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« 1 † ` That’s right. I think we ought to stand when we read His Word. Don’t you think so? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] So let’s stand just a moment, as we read His Word. I’m reading, tonight, for a Scripture lesson found in the Book of Isaiah, the 6th chapter. Listen closely.
In the days of the king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high… lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
And one cried unto the other, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD God of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this has touched thy lips;… thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin is purged.
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and whom will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

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« 2 † Let us bow our heads now.
3 Father, “woe,” we feel the same way that Isaiah felt, “Woe is us! For our eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Glory.” We thank Thee, Lord, that there is a cleansing process, tonight, that can touch not only our lips but our hearts and our souls, and cleanse us from all of our uncleansedness. For it is, truly, we dwell among people with unclean lips, and our lips, also, is unclean. We pray that the great Holy Spirit will come and touch our lips and our hearts with anointing, the Fire of the Holy Spirit from the altar of God, and cleanse us from all of our unbelief and doubts, that He might come in and make His abode with us. For, we love Him, and we adore Him, and we worship Him. We pray, Father, tonight, if there is any here that hasn’t yet had that cleansing touch of the great Holy Spirit, the Fire of God, that this night that this work will be wrought in them for the Kingdom of God’s sake. We ask it in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
May be seated.

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« 4 † Now I’m… will try to be out early. I don’t want you to miss Sunday school. Now, it’s all right for you to miss a day’s work, you won’t miss that too much; but keep you till nine-thirty, or something, on the other night. But don’t miss Sunday school, whatever you do.
Now my subject tonight is: Influences.

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« 5 † We want to read this story, we should turn to Second Chronicles, the 26th chapter, and you could read it. This Uzziah was a shepherd boy. And he, Second Chronicles 26 tells us, he was anointed king at the age of sixteen. And Uzziah’s father, a godly man. And this man was a good man, having godly parents, “He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord.” Now we find that usually…

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« 6 † I–I think today, our great problem, of what we believe to be juvenile delinquency, is a parent delinquent, a home delinquent. Our–our people got away from the things that they–they should have stayed with. The church got lukewarm or cold, and the–the children got out into the world.
7 Now Hollywood puts out lots of movies and–and televisions, and so forth, that even uncensored, where they curse and–and–and use God’s Name in vain. And–and it used to be it was wrong for the children in the holiness churches to go to–to–to bioscopes or picture shows, and now Satan got one jump ahead, by bringing it right in the house, in the form of television, and then uncensored, and–and so forth. And that’s the Satan’s way of gradually entering in.

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« 8 † Like the old toboggan slide used to be. Many of you don’t remember it, ’cause you’re too young. Used to have entertainment for the children; you set down on your toboggan and just move around, around. There was a hole, a shoot, and everyone would dare one another, who could go the closest to it. And after a while, before you knew it, [Brother Branham snaps his finger–Ed.] down you went.
9 That’s the way sin is. Don’t trifle with it. Don’t see how close you can get to it. See how far you can stay away from it. See? Don’t take no chance. If you’re going to take a chance… I don’t want no chance.

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« 10 † An old Scotchman, one time, they said, was going to cross a mountain. And the carriages was waiting, each man wanted take him across. He said, “I want the best teamster to take me.”
11 One of them said, “Well, I can drive my six head of horses at a full gallop within–within ten inches of that rim around that mountain.” Fall off, it’s death. Said, “I’m a good enough teamster to drive my horses, safety, around there, within ten inches of my wheels, and not fall off.”
12 The other one said, “I can beat that. I can drive within six inches, or four inches, and never fall off.”
He said, “What about you, sir?”
13 Said, “Well, I don’t know. I don’t like to do that. I–I just hug the bank.”
He said, “You take me.” That’s right. That’s the one.

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« 14 † It isn’t how close you can come, and how well you think you are fortified, stay just as far away from sin as you can stay. Just get just as far away as you can. Say, “Well, I can do this. There is no harm in doing this.” Well, if there is a question in your mind, don’t you do it at all. Anywhere there’s a question, stay away from it. Then, you see, then you’re absolutely living by faith, if there’s no question. If there’s a question, then leave it, don’t go around it at all.

