honor wouldn't do nothing to hurt anyone, or any flock. He would always try to give it some vitamins, if anything, put it into the flock. So maybe the Lord will give us some vitamins on the same words that we've heard many times.

15 Let us turn tonight to the 2nd book of the Kings [chapter 1, verse 1] and read just a portion of the Scripture:
Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
And Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in the upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.
But the angel of the Lord said unto Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, and go ... meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?
Now wherefore thus saith the Lord, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou has gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed.
And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye now turned back?
And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto this, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came ... to meet thee, and told thee these words?
And they answered him, He was a hairy man, ... girded with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
Now in Jeremiah for a text, if I should call it---in Jeremiah the 8th chapter and the 22nd verse. "Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?" And I would like to take the subject, if it should be called such (the text, rather), as the little word of "Why?" W-h-y, why.

16 (I hope I'm not too loud back there, if the engineer of this will kind of govern it. They got a little yoke around my neck tonight here. So I hope I don't get too loud. And it's good for my rough voice.)

17 When God makes a way of escape for the people, and the people refuse that escape, then God asks the question, "Why?" I think He has a right to. If God does all that He can for the people, and the people refuse to receive his help, then He has a right to ask why they didn't do it. I believe it'll be that way at the judgment. When God has made every preparation that could be made for the church and for the people and then they refuse it, God's going to ask us why we didn't receive it. I believe that.

18 Now, we find out that this Ahaziah was the son of Ahab and Jezebel. He had come out of a cursed family. And when you take a family that's raising their children in the wrong atmosphere, you can't hardly expect anything else.

19 Now, Israel was a nation something like this nation. It made its same mistakes that this nation's made. And we find out that Israel come up out of Egypt and drove the occupants out of the land, and possessed the land; the same that we come seeking an oasis, and drove the natives here back and possessed the land. Israel had favor before God. We believe that our pilgrim fathers did also. Israel in its early stages produced some great men. Well, they had for instance David, Solomon, Joshua, great men; and we had a Washington, Lincoln, and great men.
But finally Israel, in its politics, formed around and got a renegade on the throne: Ahab, a halfway believer, lukewarm church member. And Ahab wasn't such a rascal as it was his wife. She was the one that could just handle Ahab. Any way she wanted to make him go, she did it. And you don't have to be too spiritual to understand what I'm talking about. It's the system behind it. But in that day they had a prophet, and his name was Elijah, and he was a fearless godly man.

20 And I think a lot of you good Democrats that sold your birthrights to politics to do such an evil thing that you've done, God be merciful. Yes, sir. One day this nation knowed that old thing, but she's forgot it. She's sold out, because the church got lukewarm and got away from God. That's exactly. I'd better leave off of that, 'cause I said I wasn't going to preach on that.

21 Now, as we go on (but you know what I'm thinking), notice. But in that same day God sent a mighty one in the land---just before there come a plague that swept the land out. And God was proven. Now, during this ... after Ahab's death, his son took his place, and ... Hezekiah [Ahaziah], and he reigned in Samaria. And one day walking out in the lattices he fell through, and some disease set into the place where he got hurt. And now, instead of following like the forefathers did, to consult God about it, he sent to the idol, Beelzebub.

22 It's a strange thing that a man that's supposed to be an Israelite would consult such as that, instead of going back to the very God that brought them over into that land and give it to them, because he was trying to follow the trend of the day, and after his father and mother.
That's what's happened in the churches today---too much. We have got away from the spiritual application of the principles that this nation stands for. And it's got up on politics, and union, and big time, and bellyful, and a new car, and new homes; and got away from the real principles of things, the real principles of Christianity. It's too bad we have to say these things, but somebody's got to say it. And it's got to come to pass. We must be frank, and honest and sincere. And you do not need spiritual interpretation, because it's before your eyes. You can see it.

23 But we have, as they did in those days, sold our birthrights for a mess of pottage, and we are going to reap just what we sowed. And it's done past now. And the revival that we had sweeping across the country, it's died down to a little smoldering flame here and there, or something. We don't want to believe it, but it's the truth. That's right. And we went out and sowed a bunch of great denominational seeds. And when the Spirit fell, what did we reap? A denominational crop. If we'd have sowed the Word of God, we'd have reaped a church of God, if we would have done it. But we got off on the wrong side.
The rain comes upon the earth to water it. And if ... whatever what kind of seed that's in the field, that's what it brings forth. That's right. And so the same Holy Spirit that brings forth the church of the living God brings forth the weeds also---the denominationals. But you see what we've reaped: "Million more in '44," for Baptists, and so forth and on down. And that's what we've reaped---just exactly as we've sowed. It's always going to be that way.

24 And Israel was ... just reaped what she had sowed. And this young fellow had come in now to take over. And instead of sending down and seeking God---to the people that had come there to this great economy that God had given them---he sent over to the popular idol of the day: the Beelzebub, the popular religion among the people. Just a few were holding the torchlight.

25 And Elijah was the great prophet of that day, and he had forgot about Elijah. He didn't care about Elijah, because Elijah would have told him where he was standing. Therefore they don't want to know what's the truth. They'd rather take this other way, not realizing that you're going to reap what you sow. Exactly. That's a law of nature. You do it. It's a law of the spirit. You certainly have to do it.

26 Now. But you know, God reveals his secrets to his prophets. The Bible said over in Amos, "Surely God will do nothing except he reveals to his prophets."
And then when this ... messengers on the road over to meet the priest, and to find out from Beelzebub the condition of their king, and what would be the outcome... They didn't want to take God's way to line up with God's Word, to line up with God's way of doing things. They wanted to live any way they wanted to, and still be religious.
And that's what this nation has come to today. It just don't want to line up with God. It wants to live any way it wants to; but it wants to be religious. So it'll take the easiest way out. It always finds that water seeks its level, always. Now they had another arm to lean on. They didn't need Jehovah anymore. They didn't want that strict way. They wanted to live after their own lust and their own fashions. And yet they could be religious.

27 But remember, way down there in that cave, pulled back an old hairy-looking man (looked like a fuzzy worm back in there). But under that little brown skin and skinny arms beat the heart that God lived in.
He said, "Elijah, arise and go up there and meet them." Oh, my! What we need today is another Elijah---not afraid to tell the truth. Went up there and stood in the way, piece of sheepskin, or leather, around his loins here to gird him up. And there he stood, the fuzz all over his face. And I suppose he didn't take a bath every night, and use his forks and knives the way we do here in Hollywood, and shine up the way we do. But yet, God was with him. God was in him. We put so much stress on the traditions of the day.

28 Now we notice now, he stood in the way when these messengers come up. And he said, "Is it because... Go tell him, 'Is it because there is not a God in Israel? Is there no prophet here? Is that the reason?'" Oh, there was a God, and there was a prophet; but it was the king's own stubbornness. He didn't want to line up with God and his prophet. And that was the reason that the king was seeking the easiest way out of these things. He said, "Is it because there is no prophet? there is no God in Israel? there's no way of finding it?"

29 I wonder today if it is today that we seek comfort. We've just left some holidays. People go out and get drunk on those holidays. They're Sunday school teachers, church members, choir members. Go out and drink and carouse, they gamble. And the people live just the way they want to. And yet they belong to the highest churches there is in the city, some of the highest order of this intellectual ecclesiastical system that's dominating this country that there is.
And wonder why? Why don't they come? They're looking for pleasure. They're looking for peace. They're substituting. The devil is substituting, such rowdy things as that to take the place of a real good Spirit-filled experience, where the joy of the Lord can come upon them, and give them peace and rest.

30 They love the pleasures of the world more than they love the kingdom of God. Their life proves it. It's exactly. What they live shows it. There's no difference in them, seems to be, who is a believer and who's not. Talk to them, they tell just as dirty a jokes, and they have their societies and so forth, and carry on just like the rest of the world.

31 I lived across the street from a great parish of a great order of Christian people, as they call themselves. And every Saturday night in the floor of the manse, why, you never heard such carrying on; and twist, and rock-and-roll, and boogie-woogie, and all that ungodly stuff. And carry on! And then on Sunday morning go to the church with a pious look on their face. Brother, when the Holy Spirit comes into a life, it changes that life from the bottom of his feet to the top of his head.
And the sad part, it's creeping into our Pentecostal organizations. It's getting into there because just as it's always been...

32 When Israel saw the other nations had a king, and they wanted to act like the other nations, the old prophet came to them (Samuel), and he said, "You must ... you're a different people. You mustn't be like them. God is your king."
He said, "Have I ever told you anything in the name of the Lord but what come to pass? Have I ever begged you for your money, or taken your finances and so forth, to build great honorable monuments and everything else?"

33 They had to say that he didn't. He said, "Then listen to me." And he had the Word of the Lord. But the people had to admit that everything that he had said had been the Word of the Lord, and it had come to pass just as he said it would come to pass. But yet the people wanted to look like the rest of the people.
That's the way it is today, that the churches are trying to pattern after the other churches. Christ is our pattern. So exactly that.
Now they didn't want it. They didn't want the message. What if that king would have humbled himself? What if he'd have come down to the ... been humiliated, and had went back to God and repented? I believe the man would have lived. I believe Elijah would have come to him with the word of the Lord, and the man would have lived. But he hardened his heart, and would not listen to the Lord.
And Elijah said, "Go ask him. Is it because there is no God in Israel? He has no prophet?" No, he had a prophet. He had ... there was a God---but the king didn't want it. That's what it is today.

34 It's just like a patient sitting on a doctor's doorstep, and die sitting on the doorstep, because he's too stubborn to go in to take the medicine the doctor's got for him. Exactly---die on the step of the doctor's, sitting out there.
And the doctor says, "I've got the remedy for your ailment," but he's just too stubborn to go in and take it. That's a dangerous thing. A fellow could die--- and he would die, sitting there---when there's plenty of medicine.
They've got a toxin for it but they ... he won't take it. He's just too stubborn. Well, then, you can't lay it onto the doctor, and you can't lay it onto the medicine; it's the man. He's the one.
So is it today. Men and women will sit in the church, in the church pew, and hear the unadulterated gospel in the power of the Holy Ghost, and see the manifestations and the demonstrations of his Spirit, of a living resurrected Christ---and die in sin, sitting in the church pew.
Not because there's no balm, not because there is no physician; but it's because the people are too stubborn to take the medicine---trying to find the least way of resistance, going the way of the world, perishing in the gainsaying of Korah.
You know what Korah done. It's always the leaders that gets the people mixed up, and that they perish in the gainsaying of Korah. Sure.

35 Don't blame the doctor. Don't blame the medicine. It's you to blame. If the doctor's got the remedy and he's got plenty of it, he invites you to come and you won't come, then it's not the doctor's fault. Neither is it the medicine's fault. It's your fault, because you won't take the medicine. That's right.
And people sitting in the churches die in the pew without knowing God, without receiving the Holy Ghost, because they think they'll have to give up some of the things of the world. They'd rather belong to a church that's got a higher name, or what they think a little more prestige.
Do you ever realize that God's way is a few goes that way, and they're despised and rejected because they're not of the world. They are of God---a peculiar people, a royal priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices that is the fruits of the lips giving praise unto God. Amen.

36 Doctor's medicine. You know there used to have a time they didn't have any toxin for such as smallpox. Thousands died yearly with smallpox. They didn't have a diphtheria toxin, and thousands died every year with toxin ... or without having any toxin they died with diphtheria. But now they got toxin. They got inoculation for those things.
And how does a doctor ever get a hold of these medicines anyhow? How do they ever do it? You know what they do? They put a lot of stuff together---some poison, and then some antidote---mix it together till they mix up a formula. And then they get a guinea pig, and they inject this medicine into the guinea pig. If he survives it, then they give it to you. And then ... and if it... See, it's to kill the disease that's in your body---so much of poison, so much to upset that poison. Too much poison would kill you; too much antidote wouldn't do you any good, the medicine wouldn't. It's got to be a balanced formula.

