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« 1 † ` Good morning, friends. It’s a privilege to be here this morning in the service of the Lord. And we’re hoping and trusting for a great time.
2 I was just back in the… what we used to call the deacon’s office, where the recorders are now, and was just talking with a young lady and her mother back there, from up at Joliet, Illinois. And I was just thinking of what a product of God’s grace that girl is. Most of us around here know her. She’s a–a an alcoholic, one of the worse kind. And I never had the story clear to me until this morning, how that when she went off the platform. The Lord had revealed to her all that was wrong and what was going to take place. And she went off the platform, weeping and rejoicing because God had saved her from a–a drunkard’s grave. And she… A lady walked up to her and begin weeping, that her daughter, I believe it was, was a dope addict. And you know, by the grace of God, that girl was called. I believe, was the next night, Rosella was called. And the girl from dope was healed. And she and her husband is preaching the Gospel. And–and–and to see a lovely little lady like Rosella, and just seasoned. And now she, very respectable, she’s got a… feels a call in her heart. But, knowing the Bible about women preachers, see, she knows it’s something else. And God is leading her into jails and things, to give testimony.
3 It’s just wonderful to–to–to know, to seek after the will of God. Sometime we have a feeling, but we want to carry that feeling into places; if you don’t watch, the Devil will take that feeling and pervert it into something. But as long as we stay in the Bible, then we’re right, you see, we’re moving right with the will of the Lord.

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« 4 † And so I believe that–that Rosella will finally turn into the mission fields somewhere, because America doesn’t want the Gospel.
You know that. We just might as well admit that, that, this Anglo-Saxon people, it’s finished. That’s all. There’s no more Gospel that America will receive. Oh, you get a few stragglings, now and then. But, just as the Gospel, it’s over. And you can’t even preach to them, can’t talk to them. They won’t believe nothing. See? They just got their own hardheaded ideas, and they’re set.
And the next things for this nation is judgment. She is going to have it, too. It may be through depression. It may be through an atomic bomb. It may be through a great plague, a disease or something, but, she is ready. It’s coming. Thousands times thousands will fall.
5 We passed by, yesterday, Brother Zabel and I, to… and Brother Woods, coming in from down in Kentucky, where we had been for three days, and passed by a housing project. Brother Zabel said, “There’s not…” I forget. “Not hardly any of those people, in that project, that even goes to any church.”

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« 6 † You’d ask them about it. “Well, we got our television. That’s how we find comfort.” See? That’s the American attitude. See? “We got television. We got plenty of money. We got fine cars, got nice homes. What do we need with the Lord? We don’t need That.” That’s the attitude.
7 About the only religion and salvation we have, and love, is amongst the real godly people. You know, the Bible said that would happen. [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Uh-huh. You Bible readers, I heard you holler “amen,” and you preachers back there. That, that’s right. The love would be so far away, in the last days; the only love there would be left, would be between the Elect of God’s people. “The father would be against mother, and mother against father, and children against parents, and different ones against each other.” And the only love would be left, would just be that Elect, just the Elected. The word “Elect” there comes from the word “Elected,” God’s elected people.

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« 8 † And when Rosella was quoting the story to me in the room, a while ago, I was just thinking, that, on that night, she said something happened. And how that said, all down through her life, when she’d be just a walleyed alcoholic. Couldn’t, no Alcohols Anonymous. Four doctors give her up. Nothing could be done. And how, from that very moment, something taken place.
9 Now she is not that batty-eyed. She’s a lovely, beautiful young woman of thirty-three years old, and would pass for about twenty-two; just how that God did for her what He did, and how she looks different. And, but I said, “Rosella, before the foundation of the world, God ordained that moment.” Yes, sir. See? Right. And when little old Billy Paul back there, where he’s at, was pushing out prayer cards to the people that night, how little did he know who he was giving a prayer card to.
Isn’t it wonderful, Rosella?
[Sister Rosella Griffith says, “Brother Branham, I wonder if the church could pray that God will guide for us, how He was strong.”–Ed.]
Amen. The Lord bless you, Rosella. I’m sure we will do that. She wants the church to pray that God will guide her. That’s, follow His unchanging hand. Oh, that’s so good.

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« 10 † Had an awful proposition put before me, this morning. It’s about some, a multi-times multi-times multimillionaire that wants to produce here at Louisville, Kentucky, and build me a five-million-dollar tabernacle. But something down in my heart said, “Hold on, you’re not a pastor.” See? So, then, five million dollars of money that would be appropriated. Now to have to go to the government, to pay for whiskey and stuff like that, but wants to put it on a tabernacle for the Lord. But I hope that it goes to some servant of God that will… and some service to God. But, that’s five million dollars appropriated now. Think of that, what a tabernacle that would make.
See how flowery that looks, Rosella? But there is something down here that says different. See? See? Something down here.
11 We come into this little, old tabernacle, you strangers. Well, this could be a glamorous place here on the corner, you don’t realize that, that people has wanted to build this place and make it. But this is the way we like it. See, this is the way we like it. Old seats we were setting on there, was the–the old original seats out of the tabernacle here, went through the flood and floated up.
12 My Bible laying open like that on the pulpit. It stuck against the ceiling and come back down with a Word on It, “I the Lord hath planted it. I’ll water it day and night lest some shall pluck it from My hand.” How we rowed across the top of it with a skiff, here. And she come right back down, the seats moving right back to their place. All they had to do was scrub it out and go on. See? See? So this is just the way we like it, where it’s a common people, common place, and a wonderful Lord. Amen.

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« 13 † Now, today, we got some, we’re just beginning to get over into the cream, you know, after the–the milk is all taken out, and just the cream. And remember, it takes the milk to produce the cream, you know. The–the cream is the contents of the milk.
14 So we been in the 1st, 2nd, and we’re ending up in the 3rd, and beginning in the 4th chapter of the glorious Book of Hebrews. And, oh, the teachings of this Book! We could stay with It, for on one verse, for three months, and just show that the entire Bible ties into every verse in the Bible. Did you ever think of that? There’s not one verse that you can put your finger on, but what, with the grace and the help of the Holy Spirit, that we can tie Genesis to Revelation right into It.

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« 15 † There’s not another piece of literature written anywhere that can do that. And mathematically, and geographically, in every way, there’s not a Book in the Bible wrote like the Bible… There’s not a book in the world, I mean, wrote like the Bible. There’s nothing. The pneumatics of the Bible is perfectly in harmony; just even chapters, and punctuations, and everything, is perfect. Not another book; you couldn’t read a chapter out of it without crossing itself back. But there’s not one cross-up in the entire Bible. And was wrote by many, many, many people; and hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds of years apart. Not knowing one piece; one wrote It here, and one wrote It here, and one wrote It over here. When It was all formed together, It made God’s Bible. And not one contradicts the other one, and, no, not mathematics, geographics. Anything else of the Bible, everything, pneumatic, everything runs perfectly together. That isn’t inspired, I don’t know, what will you call inspiration? I’m so glad for the blessed, old Bible.
16 Some of them said, “Are you a Catholic? Protestant?”
I said, “Neither one. I believe the Bible.” That’s right. I believe the Bible, and I’m glad that we still have the freedom to preach It in this nation. Oh, It’s wonderful.

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« 17 † Now we’re going to study from It. And now we’ll turn over in the Book of the Hebrews and begin with the 3rd chapter. And we left off at the 15th verse. And now you all…
18 I seen somebody notice, a while ago, when I picked up my reading glasses. It’s not that my eyes are bad, but I’m past forty years old. I can read it, right here, just ordinarily, but I can read it better with the glasses. And they made me a pair of reading glasses that I want to use, because I can read it better and faster. And that’s what I got them for. Now in the…

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« 19 † First, we want a little background, ’cause there may be some strangers among us, that has not picked up the first part of the Book of Hebrews.
20 Are you Mrs. Cox, setting right here on the end? Well, I am sure glad to see her, just before I start, as a testimony to the grace of God. Here was a woman with a cancer eating her face off. That’s Sister Wood’s mother. And I was in Michigan with Gene and Leo, and them, taking the recordings. And on the road home, wife called me, or I called her. She said, “Go to prayer immediately for a Mrs. Cox, Mrs. Wood’s mother, for a cancer is eating her face off.” Done went into the side of the eye and down to the bone, slick on the side of her face, and just scattering. Some doctor done something other to it, just made it worse, and just scatter it up; put some kind of medicine in it.
21 And they brought her from down to Campbellsville, Kentucky, up to… or, I believe, Acton, Kentucky, up to–to Louisville, for treatment.

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« 22 † And so Mrs. Woods, the first time I ever seen her that she was tore up. Because, of course, is her–her–her mama, and sure she’d feel tore up. Went into the room and prayed for her, with the confidence that God said He’d answer prayer. And few days, she was out. And there she sets now. With just amazing grace, how He’s done for her.
23 Would you stand up? I don’t want to make you a–a–a public… Where, where was the cancer located? On–on the side of the face, see there, on that side of her face, down around here, to her cheekbone, up around her eye. And God healed her. Isn’t He wonderful? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]

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« 24 † How many was here last Sunday to see what the Lord did by a vision? Man, both crippled and blind, setting right here in a wheel chair. And something hurt me when that old man setting here said, “Brother Branham…” I believe it was this brother right here. Said, “Do the same for my wife.” He’s got a wife here that’s crippled. My heart just melted. I wish… I’d give anything in the world if I could, but it’s not… don’t lay in my power. But it does lay to my power and your power, to pray that God will do it. He’s got a crippled wife, a paralyzed hand, a paralyzed foot, looks like. And this man was far worse off than her, ’cause she can stand up and can walk a little, but this man could not even do that. And he… The brain, main balance nerve was gone. Mayo’s, lot of the others, had give him up. And a Catholic sent him here, a Catholic doctor; and his boy is a priest at St. Meinrad’s down in Jasper, Indiana. But that’s laying foundation stones for that revival coming up, down there.

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« 25 † And when he raised up, he said, “But I can’t…” He looked, said, “Yes, I can.” He thought he couldn’t see, you know. And he looked up, and just happen to raise his head up, and there he could walk and see; walked down that aisle, by himself. And they were Presbyterians. He was orthodox. And talk… You think that just the Pentecostal or the Holiness people can shout; you’re mistaken. They can sure do some shouting when they see something like that happen; hugging each other and shouting. Walked right out and down the steps, pushing his wheel chair; walking, with the balance nerves out of his head. Think of it. Walking like you or I would walk. Oh, He’s wonderful.

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« 26 † Now, Paul wrote the Book of Hebrews. And in this writing of Hebrews, he wrote It. And before He wrote these Books… We find out now. We go… This is a Sunday school class, and I’ll try to watch and not take too long. And then we’re going to have services, to continue them on tonight, the Lord willing. Now, in the Book of Hebrews and the rest of the Epistles of Paul…
27 Who was Paul? He was a staunch Hebrew, a scholar, and a great teacher of the Old Testament. And he had been taught by one of the best men of his day. Somebody tell me what his name was. Gamaliel, one of the greatest teachers of his day. And Paul had set at the feet of Gamaliel.
28 There is something about the… where you go, what church you go to, and what teacher teaches you. Did you know that? It, it’s got something to it. Therefore we ought to seek out the very best that we can find, so we’re getting the best; not because it’s sociable and so forth, but the real Bible teaching.

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« 29 † Look, one time when Israel had got out into the wilderness with their armies, and they had a seven-day compass, and they run out of water. And they were about to perish, they said, “Oh, if there was a prophet near!”
30 And one of them said, “We have down here, Elisha. He poured water on the hands of Elijah.” See his associates? Other words, “Here is Elisha who has had associations with Elijah. The Word of the Lord is with him.” You get it? He had been taught right. And he said, “He’s here. Let’s go down and consult him, because his teacher was Elijah, and he’s got the teaching of Elijah in him.” See what a difference it makes? Sure. We want to be taught.

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« 31 † So, Paul had the teaching of Gamaliel. And Gamaliel was that great man who made the choice, being a scholar himself, that when all of this carrying on started of the early church, he said, “Let’s not put our hands on that, brethren. If it is not of God, it will come to naught, anyhow. But if it is of God, and we fight against it, we’ll find ourself fighting against God.” See, he had had some good teaching.
32 Paul had come up under this man, and he knew that Paul was a great teacher. So, one day, honest in heart, persecuting the Church, going down to arrest them.
33 Now let’s take just another little phase from Paul, as we get our background.

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« 34 † When Judas fell, by transgression, by the love of money and the pride of life, he fell from grace and went to his place. And the disciples said, “There must be twelve.” And the church, with all of its dignity, to show you what the church is; with all of its dignity and all of its power, it’s still millions of miles short, at its very best. They said, “We’ve got to look out, one among us, who will take the place.” And they chose, by casting lots, Matthias. Mattheas, I believe, or Matthias. Matthias, I believe it is. And whenever they chose him and put him with the twelve, with the eleven, which made up the twelve, he did not do one thing. That’s the only time his name is ever mentioned in the Scriptures. That was the church making its choice.
35 Now, they thought, “He is a gentleman.” No doubt. “He’s a wonderful man. He’s a scholar. He’s smart. He’s educated. He’s a wonderful person. He would take the place of Judas and be one of us.”

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« 36 † But, you know, God sometimes makes some of the… to our opinion, some of the most foolish choices. Now, God seen a little hook-nosed Jew, just as full of temper as he could be, with his mouth setting sideways, “I’ll go down, arrest every one of them. I’ll–I’ll throw them in jail. I’ll do this.” That was God’s choice.
The rest of them taken a scholar and a diplomat. That’s the church’s choice.
37 See, you don’t know who that is at the altar. You don’t know who that is you’re testifying, in jail or wherever it is. It might look like a pugilist, his ears broke down, eyes skinned up, and, but you don’t know who that is. You just cast your lot, that’s all, give him the Word. God takes the choice.
38 And God choose this little high-tempered Jew, or chose him, rather. On his road down, “I’ll go down and get them. I’ll–I’ll show them what I can do like that,” and God just knocked him down.
God said, “That’s my choice, right there.”
39 Wouldn’t that be foolish, to the church? “Why, he persecutes the church. He’s a carnal man.” But God knowed what was on the inside of man. See what I mean?

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« 40 † So, Paul had an experience. How many believes experience comes by conversion? Sure. If it hasn’t, I would doubt the conversion. A conversion brings experience. And you can’t lot it to anything now. Sometimes it might be shouting. Sometimes it might be speaking with tongues. Sometimes it might be weeping. Sometimes it might be groaning. You don’t know what it is, so don’t try to lot it. Because, every one of you has proved to be wrong in it, you Methodists, and you Baptists, and you Nazarenes, and Pentecostals.
41 I seen people shout just as hard as they could shout, and steal the gold out of your teeth, they could. Yes, sir. I seen people speak with tongues like pouring peas on a dry cowhide, and–and honest to goodness, with a chew tobacco on other side of the mouth, and cut your throat if they could do it. That’s right. So them things has not… There’s no evidence that you can prove it, only by the life the person lives. “By their fruit, you shall know them.”

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« 42 † So, that’s all up to God. He makes a choice. He brings the things together, and that’s the way it is. So if your life is comparing with the fruits of the Bible, you got a pretty good conception. If your spirit is bearing record with His Spirit, that you’re sons and daughters of God, you’re… All the old evil has dropped away, and everything has become new, and you’re living in love, and you got peace, and grace, and so forth, you’re getting pretty close to the Kingdom then. Because, the Life that’s in you is producing that kind of a life. See?
43 If you say, “Oh, hallelujah, I spoke with tongues. Hallelujah!” That don’t mean nothing. That don’t mean a bit more than if you’d got out here and played a tune on a guitar or something. That doesn’t mean one thing. Though you spoke with tongues, though you shouted, and run up-and-down the aisle, and cried tears till like you had been peeling onions, that don’t mean one thing, not one thing, unless that everyday life backs up just exactly, stays with It.

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« 44 † Now, if you do those things, plus that life, “amen,” that, that’s fine. That’s good. But you can do those things without having that life.
45 So then, no shouting, no nothing like that is evidence. Jesus said, “By their fruit, you shall know them.” And the fruit of the Spirit is not speaking with tongues. That’s not the fruit of the Spirit. Shouting is not the fruit of the Spirit. Weeping is not this fruit of the Spirit. But, love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, gentleness, faith, meekness, temperance, that’s the fruits of the Spirit. See? That’s what the Spirit’s fruits are. All right.
46 Now, the reason we have these things, they like to make organizations, you see. “Well, we’ll have it. Bless God, all believes the way we do, we’ll go this way. All believes like we do, we’ll go this way.” But God wants all to go This way, right up.

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« 47 † Now, Paul, after he had this experience, then he thought that was a wonderful experience. Now, how… Let’s–let’s–let’s quote that experience a little bit. Paul was on his road to Damascus, to arrest some people down there, ’cause the Gospel had got scattered down there. Gospel means “the good news.” And so they got scattered down there, and many people was raising up, full of love, and joy, and loving the Lord Jesus. And It had got scattered down that way. So, Paul got some letters from the High Priest. He said, “I’ll go down, and I’ll arrest them, every one.”
48 So he took him a little company of guards, temple guards, soldiers, way down the road he went. While they were marching down the road, and him just all know what he’s going to do, all of a sudden, something happened. All of a sudden, there was a great Light before him. Great Light, now, It shined like the sun. That’s a strange thing to happen. The Light shined insomuch that he just… His eyes went out, almost. And fell to the ground. And he–he’s laying down on the ground, and he looked up.

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« 49 † There was probably ten or fifteen men with him. Did any of those men see that Light? No, sir. Paul saw It. It wasn’t designated for them men to see It. So, some people can see things, where, others don’t. See? So, Paul saw that Light, insomuch that It even blinded him. He couldn’t see, for several days, It was such a reality to him. And he couldn’t see for several…
Later on, when he wrote letters, his eyes bothered him so bad from that, until he wrote with great big letters. He said, “Seeing that I have written to you with large letters.” He couldn’t hardly see.
50 He was in jail, and he asked the Lord to heal him of it. And he consulted Him three times. But what did the Lord say? “My grace is sufficient, Paul.”
51 Paul said, “Then will I glory in my infirmities.” Because, he said, “Except I would be exalted above the abundance of the Revelation, there was given to me a messenger of the Devil, a thorn in the flesh, that buffet me.” He’d get better for a while, and then away they go again.
Buffet mean “blow after blow.” Like the ship on the sea, you know, the waves buffet it, see, blow after blow.
And he would, he’d get better, and then have it again; then get better, have it again. He said, “Lord, what’s the matter, You don’t take this away from me?”
52 He said, “My grace is sufficient, Paul. Just keep on.” It’d keep…

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« 53 † He said, “Now, if–if I was just perfect, and everything perfect,” said, “then when I went along, oh, I’d get puffed up and say, ‘You see, nothing wrong with me. Lord takes care of me, brother. Hallelujah!'” Then you’re getting self-righteous.
54 God has to give you a little something, once in a while, to kind of meeking you up a little, you know. That’s right. Kind of make you realize that He’s the Boss. Oh, isn’t He wonderful? Yes, sir, just glory!
55 So he, Paul, then, right after having this great experience…
56 Now, if that would been somebody today, they’d said, “Oh, bless God, hallelujah. Boy, the Lord has done something for me! Glory to God!” But not Paul; he was a Bible scholar.

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« 57 † That experience must tally with God’s Word. Yes, sir. If it isn’t altogether hooked into the Bible… Not just look over here, say, “Oh, yes, here it is right here. Bless God, I got It.” Huh-uh. That’s not the way God gives It.
58 It must be the entire Bible, all of It. Cause, you can… Infidels use this Bible for their grounds to debate on. But they’ll take a little Scripture here, turn over here and get another little one over here, try to make them tie together, and it’s two different subjects, altogether. So, you got to make Scripture compare with Scripture.

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« 59 † As Isaiah said, the 28th chapter, “It must be line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little.” “Hold fast to that what’s good.” See, there’s the way It comes: line upon line upon line, Word upon Word, Scripture upon Scripture. It must all compile together. That’s why, I think, in these lessons like we’re having now, it’s a great thing to the church, because it brings them to a place that all the Scriptures tie together. And our experience must tie with that Scripture. Oh, here it is! If it doesn’t, then it’s wrong.
60 And how that I walked for years, not knowing what that Light was that struck Paul down. When, the outside world, the Scriptures… The people, the preachers tried to tell me, “That’s of the Devil. Why, you’ll be a fortune-teller. You’ll be a spiritualist. Don’t you fool with That, Billy. Something wrong with That. Don’t you do that, boy. That’s wrong. That’s the Devil. Well, boy, you’ll be a regular medium. You’ll be a spiritualist if you do that. Oh, all that’s of the Devil. That’s–that’s not right.” But when… I didn’t want to preach that.

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« 61 † But as on the road down to Damascus, Paul didn’t want to preach it, till he found out whether it was right or not. So he goes down into Arabia for three years, and studies the Scripture. Ah! When he come out, he said, “Now shake it out of me.”
62 He knew he had to face Pharisees. He had to face Sadducees. He had to face the world, and the Gentile world. And so Paul, this Bible is written, this Book of Hebrews, is written for that purpose. He is shaking those Hebrews, and taking that Old Testament and show It over here in the New Testament. “This is God,” he said, “here it is on–on all the prophets and everything.” Starts off back there at the beginning, the 1st chapter we had, “For God in sundry times, way back in old time, in divers manners, spoke to the fathers by the prophets.” That’s how God brought His message, tested by the Urim Thummim. “But in this day has spoke to us through His Son, Christ Jesus,” tested by His Bible. There you are.

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« 63 † So these experiences that the world says, “Oh, it’s mental. Why, nobody…” When that Angel appeared, that Light down here on the river, when I preached my first revival here on the corner, we baptized all those people. I believe, Brother Fleeman, you might have been in the… I don’t know whether you was here then or not. How many was here when the–when the Light appeared on the river? Is any of the old-timers here? Yes, some of them. When It down here on the river.
64 And they said, “It was just an optical illusion.” Many of us was standing, looking at It, and here It come down. And then years later, God proved It by a mechanical eye of a camera. It’s true.
65 “Well, is it–is it some fiction? Is it something that–that…” No, sir. We’re taking it right here in the Bible and showing you. It’s the same Lord Jesus. He does the same thing. His action is the same. His power is the same.

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« 66 † Look, last Sunday, here. Yonder, laying on my bed, never seen the man in my life. Come out and said, “There’s a man at the tabernacle, and he’s gray, black-headed, graying. He is blind, and he can’t walk. He’s in a wheel chair. A black-headed man sent him up; a doctor, Dr. Ackerman, a black-headed man, Catholic man. Sent a man, set right there. And THUS SAITH THE LORD, raised up, walked out with his sight and everything. What did it? Here is the same Angel. The same One that struck Paul down, on the road going down to Damascus, lives in His Church and His people today. It’s Scripture comparing with Scripture. That’s the way it must be.
Oh, we have the lukewarms. We’re getting into that, after while.
67 Oh, we got a deep thing before us, if we can just get into it, today and tonight. Now it’s just begin to get into the deep waters. Where you…

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« 68 † You know, when I was a little boy, I used to have a little pond out behind the place, and I’d go out there. And all of us little kids would go in, nude; little, about six, seven years old. And we… The water is about that deep. It wasn’t no more than a hog wallow. And I had a soapbox there. I’d show I could dive; hold my nose, and splash, going like that. And my little belly would hit the mud, you know, and it would just fly every way. I told my daddy I could swim.
69 He took me back there one day. He said, “I want to see you swim.” I jumped off there, you know; stripped my clothes, a little locust thicket; and run down, hit the water. I had been splashing, the mud flying every way. And Pop was setting on a culvert. He set there and watched me for a few minutes. Said, “Get out of that hole of water, and get yourself a bath, and get home.” See?
70 Well, that’s just about the way, some of us that call ourselves Christians. We mud-crawl. That’s right. Long as you’re anchored, “I’m a Methodist. I’m a Pentecostal. I’m a Presbyterian. I got an evidence; I got It.” You’re mud-crawling.

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« 71 † One day I was with my uncle. I kept tell him… He was about fifteen, sixteen years old. We was at the river. I said, “Uncle Lark, I can swim.” And I was setting on the back of the boat, you know, felt good and safe. He just took the oar and pushed me out, in about ten-foot of water. It was different then; all the splashing, screaming, you ever heard in your life.
72 Someday you get pushed off, you better know where you’re standing. Yes, sir. If you know Him, you better really know Him. That’s right.
But now we’re going into deep water, deep water, where it’ll make you drown if you–if you’re not a good, fattened-up Christian.

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« 73 † Notice the Word. Paul, first found that. He went back in the Old Testament, and he found this. He seen that experience of his, absolutely. “Now what was That that struck me down?”
74 It was a Light, big Light standing there, shining like the sun, standing in front of his face. He said, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?”
75 He said, “Lord, who are You that I persecute?”
76 He said, “I’m Jesus.”
77 “I thought He was a–a man, had scarred hand, that they claim is appearing in meetings now, with nail scars in His hands and His head.” No, no; not that body, not in that body. See? He is now a Light. Saul…
78 When He was here on earth, He said, “I come from God. I go back to God.”
79 He was the Angel that led the Children of Israel in this Light, through the wilderness. He returned back to that same Light. And Paul saw It, out of the Old Testament. He said, “I am Jesus, the Angel of the Covenant.”
80 And He become flesh, to redeem us. “Took on not the form of Angels,” we find in previous chapters, we are… study. “He never took on the nature of Angels, but was the Seed of Abraham,” that He might be known, that men could see God. Amen.
Now He says, “I’ll return back to That.”
81 And when Paul seen That, he said, “Sure, that was Him. That was Him.”

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« 82 † Peter had an experience one night while he was praying. That same Light come into the building, opened up the doors before him, went out into the streets. And Peter thought he was dreaming; he was so anointed. He didn’t know what taken place. He said, “Have I just woke up? But I’m out here on the street.”
83 And he went down to John Mark’s house. And the little girl opened the door, some little lady there, been in a prayer meeting. Somebody was knocking at the door. Opened up the door. “Oh,” she said, “here is Peter right now. You’re praying for him to get out of prison. The Lord has delivered him.”
84 “Oh,” they said, “go on.”
“O Lord, deliver him!”
85 “Why,” she said, “he is standing at the door, knocking.”
Peter just kept pounding, “Let me in.”
86 “Oh,” she said, “it’s Peter.” Them days, they still have it, a little drawbar. Little lid here, you raise back and look out, see. Before you let your guest in, you have to know who is knocking at your door. Cause, they had robbers; if you opened the door, they’d kill you.
87 So, they opened the door. She said, “It’s Peter.”
88 They said, “Oh! Oh, my, he’s dead. That’s his angel standing there. See? Done got in his glorified body, you know, that theophany.”

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« 89 † Remember how we took It, the big Diamond, how It reflected the Light, how It went back to there? The… “This earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting.”
And they thought Peter done died, this old body had dropped, and they’d bury it in a few days. “He had entered into his angel, or his glori-…” Not glorified body, but in his theophany, the body that’s already prepared. It couldn’t shake your hands. It has no hands to shake, like that, but it’s in an image of a man. “Come down, and was knocking at the door.”
90 She said, “No. It’s Peter. He’s standing there.” He opened the door and walked in. There he was. Now, Peter had been delivered by this Light.

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« 91 † Now, the same way that that early… that Paul, in the early Church, seen that Light of God that shined on Paul, the same Thing has come down. Now, people can say anything, that doesn’t make it right. But when God proves anything, the work of It proves It. Then, the camera proves It. And everything that we… that the Lord has did, has been absolutely, infallibly proved that It’s God, by the Scriptures, by Its action, by experience. But they won’t listen.
92 Look here in this tabernacle. Now, remember, you know this. We don’t crave crowds. We ain’t got no place to put them, anyhow. But, look. A meeting of this type, where we was coming together for this, ought to attract the Falls Cities. But they’re dead. They’re absolutely dead. They have eyes but they can’t see.
You say, you, “Why, Brother Branham, won’t they go to a doctor and get their eyes fixed?” He can’t fix that kind of seeing.

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« 93 † Jesus said, “If you would have known Me, you would have known My day.” He said, “You blind Pharisees. You can discern the face of the skies, but the signs of the time, you can’t discern.”
94 Does that go over top of your head? Listen. Look at the signs we’re living in here. Now, it just ain’t some… I, myself, I’m just a man, not even a preacher, to talk about. I have no education, what the world call, “a preacher.” And we’re just poor people. Look at the building we’re in. Look at the cathedrals, this morning. But look where God is at. There’s the thing.

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« 95 † So was Moab standing there in all his splendor and his beauty, but there was Israel in tents. But where was God at? There was a bunch of little holy-rollers down there, doing everything there was was wrong. But Balaam, their–their bishop, failed to see that smitten Rock, that Brass Serpent, that Pillar of Fire. His eyes was blind. He couldn’t see It. He said, “They’re just imagining That.” But He was there.
96 Bless God, oh, He is here! God is here, and He’s doing the same thing that He has done. And He will. We compare Scripture with Scripture. God has never painted Himself some big something, on earth, but He’s always dwelt among the common and humble people. And here He is this morning, doing the same thing. The Scripture vindicates It. The camera vindicates It. Now, That, reason I refer to that picture, it isn’t because I’m there. I’m–I’m just a sinner, saved by grace, like you are. But what I’m trying to say, is, It’s His Presence with us. That’s the main thing. Well, if He made me a–a incarnated Elisha, if you didn’t have faith to believe it, it’d never do you any good.
“He came to His own. His own received Him not.”

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« 97 † That’s the reason, here in the city today. Why, I could start a revival here, in some big building or something, you would never get many people to believe it. They just won’t. They can’t. Their day is done.
98 This same lesson, this morning, in Africa, would probably produce ten thousand, at least, ten thousand souls to Christ. Or, there might be one sinner setting here this morning, or something, some backslider. Most of them is just combed through and through, till it’s just finished. That’s all.
99 But what we’re trying to say, is, Scripture compares with Scripture. Now, don’t matter how great the experience is, unless it compares with the Scripture, it’s wrong.
The Urim Thummim, no matter how good the prophet was, if he spoke and them lights didn’t flash on the Urim Thummim, it was wrong. How well the dream seemed, if it didn’t flash on the Urim Thummim, it was wrong.
When that priesthood ended, God put His Bible up. Paul said, “If an Angel from Heaven would come,” Galatians 1:8, “and would preach any other gospel than what’s already been preached to you, let him be accursed.”

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« 100 † The Angel from Heaven said to John the revelator, which was God Himself, “I Jesus sent My angel to vindicate, or to show these things.” He said, “If any man will add one word to It, or take one Word out of It, the same will be taken out of the Book of Life, for him.” This is It, the Bible.
101 Therefore, these experiences and these things that we’re having to happen here, if it wasn’t vindicated by God’s Word, it would be wrong; I don’t care what would take place, it would be wrong. So it’s Scripturally, absolutely the Truth. Oh, I’m so happy I’m a member of the great Body of Christ.

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« 102 † Now, let’s go now, we’re coming down to the lesson. Now, we ended up over here where he said, “Seeing that we’re compassed about now…” I’m sorry. That’s, I was quoting 12th chapter. I been reading it, but I haven’t studied it. I…
103 Brother Norman, staying at my home up there, and he knows that I just got in yesterday, and the brothers know, down there, I just got in. The only time I got to read the Scripture down, was setting right here, a few minutes ago. That’s right. Don’t study It, I just wait for the Holy Spirit to give It just as He wants it. He knows where the person is at–at, that has to have It. So if I got something made up in my mind I’m going to say, then it’s wrong. But if I just let Him do it, He will take It right straight to the spot where It belong. See? “Take no thought what you shall say, for It’s not you that speaks, It’s your Father that dwelleth in you. He doeth the speaking.”

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« 104 † Now, the last chapter, previous chapter, we heard this, that, “How shall we escape, if we neglect this great salvation; Who was first preached to us by the Lord Jesus, and Him with those who heard Him?” The same things that Jesus did, to show, them same things like takes place here: same Angel of God, same works, same evidence, same everything, everything along, same Gospel, right with the Word. “If that was taught by the Lord, then confirmed by His disciples that we’ve heard,” Paul being the same, “how shall we escape, if we neglect such great salvation?”
105 Now, Paul was saying that to his Hebrew audience. Now, they didn’t have tape recorders, today, like we got here. But they had scribes who was setting there, taking It down just as Paul was preaching It.
And that’s what It is right here. We’re getting It by tape recorders, and these tapes go over the world, see, to show that It is the Truth. Our religion is not in vain, It’s absolutely the resurrected Jesus Christ, same thing. Now we mustn’t neglect It.

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« 106 † Now, just don’t go away from church, today, and say, “Well, I kind of enjoy going down there. I like the singing, and the people are friendly around that little old church.” Don’t do that.
107 Brother, let your heart become a flame, say, “Here, I got to do something about this. I got to get out and see if I can get somebody saved.”
108 And don’t go out, saying, “Bless God, if you don’t repent, you’re going to perish.” No.
Go at it gentle. “Be as wise as a serpent, as harmless as a dove.” See, that’s the way to go. Approach the person, if he’s raising chickens, talk about chickens, to him, for a while. See? And then, first thing you know, you’ll be talking about the Lord. If he’s a farmer, talk about his farm.
109 If he sells automobiles, talk about his automobiles, for a while, “What nice cars you got,” and so forth. See?
110 Till you catch the Spirit, when Father says, “Now is the time to approach him about his soul.”
111 You can wind it off, see, “That’s a fine automobile. You know transportation, today, has become great. Oh, how the nations has been brought close together; and the cities of our nations, close together. Friends and mothers can visit each other. You know, it’s a wonderful thing to have automobiles like you’re selling.”
112 “Yes, sir. It sure is. Uh-huh.” You know, puffing on his cigar, or whatever it is. “Yeah, them, them is good cars.”
113 “Did you ever think of what the old-timers would have thought if they’d seen something like that?” Just keep going like that, you know.
After a while, say, “Yep, yeah, sure is.”
114 You know, another thing it does, it brings like we having, like in revivals. People can come across the country, quickly, for a revival.” See, you’re opening the way, all time, you know.
115 If you feel Something chock up the way, stop right there, move over here. Like a doctor said, out at Phoenix, said, “Lord, fill my mouth with good words, and then nudge me when I’ve said enough.” You see? Yeah. “Nudge me when I’ve said enough.”

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« 116 † Now, notice now, we’re going to start from the 15th chapter, or 15th verse of the 3rd chapter, closely now.
While it is said, To day if you… hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
117 Now watch Paul speaking here. Now it is said, “Today, after so long a time.” We’re going to get into it after a while, that, “Today, so long a time.” Comes into the next chapter, “After so long a time.”
… it is said, To day if you… hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the day of provocation, when they provoked God.
118 Now let’s read the next verse.
For some, when they had heard, did provoke:…
Now what’s he talking about? Gospel.
… howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
But with whom he was grieved for forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

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« 119 † Let’s stop here a minute. The provocation, “when they provoked.” Now what did God do? Now Paul is trying to speak. What is It led them out of Egypt? Was it Moses? No. Moses was the flesh instrument.
120 Now we got a background here. We want to get straightened out now. When we hit this spot down here, in a few minutes, you’ll–you’ll see it.
121 Now, God had His people with unsettled rest. They were down in Egypt. They were out of their right position. They were out of their homeland. They were strangers and pilgrims, and God was going to bring them from that housed-in place, in–in Egypt, up to the homeland.
122 A type of today; we’re unsettled. Here it don’t take long. Little chubby-handed boys playing marbles, little girls with the dollies, playing; the first thing you know, you got gray hair, and wrinkled up. There’s something wrong here. This is not home. We’re in the wrong place. That’s why we say we are pilgrims and strangers. Something has happened.

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« 123 † A little lady said, this morning in the room, about how people laugh at her, sometime. I said, “But, sister, dear, you’re not of them people.” We are a different people.
124 My little girl said, “Daddy, certain-certain girls did certain-certain things that they did.”
125 I said, “But, look, honey.” They had these records of Elvis Presley. I said, “I wouldn’t want them in my house.”
126 She said, “But, daddy, they’re nice little girls.”
127 I said, “They may be. I have nothing to say against that. But there is one thing, we are different. We are different. Not as that we want to be different, but the Spirit that’s within us has come out of that. You’re of another world.”
128 When I go into Africa, I can’t get adjusted to their–their–their ways of living. They don’t wear any clothes. They’re naked. And they pick up something that’s rotten, got maggots in it, they eat it, anyhow; don’t make any difference. See?

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« 129 † And This is different. You know, one time, we were all like that, but civilization has brought us and made us different.
And conversion has doubled that by million. We don’t want the rotten things of the world no more. Christ has made us become Christians; like civilization has made us become clean. And notice, not only that, but we profess that we are pilgrims and strangers. We’re not of the world. Then, you want nothing to do with the world. And those things has passed away.
130 Now, Israel was down in Egypt. They wasn’t Egyptians. Egyptians, it was a disgrace for an Egyptian to put his hands on a sheep. And Israel were sheepherders. And how it must have gotten Moses, after all the indignity of being an Egyptian, cattle raisers.
Did you notice what the Pharaoh had said to Joseph, and so forth? “It is an abomination.” Said, “Your people are sheepherders.” And even an Egyptian couldn’t even put his hands on a sheepherder. He was a different people.

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« 131 † And that’s the way it is with a Christian, today, when he’s born again. It’s not… It’s filthy for him to associate where people are drinking and telling dirty jokes, and women naked. And every… It, it’s–it’s filthiness. Oh, blessed be the Lord! We are pilgrims here. We’re strangers here. The spirit has been converted, and we’re looking for a City where women don’t wear shorts. We’re looking for a City where they don’t have beer taverns. We’re looking for a City wherein dwelleth righteousness. So, we’re pilgrims.

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« 132 † So, God came down in a big bundle of Fire, as a Halo, swept down into a bush and begin to reveal Himself to Moses, first. Moses said…
You know how we had the lesson the other night, how that when Jesus was here on earth, He said, “Well, before Moses was, I AM.” That was Jesus in the burning bush, in the Pillar of Fire. It’s Jesus, today, the same.
And He revealed Himself in a Pillar of Fire, and Moses got the experience. He goes down into Egypt. He preaches the Gospel, the good news, and signs and wonders followed him. You get it? Same thing today.
133 Not only that, but them the Hebrews come out, walked in the Light, they was led by the same Pillar of Fire. And the Bible said that, “Do not tempt God.”

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« 134 † Watch this. Let me read It.
While it is said, To day if you… hear his voice, harden not your heart, his voice speaking to your heart, as in the provocation, when they provoked Him.
Listen.
For some, when they had heard, did provoke:…
135 How many knows that the Israelites provoked God with their unbelief? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] They murmured. They completely… God walked right down there. And when they got all… First thing, they got in trouble.
Here was this Pillar of Fire above them. I don’t know whether they all saw It, or not. At least, Moses saw It. And It was above them, and they watched It. And when they come down… Say if they didn’t see It, I don’t know whether they did or not. It went before them. The Bible said It was there.

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« 136 † It said, “The Star went before the wise men.” Nobody saw It but the wise men. It went over every observatory. They kept time by the stars. No one saw It but the wise men. It was for them to see It, and the wise men was who the Star was sent for.
137 And the Pillar of Fire was sent to Moses, and Moses was sent to the children of Israel. And they was supposed to follow Moses. They could see Moses, and Moses saw the Light.
There they went!…?… And as they went out, they come to the Red Sea. And, oh, they–they never seen all those signs of miracles and things taking place while they were still down in the–in the old land of Egypt, but when they got out there in their journey, just converted and brought out. Then, the first thing you know, they got in trouble.
138 God loves to bring you in trouble. He loves to put trouble down and see what you’ll do about it. So He just stopped up the Red Sea, and the first thing you know, marched them right out into this place, then sent Pharaoh after them. See how God likes to do it? He loves to display His power and love. He is God, and He just loves to show you who He is. Amen.
And the trouble of it is, today, people say, “Oh, them days is past.” No. How can God display Himself, when you’re taught such stuff as that? But God loves to manifest Himself.

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« 139 † Here come the children of Israel, walking in the Light. Moses, going on before them. There they was. “Come on. This is the way. God is calling. We’re going out. We’re going to the promised land.”
“Oh, hallelujah!” Here they all was, shouting, and jumping, and having a good time, you know. And the first thing you know, they looked back and said, “Oh, what’s that dust?”
140 One of them climbed up on a hill, said, “Oh, oh! Alas, alas! It’s Pharaoh’s army.”
141 God said, “What you so scared about? Didn’t you believe what I did down there? What you so worried about? Why you make Me angry?”
142 When they got down there, Moses went out and interceded to God. God just opened up the Red Sea and they walked across; closed the enemy in. That’s the way God does it. Don’t get scared. Don’t get all excited. Don’t be flusterated. You provoke God.

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« 143 † Then what did He do? Look like, “Well, we had one big trial; bless God, we got over it. We won’t have no more. We’re on our road to the promised land.” And He led them right out into the desert, where there’s no water. Could you imagine? God, with His–with His sanctified, holy people, led them right out in this trap; then got them out of that trap, and led them right out here where there’s no water. When He could have took them some way where there was water. Why, He could just made a river, all the way along, if He wanted to. He could have broke every mountain into joy, spurting water fifty feet in the air, if He wanted to. Sure, He could. But if He done that, it’d been too easy. Oh, my! Blessed be the Name of the Lord.

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« 144 † “Why did God let this happen, Brother Branham? Why did God?”
God is doing that. Let Him alone. Just walk on. That’s God’s business. “The footprints of the righteous are ordered by the Lord.” Yes, sir. What difference does it make?
145 “Lost all my money, Brother Branham.” Well, bless God, anyhow.
146 “Oh, I did this, and this happened, storm blowed away my house.”
147 Bless God, anyhow. “The Lord give, the Lord taken away, blessed be the Name of the Lord.” Just keep walking on. It’s all the glory of God. God knows what He’s doing.
Some through the water, some through the flood,
Some through deep trial, but all through the Blood.
148 That’s the way He leads us. That’s right. Oh, my! I feel like I could just stop and scream. That’s the way He leads His dear children. Oh, can you just feel… Now, I’m not a psychologist, but can you just feel that lovely Spirit now bathing over the building? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] What if our eyes would come open just now, and look what is standing around the sides of these walls, up-and-down these aisles?

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« 149 † O Elisha! One morning, when that boy was just as blind as he could be, he said, “Look at the Syrians down there.”
Said, “But there’s more with us.”
Said, “I don’t see nobody.”
Said, “Lord, open that boy’s eyes.”
150 He looked around that old prophet, all around that, mountains was on Fire, and horses of Fire, and chariots of Fire. He was convinced then.
151 He said, “We’ll just go out and smite them blind.” They had their sight just as perfect as they ever did, but they was blind to him. Said, “You all seeking Elijah?”
Said, “Yes, sir.”
152 “Come on, I’ll show you where he’s at.” And that was him, leading them. They didn’t know it.
153 That’s the way it is today. Christ is here. The Holy Ghost is here, doing the same things that He’s always done, and the world is blind to It. They don’t know It. “Oh, I–I don’t know about That. My pastor…” Oh, poor decrepit people! See what I mean? They’re blind to It. They don’t know It. God is leading.

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« 154 † Now, they come up, through the Wilderness of Sin, there was no water there. God just had it all provided. Oh, and they found a puddle of water, they said, “This is it.” And they couldn’t even taste it. Oh, it was terrible. My, it’s–it’s worse than a hundred percent sulfur. See, just like rotten eggs, you know. “Oh, my! It’s terrible.” It was poison. Now, called the Wilderness of Sin. Several palm trees grow there, and the spring where those palms growed. Then Moses said, “Don’t…”
155 God said, “Why do they? Why do they? What are they provoking Me for? Well, if I did that back there, can’t I do something about this situation?”

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« 156 † If He got you out of one sick spell, can’t He get you out of another one? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] He got you out of one trouble, can’t He get you out of another one? [“Amen.”] Bless God! If He got me out of sin, He can take me out of the grave. He is God. Difference does it make? Just go on, keep your eyes on Him.
157 Said, “If I closed the Red Sea behind, and drowned them Egyptians, can’t I do something about this water? What do you make Me angry about? Oh, your unbelief! You provoke Me to anger, because of unbelief.”