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« 15 † And I think that many times that it’s the parents that get away. I know there is sometimes that the–the schools, and things. And Sunday school about a half hour, or hour on Sunday morning, and the world has the kids the rest of the week, and cram into them more than a teacher. And many times, too many times, the teacher has got a little quarterly that she teaches about, while she paints her lips and fixes her hair, let the children do the best they can.
16 And then at home they get no Christian training at all. Mother is out somewhere to a card party, and dad is down at the bowling alley, and–and sis is out with somebody with a hot rod. And here you are, see. What, where do we–where do we go? You just, it’s just it’s… It’s terrible. And then we find out that all these things together. Junior out, beating up-and-down the street, on his motorcycle. And, oh, it’s some of them down playing golf, and others playing pool, and it’s just something another for entertainment. And the church is let go.

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« 17 † Many times, then they got a board there; if that pastor would happen to hit a little wire that was–was kind of a little contrary, or say something about it, that board would have him up, his name would go up to headquarters and he would be excommunicated. So, you see, it’s become a meal ticket, in the stead of anointed servant to preach the Gospel. See? That’s right. It becomes a thing that they want to. It’s–it’s a meal ticket. They’ve got to stay there, get good pay. Listen, brother, God have mercy upon a man that would sell his birthrights for that. Listen!
18 We need man that will handle the Gospel, barehanded, not with any kind of a denominational glove on. Just lay it out there the way it’s wrote, and–and let the chips fall wherever they want to. “If the shoe fits,” mama used to say, “wear it.” Said, “Don’t trim your corn.” Now, so we have those things that we ought to be listening to.

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« 19 † Now, this king, Uzziah, being such a wonderful child. He had a godly father. His mother came from Jerusalem, and a godly father who was king before him, and that kind of a teaching melted into that boy.
20 I’m neither Democrat nor Republican. I just made one vote, and that was for Christ. And He is–He is… I’m going to win on That.

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« 21 † Now, I–I think the greatest President, though, that we ever had, was Abraham Lincoln. Not because he was a Kentuckian, too, but it was because that the man come up from nothing. And all the books that man ever owned, from the time he was a young boy, until he was of age, almost, was the Bible and–and Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. See, that molded into him (what?) that “honest Abe.” He… What you read, what you do, molds your character. It–it tells what you are. And now, you see, he read where “if you did wrong, you paid for it; if you did right, God would honor it,” and that molded him what he was. And his mother, a–a godly woman, too. He said, “If there is any credit given anybody, it was a godly mother,” that raised him right. Now that made, I think, I would say at least one, if not the greatest, President that we had. He come up from nothing, and God made him President because he was an honest man and a good man.

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« 22 † Now, we find that this boy was the same. Having these godly parents, he did that which was right. When he was made king, and when he was sixteen years old, he ignored all the politics and the popular opinions of his day, and served God with reverence. That made him a real king. To ignore the politics and the modern opinion, and serve God with reverence, that was very good. His kingdom, God blessed it, was so great till it was next to Solomon’s. And Solomon had the greatest that there was; but this boy was next to Solomon, in his kingdom.
23 It was a–a great help to the young prophet Isaiah, and him being a young chap at that time, just coming on. Being born a prophet, he watched the influence that this man had upon the people; and seen where his influence come from, because he trusted God, emphatically. And had… He noticed again, Isaiah did, how that God will bless them that will be true to God’s Word.

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« 24 † Now we realize that this young fellow wanted to stay with the principles of what God said. He kept His laws. Uzziah wouldn’t turn right or left. He stayed right with what the Word said, and God honored him and blessed him in everything he done, prospered, went right on. What a–what an example that is for any young person!
25 I think if we had people today, our churches who claim to be Christians, if they would abstain from the things of the world and live that kind of a life, it would influence the younger Christians to do so. But, today, when they let down, and drink and smoke, and carry on, and still try to hold their confession as Christianity, that puts a bad stumbling block in other people’s way, and it makes it very hard.

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« 26 † Remember, the Bible said, “You are living, written epistles, read of all man.” Now, many people won’t read the Bible, but God has made you a living representative. You are a walking letter, should be a walking Bible, Christ in you. You should be the walking Word of God. And if you profess to be a Christian, and not that, your influence, your… What you’re influencing, will make you have to answer for many souls that you’ve turned aside, away from Christ, in that Day of the Judgment.
27 I think it behooves us, tonight, to think about that, for every man, woman, boy and girl, knows that you are coming to the Judgment. You might escape this, that, or the other. You might beat the income tax, and you might escape the Internal Revenue. You might do one thing or another. You might have run over the speed limit and the cops never catch you. But, one day, Judgment is going to catch you. That’s certain!