37 And some medicines from the doctor, he can give it... For instance, like penicillin, one of the great discoveries that... They think it's a discovery. Why, when I was in South Africa I seen a native there, and when he would... They get a sore on their leg, or something or another. The sore gets old, they find an old orange, laying under the tree somewhere, that's molded. And they rub that orange in there. Been doing it for hundreds and hundreds of years, and they get well. What is it? Penicillin. Sure. So they think they're smart. The Hottentot in Africa knowed that a thousand years ago. God done told him how to take care of himself. Then we think that it's something smart that we got. Now, penicillin: sometimes an overshot will kill a patient and some of them it helps it. There's a question there. They claim that nowadays...

38 'Course, number one killer, they say, is heart trouble. No. I differ from that. Number one killer isn't heart trouble. Number one killer is sin trouble. That's the killer. That's the thing. It's sin! That's the killer, not heart trouble.
So many people say, "I just got to sin. I just have to smoke." Women say, "I just got to cut my hair. I can't get any other clothes. I just have to wear what they got." You know what's the matter? They're making excuses. They haven't tried God's toxin yet. If they ever get that, they'd be inoculated from such stuff. That's right. Yes. It's because that they haven't tried God's toxin. They refuse to take it.

39 For when the Spirit of God is in you, it lines up with the Word of God. And if it denies the Word of God, then it isn't ... you haven't got the right shot yet, that's all. You're not inoculated. Sin still lays at the door---unbelief in the Word. So it takes the toxin of God to kill sin, and sin is number one killer. Yes, it is. It kills, and it kills to the uttermost. So we know that it's the sin that does the killing. So it's a toxin. The people just refuse to take it. They don't like it. They don't like the thought of new birth.

40 Now, we know that any birth is a mess. I don't care if it's in a pig pen, or if it's in a pink decorated hospital room. Any birth is a mess, and the new birth is nothing less. It's a mess. That's right. It'll make you boo-hoo, and cry, and carry on, like you ... the awfullest mess you was ever in. But it'll do you good.
Jesus said, "Except a corn of wheat falls in the ground and dies, it abides alone." And the people don't want to die. You want to be alive in the world. And still you want to be religious. So you accept an intellectual conception of it. And then, when you do that you're still dead in sin and trespasses. And that's what makes people act and do the way they do, because the spirit that's in them dominates their life.

41 Say, "Well, other people do this." Well, you're not like the other people. You are dead, and your life is hid in God through Christ and sealed by the Holy Spirit. See, you didn't try the toxin. It's just because the people don't want to try it. Now you've got to die. You've got to rot. That's the trouble with...
People go up to the altar and get some kind of sensation, jump up, and shake hands with the preacher; go out and get some kind of a dogma or creed and recite it; and say, "I belong to So-and-so." "I belong to So-and-so."
"Are you a Christian?"
"I'm So-and-so."
A Christian is to be Christ-like. Christ-like is to believe the Word. If you don't believe the Word then it can't be Christ-like. How can you say you're a Christian and deny half of the Word? If the Holy Spirit wrote the Word, the Holy Spirit confirms the Word. And the Holy Spirit is the Word. The Word abiding in you brings God's promises to every believer. Amen (the word means "so be it"). I believe it with all my heart. It's the Word of the living God. Amen.

42 Notice. Yes, the new birth. They don't want to die. Now they've substituted something for new birth. If the devil ... if you won't take God's Word, then the devil will give you his word. And that's where the first human race ... where the human race first fell, was to disbelieve God's word.

43 The best way that God could ever fortify his army was to fortify them with the best. If our nation... We've got spies in England; England's got spies here. Yet we're friendly. We've got spies all over the world, and the world's got spies in here. They're watching, see what kind of new missile, what kind of a new thing... Then they go back to their nation, find something to counteract that while they dress their men, get things ready for that kind of a war. It's always going on. It's a warfare between the devil and God. Always has been.
And every year they're finding something new. The old airplanes they used back there---the old P-38's, and whatever they was---they scrapped them. They got jets now. The old Springfield's no good at all. They got a missile rifle now. The old block buster's so far behind. Why, even the old trains, the old steam engines used to pull the stuff up and down the tracks---obsolete. Sure. They got something new. They're always searching---something new, something new. Now they're trying to dig down in the ground, find some way to escape the atomic bomb. Something new, something new.

44 God gave the very best at the beginning for his great mighty army, and He's never had to change it; because as I said last night his first decision is the best and only. He gave his people his Word.
And Satan reasoned with them, reasoning against the Word of God. That's what the devil does today. He tries to reason it. Say, "Now this is only reasons that you don't have to do this. It's only reasons we got good doctors; we don't need divine healing. It's only reason we got plenty of members; we don't need the Holy Ghost. They reason it out, trying to say the people are mentally upset, they're emotional, because themselves they are dead in sin and trespasses and knows nothing about the power of God.

45 Reminds me of an infidel one time was holding a debate, and he said, "There is no such a thing as God."
A little old country boy with a overall jacket on, his hair hanging down his face, walked up, begin to peel on an apple.
The infidel said, "Sap, what do you want?"
Said, "I want to ask you a question."
Said, "Well, what is it?"
He cored the apple and took a bite and begin to eat, and said, "Is that apple sour or sweet?"
The infidel said, "I don't know, because I'm not eating it."
He said, "That's just what I was thinking." And I said... And the people laughed the infidel out of the platform.
Why? Because he had never tasted, he had never tried it. He had never took the toxin (Hallelujah!) of the power of God to inoculate you from any unbelief of God's Word.

46 The real Holy Spirit will punctuate every sentence with an "amen." It won't say, "The days of miracles is past. There's no such as this, there's no such as that. Well, only reason said we shouldn't do it this way, we shouldn't do it that way."
What God says, the Holy Spirit says "amen." Every sentence, every word, every verse, in the Bible is punctuated with an "amen." Yes, sir.

47 The new birth brings a mess but it brings new life with it. That's right. A plant, anything, a seed has to rot to bring the new life out of it. A sinner has to die and rot to his own ideas. His own life has to rot that the new life can grow out of it. It's a mess, but it's a glorious mess. It brings new life.
That's what the church needs today, but they're by-passing it with dogmas and so forth, to try to escape the thoughts of dying to themselves. They want to live to themselves. He that lives to himself lives for himself and the devil. He that denies himself shall find his life in Christ and he'll be a new creature.

48 Now, we find out how they find these toxins. They take them, as I was saying, and they mix up a formula, the scientists do, and give it to a guinea pig. Now everybody's not natured like a guinea pig. So it'll kill some, help the others. We know that.
But you know when... There was a time that God didn't have too good a toxin. His toxin was by sheep and goats. But one time God was going to perfect his toxin. So He never tried to give it to a guinea pig; He gave it to Himself. He took the toxin Himself. That's why that Christ, the anointed, God, was made flesh in order to take the toxin into his own body.
Any good doctor will try the toxin on himself, when nobody else will do it. And there was nobody else that could do it but God. So he came down, Jehovah, and was made flesh and dwelt among us and took the toxin Himself.

49 On the Jordan when He was standing there, John bore record. Said, "I seen the Spirit of God like a dove descending upon Him." And he received the toxin and the inoculation from sin and death. Borned of a woman, and received the toxin. And they watched Him to see what would happen. And they noticed Him in his trial. They noticed Him when He came in the face of dispute, He always held to the Father's Word [blank spot].

50 "...but you know surely God wouldn't do a thing like that," he reasoned it with Eve. But when he come against Christ, he hit against that 100,000 volt wire. The feathers flew when he come with his reasoning, because He met him right back with "Thus saith the Lord."
Said, "If you're the Son of God and you're hungry, why don't you turn these stones to bread and eat?", reasoning. "You could do it.
Sure He could, but He come back, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.' "

51 They watched Him. They seen the toxin held in every case. When it come time, faced with death, the toxin held. When they spit in his face, made fun of Him, the toxin held. There's where trust ... whether you've got toxin or not, there's your test. Somebody say something about you, and say, "You old holy roller..." Well, you quit going to church, then say you're inoculated, say you've received the toxin, the balm.
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? If there is, "then why is the daughter...?" Remember, not the mother (he divorced her), but the daughter is this church---the prophecy pertains to this: "Why is the daughter of my people, her health not recovered then?"

52 Here she is anemic tonight. That's right. Half this way and half that way, and all scrupled up, and all kinds of orders and everything else, and separated in brotherhood, scattered everywhere. Half believe in this, and half believe in creed; and half believe in denomination, half believe in this and that. Well, my goodness, her health ought to be standing perfect rosy-cheeked, with the Word of God and the power of his resurrection. "What's the matter with the daughter of my people then? Where is my daughter?
"I send my signs among them like that, and they just get up and walk out. What's the matter with the daughter of my people?" When it's explained and proven by the Word, and the Bible said if ... always to believe the Word. The Word is confirmed. Then you cannot disbelieve it. But you're reasoning, letting Satan tell you in your mind.

53 Last night when you held your hand that you was a sinner, and didn't want to die a sinner, and I called you to the platform ... turned around and walked out. What's the matter?
You let Satan reason, "You're going to lose your job." I'd rather lose my job than lose my life. "Your wife will leave you." I'd rather lose a wife than lose my Christ! "Your husband or your neighbor will make fun of you." I'd rather have my neighbor make fun of me and be right with God.
But, you see, you're listening to reasonings. That's it. You're just ... you've had so many bogus things. Don't you realize, friend, that every time a bogus thing declares that there's a real one? Sure, it does.

54 Notice, God gave his toxin to Himself. They watched it. And the time when they put a rag over his face... He could discern the thoughts in the people's hearts; and they put a rag over his face, and hit Him on the head with a stick, and said, "Now if you are a prophet, tell us who hit you and we'll believe you." But the toxin held. He wasn't clowning.
That's what's the matter with the world today. They want some clowning. That's what's the matter with this West Coast. You've got too much Hollywood in it. You've got too much glare. The Holy Ghost don't shine; the Holy Ghost glows. There's a difference between glowing and shining. The church shines with its big programs; but the Holy Ghost glows in humility, humbleness, reconciling to the Word, believing the Word.

55 The old saint one time, sitting in a church... A few weeks ago I was supposed to be in a Chicago meeting, and a great minister there said, "We can't have Brother Branham because of his doctrine." And I don't preach no doctrine among them, but he just wanted to say that.
And he got some great big fellow from some big institute there. He come walking, his chest ... with enough papers laid out there looked like that he could have done anything with it. Walked up with his chest out, throwed back; this big book, in an intellectual talk. My, it was wonderful, his intellectual talk. But there was no Spirit in it.

56 After awhile he seen that didn't go with God's people. Just like Saul trying to put his ecclesiastical vest on David, a man of God: it didn't fit him. And an intellectual message don't fit a Spirit-filled church. They've got to have the power of the Holy Spirit and the manifestation. Jesus said these signs will follow them. They got to have it.
And then the man found out that it didn't take with the Pentecostal people. He folded up his books and come down with his head drooped.
An old saint sitting over in the corner come told me later, said, "If he would have went up the way he come down, he'd of come down the way he went up." That's about the way it is today. What we need is back to the Holy Ghost, back to the Bible, back to the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ; not all this here reasonings and intellectuals, and so forth.

57 Certainly they found that it held. It held in the hour of death, it held in the hour of Gethsemane, it held in all those things. Then He died. He died, as I said last night, until everything declared He was dead. The moon, sun, and stars, the earth, the earthquakes, everything proved He was dead. The sun went down in the middle of the day.
The Roman soldiers said, "Truly that was the Son of God."
Judas said, "I betrayed innocent blood."
Pilate said, "Give me some water. Let me wash my hands. I'll have nothing more to do with it."