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« 158 † Now the word here is used, “Sin,” provoked. Made… The reason they did it, they disbelieved. They never went out and got to shooting craps, now, and things like that. They never run around with somebody else’s wife, and went out and told lies. That wasn’t what they were doing. But, that’s not sin, to begin with.
159 Living in adultery is not sin. Smoking, chewing, drinking, gambling, cursing, swearing, so forth, that’s not sin. That’s the attributes of unbelief. You do that because you’re an unbeliever. If you are a believer, you don’t do that. That’s the reason Jesus said, “He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has everlasting Life.” Not says he believes, but really believes! There it is. That takes all your initial evidence away. See? Now, there you are.
Not, “He that heareth My Words and shouts.” Not, “He that heareth My Words and speaks with tongues.” Not, “He that heareth My Words and has blood in his hand or in his face,” or whatever more. That’s not It.
“He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Eternal Life, and shall never come to the Judgment, but has passed from death to Life.”

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« 160 † What is sin? Unbelief. A little something can raise up, instead of going right to the Scripture and find out whether It’s true or not, “Oh,” you say, “I’m… Naw! See, there, you go ahead. I’ll just continue a Presbyterian like I am, see.” Go ahead, blind, and you provoke God.
161 When God does anything, he expects the nation to grab It. But, instead of that, “You know, well, I don’t know about That.” See? He expects the people to get It. If you’re concerned enough, set down with the Scripture. Go through It and search It, back and forth, and see if It happened, if It’s predicted to came to pass, and so forth. Then you’ll get It. Amen.

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« 162 † Now notice.
While it is… To day if you… hear his voice, harden not your heart, as in the provocation, when God was provoked with them, you see.
For some, when they had heard, heard the gospel Moses preached, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
163 How many knows how many people was saved out of that original bunch that come out? How many? [Someone says, “Two.”–Ed.] Two, is right. How many knows their names? [“Caleb and Joshua.”] That’s right. Caleb and Joshua, the only two, out of two million something.
164 Listen to this. “But he…” The 17th verse now.
But with whom he was grieved forty years, because of unbelief. Was it not with them that had sinned, disbelieved…?
165 Take the dictionary and find out what sin means. Take the Bible dictionary. It’s unbelief. Unbelief is “sin.” “He that believeth not is condemned already,” Saint John 4, see, “condemned already.”
… whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest,…

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« 166 † Your disbelieving! Oh, how I’ll never get to my chapter. But, look, that’s what’s the matter with this nation, today. Signs and wonders has crossed through this nation. What do they do? Continually turned their back on It. And He said, “I’ll sware that I’ll not let them enter into the Land they started to.”
167 What’s the matter with these big churches today? Their unbelief has provoked God. Hallelujah! He is able of these stones to rise children to Abraham. He tried to give the Gospel to them, and they hardened their hearts. They cult themselves, and they made little denominations, “And we believe this and nothing else,” and God couldn’t move in. Where they at today? Setting on a sideline.

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« 168 † God’s little, faithful group is moving right along, with signs and wonders. He is putting them to the test. “Every son that cometh to God must first be tried and tested,” child-trained.
169 First little thing happened, “Oh, well, maybe there’s nothing to It, anyhow.” You’re the illegitimate child, and not a child of God.
170 For a child of God is the Seed of Abraham, who calls those things that were not, as though they were, “God said so,” and just keeps moving on. Amen. No matter what says, or anything different, they keep moving on, anyhow. “God said so.”

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« 171 † Twenty-five years he waited for that baby, no matter how contrary it was. And he separated himself from them unbelievers, amen, so he could believe. Oh, my! I feel religious.
Think of it. You’ve got to separate yourself from that dogma of the world, “Ah, them days of miracles is past. There’s no such a thing as That. That’s fanaticism.” Separate yourself.
172 The Bible said, “Come out from among them, and be ye separated, saith the Lord, and I will receive you.” How wonderful! “I will receive you, after you’ve separated yourself. You shall be my children. I’ll be your God. Separate yourself. Don’t yoke yourself up with unbelievers.” That’s right.
173 Young man getting married, married some girl that don’t believe; or some young girl marrying a boy that don’t believe. Don’t you do that. I don’t care how cute he is, and–and, or how cute she is, and what those big eyes she’s got; they’ll all fade out one of these days. But, brother, your soul is going to live forever. You be careful what you’re doing. She ain’t a real believer, or him a real believer, don’t you yoke yourself up like that. Stay away from such. It’ll cause you trouble down the road.

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« 174 † Now listen, 17th verse.
But… whom he… was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
… to whom he sware that they should not enter into the rest,…
175 They started out, but they seen the miracles, but they never did get to the promised land. Just a selected number, of two, enter the promised land.
176 Now what’s Paul doing? He is speaking to the Christians now, “Don’t you let this same Gospel, that was preached back yonder, in signs and wonders, and the Pillar of Fire led them; when these things go to taking place again, don’t you fall by the wayside, by unbelief, to go to doubting, for their carcass fell in the wilderness.”

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« 177 † Now we’re coming in, quickly now. Watch close.
… but to them that lived not?
So we see that they should not enter in because of unbelief.
He calls it sin once, he calls it unbelief the next time. Unbelief is “sin.” “They entered not, because of their unbelief.”
178 They seen that prophet, Moses. They seen what he done, seen what he said. It was true, every time, moved right on the Truth. This Pillar of Fire would appear before them. They watched It. They seen It.
179 Paul, trying to get, later on, get down here, the experience that he had. See? Trying to relate the experience, he typed it to the Old Testament. He said, “Now we’ve entered into a new thing, to this new dispensation, by Jesus Christ. Old times, the Lord appeared to them by the prophets, but now He’s by His Son, Jesus.” See? And he goes in, to type the experiences and show them what was taking place, how the signs and wonders, and everything, and what’s wrote.

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« 180 † Now he said, “They entered not, because of their unbelief.” They did not believe.
181 “But now, we, we move into a dispensation, and don’t you harden your heart. Don’t you act like they did, in the days of provocation, when they provoked God.” How did they do it? Not by living immorally. Let me grind this down to you.
182 You say, “Brother Branham, I go to church.” That’s all right. “I never lied in my life.” That’s fine. “I never stole. I never done this, that, or the other.” That’s very fine. That’s all good. But, that still isn’t sin.
183 The sin is when God shows Himself and you disbelieve It, you won’t listen to It.
184 “Oh,” you say, “my church don’t teach That.” As long as the Bible teaches It, and God proves It, that’s the thing.
Now watch just a moment. Now we’re going to start now on something real, real deep. Now, put your conscience in your vest pocket till you get outside.

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« 185 † Now watch real close.
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us to enter into his…
His, her, personal pronouns now. What?
… any of you should seem to come short of it.
186 Now, Paul is trying to tell them, in the previous chapter, about all these things. But now he is trying to tell them what It is.
Oh, have we got time? I… Maybe we better wait till tonight. It’s getting late, and we going to have prayer service. Maybe we better catch it tonight, ’cause this is really full of vitamins, spiritual vitamins. Got a lot to do, and I’m busy this afternoon. “Let us…”
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise…
187 Now, did they have a promise for the promised land, down in Egypt? And, when, God came down, to make this promise a reality. Why, God told Abraham, hundreds and hundreds of years before, that He was going to do it. It was Scriptural.

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« 188 † Joseph said, “Don’t you move my bones from here until you go to that promised land and bury me up there with the rest of my fathers.” Cause, he knowed the resurrection was coming, when Jesus rose from the dead, ’cause he had known what Job said. See?
189 Each one of them prophets knowed just what the other prophet had said, and knowed that their Spirit was the same. And they was watching. Oh, brother! Oh, that ought to shake us out of our worldly condition. They had their eyes, not on what people were saying, but what them prophets said. Each one of them was watching.
190 Abraham said, “Bury me right here where Job was buried.” Said, “Sarah, I’m going to buy a piece of ground. We’re going to be buried right here.”
191 Isaac was a prophet, after his daddy. Said, “Listen. Don’t you bury me anywhere else, not down here in Egypt, but you take me right back in the promised land. You bury me right here.”
192 Jacob died down in the promised land, but said to his son, who was a prophet, said, “You know, one night the Angel touched me on the side. I’ve limped ever since. Come, put my hand…” Oh, mercy! “My prophet son, I’m old and I’m blind. But put your holy hand, being a prophet yourself, lay it on the place where the Angel had His hand, and swear to the God of Heaven that you’ll not bury me down here.”

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« 193 † Blessed be! There! You see the spiritual revelation of the Word? Why, half of them, nearly ninety percent, didn’t know what he was talking about. But he knew what he was talking about. “Put your prophet hands on this place where the Angel laid His hand. I was once a big, stout man, a robust coward. But, He touched me, and since then I’ve been a limping man. But I’ve been a prince ever since I limped. Ever since I changed my way of walking, I been a prince.” Yes. “Put your hand here. Swear by the God of Heaven, you’ll not bury me here.” Why? No one knowed what he was talking about. Joseph did. He said, “Take me up yonder and bury me in that promised land.” There is where it was at. Certainly.
194 When Joseph died, years later, he said, “Don’t you bury me down here. But you look at my bones when you pass by, ’cause someday you’re going out of here. And when you go, take my bones with you.”

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« 195 † There you are. Let the world say what they want to, and do what they want to do. Blessed be the Name of the Lord. Keep me in Christ, if I’m called anything… a fanatic, or holy-roller. Someday He’s coming, and those that are in Christ will God bring with Him, when He comes. It’s all a spiritual, revealed Truth laying right there, and it takes a spiritual mind to catch It. Rest on that, through the day. Think of it. Even if you do without your dinner, think of it.
196 And tonight, we’ll go into His Rest, that was left, and see what this promise is today. What is this thing today? If God hasn’t got It here in the Bible, and prove It, It’s right here now, then I’m a false prophet. That’s exactly right. But It’s here. What is this Rest?
197 He said:
Now, let us… fear, lest, a promise being left us to enter in just like they did,…
198 And It’s got to be the same promise. It’s got to be the same rest. It’s got to be the same God. It’s got to be the same signs. It’s got to be the same thing. But let us rest. Now what is It? May the Lord grant it to us, tonight.
While we bow our heads.

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« 199 † Blessed Lord, only Eternity will reveal the great things that we now share together. Little…
Is many who are ordained to condemnation. As Thou hast said in the Book of Jude, that, “Men of old, foreordained to condemnation, would take the grace of our God and turn it into lasciviousness.” And many today are preaching the Gospel, the grace of God, turn It into a money-making scheme, having a great big church and the most in Sunday school, taking the grace of God and turn It into lasciviousness. And the world is blind, and going like blind pigs. They don’t understand.
200 O God, open to us understanding. Let our understanding not be like the children of this world. For Thou hast said in Thy Word, that, “The children of this world are wiser than the children of the Light.” In the beginning it was so, “the children of Cain” become great master scientists. They become great educators. They become workers of material. They went on progressing, very religious, but was condemned and drowned in the judgment. And their carcasses floated on the water, and their souls went to hell.
201 And Jesus went and spoke to them, when He died. “And went to hell and preached to the souls that was in prison, that repented not in the long-suffering, in the days of Noah,” saith the Scripture. And God, as He stood on earth, He said, “As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man.”

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« 202 † But we notice, “the lineage then of Seth,” humble men, real men of God, not knowing too much of the things of the world, caring nothing for the things of the world, but had laid aside every weight and had believed God, and become prophets and great men in the Kingdom. While the others, the other religious world, laughed at them, made fun of them. But the hour come when the floods and judgment came.
203 So was it in the coming of Jesus Christ. How they laughed and made fun of Him, while they had their own religions and their great churches. But they made fun of the Morning Star, and they laughed at Him. But yet they entered into judgment. And when they flee and went into Jerusalem, there they eat their own children, from starvation, and their blood run out the street gates when they burnt the city and the temple, and their souls went into hell.
204 Lord, here we are again, on the third. This is the life time. Three is the number of life. And here we are, ready for the Rapture.
The church moving on, the great scientist world. The churches today setting full of skeptic-believers. Tens of thousands with their names on the book, yes, millions, and would laugh at the Gospel, and say, that, “They’re uneducated. They don’t know.”
Maybe that’s so, Lord, but what we lack in education, You make up in grace; by sending Your Angel of Light, by manifesting His power, confirming the Words to those who are poor and illiterate as we. But we love You for this, because it’s the grace of God that has did it, and we know that we were born. And we’re not lovely, at all. We’re very unlovely. But Thou, through grace, reached down Thy merciful hand and has opened our eyes, as Jesus prayed for us; as Elijah did for Gehazi, as he looked to see around him. And today our eyes are open, and we see the things of God, and know we’re moving at the end time; when the Gentile people’s days are about finished, and He’ll take a people for His Name. Let us be included there, Lord, humbly we beg. We pray that You’ll grant it.

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« 205 † Bless us. Bless this little audience this morning. They’re made up of all different types of religions and beliefs, but lay them aside today, God. And may they look straight towards Calvary, say, “God, mold me and make me. I’m like the…” The prophet said that he went down to the potter’s house, that he might be broke up and remolded. Mold us and make us after the fashion that God would have us. No matter if we have to be the floor mat at the House of the Lord. I’d rather be the doormat than to dwell in tents with the wicked. And grant it, Lord. Just bless us now, and keep us humble. Let our hearts be open, our minds clear, to the things of God, for we ask it in Christ’s Name.

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« 206 † With our heads bowed, I wonder if someone would want to be remembered in a word of prayer, for your salvation of your soul? Would you raise your hand, and just a sinner? God bless you, young fellow. Someone else? God bless you, back there, sir. God bless you, lady. Someone else like to be remembered in prayer just now, for your soul? God bless you, sir, with your hand up. And God bless you, and you here. Wonderful. Would there be another one, just before closing? I feel there’d be. God bless you, back there, sir, in the back.
207 Say, now look, I want to ask you something. I don’t want you to think at all because it’s this little tabernacle. I don’t want you to think it’s because it’s this people. And merciful God, don’t think it’s because that the Angel of the Lord had His picture taken with me, and I… and–and something of that, to do that. O God! If I felt that way, then, brother, I need to be at the altar instead of asking you. But I’m only saying this, I’m only saying this by the Scripture, that you’ll see that this is the Truth. If I said It, and that’s all there was to it, went on like any other preacher or something another, or any other, well, then, it would be different. But you see the thing, God comes right back around and proves that it’s the Truth. See? That’s what makes It real, is God proving It. And then, not only that, but His Word says that He’ll do it. Here He is doing it.

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« 208 † Now if you’re not in the right, your heart is not right with God, would you just raise your hand? Say, “Pray for me.” All right, right where you are. About eight or ten hands has been up, wanting mercy for their soul. While you have your heads bowed, now you pray. Remember, you’re the one to repent. I’m only asking for you, that God will be merciful. But that’s the altar, God has brought you to a place in your mind; that’s the altar. We believe in coming to the altar, sure, but that doesn’t–that doesn’t… It’s all right. But your real altar is where God has met you. And He has met you right where you’re setting. That’s your altar.
209 Now say, “God, be merciful to me, a sinner. And from this day on, if You’ll help me, I’ll live for You. I’ll–I’ll serve You. I don’t care what anyone says, I’m stepping out, this morning. I’m praying right here, and You take this old sassy spirit away from me. You take this temper away from me. I know I can’t act like that and be right with God. And I got hatred in my heart. I’m jealous. I got malice. I got this, that. Take it out, God. I don’t want to be like that. Make me sweet, and humble, and meek. Make me gentle. Make me such a person I could win others to You. Let me do something for You to show appreciations in my life.” That’s the prayer you pray now, while we pray together.

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« 210 † Heavenly Father, they’re Yours. They’re the fruits of the Message this morning. They raised their hand. Something made them do that. They, they defied the laws of gravitation when they raise their hands. There was a spirit in them that made a decision. They raised up their hands, that they accepted the Creator who made them.
211 Now, Heavenly Father, I pray that You’ll bless them, and give to them Eternal Life, right now. There’s nothing I could do; call them around the altar, putting them in an extra room, doing all the work. It, it takes You to do it, Lord. We can’t do no more than preach the Word. You said, “Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word, the Word of God.” Now, we’ve preached the Word, and they’ve raised their hands, that they believed It. Now give them everlasting Life, ’cause You promised You would do it. If they were sincere in raising their hands, they’ll go out of this building this morning, a sweet, meek, humble Christian, because You promised it. And Your Words cannot fail. I ask it in Jesus Christ’s Name. Amen.
Now I am watching, waiting and longing,
For that bright City, John saw coming down.
In that bright City, (worship now), pearly white City,
I have a mansion, a harp and a crown;
Now I am watching, wait and longing,
For that bright City, John saw coming down.

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« 212 † Don’t you just love Him? The message is over, now. This is worship. We don’t come to church just to hear a message. We come to worship. Just forget the person next to you. Just worship Him. Oh, how beautiful! How wonderful! Just tell Him in your… You don’t have to tell Him loud. Just tell Him in your heart, “I love You, Lord. Forgive me of my sin.” Oh, my!
… pearly white City,
I have a mansion, a harp and a crown;
Now I am watching, waiting and longing,
For that white City, John saw coming down,

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« 213 † Our Father, God, receive us. We are waiting, as we’re listening at the Word, longing. “Our hearts thirst after Thee, like the hart panteth for the water brook. Our soul thirsts after Thee, O God.” Longing and waiting, waiting that hour and when Jesus shall come, waiting to the time that we’ll be summonsed to the sky. Not to stand before the Judge in judgment; it’s done past. We’re dead to the things of the world. Has entered into Christ, and He took our judgment. He’s our Attorney now, at the seat of justice. Our blessed Attorney, that, on our confession, He pleads our case till we know that we’re unworthy. As a dear old sister this morning, said in her testimony, and putting in her pennies, “Since I come here I learned that It’s not my holiness, it’s God’s holiness.”
214 Truly, Lord, we teach the people, there’s nothing good in man, not one thing. “What is man that Thou art mindful of him?” But it’s the grace of God that’s appeared to us. And we trust only in His merits, not in our own. And we worship Thee, Most Holy God, for Thy goodness, to include us in Thy great Kingdom, in Thy great plans. We receive Thee into our hearts, by faith. And by grace, we believe that You’ve give it to us for the glory of God, for the service of God.

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« 215 † Now, Lord, heal the sick as they come up to be prayed for, this morning. Give to them that joy, that they long to be well. Let them know that this little, light affliction was put upon them, is just a little testing time. God knows all about it. He did it to see what we’d do about it. How God… May they step right out there and claim that finished work! May You… May they not provoke You, by be running here and there, and in and out, “Well, I don’t know this, that.”
216 Lord, may they take a straight stand, say, “Lord, You was the One who saved me. You was the One who did these things for me. I believe You, and I’m trusting You, today.” And I pray that You’ll grant this to the people, in Christ’s Name. Amen.

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« 217 † ` The 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th chapter, from there in, oh, my! Have your pencil and paper, and everything, ready, for I believe the Lord is going to give us a great time. Now we’re…
218 Paul is exalting and placing, positionally, the Lord Jesus. Now, if we get through this tonight, Sunday morning… Which the most of this is going to blend right in with Sunday morning’s Message, because it’s “separating the sabbath.” That’s a great question amongst Sabbatarians today. And I would invite you all to come for Sunday morning. For, which is right, Saturday or Sunday, for worship? What does the Bible say about it? And so then, whether the… This Book is separating law and grace, and It’s placing each one to its place. The Hebrews was raised by the law, and Paul was telling them what grace played, with law.

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« 219 † Now, let’s get just a little background now. We’re going to start back.
220 By the way, I got me some reading glasses. Maybe I can… If I happen to make a–a spill tonight, I got them. You know I’m all… I just lack two years of being fifty years old, and I don’t see like I used to, close to me. When my sight… I begin to notice the words blurring, I thought I was going blind. I went for an examination. The doctor said, “No. You’re just past forty, son.” Well, he said, if I live to be old enough, it might come back again, get that short sight back again. He said, “Now, you can read your Bible if you push it out from you?”
221 I said, “Yes.”
222 Said, “After while, your arm is not going to be long enough.”

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« 223 † And so I–I hope now, in this studying, that I… This little Collins Bible has a good-sized print in it. I can make it out pretty well. But when we get over in the big, deep places where we got to take the New and Old Testament, and blend together. I got a small Scofield. And I’m used to the Scofield Bible, its markings. I don’t read the Scofield notes now, because I don’t agree with Scofield on many of his–his theories. But I–I do like the way it’s set up, because it’s… I’ve had it for a long time, and read it, and so much, till I kind of know how to find my subject.
224 This is all new to me, of teaching, and I’m not much of a teacher. But, you put up with me for a little while, I’ll tell you the Truth as far as I know It, anyhow.

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« 225 † Now, this Book is Paul, remember. He was… How did we find him? He was a great teacher, to begin with, or a great scholar. And he was trained in the Old Testament. Can anybody tell me now who we found his teacher was? [Congregation says, “Gamaliel.”–Ed.] Gamaliel, one of the noted teachers of the day. And then Paul, we find out, one day…
226 Before he was called Paul, can anybody tell me what his name was? [Congregation says, “Saul.”–Ed.] Saul. And he was a great authority in Jerusalem, a religious authority. And he come up as a–as a real-trained, religious man. He could speak four or five different languages, and a very smart man. Well, did his education and smartness help him? No. He said he had to forget all he knowed, in order to learn Christ.
227 So we find out, then, it doesn’t take a smart man or an educated man. It takes a–a man that’s willing to humble himself before God, regardless of how.

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« 228 † Did you know Dwight Moody was–was so uneducated till, honest, his writings were poor as I don’t know what. They had to fix up his messages, all the time. He–he was such a poor writer, very uneducated.
229 Did you know that Peter and John, of the Bible, were so unlearned till they couldn’t even write their own name, and wouldn’t know it laying before them? The Apostle Peter, who had the keys to the Kingdom, wouldn’t know his name signed before him. Think of it. The Bible said, that, “He was ignorant and unlearned.” So, that gives me a chance. Amen. Yes, sir. That goes right on down, to find that God could do that to a man.
230 Now, and we find out, as soon as Paul had a great experience… I want to ask you. Is it an experience to come to Christ? Does everybody have an experience? [Congregation says, “Yes.”–Ed.] Yes, sir. Yes, sir. It’s a Birth. It’s an experience. And so we were in a Lutheran College, not long ago…

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« 231 † I had the privilege this afternoon, late, supposed to be there at twelve o’clock, for dinner with–with Tom Haire. How many ever heard of him, the famous, Irish, prayer warrior? And he’s been with this Brother Epp, on his program, and appeared here in many places in America. And I had dinner with him today. And we were… I was just about three hours late. It was about three-thirty, quarter to four, when we eat. But it was all right. And we were discussing on these things, of how that Jesus Christ is the Head of all things.

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« 232 † Now, when Paul found this out, he had this experience. And then before he would accept this experience, it must be back to the Bible. And we find out that he–that he left and went into another nation, and there he stayed for three years, searching the Scripture, to see if his experience was right.
233 Now, we realize that he had a great thing to face. He had to come back and tell his church, all the people, the very things that he had persecuted was right.
234 Did you have to do something like that? Certainly, nearly all did, have to go back and say, “Them people that we called ‘holy rollers,’ come to find out, they were right.” See? That’s it. We just had to turn around. And the things that we once hated, we now love. It’s a conversion, a strange thing.

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« 235 † Ah! I made that statement, of “holy-roller.” There is no such a thing. There’s no such a thing. But, they call people that, holiness people. But there’s no holy-rollers. There’s no such a thing. There’s no record of any church ever recorded like that, as far as I can see, of the nine hundred-sixty something, different denominations. There is no such a denomination as holy-roller. It’s just a–a name that the Devil tacked on the Church.
236 But they call them, in that day… How many knows what they called them in the day of Paul? Heretics. You know what heretic means? “Crazy.” It’s crazy people. So, I just soon be called a “holy-roller” as a “heretic.” Wouldn’t you? So if they–if they was called that, and rejoiced!
And what did Jesus say for us to do about it? He said, “Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad; for great is your reward in Heaven, for so persecuted the prophets before you.” They did it.

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« 237 † Said to, “Be exceedingly glad.” Anything exceedingly is “lifted way up,” real happy. And the disciples, when they was found worthy to bear the reproach of the Name of Jesus, they rejoiced with great joy that they could bear the reproach of His Name.
238 And today, many people today, if they would happen to call them a holy-roller, they would cow-down, “My! Maybe I was wrong, to begin with.”
But they was happy about it, “Oh, my, to bear the Name!”
239 And now, in the second century, they called them “crossbacks.” That’s when the Christians used to pack a cross on their back, to show that they were crucified with Christ. They call them crossbacks. Now I know the Catholic calls themselves that, but that wasn’t the Catholic church. It was the Protestant church before it was called Protestant church. It protested nothing but sin. The reason it’s called Protestant church today is because it protested the–the Catholic dogma. But it’s a… It, still, it was non-sectarian at that time, when they were called crossback.

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« 240 † Just get the history of Josephus and the other writers, and Hislop’s Two Babylons, and so forth, and you’ll find out that that’s right, that they was not no church. The first organized church, ever was, was the Catholic church, about three hundred years, at the round of–of the last apostles. About three hundred years later, the Catholic church was organized. And a persecution set in, and forced the people into the Catholic church, and they had church and state, united.
241 That was after, what was so-called, the conversion of Constantine, from paganism to Catholicism. But, if anybody ever read his history, he wasn’t converted, the things that he did. Oh, my! The only thing he ever done religious was put the cross on the St. Sophia church. That’s the only thing he ever done, acted even religious. He was a–a reprobate. But they call it his–his conversion. Just about compares with some so-called conversions today.

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« 242 † Now, but, we find out, when Paul got converted and had this real experience, he was absolutely turned around.
And, you know, conversion means to be “turned around.” You’re going this way, and you turn and start back this way. Yes, sir. It’s a turn-around, about-face.
243 And Paul, as soon as he was converted, before he could ever make his experience… Now, he had a marvelous experience.
Now, I believe, when you accept Christ, just as your personal Saviour, it is an experience. I believe, the joy of knowing your sin is forgiven, just thrills your heart, through and through.
244 But then when the blessed Holy Spirit comes down, that’s an experience, that new Birth, that you’ll never forget. You become a Child of God. And here is what does it.
“How do you know it, Brother Branham?”

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« 245 † Now, these are teaching lessons. Many people, the Methodists, try to say, “They shouted when they got It.” Well, that’s all right. If you got It, and shouted, okay. Because you shouted, wasn’t a sign you had It, ’cause a lot shouted and didn’t have It.
246 The Pentecostals said, “They spoke in tongues. They got It.” That’s all right. If you spoke in tongues, and got It, all right. But you could speak in tongues and still not have It. So?
247 So, you see, after all, it is the experience of passing from death to Life; when all the old things die, and all things become new. Christ becomes real. The old things drop away, the old roots of carnality. You know how to dig a root out? We used to take a grubbing hoe and just get down at it, and dig it till there wasn’t a speck left in it. And they said, “If there be any root of bitterness spring up into you, grub her out.” That’s right. And that’s what the Holy Spirit does, root out all the roots. Dig them out. Pile it up; burn them. Get rid of them. You get a good crop then, if we do that.

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« 248 † Now, Paul knowed that something happened, so he goes back down into Arabia, and there he studies for three years on all of the Old Testament prophets, how they prophesied. And he come to find out that It was absolutely the Truth.
249 Now, compare that with today, see, on this experience that we had here at this little church: of the Morning Star appearing yonder, that great Light that come down, that would foretell and show things to happen. You know, that’s marvelous. But my ministering brother told me, “It was the Devil.” And I–I couldn’t understand it.
250 So, I didn’t say nothing about it until one night, there was an experience happened up yonder at Green’s Mill, Indiana, when the Angel of the Lord walked across the floor and stood there, and proved it by the Scripture. Then it set fire. Then it started going.

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« 251 † And no longer than last Sunday, we seen the infallible marks of Jesus Christ, who can take a man that hasn’t walked, and didn’t… His balance nerve gone, when the Mayos and the best doctors said, “It’s finished, forever.” And setting blind; raised up and walk out of the building, pushing his wheel chair down the steps, could walk and see like anybody else. That shows that it’s the power of the resurrected Lord Jesus. There it is. He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever.
252 So aren’t we a happy group tonight, to know that God has vindicated this great experience that we have, to be compared with His Bible and with the promises? Therefore we ought to be exceedingly glad. And we realize then, that in the 2nd chapter, we find out, “We should not let these things… We should not neglect these things.” We should hold fast those things.
And how are we going to escape, if we neglect such a great salvation;…
253 What are we going to do, in the light of God’s Word, when we stand at the Judgment Bar? You can’t say, “I never knew any different.” Oh, yes, you did. “Well, now, Brother Branham could have been wrong.” That’s true. But God isn’t wrong. His Word isn’t wrong. And just think, of the same thing, the Bible, that once lived in the apostles, are living again. Oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord!

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« 254 † When I think that I’m forty-eight years old, nearing fifty, and my youthful days are gone, and so forth; to know that since a little boy that I had this blessed Promise, and have declared It to my brothers and sisters; and to see the literally thousands of those that’s come out of darkness, to know that we are going to our Eternal Home, to the blessed. “And if this earthly tabernacle be dissolved,” before I get through preaching, “there’s one waiting yonder for it.” Hallelujah! To know that there’s dozens of people setting here, that, if they should leave this life right now; before we could get their body to the undertaker, they would be in that glorious body yonder, rejoicing with the saints of God, already in the Presence of God, to live forever. With the perfect, absolutely vindication that it’s so! Amen.

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« 255 † Oh, that would make the Presbyterian shout! Did Sunday, didn’t it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Them people were Presbyterian. Certainly would, to think. Oh, no wonder people get emotionally! Why, if you get emotionally from batting a ball or throwing one in a basket, how much more will it make you emotionally to know that you’ve passed from death to Life, that you’re a new Creation in Christ! You know it by the way your spirit leads you away from malice, and guile, and enmity, and all the things of the world. And your heart sets centered on Christ. That’s your motives. That’s all that you think of in your mind, on your heart, all day and night. When you go to bed at night, and put your hands behind you, like this, and just lay there and praise Him till you go to sleep. Wake up, of a morning, still praising Him. Amen. Oh, my!

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« 256 † I’ve tried to praise Him of a morning. We been getting up about four o’clock, Brother Woods and I, going out early in the morning, to go squirrel hunting. I praise Him under every tree, I believe, I’ve come to. I can’t see a tree, without praising Him. Think, He growed that tree. See a little old grasshopper fly up; He knows that grasshopper. “Oh,” you say, “nonsense, Brother Bill.” Oh, no, it isn’t. He knows where every squirrel is. He knows where every butterfly is.
257 Why, at one time, He needed some money, and He said, “Peter, there’s a fish, a while ago, swallowed a coin, just enough, much as we need. Go cast the hook in. I’ll send him over there. Take that coin out of his mouth, ’cause he can’t use it, himself. Go pay him our tithing and tribute.” Amen.

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« 258 † And a few weeks ago, I seen a little fish killed, laying on the water. All of you heard the story of it. There’s Brother Woods, and his brother and them here to witness it. That little fish laying dead for a half hour, on the water, with his entrails pulled out of its mouth. And the great Holy Spirit swept down, after He said, the day before, “You’re going to see the resurrection of a little animal.” And the next morning about, little after sunup, we saw that little fishy, not over that long. When the Spirit of the Lord came down, and said, “Little fish, Jesus Christ makes you whole.” And that dead fish, had been floating on top the water for practically a half hour, come to life and swam away just as hard as he could. Oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord. How wonderful He is!

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« 259 † No wonder Paul could say, that, “He was in the order of Melchisedec.” He was Melchisedec. “Melchisedec had no beginning of days. He had no ending of years. He had no beginning of life or ending in life. He had neither father nor mother.” So, He couldn’t been no one else. Ever who He was, He’s alive yet tonight. So, He’s only one type of Eternal Life, and that belongs to God.
260 Last evening when we were having a discussion, a brother could not understand the trinity of God, and how we were talking about it. How that Jesus stood there, a Man, of about thirty years old. And He said…
They said, “Oh, our fathers eat manna in the wilderness.”
261 He said, “And they’re, every one, dead.” But He said, “I’m that Bread of Life that come from God out of Heaven, that a man eats and don’t die.”
262 “Oh,” they said, “our fathers drank from the Rock in the wilderness.”
263 He said, “I’m That Rock.” A Man of thirty years old. Said, “Abraham rejoiced to see My day.”
264 “Why,” said, “now You mean to tell me that You’re as old as Abraham, and You’re not fifty years old yet, and mean to say that You’ve seen Abraham who has been dead eight hundred years? We know that You got a devil now. You’re crazy.” That’s what’s… That’s what a devil mean, “crazy” person.” Said, “You got a devil, and You’re mad.”
265 He said, “Before Abraham was, I AM.”
266 That’s who He was. He wasn’t just merely a man, neither was He a prophet. He was God, God dwelling on earth in a body of flesh called “Jesus,” the–the incarnate Son of God. That’s exactly who He was.

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« 267 † Now, we find Him over here, that in the last part now, of the closing of the 2nd chapter, which I want to get to, beginning with the 16th verse, or the 15th verse.
And delivered them… through the fear of death–of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
That’s what he said that Jesus did, that He come to deliver them from bondage, who had been in fear of death all their lifetime.
268 Now there’s no need of fearing death. Now, of course, we do; we, none of us want to, what we call, die. But do you know that if a person is born again he cannot die? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] How can he have Eternal Life and then die? He can’t do it. The only thing that’s death, the word death, means “the separation.” Now he’ll separate from the presence of our eye. But he’s always in the Presence of God, and always will be. So, death isn’t a hard thing. Death is a glorious thing. Death is what takes us in the Presence of God.

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« 269 † But now, of course, we, being human, walk in these dark elements here, we–we do not understand it as we should. And, of course, when the choking pangs of death come, it makes the very saint-est of us fear and draw back. It made the Son of God say, “Could this cup pass?” It’s a horrible thing. Don’t get it wrong. Because we… It’s a penalty of sin, death is, and it’s got to be horrible.
But if we can look just beyond the curtain, yonder, there is where it’s at. Blessed be the Lord! Just beyond the curtain, that’s where man desires to look tonight. Little Anna Mae Snelling and them used to sing a song here, “Lord, Let Me Look Past The Curtain of Time.” Everybody wants to see that.

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« 270 † Now, now here we are, in the 16th verse. “For verily He took…”
For verily he took not on him, upon him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.
271 Oh, we want to hold to that again now. Now we’re coming right down to get… Cause, the first part of this 3rd chapter, the last part of it, blends in on “that day for the sabbath,” for this coming Sunday.
272 Now watch.
… he took not… the nature of angels;…
Now, who is “He,” he is talking about? Christ. Who is Christ? God, the Logos of God.
273 Now let me explain this again, so you be sure. God is not three Gods. The trinity of God is One. Father, Son, Holy Ghost, doesn’t mean that there is three different Gods. If it is, we would be heathen. That’s the reason the Jews can’t understand. Never was it taught in the Bible. Now, it’s taught in the Catholic church, absolutely, that’s where the triune baptism come from.

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« 274 † In Africa they baptize you three times face forward: once for God the Father; once for God the Son; once for God the Holy Ghost. Now, that’s an error. There’s no such teachings of that in the Bible. See?
275 And now, that’s–that’s what they taught. It come down through Luther; out of Luther, into Wesley; on down into the ages as it rolls on. But it never was a Bible teaching. It was always been a error, since it was begun.

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« 276 † Now, so, God was in the beginning. Before there was any light, before there was ever an atom, before there was ever a star, before there was any visible thing, God filled all space. And in That was nothing but purity: pure love, pure holiness, pure righteous. It was Spirit. He covered the whole space all from Eternity, where we can’t fathom It. It goes beyond anything that we could imagine.
277 Like through that glass, we could see a–a hundred and something million years of light space. Think of it. A hundred million years of light space. And light–light travels about eight thousand miles per second. And a hundred and million years of light space… Just think how many million miles that would be. You couldn’t even numerate it. You can just take a row of nines and run it around Jeffersonville, and still you wouldn’t have it broke down in miles of miles. Think of it. And beyond that is still stars and planets. And God, before one of them was, He was. See?

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« 278 † And now the Logos that went out of God, which was the–the Logos, all this begin to form into a–a body shape. And this body shape was called, in the scholar’s teaching, Logos, the Logos that went out of God. In other words, a–a better word for it, was what we call a theophany. (Theophany is a human body that’s glorified.) Not exactly with flesh and blood like it will be in its glorified stage, but it is of a form of a human body that doesn’t eat, neither does it drink, but it’s–it’s a body, a body that’s waiting for us as soon as we leave this one. Now, in there, we enter into that body. And that’s the kind of body that God was, for He said, “Let us make man in our own image and in our likeness.”

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« 279 † Now, when man become into that body, he had control of all the fishes, and fowls, and–and beasts of the field. “And then there was no man to till the soil,” Genesis 2. He done made male and female, but there’s no man to till the soil.
Then God made man out of the dust of the earth. He give him a hand like a–like a chimpanzee. He give him a foot like a bear. He give him, He made him, on the image. And this earthly body is in the image of animal life, and it’s made out of the same kind of material. Your body is made just the same kind of material as a horse, or a dog, or anything like that. It’s made out of calcium, potash, petroleum, cosmic light. You’re just no… All flesh like that is not the same flesh; it’s different flesh, but it’s made out of the dust of the earth where it come from.
But, the difference between an animal and a man, God put a soul in a man, and He didn’t put it in the animal. Because, the soul that was in the man is that theophany.
Oh, I–I, I’ll never get to the… this lesson, but I got to get this.

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« 280 † Look. Don’t you remember when Peter was in prison, and the Angel of the Lord came and opened the doors?
281 We was going through the supermarket up here, other day, and the door opened in front of us. I said, “You know, the Bible had that first.” See? Now, the swinging door is by itself.
282 And when Peter came out, walking by these guards, they were blinded to him. He passed the inner guard, the outer guard, out into the court, through the wall, out into the street. And none of them know who he was. And didn’t pay any… They thought he was another guard or something. They… He just passed by, and the door opened by itself, as he went out, and shut behind. And when he got out there, he thought he had a dream. And he went down to John Mark’s house, where they had a prayer meeting. And he was knock… [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit. Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.]… to be among you.

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« 283 † Oh, He’s glorious. He’s wonderful.
Now, oh, he wasn’t made in the form of an angel; but he took on… the seed of Abraham. God became the seed of Abraham.
284 Now, if we had time, to go back and show how He did it in the Covenant! You’ve heard me preach on it, many times, how that he took those animals and cut them apart, and throwed the turtledove and pigeon in. Then he looked, and he noticed a little smoke, black horror, death. Next, a smoking furnace, hell. But, beyond that, went a little white Light. And that little white went between each piece of that cut sacrifice, showing that what He would do. And He took an oath, when He did that, and He wrote a Covenant, showing what He would do.
285 And He, Jesus Christ, come to the earth; God, Emmanuel, “God in flesh.” And at Calvary, He was torn apart. And His Spirit come back on the Church. And His body was lifted up and set on the Throne of God.
The Throne of God! The One that’s on the Throne is the Judge. We know that. Well, where is the Judgment? The Father has given… He judge no man. But the Father has commit all judgment to the Son. So He is… And His Life is the High Priest, setting there with His Own body, as a sacrifice, to plead our confessions. Amen. Brother, that puts something in you.

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« 286 † Notice, “He took on the Seed of Abraham.” He become a Man. God, made flesh among us, to redeem us. In other words, God became sin, that we sinners might become partakers of Him. And when we partake of Him, we partake of His… We were time-space people, three score and ten. And God came down and become one of us, three score and ten, for His lotted time, that we might partake of His Eternal Life. And when we’re born again, we’re sons and daughters of God, and have Eternal Life, and shall never perish.
Oh, what a–what a–what a blessed Saviour! Oh, there’s no way to write it. There’s no way to explain it. It’s just beyond explaining. No one can explain how great It is. “How great Thou art! How great Thou art!” is right.
Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto His brethren,… (Think of that.)… that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God,… (Listen at this.)… to make reconciliations… the sin of the people.
To reconcile, now, God, knowing justice, had to become unjustice, to feel what it was to be a sinner, to go back to reconcile, through “reconciliation,” and have mercy on the people.

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« 287 † Next verse, listen at It here.
For in that he himself had suffered…
288 God could not suffer in Spirit. He had to become flesh, to feel the pain of sickness, to feel the temptation of lust, to feel the temptation of want, to feel the temptation of hunger, to feel the power of death. That He might take it upon Hisself to stand in the Presence of the great Spirit Jehovah, the Spirit, not the Man; the Spirit, to make intercession to this life. And Jesus took that, in order to make intercession for us, for He knows how it feels. When you get sick, He knows how you feel. When you’re tempted, He knows how you feel.

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« 289 † Now, did you ever notice when we vote for a president, every farmer will vote for a president that’s been a farmer, for he knows the hard part of the farmer’s life. See? He wants some man who understand.
290 And before God could ever understand; Him being that great Holiness. How He could ever understand, after He condemned man? By His holiness, He condemned man. And the only way He will ever know how to justify man is to become man.
291 And God overshadowed the virgin and she brought forth a body, not Jewish blood, not Gentile blood, but His Own Blood. God’s created Blood, no sex at all in, it at all, no sexual desire. And this Blood Cell, created in the womb of this woman, brought forth the Son. And when He was baptized by John the Baptist, John said, “I bear record, seeing the Spirit of God (like a dove) coming down and abiding upon Him.”

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« 292 † No wonder Jesus could say, that, “All powers in Heaven and earth is given into My hand.” God and man became One. Heavens and earth embraced each other, and He was the One Who can give reconciliation for our sin. That’s the reason that, in His Name, healing takes place. He knows your pain.
293 You ever hear this little, old song?
Jesus knows the pain you feel, He can save and He can heal;
Take your burden to the Lord and leave it there.
That’s right. He knows.
When our body is racked with pain, and our health we can’t regain,
Just remember God in Heaven answers prayer;
Jesus knows the pain you feel, He can save and He can heal;
Just take your burden to the Lord and leave it there.
294 That’s all He asks, “Just leave it there.” Why? He’s our High Priest standing here, that knows how you feel. And He knows how to reconcile you back to grace, and how to bring you back to your health. He knows all about it; He suffered. When you haven’t got a place to lay your head; He had the same. When you got one change of clothes; He had the same. When you are made fun of, persecuted; He had the same.

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« 295 † Listen at the last verse now. All right.
… he is able to succour those that are tempted.
Or, in other words, He is able to secure those, to help those, to make those… to sympathize with them. Because, God Himself became man, in order to feel it.
296 Remember, the other night, didn’t we teach on that? How that God had to… Death had a sting in it, a scare in it. “All their days they were in bondage about this death.” And then Jesus came, that He might take that stinger out of death.
And when He was going up the mountain, remember how we illustrated it? Them little red dots on His coat, after while they all become one big dot, and splashing the Blood around Him. His little, frail body, He couldn’t go any further, and He fell. Simon Cyrene, the colored man, helped Him bear the cross on up the hill.
And when they nailed Him to the cross, and He screamed for water. Any man bleeding needs water.

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« 297 † Remember when I preached the other night on “The deer and the hart thirsts for the water brook, so my soul panteth after Thee, O God”? If the deer is wounded and living, losing blood, he’s got to get to water or he’ll die.
298 I was shot, down in the field, when I was fourteen years old. And I was laying there. My legs blowed over me, like hamburger, from a twelve-gauge shotgun. And I screamed for water, “Oh, give me a drink!” I numb; my lips was numb.
299 My buddy run over to an old pool, had all kinds of little old wiggletails, swamp. I didn’t care what it was. And he had raked it full of water, and I held my mouth open, and he squeezed his cap out like that, in my mouth. You had to have water.
300 He was bleeding. He said, “Give me a drink.” And they give him vinegar on a sponge, and He rejected it, and refused it. He was God’s Lamb dying in our stead, to bring reconciliation to the human being. What was it? The God of Heaven.

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« 301 † Billy Sunday once said, that, “Every bush had Angels setting in it, saying, ‘Just pull Your hand loose and point Your finger, We’ll change the situation.'”
302 That sassy bunch of religious fanatics, called some big educated scholars of D.D., Ph.D., walked by Him and said, “Now, if you are the Son of God! You saved others; yourself you can’t save. Come down off the cross, and we’ll believe you.”
303 They didn’t know that they was paying Him a compliment. He could have saved Himself. But if He saved Himself, others He could not save. So, He gave Himself. Blessed be His Name. He gave Himself, that I could be saved and you could be saved. Oh, what matchless love!