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« 28 † “And we know that man must die, and after that the Judgment.” Death is not a hard thing. It’s the Judgment after death, that’s the bad part. And there, what you’ve done on life, and how you’ve influenced others, you’ll have to answer for it at that Day.
29 “How much more ought we to set aside every weight, and the sin does so easily beset us, that we might run with patience this race that’s set before us, looking,” not to the creed, to the denomination, to some other person, but, “to Jesus Christ Who is the author and finisher of our Faith.”

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« 30 † How we should think them things, friends, sternly and reverently, as we see this Day approaching, and knowing that any time your life’s pages, the book, may be closed tonight, and tomorrow will be too late for you to do it. Don’t put off what you can do today, for tomorrow, for tomorrow may never come. Men and women, boys and girls, may be sitting here tonight, will be in the morgue before daylight. It’s true. And then your book is closed, and you’ll never have another chance. This may be the last chance that you’ll ever have. Think of it, seriously. You say, “Well, it probably isn’t.” It probably isn’t, but it could be. But, remember, someday the book is going to be closed, and what you are doing now.
31 And especially you people who are claiming to be Christians, separate yourself from the things of the world. Have nothing to do with the world. Shun it, for some person is watching you. Somebody is watching you. And you’re going to not only send yourself there, but going to take them to the bad place, and you are going to have to answer for your influence.

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« 32 † How this prophet watched this man, and seen that God blessed him, and how what an influence that was! How that man prospered, what God did for him. He lived a–a life that was wonderful, blessed of God, and he wouldn’t turn right or left.
33 Now here we find another example here in this man, this man Uzziah, a great king who once walked with God. The Bible said, “When the king felt that he was secured, felt that he was all right, then he was lifted up in his heart, with pride.”

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« 34 † Let me stop here to say this, solemnly, my brother, sister. God has made you my audience tonight. I must be dead earnest in what I’m saying, and you must listen with dead earnest.
35 That’s what’s the trouble with many people today. They think… We have some of our ministering brothers, some of them gets to a spot, maybe, and big ministries, until they feel secure. We’ve had this, know this to be true. Many ministers in the land today begin to drink. Some of them think, “Well, I’ve got my little kingdom built around me. There is no reason for me… Them people love me so much, until they’ll never pay any attention if I do this or I do that. Let me tell you, brother, there is One Who is looking, and that’s God. No man is secure outside of God.

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« 36 † Sometimes then we get to a place, we think, “God blesses us. He give me a Cadillac. He give me a better job. He give me this.” That’s no sign that you can’t turn His blessings from you.
37 When you get lifted up, and feel, “Well, I once laid all night and prayed, I once did this and I do that, but I didn’t do it anymore,” you’re on dangerous ground.
38 That’s what’s the matter with our Pentecostal people. While, back yonder, a long time ago, when we had little missions down on the corner somewhere, and the women with no stockings on and beating a tambourine down there, had to pray all night, and everything; cops locked you up, and stayed in jail, and so forth. You prayed. The churches, all the denominations, laughed at you and made fun of you. But now God has lifted you up, till you got some of the best churches in the country, a great powerful denominations, you begin to feel secure. Be careful, that’s when you get lifted up. Then, when God sends Something, you can’t accept It, anymore, because you’ve already witnessed to this thing. Then you begin to feel secured, that’s the time that you’re on your road to your fall. That’s for denominations. That’s for nations.

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« 39 † Look at our nation, once one of the great moral countries of the world. Look at her today, it’s the laughingstock of the world, filthier than anything I know of.
40 When I got off the plane, and come in at Rome, and went up to Saint Angelo, to go into the catacomb, I was embarrassed when I seen a sign setting at the–the Saint Angelo catacomb, said, “A word to all American women! Please put on clothes before entering the catacomb, to honor the dead.” Coming in there with shorts on, and trousers on, in a place like Rome; and then had to say, to the American women, “to honor the dead; and put on clothes.” Why, it’s become a stench in the nostrils! And all of our overseas money, and leased loans, and everything like that, will never buy friendship.

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« 41 † What we need in this nation, and we’ll never have it, but what we need is a–a housecleaning time; not a political housecleaning, but a Holy-Ghost-sent revival that’ll sweep her from tip to toe. That’s what our churches needs. That’s what our people needs. That’s what, as individuals, we need. That our influence… When we get lifted up and say, “I’m Pentecostal. I spoke with tongues. I shouted. I danced in the Spirit.” You might have done that, but let me tell you something, brother, that’s no security to you, not a bit.