58 He died, and He went with that inoculation---but it was the inoculation of eternal life. On the third day it still held. After the prophecies of God was fulfilled, He rose up on the third day alive. The church saw it and rejoiced.
Now He said, "You've got to get inoculated too. But I want you to go up there and wait until you get your inoculation."
That's what's the matter with the people today: they didn't go up and wait for their inoculation. They went to the seminary and got their B.A. instead of going for inoculation, going up and get some of the balm of Gilead injected into their veins of their soul. That's right.

59 They went up there on the Day of Pentecost. They were all assembled together. They believed He had raised from the dead. They had talked with Him, and He promised He would send down a whole lot of that inoculation. And while they were all assembled together the balm begin to fall upon them, and cloven tongues sat upon them like fire. They were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and run in the outside and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
There was a man who a few days before had denied Jesus, stood up on a soap box, or a stump, and said, "You men of Judea, and you that dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known unto you and hearken to my words. These are not drunk as you suppose, seeing it is the third hour of the day, but this is that inoculation that was to come, that He would inoculate from sin, from sickness, from death, from the grave, unto eternal life."

60 They seen it had worked on Jesus when they were pricked in their hearts, and they said to them, "Men and brethren, what can we do?"
Now, they had a doctor there. His name was Dr. Simon Peter. They had a physician and they had plenty of inoculations, proving it. They was all drunk on it. They had really received it in a big way. And they had Dr. Simon Peter there.
He said, "Now just a minute. If you want to know how to be inoculated, I'm going to give you a prescription. And don't you fool with it. You just keep it, because it's going to be for you and to your children, to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

61 I'm going to give you an eternal prescription for the inoculation. If you want to receive this balm, this balm of Gilead, this inoculation from sin and death, you receive this prescription." Any good doctor that measures out his medicine measures it correctly. I'll tell you, brother, he told them. He said...
Now, today they've substituted things for that prescription. They try to say shake hands, sprinkle a little bit, or something like that. But Peter said, "Repent every one of you, be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall be inoculated. For the promise is unto you and to your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." Certainly.

62 If a doctor writes a prescription... What's the matter today? If that doctor writes a prescription for that disease, that was to be an eternal. How far? To your children. They say it ended with the apostles. It did not! The doctor, Simon Peter, said, "It's for you, and for your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." This is their inoculation.
What's the matter then? We see in our churches bobbed-haired women, wearing shorts, paint, make-up. We see men with wishbones instead of backbones. We see preachers in the pulpit with not enough power to break an egg, and then call themselves preachers. The thing of it is, brother, they haven't received the inoculation. That's all there is to it.

63 You know you take a doctor's formula, and you go to messing up out of it, you'll kill your patient. That's right. Well, what's our trouble is some quack druggist out of some seminary has tried to mix this formula with shaking hands, and more bunch of tommyrot. That's the reason they've got a dead church that we've got today. It's killed because they didn't follow the formula of the prescription.
"That don't make no difference."
Paul said it did. He said, "If an angel from heaven preaches any other gospel to you, let him be accursed." Got dead church members because they're trying to fool with that prescription: shake hands, sprinkle, all other kind of forms, and everything else. Follow exactly what the prescription says. If you take some of the antidote out, you'll kill the patient. If you put too much antidote in, the killer in there won't kill the disease. Take it just the way it's wrote. Amen! Hallelujah! I believe it's the truth with all my heart. Certainly it is.

64 "Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Then why is the daughter of my people in the anemic condition it is tonight?" Why is it the church is in the condition it's in tonight? Because they've fooled with the prescription. Yes, there's balm in Gilead. Hallelujah! There's a balm there. Christ is there. He is the balm. Be injected with his life.
He's here now. He is moving among us. We see Him working, performing signs and wonders among us. There's the balm in Gilead. And there's doctors here. Amen. We've got doctors. Then what's the matter? It's you patients that won't come up and face the fact of it, and follow the formula.

65 Maybe I've said enough. May the Holy Ghost say the rest of it. "Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Then why is my church in the condition it's in tonight?" There's something wrong somewhere. That's right. I think we have took a lot of dogma instead of taking the prescription---quack seminaries putting out quack prescriptions that's contrary to the original prescription.
Go back! That's the way to get it. That's the eternal prescription; not a shake hand, and say a creed, and a thing like this. "Repent and be baptized, every one of you," he said, "in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call---all nations, all..."

66 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? There's plenty of balm here. There's plenty of toxin. It's a promise. What's the matter? It's because the people don't want to receive the prescription. They got doctors here that can write it. It's already wrote.
You don't have to write it anymore. It's already wrote. Just say what's already been written. Then take it like that. Not a little sissified handshake, a little... "I'll say the creed, the Apostle's Creed. I'll say 'Hail, Mary' every once in a while, burn a candle." Nonsense! Repent or perish! Not "I'll believe, and accept and believe."
The devil believes too. That don't make you saved. But you got to be borned again. If you're borned again you're borned of the Word of God, 'cause he is the Word and the Word is in you, and it punctuates every sentence with an "amen." Amen.

67 Let us pray. Heavenly Father, there is balm in Gilead. I'm so thankful for it. I'm so thankful there's physicians that wouldn't mingle with that prescription for nothing. Not to get members in the church, but to get children to God, they stay with it. Not a cold formal handshake, a creed or something, but a real prescription, wrote out by God, the Father Himself, that's given for an eternal prescription. Father God, he said it was for their children and them that's far off, the Gentiles. Even as many as the Lord our God should call could receive the Holy Spirit. Here we are in the evening lights tonight.

68 Way back in the beginning, before the world was created, You had in your mind, and then it was a thought. Then it was expressed, and then the expression become real. And now, God, you put our names on the Lamb's book of life before the foundation of the world. Father God, I pray tonight if there's any of that seed laying here in this church tonight...
I'm no judge; You are. I'm only responsible for preaching your Word. But if there's any of that seed here tonight, Lord, I believe that light flashes over it. It's got to come to life. It'll see it as sure as the world, because it's predestinated to see it. It's got to see it.

69 Lord, You said, "No man can come to me except my Father draws him. All that the Father has given me will come." Lord, are they here tonight that have been given to You? If so, I pray that they'll see the light and walk in it, repent of their sins. Grant it, Lord. Not take a substitutionary, and see in their lives...
A lot of these people who profess that they have received it, and look at the way they do, and look the way they act, and ignore the Word; and walk away and say the days of miracles is past. Our women begin to get formal like the rest of the world. God, I been jealous of them. I pray that You'll do something for them. Grant it, Lord.

70 Oh, come back to Calvary, the people. Come back to the prescription. Come back and repent and die out to yourself, and get saved and filled with the Holy Ghost.
While we have our heads bowed, and our hearts bowed, our innermost being bowed, and the Word of God laying before us, would you desire prayer? I'm just going to ask you to raise your hand. Just say, "I'll raise my hand." God bless you. God bless you. Good.
Now, folks, I'm not critical, but I'm ... the Holy Spirit's on me, and I want to say this. I'm not one of these here preachers that will go around... Want ... people today wants to be entertained. They want to get a penny balloon. "Now stand up. Next step, do this, next step..."
I only got one step: that's repent! Next is to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins. Then the next thing God said, "I'll give you the Holy Ghost." That's the three steps that I know of to take. I have no penny balloons, or no gold pins to give you to attend Sunday school. I have the gospel. It's the power of God unto salvation to every one that believes.

71 Now if you're a rugged Christian, if you're a real servant of Christ, I have tonight blessings for the people. I have a gift that will work among the people. That's a confirmation I've told you the truth. Do you think God, the Father, would ever send down a hypocrite or a bogus message, and then turn around and confirm that message? That's not our God. Our God's pure, unadulterated and holy. He has nothing to do with errors. He's truth, and He stays by his Word. He is the Word.

72 Now let the sick look this way and believe. I'm not a healer; I'm your brother. You believe. See if the inoculation is right. See if what He said, "The works that I do shall you do also," John 14:12...
This lady sitting on the front row here, widow woman praying for her son. You believe that God will grant your request to you? An alcoholic, drinks. Do you believe God will take care of it? Do you have a prayer card? You don't? You don't need one. If you'll believe with all your heart, it will leave him. Now, I don't know that woman. Never seen her. But God knows her. That's right. God is God. Amen.

73 That woman sitting right back there praying for her husband, red polka-dot dress on. If she'll believe with all of her heart, God will grant the request to her, if she'll just absolutely believe it. God bless you. I don't know the woman. She don't need no prayer card. Have you got one? You don't? You have a prayer card? You have one? Well, you don't have to use it. You don't have to come in the line. You just don't doubt what you've said ... what's been told you to be the truth, and you can have what you said. Amen. Amen. Oh, I'm so glad for the inoculation!
Unbelief. What is sin? Unbelief. He that believeth not is condemned already---has not got even to first base. You're out of the game altogether. Put out before you even got to the plate. You've got to believe every word of God. Jesus said, "The works that I do..." If my ... if God's spirit dwells in you, won't it produce the same life that was in Him? Sure, it will.

74 Little woman sitting there with that trouble with her breast, if she'll believe, God will make her well. You believe it, lady? You do? You don't have a prayer card? You don't need one if you'll believe it. That swelling will go down and you'll be normal and well. Will you believe it? All right.
Here sits a woman sitting here with her head down, praying. That woman's going to die if God don't help her. She's not from here. You have more faith than you thought you had. You're from down around Santa Anna. You've got cancer, sitting in the wheel... You've been operated on for it. Do you have a prayer card? You don't? You don't need one. You've got cancer. It's come back. God will heal you.
Listen. Someone brought you here tonight that was here last night, and had enough faith to be called out of the line and healed with heart trouble. That's "thus saith the Lord." Here's another thing. I see you are a woman preacher. That's right. Now, if you believe God and won't doubt in your heart, you'll go on with your message. You just believe.

75 If I was in your place, I believe I would get up out of that chair, and walk out of this building, and take God... You're going to die sitting there, so I'd come from that chair and go believing God and go be well. You're going to die sitting there. The doctors can do nothing for you. They've done tried.
Like the lepers sitting at the gate said, "Why sit we here till we die?" If they go in the city, at Samaria... They was already starving, eating one another's children. If they sat there, they died. They had to go down to the enemy's camp. And they took that chance. You don't have to take that chance.
You're not invited to an enemy's camp; you're invited to the throne of your Father that's expecting you to come tonight. If you've got faith enough to touch the border of Jesus Christ's garment, that He'd use my voice to speak back to you, then keep that faith and walk out of here and be well. If you'll believe it, He will. Amen.

76 I challenge every person in here to believe that inoculation. Do you believe it? All of you believe it? Then stand up on your feet and receive your healing in the name of Jesus Christ. That's right. Amen. Take your chair and push it on home. There she is, up out of the chair, pulling for the Kingdom of God. Do you believe? Glory!
Now don't you see He's here? The inoculation, the balm is here. Glory to God! Believe it, and don't be afraid to trust in Him. Hallelujah! Where's your faith?
You feel different, don't you, sister? You take your old wheelchair now and go home and be well. Don't you doubt. Don't you doubt. Just keep the same faith you've got. If you've got enough... You know a woman touched his garment. Well, you did the same thing. Then go and believe.

77 "I will praise Him, I will praise Him. Praise the Lamb for sinners slain." Let's sing it everybody. Raise our hands.
I will praise Him, I will praise Him,
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give Him glory all ye people,
For his blood has washed away each stain.
All right. All you that raised your hands for salvation come forward now, while we sing again.
I will praise Him (Come right on now.),
I will praise Him,
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give Him glory all ye people,
For his blood has washed away each stain.