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« 304 † He didn’t have to be sick. That precious virgin-born body didn’t have to be sick. But He became sick, that He might know how to intercede for me when I was sick.
305 He didn’t have to weary, but He did weary. I read a little history one time on it, I don’t know whether it was authentic or not. “When He raised that boy from Nain there, up from the dead, He set on a rock and groaned with a headache,” ’cause He had to bear our sickness.
306 He had to bear our sin, and there He died, and on Calvary when that old bee and death once anchored its stinger. Anyone knows, when a bee anchors its stinger, it can’t sting no more. When the bee flies away or any insect that stings, when he anchors his stinger, he pulls the stinger out. He’s still a bee but he hasn’t got a stinger. The only thing he can do is buzz and make a lot of noise.
307 That’s the only thing that death can do to the believer, is make a lot of noise. But, hallelujah, blessed be the Name of the Lord, He anchored that stinger of death in His Own flesh. Emmanuel did it. Rose up again, on the third day, shook the stinger out of there, and is Immortal tonight. And His Spirit is in this building, and He proves Hisself alive among us. That’s our Messiah. That’s our blessed Saviour. `
–Rev. William Marrion Branham
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« 94 † ` Come first, and study the Scriptures, so he could compare it and would see whether it was the Truth or not. He took it, the Truth, by the Old Testament. Now, Paul was an Old Testament scholar. How many knows that? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] He was taught under one of the best scholars of his day, Gamaliel, outstanding scholar. And Paul knew the Old Testament. And I think his first shaking, as I said this morning, when he witnessed the death of Stephen. Something must have got a hold of Paul, because all through his writings he kept referring to it, “I’m not worthy, because I persecuted the Church unto death. I’m the least among them.”
95 Oh, but God had a different thought of it. He was one of the mightiest men of the day.
See Saint Paul, the great apostle
With his robe so bright and fair, (the poet said)
Oh, there is sure to be some shouting
When we all meet There.
That great Day when I see him receive a martyr’s crown, a martyr reward!

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« 96 † I stood, with a little old pen, here not long ago, where he wrote these Letters. And then they chopped his head off. And pitched him over into the sewer, to wash down the sewer. And this little Jew there, he said, “I bear in my body the marks of Jesus Christ. I’ve fought with beasts at Ephesus, but I’ve fought a good fight. I’ve finished the course. I’ve kept the Faith. And henceforth, there is laid up for me a crown of righteous, that the Lord, the righteous Judge will give me at that Day. And not only me, but all who loves His appearing.” How I love that! Oh, I want to be numbered with those! We used to sing a song:
Oh, would you be numbered as one of His fold?
Would you be numbered as one of His fold?
Be spotless within, be watching and waiting that sight to behold;
He’s coming again.

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« 97 † I want to be one of them. Now the writer goes ahead, saying:
Therefore we ought to give… more earnest heed to the things which we’ve heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
98 As we taught on that, this morning, 2nd verse deals, “If…”
For if the word spoke by angels…
99 What do we find the angels to be? Prophets. “God spoke in sundry time…” Now, you have to make, not our own idea, but the Bible. Now the 1st chapter, of 1st chapter, the 1st verse.
God, who at sundry times… in divers manners spake… to the fathers by the prophets,

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« 100 † Now he goes over here, and say again.
For if the word spoken by angels were steadfast,…
And what does an angel mean? “Messenger.” If God anointed messenger…” And then if we be anointed, we are God’s messengers. We are messengers to the world, an ambassador of Heaven, professing that we are pilgrims and strangers. We’re not of this world. But we seek a City to come, whose builder and maker is God. We lay not up treasures on this earth, where thieves break in, and moths, rust, and corrupt. For, our treasures lays in Heaven, where Jesus sets at the right hand of the Majesty. Oh, what a glorious and marvelous thing, to know that.
Our hopes are built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness;
When all around my soul gives way,
Then He’s all my hope and stay.
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other grounds is sinking sand,
All other grounds is sinking sand.

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« 101 † How Eddie Perronet wrote that song, in the times of persecutions!
Now, if the word spoke by angels was steadfast,… (When the messenger of God spoke the Word, It stood.)… and every reward received a just recompense of reward;
How shall we escape now, if we don’t hear Christ, Who speaks from Heaven?
Now watch.
How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation;… (Think of it.)… which in the first begin to be spoken by the Lord,…

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« 102 † Christ begin His work. What did He do? We watch Him, how He… humble, lowly, how He wasn’t a great noted man as a theologian. But He was humble, meek, gentle. He wasn’t a mighty preacher. His Voice wasn’t heard in the street.
But John went forth as a roaring lion. He was a preacher.
103 Jesus come forth, not as a roaring lion, but God working with Him, confirming the Word. God was with Christ. Peter said, at the Day of Pentecost, “Ye men of Israel, and you that dwell in Judaea… Jesus of Nazareth, a Man approved of God among you, by signs and wonders and miracles, which God did by Him, in the midst of you all, which you all are witnesses.” Watch how he pinned it down on them. “You should have known Him.”
104 Jesus said, “You hypocrites.” Said, “You go out and look at the sun, and you… It’s red and lower, and you say, ‘It’s going to be foul weather.’ And if it’s bright and sunny, or so forth, you say, ‘It’s going to be fair weather.'” Said, “You can discern the sky, but the signs of the time, you cannot discern. For if you would have known Me, you would know My day.”

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« 105 † Oh, what He’d scream tonight. How His Spirit screams through His preachers, “The hour is at hand!”
We discern. We watch the atomic bombs. We know who is going to take Clark Gables’ place, and who is going to do this, that, or the other; or who will be the vice-president. We’re interested in that, but we cannot discern the signs of the time. We’re at the end.
106 What is it? We’re so interested in, “What’s the next chapter of television? “What’s Susie going to do?” or what that woman’s name is. “And where Arthur Godfrey is going to? What kind of a joke is he going to pull the next time?” We, as Christian, gam our mind full of such tommyrot, when we ought to be in prayer somewhere, and study the Bible, to know the signs of the time we’re living in.
107 What does that, of our time, is weak pulpits, that’s right, that don’t get down and bring the Gospel Truth. We’re going to have to answer for that in the days to come. We must not neglect anything. And the people, as we are here at this Branham Tabernacle, to see the signs and wonders, and the power of the resurrected Christ; and then to know that we would place our–our times upon other things, and neglect to hear the Voice of the Lord Jesus, “How shall we escape, if we neglect such a great salvation?”

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« 108 † The 3rd verse, or the 4th verse. Here is where we ended, on the 4th verse, this morning.
God also bearing them witness,… (Oh, my!)
God… bearing them witness,…
Listen to the Word.
… both with signs… wonders, and with divers miracles,…
What is divers miracles? What is diver? Diver means “many.” “With many miracles, God bore witness.” O God! I trust that It’ll soak into your hearts. Listen.
109 I’m one of your pastors, with Brother Neville here. I want you to take It to record. The Bible said, “If there arise one among you, and he says such-and-such, and it doesn’t come to pass, don’t hear it, for I haven’t spoken. But if he speaks in My Name, and what he says comes to pass, then hear It.” Amen. “For I am with that prophet, or preacher, whatever it may be. If what he says comes to pass, then hear him.”

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« 110 † Now, friends, let’s hear Him, the Holy Spirit speaking in our midst, showing divers miracles, and signs, and wonders. Let’s just not pass over It as just common happenings. Let’s remember that It’s Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever; confirming His Word. We must do it. Oh, please do it. Take heed. Let every other thing be secondary, even your home, your husband, your wife, your children. Whatever it may be, put it second. Place God first. You say, “Brother Branham, over my children?” Over anything. Place God first. Let Him be first.

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« 111 † Elijah come off the mountain, one day. He was an angel, a messenger, God’s messenger, anointed. And he found a widow woman picking up two sticks. He said, “Go, bake me a little cake, and fetch me a little water.”
112 And she said, “As your soul liveth, I have but just enough cakes, or enough wheat dough, to make one little pancake. And I just have enough oil to go in, to mix it up, for shortening. And I’m picking up two sticks.” The old-fashion way was, it’s the Indian way, of crossing the sticks and burning it from the middle, and keep pushing it in. Made a many a camp fire like it. Said, “And I’m going to cook that little cake for me and my boy, my baby. And we’re going to eat it and die.” There had been a drought for three years and six months, no water nowhere.
113 That stern, old prophet, looked that woman in the face. He said, “Go, bake me a cake first.” What a command, for a man to tell a widow woman, starving to death, to feed him first. What did he say? “For THUS SAITH THE LORD, the barrel will never go empty, nor the cruse dry, until God sends rain on the earth.”
First, God. She went in and baked that little cake, and come give it to the prophet. Went right back and baked another one, and another one, and another, and another. And the barrel never went empty, or the cruse dry, until God sent rain on the earth. She put God before her children. She put God before anything else. She taken the Kingdom of God, first.

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« 114 † God must have first place in your heart, first place in your life, first place in everything that you do or what you are. God must be first. He doesn’t want the second place. He doesn’t deserve the second place. He deserves the best, and the first, and all that we’ve got. He deserves it. Blessed be His holy Name!
For God also bearing… witness, he gave testimony, both with signs and wonders,… divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
115 Not what men say, what the church said, but what God’s will was. Oh, we need to seek the will of God, not the favor of your neighbor, not the favor of your children, not the favor of your husband or your wife. But, seek the will of God, and do that first. Then everything else, the will of the wife and the will of the children, will fall right in with it. But, place God first.

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« 116 † Watch, now.
For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.
117 Otherwise, the great Angels that ministers in the Heavens, Gabriel, Michael, Woodworm, and the tens of thousands times tens of thousands of Angels of Heaven; or the tens of hundreds of prophets that’s been on the earth, every one of them; He’s never put any of them to have control over the world to come, that we speak of. Not a one! He never said, “Isaiah, you’ll control the world.” He never put the world in subjection to Elijah. Neither did He put it to Gabriel, or any angel, any ministering spirit.

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« 118 † Watch what he said, Paul, still magnifying Christ, whereof we speak.
But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou would visit him?
Thou has made him a little lower than the angels; thou hast crowned him with glory and with honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hand:
119 Now, if you want to read that, it’s the Psalms 8:4-6, David speaking. Now what did he call David here? That settles it, right there, whether was right this morning, on the prophet.
120 He said, “For one of the angels said in a certain place.” David, the messenger of God, was an angel of God, for he was the messenger of God. The angel said, David said, in the Psalms, “Thou did make Him a little lower than the Angels of Heaven.” An angel said that God made Him lower than an Angel, that He might crown Him; and He might suffer and taste death, to be exalted up again. That He might make Him the… inherit all the things of the world. [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.]

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« 121 † Now, in–in Matthew 28:18, we read these. After He had been crucified and rose again on the third day, he met with His disciples and commissioned them to go into all the world, to preach the Gospel to every creature. He said, “All powers in Heaven and in earth has been given unto My hands. All the power in Heaven, all the power in earth, has been given unto Me.” What was it? Man and God had united. The Logos had been made flesh and had been killed, and rose again for our justification, and was then the anointed Emmanuel forever and forever. God changed His dwelling place, from a Throne in the spaces yonder, to the heart of His Son, Christ Jesus, to live and reign forever. “God was in Christ.” He’s the final resting place of the Spirit.
122 The Spirit stayed in a tabernacle, one day, you know that, under tent. “And Solomon built Him a house. But, howbeit, the most High dwelleth not in houses made with hands.” “But a body has Thou made Me.”

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« 123 † Over in the Book of Acts, the 7th chapter, when he was speaking, he said, “All of them foresaw It. They built tent for Him, Moses did, had a tent, and put the ark in there, for God was on the Mercy Seat. He didn’t dwell there.” All right.
124 Then, “A body has thou made Me,” the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, made lower than the Angels to taste death; and none but the very highest of High, Christ; the Prince of Peace, the King of kings, the Lord of lord, the Creator, every star in the universe.
125 O God! He became lower than His creation, that He might redeem man (homeless, helpless man), and give them a home in Heaven. He left the glories of Heaven. He left the highest Name that could be called. And when He was on earth, man give Him the lowest name that they could give Him, said, “He was an illegitimate baby, to start with.” Born in a manger, wrapped in rags off the back of a yoke of an ox. No place to go, had no home to go to. And was called, “Beelzebub,” the chief of the devils. He was mistreated. He was spit on. He was made fun of. He was rejected, and went to the lowest pits, and stooped to “The vilest of prostitutes.” That’s what man done to Him.

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« 126 † But God raised Him up so high that He’d have to look down to see Heaven. Man give Him the lowest seat, give Him the worst place, the lowest name. God raised Him up and give Him the highest Seat, and the highest Name. That’s the difference what man done with the Son of God, and what God done with the Son of God.
127 He stooped, that we might be lifted. He become us, that we through His grace might become Him. He come to the homeless, and became homeless Hisself, that we might have a home. He came to the sick and was made sick Hisself, that we might be healed. He came to the sinner, “and made sin, Himself,” that we might be saved.
128 No wonder He was exalted. No wonder He is who He is tonight. God has exalted Him, and all the powers in Heavens and earth is give to Him.

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« 129 † When His earthly work had been finished, here on earth. He came to the earth, as soon as He did, the morning star declared Him to be the Son of God. He shook every devil that He come in contact with. Blessed be the Name of the Lord! Devils trembled and shook, and begged for mercy, in His Presence. Yes, sir. All hell knowed who He was.
130 Walked humble, He had not a place to lay His head, on a rainy night. The very animals that He created, “The birds of the air has nests, and the foxes have dens, but the Son of man doesn’t have a place to lay His blessed head.” Sure, He was.
131 He became sin, became low and forsaken. But the devils knowed who He was. They pleaded for mercy. They said, “Why do You come to torment us before our time come.” And while the preachers was calling him, “Beelzebub,” the fortune teller; the devils was calling Him, “The Son of the living God,” and begging for mercy.

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« 132 † Oh, how we could only stop just a minute! Who are you, anyhow? What does that job you got mean? Or what does that little house we own mean? What does the car we own mean?
133 Pretty little girl, you little sassy thing, what does that little look that you have now? You young men with a shiny, slick hair, straight shoulders; you’ll bend down someday, when stooped with age.
134 But, blessed be the Lord! You’ve got a soul that’s born again. You’ll live forever and ever, because He become you, that you through His grace might become Him, and make a place for you.

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« 135 † Oh, we who think that we got a change of clothes, and a few groceries in the house, what are we? God could take it in a second. Your very breath holds in His hand. And here in our midst to heal the sick, to proclaim and profess, and to foretell, and every time perfect. And even concerned enough to bring a little, dead fish back to its life again, in the midst of us. Jehovah around us, Jehovah in us, the great and mighty I AM.
136 When He died, they thought they had Him. He ascended into hell. When He left the earth that day when He was crucified, He went into the regions of the lost. The Bible said, “He went and preached to the souls that were in prison, that repented not in the long-suffering, the days of Noah.” When He died, and His spirit left Him, He become the Logos again. He, I see, said, “I came from God. I go back to God.”

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« 137 † And God was that Pillar of Fire that led the children in the wilderness. And when He was here on earth… And when He died, He turned back to a Light again. Paul saw Him, and He was a Light. None of the rest of them saw Him. They seen Paul fall. Something struck him, and It was a Light. Paul said, “Who is It that I persecute?”
138 He said, “Saul, Saul, why persecute thou Me?”
Said, “Who is It?”
139 He said, “I’m Jesus, that you persecute, and it’s hard for you to kick against the pricks.”
140 Then he went and studied that Light. Paul went back in the Bible, to find out what that Light was. And he wrote this Letter. He’s the same Jehovah. That same Light was in the wilderness with the children of Israel. And when Peter was in the prison, He was a Light that came in and opened the doors.

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« 141 † And by His grace, so none will have any excuse… Oh, if they could forget the illiterate messengers, and remember: it’s not the messenger, it’s the Message. He’s come down again, with us, in a form of a Pillar of Light. And He moves with His same miracles and signs, nothing out of the Bible; staying right with the Bible, holding it under subjection, bringing out His glory, showing His power. Blessed be His holy Name!
142 I know you must think that I’m crazy; but, oh, that blessed Eternal Rest that’s in my soul. Though storms may wave, my anchor holds within the veil.

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« 143 † And to see Him when He died, till, the moon took a nervous prostration. The sun went down in the middle of the day. And when He went to the regions of the lost, [Brother Branham knocks four times on the pulpit–Ed.] knocked on the door, and the door swung open. The Bible said, “He preached to the souls that were in prison, that repented not in the long-suffering in the days of Noah, after He had deceased on this earth. My brother and my sister, when He deceased, His earthly work was done, but He was still working. And He is still on the job tonight. Amen.
144 He knocked at the doors of the lost. The Bible said He did. And He witnessed, “I am the Seed of the woman. I am He that Adam spoke of. I am the One that Enoch said would come with ten thousands of His saints. I’m the Son of the living God, and you sinned away your day of grace. But it was prophesied to you, by the angels, Enoch, Noah, that I must come to fulfill every Word of God’s Bible. I’m here as a witness in this ‘land of the lost.'” And He preached to them.
On down into hell He went, right down to the doors of hell, knocked on the door. The Devil opened the door, said, “I got You now.”

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« 145 † Jerked them keys from his side, said, “You Devil, you’ve held the bluff for a long time.” Here it is, right here in the Bible. I get to it in a minute. “You’ve held the bluff for a long time, but I come to take over.” Grabbed those keys and kicked him back in, and shut the door.
Come through and picked up Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. On the third day He arose, and those that slept in the grave arose with Him. Oh, hallelujah! No wonder the poet said:
Living, He loved me; dying, He saved me;
Buried, He carried my sins far away;
Rising, He justified freely forever,
Someday He’s coming, oh, glorious Day.
146 Blessed be the tie that binds our hearts with Christian fellowship, the love of God. When He rose, He wasn’t finished, yet. He had some more work to do.

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« 147 † The Bible said, “He ascended on High and give gifts unto men.” There was an atmosphere hung over the earth, of darkness, of gloom, of death, and weary. The prayers couldn’t come up, because the Atonement wasn’t made. But, He broke through that veil. He opened up the way. He broke the veil of sickness. He broke the veil of sin. He broke the veil of weary. He broke the veil of depressed. He broke every veil, and made a highway for the wayfaring man, walking up the King’s highway. Oh, my, when He passed the moon and the stars, on and on!
148 Following, behind Him, come the Old Testament saints, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They went right on up into the heavens of Heaven. When they were way away from the City, I can see them lift up their eyes. Abraham said, “That’s the City that I longed to see. Oh, come here, Isaac. Come here, Jacob. Oh, we were pilgrims and strangers of the earth, but there’s the City. There’s the One we’ve waited on.”
149 And the Bible said they screamed, “Lift up, ye everlasting gates, and be ye lifted up, for the King of Glory is coming in.”
150 And the Angels behind the gates screamed back to these angels back here, and said, “Who is this King of Glory?”
151 And the angels out here, the prophets, said, “The Lord of Hosts, the Mighty in Battle.”
152 And they pressed the buttons and the big door swung open. Right down through the middle of the streets He come, the Conqueror, triumph, with the Old Testament saints walking behind Him. Set down on the Throne, said, “Father, here they are. They’re Yours.”
153 He said, “Climb up here and set down, until I make all Your enemies Your footstool.” As we read, we find that on here in the Scripture. All right.

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« 154 † Listen now. And we’re on the 8th verse.
Then has he put all things into subjection under his feet. For… he put all things in subjection under his feet, he left nothing that is not… under him. But now we see not… all things put under him.
That’s, death. We don’t see death, yet, because we’re still dying. We see death.
But, 9th verse, “But we see Jesus!” Amen. Listen.
… we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
Why was He made lower than the Angels? So He could taste death. He had to die. He had to come, to die.

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« 155 † Look here, friend. Don’t, never forget this. When Jesus was going, walking up the hill, death was buzzing around His head.
156 Let’s take our picture to Jerusalem, two thousand years ago. And how could you reject It? I hear a sound coming through the street. What is it? It’s a bumping of something. It’s an old rugged cross coming down, going out the gates of Damascus, bumping over the cobblestones. Them big cobblestones are still there. Bumping over these big cobblestone, bumpity-bump. I see the spatting of the Blood on the street. What is it? It’s a Man that’s done no harm; nothing but good. The people were blind. They didn’t know Him. They didn’t recognize Him.
You say, “Blind? Could they have their sight?”
157 You can still have your sight and be blind. You believe that? The Bible said so. Remember Elisha down at Dothan? He went out and smote the people blind, said, “Now follow me.” They was blind to him.

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« 158 † And people are blind tonight. A certain church that don’t believe in Divine healing, walked up to me one time, and said, “Smite me blind. Smite me blind.” It was at Brother Wright’s house. Said, “Smite me blind.” Said, “Paul smote a man blind, one time.” Said, “Smite me blind.”
159 I said, “Friend, the Devil has already done it. You’re already blind. Sure, you are.”
160 He said, “Heal this little girl and I’ll believe you.”
161 I said, “Save that sinner and I’ll believe you.” Certainly.
162 “Oh,” he said, “he has to believe.”
163 I said, “Same thing here, it has to come through the sovereign grace of God.”
164 The Devil, the–the god of this world, has blinded the eyes of the people. “They’ve got eyes but they can’t see,” the Bible said.
165 Here He was, going up the street, dragging out the Bloody footprints on the road up. The bee of death was stinging around Him, buzzing at Him, “Just a little while and I’ll have You.” He was getting weak, thirsting water.

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« 166 † I was shot once, laying up here in the field, blood just pouring from me. I screamed for water. And my buddy run, took his cap and put it down in the water; old stagnated, wiggletails in the water. Come over, and I held my mouth open; he squeezed that. Because, the blood was spurting like a fountain, where I was shot to pieces with a gun. Thirsting!
167 Then I know what my Lord must have been, after bleeding all that morning, from nine o’clock up to three o’clock in the evening, losing all that Blood. I see His robe, first, like little bitty spots on it. And all them spots begin to get bigger and run together, make one great big Bloody splotch, hitting Him on the leg as He walked around. That was Emmanuel’s Blood. Oh, the earth wasn’t worthy of It.

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« 168 † But as He goes up, this bee stinging around Him. What did it do? It finally stung Him.
But, brother, anyone knows, that an insect or a bee, if it ever stings you once, that finishes the stinging business. It can’t sting no more. Because, when it leaves, it pulls its stinger out.
That’s the reason God had to be made flesh. He took the stinger of death into His flesh, and He pulled the stinger out of death. Blessed be the Name of the Lord! Death can hum and sting, but it can’t hurt you.
169 Paul, when he felt that bee humming around him, death was coming right on. He said, “O death, where is your sting?” He could point to Calvary where it was left in the flesh of Emmanuel. “Where is thy victory? But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Yes.

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« 170 † We don’t see all things.
But we do see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for… suffering of death,…
For it becometh him, for whom are all–all things, that by whom we have all things, in the begin… many sons… and be made the chief captain of our salvation… through suffering.
The only way He could become the Captain of our salvation, He had to suffer.
171 Listen to these beautiful Words here now. Now listen.
For both he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all… one:…
Oh, don’t you see the Vine and the Branch there? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] All One.
… for which cause he is not ashamed to be called brethren,
See? Why? Listen, the next verse.
Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praises unto thee.
And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which thou has given me.
Forsomuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through the death he might destroy him which has the power of death, that is, the devil;
And deliver them who through… for the… through… for death were always kept subject unto bondage.

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« 172 † Man always feared death. Christ became sin, made low, to take death upon Himself. And He’s not ashamed to be called our “Brother,” for He was tempted just like we are tempted. And He can make the… be the right kind of an intercessor, ’cause He stood the same kind of a temptation that you stand. And He took your place, knowing that you couldn’t take it yourself.
173 So, don’t you see, brother, sister? The whole thing is grace. All of it is grace. It’s not what you do, anyhow. It’s what He’s already done for you. Now, you can’t do one thing to merit your salvation. Your salvation is a gift. Christ became sin, that you might become righteous. And He’s the right kind of a Chief Captain for our salvation, because He suffered just like we suffered. He’s been tempted just like we’re tempted. And He’s not ashamed to be called “our Brother,” because He knows what we go through with. Oh, blessed be His Name!
For verily he took not on him the form of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.

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« 174 † Oh, my! He didn’t become an Angel. He become the Seed of Abraham. “And we, being dead in Christ, take on Abraham’s Seed, and are heirs according to the promise.” See? He never took on the form of an Angel. He never become an Angel. He become a Man. He become the Seed of Abraham, and took the sting of death in His own flesh, to reconcile us back to God, and now sets there for an Intercessor. My, how could we reject It, friend?
175 Listen.
Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation… the sin of the people.
176 That He might be the Reconciler! See, there was enmity between God and man. And no man…
They sent the angels, the prophets. They couldn’t take your place, because they had to pray for theirselves. They couldn’t take the place.

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« 177 † Then, He sent the law. The law was a policeman that put us in jail. It couldn’t bring us out. He sent the law.
He sent the prophets, He sent the righteous, and everything, could not make an atonement. But He come down and become one of us. Oh, my!
178 I wish we had more time right now, I’d like to take you to that law of redemption; but we haven’t, but just for a moment. The beautiful picture is in Ruth and Naomi. If you’ll see there, the reconciliation, how that the husbandman, the man that was to redeem the lost and the fallen estate, had to be kinfolks to the person that had lost the estate. That’s the reason Boaz had to be a… was a kinsman to Naomi, that he could get Ruth. And then, he had to be worthy. He had to be able to do it, to redeem the lost. And Boaz, at the gate, gave a public testimony, by kicking off his shoe, that he had redeemed Naomi and all of her possession. And he had to be kinfolks.

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« 179 † And that’s the reason that Christ, God, had to become kinfolks to us. And He come down and was a Man. And He suffered temptation. And He was laughed at, made fun of, and persecuted, and ignored, and called “Beelzebub,” and–and scoffed at, and suffered death under capital punishment. See? He had to be kinfolks to us. He had to be falsely accused, because you’re falsely accused. He had to bear sickness, because you’re sick. He had to bear sins, because it was your sins. And He had to become kinfolks. The only way He could redeem us was to be kinfolks to us. And how He become kinfolks, is by taking on the form of sinful flesh and becoming one of us. And in that, He paid the price and redeemed us back into the fellowship of the Father. Oh, what a Saviour! Words couldn’t express it.
For in that he himself hath suffered being subject,… and able to succour them that are tempted.

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« 180 † Succour means to “sympathize.” That, the reason He become this, that He might be sympathetic with you who are… have your ups and downs, and your little ins and outs, and your temptations get so great you can’t hardly stand it. He knows how to sympathize with you. He sets there, to make intercession. He sets there, to love you. And though you go astray, He won’t forsake you. He will still come after you and knock at your heart. There’s not a backslider in the building but what know that God knocks at his heart daily. And He will do it as long as you’re a mortal on this earth, for He’s loved you. He redeemed you.
181 Poets has tried, authors has tried, man has tried to express that theme of “love,” and it cannot be found in human expressions. One said:
Oh, love of God, how rich and pure!
How fathomless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure,
Saints and Angels song.
If we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made;
Every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade;
To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry;
Or could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.

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« 182 † You’ll never understand. There’s no way for us to understand how that that great sacrifice, that He did, came down and reconciled us back to God. Then He went back and said, “Now, I’ll not leave you comfortless. I’ll come again and be with you, even in you, to the end of the world.”
183 And here we are today, living in the end time, with the same Jesus, the same things, same signs, same wonders, same salvation, same Spirit doing the same things, same Gospel, same Word, same illustrations, same manifestation, everything. It behooves us not to neglect this great salvation, for we’ll have to give an account, someday, with what we do with the Son of God.

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« 184 † He’s on your hand tonight, sinner, backslider. What are you going to do with Him? You say, “Well, I’ll put It off.” But, remember, don’t you do that. There’s no way, at all, if you’re a sinner, that you can leave this building and be the same. You can’t do it.
185 Pilate, one night, tried to do it. He called for some water and he washed his hands. Said, “I ain’t got nothing to do with It. I just the same as never seen It. I never heard of the Gospel. I want nothing to do with It.” Could he wash It off of his hands? He couldn’t.
186 Finally, you know what happened to Pilate? He lost his mind. And way up in Switzerland, where we was at last year, preaching the Gospel. Now there’s an old legend that said, that, there’s a pool of water where people come from all over the world, to watch, every year, at the time of the crucifixion. Pilate, he plunged hisself to death, by committing suicide, jumping into this water and drowning himself. And every year, at that same day, blue water boils up out of that pool, to show that God rejected the water. Water can never wash the Blood of Jesus off of your hands or your soul. There’s only one way to do it, that’s accept It as your personal pardon and be reconciled to God.
Let us pray.

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« 187 † Heavenly Father, we thank Thee tonight for the Word. “For faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word.” We thank Thee for Jesus. And as we see this great day that we’re living in, how that signs and wonders, how we let these things slip by. God, open the eyes of the people in this tabernacle, tonight, that they might see and understand that we’re in the last hours. The time is fleeting. We haven’t got much longer to be here, and we’ll have to see Jesus. And we’ll have to be counted traitors, for there’s no excuse this morning. When you gave that great, mighty vision, of that man coming here, from way in the country yonder; and to see him, beyond a shadow of doubt, rise from that wheel chair, receive his sight. His legs become strong, down through the building, rejoicing and praising God. It shows that God is still able of these stones to rise children to Abraham. To see the visions, like Jesus said, “I do nothing till the Father shows Me. I can do nothing.”
188 The blind man followed Him, and said, “Have mercy on us.”
189 He said, touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith, be it unto you.”
190 Now, Lord, we see Jesus. We don’t see all things. We see we still take the sainted of us to the grave, and walk over each other’s grave. But we see Jesus, who made the promise. We see Him with us. Not Jesus in the grave, not Jesus two thousand years ago; but Jesus tonight, that’s with us. We see Him manifested in all of His power, and signs, and wonders.
191 God, may we never neglect this great Salvation. But may we embrace It, and accept It, and be reverent, and live by It until the day that Jesus comes to take us Home. Grant it, Lord. We ask it in His Name.

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« 192 † And while we have our heads bowed, I wonder if there’s a person in the building tonight, under the Divine Presence of the Holy Spirit, would say, “Brother Branham, I am convinced that I’m wrong. I’m convinced that I’m wrong. God has revealed to me my sins. And I know that I’m wrong. I’ll raise my hand to Him and ask for mercy, tonight. God, be merciful to me. I’m wrong.” Would you do that?
193 While we wait just a moment, if there’s a person here that wants to, there’s a baptizing going to take place just in a moment. And if you’re a sinner, I would repent. How can you reject such matchless love of One who died? The holy God of Heaven became a sinful Man; not because He sinned, but because He had your sins, and bare them there to Calvary. And you won’t accept that pardoning? Won’t you do it tonight? While we have our heads bowed, someone say, “Remember me, Brother Branham. I raise my hands to Christ, and say, ‘Be merciful to me. I, I am wrong, and I want to be reconciled to God.'” Would you raise your hand?
All right, if everyone is Christians, then, let us pray.

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« 194 † Father, we thank Thee tonight, that everyone in here are Christians, that they have witnessed the same by remaining silent, that their sins are all under the Blood. And I’m so grateful for that. Bless them, Lord. Oh, I’m so glad that they have found reconciliation through the offering of the Blood, by hearing the Word. The washing of the water, by the Word, It cleanses us. It brings us to greatest place, where–where the sinner, with his vile darkness, is made white as snow. The scarlet stains of sin has been washed away, and we are new creatures in Christ. How we thank that, Thee, for this.
Now the baptismal service comes up. I understand that this young lady, tonight, is to be baptized down here, in the Name of her Lord.
195 O Heavenly Father, we pray that You’ll bless this young woman. How my mind goes back to just a few days ago, coming up in Henryville and seeing that lovely little girl walking around there on the street. And tonight, she’s a mother, a lady. She’s accepted You as her personal Saviour. Life has been hard for the child, Lord, O God, but a Heaven is sure for her. And we thank Thee for that. We pray, God, that You’ll bless the young woman now. And as she comes to be baptized with water, may You fill her with the Holy Spirit of God. Grant it, Lord. May her soul be just so thrilled, into the Heavens! Grant it for Your glory. We ask it in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
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« 196 † I want to read from Acts, the 2nd chapter; Peter speaking, on the Day of Pentecost, the first baptism that was ever performed in the Christian Church. Peter, rebuking the Pharisees and the blind people, for not recognizing the Son of God; speaking of how that God had raised Him up, and proved His works, in great signs and wonders. Listen to this, as he spoke. He was exalting Jesus.
197 Every Christian’s spirit exalts Jesus, not only by your lips, but by your life. Your lips can say one thing, your life do another. If you do that, you know what it is? It’s hypocrisy. And I’d rather face Heaven as an infidel than a hypocrite. I’d take my chance better, I believe, in Heaven, as a–as an infidel, than to be a hypocrite. I certainly… If you testify for Jesus and say “He’s the Saviour,” you live like that, ’cause people is going to expect it out of you. That’s right. You live like a Christian ought to. We went through that this morning.

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« 198 † Now, Lord willing, tomorrow night, or… Wednesday night, we’re taking this 3rd chapter, which is a marvelous chapter. And now, be sure to try to come Wednesday night. How many is enjoying this Book, of this Sunday school teaching? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Oh, thank you very much. That’s fine.
199 Now, I want to read now from Acts, the 2nd chapter, beginning at the 32nd verse.
This Jesus has God raised up, whereof we… are witnesses. (They knew it.)
Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, He has shed forth this, which you now see and hear.
200 Now listen at him speak about David, one of the angels.
For David is not ascended into heaven: but he said himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
Until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
David couldn’t go up; he was under the shed blood of heifers, and goats, and sheep. But now he could raise; he was under the Blood of the Lord Jesus. For they only answer to that Blood when It would come in force. When the Blood of Christ come in force, all those who had died in good favor, rose, that’s right, and ascended in to Glory.
201 Now listen.
Therefore let all the house of Israel know… (Listen to this.)… that God has made this same Jesus, whom you… crucified, both Lord and Christ.
What about that? Is He a third Person of the trinity, or is He the entire trinity? He is the entire fullness of the Godhead, bodily.

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« 202 † There is no such a thing as three Gods: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. That’s not even in the Scripture, nowhere. Nowhere is it. Nowhere was we ever commanded to baptize, “In the name of the Father, and in the name of the Son, and name of the Holy Ghost,” not nowhere in the Scriptures. It’s a Catholic creed, and it’s not for the Protestant church. I’ll ask anybody to show me one Scripture where any person was ever baptized any other way than in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Come, show it to me, and I’ll put a sign on my back, “A hypocrite, and a false prophet, a false teacher,” and go through the streets. There’s no such a thing. Never was anybody baptized that way. It’s a Catholic creed, and not a Protestant doctrine.
203 “Matthew 28:19,” you say, “Jesus said, ‘Go ye therefore in all the world, teach all nations, baptize them in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.'” That’s correct.
But not, “In the name of the Father, name of the Son, name of the Holy Ghost.” The Name of the Father, the Name (not names), of the Father…
Father is not a name. How many knows that? How many fathers is there here? Raise your hands. How many sons is here? Raise their hand. How many humans is here? Raise your hands. All right. Now, what’s your name? Not father, son, nor human.

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« 204 † A woman said to me one time, who was a strict tritheist, she said, “Brother Branham, but the Holy Ghost is a name.”
205 I said, “Holy Ghost is not a name. The Holy Ghost is what It is. It is the Holy Ghost.” Not a name; that’s what It is. I’m a human, but my name is not human. My name is William Branham. So, if He said, “Go ye therefore, teach all nations, baptize them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.”

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« 206 † Then Peter, ten days later, said, “Repent!” Now, here, listen at this.
And when they heard this, they were pricked at their heart, and said unto Peter and… the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
207 Then did Peter do what Jesus told him not to do? He wasn’t confused. We’re the ones confused.
208 On Acts 2:38, the Jews were baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, by immersing.
In Acts, the 8th chapter, we find out that Philip went down and preached to the Samaritans, and baptized them in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Samaritans.
In Acts 10:49, Peter commanded the Gentiles to be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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« 209 † Paul, Acts 10:5, “He passed through the upper coast of Ephesus, he finds disciples.” They were a Baptist disciples; was, every one, Baptists. They were converted under a Baptist preacher by the name of–of, see, Apollos. And he was a Baptist preacher, “And was proving by the Bible that Jesus was the Christ.”
Paul said, “Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?”
210 They said, “We know not whether there be any Holy Ghost.”
211 Said, “Then how was you baptized?”
212 They said, “We been baptized by the same man that baptized Jesus, the hole of water out there. That’s good enough.”
213 Paul said, “That won’t work now. You have to be baptized, over again.” And Paul commanded them to be baptized, over again, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Laid his hands on them, and the Holy Ghost come on them. Correct. Yes, sir.
It’ll be Light in the evening time,
The path of Glory you shall surely find;
In the water way, that’s the Light today,
Buried in the precious Name of Jesus.
Young and old, repent of all your sins,
The Holy Ghost will surely enter in;
The evening Light has come,
It is the facts that God and Christ are One.
214 That’s what the Bible said. That’s right. It’s the hour. It’s a time that we should repent.
215 Tell, holler when you’re ready, in the pool. And we’ll… [A brother says, “We’re ready.”–Ed.] You’re ready? All right, to pull the curtains.
216 Now, the Lord bless you now, as the brother ministers the baptism. Can you all see here? [Brother Orman Neville baptizes believers–Ed.] `

–Rev. William Marrion Branham
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« 1 † ` Was here in the class and enjoyed the… [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.] And now the first Book of Hebrews, is Paul, we found, or we believe. The theologians are at end; they don’t know just which, or who wrote It. But, I believe, anyone with a little spiritual discernment would see it was Paul. It’s–it’s believed, by the most of the writers, to be Paul. And how that he…

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« 2 † In the 1st chapter, we found that it was exalting the Lord Jesus. Oh, how he brought down, to show by the–by the experience that he had had on his road to Damascus. Now, Paul was, to begin with, a real theologian. Paul was taught under Gamaliel, one of the best teachers of that day. And he was smart and intelligent, and was a real shrewd Bible scholar.
3 And I found this, when he was on his road down to Damascus, with letters in his pocket, to arrest all those that were in the blessed old Gospel way, and the man was sincere. But, I’ve always believed that since Paul seen Stephen die, I think that must have got right next to him. When he consented to Stephen’s death, and held the coats of those who stoned him, then Paul was guilty of the blood of Stephen. And he confessed, and said, “I’m not even worthy,” said, “because I shed the blood of His–of His, the martyr, Stephen. Cause, he witnessed to it.

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« 4 † And if you witness to anything, you’re just as guilty as being a partaker of it. So if we witness, say, “Oh, yes, they oughtn’t to have done this, this so-and-so.” Be careful what you say, because you’re guilty the way your judgment goes. If you can’t decide, don’t say nothing, just leave it alone. Then when you testify that you are a Christian, then you’re guilty. See? You’re guilty of being a Christian, and you must live to that. And when God makes a–a promise in the Bible… I see a man here in a wheel chair. When God makes a Promise, He’s guilty of that Promise unless He brings It to pass. God is guilty when He makes a Promise. And the Scriptures are guilty until they are fulfilled. See? They’re–they’re right there as a–as a statement that God has made. And It’s got to be fulfilled or God is guilty. See?

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« 5 † And so Paul, being a teacher, and coming on his road down to Damascus that day, about, long about noontime, I suppose. There was a great Light shined out of the Heavens, and It blinded him, and he–he fell to the earth. And he said he wanted to know Who it was. He said a voice spoke, and said, “Saul, Saul, why persecuteth thou Me?” I believe the 8th chapter of Acts.
He said, “Who is It that I persecute?”
6 And the Voice came back, and said, “I’m Jesus.” Oh! “I am Jesus, and it’s hard for you to kick against the pricks.” And what was Jesus then? Jesus, He was the Light, just a big Light shining bright.

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« 7 † Now to encourage us and get a basis here. How was He a Light, when He was a Man? Now, no one…
There was a bunch of soldiers with Paul, temple guards, going down to put under arrest. Paul was the chief captain. And they were going down to arrest those people, for their campaigns and so forth, and for their religious hope that laid within them.

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« 8 † But, now, here was Jesus as a big Light. Now, if you remember, in the beginning, Jesus was a Light. Jesus was the Logos that went out of God. And He was the… He was the Angel of the Covenant that led the children of Israel through the wilderness. And He was the Pillar of Fire that they looked at. And He was… And when He was here on earth, He said, “I came from God, and I go back to God.” So if He came from a Pillar of Fire, into a Man, then if He went back to where He was, He went back to a Light again. And there He was when Paul saw Him, He was a Light.
9 Now, all those soldiers that was with Paul did not see the Light. Then is it possible that one can see It and the others won’t see It? Certainly. All right. He, Paul, saw It, but the rest of them did not see the Light.

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« 10 † Now, when Peter was in prison, we find out this Light came in the jail, opened up the doors. And he was… That Light blinded the rest of the guards, as they walked out, Peter going. And when he got to the door, it just opened itself, quietly, closed behind him. From the inner jail, he went to the outer door. It opened by its own self, closed quietly. And then he went to the gap, went out into the city street. And he rubbed his eyes, as if to say, “Was I dreaming?” He didn’t know what had happened. But, the Angel of the Lord, the same Angel that was the Pillar of Fire that walked Moses to the sea and spread her forth, oh, and the Dead Sea… the Red Sea walled up on both sides, and Israel passed over.
11 And when they come to the swelling Jordan, He did not make Hisself visible there. But He was there, ’cause He just opened it up. And they went across in April, when the plains are all full of the water. And He stayed the spring, and He stayed the snow from melting, ’cause it didn’t wall higher and higher; it just stopped. That’s our Jehovah. That’s our Lord Jesus. Just stopped; and they walked across on dry land.

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« 12 † Now, God promised that He would take care of them, so He was obligated to His Promise. Now, Paul, aware of these things, and knowing them, he was privileged, because God was speaking directly to Paul. He wasn’t speaking to the soldiers that was with him. He was only speaking to Paul.
13 Now, when the–when the Angel of the Lord came down, in the form of a star; and the stargazers, the wise men of India, when, they saw that Star and followed It for hundreds of miles. And It went over every observatory, ’cause they kept the time by the stars. And no one saw that Star but the wise men. Oh, my! Doesn’t that thrill you? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]

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« 14 † Then, you see, God doesn’t deal with organizations. He doesn’t deal with groups of people. He deals with individuals. He reveals Himself to individuals. And now–now to say this, not this… God knows my heart. And not to say this for own person, personal praise, now; just to be there. But, did you know, that same God, that same Jesus, is with us this morning? Do you know, each one of you has a little, individual witness of it right now, that He’s here? And is… He’s done something for us in this day that He didn’t do in the other days; He had His Picture taken in this day. We got It hanging right there. See? The Pillar of Fire, the same Lord Jesus.
15 Watch how He works now. If He’s the same Lord Jesus, He will do the same things, for the Bible said, “He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”

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« 16 † Now, before Paul would announce anything, whether this was right or wrong, he first went down into Egypt and spent three years, to find out if it was Scriptural or not. Did you ever know that? After Paul’s conversion, he went to Egypt for three years. There he abode, and there is where he learned this great wisdom.
17 Now, not in any comparison at all, I’m just giving you how the Holy Spirit still remains the same. Now, my church here remembers, years ago, when this Angel would appear and would show things. I was a little skeptic of It. All of you know that, you old-timers. If you… If that’s right, raise up your hand, when you’ve heard. Yeah. Look, look at the church, yet, from the old-timers. See? I was skeptic, because preachers told me It was of the Devil. And I kind of believed it, but I waited. I wouldn’t say nothing about It.

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« 18 † But, oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord! One night, yonder, He come down, an Angel, and revealed It in the Scriptures, that He was. And when I seen It in the Scriptures, then to blast across the world with It, the Message.
19 From there has went Oral Roberts, A. A. Allen, Tommy Osborne, Tommy Hicks, and what more. See? It’s a Message to the people.
20 And Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is Scripturally, He’s the same. He does the same. He is the Same. And He works the same. He manifests Hisself the same. And He’s here, this morning, the same. Now we may see Him; we may not. Whatever it is, we got a witness right now that He’s here.