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« 42 † We find out when Uzziah got lifted up in his heart, we find out that God smote him. What did he do? He tried so much to try to take a minister’s place. He thought because he got lifted up, God had blessed him, made him a great man, he could just do anything he wanted to.
43 I heard a young man tell me not long ago, he said, “You know, God loves me so much, Brother Branham, He just lets me do anything I want to. He don’t care.”

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« 44 † I hear so much today about God being a good God. He is. I’m not disputing that. He is a good God. But He is also a God of wrath. His Holiness requires righteousness. His law requires judgment. If there is no judgment to law, law is of none effect. What good would it do to say, “It’s against the law to run this redlight down here,” without being a penalty behind it? See, it would be no law. They couldn’t do nothing about it; there isn’t a penalty. There is a penalty for transgressing God’s laws, and, it will, you’ll have to pay to the utmost farthings before you’re brought out.

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« 45 † Now many man today makes that sad mistake like this fellow did, when he got exalted, got big, got so he had everything in his own hands, he felt secure, “God loves me so much, till there is nothing can bother me now.” When he did that, he throwed hisself in the same shape that Nebuchadnezzar did one time, as you Bible readers know. Then we find out that he was smitten with leprosy because he tried to take a minister’s place.

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« 46 † Not long ago, I speak international for the Full Gospel Business Men. Sometime ago, I was sitting in a place, it was over in Jamaica, we was having a meeting.
47 I love them, because it’s people out of all the churches. It gives me a chance to–to speak. Sometime the churches won’t cooperate, but their businessmen are cooperating, they–they’ll have to kind of hold their face for the businessmen’s sake.

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« 48 † So now we find out, that in there, I was having a meeting. That night when they come back over to the Flamingo Motel, I said, “I’m ashamed of you fellows.” I said, “It’s a disgrace. All you talked about, before all the political leaders and things, and businessmen up-and-down here, was about, ‘I had a little bitty business down here, and I got sixteen Cadillacs,’ or whatever more.” I said, “Them man, you can’t compare with them.”
49 That’s what’s the trouble with the church today, you are trying to compare with Hollywood. You’re trying to make it like Hollywood. Remember, Hollywood glares; the Gospel glows. You can’t go over on their ground; you’ve got to bring them on our ground. That’s where we’ve got to get them. Got to get them over here, not us go out there. We could never compare with them. We don’t want to. They shine and glitter; the Gospel glows with meekness and humility. That’s just the difference between a glow and a glare.

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« 50 † Now we find out, I said to these man, I said, “The thing of it is, you man which are just businessmen, are trying to preach the Gospel. You ain’t got no business doing that. We preachers have hard enough time keeping it level. And you fellows oughtn’t to be doing that. You’re trying to take the wrong place. You’re businessmen, but don’t try to take the Gospel’s place.
51 And I–I said, “The thing of it is, today, you’re trying to say how much you got. What a difference it is from the first pentecostals! The first pentecostals got rid of what they had.”
52 Some little singer there, was a fine little man. I love him. He was a nice man, but he said, “Brother Branham, I never want to dispute your word, or say anything against It.”
53 I said, “That’s all right. If it’s not the Word of the Lord, then you got a right to, brother.”
And he said, “That’s one time you’re wrong.”
54 I said, “Oh, no. No, no.” I said, “The first pentecostals sold everything they had, and throwed it into missions, and–and went out.”
55 And a preacher there, he said, “That was the worse thing they ever did.”
I said, “What? The Holy Spirit make a mistake?”
56 He said, “I don’t say that; but it was the worse thing they ever did.” Said, “Then when the dispute come in the church, they had no homes to go to.”
57 I said, “Just exactly the reason God had them to sell their homes, then they went everywhere, scattering the message throughout the country. They had no other place to go.” God knows what He is doing, just let Him run the Business.