78 Have you never took the prescription? Have you never been inoculated, never tried the prescription, never been filled with the Holy Ghost? Why don't you come now? This is it. God confirms that He's here. There's balm in Gilead. There's balm, there's physicians. Why don't you come, while we sing it again.
I will praise Him, I will praise Him,
(If you want the Holy Ghost, come on.)
Praise the lamb for sinners slain;
Give (Lord Jesus, grant these requests.
Make them well in Jesus' name.)
For his blood has washed away...
Come on, everyone come right on, all you that need Christ.
I will praise Him, I will praise Him,
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give Him glory all ye people,
For his blood has washed away each stain.
Come on, the water's troubled. Come on in, everybody while you can. While the water's troubled, come on. If you've got a need of God, come on.
Give Him glory all ye people,
For his blood has washed away each stain.
I will praise Him, I will praise Him,
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give Him glory all ye people,
For his blood has washed away each stain.
I will praise Him, I will praise Him,
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Won't you come on now, before it's too late?
Give Him glory all ye people,
For his blood has washed away each stain.
I will praise Him, I will praise him,
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give Him glory all ye people,
For his blood has washed away each stain.
Let's raise our hands now, and praise Him.

Why?

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1 Good evening, friends. It's really a grand privilege to be here tonight; and one thing, to be back in Arkansas, and another thing, to be on the campground. I believe this is my first camp meeting that I have attended for a long time. And I had the invitation to come and to begin with you. And I've heard, since I just come in, you've been having a wonderful time here at this meeting. I'm so thankful for that.
And I ... coming up along the road a few moments ago with my son, and we were talking about years ago when I first come down here to Arkansas---was first of my meetings. When I first started off, it was in Arkansas---in the evangelistic type of the meetings, anyhow. And since then been seven times around the world. And now, I'm back in Arkansas. Like bad money, always returns. I have ... everywhere I've been, I suppose, in United States, I've asked, "Any people here from Arkansas?" I've always had friends from Arkansas, pretty near everywhere. And I've always said some of the truest hearts, I believe, that ever beat was under them old blue shirts down here in Arkansas. Real fine people. I love you.

2 And I'm grateful to God for the opportunity to be back tonight in Arkansas, be here with you (and so, I think we got three nights yet left in the convention), and to have the opportunity to come in and express my love to Jesus Christ, and have fellowship with you people and our fine bunch of brethren here, who many of them I don't know. I just looked around, and seen one that I do know---Brother Jack Moore. I just happened to ... and Sister Moore. I happened to recognize them then. And we're certainly happy to be in.
Now, I know, all day long, you must get tired---you know, physically tired. We never get enough of ... get tired praising, and blessing God for his goodness. How wonderful He is! And ... but all day long, and then when nighttime comes, then here I come in. And I am kind of one of those ministers that's been given the idea of speaking a long time. But, I don't think we'll do it now, because of this squeeze in the convention. You've heard great speakers, no doubt, all through the day, and through the convention. And then, to stand up here on the platform before all these fine speakers that ... I feel pretty small to stand here.

3 One of the ministers I just shook hands with told me this was their first services to have in this ... tabernacle, I would call it. I don't know just exactly what---temple, or whatever it is. And we're certainly thankful again for the opportunity to come into a new church, something that's erected to the praise and honor of God. How wonderful!
And we are ... just moved back---or not moved back, just come back---from the ... for the school vacation for the children. We live in Tucson, Arizona, now. And it's been awfully hot out there. But we find it's a little bit hotter here at home than it was out there, because of the tremendous humidity. And it kind of puts us down, after getting kind of used to the air there.

4 We got in home, and had the first service last Sunday. And we seen the Lord Jesus continue in his great work of love, and power among the people. And the same gospel that I preached to you fifteen years ago here in Arkansas, I still believe the same thing. Just don't change it. It's Christ.
Sunday there was something taking place at the church. I just happened to look around and see the gentlemen on which the miracle was performed.

5 You know, there's ... we all love to brag on the Lord Jesus. We love to. I had a woman one time to tell me, she said that's the only fault she could find with me: I brag too much about Jesus.
I said, "I'm sure to go to heaven, if that's all the faults I have ---bragging on Jesus."
And so, she just didn't think He was divine. She tried to say He was just a man, philosopher, a prophet, or something on that order; but I said He was God. And so He is.
And she said, "I can prove to you that he wasn't God."
And I said, "Oh, I don't think you can do that."
She said, "I can prove to you he was only human."
I said, "I'll admit He was human. But, He was both human and divine."
She said, "He couldn't be divine."
And I said, "Oh, He was divine, and He is divine."
She said, "Oh, he couldn't be. I'll prove it by your own Bible."
I said, "All right."

6 And she said, "On---St. John, the 11th chapter---on the road down to the grave of Lazarus, the Bible said Jesus wept."
I said, "Well, what's that got to do with it?"
She said, "Well, if he weeps, it proves he's not divine."
I said, "Lady, your argument's thinner than the broth made out of the shadow of a chicken that starved to death." I said, "You know better than that." I said, "He was human as He went to the grave of Lazarus, crying. That's right. But when He straightened his little shoulders up, and said, 'Lazarus, come forth,' and a man that'd been dead for four days stood on his feet and lived again, that was more than a man." I still believe Him to be that.

7 Sunday, while speaking, I was asking the people to turn around in the Tabernacle, and shake hands with each other. And there's a dear friend... I've just learned to love him. He just come into the church, he and his wife. His wife's a registered nurse. And he, himself, is an Englishman; she's a Norwegian. How that ever happened, I don't know. But, however, they're both fine people. And this brother has had a little something wrong, kind of, in his heart---and a very fine Christian man, and an intellectual man, too. He does secular work for accountants, and so forth.
And he turned around. And when he did, a heart attack struck him, and he pitched over on the floor, dead. And his wife being a nurse, she grabbed him quickly, and grabbed his pulse over his heart. He was gone. And I looked at his face---real dark. His eyes was turned back---not just closed his eyes, but eyes pushed out in front. And he was...
I come over the platform, try to get the audience quietened. Many people was trying to help the sister, of course, in that condition with her husband. Someone had laid something over his head, or under his head rather.

8 And I took a hold of his (heart), his pulse at his arm---and no more pulse than there is on that piece of wood.
And then I knelt down, and prayed: "Lord Jesus, I pray Thee give back our Brother Way his life."
And his heart beat four or five times, and it started off beating regular again. And he come back up again. And he was trying to talk; he couldn't talk. He was ... the blood stops, you know, when the heart stops. And it was quite some time before his blood got circulating just right. And I heard him call my name. And then I got back on the platform.
Brother Way, I wonder if you could just stand up so the people could see who the man was. That's the man, dropped dead Sunday morning. Sister Way, his wife, a nurse, who was standing there to take his pulse, you see.
So, I ... that sounds very strange maybe, to people who wouldn't believe these things. But I have seen the Lord Jesus raise the dead, many times. And that's not new to us. So, we wouldn't ... I think it's fine to brag on Jesus. But I think it ought to be some truth what you're bragging about. So, we've seen Him...
I've seen Him in the last fifteen years, many infallible cases, raise up the dead,

9 especially one in Mexico, where Brother Moore and I was standing in Mexico City. A little baby died one morning at nine o'clock, with pneumonia, in a doctor's office. And, little woman, we couldn't get her to the... Well, the man had give out all the prayer cards. And we just had to number them as they would come up. There was no more prayer cards. And this little Spanish sister (about, I guess, twenty-five years old) had a little dead baby. It was raining, and she had it under a blanket.
And the night before that there'd been a blind man that was, oh, probably as old as my father would be, probably seventy years old. Was blind, and he received his sight when I was praying for him.
And that night... Platform practically was wide as this is across here, with this rick of ... oh, way high, two or three feet, with just shawls and hats and old garments that they'd laid up there.

10 And this little woman was trying to get up there. And Billy Paul, my son, came and said, "Dad, I've got pretty near three hundred ushers there, and all three hundred can't hold that little woman." She had a dead baby under her little blue blanket.
I said, "Well..." I said to Brother Jack Moore, "Go down."
Brother Jack Moore and I have a lot of things in common. I don't want to say we look alike, because he's such a handsome man. But one thing about Brother Moore, we both part our hair the same way. We have a lot of things in common. I thought she'd never know me. They had to let me down, on some ropes, I think, to get in. So I sent him down to pray for the little baby. I thought, "Well, they won't ... she'll never know the difference."

11 And so, I was ... started to speak again, when Brother Espinoza (many of you brethren know him from the West Coast) was doing the interpreting. It's just out there by the bull ring in Mexico City.
And I looked out over the audience, and I seen a vision of a little Mexican baby, sitting, smiling at me.
So I said, "Bring the little lady here."
So, laid hands upon the little dead, stiff, cold form. Its feet began to kick, and it began to scream, and there he was, alive.
And I sent a runner (Espinoza did), to check with the doctor, to get a statement before we could write it out. The doctor wrote an affidavit that that baby died that morning in his office about nine o'clock. And this was about ten-thirty that night. And the baby's living today, enjoying good health to the honor and glory of God.

12 So, seeing many things take place, we wouldn't have to say about our Brother Way there, but truth is truth. And God doesn't do those things just to... He wants it to be known, and people to know that He loves them. And by the grace of God, Brother Way sits among us tonight, living. We're thankful for that.
I thought, being on the campground, coming in here, I don't want to interrupt the great times. Billy was telling me, this afternoon, said, "You talk about real old-fashioned Pentecost," said, "you wait till you get up there." Said, "They sing like they've had the experience for fifty years."
I said, "I guess some of them has, for fifty years."

13 And I just love to get into a meeting like that. I believe every one of us do, where we just get right into it. Like, I used to tell a little story about fishing up in northern New Hampshire. I was fishing for trout. And way up the head of the mountain, I had a little tent setting up there. A little "A" tent, little pup tent from the government. And I found a place where there's many trout---was back under a bush. And there was moosewillow there. And every time I tried to whip my fly, why, it would catch in the willow. So that morning I got up, went up there early, and I thought, "I'll cut them willows down." I just ... if I killed a fish, then I would eat it. Otherwise, I would turn it loose, if I had all we ... all I could take care of. I was up there by myself.

14 And while I was gone that morning, on my road back, an old sow bear and two little cubs got in my tent. And you talk about wrecking things, they really wrecked it right! And they'd tore everything up. And I thought... When I come back, I heard a noise. And I looked around some little bushes I was coming around. The old mother bear, and all of them, was just having them a time, raking through everything. And she saw me, and she run off and cooed to her cubs. One of the cubs come, and the other one didn't come.
Little bitty fellow. Spring---he was just so high. He was sitting, like this. And I thought, "Well, what's the little fellow so interested in."

15 And I got around and looked.
I said to him, "Get out of there! Get out of there!"
And he just sat there. I thought ... I watched the old mother, because you know if you fool with her cubs, she would scratch you, you know. So, I watched. There was a tree pretty close, you know. I had an old rusty pistol laying over there in the tent---probably broke up then. Anyhow, I wouldn't want to shoot the old mother and leave two orphans in the woods. So, I kept watching this tree, getting around to see what the little fellow was so fascinated... And, you know...
I like pancakes. I ... we're all Southerners, aren't we? Flapjacks is what they are down here, you know. And I really love them. And I know ... not much Methodist about me. I really like to pour on the molasses. I really baptize them right, pour it all over them. So, I don't like just a little bitty sprinkle, like you get in these places here, in a little thing. I like to get where you really pour it on, you know, and get them mixed good and heavy.

16 I had me a half-a-gallon bucket full of good old sorghum.
This little bear had got the top off, and he was really enjoying my molasses. And I kept watching him around the corner. He'd take his little paw, and stick down in this bucket, you know. And he didn't know how to get the molasses out, so, he'd just stick his paw down in my molasses, then rig up and lick when it come by.
I'll tell you, when I finally got around and got his attention, he looked at me; he couldn't see me. He was molasses from the top of his head to ... all the way down. His little belly just as full of molasses, and his eyes ... he couldn't even open his eyes to look at me, you know, trying... I thought, "That's right. There's no condemnation to them that's eating."
Puts me in mind of a good old Pentecostal meeting, when we get our arms down in that honey jar about that deep, you know---that Pentecostal honey. You know, the strange thing about it: after he got his tummy full, and my bucket sopped out, he went over to his mammy and little brother. And the mammy licked him.