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« 21 † Now, we find now that, Paul, upon this experience, and writing these letters, most of them, from jail, he had compared the Old and New Testament. Now remember, the last writer of this Bible, by inspiration, God came down and told him, “If any man shall add anything to It or take anything away from It, the same will be taken out of the part of the Book of Life, for him.” So we’d be daresn’t to add one thing to It. Oh, It must stay as It is, mustn’t be anything added to It. And we must contend for everything that’s in It. I don’t want any more, and I don’t want any less. I want just what It says.

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« 22 † Now, this Book of Hebrews, the reason I’ve chose It; one purpose, one thing; this letter, “Dear Brother Branham,” and so forth. And, I–I, we want to stay with the Word.

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« 23 † Now, the 1st chapter, was exalting of Jesus, so He’s the main One. And Paul let us know, the other night, that He was in the great beginning. And we found out that He was nothing less than “Melchisedec, the King of Salem,” the Great of the 7th chapter.
24 And now, this morning, we approach Him from another, another standpoint, from the 2nd chapter. Now, after Paul giving us this great, marvelous Message, of exalting Jesus, “And even made the Angels to worship Him.” And I think, over here, like the order types old, “And He will fold it as a vesture, but they shall perish, but Thou remaineth.”

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« 25 † And over in the 2nd chapter, the 2nd verse, I believe it is, “Has He these days spoken to us by His Son.” And, look, “Sundry times and divers manner He spoke by the prophets.” We went through and found out what the prophets was, and how God brought His Message by the prophets. “But in this last day He’s spoken through His Son, Jesus, by the Holy Spirit. He spoke through the prophets, then.” Then we got back and found out, all those prophets had the Spirit of Christ in them.
26 We went back to Joseph and found out he perfectly typed Christ. Went back to Moses and found he perfectly typed Christ. Then we come down then to even David. And when David was rejected in Jerusalem, not knowing why, but went up over the hill and looked back on the Mount of Olives, and wept over Jerusalem because he was rejected. Eight hundred years from then, the Son of David was rejected as King, in Jerusalem, and set on the same hill and wept. Oh, the Spirit of Christ, dealing with individuals!

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« 27 † Now, Paul starts off, to say:
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard,…
28 2nd chapter, now, we’re starting.
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest… any time we should let them slip.
29 Oh, may God drive that home in this tabernacle this morning. I pray the Holy Spirit will sink that so deep into your hearts. “We ought to give the most earnest heed to the things which we’ve heard.” What type of people ought we to be, when we see the great Jehovah come down and do the things that He does, and see them compared, Scripture by Scripture, that they’re the Truth? And we sit around sometimes like a warts on a log, and just so unconcerned. We ought to be busy, every minute, trying to get people to Christ. We ought to be lively stones. We should never be slothful like we are. We’ll go up to church, and we’ll see the Lord Jesus do something, or–or bless us in such a way, and then we’ll–we’ll go back out and say, “Very nice meeting.”

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« 30 † Now, the preaching of the Word, we enjoy it, but that’s not the main thing. That’s not. We should not worship the Lord just after we get through preaching the Word, as we usually do, just worship Him. That’s wonderful. But we should worship Him every hour of our life. When we’re at work, we should worship Him. Every time the opportunity presents itself, worship the Lord by testifying of Him.
If you see, some of you ladies, see a woman in the wrong, worship the Lord by taking her and saying, “Sister, there’s a better life than this.”
31 You men at your work, when you hear a man using the Name of the Lord in vain, get a chance to one side and slip over, and take him by the hand, and say, “You, there’s a better life than this. You shouldn’t use those words.” And tell him in a meek, gentle way. All those things is a worship.
And when we see someone sick, and the doctor says there’s no more can be done, we ought to worship the Lord by telling them, “There’s a God of Heaven that answers prayer.”

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« 32 † And then when we see those things take place, that we do see take place enough, we should never let these things slip. We just let it go through our fingers. That’s what’s the matter with the great Pentecostal church today. They’ve let the very cream of the crop slip through their fingers, when they had it in their hands. But, look what they done, they done like the rest the churches. “They’ve run in the gain, in the way of Korah, and perished; and the way of Cain, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.”
33 They’ve organized. Instead of having a brotherhood where we could all be one, they’ve organized themselves. Made little organizations and little isms, and sprung up from there and just broke up brotherhood. And if you don’t watch, the Baptist and Presbyterians going to pick it up, ’cause, “God is able of these stones to rise children to Abraham.” And we’ve–we’ve let it slip away from the hands by being disunified.

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« 34 † How did the Indians lose this country to the white man? Is because they were disunified. If they had made one big forefront… But they were fighting one among each other. They would have held their grounds if they’d have all come together.
35 How are we going to lose it? Because we’re disunified. How we lose our experience with God, is because we disunify. We set up one, and call this the–the Methodist, and this the Baptist, and this the Assemblies, and this the Oneness, and this the something-else, and the church of God, and the Nazarene, the Pilgrim Holiness. We disunify the Body of Christ. We should never be divided. We might differ in ideas, but let’s be heart-in-heart brothers. God wants us to be. He died for the entire Church of God. And we do not want to be disunified.
Now we ought to give the most earnest heed… lest any time we should let them slip.
For if the word spoken by angels were stedfast,…

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« 36 † You hear It? “If the word spoken by the angels…” Now, angel is the “messenger.” The word angel means the “messenger.” And just got through, in the 1st book here, “God, in sundry times and divers manner, spoke to the fathers by the prophets.” That was God’s messengers. And they were–they were God’s messengers. They were God’s angels. A messenger is an angel; or an angel is the messenger, rather.

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« 37 † A messenger! You are a messenger, this morning. You’re… You are a messenger of good news or a messenger of bad news. Oh, isn’t it beautiful, to know that we are ambassadors, that we are angels, the messengers of the resurrection? And we are God’s messengers to the sinful world, that Christ lives. In our hearts, He lives. In our spirits, He lives. And He brings us from the low debauched life of sin, and exalts us up, and gives us a “hallelujah” in our soul, and makes us new creatures. We are messengers, angels of the Covenant. How wonderful!

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« 38 † And now, in the Old Testament, “If–if the word spoken by angels were steadfast,” that way it had to be right. In the Old Testament, before a prophet’s word could be made manifest, it had to be examined and proved. They wasn’t loose with it, like we are today.
39 Just go out and have any kind of a sensation, or anything else, “Oh, glory to God, that’s it!” You’re mistaken.
The Bible said, that, “In the last days, the Devil will impersonate Christianity, so close, till it’ll deceive the very Elected if possible.” That’s right. So, we must test it.
40 And how did they test it in their day? To the Urim Thummim. The breastplate of Aaron, that had those stones in it: carbuncle, jasper, diamond, ruby, sapphire. All those stones, that represent the birth of these twelve patriarchs, was in the breastplate of Aaron. And when a prophet prophesied, and that sacred Light flashed over it, God said, “That is the Truth.” But, no matter how real it seemed, if it didn’t flash on that, it wasn’t the Truth. So, that Urim Thummim went with that priesthood.
41 But this Bible is God’s Urim Thummim today. And when a prophet prophesies, it must absolutely flash with the Bible. Then, God says, then He comes down and proves It.

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« 42 † Oh, how I can glorify God today! I’m thinking back of another Sunday morning, about like this, when I was leaving the tabernacle. And you people were weeping and asking me not to go. But, when, I preached on David and Goliath, and how you going to face that cold, indifferent world that says the days of miracles is past.
43 I said, “There’s one big giant, and as soon as we can slay him, the rest of them will take courage.” And the Lord granted that. And then there was an Oral Roberts and a Jaggers, and so forth, pulled the Sword, and we fought the enemy out of the land, shut their mouths. They can’t say that miracles don’t happen, ’cause here they are. Sure. God’s Word is Eternal. It flashed on the Urim. Flashed on the Word, that’s His Urim Thummim. And when it flashed on That, it was positive.
And to anybody that’s needy, if you’re a sinner, you want to know how to get saved, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.”

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« 44 † Today, we got so many things you have to do. “Have to turn new pages. You have to do this and do that, in order to get saved.”
I think of the Philippian jailer, when this jailer asked Paul, “What must I do to be saved?”
It’d been you or I, we’d have told him the things he ought not to do. “You ought to quit drinking. You ought to quit your gambling, your gambling. “You ought to quit this. You ought to quit that.”
Paul never told him that. He just told him the things he ought to do. “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shall be saved.”
45 Now, “He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me has everlasting Life.” That’s the Urim Thummim flashing, Saint John 5:24. “I’m the Lord that heals all thy diseases.” James 5:14, “Call the elders, anoint in oil, prayer of faith shall save the sick.” The Urim flashing. See? That’s God’s Eternal Word.
46 I don’t care how many atheotic, infidelic, agnostics, skeptics rise up. God will stand by His Word. He promised He would do it.

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« 47 † “And we ought to give the more earnest heed to these things which we’ve heard, lest any time we let them slip. For if the word spoken by angels (the prophets) were steadfast…” Were they? We could spend a week on this.
48 Was it steadfast when Moses spoke? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] It sure was.
How about Elijah, setting up on top of the mountain? The Lord told him, “Get up there, Elijah. I’ll stay there with you; want some fellowship.” God likes to fellowship with His people. But we won’t stand still long enough for Him to fellowship with us. We’re so busy skipping about, from place to place, and so much. “Set still, Elijah.” He wanted three years and six months of fellowship. We can’t give Him three minutes, hardly. Three years and six months of constant fellowship. Oh, I love that! Said, “Don’t worry about the cooking; we’ll have that already fixed up. The crows is going to feed you. And everything is going to be all right. I just want some fellowship.” This old prophet, Elijah, setting up there on top the mountain.
While he was fellowshipping with God, why, the captain said, “I believe I’ll go up and get him.” Now, don’t you never try to break that fellowship.

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« 49 † So, the captain come up, with his great army of men, of fifty. And he said, “I–I–I come to take you, Elijah.”
50 And Elijah stood up. Watch out, here’s the prophet of the Lord! He said, “If I be a servant of the Lord, let fire come from heaven and devour you.” And down come the fire. The captain said…
51 “Oh, you know what?” The king, rather, said, “That was probably a–a thunderbolt, just some lightning just passing over, and it struck them. I’ll send another fifty.”
52 Elijah stood up, one of the angels. His word is steadfast. He had to be a just recompense for everything that was done wrong. He said, “If I be a servant of the Lord, let fire come.” And the second fifty burned. All right. Every recompense!
For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedient received a just recompense…

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« 53 † Now, here is the great thing, the next verse.
How shall we escape,…
54 “How shall we escape?” If Elijah’s voice brought destruction, because he was an angel of the Lord, how will we escape when the Voice of Christ speaking through? Or, how can we fail when you’re prayed for, if It’s the Voice of Christ? If Christ ordained His Church to pray for the sick, and the Church does what He says He… for them to do, then how can It ever fail? It can’t. You can fail, but It can’t fail. And as long as you keep It, It’ll take you through.

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« 55 † If you fail, you failed by yourself. You just get away from the Word. But as long as you stay with the Word, It can’t fail. For the word of the prophets did so-and-so, how much more will the Word of Christ be?
How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which is at the first begin to be spoken unto us by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
56 Think of It, spoken by the Lord. How many times could we go back? Where could we stop, right here for a hour? When Jesus came, He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever.
57 Now, remember, first begin to be spoken by Jesus, Himself, and then was confirmed by the ones that heard Him. Now listen at Him.

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« 58 † When He came to the earth, He didn’t claim to be a healer. He said, “It’s not Me that doeth the works; It’s My Father that dwelleth in Me. He doeth the works. The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing,” Saint John 5:19.
59 Watch when Philip came to Him. Nathaniel… After Philip’s conversion, he went over and got Nathaniel. Said, “Come, see Who we found: Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph.”
60 And he said, “Could there be any good thing come from Nazareth?”
61 Said, “Come, see.” That’s the way to be convinced: prove It. Come and see. Oh, that’s the best I ever heard. Come and find out for yourself. Don’t stand out and criticize on the side line, But, “Prove all things, and hold fast to that what’s good. Come and see.
62 Along the road they went, talking. When he walked up in the presence of the Lord Jesus, He said, “Behold an Israelite in whom there’s no guile.”
63 It took all the skin off of him, nearly. He looked around, said, “Well, Rabbi, when did You ever know me? You never did see me. How do You know me?” Philip said…
64 “Before, when he call…” Said, “Before Philip called you, yesterday, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” Amen.
65 He said, “Thou art the Son of God. You’re the King of Israel.”

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« 66 † A woman walked into His Presence, and He said, “Go, get your husband.”
She said, “I have none.”
67 Said, “That’s right. You got five, and the one you’re now living with is not yours. You told the truth.” Think of it.
68 She said, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. That, we know that when the Messiah cometh He will tell us all things.”
69 He said, “I am He, that speaks to you.”
70 And she run and told the men of the city, “Come, see a Man Who told me all that I did. Isn’t this the Messiah?” It was spoken by the Lord.

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« 71 † What happened? Jesus said, before He left, “The things that I do, shall you also.” That right? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] “The things that I do shall you do also, even more than this, for I go to the Father.” Oh, I can see them as they went forth, everywhere. Mark 16, “Went forth everywhere, preaching; the Lord working with them, confirming the Word.”
And here, Paul, giving the same thing. He said that the–the Gospel begin to be preached by Jesus, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him. That’s the Foundation Stone. Oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord! That’s the Foundation Stone.
72 And to think, two thousand years has passed. Athiests has raised, and infidels, and skeptics, and agnostics. But, today, that same Jesus confirms His Word in the same manner by those who hear Him. “Hear Him,” don’t mean just to hear a sermon. That mean, hear Him. Yes.

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« 73 † How shall we escape? Where is our escape? Oh, you say, “Bless God, I belong to the Methodist church. I’m a Presbyterian. I’m a Pentecostal.” That doesn’t have one thing to do with It. And you get on a side-line and want to call It “spiritualism, or some mental telepathy, or some devil,” or something. Shame on them!

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« 74 † “If every word was steadfast by the angels…” Jesus said, “It’s not… Little while, and the world won’t see Me no more. Yet, ye shall see Me, for I’ll be with you, even in you, to the end of the age.” And when we see Him come down, to continue to confirm His Word, how shall we escape if we sucker to some church, or some organization, or denomination, or some little pet theory of our own? You better turn loose. “For every sin received a just recompense under the angels, how much more when the Son of God is speaking from the Heavens, to make manifest His Word! How shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation?” Oh, my! “God also…”
4th verse:
God also bearing them witness,…

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« 75 † Watch this. The Lord bore witnesses. Oh, I am so happy for that! The Lord bore the witness.
76 Look. When Elijah set on the hill, and he said, “If I be a man of God, let the fire fall from Heaven and consume you.” God bore witness that he was a man of God.
God always bears witness. Your life will bear witness. I don’t know what your testimony is, but your life speaks so loud, your voice can’t be heard. But, your–your living, your every-day life will testify what you are. God bears witness. Yes. The Holy Spirit is a seal, and a seal takes both sides of the paper. They see you standing here and see you when you go away. Not only in church but at every-day work. You’re sealed on both sides, inside and outside. By the joy that you have, and by the life that you live, you’re sealed, in and outside, that you know you’re saved and the world knows you’re saved, by the life that you live, for God bears witness. Blessed be His Holy Name! My, I feel religious!

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« 77 † Think of it, brethren, there. Oh! “My sheep hear My Voice, and a stranger they won’t follow.” Oh, how that our names are on the palms of His hands! It’s before Him, day and night. His Word is always before Him, His Promise. He can’t forget it. And He loves you.
78 Now, He will bear witness of His own. You don’t open your mouth and say a word, the world will know something has happened to you.
… bear witness, both by signs and wonders, and by divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?

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« 79 † Let us take just one Scripture now before closing; on the Day of Pentecost, when they received the Holy Spirit. About four days later, Peter had passed through the gate called Beautiful; he and John. They said, “Look on us,” to a man. And he said, “Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have I’ll give you. In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” And the man looked up and never questioned nothing about it. He just stood up and went walking. They were ignorant and unlearned men. But the Bible said, “They had to take heed to them, for they knew they had been with Jesus.”
80 Brother, when the world knows that you’ve been with Jesus, when you can live such an unadulterated life in this present world and in this darkness, that the world knows and can see that you’ve been with Jesus; when a rugged, old vulgar prostitute of the street can become a lady, washed in the Blood of the Lamb; God is bearing witness that He lives.
81 Take a drunkard, who is so low-down that he would run around on his wife, that he would mistreat his children, and take the food from the table, to spend on a prostitute. Let him get with Jesus once. You’ll see him returning, like Legion, who was in his right mind and clothed, to his babies and to his wife and to his loved ones. Certainly.

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« 82 † Some time ago, about forty years ago, when the religions of the world met, and the different ones got up and spoke. And the Mohammedan spoke for the Mohammedan religion. The Jains spoke for the Jains; the Buddhist for the Buddha. And the little doctor, I forget what his last name was, just at this time. I did know his name, but I have forgotten it. He spoke to represent Christianity. And he told the story of Lady Maccabee of Oklahoma, in America.
She was so ornery and so low-down, till even when they went to kill her, they wouldn’t even put their hands on her, she was so vulgar and vile. They had her arrested on a charge: smoking a cigar; driving a stagecoach; and broke the–the–the laws, the records in Oklahoma, when she passed through the street, driving four head of horses. And she was so vile and so dirty until society wouldn’t even get around where she was at; so much, till when the executors was going to execute her, they wouldn’t hang her. They just poured tar and feathers on her, to kill her.
And when this little preacher give her story, in such a way, till he had the people setting on the end of their seats, listening what would be next. When he got down to that: very vile, dirty, low-down, till the laws wouldn’t even want to fool with her, she was so low. The very Devil in hell would reject such a person, nearly, the way he told the story. Then he said, “Gentlemen, of the religions of the world, has your religion got anything that would clean the hands of Lady Maccabee?”
83 Everybody set still. Then he clapped his hands together, and jumped up in the air. He said, “Glory be to God! The Blood of Jesus Christ won’t only clean her hands, but It’ll clean her heart and make her His Bride.” Tell you:
Amazing grace! how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now I’m found,
I was blind, but now I see.
It’s grace that taught my heart to fear,
It was grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed!

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« 84 † Certainly. “How shall we escape, if we neglect such?” You neglect to eat, you’ll die. You neglect to turn a corner, you’ll wreck. You neglect to milk the cow, she’ll go dry. You neglect your teeth, you’ll have to have them all pulled out. Certainly. You pay for your neglection.
85 O Branham Tabernacle and you visitors, let me tell you something now. You neglect to testify of the glory of God, you neglect to give God the praise and glory, you’ll find yourself cold, formal, and backslidden, one of these days. You give God praise. “How shall we escape, if we neglect such a great salvation?”

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« 86 † Getting late. I just happened to notice, Brother Toms had walked in back there. We’ll close and continue this tonight, the Lord willing.
Let us pray just a moment.
87 Our Heavenly Father, to Thee be blessings, and praises, and honor, and glory, and wisdom, and might, and power, for ever and ever. Oh, to that Lamb that set on the Throne, dominions and kingdoms and everything was given over to His hand. When He raised from the dead, for our justification, He screamed to the world, “All power in the Heaven and earth is give into My hand. Go ye, therefore, into all the world and preach the Gospel.”
O dear dying Lamb, Thy precious Blood
Shall never lose Its power,
Till all the ransomed Church of God
Be saved, to sin no more.

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« 88 † Help us, as ministers, to seeing that we are requiring so much; how we must have a church, we must have this, we must have everything.
89 Our women, before going to church, is yet calling themselves Christians, will have to have a certain kind of a dress, or have to be dressed so daubly.
And preachers will have to have so much money before they’ll come, and everything has to be so-and-so.
90 O Christ, when I read here, “How they wandered about, in sheepskins and goatskins, lived in the dens of the earth, and caves.” They wandered about, under vile persecution, and, yet, obtained the Faith, under the ministry of angels. How will we escape, when the Lord Jesus has give us fine homes, and cars, and clothes, and food? And we murmur. We set around. We’re lazy. We never try to get out and do something about it. How will we escape, God?
91 Oh, I pray that You’ll burn old-fashioned conviction into every heart, this morning, Lord, that the people might be up and at it. Let us work while the daylight is shining, because the sun is swiftly sinking. And civilization is going, and there’ll be no more time. It’ll blend into Eternity.
92 O God, grant today that we go with fresh vision, with wisdom, with understanding, to know how to approach sinners and bring them to Christ. Hear the prayer of Your servant, Lord.

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« 93 † I ask, if there be any here, that doesn’t know Christ as their Saviour, would you raise your hand and say, “Remember me, Brother Branham”? Would you just raise your hand, say, “Remember me. I want to be a Christian. I don’t want to neglect it any longer”? God bless you, back there, sir. Someone else? Say, “I want to raise my hand, Brother Branham. And I want to accept Christ, as my Saviour, I’ve neglected, all the time. Oh, I go to church, sure, I belong to church.” `

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« 1 † ` And to give a–a little… I think there’s nothing better, to me, than just the Word. “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing the Word of God.”
2 On Wednesdays, and maybe on Sundays, one of the services of Sunday, giving the pastor just a little rest, which he’s very deserving of it, and thought maybe we’d just take a Book in the Bible. We used to do that, and sometimes stay a year on it.
3 I remember one time we stayed a solid year on the Book of Revelation. But, oh, my, the things that we learned, and how wonderful it was! Then we went back and got the Book of Daniel, or the Book of Genesis, or Exodus, and just take it, chapter by chapter, and it just tied the entire Bible together. Oh, I just love that!

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« 4 † Little later on, we’ll have to get the… If the Lord continues to bless and we go on, we’ll get into some real deep things in here, real deep. And we’ll just go from place to place, through the Scripture, with it.
5 And I like to make Scripture compare with Scripture. That’s the way it must be. It’s just one great beautiful picture. And in this Book that we’re studying, we’re going to get in, oh, salvation, and Divine healing, and miracles, and mercies. And, oh, everything comes in here.
6 And maybe when I get to a place where I have to get to the meetings… I never know just when I’m going to be to a meeting, called to a meeting, because I don’t have anything set until I just feel led to do a certain thing. And that may be before in the morning, I may fly to California, up to Maine or somewhere, just where He would call me. That’s the reason I don’t set great, long itineraries, because I can’t do that. My ministry is not cut out that way, and it’s just different.

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« 7 † And now I come home just for a little rest. I lost twenty pounds, in this last meeting. And Brother Mercier and Brother Goad was up, a while ago, and said, “Brother Branham, I notice what you do. You put your whole heart into it.”
8 I said, “That’s the only way you can do a right kind of a job for the Lord, is put everything you got right to the forefront for Christ; all your strength, all your soul, all your heart, all your mind, everything that you got.” When you’re doing anything, do it right or don’t do it at all, see, just leave it alone. You’re going to be a Christian, put everything that you’ve got to Christ, that’s, your time, your talent, your every thing.
9 I just noticing this young fellow. That’s your wife, Brother Burns, is it, that playing and singing there, that young couple. And–and it isn’t a piano, neither is it an organ, but it’s some kind of instrument, they make a strum it and pick it, and do something for the Lord. If you could do that, and sing, that’s, win souls. Do something, no matter. If you–you can whistle, well, whistle. Just do something. Just testify or do something for the Kingdom of God. Whatever you got, put it to the use in God’s service.

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« 10 † Now, we’re not going to try to stay very long, because I know you work. You got to get up early. And I’m going squirrel hunting every morning. I’ll just tell you the truth. That’s what I’m doing. That’s what I come home for, is to rest a little. And so I’m getting up, about four o’clock, and going out in the woods and, well, hunt little bit and go to sleep. And I’m gaining some of that weight back, so I’ll get rested up, after while, if you… the Lord willing. And everything is fine.
11 All right, now, we’re going to turn in your Bibles. I want you to bring your Bibles each night, that you… as you can. If somebody lacks a few, would somebody want to follow along with the readings, we got some here, we’d have the… some of the ushers to pass them out. Anybody want one? Well, just raise your hand.

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« 12 † Wonder if Brother… Doc, come here and get these Bibles. You’re standing close there, and Brother Burns. Is that right, Burns? I heard him say… [The brother says, “Conrad.”–Ed.] What? [“Conrad.”] Conrad. I called him… I’m getting kind of hard of hearing, maybe, Brother Neville. How did I ever get the name of Burns? I know the man’s face, and I just can’t, couldn’t call his name.
13 And you know, as you get a little older, I find out one thing, it’s harder for me to read this Bible. And I just hate to think of having to wear glasses, to read the Bible.
14 But, here not long ago, I thought I was going blind. And I went over to see Sam. And Sam said, “Bill, I don’t know.” Said, “I’ll just get you an appointment with some specialist.”

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« 15 † I went to Louisville. It must have been the will of the Lord. Some famous specialist; I forget his name now. But he had read my book. And he said, “If you ever go back to Africa, I want to go with you.” He said, “And if you… Them African people love you.” And said, “They’re very superstitious, especially with a knife, to go to cutting. So,” said, “I want to give six months of my life, for operations of cataracts and things, to the… in mission.” And said, “If we could go together, and you could win favor of them, like that.” Said, “Then if they had cataracts and eye works,” said, “I’d just love to give it, free of charge, six months of it.” And I forget how long you have to wait for an appointment with him.
16 And we was setting in a little room and it had a little–little red light come on, back there in the dark room. Why, I could read them letters. It said twenty-twenty. I could read it either way. And he snapped it on fifteen-fifteen, and I could read it. And put it on ten-ten, and I could read it. He said, “Well, there’s not much wrong with your eyes.”

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« 17 † So he had a little telescope. He put a little gadget back there, a little thing, you know. Them old telescopes, how many ever remember them? We used to look through them, look at pictures, just like that. And he said, “Can you read that?”
I said, “Yes, sir.”
He said, “Read it for me.”
18 It had a, oh, a whole paragraph, about like that. I started, read it; he started pulling it up, like that, getting slower and slower. He got about like this, I stopped. He said, “I can tell you one thing, you’re past forty.”
I said, “Yep, that’s right, a long ways past it.”
19 He said, “How have you done it?” He said, “The human eye, naturally, when you get forty years old, like your hair gets gray, and so forth, the eyeball gets flat.” Said, “Now, if you live long enough, that’ll come back again.” He said, “That second sight, they call it. But,” said, “a human being, about forty years old, they’ll actually…” Said, “There is nothing wrong with their eyes.”
20 I can–I can see a hair if it was laying on the floor, get it off from me. But get close to me… And he said, “Now, you read your Bible,” said, “You push it away from you.” Said, “After while, your arm is not going to be long enough, till you can’t–can’t get it out there far enough to get a hold of it.”

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« 21 † And so he made me a pair of glasses, and the bottom part you can, it’s for reading. He said, “Now, in your pulpit…” He thought I was one of these here dignified preachers, you know. And so said that the… you… The top part is just regular window glass, just regular glass. And the bottom part has got some kind of a grind in it, that I can read it close, you know, like that. So I just hate to put them on; I do.
22 And now, in Bible teaching, and I’ve got the New Testament tonight. So it’s… I got a Collins New Testament. It’s got good-sized print. But now, when I get back in the other one, I–I may have to go to them old buddies, and–and kind of read through them. But whatever it is, I–I’m glad that I got something I–I can still read. And–and–and whatever I got, I’m going to give everybody everything I can, to the glory of God, hope that He will take that age sign away. I can’t ask Him to take my age away. I… You know, that’s just one thing we all got to do. We got to go through that. And I know I’m not a little boy like I used to be, standing here on the platform. I’m forty-eight years old. And just think, two more years, will be fifty years old, Brother Mike.
23 My, can’t hardly believe it! I just… I never knew that I was past twenty till about two years ago. That’s right. That’s right. I just… I couldn’t believe it. And yet I–I… It’s hard for me to believe till looked in the glass, and then I–I know it is, then. But–but just to be looking, I just feel just as good as I ever felt in my life, and I’m thankful for that, too. All praise be to God.

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« 24 † Now, we’re studying the Book of the Hebrews. It’s been… Oh, it’s one of the most deepest, richest Books of the Bible. I tell you, it’s a Book that really will… If God permits, and we just get down into this, I believe we’ll find golden nuggets till we’ll just shout the praises of God all the time. And now I…
25 The Book of Hebrews, really what It is, It’s supposing to be written by Saint Paul, the greatest Bible expositor, I guess, the world has ever had, outside of our Lord Jesus Christ. And Paul was separating the… Now, Paul was a real Bible teacher; that is, the Old Testament. That’s the only Book was written then, called Bible. And he was trying to show to the Hebrews, separating the Old Testament and showing the Old Testament being a shadow or a type of the New.

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« 26 † Right there we could strike a home line and stay three months right there on that one thought, right there. To go right back, if we could turn in our Bibles now, course we’re on Hebrews, the 1st chapter. But if we’d turn to Revelations, the 12th chapter, you’d see it perfectly again, how the shadows. If… you that’s got your pencils and going to jot down the Scriptures. In Heb-…
27 In Revelations 11, we find out that John, on the isle of Patmos, saw a woman standing in the skies, and she had the sun at her head and the moon under her feet. And the woman was in travail, with a child to be born. She brought forth a Man Child. The red dragon stood, to devour the child as soon as it was born. And the–the child was caught up into Heaven, and the woman fled into the wilderness where she was nourished for a time, time, and a half time, or a dividing of time.

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« 28 † Now, the woman represented the church, and the Child that she brought forth was Christ. The moon under her feet was the law, the sun at her head was grace. Twelve stars in her crown was the twelve apostles. And there’s where, at what… The twelve apostles was the glory or the crowning of the New Testament. See? “For no other foundations can be laid than that which is already laid.” See? It, the Foundation, the–the New Testament, the apostles, the Doctrine of the apostles, and so forth, is the founding crown of the New Testament. And then at the…
29 The moon is a shadow of the sun. The sun just reflects its light when its behind the earth. And the moon gives light, to walk by, at night. And what a beautiful picture we have here, another beautiful picture: the sun represents Christ; the–the moon represents the Church. They’re just like husband and wife. And in the absence of Christ, the Church reflects the minor Light, the Gospel. And it–it’s the Light to walk in until the Son rises again, then the Church and the Son, the moon and the sun, blends together. See? The moon is a part of the sun, and the Church is a part of Christ. And while the absence of Christ, the Church reflects His Light. And then as sure as we can see the moon shining, it knows the sun is shining somewhere. And as long as the Church is reflecting the Light of Christ, Christ is alive somewhere. Amen. Think of it.

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« 30 † Now, the law was a type of the grace, but law had no saving power in it. Law only was a… The law was a policeman. The policeman put you in jail, but, you see, it taken grace to get you out of jail. See?
31 So the Blood of Christ, the Gospel, delivers us from sin. Law only makes us sinners. The law only said, “You are a sinner. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not bear false witness.” See? It’s a policeman that says you’re wrong and you’re guilty. But the Gospel is the good news. Christ died to save us from all of our trespasses, transgressions of the law. Christ died to take us out.

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« 32 † Now, Paul, as soon as he was converted, he never consulted with any seminary, neither did he consult any ministers. But did you notice? He went down into Arabia, and was there three years, in Arabia. Now, this is, to my opinion, that…
33 Now, we’ve got to get a background of this, so we’ll know how substantial it is. And the first lesson, tonight, we take our background.
34 Now, Paul was such a Bible teacher, because he was taught under that great, all-time famous Gamaliel. And he was one of the best known of the day, that great teacher of the law and the prophets. So, Paul was well schooled in those things.

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« 35 † And then I like him this way, this great revelation, being honest in his heart, a murderer, had consented to Stephen’s death and saw Stephen die under the rocks and clods of being stoned to death. I think it must have got next to Paul when he saw Stephen raise his hands to Heaven, and said, “I see the Heavens open. I see Jesus standing at the right hand of God.” And he said, “Father, lay not this charge of sin against them.” And he fell asleep.
36 Did you notice that? He never died. He fell asleep. Just like… I don’t believe he ever felt another rock. Just like a baby on the bosom of its mother, falls asleep, Stephen fell asleep in the arms of God.

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« 37 † There is something, about Paul, that got next to him. Then he, any man under conviction, trying to fight It, he rolls over to the high priest and gets some letters. Said, “I’ll arrest all those people that’s making all that noise, and those heretics;” which was considered, what we would call today, some “radical fanatic,” or something like that, making a lot of noise and causing disturbance. “We’ll just go down and settle it.”
38 And on his road down, a little old… not a great highway like we travel. And them roads in Palestine, just little trails, like a cow trail through the woods where the cattle, and the sheep, and the horses, and the donkeys, and the camels, went over the hills.
39 And Paul, on his road down to Damascus, about noon, one day, a great Light shining down and struck him to the ground. No one saw It but Paul. I want you to notice that. And right here, this is not personal now, but just so we’re leading into this background. That you’ll know that that same Jesus…

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« 40 † Now, when He was here on earth, He said, “I came from God, and I go back to God.”
41 Now, when He led the children of Israel, He was the Pillar of Fire. And He was made flesh, then He returned back to that same Pillar of Fire. And when He met Paul on the road to Damascus, He was that Pillar of Fire, that Light, see, a great Light. And Paul said, “Who is It that I persecute?”
42 He said, “I am Jesus, who you persecute,” the Light. Oh, isn’t He wonderful? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]
43 And here He is, tonight, right here with us. Had His picture taken right there, the same Thing, see, Pillar of Fire, Light, just the same as He was, “Same yesterday, today, and forever.”
44 Now the men that was with him did not see that Light, but It was there just the same. The results give the same.

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« 45 † Now, is it possible that–that someone could see Christ in this building and no one else see Him? Sure. It happened there.
46 It happened also one night when Peter was in prison. And that Light came into the prison, and touched Peter, and walked right by the inner guard, the outer guard, walked by the gate, the main gate, and the city gate. Peter said, “I must have been dreaming.” But he looked around, but the Light was gone; Christ, that Eternal, everlasting Light. There He is. Now, on the road down…
47 And look, another thing, if we would speak of this, just come in my mind. But the wise men that followed the Star, all the way from India, the Orient, months, coming through the valleys and deserts, passed over observatories. And they kept the time of the night by the stars. And no historian or anyone ever mentioned of ever seeing that Star but the wise men. It was just meant for them to see It.
48 So you can see things that the other fellow might not see. To you, It’s a reality. To him, they don’t understand. Just like a conversion; you can be converted and enjoying the blessings of God, just–just drinking in the blessings of God. And the next fellow, setting by you, “I don’t see a thing.” See? See? That’s it. “I just don’t get it. I don’t see what it’s all about.” Well, he’s just not getting It. That’s all. Where, you are.

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« 49 † Notice now, Paul on his road down. And as soon as this great experience happened to him… Now, he wasn’t satisfied… That’s what makes Paul so good, now.
50 Our lesson tonight is not deep. It’s a shallow lesson, but, oh, we will get into the deep, after while. But this is a very shallow lesson, but it’s just starting off. And what it is, it’s one thing, that’s exalting Jesus Christ. Paul, to begin.
51 And before he would do this, Paul was a Bible scholar. And a Bible scholar will never rest his doctrine upon experiences. No, sir. They’ll never rest their doctrine upon experience. You can have any kind of an experience. But it must be THUS SAITH THE LORD. Right.

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« 52 † Now, in the Old Testament, they had three different ways they can know a message. First, the law, that was just the law. Then, they had a–a prophet; a dreamer; and they had the Urim Thummim. Now that may be a little deep.
53 The Urim Thummim was the breastplate that Aaron wore on his breast. In there was twelve stones: jasper, sardius, carbuncle, so forth, on down. They got all twelve of the big stones, that was in the breastplate, showing that he was the high priest of every tribe, the twelve tribes of Israel. This breastplate hung on a pillar in the church. And when a prophet prophesied, and they wanted to be sure it was right, or not. The prophets or the dreamers stood before this Urim Thummim, and he told his dream or his vision, whatever he had saw. And if the Sacred Light… Oh, do you see it? God always dwelt in the supernatural realm. The conglomeration, those lights, were just normal until this voice went forth. And when the voice struck those stones, if it wasn’t supernatural, she laid dormant. But if it was supernatural, those Lights all reflected the rainbow color together. Amen. Then, that was God speaking, “That is My prophet. That dream came from Me.” It was according to the Urim Thummim that they judged.

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« 54 † Remember Saul when he backslid? He said he couldn’t have a dream. And the prophet, Samuel, was dead, and there was no way. He said, “Even the Urim won’t even speak to me.” Nothing. Saul stood before the Urim, and his words were dead thumps. See? God just refused him. And that Urim Thummim, that was Aaron’s vindication of his priesthood. After Aaron going, Moses… The–the plate hung on the pillar.
55 Now, the Aaronic priesthood ceased when Jesus died. And now, separated law from grace, we still have a Urim Thummim. And Paul was using It. See? The Urim Thummim today is God’s Immortal, Eternal, everlasting Word. See?
56 “For whosoever shall take anything out of this Book, or add anything to It.” I don’t want anything outside of It, but I want all It’s got. That’s the Church we want. And all things must be proven by the Word.
57 That’s the reason I took a flop recently of among the Pentecostal people, because, saying, “I could not understand where oil running out of your hands, or blood out of your face, was a sign you had the Holy Ghost.” That’s not Scriptural and I–I just couldn’t take it. It’s got to come from the Word.

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« 58 † And now, Paul, he just loved the Word. So, before he would ever witness this great experience that he had, he went down in Egypt for three year. I believe it was three years, three years down in Egypt. And you know what I believe he done? I believe that he took the Old Testament, and searched through the Old Testament, and found that That was really the absolute Messiah. He had to prove his experience by the Bible. Amen. Oh, my!
59 Look at him when he was in prison. You notice, there’s a–a space of Paul’s life when he was in prison there for a long time. He wrote the Book of Ephesians. He wrote this Hebrew Letter. See? He had time. God laid him away over there in a prison, and he wrote these Letters to the churches. One to the church of Ephesus. He wrote one to the Pentecostal church, had lots of trouble with them. The Pentecostal church he had more trouble with than anybody else. Still has it. But he was thankful for them. The only thing he could teach them… When they come in: one had a tongue, one had a psalm, one had a sensation, one had a feeling. He couldn’t talk, speak to them, “Eternal security.” He couldn’t speak to them, “predestination.” He couldn’t talk to… They were babies. They all had to–had to feel something, or see something, or have funny feelings, and, or something around them, some evidences.

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« 60 † But I believe, when he spoke to the Ephesians, he could speak on, “God has predestinated us unto sons and daughters, and adopted us as children in Jesus Christ before the foundation of the world.” Look at that. My!
61 Watch him come over in the Book of Romans, and so forth. They were grown-up. Oh, they spoke with tongues, sure, and they had other signs of the Holy Spirit among them. But they didn’t make doctrines, and sensations, and little quivers, and funny feelings.
62 Paul said, “You–you–you go to extremes with that. When you ought to be teaching, you’re still babies and have to have milk.”
63 That’s what I’ve always tried to contend this tabernacle to be, not a bunch of babies. Let’s be grown-up. Stand on the road. Oh, my! There you are.

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« 64 † So, Paul goes down there, first, to see if his experience matched God’s Bible.
65 Oh, wouldn’t it be wonderful, today, if people only done that again, if we made our experience match God’s Bible? If it doesn’t, then our experience is wrong; it don’t flash in the Urim Thummim. If it flashes in There, amen, we got It. But if it doesn’t, some… I don’t care how good it seems, how real it looked like it was right; if those lights didn’t flash on that Urim Thummim, it was wrong.
66 And no matter how much experience you’ve had, how real it seems to be, how presenting it is, how educational it is, what a great tool it is to win souls; if it doesn’t flash in the Word, it’s wrong. Right. It must line up with the Word.

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« 67 † Now, I believe, and there’s a middle of the road. The road, now, a lot of times… I used to go to a Nazarene church. The Lord bless those dear people. Old-fashioned, sanctified Methodists is what they are; church of God, Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness, and many of those good old holiness churches. And they used to sing a song:
I’m walking in the grand old highway,
Telling everywhere I go,
I’d rather be an old-time Christian, Lord,
Than anything I know.
68 Good. Wonderful. And then they used to talk about the highway of holiness. Now, if you read over that, they get that out of Isaiah, the 35th chapter. Now, if you notice, he said, “There shall be a highway, and a way.”
69 Now, and is a conjunction. See? A highway, it wasn’t a highway of holiness. “It shall be a highway, and a way, and it shall be called, ‘The way of holiness,'” not the highway of holiness. “The way of holiness!” And the way of the road is in the middle of the road. It’s built like this so that the waters will wash off the trash, to both sides, keeping the road clean. You don’t, you have puddles standing in your road, all the time, if it isn’t built right. “The way” is the middle of the road.

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« 70 † Now, on this side, when people get converted, their minds is set right on Christ. And if they’re just a little scholarly, and don’t keep under prayer, they’ll get real cold, and stiff, and starchy, and indifferent. And then if they’re just a little bit nervous, if you don’t watch, they’ll just get radical and wild, on this side, see, they go into sensations and everything.
71 Now, but, the real Church is a real sane Gospel, right in the middle of the road. It’s not cold and starchy, neither is it fanaticism. It’s a real good, old, warm Gospel, heartfelt love of God, going right down the middle of the road, calling from both sides. That’s right. Now that’s what… And how you going to get that, church? Right out of the Word, the Urim Thummim.

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« 72 † Now, Paul wanted to get this church right in the middle of the road, so he went and studied three years on the Scriptures that he knew. Therefore, Paul wrote the bigger part of this New Testament. God had him do that because it’s coming a Gentile age. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the four Gospels, they were Jews. But Paul wrote the most of the letters.
73 Now notice, now, we’re going to start getting this background now, where he’s at, writing It, from prison. And he’s had all this experience. But, first, this experience was first proven, and this is his key letter to it. This is his key letter. Romans and Ephesians, and so forth, have their place, but this is the key letter.

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« 74 † Now, the whole 1st chapter, is, exalting Jesus, and separating Him from being a prophet. That’s the whole theme now. I’ll try to get to it just as quick as can now, so we won’t stay too long. The whole theme, is, separating the new chap-… new… The 1st chapter, is, separating Jesus from any prophet, or any law, or so forth, and showing Who Jesus is. Now look, “God.” We start out, the first word, “God.”
God, at sun-… who at sundry times…
Sundry means that “way back,” back time.
… sundry times and in divers manners spake in the past unto the fathers by the prophets,
75 Now, see, “God, in sundry times, way back, He spoke to the fathers by the prophets.” That’s how He had to give His Message, through His prophet.

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« 76 † God would send His prophet like Elijah, Jeremiah, Isaiah. And if you’ll notice, never in all the history of the world, did ever the church produce a prophet. Search it in the Old Testament, New Testament, or in this day, in the latter day. Show me any prophet was ever raised out of the church in the last day. Show me one ever come up, out. And show me one time that a prophet, a real servant of God, that the ecclesiastical system of the world didn’t condemn him.
77 Just think of it. Jeremiah, Isaiah, all down through the Old Testament, they condemn it. Jesus said, “You garnish the tombs of the prophets and make them white, and you put them in there.” That’s right.
78 The church continues that. Look at Saint Patrick. You Catholic people claim him. He isn’t no more Catholic than I am. That’s right. But you claim him.
79 Look at Saint Francis of Assisi. Claim him. He isn’t no more Catholic than I am.

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« 80 † Look at Joan of Arc. You burnt her to a stake, as a witch, because she saw visions and is spiritual. Burnt her to a stake. And that woman screaming for mercy, and they burnt her to a stake. About a hundred years later, they found out that she was a prophetess. She was a servant of God. Oh, course, you got a big penalty: you dug up the priests’ body and throwed them in the river.
81 “You do garnish the tombs of the prophets, and put them in there.” Right. Never did the ecclesiastical system ever produce a man of God; never did, hasn’t today, and never will. Organized religion has never been God’s theme.