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« 58 † We find out that this man took a censer, started in to–to–to make a–a wave, a–a–a censer, burn incense. That wasn’t his job. He was king, not to be priest. And the priest run behind him, and told him, said, “You shouldn’t do this. It’s only for a Levite to do that, and you’re not a Levite. It takes a consecrated man for that, and you’re not consecrated to the Lord. You’re a king. God is blessing you. That’s good. But you’re not consecrated to do that.”
59 So many times have we seen gifts tried to be impersonated, when they wasn’t consecrated to the call. And we’ve seen all this. We see it today just as it was then, see somebody try to impersonate a person having the Holy Ghost; shout like them, speak in tongues like them, and still they know no more about God than a Hottentot would know about Egyptian night. That’s right, just impersonation, acting like it, putting on something.
60 But let me tell you, you that’s looking on that, remember, where you see somebody impersonating it, there is a genuine something somewhere. If I found a dollar, and it was a bogus, it’s only a sign it was made off of a real one.

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« 61 † But we find this man, Uzziah, trying to take the place of this priest. And when they run after him, tell him, he got angry. He turned around and let them know, “I’ll do what I want to do. Who are you to tell me what to do? You tell me what I’m supposed to do? I’m king, I’ll do as I want to!” And God smote him with leprosy, right there. And he died, a leper. In his anger, when his anger had kindled up, then he was smitten with leprosy.
62 Then was a lesson for the young prophet, sure enough. After he had watched this man come up, and get his Ph.D., his LL.D., and so forth, and then try to take a place that didn’t belong to him. He found out, and got angry about it. When somebody tried to tell him what was THUS SAITH THE LORD, he failed to recognize it. And God smote him with leprosy, which is a type of sin. All right, by this, Isaiah learned that God orders His man to his place. God does the ordering. We can’t take a man sometime and do this to him.

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« 63 † A young lady, here not long ago, she told me she… or she had a little boy she was going to… Said, “He felt he had a call.” She was about thirty-five years old, I guess. She said, “My son, about fourteen years old, he feel he’s got a call. Brother Branham, would you send him away and get his Ph.D., or something another like that, send him to some college? What would you advise?”
64 I said, “The best one I know is the college of kneeing-ology, down on his knees.” I said, “He’d get out there amongst that, and, the first thing you know, it’s begin to learn mathe-… mathematics and all about this, and so about this, and they give him a mental test and an IQ, and all like this. And then they got all of God, that was ever in him, took out,” I said. Not just degrading them things, but I’m just showing you how far they get off of the line.

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« 65 † Watch and see what, this happened. Now, God orders His man to his place.
66 Not long ago, I was reading a little story where a–a woman that was… had a–a disease, a–a–a–a pneumonia, in St. Louis, Missouri. And she was very, very sick, and they said she was going to–to–to die. And she had a son in college. So come over to find out, the doctor did, just how much longer he thought she had, to live. And said, “She probably won’t be here over a day or two, more.”
67 So they wired to the young son, to “better come home,” his mother was seriously ill. So the young son, getting the telegram, was getting ready to go, and he got another telegram, “Your mother is better now, all right. Don’t come.”

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« 68 † Well, then about a year later, why, the boy made his annual visit home. When he come home, he said, “Mother!” After he greeted her, he said, “You know, I just wonder, when you were so sick, you never did tell me just what happened.”
69 She said, “Oh, son, I’ve got something to tell you.” She said, “You know that little mission down the street here, down here where them people hollers like that, and cries and goes on?”
Said, “Yes.”
70 Said, “Their pastor believes in praying for the sick.” Said, “One of the ladies come up here and told me.” Said, “The doctor told me I had a couple more days to be around.” And said, “Then they sent and got, wanted to get this pastor to come and pray for me, and the lady did, and I said, ‘Well, sure, have him come up.'” Said, “You know, he come up and,” said, “he read a Scripture out of the Bible there.” And said, “He come and laid hands on me, and prayed for me. And, you know, the fever left me, and I got well.” And she said, “Oh, praise God!”
He said, “Mother, mother, now you know better than that!”
71 Said, “Oh, oh, no, no, honey,” said, “it actually happened.” She said, “Glory to God! I’m telling you,” she said.
72 He said, “Now you’re actually acting like them people.” Said, “You mustn’t do that, mother.”
73 Said, “But,” said, “honey, he read it right out of the Bible. He read out there, Mark the 16th chapter, ‘These signs shall follow them that believe.’ Here it is right Here.” Said, “We, we… This is it right Here,” she said.