17 You know, I hope we get so much on us here that when we go home, those who didn't come will lick off of us. All right, see. Tell them about what great things the Lord did down here in Hot Springs. The Lord bless you.
And now, I believe they told me that they didn't get it in time, or something another, to announce to give out some prayer cards to pray for the sick---some numbers on cards, to call them and pray for them. And I like that, 'cause give me one night to kind of get acquainted. And so, tomorrow night, I think, they're going to give out their prayer cards sometime in the afternoon. Is that ... you've already...? At six o'clock? Six o'clock tomorrow evening.

18 Now, I thought, tonight, we'd take just a little portion of the Scripture here and read it, and see if we could find what the Lord would have to tell us. Now just before we open the Book, let's speak to the Author of the Book, as we bow our heads.
Before we pray (and your heads bowed), all the cares now, and the frolic of the day, and little sense of humors we've had---let's just push it aside now, because we're approaching the King. Is there any special request you'd like to be remembered? Just, would you raise your hand, and say, "Lord..." Right down in your heart, just hold your request.

19 Our heavenly Father, we deem this such a privilege, God Almighty, to come into the congregation of the Lord, to fellowship together, testifying, telling of the great things that You've done, and places that we have been. And it just reminds me of Acts 4 in the Bible, when they returned and was speaking of what the Lord had done. And they all prayed and the place was shook where they were assembled together.
God, we're not so anxious, tonight, to see the building shook, but we would like for You to shake us, Lord. Shake our understanding. Shake our being, our emotions, our hearts of understanding, that we might leave here tonight more determined than ever to serve You; that we might feel the presence of a new, fresh, Pentecost of the Holy Spirit, pouring out upon us afresh, and anew.
Like, down in these woods and hills in Arkansas fifty years ago when the forefathers come through here, horses and wagons, preaching this gospel, dear Lord, may we---the bearers of this great, worthy cause, that You've sent through here---may we not be ashamed of this great thing; but may we walk in the footsteps of those who went before us, Lord, packing the banner of the Lord Jesus.

20 May others, who have not yet accepted this great plan of salvation that God laid down for us in the Scripture ... foretold all the way down through the Old Testament, and today, we're enjoying it. May there be a great shaking among us, Lord, and a renewing of faith, and a renewing of efforts.
I thank You for this convention for this bunch of people who's still holding on, Lord, in this hour of trials, come upon the earth to try those who are professing to be Christians. May we be found at the end worthy to enter into the joys of the Lord, that's been prepared for the redeemed since the foundation of the world.
Bless thy Word.

21 Lord, remember every hand that went up. You know the objective. You know the motive. You know the request behind that hand. I pray, God, that You'll grant it to each one. May every man that ... or woman, boy, or girl that put up a hand, that wanted more salvation or a closer walk, or to know You as their Saviour---may they never leave this ground till that request is answered.
To those who are sick, needy, we pray, God, there'll be such a wave of healing cross this place that there'll not be a feeble person that comes on this ground will leave in the way that they come on. You, who can raise a man up from the dead and present him here before us, to show that You're the same God that stood there by the grave of Lazarus, called him out from among the dead... God, to let them know that You're the same yesterday, today, and forever, here stands one among us tonight, just a few days ago was called back from the land beyond the shadow of man's knowing in this life.
How we thank Thee for this. Bless us together now, as we study your Word. For truly, thy Word is truth. Thou and thy Word are one. It cannot be separated. So, we ask your blessings upon us, Father, as we wait upon You to speak to us tonight through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
Now, if you will, I'd like to turn to scriptures, and so forth.

22 I kind of laid down on the bed and went to sleep. First thing you know, Billy come up and said, "Let's go."
Said, "You mean it's church time?"
I had to pull out a little bunch of scriptures I'd used before, to speak on tonight. And I thought maybe it'd be he give out some cards and be praying for the sick, and so forth. I've noticed, since I've come in here, two people laying on cots, perhaps come to be prayed for tonight. Now...
And Billy come back, said, "I just didn't get any time, Daddy, to talk about it." Said, "We'll try it tomorrow night."
I said, "All right. If you get the brethren, give some cards out."

23 So now, I want you to turn with me, to the book of II Kings, and the 1st chapter. And then, also, I want you to turn in there to Jeremiah, the 8th chapter, and 22nd verse. Let's read just a portion of this scripture.
Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
And Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.
But the angel of the Lord said unto Elijah the Tishbite, Rise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron?
Now therefore thus saith the Lord God, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou has gone up, but thou shalt surely die. And Elijah departed.
And then. in the book of Jeremiah, the 8th chapter, and the 22nd verse.
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is ... the health of the daughter of my people not recovered?

24 I want to speak, if we'd call it, on the subject "Why?" It's a question. And God's asking this question. And God is eternal. We know He is. He's everlasting. He never had a beginning, or He could never have an end. Eternity never started; it never ends 'cause it's eternal. And God cannot change his mind, nor his way. That's why that we, as people who ... will not accept creeds if it's contrary to the Word, because we believe that God and his Word is the same. We believe that. The Bible says, in St. John the 1st chapter, that "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God ... And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us."
Therefore, when God says anything, He cannot tomorrow, or any other time, ever take it back. When God's ever called on the scene to make a decision... And his one decision is eternal. It can never be changed.

25 And God was called to make a decision for the human race in the garden of Eden, when the first sin was committed. Could He ever be able to redeem his lost child back into fellowship with Him again? And He fixed one program. It's never changed: by the way of the blood. And follow the Scriptures---it never did alter, or change. And it never can, because it's God's decision---by the blood.
Although, we tried to alter it. We tried to educate it. We tried to denominate it. We tried to do everything there is in man's law to try to change that, like Adam did by fig leaves, and so forth. But it still ever remains. The blood is the only place of fellowship.

26 Therefore together, tonight, we can stand, not as one denomination... May be many of us together, but we can't stand here to represent one denomination. We have to stand here in this fellowship under the blood of Jesus Christ. We can all be brethren, sisters.
God makes a way for a man, and then man refuses to walk in that way. Then, God's got a right to ask, "Why didn't you do it?" That's what He did then, and that's what He does now. And that's what He'll ask at the judgment. They ask "Why?"

27 Now, our Scripture reading started off just immediately after the death of Ahab; a bad king, a borderline believer, a man who knowed what was right to do, and yet did not have the courage to step out and do what he knowed was right to do.
I just think, if this world isn't contaminated today with Ahabs, this Christendom that we live in! It's contaminated with Ahabs, with men who really know that it's right to give your life, and be ... to God and be filled with the Spirit, and to follow the teachings of this Bible---and yet without the courage to stand and do it.
It reminds me again, of another situation like that, in Sodom.

28 The Bible said the sins of Sodom vexed the righteous soul of Lot daily, and how that the man's soul was righteous. And he looked out upon the sins of the land, and he knowed that ... what was wrong, that they were doing wrong---but yet, without the courage to stand for his convictions.
No wonder the whole world has become a Sodom and Gomorrah. And how that the Lots today, across the nation and around the world, standing in churches---who is convinced that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and the power is just as real today as it ever was---without the courage to stand in the pulpit, and to denounce sin, because of some barrier that would excommunicate them from the fellowship that they have joined into.
It still comes back to the blood of Jesus Christ, the only remedy. Why? Why?

29 Ahaziah was a son of Ahab, had been brought up in the kind of a home that was a lukewarm home. It wasn't altogether Christian. His mother was a heathen. And his father married out of fellowship, married a woman that was not a believer. and that always makes a bad home for any kid to be raised in, that when unbelief and faith tries to mix together.
And now, if the father would have been a real strong man in his faith, the child might have had a better opportunity. But he didn't. He didn't have ... he knew that there was God. He knew that there was a Jehovah; and then his mother's gods, and so forth. He was all confused. Then at the death of his father, this boy in this condition, kind of a mixed up, one way and another...
And if that ain't a picture of the lands today. One in the family is this way, and one another; and one going this way, and one going that way. No wonder we're producing so much juvenile delinquency, and all other kinds of stuff, under the name of Christianity. It's because there's no unity. There's no real call out and stand for God.

30 Now, we find that this fellow, falling heir to his father's throne... One day, up in the top of his balcony somewhere, walking around, he fell through the lattice. Might have been over-intoxicated, and fell through the lattice, down, probably, on the bottom floor. Struck a bench, or something, and broke a few ribs, or bruised him up. And the sickness must have started an infection somewhere, or the bruise, and caused him to have fever. And he was pretty sick.
'Course, them days they didn't have the remedies that they have now. Perhaps the doctors came and done what they could for the fellow. But they didn't have the sufficiency. They knowed his ... only thing that he could do would be to go to a higher power than what the doctors could produce in their terminology of medicine. And he thought he would go then, and he sent to his mother.

31 What a lesson that ought to be to mothers. A kid will usually listen to his mama.
And, he (went to) sent to his mother's god, Baal-zebub, over to Ekron where the statue was, his monument. Said, "Go consult the priest over there, and let them consult this statue of Baal-zebub, whether I will recover of this sickness that I have or not."

32 But, you know, that man ruling... Could you imagine a people, who was supposed to be a God-fearing people, would let such a man rule over them? It's because of the lukewarm condition. It was the condition that the church had got into that put such a person in power, or permitted it. I don't think times has changed very much. They still seem to be a whole lot the same way. And let this man rule, have the say-so over the country, that would consult some statue of some pagan idea, about his condition.
And then, you know, that behind all of it, no matter how much it seems that God has turned his face from the people, He does that sometimes to see what kind of an attitude you take. Every son that cometh to God's got to be tried and chastened.

33 And then, there's a little spot in a man, or woman, when they're borned of the spirit of God, that's eternal. And you'll get into a place, sometime, that where everything that's human about you... In reasonings, the devil can reason it away from you. But when it all breaks away, then if that eternal life isn't there you'll fall also, because you can reason yourself away from God.
But, a man that claims to be a Christian has no right in the pulpit, or has no right as a office, or a leader anywhere, until first he's climbed them steps into a place to where he's borned of the Spirit of God, filled with the Holy Ghost in such a way that nobody can explain it away from him.

34 God, when He sent Moses down to Egypt to deliver the people, first He took him on the backside of the desert, and took all the theology he had in him out, in forty years---and then appeared to him. He knowed more about God in five minutes in the presence of that burning bush than he knowed in the forty years of learning that he got.
That's what the church needs tonight, is to know a burning bush experience, where slick-tongued people... Where ... the Scripture says that the two spirits in the last days will be so close that it would deceive the very elected, if possible.

35 A man ought to first get on that sacred ground with God where all the theologians, all the doctors of divinity, all the reasonings, all the atheists, nothing else can ever explain that away from him. He was there when God come, and he knows what took place. You can't reason it out of him. He was there when it happened. That's the kind of men we need today in the government, in the church, and anywhere else. In the times like this, for leadership we need a man that's filled with the Holy Ghost.
That's what the church needs today. Not a theologian, but a Spirit-filled, borned-again man, full of the Holy Ghost. I tell you, if we had more of that, the church would look a little different than it does in the present time. Things would be different if we just had more men filled with God's Spirit; not going after traditions of the elders, and so forth.