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« 82 † The oldest organized church in the world is the Catholic church; Luther, second; then come Zwingli; after Zwingli, come Calvin; Calvin, on, the Anglican, Anglo-Saxons taking up, then the Anglican church; and King Henry the Eighth, when he protested, and so forth; and on down to the Wesley Methodist, and Nazarenes, Pilgrim Holiness; and on down to the last, is Pentecostal, all organized. And the Bible plainly teaches that the Catholic church is a–a ill-famed woman, and the Protestant churches and their organizations are her daughters, Revelation 17. That’s exactly right. So they’re…
83 Not the people, now. There is good in all them churches; sainted, saved people. But God doesn’t call His people by an organization. He calls them as individuals. God deals with individuals, whether you’re a Methodist, Baptist, Protestant, and Catholic, or what you are. God, before the foundation of the world, knew you, and predestinated you to Eternal Life, or either you was predestinated to Eternal loss. Not…

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« 84 † He wasn’t willing that you should be perished, you would perish. But, Him being infinite, He had to know the end from the beginning, or He isn’t God. So Jesus never come to earth just to say, “Well, I’ll see if somebody be mercy… If I act and die, in a hard way, they’ll probably think, ‘Well, I… ‘ It’ll–it’ll persuade their hearts, and they’ll…” God don’t run His business like that.
85 Jesus came for one specific purpose, that’s, to save those who God, before the foundation of the world, knew would be saved. He said so. That’s right. So you’re… “It’s not him that willeth, or him that runneth; it’s God that showeth mercy.” Paul said that. Same man here.

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« 86 † He said, “That’s the reason God could say, before Esau or Jacob was either born, He said, ‘I love one and hate the other one.'” Before either boy was born, God knew that Esau was a shyster, and He knew that Jacob was a… he loved his birthright. So He knew, before the world ever was formed, about it. Now, we’re going to find out in a minute Who that was that knew it. This chapter has got it.
God,… in sundry time and in divers manner spoke… to the fathers by the prophets,
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son,…
Has done what? “Has spoken to us in this last days by His Son.”
87 Now, how would you think then, that, what would be a prophet? Would we have a prophet then of this day? Absolutely. Would He speak by it? Sure. But he that… The prophets of the old day was the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
88 Now, let’s get that straight, ’cause I don’t think it’s soaking in right. Now, this is just like Sunday School, so we want to get this clear. See?

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« 89 † Notice. Let’s take the Spirit of God that was in Moses, perfectly the… is the foreshadow of Jesus Christ. All of the Old Testament characters foreshadow the cross. Moses, born a proper child, hid in the bulrushes, taken away from his parents, so forth, and was… He was a king, or a–a leader, law-giver, intercessor, priest. Everything that he was foreshadowed Christ.
90 Look at Joseph, loved of his father, hated of his brethren, and sold for almost thirty pieces of silver. Throwed into a ditch, supposedly dead; taken out. In his persecution, butler saved, and butcher lost; two thieves at the cross. And then when he come out, he raised up out of that ditch, and was set at the right hand of Pharaoh, the biggest commercial… the–the–the nation who whipped all the rest of the world. And no man could come to Pharaoh except they come through Joseph; Jesus setting at the right hand of God, and no man can come to God except through Christ. And when Joseph left that throne and started out, men went before him, screaming and blowing trumpets, sound the trumpet, saying, “Bow the knee! Joseph is coming.”
91 And when Jesus comes, a trumpet shall sound, and every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess. Yes, sir. There He was.

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« 92 † And when Joseph died, he left a memorial to them who were waiting for deliverance.
93 I put my hand on the old casket, here not long ago, it was made out of lead. And his body was supposed to stay… his bones… Said, “Don’t you bury me here, for someday, God is going to visit you.” He was a prophet. “God is going to visit you.” And said, “When you go up to the promised land, take my bones.”
94 There, an old Hebrew, with a beat back and bloody, could look over in that casket and say, “Someday, we’re going out.”
95 Jesus left a memorial, an empty tomb. Someday when we go over to the grave, and our loved ones, and hear the little old clods, when they say, “Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust, and earth to earth.” But, brother, we can look across the sea, to an empty tomb. Someday, we’re going out of here. We’re going home. He is coming. Everything was typed.

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« 96 † Look at David, rejected by his own people, dethroned by his own people. Being a king of Jerusalem, was drove out of Jerusalem by his own people. And as he went up Mount Olive, he looked back and wept. He was rejected.
97 Eight hundred years from then, the Son of David, King of Jerusalem, set on a hill and wept, because he was rejected.
98 That was the Spirit of Christ in David. All foreshadowed the cross. Them prophets back there spoke in His Name. They lived in His Name. They acted in His Name. Sure. “God in sundry times and divers manners spoke to the fathers through the prophets, but in this last day through His Son.”

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« 99 † So the prophets and spiritual men, this day, is only the reflection of Christ. There, by the law they stood, look. Over here they stand, looking back the other way, through grace.
100 That in the Hebrews 11, the last chapter, I’ve often wondered that. In the last chapter, the last part of the 11th chapter of Hebrews, when he talks about Abraham. The great faith chapter, and at the end, he said, “They wandered about in sheepskins and in goatskins, and was made destitute, and sawed asunder. They wandered about, no place to go, hated, and despised, and persecuted. Of whom, this world isn’t worthy of such people.”
101 Then Paul stands and said, “But without us they’re not perfect.” For they only looked to the cross, and we look through the cross. We have the Spirit of Christ after It become human flesh and dwelt among us. We come here by the Holy Ghost, which is a far better plan.

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« 102 † And sometimes I wonder what Christianity expects today. A preacher going with a tent will have to be… or some new church or some new charge, calls himself a prophet, walks up there, say, “Well, if they’ll give me so much money. If I can have the best car. If they’ll… If my salary will be raised every six months.”
103 We have to have the best. We have to have the best homes. We have to have the best clothes. What will we do when we stand in the presence of those men who wandered, in goat skins and sheep skins, no place to lay their heads, wandering about in deserts? And somebody can make fun of us and we’re ready to quit church and not go back anymore. What Christianity requires today. We ought to be ashamed of ourselves.
O God, be merciful to us.

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« 104 † In that day, He spoke by the prophets, but this day through His Son. That was the word of a prophet, there. This is the Word of the Son, today. Oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord!
105 In other words, if you’re looking at the shadow, the negative, you might make a mistake. But This is developed, the picture is clear. That was by the prophet; this is by His Son. That was by a negative; this is by a positive. Amen. You see it? There isn’t a chance to lose. It’s a positive thing, this day through His Son. Oh, how wonderful!
… whom he has appointed heir… (oh, my)… heir of all things,…

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« 106 † What was it? It was an appointment. Oh, listen. He was appointed, Christ was, heir of all things. Oh, the Devil knowed that, from the garden of Eden, you see, when the Devil heard that Word there that day, in the judgment of those people. Said, “Because you come from the dust; dust you’ll return; and the woman’s Seed shall bruise the serpent’s head.” A promised Seed.
107 Satan constantly watched for that Seed. When Abel was born, he said, “There you are, that’s the seed.” And he killed Abel. His son, Cain, killed Abel. And as soon as Abel died, he said, “I got the seed.” He slew it. He said, “I got it.” But, Abel’s death, Seth’s birth was the resurrection again. Watch how they come down.

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« 108 † That line of Seth, it come down, a humble, righteous man; on down through Enoch; on down to Noah, to the end of the antediluvian destruction.
109 Look at Cain’s line, become smart people, educated, science. Don’t the Bible say… Did not Jesus say, that, “The children of this world are wiser than the Children of the Kingdom”? Look at the side of Cain yet today: smart, educated, skeptic, very religious; see, very religious, but scientists, builders, great men.
110 Take great men. Look at Thomas Edison, many great men. Look at Einstein, the brains of the world, so-called, today, the brains of the world. But we don’t try to use brains. We let the Mind that was in Christ be in us, and look to this Word, and call that so.
111 Medical doctors, though we salute them with whatever we have, but the most of those are skeptics, agnostic. Look at the smart, intelligent people today. They’re on that side over there, the Cain side.

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« 112 † But look at the humble and meek. There is your resurrection again. Oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord. There you are. Notice.
… he made him heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Who made the worlds? Christ. “Christ made the worlds?” Yes, sir. Let’s go just a little further.
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his presence,…
The brightness of whose glory? God’s glory. The express image of Whose Presence? God’s. Oh, I love this!
… or express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word…
There you are. The Word, that upholds all things. Jesus said, in Matthew 24, “Heavens and earth will pass away, but my Words shall never pass away.” He upholds all things.
113 Science tries to down It, and say, “It’s an old Book. It’s been translated.”
114 Even the Roman Catholic church, Bishop Sheen said, “That’s been translated four or five different times, and not much to It. You couldn’t live by It if you had to.” But He upholds all things by His Word. Amen. That’s what I think about It. I believe the Bible.
… the word of his power, (there’s power in the word), when he had by himself purged our sins,… (looky here)… set down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

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« 115 † What is Paul trying to do? He is trying to show that God purposed all things in Christ, and Christ was the express image of God. The entire rest of the chapter deals with how that He was higher than Angels, higher than all powers. Angels worshipped Him. Paul was trying to magnify Him.
116 Now, I want to try, if I don’t get any further than this, the rest of it is just magnifying Christ. What Paul says over here, like in the 11th chapter, and all about talking about the world. He said, “What–what Angel did He say, ‘Thou art My Son, this day I have begotten Thee’?” See?
117 “The end of the world, they shall perish. The world shall perish. But the… And all the things of the world shall perish. He would fold them up like a vesture. They’d be old, and turned, and go away. ‘But Thou remaineth. Thou remaineth forever. Thou art My Son. This day I have begotten Thee, and will never perish, setting at the right hand of the Majesty.'”
What does right hand mean? Not, God has got a right hand that somebody is setting on it. Right hand means the “power and authority,” got the authority of everything in Heaven and earth. And all the Heavens and earth is made by Him.

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« 118 † Now, Who is this great Guy, this great Fellow? Christ. Here, God in Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, it’s not… It’s a trinity, but It’s not a trinity of people. It’s a trinity of office, of one God.
119 He was the Father leading the children of Israel. That was His office, the great Jehovah Father. And He dwelt on earth, called the Son. And now He dwells in His Church, called the Holy Ghost. Not three Gods; one God in three offices: Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
People try to make Him three different Gods, God the Father. That’s the reason, Jews, you could never… You’ll never bring this to a Jew, no, that there. He can’t. He’s got a commandment, that, “I’m One God.” There’s only one God.

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« 120 † In Africa they baptize three different ways: they baptize once for the Father, and once for the Son, and once for the Holy Ghost. The Apostolic Faith mission, they baptize three times, face forward, to His death. What they call the Full Gospel on the West Coast, or the East Coast, baptize three times backward, said He… unto His burial.
And he said, “When He died, He fell forward.”
121 Another said, “Wait. You bury a man on his back.” Just little old technique things, when, they’re both wrong; both wrong, according to the Scripture.
This is the Urim Thummim. It settles it.

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« 122 † Now, here, let’s just picture that out and see what–what it looks like, tonight. Here it is, if you want to see it. In all of about twenty-five years I’ve been a minister. I’ve studied that. And I’ve often wondered at gifts in the church. What is those gifts? Prophecy, speaking with tongues, interpretation of tongues, Divine revelation, so forth, that all comes through Christ.
123 Now look. Christ is the Head of all things. And He’s the Head of the Church. And did you ever see a big diamond? A great big diamond that is chipped right, it’s got little chips knocked off of it, chipped off of it. That makes a correct diamond. What’s the chips for? The real diamond, the way it comes out, it’s been bruised; the real diamond, when it’s found.
I was in Kimberly. You, many of you, that’s heard you can pick up diamonds on the street, that’s correct. Billy and I, and Mr. Bosworth. The president of the Kimberly diamond mines, take… He was my usher in the meeting there. And they taken us over. And just out of… They mine them about, oh, about seventeen hundred feet under the earth. They come out, a blue stone, big blue, like this bluestone you get around here. And those natives, they put them seventeen hundred feet in the ground, to mine them, to keep the price up. You’d go on the river there, they got it guarded for hundreds of miles. Take two ten-gallon buckets, he said, and pick it up, full of–of sand, and if you could get home with it, you’d be a multimillionaire, there’d be so many diamonds in it. But they have to work and mine them, to keep the price up on them.

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« 124 † Now, the diamond, when it comes forth, it’s just a big, smooth, round, like, piece of glass. There’s a blue diamond, black diamond, emerald, and a clear diamond, white diamond. But when it come forth… Then when it’s made and put into use, there’s a part of that diamond has to lose. And it has to lose the–the chips off of it. Knock little chips, because, when it comes in direct light, like that, it makes a sparkle. The chip, what makes the sparkle, the way it’s cut. It’s cut, chipped, and then, when it does, it makes a sparkle. And one will go a green light, the other one will go a blue light, and maybe another, emerald light, and red light. And different lights go from it, like a rainbow color. They call it, “fire in the diamond.”
125 Now, each one of those lights represents gifts. But it’s, only, Christ is the Diamond. And He was the One Who came, and was bruised, and wounded, and chipped, that He might reflect Himself back as a Light to the world. He’s that Master Diamond.

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« 126 † Could you imagine, before there even was an earth, before there was a light, before there was a star, before there was anything? There’s a Great Fountain going forth, of Spirit, and out of this Fountain came the most pure of love, ’cause there was nothing for it to come from that but love. Now, we, what we call love, today, is a perverted love. But just as we get an essence, or a little bit of that love in us, it changes our whole opinion.
127 Then out of there come another stream, off this main Fountain, the Diamond, and it was called righteousness, absolutely righteousness. Now, that’s the reason we had to have law. That’s the reason law has to have judgment. If no judgment doesn’t follow law, law doesn’t do no good. And when judgment was passed by law, which brings death, and there’s no one who could pay the penalty but God Himself. And He paid the penalty of our death, and took our sins upon Him, that we might be the righteousness of God through Him.
128 Now, when these great Lights went out, or great rays of Spirit: love, peace, that’s all there was, That. There wasn’t no suffering. There wasn’t no–no hate, nor no malice; it couldn’t come from this Fountain. That was Jehovah. That was Jehovah God. And now, as the theologians call it, a theophany went from That, which was called, in the Scriptural, the “Logos,” the Logos that went out of God. It’s hard to explain, but It was a part of God.

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« 129 † Now, here is what happened. Oh, excuse me. I–I–I just get on this, this just gets me right where I love it. See? The Logos, and this great Fountain, this great Fountain of Spirit which had no beginning or no end; this great Spirit began to form, in the creation, and the Logos that went out from It was the Son of God. It was the only visible form that the Spirit had. And It was a theophany, which means a body, and the body was like a man.
130 Moses saw It when It passed through the… by–by the rock. And he looked at It, said, “It looked like the hind part of a man.”
It’s the same type of body that we receive when we die here. “If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting.” That was It. And that was the theophany which was the Son of God. That Son, that Logos, became flesh, because we were put in flesh. And the theophany, the Logos, became flesh, here among us, and It was nothing else but the dwelling place, for that entire Fountain dwelt in Him. Oh, do you see it? There It is. That was the One, that, in…

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« 131 † Looky here. Let’s turn now right quick to Hebrews, the 7th chapter, just for a moment of–of grace, God being willing. Let’s see what it looks like here. Abraham!
How much time we got? We got ten minutes. All right. We catch this, then we finish it up next, next, or Sunday, Lord willing.
132 Abraham was returning from the slaughter of the king.
For this Melchisedec, king of Salem,…
How many knows where, who, what Salem was? Jerusalem.
… king of Salem, prince of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
Listen.
To whom also Abraham give a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation the King of righteousness,… after that also the King of Salem, which is, the King of peace;
Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor ending of life;…

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« 133 † A King come down from Salem, and met Abraham coming from the slaughter of the kings. And this King didn’t have no father, had no mother, had no beginning of days or ending of Life. Who did Abraham meet? Now think. He didn’t have no father; He didn’t have no mother. He never had a time that He began, and He never has a time when He will end, so that same King of Salem has to be living today. Amen. You see it? It was that theophany that was that Son of God. What Salem? That Jerusalem which is Above, that Abraham, being blessed, was searching, find, trying to find the City whose Builder and Maker was God. He wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, everywhere, destitute, wandering, and was seeking a City whose Builder and Maker was God. And he met the King of that Salem, coming down, and he paid Him a tenth of all the spoils. Amen. That’s Him. Oh, Brother Graham, that was Him. That was Him.
Abraham seen Him again. One day he was setting in the tent. He looked, coming up there, and he seen three men coming.

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« 134 † You know, there’s just something about a Christian, that he knows Spirit when he sees It. When he… He just knows it. There’s just something Spiritual about it. Spiritual things are Spiritually discerned. You know. Yeah, he can just tell it, if he’s really born. “My sheep know My Voice.”
135 And he just knew there was something. He run out. He said, “Come in, my Lord. Sit down. Stop a little bit. I’ll get a morsel of bread and put in Your hand. I’ll wash Your feet. Rest Yourself, then go on about Your journey, for You–You’ve come to visit me.” Up in the barren land, taking the hard way, the way with the Lord’s despised few.
While, Lot was living in riches, the nephew down there, but he was living in sin. That’s what most riches-ness produces is sin.

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« 136 † So Abraham brought them up, while he got a little water and washed Their feet. He run out into the calf, and got a fat calf into the herd, and killed it; give it to a servant, to dress. And said, “Sarah, knead your meal.”
You know what kneading, it is, means. You know, mom used to have an old, kind of like a wedge, she had in the–the meal barrel. Did you ever see one of them with a sifter? And you had a wedge in there, you raked the meal, you know; and get heavy like that, and rake it through, like. I’ve seen mama do it, many times, the wedge, have a little round thing that’s got a little screen wire on it. She’d get that meal up and sift it like that, you know, and pat it back and forth, like that. Then take the wedge and rake it around, like that, to get it all down. And that’s when we have to go down and get our meal ground at the old grist mill; and big old burrs, you know, heavy, made real corn bread. You could saw logs all day, on it.

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« 137 † So then, said, “Knead some meal, right quick. And make some hoecakes right here on the hearth, right quick.” And they milked the cow and got some milk. And they got, churned it, and got some butter. And then they went and killed the calf and got some meat, and they fried the meat. Got the butter milk, corn bread, and they got some butter to put on the hot hoecakes. Oh, that’s really good. And they smeared it all on there. And he took it out, and set it down to these three Men.
138 And while They were eating, They kept looking toward Sodom. And after while, They got up and started walking away. And said, Abraham, said, “You won’t keep it from me.”
139 “I can’t keep from you what I’m going to do. I’m going down there. The sins of Sodom has come in My ear.”
Who was the Man? Dust all over His clothes, and setting there eating the flesh of a calf, and drinking the cow’s milk, and eating some hoecake corn bread, and some butter. Who is this strange Fellow? Two, or three of Them, setting there. Dust all over His clothes. Oh, yeah, “We’re from a far Country.” Yeah, way away. And so He said… Well, Who were They?

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« 140 † He said, “I can’t keep from Abraham, seeing that he’s the heir of the earth.” Amen. “I reveal My secrets,” other words, “to those who are heir of the earth.” That’s where the Church ought to be today. That’s right. Get the Secrets of God, know how to hold yourself, and act, and what to do, and how to walk, and how to live. We’re the heir of the earth. Right. He reveals It to you, ’cause He won’t keep nothing back. That’s why we’re watching these things come to pass.
The world say, “Ah, that’s a bunch of fanaticism.” Let them say it. The heir of the earth knows these things. [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.]
… for they shall be called the children of God.
Blessed are they that are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
He makes His secrets known to them, reveals it to them, showing them what to do and how to live, forsaking the things of the world; walking godly and living godly, in this present world, walking along with Him. Let the world say what they want to.

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« 141 † So He said, “I can’t keep this secret from Abraham, because, seeing he’s the heir of the earth. But,” He said, “I’m going down to destroy Sodom. I’m going down.”
142 “What are you going to do, Mister? Where You from? What’s it all about?”
143 Come to find out, He said, “And another thing, Abraham, you’ve waited twenty-five years for this promise I give you. You done got all the birdeye up, the–the pins and everything, for this baby, twenty-five years ago. You still been waiting on Me. Now I’m going to visit you, just about the time of life, according, time of life, next month I’ll be with you.”
144 And Sarah, back in the tent. And this Man had His back turned to the tent, talking to Abraham, like this. And Sarah went, “Huh!”
145 He said, “What made Sarah laugh?” Ho-ho-ho! How about that? That was quite a telepathy, wasn’t it? “What made Sarah laugh?”
Sarah said, “No. I never laughed.”
146 Said, “Oh, yes, you did.” She was scared. She was trembling. Who was That, to know what she was doing back in the tent? That’s That same God that’s with us today. Same One. He knows all about it. See? He just reveals it as you have need. See?
147 “What you laugh about?” See, His back turned to it. The Bible stated that, that, “His back was turned to the tent.” But, He knew it. “What’s she, back there, doing this, you see?”
So, He said, “I’m going to visit you.”
148 Who is this strange Fellow? You know what happened? He walked right out there and vanished. And the Bible said that That was Almighty God, Jehovah, that great Fountain, that Theophany, that Logos.

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« 149 † Some preacher said to me, some time ago, said, “Brother Branham, you wouldn’t actually think that was God, would you?”
150 I said, “The Bible said It was God, Elohim.” Which, He was Almighty God, the El Shaddai, that’s right, the Strength-Giver, the Satisfier. Amen.
151 Oh, I feel religious! Think of it, here, as He is now. I’m going to show you Who He is here, then you’ll see Who the Son is. That was Jesus, before He had the human Name, “Jesus.”
152 Stood there at the fountain that day. And they was all drinking, you know, and, “Having the waters was in the wilderness,” and things like that. He said, “They was eating the manna.” Said, he said, “Our fathers eat manna in the wilderness, for forty years.”
153 He said, “And they’re, every one, dead.” Said, “I am the Bread of Life that come from God, out of Heaven. He that eats this Bread shall never die.”
154 Said, “Well, our fathers drank from the Spirit, from a spiritual Rock that was in the wilderness, that followed them.”
155 He said, “I am that Rock.” Glory! Saint John, the 6th chapter.
“Why,” they said, “what?”
“Yes. That’s right.”
156 “Why,” he said, “You are… You’re not even fifty years old.” Course, His work made Him look a little old, but He was only thirty. Said, “You’re a man not over fifty years old, and You say You seen Abraham, that’s been dead for eight or nine hundred years? We know now that You’re a devil.”
157 He said, “Before Abraham was, I AM.” There He is. Who was the I AM? A perpetual Name for all generation. That was the… that Pillar of Fire in the burning bush, “I AM THAT I AM.” There He was, that Theophany met here, called the Son of God, the I AM, the Jehovah.

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« 158 † Thomas said, “Lord, show us the Father. It’ll satisfy us.”
159 Said, “I been so long with you, you don’t know Me?” Said, “When you see Me, you see the Father. Why say, ‘Show us, Thou, the Father’? I and the Father are One. My Father dwelleth in Me. I’m just a tabernacle called the Son. The Father dwells in Me. Not Me that doeth the works, it’s My Father that dwelleth in Me. He doeth the works, not Me”
160 Now, standing back there, again, Moses seen Him, the hind part of Him, said, “Looked like the back of a man,” the Logos that went from God.
161 Then what happened? This was God. And the reason He had become from Logos to flesh… What? How do you… What happened to that? Five minutes before that, He was a… He was the Logos. But what did He do? He just reached over…

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« 162 † Now, our bodies are made out of sixteen different elements of the world. We know that. It’s made out of potash, and–and a–and a little calcium, and–and petroleum, and cosmic light, and atoms, and so forth. All bundled together, and makes this body, comes from the dust of the earth. You eat food. As you eat the food, that turns into… from the dust, and it come from the dust, and it just–just goes right on. Your flesh, as far as your flesh, is no different from a horse, or from a cow, or anything else. It’s still just flesh.
163 And, boy, you glorify the flesh; but that spirit has a soul in there, my brother. That’s right. But your flesh is just dust of the earth, like the animal. Your flesh is no more than an animal. And if you lust after the flesh and the thing you see, lust after women, lust after all these different things, it’s still animal. That’s right. That’s right. You shouldn’t do it. The Spirit of God will lead you on and put you on a higher plain than that. That’s exactly right.

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« 164 † Now, and here, this great Theophany standing there. What? That great Jehovah God, you know what He said? He just reached over and got a handful of atoms, got a little light, and poured it in him like this, went, “Whew,” a body, and just stepped right into it. That’s all.
165 Said, “Come here, Gabriel,” that great Archangel. Went, “Whew.” “Step in that.”
166 “Come here, Michael,” the Angel at His right side. “Whew.” For the… “You step in that.”
167 God, and two Angels, walked down here in human flesh, and drank the milk from a cow, eat the butter out of the milk, and eat some corn bread, and eat the flesh of the calf. Two Angels and God. The Bible said so. That’s Melchisedec, that Abraham met, coming from the slaughter of the kings. That’s the Son of God.

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« 168 † Go ahead, here in the Hebrews, the 7th, said, “But made in the order of like unto the Son of God.” There He is. He made all things by Him. And He walked right out there, and just changed that dust right back to dust again, and stepped right back into Glory.
169 And the Angels, as soon as They delivered Lot and Mrs. Lot, and she kept looking back. He said, told them not to do it again. And They stepped right back into in to–to the Presence of God.
170 Now, what a great hope we have, this great Faith that we serve tonight! The living God, the Jehovah, the Pillar of Fire, is with us. Shows Himself in power, and action, and magnify. Let them take the Picture of Him, the same Jehovah. The Son of God that came from God, went back to God, and dwells in His Church forevermore. There He is.

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« 171 † He has our names on His Book, with a sworn oath by Himself, for there’s no one greater He can swear by, that He’ll raise us up in the last day. “He that eats My Flesh, and drinks My Blood, has everlasting Life, and I’ll raise Him up at the last day. He that cometh to Me, I will in no wise cast out. He that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting Life, and shall never come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto Life.”
172 That same One could just reach and grab a handful of calcium and potash, go, “Whew,” and there you are again. And my name is on His Book. Oh! Oh! Oh! What do I care how stooped my shoulders are getting, how old I get? Certainly not. Not a bit of worry.

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« 173 † Brother Mike, one of these days, bless your heart, brother, when that great trumpet will come, that sound, and that Joseph will step forth. Hallelujah! He will say, “Children!” “Whew.” There you’ll be, made in His likeness; young forever, old age is passed away; sickness, troubles, sorrows has vanished. Glory be to the living God!
174 That’s Who He speaks through, today, His Son. “In sundry times and divers manner He spoke through the prophet, but in this last day through His Son, Christ Jesus.” He speaks to every man’s heart that He has called. If you’ve ever felt His Voice or heard Him knock at your heart, please don’t turn It away.
Let us pray.

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« 175 † Heavenly Father, tonight, as we’re so happy to know, at the opening of this Hebrew Letter, how Paul went right back into the Gospels. He just wouldn’t take it upon a hearsay or upon an experience. He wanted us to know what was Truth. And he went right back into the Gospels, and he… back into the Old Testament, the Gospel that was preached to them. And he seen, through the Old Testament there, all the shadows and types. That’s why we got this great Book of the Hebrews tonight. And we see It, Lord, and we love It. And through ages, It’s been burned, It’s been scattered, It’s been tried to be done away with, but She waves on just the same. For Thou hast said, “Heavens and earth shall pass away, but My Words shall not.”
176 Then the skeptic would say, “Well, you said, ‘Paul wrote this.'” Not Paul, but God that was in Paul; that creative Being that was inside of Paul.
177 Just like was in David, when he said, “I’ll not suffer my Holy One to see corruption, neither will I leave His soul in hell.” And the Son of God taken those Words from that prophet, and went right into the bosoms of hell. And said, “Tear down this tabernacle, and I’ll raise It up in three days.” And He did it, because God’s Word can’t fail. One iota can’t fail. How we thank God for this, this great Urim Thummim, and to know that our experiences tonight, Lord, flashes right on this Bible here! We’re born again, have the Holy Spirit.

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« 178 † Dear God, if there be a man or woman in here tonight, boy or girl, who has never witnessed this, how could they raise up if there’s no Life in there? Oh, they say, “I have Life.”
179 But the Bible said, “She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she is alive.” You say you have Life, but you’re dead. “You claim,” said the Bible, “that you have Life, but you’re dead. Thou say you are rich and have need of nothing; but not know that you’re miserable, and poor, and naked, and blind, and don’t know it.” And that is the condition of the churches tonight, Lord. How they miss these great, valuable things.
To know that the great Jehovah God, Who can only produce by… He said, “Bring me those little fish.” He had to take the fish to–to make something with it. Showing, that the resurrection had to be something, to do something with. He not only made fish, but he made cooked fish; He cooked bread. And He fed five thousand with five little fish, little loaves and two fishes. O Lord, it was in His hands, and He was the Creator. But He had to have something in His hand.
God, may we lay ourselves in His hands, tonight, and say, “O God, take me as I am. And when the end of my life is here, let me go with this hope that was within me, knowing I been born again, and Your Spirit has bore record with me, and witnessed with my spirit, that I’m Your Son, or Your Daughter.” And at that last day, You’ll raise them up. Grant it, Father.

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« 180 † And while we have our heads bowed, would there be one would raise your hand, say, “Remember me, Brother Branham, in prayer. I want God to know me when… ‘fore I leave this earth, that He will know me so much that He will call my name. I’ll answer.” The Lord bless you son. God bless you, and you; and you, lady. Someone else? Just raise your hand. Say, “Pray for me, Brother Branham.” That’s what we’ll do. God bless you, young lady. That’s good.
181 Now, while your head is bowed, praying, I’m going to sing a verse of this song.
Covet not this world’s vain riches,
That so rapidly decay,
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
They will never pass away.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.

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« 182 † While she is playing now, and your head bowed, will you just reach your hand up, say, “Yes, Lord, here is mine”? What will it do? It’ll show your spirit, in you, made a decision. “I want your hand, Lord.” God bless you, little girlie. “I’ll raise my hand.” God bless you, little girl, down here. That’s fine, honey. God, you know, is happy to see you do that. “Suffer the little children to come to me.”
183 “I want, God, You to hold my hand. And at that day, I want to be in Your hand; that, when You call, I’ll come.” Yes, like Lazarus was. God bless you, sister.
When our journey is completed,
If to God you have been true,
Fair and bright your home in Glory,
Your enraptured soul shall view.
What will you do now, then?
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.

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« 184 † Heavenly Father, several hands went up, in this little meeting, tonight, that they want to take a hold, tonight, of Your unchanging, Eternal hand. Knowing that what is committed to You… You said, “I… All the Father has given Me will come to Me, and none of them will be lost. And I’ll raise them up at the last day. Can never perish, can never come to judgment, but has Eternal, Eternal Life.” And there’s only one Eternal Life. That comes from God, alone. It is God. And we become part of God, so much that we’re sons and daughters of God. When we have God’s Spirit in us, we think like God. We think of righteousness and holiness, and we try to live to please Him.
185 Grant, Lord, that that type of Life will enter every person that raised their hand. And those who should have raised their hands, and did not, I pray that You’ll be with them. Grant it, Father. And when journey is ended, life is finished, may we enter into peace at that day, with Him, where we’ll never be old, never be sick, never be no trouble. Until then, keep us joyful and happy, praising Him, for we ask it in His Name. Amen.

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« 186 † All you believers, now, let’s just raise our hands and sing that chorus.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Now let’s hum it. [Brother Branham begins humming Hold To God’s Unchanging Hand–Ed.]
187 While you’re doing that, your neighbor; you say, “God bless you, neighbor.” Shake hands with somebody setting next to you. “God bless you.” On both sides now. On both sides, shake hands. “God bless you, neighbor. God be with you.” Build your hopes on things Eternal.
Doc, I know it’s there, brother. I know you’ve been there, Brother Neville, long ago.
When this journey is completed,
Going to happen, one of these days.
If to God we have been true,
We’ll see Brother Seward there.
Bright and bright, your home in Glory,
Your enraptured soul shall view.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
I like that worship, after the message.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Time is filled with swift transition,
Naught of earth unmoved shall stand,
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold…
Let us catch a view of Him, that unseen One in the midst now, and just worship Him now as we sing.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Peace! Peace! Wonderful peace,
Just worship Him now.
Coming down…
The message is over. It’s worship.
Sweep over our spirit forever, I pray,
In the fathomless billows of love.
Just bathe in Him.
Peace! Peace! Wonderful peace,
Coming down from…
That great Fountain, It’s opening up.
… above;
Sweep over our spirit forever, I pray,
In the fathomless billows of love.
Doesn’t that just do something?
Wonderful peace,
Coming down from our Father Above;
Sweep over our spirit forever, I pray,
In the fathomless billows of love.
Isn’t there something about It, just rich and sweet?

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« 188 † And wonder if there’s a sick person wants to be anointed and prayed for. If there is, just find your place. This is the lady in the wheel chair there? Just let her remain. I’ll come, pray for her. She won’t have to get up from the chair. Another? All right.
Oh, don’t you just love this part of the service? How many feel, just know that the Presence of God is here? That’s what I talk about. That same… You just feel like… How many feels like you could just scream out? Now let’s just see. Just feels like something, you could, wants to scream out. See?
It’s peace! Peace! Wonderful peace,
Coming down from the Father Above;
Sweep over my spirit forever, I pray,
In the fathomless billows of love.
Shine on me,
189 While we’re in worship, we’re going to anoint the sick now, and pray for them. Won’t you come right this way, lady?
190 What does this mean? “The prayer of faith shall save the sick.” Everybody in prayer now, just hum that song. Think of Jesus healing the sick. Anoint her in oil. `

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« 1 † ` I’m just so grateful to be here. I appreciate your prayers when you heard the little accident I had. It just goes to show that Satan cannot take you until God’s ready. And I guess many of you wonder how it… what happened. I’d always been favored… As you know I… my hobby, or what I relax by, is either to go fishing or go down at the range and shoot, or go hunting, or something like that. I’m glad of that. If I’d have played golf, it’d been out there where women half naked. And if I’d been–and if I’d been a ball player, you know what it would been, that. But I’m–I’m glad it was outdoors, such as fishing, hunting and things.

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« 2 † And I always cherished one of those Weatherby Magnum rifles. And I guess someone would have bought it for me if I’d have said something about it, but I kept it to myself because it’s too much money they want for them to put in there, and me knowing missionaries without shoes on their feet. And then let someone pay for that, take that much money and pay for a rifle? Brother Art Wilson give Billy back there a model seventy Winchester not long ago, a two-fifty-seven Roberts. Mr. Weatherby put out a paper that he could take that gun for just a little change in there and make a Weatherby Magnum out of it, just perfectly safe. So Brother Rodney comes here to church, Brother Rodney Armstrong sent it away and had it converted into a Weatherby Magnum. It just happened not to be converted right. So when I fired it, is the Weath-… The Winchester Company says that their gun will stand sixty-nine hundred pounds of pressure. You know what that would be.

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« 3 † And I just had the gun up, Brother Wood went down there with me, and it was just about an inch from my eye, like that. And the pressure that blowed sixty-nine hundred pounds for fifty yards, the gun barrel went out towards the fifty-yard line, the bolt went back this way, and the gun just disintegrated in my hand. Just a blaze of fire about as high as the ceiling there, and that was about all I knew for a second or two. And, I come to, blood was spurting way out like this, and I thought I had been killed, so I kind of caught my hand up like that for a moment. And Brother Wood… I tried to look, and I couldn’t see out of this eye, and couldn’t hear at all. I felt like I was walking up in the air. And I seen Brother Wood going out towards the target to see where the bullet hit, and I tried to attract his attention. Then he got there and we come on up. And the ring of shrapnel had went right around the eye. And my face looked like he just throwed hamburger in it, where it just blowed up my face. And a big heavy pieces stuck just above the eye, and made a circle right around the sinus bone and the skull bone here. Doctor Adair picked them out.

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« 4 † A few days later, course, the next day, Doc was in the hospital himself. They sent me over to a specialist about the eye. He found a ring, just below the sight, of about thirty pieces of shrapnel went plumb in deep into the eyeball. It cannot be picked out. Went, just missed the sight and made a ring around like this. He said, “The only thing that I know,” he wrote Doctor Adair a letter, said, “the good Lord must have been sitting on the bench with him, to protect His servant, or he wouldn’t even have a head left on.” All Brother Wood would have found would just been from here down, see. That pressure that blowed back! I don’t know how it did it. But that big heavy bolt out of a model seventy rifle had blowed all the way back, if you know where the Conservation Club is, all the way back to the deer pen. And part of the gun we never did find.

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« 5 † So, it just goes to show something. I have a sermon one day on that, the Lord willing, on “A conversion is all right, but you better keep it low. If it isn’t predestinated to the load that it takes, it’ll blow up every time.” That’s right. So don’t try to… It better be the original. Not mocking from some… [A sister speaks from the congregation–Ed.] Now look, see. It’s… Oh, course, you could imagine that things would be said like that.
6 But, as far as I know, there–there isn’t one thing… Course, my ears, you can imagine, it still has a ringing when this microphone rebounding. That’s the reason I wasn’t here this morning. You talk, you hear it blast back and forth. But they taken me over to a specialist, said, “The eardrum isn’t even swollen. And then the eye,” said, “you’ll be just the same sight you ever had.” Said–said, “It went in below the sight. It just made a ring around the eyeball, embedded itself.” Said, “You’ll always have shrapnel.”
7 I said, “I’ve had it since I was two years old, that’s from another one.”
8 Brother Roberson back there, I called him up and was telling him about it. Said, “Don’t mind that,” said, “I got two or three pound in me,” he said. He’s a veteran from the war. “So it won’t hurt, I’ve had plenty of it.”

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« 9 † And I remember the vision of the Lord not long ago. Do you remember me telling it here? The sweetness of the Lord that morning, said, “Do not fear whatever, wherever to go, or what, for the never-failing Presence of Jesus Christ is with you wherever you go.” So he can’t, Satan can’t kill me until God says “it’s finished.” See? He might try it, but he’ll never succeed in doing it.
10 So then, the strange thing, I was going on anyhow, going on to my meeting, which I could see out of this left eye all right, and I was going on to the meeting anyhow. And then they, the brother that was going in the Indian reservation, had to cancel that meeting, or postponement, until I come back to West Coast and go up on the West Coast. So we’re going to take the meeting there. And during this time, Brother Arganbright has got a hold of me, and then when that meeting is over, I go too up to Anchorage, Alaska. Reason I was depending so much…

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« 11 † Many of you remember the vision that I had, where I had shot the grizzly bear, nine-foot grizzly bear, (and church remembers me telling it here), and the caribou. I had another. Remember it’s on tape here, I seen a great huge brown bear. That might be a Kodiak and it wouldn’t have worked down there in Canada, ’cause they’re not there, you see. But wherever it will be, it’ll be. It will be, that’s THUS SAITH THE LORD. It will be. See?
12 And now I thank you for praying for me. I knew many of you’d be praying when you heard that I had gotten hurt. And one little group that just… My daughter back there, Rebekah, wrote Sister Dauch that comes here at the church, a letter, and told her about it. And she called up Meda a couple nights after that, said, “I don’t know whether it helped or not, but all of us group up here got together.” The Methodist minister and–and Brother Brown, their relative and all of them got together, prayed all night for me. Said, “I don’t know whether God heard or not, but, we knowed that Brother Branham prayed for so many, we thought we’d pray for him.” That’s the kind He does hear, see. Yes, sir, those kind like that!

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« 13 † Brother Crase, one of our brethren here, Satan after him just recently, hit a culvert, oh, it just cut his… completely. I don’t see how he ever got out of it alive. And so he was laying out there in the hospital and said there was a little brother come in from New Albany, named Medcalf, and he said, “Brother Crase, I–I’m–I’m not worthy to come pray for you, but” said “the Lord just put it on my heart, so I couldn’t help it.” And just come out and knelt down, and said a little prayer and went out. God healed Brother Crase right there. See? When, see, it’s the gift of healing in the Body of Christ, you see, one member to another.
14 Don’t think because you’re just a lay member; that, you’re just as much member as anybody else. That’s just as much my finger as this arm is my arm, or this ear is my ear. See? It’s just a member of the body. And we all… If one member suffers, all members suffers with that. A unity, how a blessed unity! Now I…

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« 15 † Then after that, now, I have taken some more meetings and I left a little time there for a night again with the tabernacle, if the Lord willing. And, if God willing, this next coming Sunday morning I want to speak on The Prophet’s Trail, and then, at the tabernacle.
16 Tomorrow night, or Sunday night, I’m up here at the Gospel Tabernacle, one of our brothers, Brother Ruddell. I want to speak on the subject, Letting Off The Steam, if the Lord willing.
17 And then the following Tuesday, we have to leave then for Wisconsin, with the Full Gospel Business Men’s regional convention. I’ll be there for three nights. That’s at the… Billy, what’s the name of that city? Received… [Brother Billy Paul Branham says, “Green Lake.”–Ed.] Green Lake, Wisconsin. [“Thursday.”] When? [“Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; the seventeenth to nineteenth.”] Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth, at Green Lake, Wisconsin, the regional convention.

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« 18 † And then on Sunday, of the twentieth, I’m in Chicago at the High School auditorium, that same auditorium that we was in the last time. You remember what that name is? [Brother Billy Paul says, “Stephen Mather.”–Ed.] Stephen Mather High School auditorium, for Sunday afternoon.
19 Then on Monday I’m over at the… I forget the name of the place where the Lord showed me the convention that time about the Ministerial Association of Chicago, meeting with me to discuss the subjects, you know. I said, “And the Lord showed me over at that place.” It’s a farewell meeting on Brother Joseph Boze, which is to be here tomorrow by plane to see me, and a farewell party on him on Monday.
20 Then we come right straight home and leave then, for it’ll be time then to leave for Southern Pines, South Carolina, or North Carolina. And then down to Columbus, South Carolina. And then to the Cow Palace on the West Coast. And then up through to Grass City, and on up into the Spokane, on into Canada, and then in Alaska. So be in prayer for us, we really need your prayers.

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« 21 † And we’re taught in the Scripture that all things work together for good to them that love God. And I believe, since this, and seeing the loyalty of the people and so forth… Someone said, “How would it happen, and what would God let it?” I could have got killed on the road going out there, something or another, He–He had something to bypass it. Remember, the Scriptures cannot fail, “All things work together for good to them that love God.” And, if I know my heart, I love Him. I–I love Him with all my heart. And it brings us a little closer together.

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« 22 † And, to think now, that everyone that’s heard of it, can’t understand how I’ve even got a head or a shoulders left, you see, and sitting in all that blast. That, this close to me, which would probably be nearly two thousand pounds of blast right in your face. See, that’s enough to just disintegrate you, see, just sweep it out. If it burst that heavy steel gun and blow that barrel plumb out towards the fifty yard line, and–and the stock, you should just see the gun. It just don’t look like a gun, it’s just pieces picked up.
23 And then, out of that, without one defect. Praise be to the living God! Just enough to keep me from going up there till the word from Eddie come that I wasn’t supposed to come at that time. “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me!” And it makes us to know that, to appreciate God being with us. God is with us, and how thankful we are!

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« 24 † Now, I told this morning I thought I’d come down, then precious brother here when I got back… I said to Sister Wood today, I guess Brother Neville… Billy called me and said, “Listen at the message if you can.” And I believe a little piece of that metal had worked out and got down in below my eye there, it was really giving me a bad way to go, but it’s out now. They got it washed out. And so then he said… Tonight I thought I’d go down, and that precious brother probably preaching like that, I know what it is when you have one big service then you’re real hoarse, you know, and–and throat burning and hurting. So I thought I’ll go down, and I picked out a couple Scriptures to read. I thought, “Communion night.”
I always want to take communion.
25 Then I had a couple of friends, they’re here somewhere. I don’t see too well, as you understand. It’s still got belladonna in that eye which is dilated, just kind of a blur. And so they’re here, friends and relatives of my precious good brother, F. F. Bosworth, in Glory. So the Lord bless those people, we just had prayer for them in the back room.