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« 74 † “Oh, mother, that’s the illiterate type down there.” Said, “Them people down there don’t have no education.” Said, “They’re just poor people, trash like off the streets, and so forth, and run in there.” Said, “That pastor…” Said, “We learn in the college, that Mark 16, from the 9th verse on, is not inspired.”
She said, “Glory to God!”
He said, “Mother, what’s the matter with you?”
75 Said, “I was just thinking, son, if God can heal me with the uninspired Word, what would He really do with that’s inspired?” So I think that just about settles it. Don’t it? “If the uninspired will heal, what will the inspired do?” That’s it, my friends. Yes, Sir.

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« 76 † Now, trying to take another’s place. God orders His man. God puts His man in place. He must not try to take another’s place. You mustn’t do that.
77 Now the vision at the temple. At the temple, he went down when he found out that. Isaiah seen that, Hezekiah, what had happened to him, and then he had died and there had been a–a… I mean Uzziah, and he had–he had taken away to the leper camp, and his son had to reign in his place. And then Isaiah got kind of fed up, so he went down to the temple one day, to kind of get the thing off of his–off of his chest.
78 I think that’s a good thing for us all to do, is go down to the house of God, go down and deliver your soul, get the thing off your mind.

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« 79 † So Isaiah got down there and he got to praying. He no… It might have been along in the afternoon, and he… or early in the morning, I don’t know. So he got down at the altar and begin to pray, and he got to praying till he got in dead earnest. Now that’s the way. He had seen what He was looking at, here on earth, had failed. That king that God had blessed, this great, mighty king, the mightiest in the land, and yet had failed. And then he didn’t know what to do, and he got to praying.
80 Then, all at once, he lifted up his head, and then he saw a real King. He saw God lifted up on High; His train filled the Heavens. He saw, he saw something to look at, a real example. When you look and try to make a man your example, you’ll sure go wrong, ’cause he’ll fail. But He was trying to say to the prophet, “Don’t look at man or what man says. Turn your eyes towards Me and what I said. Look up Here; not a earthly throne, but a heavenly Throne, exalted way in the Heavens,” and His train filled the skies. And he looked up. And then he looked in the temple, at the temple he saw God lifted up, and noticed the Heavenly Seraphims.

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« 81 † Now, the Seraphims there are not Angels. They are supposed to be the sacrifice burners that plead the way for the guilty. And They were sacrifice burners.
82 A special covering was over these Beings, and showing that God is all holy. God is all holy. And They were screaming to the top of Their voice, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty. Holy, holy, holy,” right in the Presence of God.
83 Remember, it was the Seraphims and the Cherubims that guard the Holy Place. They are the One that takes the sacrifice and offers it. And here they was, living right in the Presence of God, screaming, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty.”

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« 84 † Let’s look at their make-up for a little while. We find out that these were six-winged Creatures. They had two wings over Their faces, two wings over Their feet, and were flying with two wings.
85 Think, two wings over Their faces, first. Firstly, what will it be? Let’s find out what the two wings over Their face meant. When God is so holy that even the holy Angels and Cherubims has to cover Their face, to stand in His Presence, how are we going to stand? When to stand, we all have to, in the Presence of God; He is the supreme Judge, and we’ll all stand in His Presence. And holy Angels that never knowed what sin was; They were created a special Being, and to stand in His Presence, have to cover Their holy faces, to stay there. If Angels has to cover Their holy faces, to stand there, what will we do, to have to live in the Presence of Almighty God, if we stay in His Presence? We got a covering, though, the Blood of Jesus Christ. That’s right. Today…
86 That’s reverence. That meant reverence, in the Presence of God.

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« 87 † Today there is no reverence. Oh, what little there is, it’s just very little. What? You see people laugh at what’s called Christianity. What’s going to happen to that man? When God sends something to the earth, and they see it being operated just exactly with the Word, and then man talk about it, and make fun of it? You know what the Bible said? Jesus said, “It’s blasphemy, of the Holy Ghost, and will never be forgiven.”
“Oh,” they say, “That’s of the devil.”
88 Be careful what you say, brother, sister. Be careful what you say, sinner. There is no forgiveness for it. Jesus said, “To speak a word against It, would never be forgiven in this world or the world to come.”

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« 89 † Look what He just got through doing, discerning, telling them the thoughts that was in their heart. And they said, “He is Beelzebub,” calling the Spirit of God “an unclean spirit, a devil doing the work of God.”
90 And He said, “I’ll forgive you,” the atonement wasn’t made at that time, but, and Jesus hadn’t died. “But,” said, “when the Holy Ghost is come, to speak against That, It’ll never be forgiven you.” When the Holy Spirit comes to do the same work that He was doing then, it would never be forgiven. Irreverent people! What can we expect but judgment, this nation that’s turned down God?