36 Now, we find that this fellow sent up there to get this information from the god of Ekron, Baal-zebub. But all the time, God knew he was doing it. So, He had a prophet down there by the name of Elijah. So He spoke to Elijah, and said, "Go up there to a certain road, and stand in that way. Messengers are coming up." You see, you cannot hide nothing from God, see, no matter what you're doing.
How little did that fellow know that God was speaking to Elijah way down there in the wilderness somewhere, in a little mud hut somewhere; and could tell him to go stand on the corner of the road up there and speak to these fellows; and tell them to get back down to him, and tell him "Thus saith the Lord," he's not coming off of that bed.
And He said, "Ask him, why did you do it? What makes you do it? Is it because that there is no God in Israel? Is it because he doesn't have a prophet? Is that the reason you did it? Well, you knowed what's happened. You know the Scriptures. You've got them in your own palace. The priests are around there. No doubt you've read them since a boy. And why did you do such a silly thing as that?"

37 I wonder tonight, if Christ would come on the scene, or over the nation today, and bring this nation to judgment, if that same question wouldn't have been asked. Why is it? Is it... Why is it we're doing these things? Why are we fussing in the government whether we should read the Bible in public? And why is it we're reading all this nonsense? Did not our forefathers set this constitution in order? Did not this nation be borned upon the principles of the Bible? Aren't we here for freedom of religion, to act in God the way we feel fit to act, the way that we're convinced is truth?

38 But, you see, we have done something like they did then. We're just letting everything, politics swallow us up, instead of respecting our faith in our God and men who stood for truth. And we're letting our politics run over that, and voting in such stuff that's polluting this nation.
And, why, we're coming to a judgment. God'll rise on the scene some day, with a mighty prophet, speak in this generation, and tell people, and they'll see that it's God speaking. But they won't repent. It'll be just like it was then.
He said, "Is there no God in Israel? Is it because there is no God?"
Same as Jeremiah said, "Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there?" Then if... They could not answer that, 'cause there was.
They said then, "Why? Why did you do it? Why is the daughter of my people not healed?"

39 Now, we wonder that tonight. Why? Is there no Bible? Is there no God? Is there no difference? If God is going to bring the people to judgment, He's got to have something to judge them by. There's got to be some standard. If He's going to judge them by the Catholic church... Then if they judge them by the Roman church, the Greek church is lost, the other Catholic churches are lost. If He judges by the Greek, the Roman's lost. If He judges by the Lutheran, the Methodist is lost. If He judges by the Methodist, the Lutheran's lost. He can't judge it by a church. There's too many different organizations of it.
But God will judge the world, He said, by Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ is the Word, and the Word is God. And He'll judge them by this Bible. That is God's standard. We must measure up to what the Bible says.
And we wonder why we got so much confusion, so many organizations, so much differences separating brotherhood, and everything. It's because there is no balm in Gilead? Is it because there is no physician there? I wonder if God would ask us that question.

40 Now, it wasn't exactly they didn't have a physician. They did. God was the physician. And it wasn't because there wasn't a God in Israel. There was a God. And they had a prophet to consult, to find out what these things are. But it was the king's own stubborn will. That's exactly!
And that's what's the matter in the nation today. It's the people's own stubborn will. Not because we don't have the same God that crossed the Red Sea with his people, that fed them forty years in the wilderness. It's not because we don't have the same God that we had in the beginning. It's the people's own stubborn way. They don't want to bow down. They don't want to have anything to do with the holiness and purity of living the Bible way of living. They'd rather belong to church, and put their name on a book, and live like the rest of the world, than to bow down to the promises and the commandments of Almighty God.
That's what's the matter. That's the reason things are going the way they are. People get away from the Word. You'll never be able to get straightened out till you get back onto the right path.

41 You built this building. You put that corner down here somewhere, you'll never get the building built. You've got to be laid on the foundation. And the foundation is the Bible---doctrine of the apostles, and prophets, and so forth, of the Bible.
The king's own stubborn way---he just didn't want to stand down there. It wasn't very popular. God's real true way of living has never been popular. It never will be popular, "for the preaching of the gospel is foolishness to them that perish." Paul said, "I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ: for it's the power of God unto salvation to them that believe."
Now, we find out here, that the king was stubborn.

42 Just something like today, a patient will lay right on... What if a patient went to a doctor and laid down on his steps, and he had some kind of a fever that was going to kill him. And the doctor come to the door and said, "Say, I've got the medicine in here."
He said, "Aw, I just ain't..."
"Come on in. I'll give you the injection, the inoculation."
"I don't want your medicine."
And say, "Now sir, I can help you if you'll just come on in."
"Well, I'm not coming in." And the man laid there on the doctor's steps and died, died on the doctor's steps because he won't accept the inoculations for typhoid fever, ever what it is that he had. He won't accept the inoculation for it, and the man dies right on the doctor's doorstep.
Now the man... You can't blame the doctor. If he has the medicine that will cure the disease, and the doctor's willing to give it, and it's been provided, and it's... The man sat ... come as close as the doctor's doorstep, and sit down there and die. You can't blame the doctor. You can't blame the medicine. It's the man that's be to blame, dying on the doctor's doorstep with a disease that there is a medicine to be cured, can cure it, on the inside.
Well, that's just a parable.

43 But, you know, God has the medicine inside of his kingdom that will cure every sin disease there is in the world. And the people sit right on the church doorsteps. Not only that, but they sit right in the pew, and die, and are lost, and go to hell because they refuse to accept the doctor's medicine. Amen! That's right. They absolutely refuse to take the doctor's medicine. Therefore they die with the fevers.
And the people sit in the church, and hear the messages of God, and believe them, and won't accept it. They wouldn't say, "Well now, I don't believe that's right." Some of them'll come, say they agree with it. And say, "Yeah, I believe it's right." But you won't do it, see. You'll die---dying in the pews of the church because they won't accept the remedy. They won't. See, what it does, it takes a little bit of the ... of popularity out of the people. It kind of beats them up a little bit.

44 They're afraid of that new birth.
You know, any birth is a mess. I don't care what it is. If it's in a pig pen, or a pink decorated hospital, it's a mess. And so is the new birth. It'll make you do things that you didn't think you would do. It'll straighten you up. But before you can ever get right, you have to come through that mess. That's right. Amen.
Before a seed can ever be borned, it has to die and rot. And that's what's the matter with people today. They don't want to die, and rot out to the world so they can be borned again of the Holy Ghost. They're afraid of that new birth. They're afraid it makes them do things that they don't want to do. It takes the popularity out of them. It takes the starch out of them.
Oh, I'll tell you, I'm glad that there is an inoculation tonight that'll take it out of you, brother---that'll take the world out. It'll make people, brotherhood, associate together regardless of denominational differences. It'll make a pair of overalls put our arms around a tuxedo suit, and holler, "Brother, I'm glad to see you." Amen. Sure. But you're ... they're afraid of that inoculation. Oh, my!
It's dangerous to refuse the doctor's medicine, you know. If you're going to him, and it's afraid of the ... if you refuse the medicine, it's dangerous. You may die. But that ... you just die physically from not taking the doctor's medicine. But how much more dangerous is it to refuse God's inoculation from sin.

45 Here, sometime ago, I had a little sick spell. Someone said to me, said, "Oh, Billy," said, "did you keep your religion during your sickness?" Said, "You know, you believe in divine healing. Did you keep your religion?"
I said, "No. It kept me." That's right. Not the idea of me keeping it; it keeps me.
When the blood of Jesus Christ was shed on Calvary, God made a preparation. When man first sinned he left hisself a great chasm that he crossed, leaving himself no way back. God, rich in mercy, accepted a substitute, and that was the blood of a lamb or a bullock. And that substitute lasted for years.

46 Moses stood under the inspiration of God when sin was not even divorced; it was just simply covered by the blood of bulls and goats. And he had the glory of God upon him until he could speak flies into existence, he could speak frogs into existence, because a word is a thought expressed. And God brought his thoughts to Moses, and Moses spoke them in words. And when the Word spoke, the whole world was framed by the Word of God.
There used to be a time when, that ... get ... school, get some black ink on my shirt. Mama used to take my shirt off, and say, "Hand it to me quick, honey." And she put some coal oil on it. And all it done was just scattered it, made a great big ring spot where she put the coal oil in the ink. That's all she knowed about. That's the best she had.

47 But it's different today. They've manufactured a stuff called bleach. And you... It's a chemical that whenever that ink drops back into that Clorox (or bleach, whatever it is), when it strikes that, you cannot find that black no more at all. What happens to it? Drop a drop of black ink in a tub of bleach. Why, you don't have nothing. You can't find any fumes.
If I was a chemist... These words may not be just exactly true to science, but I'd say, "What is it? It's a H2O, water for one thing. Then there's a chemical in it, made it black." There's only one original color, and that's white. All other colors are perversions from that.
And now, say... And then, if you'd break it up from there, maybe you'd say, "Well, it turned into an acid when it hit the bleach. It turned to an acid." All right then, where did the acid go? The acid went back... Now, it's coloring we're talking about in this, the color.

48 Say it went back to molecules. Well, say, molecules 4 x 6 + 9 makes molecule H. If it come out 4 + 6 + 8, what would it come out? Pink, instead of black. Then it went back from there to atoms. Then from atoms + 1 + B2 + 3 made 4, which, put it with molecule H means what? Then you come back to black again.
And then, when you go beyond that, you might go to electrons. Where do you go to from there? You have to go back. Because it is a creation, it had to come from a creator. He had to make it. Therefore, it went all the way back to its creator. That coloring that was in that ink, it can never return again.

49 Now, God, seeing that the blood of bulls and goats could not take away sin, He never manufactured, but He created a chemical in the blood of Jesus Christ. Amen. That sin, once confessed to the world, you don't even bridge that chasm; you take the chasm completely away. And God don't even know that you ever sinned. That's right. He said He put them in the sea of forgetfulness, to remember them no more at all against you. Then men and women stands in the presence of God as sons and daughters of God, the very nature of their God in their hearts.
Where is the church today? What's happened to the church, when we can see that the blood of Jesus Christ so remitted sins till God don't even remember we sinned? Then, "Whatever you ask in my name, that I'll do."
What's the matter? It's because somebody's been indocumating these Scriptures for the people. This is the only thing that I can figure's been done, because God's remedy is still the same. Now, it's dangerous to refuse the doctor's inoculation. How much more, God.

50 Now, how does man ever find medicine anyhow, to work on a human being. Do you know what chemists does, or scientists? They take a disease, and find out what kind of a germ is in it. Then they get some kind of poison antidote, and so forth---enough poison not to kill you, and enough antidote to keep it from doing it. And they inject it first into a guinea pig. They give the guinea pig the disease that you've got. Then, they put the medicine in the guinea pig. And if the guinea pig survives it, then they give it to you. So that's quite a thing, you know. Give it to the guinea pig and see if he can take it; and if the guinea pig don't die, then they give it to you. Now, not all people are made like guinea pigs, you know. So it kills some, and helps the other.

51 But there's one thing about this inoculation that Jesus Christ gives, it helps everybody. It's not a remedy, it's a cure.
We hear people say, today, number one killer is heart disease. I differ with them, not to be different. I just differ, because I know it's wrong. Number one killer is sin disease. That's right. Not heart disease; it's sin disease.
You know, some people say, "Well, now, Brother Branham, I believe you've stretched the blanket there a little bit. Now, let me ask you something. A man has to sin. I just have to sin a little bit every day." That's because you've never been inoculated, that's all. You've never tried God's remedy. That's right. If you'd do that, then you wouldn't do it.

52 Say, "I just have to smoke. Something just makes me smoke." Try the inoculation one time, and find out whether it works or not.
You say, "I just can't keep from doing this. I..." Well, you just take God's toxine one time, and see how it does to you.
A woman said to me, not long ago... I was getting on to her about wearing these little old scandal clothes.
And she said, "Now, Brother Branham, let me tell you, you have no right to say that. We got a right to wear shorts if we want to."
I said, "I guess that's right. But if you was a Christian, you wouldn't want to wear them."
She said, "Now wait, Brother Branham." She said, "You know they don't make any other kind of clothes but just those sexy clothes, and so forth like that."
I said, "They still got bolt goods, and make sewing machines. There's no excuse."
That's right. It's because they don't want to take the inoculation of the purity of the Holy Spirit---old-fashioned, God-saved, camp meeting holiness. Amen!