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« 26 † Now, don’t forget, Wednesday night is our midweek prayer meeting. And I think, Brother Jackson, his is Thursday night. And Brother Junior up here is on… Or, Brother Ruddell is on Wednesday night. And the tabernacle in Utica is on Wednesday. [Brother Neville says, “That’s on Thursday night.”–Ed.] On Thursday night. And then back here Sunday morning for a congregational service.
27 And then now, and Sunday night I have to get with Brother Ruddell. I was going to make it on a Wednesday night, but the following week, but I can’t do that, so I had to put it on Sunday night. But now the people here at the tabernacle, stay right here at the tabernacle, see, ’cause I’m going up to Brother Ruddell’s for that night just to speak, not for healing service. And, but remember, stay right at the post of duty, right here at the tabernacle. This is your place, see. And so we’re going to expect a good time. And then you all pray for us as we go along.

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« 28 † Trusting that God will meet with us tonight now just before the communion. And now I think… Is that all we have, announcements, that we know of? [Brother Neville says, “Yes.”–Ed.] Now, laying the path… [“Funeral, tomorrow afternoon.”] What, brother? [“Funeral, tomorrow afternoon, at two o’clock.”] A funeral. [“At Edmonton. J.T.’s mother.”] Oh, yes. The funeral of… one of our brother evangelists from this tabernacle here is just… Well, he’s one of us here. He goes out and pastors and preaches, a Brother J. T. Parnell. His precious little mother died the other night, a little, stooped, gray mother. And it’ll be at Edmonton, Kentucky. The funeral service is tomorrow. I know many of you wondered, could get flowers to her, but we couldn’t. And the only way the church get a wreath there, they had to phone it in and then let the mailman take it out. And it’d have to go out tomorrow, whether it gets there or not, the flowers, so makes it difficult. But we sure want to share the sympathy, brother, with our Brother Parnell losing his mother, which, I’ve done the same just recently. And I’m sure that Sister Spencer and many others here who is sharing sympathy, too, who’s just recently walked through the shadows and sorrows.

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« 29 † Now let us bow our heads just a moment, in His Presence, for prayer. Now I want you to pray for me. And it’s kind of difficult here tonight, trying to see, and this light blurring. And–and my eye is all right, but they put some belladonna in it to dilate it. You know what it is. And it’s been that way about six days now, see, and he said it might last for another week or ten days. So you pray for me. And then the rebound from this microphone against the walls, you pray for me. And could I see your hand, and God, as you’ve got a request just raise up your hand. God, answer prayer, as we solemnly assemble and bow now.

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« 30 † Our Heavenly Father, Thou hast chosen that we should gather together. It’s the will of God that we should assemble ourselves together as we see the Day approaching, and that regularly, Lord, to bring ourselves closer to You and closer to each other, in a bond of fellowship, through the shed Blood of Jesus which makes it possible.
31 We’re so grateful tonight, Lord. I–I–I never was so grateful to–to be here, Lord. I, I’m just so thankful to You. I just cannot find the words to express how thankful to have eyesight and hearing, and to be among the living here on earth, to continue the Gospel. It makes us so appreciative, Lord, when we see how close that only… When man of great understanding just scratch their head and say, “How could it ever be? Only the hand of God!” Then I bow my head in humility, Lord, to see that the miracle was granted to me, that it be performed around where Your servant stood. I’m so grateful. And now, Father, I rededicate my life in service to You again, after walking down there. Never can be in life any closer to death than then, and then live. So I thankful.

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« 32 † And now I pray for all these people who raised up their hands tonight, each one of them had a request. And many of them has thanksgiving, nearly all, Lord, in their hearts, for what You’ve done for them also.
33 Now we’ve come tonight to assemble on a very special occasion, that is, to take what we call the “communion,” or, the “Lord’s Supper.” Commune is “to talk with, or converse with.” And that’s what we are doing now, Lord, conversing with our Lord, communing, talking, waiting upon Him for His answer.
34 And now, Father, we pray that You’ll commune back to us tonight through the written Word. And give us something in our hearts, stabilize our–our–our journey, Lord, and give us new courage. And bless our pastor, Lord, our precious brother, Your servant, and his wife and family; and the deacons and trustees, and every person that comes to the church. O God, draw us closer to Thee. May there be, as the poet said, “Blessed be the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love. Our fellowship of kindred mind is like to that above.” Grant it, Lord. Bless all other worshippers across the world. And now, Father, break the Bread of Life to us as we wait upon Thee. In the Name of Jesus Christ, Thy beloved Child, we ask it. Amen.

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« 35 † Now, many people like to mark down the words where a minister might read. And I have… This afternoon after I was out with Brother and Sister Wood… We had been down to see our Brother Gobel Roberson, and so we had, in his exhibition room. So we come back, and I thought… Sister Wood was telling me what a wonderful message that our pastor had this morning. And I just happened to think of the poor little guy, may have a sore throat, and I have too, but I–I thought we can share this together, maybe, if he asked me to speak. And I dropped down a few notes here that I would like to talk on.

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« 36 † First, let us turn to Second Corinthians 6:7 to 10. First Corinthians, the 6th chapter, 7th verse and the 10th, inclusive. And then Genesis 14:18 to 19. And draw from there, the Lord willing, a con-… or a context from the text. And now I will read from First… or from Second Corinthians, the first, Second Corinthians 6:7 to 10.
By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
By honour… dishonour, and by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
As unknown,… yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; and having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Genesis 14:18 and 19.
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high…
And he blessed Abraham, and said, Blessed be Abraham of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:

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« 37 † And if I would call it a text, I would like to speak on the subject, the… Possessing All Things. As in Corinthians here, we… It said that we are–are poor, yet possess all things. Possessing All Things. Now, I like that. Now in Genesis we read of Abraham meeting this great Man called Melchisedec, Who was the Possessor of both Heaven and earth. Then, He was the Possessor of all things, Possessor of Heaven and of earth, that’s, of all things.

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« 38 † Now, we know the story of Abraham and what had happened. He had been called to a–a place of duty. He had been called out of his land, the land of the Chaldeans, and the city of Ur, where he had been there with his father and his people. And that’s down in the Shinar valleys, probably a rich fertile land. And Abraham, as we understand, wasn’t any special person in the sight of the world. And otherwise, he wasn’t a king, or a monarch, or a potentate. He was just a man. And he had married his half sister, which was Sarah, and probably married her when she was a young woman. And God had called him at the age of seventy-five, to a life of service, and it also included his helpmate.

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« 39 † And right here we could start. I believe that when God calls a man to service, if he’s a married man and has a helpmate, He calls his wife with him, because they two are one. And so, wherever, we find later on that God possibly would have killed Sarah when she doubted the Angel’s message, twenty-five years later, when they were sitting under the oak that day, but when she laughed when the Angel told her, or told Abraham that she was going to be mother, and Sarah laughed within herself and said, “How could I, old?” Ninety years old, and her husband a hundred years old. His… her womb been dried up for years, and his body as good as dead. Then how could she ever have pleasure with her husband again? And she laughed to herself.
40 And the Angel, with His back turned to the tent, said, “Why did Sarah laugh?”
41 And she denied it. Now, that’s telling God to His face that He’s “wrong.” See? And that would have took her life, but God could not take Sarah, because she was a part of Abraham. See? And she was in the covenant with him, so she had to go with him. So He could not take Abraham… or take Sarah, without taking part of Abraham, for these two are one.

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« 42 † A beautiful type of us today, unworthy, worthy of death when we sin, but God cannot kill us, because He would… we are a part of Christ. See? That’s our grace, because we are in union with Christ. Isn’t that a beautiful thought, union with Christ? So therefore, our sins, when we do them, we ought to quickly confess them, that “they’re wrong,” because God would take our life. But the Blood answers in our place, and God just can’t cross that Blood. See? He just can’t do it, because it’s a promise that He won’t do it. So He can’t break His Own promise. See? So God’s got Himself, as it was, sewed up. See, He can’t break His promise. And He promised It through that Blood, whosoever believed had Eternal Life, and He cannot break that promise.

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« 43 † So we find that Abraham, in obedience, left his home, left his land, and separated from everything, all his earthly position, possessions, to travel in a strange land, sojourning. A type of the Church. We’re asked to forsake everything that’s in this world, in order to follow Christ.
44 Now, we find Abraham following on, year after year. And he took some portion with him, which was his father, and he died right away. And then he took his nephew, which was Lot, and Lot separated himself from argument sake, and went down to live in Sodom, yet he was a part of Abraham. And God gave the land and all that was in the land, to Abraham, he heired all of it. God said, “Look east, west, north, and south, and all of it belongs to you and to your seed after you. All yours!”

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« 45 † Now, one day Abraham had it kind of rough, and Lot having it easy, wading in sin. How easy it is and how pleasing sin looks to be, and how innocent it looks to be. Now, if Lot says this, “As long as I believe! I believe in God, so why can’t I go down here in Sodom, and–and it’ll be all right. I’m a believer.” But it wasn’t all right.
46 See, God, when He called Abraham, He called him to separate himself from everything. And that’s what we have to do. God calls us to a total separation from sin, “Come out from among it, be not partakers of it!” Shun it, the very appearance of evil. Separation, completely annihilated from it! Stay your distance away from it. Don’t tread upon its grounds, no matter how–how it… nice it looks.

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« 47 † You people, you might think here now, here it is, “Brother Branham, I–I sometimes I’m tempted to steal, or sometimes I’m tempted to smoke.” Or sometimes the women think, “I’m tempted to dress like the people of the world, you know, the immoral clothes and things. I’m tempted,” the young ladies. Now, you think that’s tempting, what about over here where you’ve got every little move to watch, you see, in a ministry. What a greater thing it is over here, and what they’d have to answer more for. Because, you have to answer for your own souls, but we have to answer for everybody we speak to. See? So Satan just constantly… Where you’d say, you: “Isn’t that a pretty little dress? It’s all wrong to wear, but isn’t it beautiful? It’d fit me just right.” Where it is to me… Now, that, you know that’s wrong. But in a minister it’s, “You should go to this meeting here, this is just it. They say it’s so great, the congregation.” And yet you’ve got to wait and hear God say “go,” see. “Oh, would you go over here and see this person here? This is such-and-such.” And you got to watch, be careful. See? Oh, it’s so sly. And now we have to watch those things.
48 Now, Abraham had to watch, too. But he, instead of going down into Sodom with Lot, he separated himself and went up into the desert, took the way with the Lord’s despised few. That should be our attitude. Take the way with God’s people regardless whether it’s hard or easy, go anyhow. Be ready to go at anytime, now, wherever He might call you.

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« 49 † Now, after this come up, then there–there come a king that went on a warpath with a little tribe of people up there, and swept down through the valley and took all the little groups, little kingdoms out, and took, come into Sodom and took the king of Sodom and Gomorrah, took Lot (Abraham’s nephew), his wife, his daughters, his children, all of them, and all their possession, all they had, went right on out through, cleaning out the country as it went. Oh, what a horrible thing, the wages of sin is death! Lot realized, no doubt, walking along there and maybe with a–a rope or a chain around his neck, as a slave; his children, young girls to be ravished; and his wife, and everything, and probably die at anytime. He disobeyed one order, and maybe going into another kingdom somewhere to be a slave the rest of his days.

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« 50 † But Abraham, when he found out that Lot had been taken, that was part of Abraham’s possession. And Abraham might have said this, “God, You told me that if I would obey You and walk in here, in this land, You would give this to me. It belongs to me. And Lot’s part of this, and I’m going after him.” So he garrisoned, or gathered together his servants, and put arm on them. And he took his servants, and took out until he pursued and found this king with all these other little kingdoms. Look what a great army they were then! But under the directing of God, the Chief General, he separated himself, and fell in upon them and slaughtered the kings, and brought back Lot and all the little kingdoms, brought them back to them, to their homeland again.
51 What a picture of Christ in Abraham there, coming after the enemy had captured everything, and Christ come and brought us back again.

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« 52 † Now we find in this great story that Abraham, on the road back, coming back after the victory was over, he met the Possessor of Heavens and earth, Melchisedec, which is the King of Jerusalem, King of Salem, which was Jerusalem, which is King of Peace, which is King of Righteousness. He had no father, He had no mother, He never did begin and He never will end, so that was nothing else but the Almighty. And He met him on the road home, from the slaughter of the king. He met the Possessor, the One Who owned all things met him on the road back. What a glorious thing! Now Abraham…
53 I like this. Abraham was heir to all, by the promise, so he could lay claim to everything that was in the land, and the land itself. Abraham had been given the promise. Now, we understand that Abraham was the poorest man in all the country, because he lived out in the desert, and lived in peace with God. And Lot, rich, lived in the city and become of the governor of the city; he set in the gate, he was a judge, and judged the city, and had all the riches and things. But Abraham was in the desert, and the… perhaps the poorest man in the land, and yet a claim to possess all. Amen! That’s what I like.

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« 54 † Oh, tonight, we may not be rich in this world’s goods, but we possess all things. The Church, Itself, possesses all things. Yet poor, yet rich and possess all things. I like that. He… We–we are. The old song we used to sing years ago, “My Father is rich with houses and lands, He holdeth the wealth of the world in His hand! Rubies and diamonds, and silver and gold, His coffers are full, He has riches untold.” And we are a possessor of it, because we are a child of the King. Amen. The child always falls heir, we know. All right.
55 Abraham could lay hold on it, yet poor, his cattle was starving; Lot took the best ground. His water was short. Hot days, and the herdsmen had been in trouble, and everything looked like gone wrong for Abraham, yet he owned the whole thing.

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« 56 † And, today, the true believer is cast out from among the people, called a “fanatic, holy roller,” or some kind of an insulting name, some kind of a religious fanatic, and yet is heir to the whole Heavens and earth. “Blessed are the meek, they shall inherit the earth.” Oh, my! Talk about push you out in a cabin or somewhere, and hardly enough money to pay your rent, yet you own it all. Amen. Have to work and toil and sweat for a few dollars, to make an earn… honest living, to put shoes on your children’s feet, and to feed their little hungry mouth, and yet own, heir to everything that’s here. “The meek shall inherit the earth.” They possess it. Oh, my, I like that! Possessor of the earth! What is? The believer. The believer has a title, abstract deed, that’s right, by Jesus Christ, that “He shall be the possessor of this entire universe.” That’s right. “The meek shall inherit the earth.”

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« 57 † Abraham had–had, could possess that land, because… and what was on it. God give it to him. And Lot was a part of that land. So Abraham had a right to it. He could–he could call or lay hold on it. He said, “Now, God, You made me the promise, that what was this land and all in it was mine, and You made the promise. Now my kinsman has been taken, and all he’s got is gone.”
58 In other words, if I’d apply it today, I’d say, the Church could say, “Lord God, here’s my brother, he’s laying here, stricken with cancer, he’s stricken with tuberculosis, he’s got so-and-so. I lay hold of the promise, it’s my possession. You, You’ve told me so!” Amen! There you are. Then, then you can go after that enemy, that devil, and slaughter it just the same as Abraham slaughtered the kings and brought back his possession. Amen. I like that. It’s to the believer.

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« 59 † Yet Abraham had a right to the promise, and the promise was his, yet he had to fight to possess it. Amen. There you are. The believer today, yet we’re heir to all things, yet we’re heir to every spiritual blessing, every physical blessing, every blessing the Bible promises, yet you have to fight every inch of it. That’s the way God’s got it set up. It’s always been that way. You have to fight to possess what you know is your own. You have to fight to possess it. And that’s what we have to do now.

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« 60 † You say, “Brother Branham, I need healing.”
61 The promise is yours. But, if you ever get it, you ain’t going to get it easy, I’m going to tell you that. You’re going to have to take it away from Satan. Satan captures your health, you’ve got a right to go to–to Satan, say, “Give it back! Hand it over! I come in the Name of the Lord, the Possessor of Heavens and earth, and I’m His heir. Give it back! You took my child, you got her mixed up with the wrong boy. You took my boy and mixed up with the wrong girl. I claim them! That’s right. I claim my children, I claim my brother, I claim my sister. Yes, Satan, you’ve took them from God’s house, coaxed them out there, but I’m coming after them. I claim them.”
“Well, how you know?”

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« 62 † “I’m an heir of all things. Amen. It’s given to me. I’m an heir, I can claim everything that God promised me.” Amen. There you are. “It’s mine.” How do you get it, something you done? No, sir. It’s the unmerited gift that God gave us, and it’s ours, it belongs to us. Satan cannot hold it if you go to him in the–the Scriptural authoritative Word, with faith, to say, “It’s mine! Lay it down.” Amen. Glory! I like that. “Satan, you lay it down. You took it from me. You give it back, because I’m serving notice on you. I’ve got the notice written right here on the Word, ‘Heavens and earth will pass away, but this notice shall not.’ So I come with this notice, to serve on you, that Jesus Christ said whatsoever I ask the Father in His Name He’ll give it to me. If I say to this mountain, ‘be moved,’ and don’t doubt in my heart, but believe that what I’ve said shall come to pass, I can have what I said. Lay it down!” That gets him started. Don’t get him started, gets him running. “Lay it down, because I have come with the Scriptural authority. I am a believer.” You get it? Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

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« 63 † What did he have to do first, Abraham, in order to do this? He had to lay his faith upon the solid-rock foundation of God’s promised Word. Look, only thing he had was a little bunch of servants, probably a dozen. And there was probably couple of thousand man, armed. And his man wasn’t soldiers, they were servants, cattlemen, sheepmen, herders; probably old rusty knives that they had picked up somewhere, and laid up in the… out there, and several rains had fallen on them, they were rusty. But Abraham wasn’t looking at the rusty knife, or the no shield at all. He was laying his faith upon God’s Word. There you are. That’s what does it. That’s what.
“How you going to fight them when you get there?”
64 “That’s not up to me. It’s up to me to lay my faith on what God said. It’s mine, I’m going after what belongs to me.” Amen. Now, when people that’s sick can see that, the sickness is right about over with right then. See? Sure.

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« 65 † When a sinner can see that you don’t have to sin! Lot of people, they sin because they have to sin. That’s a pitiful shape when you say you “have to sin.” But when you realize you don’t have to sin anymore! There’s people that just stand up and curse and laugh in your face, and–and call you an “idiot” and everything else, they are wilfully sinners. See, then there’s no hope for them. But that man who does something constantly, they don’t want to do it. He–he steals, he don’t want to. And he lies, he don’t want to. He–he does things he–he doesn’t want to do, he don’t want to be a sinner. There’s hopes for him if you can let him see what’s the Truth. See? Come up to God’s promise and lay your faith on that, and walk out there to the enemy. He just simply can’t hold it no longer, that’s all, because it’s yours.

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« 66 † Now, let’s look at this fellow now. Here Abraham said, “I’m heir. This belongs to me, everything in this land belongs to me. Because God… I haven’t got it yet.” But he had it, it was his, anyhow.
67 Now we are heirs of all things. Is that right? We are heirs of all things. The Bible just got through said so here. We are heir of all things, everything. We don’t possess it yet, but it’s ours. Amen. Oh, glory! I don’t own an inch of land, but it’s all mine, anyhow. Sure. It’s all ours, belongs to the people, the Church, the believers, the Bride of Christ owns every speck of it. Russia fighting for it, United States fighting for that, and this fighting for this and this over here, and then they call us “crazy.” Just sit still, you own it, anyhow. Amen. All going to fall heir to it, anyhow, so let them fuss and blow up one another. It belongs to us. We are the ones that gets it. They’d never even think it, but we do, anyhow. Do, anyhow!

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« 68 † Who would have thought that little old poor man up there, them little old skinny, boney cattle up on top the hill, owned all of it? All Palestine belonged to him. Yes, sir. So when he come to a place that the showdown come, God proved to be with him. He took that little handful of man and went out there and slaughtered every one of them, and brought back his possession. Amen. I like that. Why? He laid his faith upon God’s Rock promise. That’s what it take. He didn’t build another foundation, go join an organization or get something like this. He laid his faith upon that Promise! Amen. That’s it, on that Promise, and there he marched forward! Rusty sword or not rusty sword, made no difference to him, he had his faith laying on the Promise.

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« 69 † And when you come forth to be prayed for, if you want salvation, if you want Divine healing, no matter what, if–if you are a believer, you’re an heir of every promise. So lay your faith upon the promise and march forward, and tell Satan, “Give it back! Give it back! It’s mine.” Don’t let him bluff you. Stand right there on the line, he’ll give it back. God said he would, so he has to do it. That’s your authority. That’s right, heir of all things!

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« 70 † He stayed on that foundation, promised Word, and he had an heir. He was the heir, so he knowed it. All right, sir, after the promise had been vindicated to him, he had fellowship then with the Promiser (I like that) after God made the promise. And then, see, Abraham had never had a test before, so he… of that kind. So he knowed it all belonged to him, and that was the promise, yet he had never had to fight an army. He didn’t know nothing about it. He–He wasn’t a trained man to fight. Abraham wasn’t a fighter, he was a farmer. And Abraham could not do anything, because he–he wasn’t a soldier. His man wasn’t soldiers, they were farmers. So the only thing he could do was just take God’s promise, put his faith upon the promise and move out, go after it. Then when Abraham seen that, and got that promise, and found out that God vindicated it to him, that He does keep His promise… Amen! There it is.

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« 71 † If you’ve never received the Holy Ghost as yet, don’t know nothing about It, and something in your heart telling you that you want It, you stay right there. That’s Eternal Life, that’s what you’re heir to. Stay right there, and look Satan right in the face and say, “You are the robber, you are the one! I’ve come to possess what Jesus Christ died for me to have, now hand it back! Get out of my way!”
72 Then, the first thing you know, the Holy Ghost will pour upon you. Then something happens. Something will happen. What is it? God vindicated He keeps His Word. That’s just exactly. Then, see, then after you see the Word is vindicated to you, that you are saved, you do have the Holy Ghost, then what? Abraham had won the victory, here he come marching back; he was going down, with his faith laying on the Word that he could bring it back, what he had lost, and here he come back with it, marching the victor’s march. That’s the same thing you can do. If you don’t have Eternal Life, ask God. Confess your sins, believe on the Son of God, accept the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and say, “God, I come for It, I’m here to receive It.” Then you come back, the victor’s march. You got It. Amen. Just shining, my, the birds sings different, and everybody. You’re in love with everybody then. That old hatred, malice, strife is done gone. Love everybody! Oh, you’re just having a great time, singing, shouting, praising God. Don’t care what anybody says about you. It’s all right. Sure, on the victor’s march!

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« 73 † Then Who come out to meet him? Who come out to meet him? Melchisedec. Melchisedec come out to meet him after he had had his Word vindicated. Melchisedec is the One give him the Word. Then he put his Word… his faith on the Word, got the victory and returned back, then he had fellowship. Amen. Now, you will, too. Oh, His Word will become something new to you, whenever you once get the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Oh, my!
74 Oh, you say, “I can’t see these things. I don’t believe in shouting. I don’t believe in speaking in tongues. I don’t believe in Divine healing.” It just shows you’ve never got the victory. That’s right. But one time you get the victory, then you’ve got it. Then you have it. Yes, sir, then you can shout. I…

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« 75 † You seen one time I used to think about dancing in the Spirit, see somebody stand and dance in the Spirit. Now, I’ve seen the mockery put on of it, but I’ve seen the real thing, too. So, I come to find out, why could people dance in the Spirit? Well, I never seen one yet get out of the way, I never seen one yet act immorally. I–I always see it just as decently and in order and sweetness, and even sinners run to the altar and get saved when it’s going on. Well, I wondered why it was, and I come to find out it’s victory.
76 David danced before the Lord, when the ark was brought back to Its resting place. Amen. When David saw the Word, as It was then with the tables of stone, brought back to Its right place, David rejoiced and danced in the Spirit, around and around and around. Why? He saw the Word back in Its place. Amen.
77 What the Word needs, is not out of some seminary, some theological mix up; but an old-fashioned, God-sent preacher behind the pulpit, with the Word, seeing God vindicate It, proof.

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« 78 † Then David said, “Glory to God, this is It!” And around and around and around and around. His little stuck-up wife set up there, being the king’s daughter, said, “Why, he–he–he embarrasses me.”
79 And David said, “You don’t like that? Watch this!” And around and around he went again. Yes! Oh, my, what a time he had!
80 You know, God looked down out of Heaven, said, “David, you’re a man after My Own heart.” See? See? Why? He had done lost all pride, he had done lost all of his. Yet he was married to a king’s daughter, but that wasn’t even considered then. He knowed that he was acquainted with the Possessor of Heavens and earth, and here was the Word of God coming right back among them again, and David was so happy he danced. He just danced as hard as he could.
81 Miriam, she grabbed the tambourine and went down the bank, dancing on the other side. After she had come through the Red Sea and seen her enemies drowned, then she could dance in the Spirit. When she seen the enemies that had tormented her, dead, then she danced in the Spirit. That’s right. Now, see, after! After the battle’s won, then the glory of God comes down.

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« 82 † Now, we find out that He met him. And after the promise had been vindicated, he–he had fellowship. Melchisedec come out to bless Abraham, and He said, “Blessed be Abraham, and blessed be the God of Abraham, the Possessor of Heavens and earth.”
83 Oh, my, how I like that, believer’s promise! You say, “What’s that got to do with us?” To every believer! The believer’s promise is Eternal Life. The believer’s promise is Life, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, patience, fruits of the Spirit, Divine healing, a dozen things I got wrote down here, nearly, that is your possession. It belongs to you, but you cannot have it until you fight for it. It’s yours. Everything that’s seen, every temporal thing that’s seen, belongs to me. God give it to me, because through Christ He gave it to me. And things unseen belongs to me. Amen. I like that! What you can see, like Divine healing, so forth, like that, that’s good, we appreciate that; but the unseen!

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« 84 † Now, science can probe around here and say, “Well, let’s see, let me take this man. You said he was healed, let me take him down and examine him. Let me see what happened. And you say you had a tumor once, sir?”
“Yes, right there.”
85 “Well, let me give a scientific research and see if it just didn’t sink in and didn’t go away. You say you were once blind and now you see. How do I know? Let me scientifically look and see it.”
86 Now, they could probe around on that, but yet I–I’m heir to that, too, everything physical. And then I’m also heir to things that can’t be seen, where science can’t probe. Amen. Amen. Unseen things, amen, I’m heir to that. Yes, sir. The things that can be seen, I’m heir to that. This actual earth, I’m an heir, you’re an heir. Every believer is an heir, he’s an heir to it. All right, then the unseen! Possessor of what? Heavens and earth. Amen. All things! You believe that?
87 You say, “Brother Branham, what about out there where you can’t see? How you know?” It’s still mine. That’s right. Heaven belongs to me. Glad it’s mine, God said so. And that’s right. “Well, you’ve never seen, how you know it’s there?” I know it’s there, anyhow, God said so. “How do you know you’re an heir to it, when you never seen it?” I believe His Word. Amen. See? I’m an heir, you’re an heir with me, we’re all heirs together through Christ Jesus.

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« 88 † Did you notice here in the Corinthians here, in Second Corinthians, Paul said, even of death, we possess death. Think of it. Possess death? Yes, sir, it minds us. Amen. Well, glory! I done forgot about that explosion of the gun now, see. Why didn’t he kill me? Because he couldn’t. That’s why. God wasn’t ready. He could come as much as he want to, but he can’t take you. Amen. Glory! I paid my debt to that a long time ago when I believed on Jesus Christ Who’s alive forevermore. Now death listens to what we say. Amen.
You say, “A possessor of death?”
89 That’s what Paul said here in Corinthians. Death, even, we possess it. Why, when they was fixing to cut his head off, he said, “Oh, death, where is your sting? Where is your sting? Show me where you can scare me.”
90 Death said, “I’ll squeeze you down and put you down in the grave, and you’ll rot and canker.”
91 He said, “Oh, thanks be to God,” [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.] “Who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Yes, sir. Death, hell, and the grave, I possess it all, because He conquered it all for us. Possessor!

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« 92 † Just like Joshua and Caleb brought back the evidence of an unseen land that had been given to the people by a promise. Joshua and Caleb brought back an evidence that there was such a land. Now, down here they had the promise of it. God gave them the promise, and they come right up to the land, but they had never seen it, and Joshua and Caleb went over into the promised land and brought back the evidence that the land was there and it was a good place, flowing with milk and honey. Amen! What was it? They was going to possess that land. They had the promise. They was on their road over there, and they were almost to the Jordan, and Joshua crossed over and brought back the evidence that it was a good land.

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« 93 † Just what Joshua did for the children of Israel, (Joshua means “Saviour,” the word Joshua), and that’s the same thing Jesus done for the Church when they killed Him. He conquered death. He conquered hell. He conquered the grave. And He rose up again with the evidence, the baptism of the Holy Ghost, that there is a Land beyond the river, that they call the sweet forever. Amen. He come back and brought us an evidence. What does It do, Brother Branham? It makes you stop lying, stealing, drinking, cursing, immorals, everything. It makes a new creature out of you. I who were once dead in sin and trespasses, nevertheless I live, not me but Christ lives in me. I’m a new creature in Christ Jesus, amen, heir to the promise. Hallelujah! Yes, sir. That land belongs to us. How do you know it? Joshua rose from the dead, brought back the evidence, the Holy Ghost. I got It. Amen. Whew! Glory! I’m an heir. Oh, a child of the King, a child of the King, heir to all things! The Bible said so. The same God–the same God that give Israel a promise of that promised land (it was an unseen thing to them), that same Bible, that same God gave us a promise of Eternal Life, and the Holy Ghost bears record of it. Christ is alive, not dead. He lives right among us, lives in us, through us, works around with you. Amen.

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« 94 † It was Him sitting on that bench down there the other day when Satan seen a chance to kill me, but he couldn’t do it. Amen. And he’ll never do it until Christ says it’s ready. Amen. No matter how many times he comes, he’ll go back empty-handed until Christ gives an order. Amen. A promise, God promised it. It’s God’s Word that promises it, and we believe it because we’re heir.
95 I’m an heir of Divine healing. I’m an heir of joy, got a right to be happy. “So what makes you so happy?” I got a right to be. “How do you know?” Because I’m an heir to it. Amen! Whew! Now I feel religious. Yes. I’m an heir to the happiness. I’m an heir to joy. I’m an heir to peace. I’m an heir to Eternal Life. I’m an heir to the Holy Spirit. Amen. I’m an heir to every evidence It’s got. Amen. I’m an heir to the authority of God. Amen. “Who made you that?” Not me; He did. Every one of you is an heir to the same thing.

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« 96 † An heir to a throne! “He that overcometh shall set with Me on My Throne, as I have overcome and set on My Father’s Throne.” Amen, an heir of all things! Not just one thing; all things! Everything’s under your feet. Even death is under your feet, grave is under your feet, hell is under your feet, sin is under your feet, everything is under your feet. You’re an heir! And you’re… You are dead, and your life is hid in God through Jesus Christ, and you’re rose again to Eternal Life, and sitting in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Oh, my! Whew! Call us anything you want to, call us what you want to, say we’re crazy if you want to, but we’re heirs. Heirs to what? All things.
97 “Are you an heir to the Branham Tabernacle?” No, I’m an heir to all things. Both seen, present, future, to everything, I’m an heir to it.

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« 98 † And every sin and wickedness has been put under my feet, by the grace of Jesus Christ. He rose on Easter morning, triumphed over the death, hell and the grave, and made me an heir, and said, “Wait yonder and I’ll give you the promise.” And His anointed authoritative servant said, “The promise is unto you and to your children, to them that’s far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.” I’m an heir. Amen. Amen. Jesus proved it to us, on His resurrection. Oh, my.
99 When we’ve entered that battlegrounds between death and Life! “I’m a sinner, Brother Branham.” You don’t have to be. You’re a sinner because you desire to be. You don’t have to be. The debt’s already paid.
100 “Brother Branham, I wish I had joy.” You can have it. You’re just letting Satan rob you from the privileges that Christ died for. I’m an heir to it. It’s all mine. Everything He died for, belongs to me, belongs to you. We’re His children, we’re heirs of it, everything that He died for.

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« 101 † Now, when you enter into that battleground. “Ah, there is no such a thing as the baptism of the Holy Ghost. You know, you’re–you’re–you’re going to act funny. And there’s going to be something, going to be something different.” I don’t care what different it is, I’m an heir to it. That’s Life, and I’m coming after It. That’s right.
102 That’s what ought to be the motive of every sinner. “I’m coming to receive It upon the basis of the Holy Spirit Who is here now and telling me to come and receive It. It’s mine. I’ll never rise till I receive It. I won’t be a fanatic. I’m going to stay right here, I don’t care what anything goes. I’ll never cease praying till You give me the Holy Ghost, Lord, and I know You’ll do it right now. If there’s anything wrong in my life, tell me about it and I’ll do it. What is it, Lord, I’ll go make it right.”
103 If God doesn’t reveal anything, say, “Then, Satan, I come for It. You can’t stand there no longer, get out of my way!”

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« 104 † There you are, heir of all things. Heir of Eternal Life. Heir of Divine healing. Oh!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
Born of His Spirit, washed in His Blood.
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Saviour all the day long.
Perfect submission, all is at rest,
I in my Saviour am happy and blest;
Watching and waiting, and looking above,
Filled with His goodness and love.
Hallelujah! There you are. This is my story, and this is my song. I’m an heir of salvation. What is salvation? Something that’s given to you. It’s a gift. I’m heir of salvation. What kind? For Eternal Life. Salvation for my soul, salvation for my body, salvation for my weariness, salvation for everything. God made me heir of everything through Christ, and He died, rose, and returned back and brought the evidence, and poured It out upon us. Oh, my! Glory! Oh, my!

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« 105 † Now, you go up there, what do you do? When you go just like Abraham did, go up there with that promise. “God, You told me it’s mine. I got faith in Your promise. I’m bringing Your Word. You promised this. You said, ‘Ask, and you shall receive. Seek, you shall find. Ask, it shall be given. Knock, it shall be opened.’ Here I am, Lord. I’m here. I’m knocking, seeking, asking. I’ve got to receive It.” There you are. Something takes place then, oh, when you lay that Word down.
106 Look what Satan did when Jesus laid the Word down on him. “And It’s also written…” He jumped away from that Wire, as I said the other night. Yes, sir. Then what, after you overcome? How do you overcome? Could you ever do it by yourself? No. Somebody went before you and overcome for you. It’s Christ. I’m just an heir of it. I don’t have to do anything. I’m an heir of the promise. The only thing I have to have, is put my faith on His promise. Do you see it?

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« 107 † “Brother Branham, are you worthy of that?” No. “You think I’m worthy?” No. “Do you think the Bishop’s worthy?” No. “Is there ever a man worthy?” No. “Well, why?” You’re an heir.
108 If you was the biggest drunkard in the world, and your father left you a million dollars, whether you’re worthy or not, his–his–his heir, you’re the heir of your father’s heritage. Whatever he left you, it’s yours whether you’re worthy or not. He left it to you. Amen.
109 I was a sinner, but I’m heir. I was no good, not yet, but still I’m an heir. I should die and go to hell, but I’m an heir. I’m an heir of what? Eternal Life. “How do you know you’re going to get It?” I feeled It. The Holy Spirit brought It. Jesus rose from the dead so It could come. And now It’s come, and It bears record and vindicates just exactly what It said It would do. I’ve passed from death unto Life. I’ve become, a new creature in Christ Jesus. Then I’m heir. Yes, sir. Now I’m on my march. Amen. Things are slaughtered. What’s all them mean things I done? Just like Miriam did. Look back there, there they are, dead, buried in the sea of forgetfulness, in the Book of God’s great Book in Heaven. It’s done been. My name has done been put on that Book, and done sealed, and put down in the sea of forgetfulness, and a new Book, with a new name written down in Glory. And it’s mine. Yeah. Now we’re heir of all things, then.

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« 110 † Then like when Abraham, what did God tell him? “This land belongs to you. What’s in this is yours. Look east, north, west, and south, it’s all yours, everything here. I want you to come journey in a strange land, and I’m going to make you heir of that land. I’ll give you this, to you and your seed, for after you forever.” Now, Abraham, only thing he had to do was put his faith on that promise, pick up his sword and take off. When the crucial moment come, he got down there and God fought his battle. And when he fought the battle, he slaughtered the kings.
111 And here he was coming back, amen, all over now. Brother, he could shout. Hear all the young men shouting and praising the Lord! Here comes Abraham, and Who come out to meet him? Melchisedec, King of Salem. And look what they did. After the battle was over, they could sit down and take the bread and wine. The King brought out bread and wine. Why did He do him? After the battle was over, after the victory was won, then they could sit down and take the communion together, talk with each other and eat the communion together. Oh, that’s what God wants His children to do tonight.

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« 112 † “Then what about you, Brother Branham? What about that Church you’re talking to?” We are the seed of Abraham, they’re the Royal Seed of Abraham. We’re the seed of Abraham, by the promise, through Christ Jesus we become Abraham’s seed and are heirs with him according to the promise. Then if Abraham was an heir, I’m an heir. I’m an heir with Abraham, and so are you. And how did it come? Through the Royal Seed of Abraham, which was Christ Jesus, the promised One, by faith. Abraham received a son, as one from the dead. And we received a Son that was not even a son, and no way to get here, and God made Him and sent Him to us. And He come and paid the penalty of our sins, and by His death I become an heir. Oh, my. There you are. And all the wickedness of the Devil is behind. Praise be to God!

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« 113 † Overcome! How many has overcome, tonight? Let’s see your hand, “By the grace of God I’ve overcome.” Praise be to God. You know what I think we ought to do right now? I just get started right here and keep you half the night. Let’s just have a good dedication service, dedicate our lives anew to God. How many feels like doing that? Oh, I got more than one now, I got both hands up, and my heart, too. I want my life to speak for Christ. I want to dedicate myself anew to Christ. I want His will to be done, mine to be put in the back, and–and His will do be done. I want to have the victor’s march. Not because it’s me; because I know that the Gospel that He preached is suffering today on account of denominational man-made dogmas and everything else. The great victory that we should have has been held back by the enemy. God, let me pull this Sword, let It sparkle and shine, and march forward. Let my will be in the back, and His Word going in front like that, a sharp two-edged Sword making a way.
114 Let’s stand to our feet now and dedicate ourselves anew. Each one in your own way, dedicate yourself to the Lord. Let’s raise up our hands now to God, each one.

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« 115 † Our Heavenly Father, tonight we are dedicating ourselves to You in the best that we know how. We know that we are heir of all things. You promised it, Lord Jesus, and we believe it. Now, we’ll never be able to do it unless You, Lord… unless we ourselves put our faith on Your promise. Now, You said, in the Bible, “He that eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood has everlasting Life, and shall not come into condemnation, but shall pass… has passed from death unto Life. He that eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood has Eternal Life, and I will raise him up at the last day.” That’s the promise. That’s what You said. That’s what we believe.
116 And, Lord God, O Holy Spirit, move upon us. Oh, move, God! Move, O Lord, in us. Spirit of the living God, receive us, Lord. In Christ’s Name receive us. Cleanse me, mold me, shape me, O God, into an image of the Son of God. Take me, Lord, I am Yours. I give You this church. I give each soul here to You, with mine, Lord. Now mold us and fashion us, and let us forget our sinful wicked ways, and know as long as we lay our–our faith, what faith we got, on Your promised Word, You’ll carry us through from victory to victory. You’ve promised it.

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« 117 † Satan cannot harm us, Lord. He could do everything he can do, and he can’t touch us. When You turned him loose on Job one time, You said, “Don’t you take his life.” He done everything but take it. But he couldn’t do it, because Your promise was still there to Job.
118 And, God, You’re still the same God today. You protect Your Own. We know it’s the Truth, and we dedicate ourselves anew. Wash our sinful souls, Lord, as we confess our faith. And, Christ Jesus, receive us. And when we start to take this Lord’s supper, God, commune in our hearts to us. Tell us now where we’re wrong. Show us where our wrong is, Lord. We humbly repent of it. I humbly lay all my sins upon the altar, Lord. I humbly place myself on Your Word, Lord, and at Your mercy.
119 Here am I, Lord, do with me as You see fit. That’s the cry of this church, Lord, “Do with us as You see fit.” I can only speak for my–for my ownself, Lord, but I believe in their hearts they believe the same thing. Do with us as You see fit. We believe. We want to be heirs, and we know we are heirs as long as we stay in Christ Jesus. We’re heir with Him before the Throne.

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« 120 † Now be with us. Heal the sickness in our midst, Lord. If there’s a sick body here tonight, touch it, heal it, make it well. Grant it, Lord. If there’s a sick soul, may it be healed right now. Let that crippled soul be straightened out. May that feeble knees that hung down and them weak hands raise up in glory and shouts to God. May the crooked paths be made straight. May there be a highway in the wilderness for our God.
121 Lord, we believe You’re coming soon, and let us blast forth Thy Word, Lord, and make a highway in the wilderness, the crooked places straight, for our Lord. Let us blast out every denominational root. Let us blast out every root of bitterness, blast out all malice, envy and strife, that the true Word of God might flow like rivers of joy. Grant it, Father. We give ourselves to You now just before we take this Lord’s Supper. In Jesus Christ’s Name. Amen.

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« 122 † While, Sister Spencer wants prayer for her body! [Sister Spencer speaks to Brother Branham–Ed.] God bless you, Sister Spencer.
Heavenly Father, this poor old sainted woman, and this one sitting. You see a woman crippled. “Ought not this daughter of Abraham be delivered on the Sabbath day?” And now maybe the most of her friends, Lord, the old-time friends that she used to entertain, those ministers, as they set in her house, they’re done passed on, many of them, done taken the great highway to Heaven. She’s left alone, Lord, as a testimony. No one now, just her children, and maybe a friend in here and there, Lord, a relative now and then. But she stands alone like a big forest that’d been blowed down, and one tree left. God, I pray that You’ll look down on mercy, Lord, that she taken roots down deep. And standing on the hill of Calvary, Lord, rooted and grounded in the Faith of Christ. I lay my hands upon this dear old woman and condemn this knot under her tongue, that it leave her and she be made well. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you. Thank you, Sister Spencer. It shall be done. Just don’t doubt it a bit. All right.
My faith looks up to Thee,
Thou Lamb of Calvary,
Saviour divine;
Now hear me while I pray,
Take all my sins away,
Nor let me ever stray
From Thee aside.
Listen, sing with me now.
While life’s dark maze I tread,
And grief around me spread,
Be Thou my Guide;
Bid darkness turn to day,
Wipe sorrow’s tears away,
O let me from this day
Be wholly Thine!
123 From the bottom of your heart now, only God knows it, from the bottom of your heart, do you really mean that, “Let me from this day, Lord, be wholly Thine”? Let’s sing that last part again.
Nor let me ever stray
From Thee aside.

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« 124 † Now all together. Great Shepherd of the flock, You taught us that we should pray like this. [Brother Branham and congregation pray together–Ed.] Our Father Who art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us of our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil; for Thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. You may be seated.

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« 125 † I am requesting prayer for Sister Shepherd’s child. It just comes to my mind that they called a while ago for prayer for the child, and I offered prayer for it. I had an interview to meet right here, and I couldn’t go by the house. But they said the little girl was sick and had a fever, and kind of stiffening, which is no doubt just a virus that’s going around. You know about it. Sometimes their muscles draw in such a way you have to work them back and forth with their hands, like Mrs. Haley and many down here. It’s a virus that’s going around. And she… offered prayer. And I said if the baby wasn’t any better by nine o’clock or time we close the service, to call over here and we’d come by; if the baby was better, okay. So let’s just humbly now, before we take the communion, pray for that child.

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« 126 † Lord Jesus, that little baby, I don’t know how old it is or nothing, but it’s one of our beloved disciples here, Lord, one of our believers. It’s their child, of Sister Shepherd and Brother Shepherd, a little jewel that You’ve given to them, Lord. We pray that You’ll watch over it, and bless it and protect it, and heal it and make it well. We claimed it right now. After this message, we claim that. We claim it for God’s glory, according to His Word. In the Name of Jesus Christ, may the sickness turn loose that child. And may the child recover and be well, for the glory of God. Now it has been spoken, now it shall be done. Amen. Do you believe?
If we trust and never doubt, He will surely bring you out;
Take your burden to the Lord and leave them there.
Leave them there, oh, leave them there,
Take your burden to the Lord and leave them there;
If you trust and never doubt, He will surely bring you out;
Take your burden to the Lord and leave them there. (That’s all you do.)
If your body’s racked with pain and your health you can’t regain,
Just remember God in Heaven answers prayer;
Now, Jesus knows the pain you feel, He can save and He can heal;
Take your burden to the Lord and leave it.