53 Used to be wrong to do those things. It's still wrong. Right. But what's the matter, there's something happened. It used to be that people'd act like that, they were even excommunicated from society. Now, they can't be brought into society until they do do it. And so, you see, it depends on... Where your heart is, there your treasures are also, or where your treasures are your heart is also. You must remember, that if you love the Lord with all your heart, you'll live clean and pure.

54 Last night, I went over to the supermarket... Here, some time ago, we seen a strange thing---a woman with a dress on. It was a strange thing in our country. And Meda said to me, she said, "Bill, I know that some of them women sing in choirs down here in churches." She said, "I know them." And she said, "Now, why? What makes them...?"
And I said, "Well, you see, honey," I said, "being a missionary, as myself," I said, "we are of a different country."
She said, "What?"
I said, "We are of a different country, a different nation."
She said, "Aren't we Americans?"
I said, "We live here, but this is not our home. We are pilgrims. We're seeking a city, whose builder and maker is God."
I went into Finland; I seen the way they acted in Finland. I went down into Germany; I seen the way they had the German spirit. I went down into Switzerland; they had the Switzerland spirit. I come to America; they got American spirit.
She said, "Then, what about us?"
I said, "We're born from above---heavenly, where purity and holiness and righteousness and honesty ... yes." I said, "Therefore, those who profess that look not upon the things of the world. But we plainly state by our lives, in the way we live, that we have a God, we have a kingdom, we have a place that we're going. And this is not our home." Amen!
My, I like that. I begin to feel pretty religious right now.
Yes, sir. I believe in this old-time, Holy Ghost salvation. Oh, brother, sister, it does something to you. The same God lived one time, still lives today. His same doctrine of holiness just lives tonight, the same as it ever lived. Just the same thing. Yes, sir. Notice, the people has got away from the doctrine of it, that's all. Yes.
Now, yes sir.

55 Our number one... Heart disease doesn't... The main thing that kills the people today, it's number one sin disease. And sin is unbelief. Unbelief in what? The Bible. That's right. Yes, it's the number one sin disease that kills the people today---both spiritually ... and that'll make them ... kill them physically, of course. 'Cause they all ... they can prove that men that hold grudges, and women who fuss, and stew, and fight, and argue---they die. It'll cause cancer, fungus, everything else. It'll set in ulcers...
See, you were made to be happy and free. You were made to live like children before your Father, and know that He makes every day, everything, work right for you, each day. Yes, sir.

56 The people's just afraid of this new birth, that's all. They're afraid to come to it, because it'll straighten them up. It'll make you quit playing bingo, quit playing these slot machines. It'll make you quit staying home on Wednesday night from prayer meeting to watch "We Love Suzy," and all those other crazy things that Hollywood's got, and them dirty jokes that's cracked over there. And it'll make you let your hair grow out long. It'll make you act like a lady. It'll make a man quit smoking cigarettes and being in church as deacons. It'll make the people quit lying, stealing. It'll do something for you. It'll clean you up, and give you a salvation that there's nothing in the world can explain it away from you, 'cause you know you were there when it happened. Yes, sir.

57 Now, as I said a while ago, when God ... when man finds medicine, the thing that they do, they search for this remedy. Then, they find this disease. Then they inject it into a guinea pig, and see if the guinea pig survives it.
Now, when God was going to bring down this inoculation that I'm speaking of tonight, this balm of Gilead, he didn't find a guinea pig; He come Himself. That's right. Only way He could do it was come in the form of his Son, and was made flesh, and dwelt among us in order to take the sting of death. He come to die the only way He could die. He couldn't die as a spirit, as a man. So, He was ... formed a body called Jesus Christ, the Son of God. And God dwelt in this body, and making Himself Emmanuel on earth, to take away the sin of man. That was that chemistry that was in that blood.
Somebody said He was a Jew. He was not a Jew. Some of them said He was a Gentile. He was not a Gentile. He was nothing less than God. The Bible said that we're saved by the blood of God. The blood comes from the male sex. We know that. The hemoglobin is out of the male. The female is only the egg. Right.

58 Like I said, like springtime, these old mother birds are building nests out here, and laying eggs. Some of them will lay a nest full of eggs that'll never hatch, too. Why, she could lay a nest full of eggs, and she could set on them, and just be so loyal. She could turn them eggs each day and stay there, away from food, until she gets so poor she couldn't hardly fly off the nest. No matter how much she babies them, and how much she pets them, and how loyal she is to them, they'll never hatch. Why? She hasn't been with the mate, and they're not fertile. Therefore, they'll just lay there and rot.
That's what's the matter with a lot of our conferences. That's what's the matter with our camp meetings, many of them today, and our conferences. What do we get? A bunch of pets and sissified preachers of all... Why, it's a disgrace. They come in there because they got a little prestige, or a little education, push them up above something.
I'd ... my ... only thing we need today is a... We got a nest full of rotten eggs.

59 What we need is a good old nest-cleaning time, all the way---to push it out until we get men and women that's filled with the Holy Ghost, that's been with the mate Jesus Christ, and been filled with the Spirit that He was baptized with. Right. Then we got life in the camp. Yes, sir. Toxine---they're afraid of it.
Jesus Christ, the son of God, when He was born... Some of them said, "Well, now, He was the egg of Mary." He wasn't. If Mary had to get that egg down through the tube into the womb, there had to be a sensation. So, you see what you put God doing. He was neither ... no part of it.

60 God, the creator, overshadowed the virgin Mary, and created the cells within her womb, and brought forth a man which was Emmanuel. God, Himself, made flesh, with no help from anybody.
He's the creator who made the first man. Amen! Oh, my! There He is. There He stands. Yes, sir. And then, He did that so He could take the inoculation.
Any real good scientist, good doctor, that finds the disease... Some of them will go over to a prison camp, and get some man to try it out that's going to have life in prison. If he survives the inoculation while ... then the poison don't kill him, he can go free, if he's ready to take the inoculation. Prisoners wait for that. Oh, that's a doctor that's afraid of his medicine.

61 But, you know, God wasn't afraid of his own medicine. [blank spot] be in a manger.
A Man, standing on the banks of the Jordan... When the inoculation fell down there, He seen it like a dove coming down from heaven, and He was inoculated. And a voice said, "This is my beloved son, in whom I'm pleased to dwell in." Amen! God in man---that's inoculated. God in man!
The world watched Him. Every temptation, He stood it. When they spit in his face, pulled the beard out, spit on Him, it stood the temptation. In the hours of trial, it stood the temptation. It held. The inoculation He received at Jordan, it held. It held in the times of popularity.

62 What's the matter with a lot of churches today, God'll bless them, they get started. That's what's hurting our Pentecostal people. They ought to be back like our grandfathers was, with a tin can or a tambourine, down on the corner somewhere, beating the tambourine. It would have been ... than so many of these big morgues that we're building today, trying to fashion after the other people. What we need is a good old-fashioned outpouring of the Holy Ghost, and cleaning up through the entire group of the Pentecostal church. That's right.
Now, the thing of it was that when the Holy Spirit came down upon Jesus, at the day of his baptism, He was inoculated. We've watched Him in the hour of trial, when the devil tried to give Him all the kingdoms of the world. What did He do? He stayed right with the Word. Amen!

63 What I'm wondering, today, that many brethren out on the field since this last day revival... Why is it, when you get a few nickels or a change of clothes, you're too big to go somewhere? Too... Oh, something another, you have to have something bigger than the other one. It's become a regular rat race. It's a shame. God wants man that'll humble himself, and get down on his face, somebody He can speak to. But it's become such a rat race, everybody trying to get something bigger than the other fellow. See, they can't stand that pressure of the temptation of Satan.

64 But our Lord stood the temptation. The inoculation held. When the time come where there was a debate on the Scripture, He stayed exactly with the Word. Satan said, "It's written."
He said, "It's also written..." Glory. God in man. What He had ... He had something with Him to back up every word He said. He said, "If I do not the works of my Father, then don't believe me. But if you can't believe me, believe the works that He does through me." Amen.
There you are.

65 What we need is men and women like that today, that can shut the mouth of the world by the signs of the Holy Ghost. We need a camp meeting like that. We need a turning upside down, and shaking out a lot of the world and things (out of the church) that's come in in these last days: money, scattering out through the country, and big things that's got the people's minds on big things instead of on God. Compromising---compromising with the Scripture.
Any brother who's started out on that way, but to get popular in some organization compromised on what he believes---that blood doesn't run in a genuine Holy Ghost-born man! All the devils in hell can't upset him on that Word. He'll stand on that regardless of what... Amen.
Paul said, "There's nothing present or future can come, or anything can separate us from the love of God." When that real genuine birth of the Holy Spirit comes into a man, he's a son of God. There's no chasm between him and God. He's his son, in his presence. Amen! I like that. I know that's true.
All right.

66 We find out that in the hour of temptation for worldly fame, the inoculation held. In the time of being called holy roller, or made fun of ... put a rag around his face and his eyes, hit Him on the head with a stick, said, "Now if you're a prophet, tell us who hit you," them Roman soldiers. They seen Him discerning the thoughts of the people. They'd stand out...
And if He was standing here tonight, He look could down and tell that women what was wrong with her, and what was this, and that. That's the way He did it. That's the way He still does it, because He doesn't change. Amen!
Ain't you glad that the living God ... that a man could fall out of the roof, and the life go out of him, and a man standing there with God in him could lay Hisself over that man, and he lived again? That same God lives tonight! Amen. He's the unchangeable God.
The church needs an inoculation. That's right.

67 As David DuPlessis once said, God don't have no grandchildren. That's right. Where Pentecostal brethren have becoming... The children come in the church, and just say, "Well, we're Pentecostals because Papa was." If Papa was a Pentecostal, and got the baptism of the Holy Ghost, you'll have to get it the same way Papa did. He don't have grandchildren; He just has sons and daughters. Not grandsons and granddaughters; just sons and daughters. It's true.
So you've got to do the same thing they did on the day of Pentecost. You've got to have the same experience. You've got to have the same thing that they had.
God don't never change his program. He never changes his way. He just does the same thing all the time. The way He lays down his program, it must toe to that each time. It's got to be the same thing. And if you'll do the same thing, the same results will come. Amen. That's right.

68 Now, we find out, it held in time of temptation. It held when everything was going wrong. It held when all of his friends forsook Him. He still held. The inoculation held. Then the devil thought, "I've got Him now." He started up Calvary, the blood streaming out of his body, his garment wrapped around Him, one big splash of blood.
The devil must have said, "I've got him now. That can't be God. No, no. That can't be Him if he let them soldiers spit in his face, if he let them jerk handfuls of beard out of his face, if he let them challenge him to see a vision and he didn't do it. And now, here he goes up the hill, packing that cross. I'll have him in a few minutes."

69 That bee of death come down, circling around to sting Him, you know, like any bee has a stinger in it.
But, you know, God had prepared a flesh that time. It was the flesh of God. When that stinger once anchored in that son of God, into Emmanuel, when he pulled hisself out, he had no stinger left. He took the sting right out of death. Where is thy sting, death? Where is thy sting, grave? Where is thy victory? But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. He could sting Elijah and die. He could sting Elijah, and remain his stinger. But, you know, if a bee ever stings deep enough, he can't sting no more. He pulls his stinger out. So, there was no human flesh that he could anchor in. Oh, oh, my! No one that he could anchor in.
But when he put it in Emmanuel that time, he lost his stinger. Thanks be to God. Yes, sir. He failed on that one. Yes, sir.

70 They found out the toxine vaccine held. They said, "If you be the Son of God, come down off the cross." The high priest, the big dignitary of the church said, "Tell us plainly now, if you're the Son of God, come down off the cross and save yourself," and so forth. "Let us see if you're the Son of God." He never opened his mouth and said a word.
Now, we find out that He died. He really died. He died until the sun and moon said He died. All nature said He died. The earthquake ... it had a nervous chill run over it. And when they seen the very God that created the earth was hanging on top of the earth, with Emmanuel's blood dropping upon the ground... No wonder He died. He died till everything said He was dead.

71 And then, we go to find out before He died, He said, "You destroy this temple, and I'll raise it up again on the third day. You'll never be able to keep it down. Destroy it, and I'll bring it back up on the third day." They put a guard around to find out if the inoculation was going to hold. They'd seen it held through temptation of sin. It held through poverty, it held through riches, it held through all kinds of temptations. It still held. And now, it's in death. What's it going to do now?

72 But on Easter morning (Oh, my!), just before that Son rose up, that inoculation took a hold. And when it did, death broke its barriers, the grave opened up, and He rose again on the third day, and ascended on high. Shows that that inoculation is the inoculation of eternal life. You can't destroy it. Even the belly of hell can't hold it, the grave can't hold it, death can't hold it. Nothing can hold it; it'll rise again.
Jesus Christ said, "All the Father's given me will come to me, and I'll raise it up again at the last days." Hallelujah!
A man or a woman's been inoculated with this cannot stay in the grave. No grave can hold the righteous. No hell can keep it, no grave, no nothing else. Jesus Christ promised to raise it up again. Amen! Oh, I'm so glad of that, that inoculation.
You know, on Easter morning, it proved.

73 And you know what it was? It was such a great thing till 120 people wanted to get inoculated. Now, if He can keep through temptation, there was 120 people who knew Him real well, they wanted that inoculation.
So, right then, He had to go up to the laboratory, and fix the serum. So He said, "You go up there to the city of Jerusalem till they get all the formula fixed up. And I'm going to send it down to you."
So they went up to wait. How the Christian church should be... What kind of inoculation would it take? What would be the inoculation? How would they do? What would take place? Should they all go away to the seminary and learn to have the Ph.D. and LL.D? Should some priest come up the road with a kosher in his hand, and lick out, and take the communion, and that's it?

74 But there came a sound from heaven. The inoculation was on its road, like a rushing mighty wind; and it filled all the house where they were sitting. Cloven tongues sat upon them like fire, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit give them utterance.
If you've ever seen the old temple, the picture of it, there's a little side door that went out, went up along the stair steps, went up in the upper room. They closed the doors and went in, because they was afraid.
But I'm telling you, when they got inoculated, like a fresh baby calf, they couldn't hold him. No, sir. Out of that room he come. Out into the streets he went. He was inoculated. Death, burial, persecution, laughed at, made fun of---made no difference to him. He was inoculated. Amen! Oh, my.

75 Listen at Peter standing up there. They began to ask, "Is there any more balm in Gilead? Is there any more balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?"
Oh, yeah. We got plenty of balm in Gilead. We got plenty of physicians. That day Dr. Simon Peter, he was the physician. He said, "I'm going to write you a prescription. And I'm going to tell you. And this is an eternal prescription, because it's going to be for you, and for your children, and for them that's far off. Frankly, it's for every one that'll call upon the Lord thy God ... shall call upon. I'm going to give it to him."
Now what can we do to get inoculated? There's where she lays. What can we do to be inoculated? He said, "I'll write the prescription." He said, "Repent every one of you and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For this prescription is to you, and to your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." Oh, my.

76 You know what? When a doctor finds a remedy for a disease and he writes out a prescription, and some quack druggist gets a hold of it and goes to adding a little of this and taking a little this out of it, he'll either kill the patient, or do something to it. The prescription doesn't even have any ... enough medicine in it to do any good. If it don't, it's so weak it won't help the patient.
That's what the matter with a lot of these seminary druggists today. They take the prescription out, and add something else and fill it. And you've got a bunch of dying world today.

77 This prescription still remains the same.
When the Samaritans received it, they get inoculated, they had the same thing. When the Gentiles received it, they got the same prescription.
Paul met a bunch, in Acts 19, who had part of the prescription, not all. He said, "That won't work. You're going to kill the whole thing." So, he wrote it over for them, told them how to do it, and they got it the same way.
And that's what's the matter today. There's plenty of balm in Gilead and we got plenty of physicians; but the people are afraid of the prescription. Glory! Praise be to God. Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no power of the Holy Spirit?
Now, is there...? This inoculation works on all. It did on the Jews. It did on the Samaritans. It did on the Gentiles. It does on everybody the same way.

78 I'm a missionary. I go over into the lands where the people there don't even know which is right and left hand. And they stand there. Do you know what they do when they receive the Holy Ghost? Same thing you do. Same thing.
Oh, what is it? "It's for you and for your children and to them that's far off even as many as the Lord our God shall call." This same prescription works, the same thing. And the church will do the same thing it did at the beginning. Exactly right.
Jesus is the vine; we are the branches. And by being inoculated by that life that was in the vine, the church that went out inoculated, they wrote a book of Acts behind it. Now, we got some substitutes. We got some grafted fruits. It lives off the life of the tree, but it won't bear the fruits. That's right.

79 I was standing with a friend of mine, John Sharrit, over in Phoenix here, not long ago. He had a tree there, a orange tree, that had about five or six different kinds of fruit on it.
I said, "I've never seen a thing like that."
He said, "They're grafted."
I said, "What kind of a tree?"
He said, "Orange."
I said, "Well, there's lemons, and there's limes, and there's tangerines, and tangelos, and grapefruit---many different kinds." I said, "And all them raised off that same tree."
He said, "Yes. It's all citrus fruit."
I said, "Well, now, that's a strange thing." I said, "Now this year after all that fruit goes off, next year it'll bring forth oranges."
He said, "Oh, no. No." Said, "It'll bring forth the kind that the limb is."
And I said, "Then that tree turned from a ... you mean from a orange tree to what...?"
He said, "No, no, no. If it ever puts forth another limb, it'll bring forth an orange."
I said, "I see." Amen.

80 Brother, we got such things as church denominations injected into this, and living off of it, calling themselves Christians. But if the real life of that tree ever puts forth another branch of its own, it'll be another book of Acts behind it. For He's the same yesterday, today, and forever---what the world and their treasure, they don't know nothing about.
The people reading this Bible, if you read it from a denominational standpoint, you'll not get much from it. But if you'll just look to what it says, and then obey what the prescription says---read it, obey it---it'll make a different person.

81 I just come from India, here not long ago. I heard of a woman over here. She was poverty-stricken. Her son had went to India to be a doctor. And he got over there, and he got away from his medical practice and got into another ... I believe it was electrical engineer or something. And this woman got poverty-stricken. She just didn't have nothing. And so, charity was trying to come and take care of her. And so they investigated. When they investigated, they found out that the woman had one support, and that was the son that was a very wealthy man in India.
And he said, "Well, why don't your son support you?"
Said, "Oh, I just couldn't ask him." Said, "I'm his mother." Said, "I'd just rather take charity than to ask my son."
Said, "Don't you never hear from him?"
Said, "Oh, I hear from him at least once or twice a month." Said, "He writes some of the most sweetest letters that you ever read."
Said, "But looked like if he loved his mother enough, and he had plenty of money, he'd be trying to take care of her instead of her having to go to charity."
Said, "Well, perhaps if he knew I was this way," said, "he would take care of me. But," said, "you know, he doesn't know it. And I just feel embarrassed to tell my son like that."
And said, "And he still writes you sweet letters?"
Said, "Oh, some of the sweetest letters. And," said, "he sends me the prettiest pictures you ever seen."
Said, "The prettiest pictures?" Said, "Let's see some of them."
She went to her Bible, and she pulled them out. You know what they was? Bank drafts. India puts pictures on their bank drafts, you see---pretty pictures. She had thousands of dollars converted from India money into American money. What was it? In the lids of her Bible, she had treasures that she thought was just pictures. But come to find out, it was real value to her.

82 And brother, when you try to read of a painted fire of Pentecost, and somebody tries to tell you that the Holy Spirit isn't the same today as it was then; somebody tries to tell you the days of miracles is past, that Jesus Christ isn't the same yesterday, today, and forever; that they try to tell you...
Don't you believe it. Them's not pictures. God Almighty sent that message to you. That's right. "It's for you and to your children, to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." God is still God. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He's right here, tonight, to save the lost, to heal the sick, to fill with the Holy Spirit those who desire to be filled. You believe that, don't you? Yes, sir.
If you believe it, then, you see, that's God's promises in this Word here. You can get right in there, and find every promise. The promise is unto you. Peter said, "The promise is unto you and to your children, and to them that's far off." Don't be afraid to cash that. That's a bank draft on heaven. That's right. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and forever.

83 What if He stood here tonight and seen that woman laying there sick? She looks like she was very sick, cripple, probably paralytic, or something. Two women ... a woman, and a colored man and a colored woman trying to work with a little baby. What do you think He'd do if He stood and looked at them two patients there, as the healer? Do you think He could heal them? He's already done it, see. When He died at Calvary He done it.
Do you believe that, patient? Do you believe that's right? You there, with a ... little colored lady there with the baby, do you believe Jesus Christ, when He died at Calvary, He purchased the healing of your child?
You on the cot there---if you're ... you look very sick. You're paralyzed, whatever. Do you believe Jesus Christ died at Calvary to save you from your sickness? Do you believe that? Do you believe that what I've said tonight, that it's true? Do you believe that prescription's true? You do?

84 Now, if He stood here tonight, and you asked Him, "Will You heal my child?", do you know what He'd say?
"I've already done that," see. "You just believe it," see.
And if you'd say, "Sir, I'm crippled, can't walk [or whatever it is], I can't walk."
"I'm dying," or something.
"Will You save me?" He'd say, "I've already done it," see.
Now how would you know it was his voice? Because He would do something like He did then. He might be able to tell you something about yourself---tell you what you were, or what was wrong with you, or something like that---like He did in the Bible time. That would show that He was the same. But for healing, you'd have to accept it yourself. "He was wounded for our transgressions, with his stripes we were healed." Do you believe that?
Do you believe He could tell me tonight what's your trouble, or something about you, laying there? Will you accept and believe me to be his prophet? You will?
What about you, the lady there next to her, with your hand on your baby? Do you believe that? Well, how many will believe it?

85 Now, heavenly Father, this is your servant. I'm just responsible for preaching your Word. Now, I know this is unusual, but I pray that You'll grant it tonight, that the people might know that this is truth.
All right, look this way. Your baby has some kind of a bone disease. That's right. It's got a big swelling in the leg. Is that right? Keep your hand on her, repeat and say, "Lord Jesus, heal my baby. I'll serve you all my life." If you've never took this inoculation, believe it with all your heart. And put a string around that baby's leg tonight, and measure it. And then bring the string back tomorrow, where you cut it off---how much the swelling went down---tomorrow night. Will you do that?

86 You, laying there on that... Do you believe me to be his servant? I've never seen you in my life. But you're laying there shadowed with death. And there's a dark shadow over the woman. She's suffering, dying with cancer. That's exactly right. Do you believe that God will make you well? Could you believe it? Then why do you lay there till you die? The doctor can't heal that. Rise up in the name of Jesus Christ, and take up your bed, and go home.
Do you believe? All that wants to believe, accept your healing. Stand upon your feet and praise God. Let's say, "Praise the Lord!" everybody. Do you believe? Raise your hands now to God. Do you believe? Is there no balm in Gilead? The power of God can do that. Let's raise on our feet, everybody now. Stand up to your feet, everybody, and accept Jesus Christ.