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« 127 † Now let’s just shake one another’s hands while we sing this last verse.
Leave it there, (fellowship, you know, communion) leave it there, (praise the Lord!)
Take your burden to the Lord and leave it there;
If we’ll trust and never doubt, He will surely bring you out;
Take your burden to the Lord and leave it there.

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« 128 † Oh, isn’t He wonderful? Now, now with our confession, our belief, our confession of our sins, believing that all of our sins is in the sea of forgetfulness. He that will confess his sins, God is just to omit them. See? They’re in the–the sea of the Blood of Jesus Christ, never to be remembered no more. How many of you women know what bleach is? All of you. Now, let’s just take a great big washtub full of Clorox, that’s one bleach, a great big tubfull of Clorox. And then you’re going to take a little eyedropper, and you got one drop of black ink in that eyedropper, that’s your sins. Stand right up over the tub, and squeeze it down, then look down in the tub and find it. What become of it? What become of the ink? When it struck that bleach, it was so powerful it just took the coloring right out of it, it can never be no more. What is it? It’s gone, it’s eternally lost. What is it? The–the ink itself becomes Clorox. That’s the Blood of Jesus Christ to every confessed sin. What is it? It’s forgotten, it’s done, it’s finished, it’s omitted, it’s divorced, it’s put away. It can never be remembered against you no more.

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« 129 † [A sister speaks from the congregation–Ed.] Somebody is calling my name, somewhere. [The sister testifies of just being healed.] Well, praise the Lord! Still living! Thank the Lord. We thank the Lord. O God, how we praise You for Your goodness. Yes, humble little soul back there touched, the Lord touched her. All right. He’s the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities.
130 Remember, every word is an Anchor, steadfast and sure. There’s not… See? Just lay your faith right upon it and don’t move, just stay there. Now, you can’t lay it down there and then grab it up and say, “I’ll try it again.” Lay it there. Stay right there with it. Yes, sir. Like Abel did, die out to your own thoughts. Just say, “God, it’s Your Word, it’s not what I think. It’s Your Word. There it is.” And Abel died on the Rock. And, that, He’ll touch just like He did sister there. Just so simple.
131 We try to make it… We don’t. Satan tries to make it so complicated, you know, say, “Oh, you know, that was for a day gone by,” and all that. That’s just unbelievers.
132 But to you who believe, He’s precious. Now disallowed, indeed; but He is a precious Stone coming to a lively Stone, a precious Stone, the chief Cornerstone. Oh, my. Oh, he that touches this Stone is healed! That’s all. Amen.

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« 133 † Now, aren’t we thankful to the Lord? Just glad, I’m so glad that the Lord is God. Amen. So glad that He’s a tender Father, full of mercy, honors His Word, keeping His Covenant, never forgetting It. He keeps His Covenant. He has to, He’s God, He made It. He’s the Fountain of all Truth. See? There cannot be anything else but unadulterated Truth all the time. Every Word He speaks is infallible. And this is His Word. And, O God, let my faith be infallible in It, amen, then It can become infallible as the Word is infallible, then the Word in that kind of faith will produce anything the Word says It’ll do. Amen. So, cleanse me, Lord. Try me, cleanse me, heal me, protect me, bless me, and give me Your mercies, is my prayer to God. Amen.

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« 134 † Now, I’m going to read some of the Word now, found in First Corinthians, the 11th chapter, 23rd verse.
For I have received of the Lord that which I also delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night… which he was betrayed took bread:
And when He had gave thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, and eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
After the same manner he took… also he took the cup, and when he had supped, saying, This is the cup of the new testament in my blood: this be in you, as oft as you drink it, in remembrance of me.
For as oft as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you do shew forth the Lord’s death till he comes.
Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the blood, the body and the blood of the Lord.
But let a man so examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.
For this cause many are sick and weakly among you,… many sleep.
For if we should judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
Wherefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, tarry one with another, tarry one for another.

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« 135 † Now may I say this. Jesus gave us this commandment before He went to His death, knowing that He was going there. The disciples still wondering what He was talking about, when they wrote this down. But He said, “This cup is the New Testament of My Blood. This do as oft as you eat it and drink it, you shew forth My death until I come.” Oh, those precious Words!
136 The disciples no doubt wondered, “What does He mean, ‘show forth His death’? How can we do this?” Here was all a mystery to them, but not to Him. He was God. He knowed what He must do. “Show forth…” So He said, “When you come together to eat…”
137 Now, “He that eats and drinks, unworthily,” comes up here and professes to be a Christian, taking the body of the Lord, and then goes out and lives with the world and–and denies Christ and His power, and things like that, you–you do a great dishonor to God. You–you do dishonor to Christ, so don’t you take it. But if you’re trying with all that’s in you, to live right and to show forth that you are a Christian, that you love Jesus Christ, then it’s your duty to do it.

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« 138 † And now over in… I believe it’s Saint John, the 6th chapter, Jesus said, “Whosoever eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood has everlasting Life, and I will raise him up at the last day.” Now, that promise, isn’t that a glorious thing? “I will raise him up.”
139 Did you ever think what you’re here for? What are you–what are you going to school for, children? What are you working for, dad? What makes you get up, and mother, of a morning, and get the kiddies to school, wash their face, and make up the beds and cook, and–and–and do it all. Come in, wore out that night, and the next day start the same thing. What do you do it for? Why do you labor and slave, dad, and everything? Come in at night, and weary, and one of the kids gets sick and you walk the floor, and cry and pray and struggle, and they get well; and then back, and you do it again. And every Sunday wash their faces, and get them down to church. And, well, what’s it all about? What he here for? Is that all there is to it? My, that’d be miserable, and knowing you got to go anyhow. See? What’s it all about?

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« 140 † Oh! Brother, it’s an examination time, it’s an opportunity time! It’s the opportunity to accept This. Tell me something to take Its place. Tell me something better than That. Produce anything in the world, be the king of the earth, rule the universe, be a Khruschev or a Kennedy, or whatever you wish to be, you’ll die just the same. Right! You don’t know what time it’ll come, any minute. But here, when death does strike, you got Eternal Life and can’t die, with a guarantee by the God of all creation, Who’s Possessor of Heavens and earth, “I’ll raise him up again at the last day.”
141 Help thou my unbelief, O God. Fill my soul, O God, cleanse me, fill me, charge me, send me out. Let me not die, let me live to tell the Story. Let me go to every crack and corner of the earth, and preach the Word and sow the seed, yes, sir, that there may be a harvest in the last day, of the true unadulterated Word, with believers in Christ.

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« 142 † Is your sins under the Blood, by faith tonight in Christ Jesus? We shall now take the communion. Not the communion; you commune as you eat with one another. Just commune with God. The communion is not the bread, not the wine, the communion is “talking back and forth with God.” And this is a symbol that we take, that we believe in His death, broken body, His burial and resurrection, we believe in the Presence of the Holy Spirit. And we believe that He has give us Eternal Life and we cannot die, we have passed from death unto Life. And someday when we separate from one another here, we’ll rise again in the resurrection with each other, joined together with Christ Jesus, as a Body. Amen. Upon these basis, and the confession of my sins, and my faith in the Son of God, I take myself and the church before these articles that God left for us to do, to show forth His death until He comes.

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« 143 † Jesus said, “This is My body which is broken for you. Eat, do this in remembrance of Me.”
144 Our Heavenly Father, after we have confessed our sins, hearing Your Word, after we have confessed that we are unworthy, and we are trusting only in the merits of the Son of God. We’re unworthy creatures. Forgive us, Lord, of all that we have did. And now, by faith, we come to the table of the Lord. And now as this bread is presented to represent the body of our Lord, I pray, Father, that You’ll sanctify it to its intended purpose. And may every person that partakes of this have Eternal Life in their soul. And may that every person takes it have healing in their body, and live the appointed time that You’ve given them. And may they serve You all the days of their life, and be raised up in the last day in the resurrection, to be gathered together with the tribes of the earth that are redeemed by the Blood of Christ. Grant it, Lord, in Jesus’ Name we ask it. Amen.

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« 145 † The Bible said, “Also He took the cup, and when He had supped, saying, ‘This is the cup of the New Testament, as oft as you drink this you show forth the Lord’s death till He come.'”
146 Heavenly Father, we hold to You the fruit of the vine tonight, this wine. And we pray, Heavenly Father, that You’ll sanctify this wine, it represents the Blood that was shed for us at Calvary. Through this Blood we have remission of our sins, by faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ. Forgive us of our… all of our unbelief, Lord, and give us faith and understanding, and make us Your servants, Lord, that we can serve You all our days. Be with us, Father, as we join together around this table, and bless us in this fine fellowship and communion with You. And may You speak to our hearts and point to us our work that we should do. Grant it, Lord. Sanctify this wine for its intended purpose. In Jesus Christ’s Name we ask it. Amen. `

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« 1 † ` You be seated. It’s good to be back again tonight. Thankful we have this opportunity again now to serve the Lord. And after keeping you so long last night, I feel it wouldn’t be fair to keep you long again tonight.
2 Just back there listening to an associate brother of ours, in the Lord, that just come from Indiana, stirred by a strange dream. He’s never be in Shreveport before, in his life. But he dreamed, the other night, that he come to Shreveport, not by his car. And he come with a… or come somewhere, to a church where I was speaking. He said, after I had preached and prayed for the people, said, “‘Something’s going to happen.'” Said, he “was back the next day.” And he said, he “knew the building, how it looked.” Said, “There’s a–there was a civic auditorium across the street, but they never went in the auditorium.” Said, “It was on this side, in a stone building that had a wing to it, and the building set just like this.” And the–the boy is a dreamer, I’ve seen his dreams and know that they’re true.

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« 3 † And he said–and he said, “Then on the last night” that I “was speaking and praying for the sick.” And I said, “‘Something’s fixing to happen.’ And sounded like a clap of thunder.” And said, “The people begin screaming.” And said, “As the thunder begin to go away, well,” said “It made a voice, and begin speaking.” Says, “That speaking was going on, that through these lattices (windows up here) come the Glory of God, moving in, in the form of the Pillar of Fire.” He’s never seen It. He’s heard us talk about It, but he’s never seen It himself. And said, “There It was, come through the windows up like that, and formed that Light like you see in the picture, right above the audience here.” And said, “It was rumbling off something.” And said, I “stood, and said, ‘That is Jehovah God.'”
4 And said he “was reminded of (when thinking about It) when Moses called the… brought the people out of Egypt. And they said, ‘Let Moses speak, and not God, lest we die.'”
5 He said, “Everybody was laying on the floor, their hands up, screaming.” Said he “was screaming, too, ‘Lord God, I love You! I love You!'” And his wife shook him and woke him up.

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« 6 † See him going down the aisle right now, Brother Jackson, a former Methodist preacher. And he was so disturbed, till he come down; and said when he walked in, he “was so astounded,” just exactly the way he had saw it in a dream. I don’t know what it means. The Lord’s kept it from me. But something could happen, seeing Brother Jackson dreamed that, knowing him as an honest, real–real man, servant of God.
7 And I–I know of him dreaming dreams, coming to me, and the Lord give me an interpretation, it’d be just perfectly like that. Even to, one time, my going to Arizona, he had the dream of it.
8 And he’s very much disturbed. He’s with his wife, he brought her. She’s to be mother right away, and the only way he could go was by airplane. He didn’t have a penny to come, and somebody give him the money. And so it’s kinda worked out mysteriously, so something could happen; we hope so. We don’t know just what the Lord will provide for us.

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« 9 † Now, we are grateful to the Lord to be living in the day that we’re living in, just before the coming of Jesus. As I have said before, it’s the greatest time of all history. I’d rather be living right now than any time, to… on earth.
10 I see here in front of us, again tonight, is my good friend, Brother Dauch. I mentioned him in the auditorium this morning. Brother Dauch is ninety-three years old today, how blessed it is. He contributes his long life to the glory and praise of God, ninety-three today. “Happy Birthday” to you, my brother! And I know out, down, around the country where they’re listening in tonight, they also wish Brother Bill Dauch a “Happy Birthday.” He’s a very personal friend of Oral Roberts, many, has helped so many in the Gospel way, and everything. He’s a great friend of ours.

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« 11 † Glad to see Brother Mann here, another Methodist preacher, saved and baptized with the Holy Ghost, and in the Name of Jesus Christ, setting here. He’s, also, one of our associates from Indiana. And I understand Brother Hickerson’s setting here by him, one of our deacons from Jeffersonville, Indiana (they’re listening in up there tonight). And I understand that Brother Wheeler, one of the other deacons are here somewhere. And I–I haven’t located him just yet, somebody pointing their fingers over and I’ll catch him after a bit; setting over, way over to the right, yes.
Brother Banks Woods, if you’re listening in tonight, your brother was here last night. I seen him as I went out, Brother Lyle. Jehovah Witness; the whole group was converted. Lyle was brought in because a vision of the Lord.

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« 12 † Lyle was setting in the boat there that day, when the day before it was told him that “something” was “going to happen concerning a resurrection of life.” He was a real Jehovah Witness, too! But that morning, setting there, fishing, and he caught… Well, he had a great, big ol’ (that Kentucky fashion, you know)… a big hook and a little, bitty fish swallowed it. And he just pulled gills, entrails and all out, throwed it out on the water (little, bitty sunfish), and he said, “Well, little fellow, you shot your last wad.” The little… flipping along on the water, died, the wind blowed him up into some pond lilies.

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« 13 † And the day before, setting, I said, “The Holy Spirit tells me that ‘there’ll be a resurrection of some little creature.’ Perhaps there’d be a–a kitten, when I get back home, ’cause just…”
14 When we was trying to dig some fish bait, Brother Woods and I, who’s listening in tonight, my little girl which is a young woman setting here, engaged to this lanky soldier (I see him), she come up, she said, “Daddy…” Her and the other little girl, said, “We…” Now, anybody can have any kind of pet they want, but I sure don’t like a cat, so she… or no Branham. So we… she said, “Oh, we found a poor ol’ cat out here, Daddy. It’s–it–it’s eat something and it’s… somebody’s poisoned it, it’s all swelled up.” Said, “Daddy, it’s going to die right away, can we get a little box and keep it a couple days?”

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« 15 † I said, “Let me see the cat.” Well, they went and got the cat. I seen what was going to happen, so give her a box. And next morning, was about seven or eight kittens there, you know. So my little boy, Joe, picked one of them up, and squeezed it and dropped it on the ground; and just–just… little fellow lay there wiggling around and around, killed it.
16 And I said to Brother Lyle, his brother, I said, “You know, it may be that it’d be that little kitten raised up, like we have seen the Lord do things.”
17 Brother Lyle, just new in the way. The Holy Spirit had just told him he was married, and what he had done, and the evils he had done, the things he had done. Well, he thought Brother Banks was telling me them things. But when It really brought him right out, and told him what he done the night before, that was–that was too much for him. He couldn’t get it.

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« 18 † Then, the next morning… While we fished all night, with little fish, we was catching some for bait. But he just throwed that little fish in the water, quivered, flabbed over. About a half hour later we were setting there, and I was… I said, “Brother Lyle, you let the fish swallow the hook all the way down in his stomach. See?” I said, “Take the fly line here, flip it over, the bait out like that; just soon as he touch it,” I said “then just hold him and then bring him in.” I said, “He… don’t pull him out like that, don’t swallow it, you catch the fish.”
19 He said, “Well…” He had a great, big ol’ line hanging over, said, “This is the way we do it,” like that.

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« 20 † So, just about that time, I heard Something coming off the top of the mountain up there, a whirlwind, whirling around and around. Here It come down like that, and the Spirit of God come over the boat, said, “Stand up on your feet.” Said, “Speak to that dead fish. Say, ‘I give you back your life.'”
21 And that little fish had been laying there for a half hour, with his entrails in its mouth, and its gills. I said, “Little fishy, Jesus Christ gives you back your life. Live, in the Name of Jesus Christ.” Flipped over on his back, and down through the water he went as hard as he could go.

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« 22 † Brother Lyle, are you here somewhere? I–I seen you last night. Whether he’s inside, outside, or where he’s at, raise your hand if I can see you. [Someone in congregation says, “Balcony”–Ed.] What say? In the bal-… Oh, yes, way up in the balcony, through the windows back there. That’s the man, a Jehovah Witness.
23 He said, “Brother Branham!” He was all excited, he said, “Uh, it’s–it’s good to be here. Isn’t it?” He said, “Uh-uh, do you–do you… Uh, do you think that meant me, that–that–that, that I called that little fish, said, ‘You had shot your last wad’?” Said, “That–that–that meant something for me?”
24 I said, “Nah, nah, just a confirmation.” He was all upset about it.

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« 25 † Well, we travel along and you see those things happening, knowing… Now, just think, what was it to show? I had a-many little spastic child on my prayer list, praying for it, but when the vision come it was for a little ol’ fish about so long, about two inches long or three. Looked like the hook was as big as the fish. But what it was, was to show you that God looks on the little things too. See?
26 One day when lepers was laying all over the country, He used His power and put a curse on a tree. It begin to wither, when there was people laying everywhere needing that healing power. But, you see, He wanted to show He’s God over everything, whether it’s small, whether it’s big, whatever it is. He’s still God over all things, all the creation. So we love Him because… That–that gives us to know, if He’s interested to speak the Word of life into a little insignificant fish laying there dead, on the water for a half hour, He can certainly someday speak Life into His children. No matter if your body be no more than a spoonful of dust, He’ll speak, and we’ll answer Him someday. He’s God Who’s interested in everything, all that we do, all that we say, everything. He’s interested.
Now let us bow our heads, everywhere.

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« 27 † I wonder now, before we pray, if there’s anybody tonight that’s interested in Him, but yet you haven’t got your reservations yet for the other Land where we’re going to see Him. You know, you can’t come in without reservations. And you haven’t made them yet, but you would like to be remembered in prayer now, that everything will be made right between you and God tonight, would you just raise up your hand; you’ll say, “Remember me, Lord”? You’re… just let Him see your hand. God, grant it.

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« 28 † Heavenly Father, as we stand tonight between the living and the dead; and these things that’s happening in these days, mysterious, sure they’re mysterious; but God, You know whether they are true or not, You are the solemn Judge of the heavens and earth. And we say this, Lord, just to encourage the people (some of the things that Thou has showed us), that they might be encouraged to love You and believe You, serve You, and to know that no matter how little the deed is, good or bad, You see it. I pray, dear God, that You’ll bless every one of those hands tonight, and the soul and spirit that motivated that hand to go up. And I pray, God, that this will be the night that their reservations will be made for that Land beyond the river. Grant it.
29 Heal the sick and the afflicted, Lord, both here, all out across the land where the–the–the broadcast through the phones are coming in. Bless those out there that’s unsaved, all the way from California to New York, from Canada to Mexico. Grant, Lord, that every person under the sound of our voice, tonight, will be saved from their sins, healed of their sickness, because of Your Divine Presence.
30 And this our Brother Jackson, who’s flown all the way down this thousand miles here, to be here because something strangely stirred his heart; “And they shall dream dreams, and see visions.” Dear God, Thou hast kept it a secret from me, what this means; I don’t know. But if You shall visit us, Lord, prepare our hearts now for that visit. That we might be under expectations, not knowing what You will do, and not knowing if You have promised to visit us by this dream; we do not know. But we are–are just quoting those things that we do understand, that You promised to visit Your people, and we pray that You’ll make Yourself real to us here. In the Name of Jesus Christ we asked it. Amen.

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« 31 † Now, tonight, after keeping you so long last night and this morning, and I kinda getting a little bit hoarse. I got a little piece of hair I got, I wear over my bald spot here when I’m preaching. But I forgot it this time, and this air, sweeping through these windows, is begin to give me a–a little bit of hoarseness. I used to… I’d have to close meetings, but since I got that, then I don’t bother with it no more, I just go on. And I forgot it, and it’s… I’ve… kinda can feel it, so your prayers will be appreciated. And now, these are two services each day, that they are… kinda get… You know, when you got a lot of miles, it… you can tell it.

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« 32 † So now to you people in California, and out in Arizona, we all send greetings across the nation. Brother Leo and the group that’s waiting on the Lord up at Prescott, invited now, and all you people around Phoenix, a week from tonight, we’re to be over in Yuma at the banquet. They done sold out all their tickets over there and got a bigger auditorium, and they can’t place the people. So come early, you all, to–to get in. Then we’re going on into Los Angeles from there, next Monday… next Sunday, Sunday night. And so we’re looking to see you all over there. God’s rich blessings rest on you all.

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« 33 † To you in New York, and you that are around up in Ohio and different places, soon I want to preach the message of The Trail Of The Serpent (the beast at the beginning, and the beast at the end), at the Tabernacle. Billy will send you a note for that, when we’re going to speak it, ’cause I do that in the Tabernacle because it’ll, at least, be four hours or more long.
34 So now… so I want you here, here and wherever you are now, to turn to the Book of Job. Very strange Book to preach from, but I want to just use a few notes here now.
35 And then, tomorrow morning, here at the tabernacle, there’ll be Sunday School services at… We start here at what time? [A man says, “Nine-thirty.”–Ed.] Nine-thirty. And then I have the privilege of speaking here again tomorrow. And the Lord willing, I wanted to speak on the subject… if He’s willing, now, as I was studying this afternoon, to show you that, “There’s only one place that God will meet a worshipper.” Uh-huh, only… And–and can tell you what that place is, and what the Name of that place is, where God will meet the worshipper.

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« 36 † And then, tomorrow night, I’m going to ask a favor, that is, for a healing service. And I–I want an old-fashioned healing service. And if the Lord willing, I want to speak on a subject that alarmed me today… When Brother Moore and I were talking out together, my precious brethren, we were discussing Scriptures. And how lovely it was to be with them brothers, like old times. And he said, “You know, Brother Branham, all the preaching you ever done for us here in Shreveport, The Lamb And The Dove was one of the most outstanding messages you ever brought us here at Shreveport.” Said, “I guess with your Message so strenuous to you today, you never get to one like that.”
37 “When I miss That, I miss my Message.”
Love is my dear dying Lamb, Thy precious Blood
Shall never lose its power,
Till all the ransomed church of God
Be saved, to sin no more.
Ever since by faith, I saw that stream
Thy flowing wounds supplying,
Redeeming love has been my theme,
And shall be till I die.

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« 38 † Tomorrow night, if it be the will of the Lord, I want to preach on a subject on: On The Wings Of A Snow-White Dove. Tomorrow night, “The Lord coming down on the wings of a Dove,” that is, if the Lord willing, my voice don’t get too bad. Now… so, pray for us.
39 And then I want an old-fashioned prayer meeting like we had at the beginning, no discernment, just simply give everybody a card that wants to be prayed for. Now, you must have a card, so be here early so Billy can give you a card and keep it lined up. If you don’t do that, people just keep doubling back, and doubling back, and doubling back, and there’s no end to the line. Anybody can have a card. I want Brother Jack to stand by me at the prayer line, like you use to, and Brother Brown to bring the people to me instead of Billy Paul. I–I–I–I want–I want an old-fashioned prayer line, and we’ll just pray the way we used to years ago.

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« 40 † I’m glad tonight to have another associate brother with us, just looked around and recognized then and seen him, a few minutes ago, Brother Gordon Lindsay. He’s one of the old timers, was with us a long time ago. Doing a great job, printing, he’s printing my book now: The–The Seven Church Ages. We hope to have it ready again, The Seven Seals. If he happens to read that before he prints it, we’re going to have a theological discussion. I can just feel it coming. But he knows I’m no theologian. So… Well, we’re looking forward to tomorrow night. If you’re in, Brother Lindsay, be here tomorrow night. If you are, drop around and be with us on the platform for an old-fashioned prayer meeting.
41 How many would like to see one of them old-timers again, where we bring the people up? That’ll be fine. Now, bring out your sick and afflicted, tomorrow night, for that purpose then.

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« 42 † Now, if you got the Book of Job, the 42nd verse… or 42nd chapter, and the first six verses of the 42nd chapter of Job; very strange. Brother Ted Dudley, if you are listening in tonight, over in Phoenix, you remember you and I talking one time, about a week or two ago, and we referred to this? I told you, “Someday that would become a text to me.” And I want to use it tonight.
Then answered…
Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
Listen close to this reading now.
I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no doubt can be witholden from thee.
Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
43 Now I want to take a text from that 5th verse.
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now my eye seeth thee.
May the Lord bless His Word.

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« 44 † Job, let’s take a little of his life. Job was a prophet. He was a man that lived back before the Bible was written. It’s been thought that Job was one of the oldest Books of the Bible, because It was written before Genesis was written. Job, this great warrior and prophet, was a–a mighty man in his day. No doubt that he had been brought up and had served the Lord all of his life. And had lived such a gallant life to the people, all had respects for him.
45 But he’d come to a place to where he calls it here, being tempted of the Lord. But I’d like to use the word, being “tested” by the Lord. And truly, “Every son that cometh to God must first be tested, tried, child-trained.” And then if the testing gets hard, and we think it’s too hard and won’t listen (take heed), then He said we “become a illegitimate child, and not a child of God.” Because, there’s nothing can move a real, borned-again child of God away from his Parent, see, he’s part of Him. You could no more deny it, you could deny yourself. See, you’ve had the experience, you’ve been trained and tested.

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« 46 † And now, this man being a prophet, he had had access to God’s grace, but Job didn’t have a Bible to read. He… the Bible wasn’t wrote then, but he had access to God by revelation and by vision. That was before the Bible was written.
47 Now, we find out, and take some of his life, when God blessed him and made him a great man. Why, even everybody respected him, even to his wisdom, had become so great. His inspiration from God had vindicated him to be God’s servant, so plainly, until the people come from everywhere to hear him. And then Satan begin to accuse that man. And that’s the way he does every inspired servant of God, Satan is always there to accuse him of everything that he does that’s not right.
48 And, now, we find out his life and trials, and his great faith. Even Jesus, when He came on the earth, He referred to the patience of Job. He said, “Have you not read of the patience of Job?” Faith waits with patience for the promised Word to be fulfilled.

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« 49 † Now, we notice here that Job, after he went through his trials, all of his afflictions… He had a lovely family, they were taken from him. He had good health, it was taken from him. Everything that he owned in this life was taken. And he set on a ashheap, with a piece of crock, scraping his boils. And even to his own wife, spoke against him, she said, “Why not curse God, and die?”
50 He said, “Thou speakest like a foolish woman.” He said, “The Lord gave, and the Lord taken away, blessed be the Name of the Lord!”

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« 51 † Now, Satan had come up before God, ’cause he could come before God, and accused the Christians (or, the believers) all the time. So he accused Job of many things, and said that “Job, the reason he could serve God, because everything was coming good for him.” But said, “If You’ll just let me have him, in my hands, I’ll make him curse You to Your face.”
52 I want you to notice that the confidence that God had in a believer. See? He’s… In other words, God said to Job… or said to Satan, like this, “You can’t do it! He’s a just man justified. He is a good man. He… there’s not one like him in the whole earth.” O what a man; that God Himself would say to His enemy, “My servant is so perfect, there’s not another man on earth like him.” Oh! If we could only be that kind of a man! That God could bestow that confidence upon us! That know that we’ll not twist from His Word or His Being, any way! Stay exactly, and He can put His trust in us.

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« 53 † Now, Job was a man that carried out God’s commandments to the letter, exactly. And Satan knew that, but he said, “If You’ll just let me have him, I’ll make him curse You to Your face.”
54 So God told him, He said, “Now, he’s in your hands, but don’t you take his life.” And Satan even stretched as far as he could on that. He took every friend, and everything he had, almost his complete life, but he couldn’t take his life. But Job still held right on, there was no turning back.
55 You see, when a man or a person has once really come in contact with God, with that genuine, revealed faith that “God is!” There’s nothing, no time, nowhere, can ever separate that man from his God. I believe it was Paul said, “There’s no strife, no hunger, no perils, neither living creatures, or death, or anything that can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus.” You are securely anchored in Him because you were ordained to that Life.

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« 56 † But Satan thought he could twist him around a little bit, and cuff him up, and make him do it. But, you see, Job with his perfect revelation of God, and who God was, and how God loved him, he waited! No matter what the circumstances was, he waited for his faith to be confirmed, because he had had a grip on God, a revelation. That I spoke of last night.
57 Now, when the sick people that’s in the building, the crippled people, or you that have a need of God, when you can get that type of a revelation that you are “justified,” when you are actually justified in asking the thing that you’re asking for, and believe that “He is a Rewarder of those that diligently seek after Him,” there’s nothing can ever separate you from that faith that’s anchored to you. See? But, first, it has to be revealed to you.

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« 58 † Someone come not long ago, a group of man, some of them listening in tonight, and told me, said… I kept telling them, “Go to Kentucky, oil’s down there.” I knew it was, I seen it in a vision.
59 Well, Brother Demos and them didn’t go for a long time. After while, finally, they said… After Texas had moved in. And they said, “Now we’re going down.”
60 I said, “You ought to a-went a long time ago.” But they didn’t do it.
61 Demos said, “I made a great mistake in that, by not doing that, Brother Branham.”
62 I said, “If you’d a-went down there, you’d a-had it all.”
63 Well, they wouldn’t listen to it. Then the first… then ‘fore we left that night… The–the place where we were having lunch. The Holy Spirit showed me a great crack in the earth, and in that was full of oil, and these overflows in Kentucky was just little beds of oil that they were pumping from, but this one come from the main stream. And I said, “Brother Demos, it’s there.”
64 So they went to searching for it. Said, “Go down and tell us where the–where the oil well is.”
65 I said, “Oh, no! No! No!”

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« 66 † See, we don’t use the gift of God for commercial. No! No! He could tell me where it was at, but I don’t have any need of it. I wouldn’t even have faith enough to ask Him. See? If I had a need of it, I believe if I’d ask Him, He’d tell me. But first, you see, your motives and objectives has to be right. You have to have reasons for this. God don’t give you those things just because you ask. And you cannot ask in faith unless there’s a real objective to that, to be in the will of God. See, if you want to be well, what do you want to be well for? See, if you want to be healed, what’s the reason you want to be healed? What are you telling God? What do you want to do with your life when you get healed? See, there’s got to be… you’ve got to have a motive and objective, and they have to be right according to the will of God. And then’s when the faith is revealed to you, and God by His sovereign grace places that faith in there, then it’s over. See? Now see?

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« 67 † Now, to make that Word true, when the brethren got down there, they got… one fellow went over and bought a bunch of stuff, and sold leases, and cheated the other one this way. I said, “You see, it won’t work.” Now just to make the prophecy sure, within a hundred yards of where these man were digging their well, some man struck the big gusher. And it’s there, eleven hundred barrels of oil in a half a day, or something or other like that; still putting it out, right in that main stream. But just to make the prophecy, the Word that had been said that it was there, it was there. The rest of them nearly’s all dried up, everywhere through Kentucky. Little ponds, they pump them a little while, and they go. It’s only the overflow from this. See?

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« 68 † But, because of the selfishness got among it, the objectives was wrong, signing up a bunch of stuff “it would be this way,” when they promised they would do it for the Kingdom of God, but look like it’s for themselves. See?
69 And it won’t work, no selfish thing will work. Your motives and objectives has to be exactly, perfectly right, then you have faith, to ask. “If our hearts condemn us not, then we have confidence.” See? See, we’ve got to have confidence. “I want this to the honor and glory of God.” Then faith has a–a channel to move into; if it doesn’t, then you got mental, intellectual faith, and not genuine faith from God. That intellectual faith will get you nowhere. Might get you emotional, but it won’t get you the healing that you’re looking for.

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« 70 † So, Job, checking himself with the genuine faith that God had give to him that he was “just,” that he had done everything that God required him to do. Now when we’re going to be prayed for, for our sickness, I wonder if we have done everything that God requires us to do. Have we followed every iota of the Scripture? Have we give Him our hearts and lives to service? What’s the reason you want to be healed? That’s the reason you can’t get faith enough, see, because you haven’t maybe made this thing to God sincerely from your heart. Like Hezekiah did, give God the reason, he wanted to set his–his kingdom in order. And God sent His prophet back and told him, and he’d be healed. See? But, you have to have those things made right, first.
71 So then as soon as you get to these places and know that it’s been revealed to you by the Word of God, by the revelation, by the Word that God requires you to do, then you have faith, genuine faith.

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« 72 † Now, just like Abraham when he was ninety and nine years old. I believe, Genesis 17. God appeared to this old man, now, ninety and nine years old, when he was almost a hundred years old, that had been waiting upon that promise all these years. He appeared to him in the name of El Shaddai, the “Breasted-one.” And what an encouragement it was, yet the promise wasn’t fulfilled then. But, “Abraham, I am the Almighty God, El Shaddai, ‘the Strength-giver, the Breasted God.'”

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« 73 † Like I’ve told you before, like the little baby that’s fretting, and sick, and crying, and it lays upon its mother’s breast. And nurses its strength back from her, because it’s satisfied while it’s a-nursing, because the only access it has and knows of is the mother’s breast. It knows no dose of medicine. You might give him a dose of medicine, he’d squeal and cry. Give him a shot in the arm, and he’d carry on. But the only access to satisfy him is the mother’s breast.

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« 74 † And He said, “Abraham, you’re old, your strength is gone, your arms are withered up, your manhood’s gone, but I am your Mother. Just take a-hold of My promise, and be satisfied while you’re waiting. Be rested!”
75 Now, that’s the way every believer, no matter how bad the cancer’s got you, how long you been setting in a wheelchair, any of those things, just if you can grasp that revelation from God! Then be satisfied, knowing that it’s going to happen, because faith waits patiently for the promise. See?

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« 76 † Job knew that he was right. When we find out, here in the Scriptures, that there was… these fellows come to him; his church members. Everything that once seemed dear to him had turned against him, and tried to accuse him of being a secret sinner, because all these things had happened to him. You hear people, yet today, say, “I told you. Look at him! You see what…?” That ain’t altogether the truth. Sometime it’s God testing His people. In this case, it was God testing Job, the best man there was on earth at the time. Now, He was holding him then, because that He knew Job was a prophet that had a vision from God, that he had exactly done what God told him to do and he… God was duty bound to keep His promise to him.

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« 77 † Oh! All Christians has got to be that. When the last struggle of our life comes, and death rattles are in our throat, we still must hold steady and remember that God said, “I’ll raise you up again at the last day.” See? Got to hold that–that, our testimony, our place in Christ, our position, what we are, knowing that we have kept every Word of His commandment. “Blessed are they that do His commandments that they might have the right to enter in.” See? And when we know, that no matter what anyone has said, we’ve kept every commandment that we see in the Bible, that God has done us… told us to do, with reverence, and love, and respect to the Creator Who wrote the Bible.
78 We say, “Man wrote It.”
79 “Man of old, moved by the Holy Ghost, wrote It.” See? See, God wrote It through man. Like a prophet speaks His Word, it’s not the prophet’s word, it’s God’s Word, see, through the prophet. That’s the reason It has to come to pass, if it’s truly the Truth.

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« 80 † Now, we see this great man. And, remember, Job had no Bible to read in his day. No! He only went by inspiration. He was a prophet to whom the Word of the Lord comes to. He had–he had only to be inspired, because he knowed his position that he was God’s prophet. Now, the only thing that had to happen, was for the inspiration to strike him. And then he knowed what he said would happen, because it was by inspiration.
81 That’s what the church, if it’s in order (set in order), it only… it’s got the mechanics ready, it only needs then the dynamics. Tonight, if we’ll get the mechanics ready, get our hearts right, the things that we can do, follow every Word, follow Him in baptism, follow Him in every order that He told us to do, get every mechanic ready, and stand there; then we’re ready for the dynamics to be lit off, and only God can do that; and that’s to drop into your heart that faith that says, “I am now healed.” Then don’t make any difference what circumstances is, you’re healed anyhow; ’cause it’s faith, by faith you’re healed.

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« 82 † He had a channel of communication to God, that he’d got by inspiration. He had a way of moving himself out, and letting God move in. And he knowed he was justified. It was a gift, it was a gift for the people; not for Job, but for the people. That’s what all Divine gifts are, to serve God’s people with. Everybody’s not ordered to be a prophet. All of you not… is not ordered to be praying for the sick. All of them’s not ordered to be pastors, and so forth. But it’s a channel that God has opened to them. And even as we had this morning in the lesson, that he… One man has no business deviating in the next man’s channel, no matter how inspired, how much it seems, how well… How many was at the meeting this morning? Let’s see your hand. See? See, you cannot.

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« 83 † There’s David, just as inspired as he could be, all the people shouting and glorifying God, for a reason that seemed exactly Scripture, but he was the wrong person. That inspiration should have come to Nathan, not David. See, he never even consulted Nathan. You see what happened? See, we have… God said He “does nothing till He reveals It to His servants the prophets.”
84 And Job was this prophet in this day. Now, only thing God had done to Job: What always give him wisdom and His Word and inspiration, he could get no inspiration. But he knowed all of his mechanics (he had offered the burnt-offering, he had done everything he knowed to do was right), but he couldn’t get a word from God. But the Devil couldn’t move him! There you are.
85 Now, there you are when you’re prayed for. You don’t have to run back through a line, or go let somebody else pray for you. When you know you’ve done exactly what God told you to do, see, then wait for that channel of inspiration to open up to you, and, “Now I’m healed!” When it drops in there, then it’s all over. Oh, you don’t need no prayer lines, nothing else, it’s over! It’s been revealed to you! See?

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« 86 † Just like the old prophet at the coming of the Lord Jesus, we find out it was revealed to him, the old sage, that “he would not see death until he seen the Lord’s Christ.” And he believed That, and he waited for It. And the people thought he was crazy, the old man had lost his mind. But he still believed It! Nothing could shake him from It, he knowed God had revealed It to him, for the Bible said, “It was revealed to him by the Holy Ghost.”
87 Simeon coming into the Temple at that minute, walked over and give praise to God, and said, “Let Thy servant depart in peace.” When he picked up the baby, “Mine eyes have seen Thy salvation.” See, he knowed he was going to see It. No matter how many babies he’d visit each day, he knew God had revealed to him that he was going to see the Christ before he died. Simeon believed that.
88 Now when it’s revealed to you, that you yourself has received God’s promise; the inspiration, you being Christians, it struck you, you don’t even need a prayer line. The thing… the only thing you need is a open heart when all the mechanics are ready, and let the inspiration drop in, and then nothing can change your mind; you’ve got it. Outside of that, it won’t do no good.

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« 89 † Now notice, Job needed a channel of inspiration, he had it open. He had a channel to communicate with God, by His inspiration. He had a way of moving himself out and let the Word of God move in. Notice how they–how they come to consult him from the East and from the West, people looking for him because they know that what Job said was the Truth. They knowed that man told the Truth. Because, what he prophesied, that’s what happened! And so people come from the East and West.
90 He said he’d go over to the markets, the young princes from the East would bow before him, just to hear one word of consolation from him, his great and mighty wisdom, ’cause they knowed the man was honest. He didn’t want to boast up himself, he had no axes to grind, no strings to pull, he was just a honest prophet before God. And they had confidence in him, and everybody come from the East and West just to speak to him in a moment. He’s spoke of, in the Bible here. But, you see, he lacked inspiration to tell him what all this was about. God let it happen, didn’t tell him.

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« 91 † Then, one day, we find out that in that, that’s the time that… Everybody, as long as you can help them, “All right.” But when they want to disagree with you, that’s when trouble comes in. But he alone knew he was right; his pulsation of faith, of hearing God’s Word speak to him, he knew It was the Truth. Yes, sir! He knew God’s Voice. Nobody could fool him on It, for he knew It. It… But whenever you… something’s revealed to you, maybe contrary to what the people think… Now, I’m speaking in the line of prophets. When it’s God reveals something, which, if there ever is a secret comes out from God to be made known to the people, it will never come through a seminary, it will never come through a group of people, it never did. It always will, has, and will, through one individual, a prophet! Amos 3:7, see, “The Lord does nothing except first He reveals It through His prophets.”

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« 92 † And, now, Job had something wrong with him, but he couldn’t get the inspiration on him, and it was worrying him, and that… when you get in that kind of a fix, that’s when the enemy moves into every friend, nearly, you got. And they begin to accuse him. Oh, it must have been a miserable thing for him to know his friends that accused him, Satan then goes and joins himself with the enemy. That’s when Satan comes in, “Let me have him, and I’ll make him curse You to Your… I’ll make him deny his Message. I’ll make him curse You. I’ll make him go back and say ‘It was all wrong.'” Then he tried him with everything he could, to all the great man and the friends that he used to have. But Job stood flat-footed, for he knew he had heard God’s Voice!
93 O God, help, tomorrow night, that I can get that Wings Of A Dove. See, I heard the Voice of God that said something, and it’s going to happen that way! Just the same as these other things has happened, it’s going to happen!

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« 94 † Now, Job knew it was going to happen. And he knowed that God had told him that, that he was “just.” But they made him a sinner, so he waited then for the inspiration. Satan getting in all the–the people and he come around the… his comforters, the so-called, and accusing him, but it didn’t move him a bit. But when the Word of God became vindicated to him… He had heard of God by the hearing of the ear, but one day setting out at his lowest point… And while he was setting there, and everyone accusing him, even his wife telling him he was “wrong,” he was scraping his boils. And Elihu came down and rebuked him for being selfish, about the way he was accusing God and so forth.
95 And then at that time it was when inspiration struck him, that’s when the lightning begin to flash, the thunders begin to roar, that’s when the inspiration struck the prophet, and he raised up, and he said, “I know my Redeemer liveth! And at the last days He’ll stand upon this earth. Though the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God, Whom I shall see for myself.”

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« 96 † He saw… He had been talking about the trees, the botany life, how it dies and lives again; water brings it back again, the smell of water, the scent of water, the results of water pouring upon a tree or something, a seed that went in the ground. He said, “But a man layeth down and giveth up the ghost, his children come to honor and he perceive it not. O that Thou would hide me in the grave” (Job 14) “till Thy wrath be past.” He said, “But if a man dies, shall he live again? All the appointed times of my life, I’ll wait till my change comes. Thou wilt call me, and I’ll answer. Thou hast appointed me bounds that I cannot past,” so forth. He knowed all these things. He watched the tree live, but what happened to a man when he died? He didn’t raise up again. So, God was showing him this Redeemer.

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« 97 † He wanted to see if there was somebody who could intercede for him. He had interceded for so many people, but now is there somebody can speak for him? Could there somebody put his hand on Job, or on a sinful man and a Holy God, and make bridge the way? Could he go to His house and knock at the door? Would He open the door and talk to him awhile?
98 But, then, when the inspiration dropped into his heart, then he could see God. The lightning’s a-flashing, the thunder’s a-roaring. And when it did, he stood upon his feet, and he said, “I know my Redeemer liveth! My Redeemer, and at the last days He’ll stand on the earth.” See, he had begin to see God’s reaction to his faith.

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« 99 † Now, we wonder if we could see God. Is there a way that we could see Him? Now, it was the only way God had, trying Job out. He said, “I have heard of Thee, with the hearing of the ear, but now I see Thee. But now I see Thee, with my eyes.” The vision of the invisible had been made plain. He seen the cloud rolling around, he heard the flashing of the lightning, or saw it. And seen the roaring of the thunder, maybe on a clear day, and he seen God was in that cloud and in that lightning. He could see God, with his natural eye. See, because the invisible was made visible. The visible vision of others was then vindicated, clear, to the natural eye.

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« 100 † Just like faith with works, as we spoke on last night. Abraham, no… had no Bible to read either, but he was a prophet, his vision and his faith. And it seemed wrong to others that he should think that way, that he should think they was going to have a baby. But they did have the baby, because his vision of the baby was what he was talking about, “I’m going to have it! I’m going to have it!” But when the baby was borned, then the other people could see with the eye what he saw in a vision. And when you go to acting upon what you believe in your heart, then the people know God, and know what’s happening to you, by the way you act. That’s how you see God with the eye. But to him, all he had done that was good, all that he had done for others, he needed somebody to intercede for him. When the birth of the baby come, Isaac, the–the inspiration that had led him to this had vindicated his vision to where the people could see that what he had saw in a vision was actually the Truth.

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« 101 † Now, sometimes these great pulsations of faith come right in the time of crisis. It’s usually crisis that drives us into this. It was a crisis that drove Job into it. Why, he was at the end of his life. His children was dead; his camels. And all of his goods was gone and destroyed. And his own life, he was broke out from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet with boils. It was a crisis, that he pressed hisself, there’s where the inspiration struck him.

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« 102 † O man and women, tonight, if you could look around and see how close we are to the Coming of the Lord. You who’ve put off the baptism of the Holy Ghost. You maybe relied upon some sensation, or something that you done that Satan can impersonate, and can’t have the real Spirit in you to go all the way in God’s promises. How can a man that claims to have the Holy Ghost deny one Word of this Bible, being, “not right”? You can’t do it!
103 No matter how religious you are, how many churches you belong to, how many books your name’s on, if that genuine Holy Ghost is in you (which is this Word manifested), you’ll see the Message and the hour, because it’s the Holy Ghost that does it. But there has to be something light that off, inspiration strike you. And if there’s… if you pour water on the ground, on the ground, on the ground, and there’s no seed in there to strike it, how can it ever bring forth anything? There’s nothing there to bring forth. That is, that only the Elected of God will see It.

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« 104 † The Elected of God seen It in Noah’s time, Moses’ time, Jesus’ time, the apostles’ time, Luther’s time, Wesley’s time, Pentecostal time, because that was the Seed that was on the earth when this inspiration was poured out. Now while the inspiration’s poured out, to gather the Bride together, it’s only those who are Elected will see It. Jesus said, “I thank Thee, Father, that Thou hast hid these things from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and revealed It to babes such as will learn.” Now, inspiration has to strike it.

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« 105 † Now, when the inspiration struck him, that did it. He had It then! Now, we find out, there comes a time of these crisis when the press is right on. And you look around today, look at the condition we’re living in. Aren’t we living in a modern Sodom and Gomorrah? Hasn’t the world come back? That was a Gentile world that was destroyed then, by fire. Didn’t Jesus say, in Saint Luke, the 17th chapter, the 28th, 29th, and 30th verse, that, “As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man, when the Son of man is being revealed”? What is a “revealed”? Is a secret made known, a revelation; is to reveal or make known a secret.
106 Now, these things that’s been hid all through the church ages is now being revealed, made known. Now, we could say that, and if God didn’t back that up, that’s wrong. See, God don’t need anybody to interpret His Word, He’s His Own Interpreter. He said, “A virgin shall conceive,” and she did. He said, “Let there be light,” and there was. And we are not living in Luther’s age, Wesley age, or the Pentecostal age. The Pentecostal age was only a restoration of the gifts coming back to the church, but we’re living in the evening time, we’re living in a time of the calling out of the Bride.

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« 107 † And just as it was hard for the Catholics to see Luther, and the Luther’s to see the Wesley, and the Penteco-… the Wesley’s to see the Pentecostal age, so is it hard for the Pentecostals to see this age. It’s always been that way, because It’s poured out upon an Elected Seed, and that only. That’s what the Bible teaches. They can’t see It, Jesus even prayed for them, said, “They was blind, they didn’t know it.” Revelation tells us, in this Laodicean church age, when He was put out of the church, that they’re “naked! poor! miserable! blind! and don’t know it.” Back again, they can’t see It, can’t understand It. They’re so creeped up in traditions!

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« 108 † But remember the promised Word of God by the mouth of Jesus Christ, the very God that spoke creation into existence, He was the One before the foundation of the world that spoke the words “And let there be,” and there was. For He said, “He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. But as many as did know Him, to them He gave the power to become the sons of God.” The very Creator, and the very Creator Himself, when He raised up Lazarus from the dead, He said, “Think this not strange, for the hour’s coming that when all that’s in the grave will hear the Voice of the Son of man, and shall come out.” The very God that said “Let there be Light,” said “The Voice of the Son of man would wake those that are in the grave.” It has to happen in its season. He spoke, “Let there be male and female,” and so forth, and all this, years and hundreds of years before it happened.

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« 109 † The inspiration hit the prophet Isaiah, he said, “Unto us a child is born, a son is given. His Name shall be called Counselor, Prince of Peace, the Mighty God, the everlasting Father.” Years passed, months, years, days, weeks, years rolled by, hundreds of years rolled by. Eight hundred years later, Emmanuel was borned by a virgin! Why? Is because it was spoke by the lips of God’s anointed prophet, a seed went forth. See? “And that great hour,” said, “will you seek… ask Me of a vision or a sign.”
110 He said, “I’ll give them a sign, an everlasting sign, ‘A virgin shall conceive,’ an everlasting sign.”
111 Now, we find that in those hours of real stress, that’s usually when the Spirit of God moves in. He let the Hebrew children walk right into the fiery furnace, before He ever moved a hand. But when He moves, He moves.

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« 112 † Now, we notice here that in Luke, the–the 17th chapter, and the 30th verse, that He said, “In the last days, that the Son of man would reveal Himself as He did just before Sodom and Gomorrah, and the same conditions would exist.” He told about Moses, about… and I beg your pardon, not about Moses, but about Noah. How that the people was “eating, drinking, and so forth, marrying and given in marriage.” Then He come around, He said, “Now, as it was in the days of Lot, so shall it be at the time when the Son of man is being revealed.” Now, watch, the Son of man was revealed to Abraham’s group, as a Man, a Prophet in a form of human flesh, a ordinary Man with dust on His clothes, and Abraham called Him “Elohim.”

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« 113 † Now, Jesus promises here that in the last days the Son of man will be revealed again to that same type of group, the royal Seed of Abraham, just before the fire falls. Remember, the church never received any more witness, Abraham and them didn’t, the promised son that they were looking for was brought right away after that. And the church is looking for the Promised Son, He will come right after the days of this ministry, He’ll be revealed from the heavens. Now, we see it too plain, it’s got to be. Now, the only thing there has to be is something pulsates, gets into a man, God vindicate and tells him and shows him that that is the thing to happen; and that you’re going to…

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« 114 † Like Moses did, he didn’t want to deliver those children, but God spoke to him in a burning bush. He didn’t want to go, but he had to go. Moses had heard of Him being the great Jehovah. But then he could see Him, He was in the form of a Pillar of Fire. “I’ve heard of Thee, but now I see Thee.” What was He seen in? His Word vindicated.
115 God told Abraham that “his people would sojourn in a strange land for four hundred years, but He would bring them out with a mighty hand.”
116 And, notice, this burning bush gave vindication to what the prophet Abraham had said would take place. Moses said, “I’ve heard of it, but now I see it!”

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« 117 † Now, we’ve heard that in the last days that the Son of man will come among His people and reveal Himself to the people in the same way that He did at the… just before the destruction of Sodom. The Son of man, what did He do? He knowed the secrets that was in Sarah’s heart. Also give the promise to Abraham. Abraham had heard God’s Voice, he might have seen Him in many different ways (I don’t know how He talked to him, through dreams or through prophecies), but this time he saw Him. “I’ve heard of You, now I see You.”
118 And the church has heard of God, they’ve read of Him, and what He did, and the promises He made, but now we see Him with our eyes (just the same as Job did), “I’ve heard of Thee, but now I see Thee.” My! What a different.

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« 119 † Moses, in that crisis, cried out. And we find out, in Exodus, the 14th chapter, the 13th and to the 16th verse, Moses in that great strain there with the children of Israel, inspiration struck him, and he said what he was supposed to say, not knowing he said it. See, “Stand still and see the salvation of God.” God had never spoke to him yet. See, the inspiration struck him.
120 They said, “Why did you bring us out here? We ought to have died in Egypt. Was it because there was no graves down there? Bring us out here, and let us die; we could have lived in peace as slaves until we died, but you brought us out here.”
121 Moses, a prophet, knowing he had access to God, was inspired, and he said, “Stand still and you’ll see the salvation of God; for the Egyptians you’re looking at today, you’ll never see them again.” How did he know it was going to happen? How did he know? He didn’t know what he spoke.

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« 122 † But as immediately after he spoke it, God told him how to do it. Said, “Moses, don’t cry to Me, take your staff in your hand and stretch it out over the sea, and tell the children of Israel to ‘Walk!'” Amen!
123 The inspiration! That’s the way it strikes you if you’re sick. That’s the way it strikes you if you’re afflicted. Something’s revealed to you, and you see that it’s been revealed, you speak up, “I’m healed!”
124 Then God tells you what to do, “Rise up and start walking.” Amen! Then it’s all over, when you can do it that way. That’s the way God does it, then you see God manifested through yourself.
125 It was God that told him to do it. Now, then, all that was present, all of Israel that was present saw the inspiration that struck Moses. They seen God, with their own eye, blow that water back from one side to the other. And that Pillar of Fire led them right across the–the sea. He heard of God, then they seen God.

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« 126 † Joshua was in a hour of crisis, when the armies was routed, and the sun was going down. Joshua was a prophet, and he knew that if them armies ever had a chance to unite again and come against him, he would lose more man, so in that hour of crisis when something had to be done… There’s only one thing, if he could keep them running, he’d route them, every one, down. But there wasn’t enough light to do it, so Joshua stood, raised his hands, he said, “Sun, stand still! And moon, hang over Ajalon till I get through with this battle.” And the sun stood still. They heard Joshua speak, and then they seen God (with their own eyes) in action. True!

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« 127 † See, of course, it was a paradox to see something that seems to be impossible, yet it’s true. But, “The sun stood still,” says the Bible. I don’t know what you people think, that thinks the world was run, now; but, anyhow, “the sun stood still.” Perhaps Joshua never had tried to figure out how he was going to–to do it, how God was going to do it, the only thing that he said was, “Sun stand still!” He said it, perhaps not knowing what he was saying, because it was God that give it to him, and He worked.
128 Same thing in Mark 11:23, “If you say to this mountain ‘be moved,’ and don’t doubt in your heart, but believe that what you said will come to pass, you can have what you said.” But you can’t stand there fumble in your mind and say it, you’ve got to be inspired to say it. Amen!

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« 129 † Excuse the expression; but that day, setting there in that woods (and God’s my Judge, and I could fall dead on this pulpit), when that Scripture had stumped me all my life… setting there that morning in the woods, and I was thinking on that, and that Voice spoke to me, He said, “That Scripture is like all Scriptures, It’s true.”
130 And I thought, “Well, how could it be?”
131 And He said, “You’re…” I said… He said, “Speak, and it will be that way. Don’t doubt It.”
132 And I was talking to Somebody, setting way out in the woods. No squirrels, been there for three days, there’s no squirrels there. And I was setting in a sycamore thicket. Squirrels don’t even come… anyone that hunt squirrels, know they’re not in sycamore. And I had been setting there; and wind blowing real hard, about ten o’clock in the morning, and I was thinking again.
133 And It said, “You’re hunting, and you need squirrels just the same as Abraham needed a ram.”
134 I thought, “That’s always told me the Truth, but this sounds funny.” And I got up from where I was setting, looked all around, “Where is that Person that was talking to me?” Nothing; wind just blowing real hard. And I thought, “Could I have fell asleep and dreamed that? No, I wasn’t asleep. I was setting up against the tree there, watching, supposed to pick up Brother Woods and Brother Sothmann back there, just in a little bit, around ten o’clock in the morning. Farmers all out there working, gathering their corn.”

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« 135 † And I heard It again, say, “You are hunting, and you need game. How many do you need?”
136 And I thought, “Now, I don’t want to overdo this, I’m just going to ask for three, three squirrels. I want young, three red squirrels. I want them.”
137 He said, “Then speak about it.”
138 And I said, “I am going to get three young red squirrels.”
139 He said, “Which a-way will they come?”
140 “Well,” I thought, “I’ve went this far, there’s Something talking to me here.” Just the same as you hear me talking. And God in Heaven, with this Bible over my heart, knows that that’s true. And He… And I said, “Well,…” I picked out a ridiculous place, an old dry limb hanging out of there (about fifty yards, where my rifle was shot in).
141 I said, “The first one will be right there,” and there he was.
142 I rubbed my eyes and looked back (I turned my head), and I thought, “I don’t want to shoot a vision.” So I looked around again, and there set the squirrel. I throwed a shell up in my gun, aimed up, and I could see his black eye, young red squirrel. I thought, “I–I… maybe I’m sleeping, I–I’ll wake up in a few minutes. See, I’m dreaming about this.” Well, I leveled down, shot the squirrel and it dropped off the limb. I thought, “Well, I don’t know.” I thought, “Well, should I go over and look for it?” And–and I walked over there, and there it laid. I picked it up and blood run out of it. A vision don’t bleed, you know. So I picked it up, and it was a squirrel. I got real numb, all over.

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« 143 † And I looked around, I said, “God, that was You!” I said, “Thank You, for this. Now I’ll go out and…”
144 He said, “But you said! Do you doubt what you said? You said you’d get ‘three.’ Now where will the next one come from?”
145 I thought, “Well, if I’m dreaming, I’m going to continue on.”
146 So I–I said… I picked out an old post over there, of a tree that was all wrapped up with this here poison ivy. You never get a squirrel in that. So I said, “The next one will come right out of that poison ivy,” and there set that young red squirrel looking right at me. I set my gun down, and rubbed my eyes. Turned around again, I thought… There he set, turned his head sideways. I shot the squirrel, and then I started to go home.
147 But said, “You said ‘three’! Do you doubt what you said?”
148 I said, “No, Lord, I don’t doubt what I said, for You’re confirming.”
This is one Scripture that stumped me: “Not if I say, but if you say.” Not if Jesus said it, but if you say it yourself.

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« 149 † And I thought, “Somehow I’ve broke into that channel, and I know He’s here because I’m almost beside myself.” I thought, “I’ll make this one ridiculous, sure enough.”
I said, “They’d be a red squirrel come down off that hill, come right down this a-way, and right by me, and go out, and set on that limb, and look down there at that farmer.” Here he come down the hill, went right out, and sat, looked at the farmer. And I shot him.
150 Satan said to me, “You know what? The woods is just full of them, now.” And I set there till twelve o’clock, and not another thing happened. It goes to show that when God… He’s the very Creator of Heavens and earth!

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« 151 † Listening in, in Jeffersonville now, there’s a family named Wright. Brother Woods and I went down to see them. They make the communion wine for the church. Little Edith was setting there in the room; a little crippled girl, that she had been sick all of her life, and so we had always looked to God to heal her. Her sister, a widow, her husband had been killed; her name was Hattie, very humble little woman. And while Brother Banks and I went out to get her a rabbit, they had cooked a big cherry cobbler; and made me set down and eat.
152 We was all setting around the table, we were talking about this, it just happened a few days before. And while setting around the table, talking about this, all at once I said, “What could have happened?” I said, “Brother Wright, you’re an old man, hunted squirrels all your life. Brother Shelby, you’re an expert squirrel hunter. Brother Wood, so are you. I’ve hunted them since a kid. Did you ever see a squirrel in a sycamore and locust thicket?”
153 “No, sir.”
154 I said, “They just wasn’t there.” I said, “The only thing I know, It’s just the same God. When Abraham needed a ram, He was Jehovah-jireh, He could ‘provide for Himself.'” I said, “I believe it’s the same thing.”

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« 155 † And little ol’ Hattie setting back there, said, “Brother Branham, that’s nothing but the Truth!”
156 She said the right thing! When she said that, the Holy Spirit dropped over in that channel again, every one of them felt It. I raised up, I said, “Sister Hattie, THUS SAITH THE LORD, you said the right word like the Syrophenician woman said. The Holy Spirit’s speaking to me now, and said for me to give you the desire of your heart.” I said, “Now, if I be God’s servant, if it is, it’ll happen. If I ain’t God’s servant, then I’m a liar, and it won’t happen, I’m a deceiver.” I said, “Now try and see, it’s the Spirit of God or not.”
157 She said, “Brother Branham,” (everybody was crying), said, “what shall I ask?”
158 I said, “You got a crippled sister setting there.”

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« 159 † I had twenty dollars in my pocket, to give to her, that she had put in a donation. The woman don’t make a capital of about two hundred dollars a year, on that little, old, poor farm, her and two boys. Her boys had got to be regular ‘Ricky’s,’ school days, you know, and just sassing their mother; and fifteen, sixteen years old. And, oh, they were standing over there laughing at what I was saying.
160 And I said, “You’ve got a father and mother setting here that’s old. You haven’t got any money. Ask for the money, and see if it comes in your lap. Ask for your sister, and see if she don’t get up and walk.” I knew then, like Job, there’s just something you know when you strike it. Said, “I know! Here I stand before about ten people,” I said, “if this doesn’t happen, then I’m a false prophet.”
161 Said, “What shall I ask?”
162 I said, “It’s up to you to make your decision. I cannot make your decision.”
163 She looked around, the little woman. And all at once, she said, “Brother Branham, the greatest desire in my heart is the salvation of my two boys.”
164 I said, “I give you your boys, in the Name of Jesus Christ.” And them snickering, laughing, fun making boys fell across their mother’s lap, and surrendered their life to God, and was filled with the Holy Ghost right there.
165 Why? That is Truth! God has the authority to kill me, before these people across the nation. Many of you here and in Jeffersonville, I can hear the tabernacle ring out now, “Amen!” because they’re setting right there listening at it. See, because it’s the Truth! What is it? It’s when the God, by His sovereign grace; it happens! Outside of that, it won’t happen.

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« 166 † In that crucial moment… Think of the man and the people that I’m acquainted with. God bypassing all the celebrities, and everything, to give a poor, little ol’ humble woman, can’t hardly sign her own name; and He knowed that what she’d ask for. And that was the greatest thing; for her sister is now dead, and her mother and father has to die, the money would’ve perished, but the souls of her boy is Eternal! And that was the hour for them to catch It. And just as soon as I said, “I give you your boys, in the Name of Jesus Christ,” there they fell across their mother’s lap. How many in here knows that to be Truth, you know it? See, there it is. Yes. Why? Inspiration!
167 Now: “I have heard of Thee, that Thou could create squirrels; I’ve heard of Thee, that Thou could create a ram; but now I see Thee, with mine own eye!” The manifestation, the vision made visible. When God promised anything, that’s what He’ll do.

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« 168 † Notice, when you have a need, perhaps like Joshua. He had a need; he never thought of the circumstances, he spoke it, and it was God! Do you believe the sun stood still? So do I. How did it do it? Don’t try to figure it out, but it did it. Joshua did it, and raised his hands; in that crucial moment he had access to God, and that’s what happened. It was timely. The Spirit of the Living God had seen the need of it, and pushed upon Joshua to say it. The same God seen the need of Abraham. The same God seen the need of confirming this Scripture to me, that that Scripture’s true, too! The same God seen the need of those two predestinated boys, and it was that moment He proved it and confirmed His Word.

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« 169 † Saint Mark 14, we see a woman believed on Him, she had had need and seen He had need for His feet to be washed, she had only to be inspired to go into action. Now listen close as… before we close. She only had to be inspired to go into action, because she had already heard about Him. She heard that “He forgive a woman of her sins, a harlot. And said, ‘Which one of you is without sin? Cast the first stone.'” She had heard about Him, but now she seen Him. She was inspired to serve Him. That’s the only thing you have to be.
170 Let the Holy Spirit tell you that “You’re a sinner!” Let the Holy Spirit tell you “You’re wrong!” Let the Holy Spirit prove to you by the Scriptures that “You’re Scripturally wrong!”And what… ’cause It’ll only stir through one straight channel of every Scripture of God, It won’t bypass for nothing. If you do, It’ll never do you any good. Because the Holy Spirit can inspire It to you, but if the soul isn’t right with God, as we’ve been through this week, it’s no good anyhow. Remember, false anointed-ones will rise in the last days; not false Jesuses, false christs (anointed ones), and will deceive the very Elected if it were possible.

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« 171 † Notice, she had a service to do for Him. She had heard of Him, now she seen Him with her eyes. She had a service to do, and she had nothing to do it with. So she rushed forward anyhow, to do the service, God furnished the water and towels to wash His feet. She had heard of a Living God, all of her life, but now she seen Him with her eyes. She knew it was Him, and inspiration struck her, and said, “This is the Messenger!” He needed a service (she had nothing to serve Him by), His feet was dirty. But she rushed forward anyhow, to do Him a service, because she was inspired to do it.

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« 172 † O the backslidden church member, denominational man or woman, can’t you see the need Jesus has tonight? If inspiration can only strike you, this is the hour to do it. But she seen Him with her eyes. The others there were even mocking Him. They didn’t believe His Message. Frankly, the host, the pastor-host, ol’ Simon, had got Him down there to make fun out of Him. They didn’t believe He was a Prophet.
173 So then when it seemed like the Devil had worked it just right in for him to say this, he said in hisself, “If this man was a prophet, he would know what kind of a woman that was at his feet. If he was a prophet!” See, it wasn’t even revealed to him Who He was. There couldn’t be any inspiration strike him, ’cause there’s nothing there to strike to. But it was struck to her!

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« 174 † Her eyes had seen beyond his criticism. She believed He was, see, the Word of the prophets! She knowed that That was all the Words of the prophets, was vindicated in Him. She had heard He was on earth, but now she sees Him. Watch what she done. She seen the Word made flesh, the Messiah, the Emmanuel. When she gave vent to her pulsation of faith (of revelation of Who He was, in the time she was living, that He was God’s Lamb for such sinners as she was), she went forth to serve His needs without knowing how she would do it.
175 That’s the way a genuine healing comes, when it’s revealed to you that “He was wounded for your transgressions, bruised for your iniquity, and with His stripes you were healed.” When it’s inspired to you to see His Presence here, of Saint Mark 11… or Saint Luke 17:30, that He’s going to reveal Hisself in the last days (among His people, in human flesh) like He did before Sodom. When you see that, and something strikes you!
176 The doctor might say, “The cancer’s still there.”
177 The patient might say, “I–I–I–I–I–I don’t know how I’m going to walk, but I’m going to walk anyhow.” We don’t know how it’s going to do.

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« 178 † She went forward to serve Him, because inspiration struck Him… struck her, that that was the hour, that was the Messenger, that was the Messiah Who was to heal, and she believed It. And He needed a service done to Him, and she went forward without anything showing that she could do it. She just went upon her inspiration. Watch! God broke up the fountains of the tear glands in her eyes. The same eyes that had heard… ears that had heard Him; the eyes that seen It, broke up with joy. Then that other, God-given long hair, with them tears flowing down. God furnished her towels (with her hair), and with her tears. She served His needs, the need of the Living God. She had heard about It, but now she seen Him, she could do Him a service.
179 O sinner! Why don’t you do likewise as you see the needs now? That He needs you, your service! Now you see the One, Who once you heard about in the Bible. We seen Him last night come in here, and what He done. We see Him, meeting after meeting, and sometimes we set just as cold and indifferent, say, “Yes, I know the Scripture says it. Oh, I–I’ve seen it done, see.” We have no enthusiasm, it don’t seem to strike us right. There don’t seem to be something, like if you was pouring…

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« 180 † Taking a match and striking it, if the match hasn’t got the sulfur right on the head of the match, it cannot strike. And you can rake and rake and rake, but if some chemical has killed the sulfur on there, it will not strike, there’ll be no light. But if that chemical, the sulfur to strike against the metal will… it’s still on there when it strikes, it’ll light.
181 And when the true, genuine vindication of the Scriptures of this last-day Message, and you see the Presence of Jesus Christ, that you had heard what He done in His life, and hear the Scriptures say “He’s the same yesterday, today and forever”; and just before the Sodom condition is fired-over with the wrath of God, see Jesus return amongst His people, formed in human flesh, and do the same thing He done. My! It ought to strike our souls to Glory! It ought to do something to us. Why? It’s dropping on that.

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« 182 † You heard in the Bible what He did, how the woman touched His garment. He turned around and told her what her trouble was, and her faith made her whole. Now, He promised that He would do that same thing again, just before the world would be burnt, and the world would be in a Sodom condition. The New Testament, the Prophet, the God-Prophet, the Prophet of prophets, the God of all the prophets, the fulness of the Godhead bodily, God of… manifested in a flesh, the Creator of Genesis. Hallelujah! It’s His Word! He said it would happen! And we see Sodom condition, we see the world in that condition, now we see Him come down and do exactly what He said He would do. Now, we’ve heard of Him, now we see Him! “I’ve heard of You with my ears, now I see You with my eyes.” Amen! “I see Him with my own eyes.” What a hour it should be! What a time it should be! The confirmation of His Word! Always when the Word is confirmed, that’s God speaking in His Word, making Hisself visible that you can see.

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« 183 † Now, here’s a little ol’ prostitute off the street, she falls at the altar, before Jesus, and she washed His feet with the–with the tears, and–and wiped them with her hair. God honored, He said, “Wherever this Gospel is being preached, let this be told for a memorial to her.” Why? Look how filthy she was, but something struck. She seen the Word of the promise, from the Garden of Eden, this, “woman’s Seed shall bruise the serpent’s head.” She seen the Messiah that had been borned of a virgin.
184 She heard He was to be borned of a virgin, but they heard that Man was on earth. She heard there was a young Rabbi, Prophet, Who healed the sick. She believed that! And here she come down the street, walking around, looking around. And she looked over there and seen that great party going on. She slipped up to the fence, and looked through, and there He was. There He was! Something said, “That’s Him!” See, that’s all she needed to be inspired. See what happened? She seen the Word of God made flesh. She had heard with her ear, now she saw with her eyes.

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« 185 † Now, everybody knows that we have a promise of the church condition, in the last day. The church, in its present condition, can never fulfill the commandments of God, the great commission, could never call the Bride out. Which one would do it? The Pentecostal’s? I should say not. None of the rest of them. That’s the shuck that’s on the wheat. That come out, looked just exactly like the wheat, but there was no wheat to it. It opens up, but the grain comes out of that. They organize, they kill themselves. There’s where they die. They’re stalks. But the wheat has come up through there, and now it’s begin to form in the Bride-form. The corn of wheat that fell into the ground through the dark ages, it had to die.

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« 186 † That critic saying, “Why would a God of mercy, could open up the Red Sea, stand and let them poor Christians be eat up with lions, and burnt, and everything? Set up, just like He laughed about it!” The poor ignoramus! Did he not know, “Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground”? It had to die through those dark ages, like any other corn of wheat has to go beneath the earth and be buried, to bring forth in the first reformation them two blades of Luther, the stalk. It had to come forth in the Wesleyans, out yonder, to bring forth the pollen, the tassels, the great missionary age. Had to come forth in the Pentecostal, for the restoration of the gifts, almost to deceive the very Elected. Looks like a wheat grain; open it up, there’s no wheat there at all, it’s only shuck. But back in there, then, they begin to form the oneness organization, the trinity organization, the twoness organization, and church of God organization, and all organized, and just death exactly! And now what happens? But it’s a shelter for the wheat, it’s been growing through it all the time.
187 Now it’s begin to pull away, the wheat’s begin to be seen. This is not a Pentecostal age. This is the latter-day age. This is the Bride age. This is the evening Light. This is when Malachi 4 must be fulfilled, to follow God’s pattern. This is Luke 17:30, to be fulfill. This is the second… And Jeremiah, and all the rest of them, that Joel has spoke of these days, this is that day. “I have heard, Lord, and It was coming, but now I see It with my eye.”

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« 188 † Though many… how many false impersonators rise, them Jannes and Jambres with all their gimmicks to do everything that Moses did, never shook him or Aaron at all. They knowed where… like Job, they knowed Who their inspiration come from. They knowed It was THUS SAITH THE LORD! And the same Bible that spoke of them, said, “They’d come in the last days, impersonators.” Those religious denominations, when something started… Who started first? Moses or them? If they had started first, Moses would have been the–the mimic.
189 Now we got all kinds of discerners and everything else that’s trying to throw your mind from the genuine thing of God, which God has proven to be the Truth by His Scripture. “We’ve heard of It with our ears, now we see It with our eye.” Amen! Do you believe It? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] All our hearts! Inspiration! And in that day when the Son of man is being revealed, a Son of man, Jesus Christ made manifest amongst His people.

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« 190 † A Man walked down there before Abraham and his group, just an ordinary-looking Man, dust on His clothes. He had His back turned to the tent, He said, “Where is your wife Sarah?” (not S-a-r-r-a, S-a-r-a-h; A-b-r-a-h-a-m, not A-b-r-a-m). Called his name, said, “Where is she?”
191 Said, “She’s in the tent, behind You.”
192 Said, “I’m going to visit you according to the time of life” (and she laughed up her sleeve). Said, “Why did she laugh?” (uh-huh). Now, He promised. Them people was the one that was looking for a promised son.
193 Now, I don’t care how much the people act in these denominations, say they’re “looking for Christ,” their actions prove they’re not. That’s right. Your actions speaks louder than your words. All they’re thinking about is making denominational members, but there are some people, one here and there, that’s looking for the coming of the Lord. They’re watching for… though. Only those will He reveal Himself to, only those will understand.

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« 194 † Just the Elected understood Who He was. Just think, there’s about maybe three million people, Jews, on earth, there wasn’t one third of them ever knowed He was there till He was done come and gone. See? But He revealed Himself to those who were waiting: John the Baptist, and–and the apostles that had been called by John, and so forth, and blind Anna in the temple, Simeon the priest that “it was revealed to him by the Holy Ghost that he was going to see the Christ.” All those great religious leaders, theologians and things, blind as they could be!
195 Only can the rain raise the seed, if the seed’s already there. And as you was a germ first in your father, and he didn’t know you, yet you were in your father. But through a bedding ground of your mother, you were made manifest in his likeness, and then he could talk to you. God, the Great God; if you’ve got Eternal Life, then the germ of Eternal Life was in God at the beginning. And you were there, you were in His thinking, your name and all. And He, by foreknowledge, ordained you to see This. And you that was not ordained, will never see It. But, remember, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, “The hour is here!” Won’t you believe Him? Give your lives to Him. I have to stop, it’s after nine.
Let’s bow our heads.
196 “I have heard, Lord, of Thee, now I see Thee!” Lord Jesus, bless this people as they wait.

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« 197 † Now I’m going to ask you a question. I’m going to let the Holy Spirit (I trust that He will) search out your minds, try you, try your soul, and see if you really believe. And if you find there’s a little bit of doubt there, will you raise your hand? Say, “Lord Jesus, let me see You. I’ve heard of You, but I’ve never really seen You. Let me see You, I’ll believe.” All right. That’s fine.
198 Is there some here that doesn’t know Him as your Saviour? Raise your hand, say, “If… I–I’m a sinner, but if I… if You–if You’ll just let me see You, Lord Jesus, manifest this Word that they’re talking about. I know that that’s how Job seen You. I know that’s how Abraham saw You. I know that’s how all the rest of them saw You, because it was Your promised Word being vindicated. I’ve heard all kinds of things, and gimmicks, and everything, but I understand that there’s a last-day Message in the land, that was spoke of by an Angel on the river, in 1933. I heard of the healing services going forth, and I know when that takes place, it can’t stay in that same old denominational rut.” It wasn’t sent for that, never did stay there. [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.]…?…

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« 199 † What if Moses would’ve come, said, “Let’s build an ark like Noah did, float out of Egypt down the river”? Oh, no. See? No! He had a Message from God, he was the manifestation. That prophet arising on the scene, ought to have proved to Israel right there. They hadn’t had a prophet for four hundred years, they hadn’t had a prophet, and here a prophet rises on the scene. They ought to have knowed that something was going to happen.
200 Israel again hadn’t had a prophet for hundreds of years, and here come Jesus on the scene. And the woman at the well, said, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. Now, we haven’t had one for four hundred years.” Because, He knowed what was in her heart. See?

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« 201 † Now, we’re promised a church age through reformers, and we’ve had them. But He promised, in Malachi 4, He’d keep His pattern in the last days, what would take place, “To turn the hearts of the children back to the Faith of the apostolic father.” For that very purpose! And the church is so broke up in denominations and isms, it’s so tore to pieces till it’s dead; it’s been a carrier. And then He promised, in the hour of the seventh angel’s Message, the Seven Seals would be revealed; and the mysteries of God would be declared (Revelation 10) when the seventh angel begins to sound his Message, not the healing service, the Message that follows the healing service.

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« 202 † Jesus was a “great guy” as long as He could heal the sick. But He said when, “I and My Father are One.”
203 “Huh-uh! That was wrong!”
204 Job was “great,” till something happened to him. See? It’s always that way.
205 Believe! Will you accept Him now? Raise your hand, say, “I do believe Him. I want to accept Him.” God bless you. God bless you. That’s fine.
Now set real still and pray just a moment.

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« 206 † Dear God, in this solemn moment, it’s going to be a time like this when there really will be a clap of thunder someday, and the Son of God shall descend from the heavens with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and the trump of God, the dead in Christ shall rise. And each one of us knows and are aware tonight, Father, that we’re going to have to answer for every word we give, and every word we say. Even the thoughts that’s in our hearts, we’re going to answer for it. I pray Thee, God, in Jesus’ Name, that You’ll cleanse every heart that’s in here. Cleanse my heart, cleanse the hearts of this people. And may we be prepared, Lord, and may our spiritual eyes be opened tonight to see the Glory of Almighty God. We have heard of Him, O Father, God, we pray that You’ll let us see Him. Grant it, Father. Grant these blessings, I pray, through Jesus Christ’s Name. Amen.

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« 207 † Remember: In your heart, where you’re setting, make your little altar. Say, “Lord Jesus, come into my heart now. Give me something to… something I can hold to. Let me feel that inspiration that tells me that You’re ‘present.'”
208 Now, what a statement to make to people! What a–a thing to do! Now I’m going to ask the Lord God, ask…
209 How many of you take the tapes? You heard of: What Time Is It, Sirs? Did we show those magazines and things, a year before it happened? Science is stumped on it. There was the Lord Jesus crowned and with that white wig on as you see in the Bible, in Revelation 1, and the Daniel, Supreme Judge of Heaven and earth. Right there, when science can’t even see It themselves. And in the observatory, out there in the University of Arizona and down through Mexico, they’re searching, have been for the last two years. And there it was told you, it was “going to happen,” before.

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« 210 † How about the Alaskan earthquake? Watch Hollywood fall into the sea! Watch and see if it doesn’t. He’s never told me anything wrong yet, it’ll do it. See? And just watch and see if we’re not living in the closing hours of history. No man knows what hour He’s coming. But I know one thing: I believe, in my present condition, if I’m in my right mind, and if I wasn’t a Christian, I’d sure want to be a real Bible Christian, not a denominational. Don’t rely upon ’cause you’ve shouted. We heard that this morning, proved it by the Word of God; it’s altogether out of the will of God, didn’t do a thing but cause death. Don’t be in the stalk, be in the Life. See? Have faith in God.

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« 211 † Do you believe that the God that made this promise, that did appear Himself, in the Book of Genesis, and appeared to Abraham and performed that miracle… That same God was made flesh, human flesh, borned of a virgin. That was a theophany there, of course, but then when He come in human flesh and was the same Man, and performing the same things,… Don’t you believe that if God could get a person, that He promised to do according to Malachi 4, a channel that He could speak through, He’ll perform the same thing He said He’d do there? Do you believe that? I believe He would, too.
212 Do you believe that you could have the faith to touch His garment, His faith to touch the garment? Do you believe present now that something’s speaking to your heart that would tell you that you have faith to touch His garment? You believe you could do that? You reach up and touch with your faith then, not with emotion, just with absolutely pure, unadulterated faith. Just say, “Lord, I believe. I believe with all my heart. I want You to touch me ’cause I–I’ve heard You done it, now I want to see it with my own eyes.”
213 And I can’t touch you. It takes God to do the touching. Do you believe He will do it?
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« 214 † I’m looking right back to my left here. It seems like there’s a channel, kinda, as I’ve spoke, pulling that way. Being I’ve directed it that way, now it comes in wonderful. It’s a lady setting there with her husband. She’s not from here. She’s from Texas, Dallas. She’s suffering, also her husband’s suffering. She’s suffering from a complication, she’s had an operation. That’s right. Her husband suffers something with his back, back trouble. Mr. and Mrs. Corbet, from Texas; Dallas, Texas. If that’s so, raise up your hand. I’m a stranger to you. Is that right? No way in the world for me to know that. What is it? “I have heard of Thee by the ear, now I see Thee.” See what I mean? Now ask that couple. I never seen them in my life. “I have heard of Thee with the ear, now I see Thee with my eye.”
215 If you can believe, God can furnish what you have need of.

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« 216 † That man setting there with his hand up on his chin, with that high blood pressure. You believe God would make you well, sir? You do? Setting with your hand like this, you believe God will heal you of that high blood pressure? Raise up your hand, if you believe It. All right, He does it. I never seen the man in my life, I know nothing about him. But you heard that Jesus said, here in the Bible, that He would do these things, now you see it! You see what I mean? “If thou canst believe, all things are possible.” Only to them that believe! It takes real, genuine faith to do it. But if you can believe It, God will grant it.

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« 217 † There’s a lady setting right back there, looking at me, got a goiter in her throat.
218 Lady setting next by, setting next to her, that she’ll understand, that lady there has high blood pressure, also. That’s right.
219 Lady setting next to her, she has a–a trouble, too. And she’s not from here, she’s from Arkansas. They’re missing it. Miss Phillips, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be healed! Do you believe Him? With all your heart? You accept It? Right. Then you can have it.
Now you say, “That’s mysterious.” No! No!
220 Jesus said, “Your name is Simon, you’re the son of Jonas.” Is that right?
221 “I have heard of Thee with my ear, now I see Thee with my eye.” Now don’t you see what happened? Someone just setting there, looking, believing, trusting, and all at once there it happens. See?

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« 222 † Feeling better, son, tonight, than you did last night? Setting down? It’s all right now, you’re going to be well (uh-huh). Setting here last night, butting his head and everything else; now, tonight, he looks like a gentleman. See? He was a little bit confused about things, but it’s all straightened out now. See? It’ll be all right. See? “And in that day, the Son of man is being revealed, see, just before Sodom is to be burned.”
223 “I have heard of Thee with my ear, now I see Thee with my eye. I heard Jesus Christ say He promised that, I see that promise living right now.” See? “I have heard of Thee with my ear, now I see Him with my eye.” How many believes That to be Him? (O God!)

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« 224 † Now, while we’re here… it’s getting late. Tomorrow night we’re going to have a great healing service. We’re expecting Brother Moore and I to stand here and pray for every person that wants to come through the line. But I thought in speaking this tonight, I was just going to make the altar call. But then I thought, “no,” It said there, “I have heard of Thee with the ear, now I want to see You with my eye.” Now He’s here. Do you believe that?
225 Now let’s lay our hands over on one another. Now, remember, the same One that promised He would do this, said, “These signs shall follow them that believe.” Did He say It? Are you a believer? Say, “Amen.” Well, then, the same God that made this promise that you see Him perform just now,… Ask any of those people, I never seen them, know nothing about them. I wouldn’t know them right now, see, impossible for me to. But that Scripture’s got to be fulfilled! Well, if that’s fulfilled, it shows we’re in the latter times, we’ll know the Son of man is ready to be… to come, because He’s revealing Himself in human flesh. Is that right?
226 Then we know it’s true, and you say you’re a believer on Him, and you got your hands laid on one another. And if your hands are laid on one another, that same Son of God which is here to make this come true to your eyes, the same Son is here to say, “They shall recover!” The same Son of God! “I heard that He said, ‘If the believers lay their hands on, they shall recover.’ I heard it with my ears, now let me see it with my eyes. He promised to do it.”
Now while I pray, you pray.

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« 227 † Lord Jesus, in the Name of the Lord God of Heaven, let Your Spirit drop into these people’s heart; that genuine faith of God, that will confirm this promise to them. And may the God of Heaven heal every one of them, as they obey Your commandments by laying hands on each other. Let it be so, Lord. In the Name of Jesus Christ, grant that it will be so, for Your glory.

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« 228 † Now, do you believe that you got what you asked for? Does something in your heart tell you? Do you feel that little speck of inspiration, said, “Why, it’s over! It’s done!”?
229 The commandment of God said that we could hear it with our ear, now we can see it with our eye. Job said, “I’ve heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear, but now I see Thee with my eyes.”
230 Now, you heard it by the Word, by the hearing of the Word, “Faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Word.” Now you see It act, with your eyes! Now, that same God that said that, when these things was to be taking place, that “the believers on This would lay their hands on the sick and they shall recover.” Now has it dropped into your heart that you’re “healed”? Raise your hands if you do. Amen! That’s real apostolic healing. You mean it? You believe It with all your heart? Hallelujah! That’s all we need.
Let’s stand on our feet and give Him praise, then.
231 Thank You, Lord Jesus. Blessed be the Name of the Lord.
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.

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« 232 † Now, do you love Him? Now let’s, all together, give Him glory, all ye people. Now, look, if that has been revealed to you by God, in the channel that you were saved in, the same channel that told you “you were saved,” the same channel God moved through, like He did through Job and the prophets, He’s moved through you through that channel as a Christian, by His Divine revelation that “you are healed,” then there’s nothing going to keep it from happening.
So we give Him glory, all ye people,
For His Blood has washed away each… (Every doubt; washed away every doubt.)
I will praise Him! I will praise Him!
Praise the Lamb for sinner slain;
Give Him glory, all ye people,
For His Blood has washed away each stain.

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« 233 † Oh, don’t you love Him? Ah, how wonderful. “I have heard of Thee, Lord, with my ear, and faith cometh by hearing; but now I see Thee, God making Himself known among His people like He did to Abraham, by His promise here that the Son of man would reveal Himself in the days that the world become in a Sodom condition.”
234 And there was three messengers went forth, come down from Heaven.
235 And there was a denominational group down in Sodom, and a Billy Graham and a Oral Roberts went down there. And remember as I’ve told you, nowhere in the history of the church has there ever been a messenger sent universal to the church, until now, with his name ending like Abraham, h-a-m. G-r-a-h-a-m, six letters, to the world, man’s number.
236 But Abraham had seven letters in the name, God’s complete and perfect number. See?
237 And notice what the messengers did that went out in there: preached the Word, called them out, told them to repent.

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« 238 † But the One who stayed back with Abraham, see, performed a miracle by telling Abraham what Sarah was doing and thinking in the tent behind Him. And Jesus, Who was the One that was in this Person, said, “When the world gets in a Sodom condition, like it was then, the Son of man will be revealed again.” And all the other Scriptures confirming that to be so. The… “In the beginning was the” [Congregation says, “Word,”–Ed.] “and the Word was with” [“God,”] “and the Word was” [“God.”] “And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.” Is that right? Now we see that same promised Word, of Luke, of Malachi, all these other promises from today, made flesh, dwelling among us, that we heard with our ears; now we see Him (with our eyes) interpreting His Own Word, we don’t need any interpretation of man. O Church of the living God, here and on the phones! wake up quick, before it’s too late! God bless you.
I love Him, I love Him
Because He first loved me,
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary tree.

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« 239 † Could you think, church, that you’re looking with your own eyes… The living Word of God made manifest, the promise of the hour, in the last days, looking with your own eyes at the living Word being interpreted in natural form, God among us! “I see Him with my own eyes, the One… I heard that He would do it.” All the old sages looked for this day, now we see It manifested with our own eye. How many the old shouting Methodists, Baptists, and the real, genuine pentecostals in their age, longed to see this happen! Many of them knowed it would happen. But we stand tonight seeing it happen! Oh! Don’t you love Him?

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« 240 † Now, Jesus said, “This will all men know you’re My disciples, when you love one another.” So as we love Him, let’s shake one anothers’ hands and sing I Will Praise Him! I Will Praise Him! All right.
I will praise Him! I will praise Him!
O praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give Him glory, all… (How you do?)… people
For His Blood has washed away each stain.

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« 241 † What did the queen of Belteshazzar say before her king that night? “There is a man in your kingdom that is a Dissolver of doubts.” And the Holy Ghost, tonight, is the Dissolver of doubts! Do you believe that? [Brother Branham speaks to someone–Ed.] The dissolver of doubts! Now, the Blood of Christ takes away each stain, the stain of doubt. There’s not a greater sin in the world than unbelief, “For he that believeth not, is condemned already!” Is that right? “He that believeth not is condemned.” There’s only one sin, and that’s unbelief. Smoking’s not a sin, cursing’s not a sin, committing adultery’s not a sin, lying is not a sin; that isn’t sin, that’s the results of unbelief. Unbelief! You do it because you don’t believe. If you do believe It, you don’t do it.

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« 242 † Oh! Oh! What… Wonderful! And the Blood of the Lamb has washed away every doubt. We believe His Word, emphatically. We believe that the Word was made flesh. And we believe the Word is made flesh by the vindication of His Presence now to confirm His Word. Do you believe It? God bless you.
243 We hope to see you here in the morning, for a great time in the Lord. Bow your heads now, and I give the service to Brother Lindsay.

–Rev. William Marrion Branham
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