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« 91 † This nation, as many Billy Grahams and Oral Robertses that’s blasted across this country, and other great soldiers of the Cross that’s went through this country, preaching the Gospel, and it’s on the rampage every year, sin keeps multiplying.
92 Was the–the great evangelist, Billy Graham, said the other day in one of his meetings, when he went to New York, he said he believed “New York had increased many percent, in sin, since his revival there.” Said when he was here in California, Los Angeles, he said, “In ten or fifteen years from now, that every citizen will have to pack a pistol, or something to protect himself, they can’t get enough law enforcement, sin is on such a rampage.”
93 Oh, what is it? It’s irreverence to the Bible. They’ve turned down their chance. They’ve blasphemed and made fun of. That’s right.

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« 94 † Now let’s bring it down a little closer to home, look at the churches, what they’ve done. Many of them going across the country… When you get a man with enough of–with enough of real power of God about him, to tell the people about their sinful ways! Get somebody who will tell them they got to be born again, not shake hands or come up and make a decision. They’ve got to be born again; not putting your name on a book, or joining church, or shaking hands, or any sprinkling, or some baptism. But to be born of the Spirit of God, separated, God’s Life living in you, showing Itself through; not just today, tomorrow, but the rest of your days; with joy in your trials and tribulations, you would move on, knowing that the road is open before you, to Glory. That’s the kind of a Gospel! When you find them like that, you preach It; and come back next year, there they are the same, the same thing, only worse, and more of it and more of it. The more you preach against it, the worse it gets. What is it? It’s irreverence.

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« 95 † And then ninety-five percent of those people go to church, have their name on the book, claim to be Christians. Man claim to be Christians, that smoke, and drink, and gamble, and tell dirty jokes. Many deacons on the board, with one, two, and three, and four wives. That’s true. What a disgrace! Women sing in the choir, with bobbed hair. The Bible said, “She’s an unhonorable person.” Paint on their face! There was only one woman ever painted her face, in the Bible, that was Jezebel. God fed her to the dogs, so you see what He thinks about it. And then you come tell them about it; next year, come back, they’re worse than they was in the first place. Irreverent, they have no respects, no–no thoughts of decency.

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« 96 † Let me tell you something, women, young women, and old, too; go out here with these dresses on, these little old tight clothes, and shorts. You say, “You oughtn’t to be talking like that, Brother Branham.” I should. That’s my duty. This is a–this is a pulpit.
97 I had a man call me in, not long ago, one of the greatest Pentecostal evangelists in the land. He said, “You leave them people alone.”
I said, “Who are you to tell me to leave them alone?”
98 He said, “I love you.” And he said, “Your ministry is praying for the sick.”
I said, “It’s preaching the Gospel, brother.”
99 And he said, “Look, Brother Branham,” said, “why, them people believe you to be a prophet.”
I said, “I never said I was, did I?”
100 He said, “But they believe you to be. Why don’t you teach them women how to receive the Holy Ghost, and how to receive gifts and do something, instead of always bawling them out about the way they’re dressing and what they’re doing? Why don’t you teach them them kind of things, to help it?”
101 I said, “How can I teach them algebra when they won’t even learn their ABC’s?” You know what ABC is? Always believe Christ. That’s right.

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« 102 † Now, now how can you do it, how can you do it? It looks like there is a pressure on them, something won’t let them do it. It makes it a modern Sodom. That’s the hour that we’re standing in, that awful things that’s going on in the land today.
And he said, “Well, look…”
103 I said, “No, I don’t have no programs to sponsor. I don’t have no church to put me out. No, sir.” And I said…
He said, “That’s the pastor’s duty, to do that.”
I said, “But they’re not doing it.”
104 Then, it’s up to somebody, some voice has got to cry out against it, because it’s wrong. Certainly it’s wrong. Reverence, respect It.

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« 105 † A young lady said to me one time, she said, “Mr. Branham, they don’t make no other clothes but this.”
106 I said, “They still sell goods, and they have sewing machines.” That’s right.
107 Let me tell you something, lady. You might be just as clean and virtue as you can be. You might be as honorable to your husband, your boyfriend, as you can be. But one of these days, at the Judgment Bar, you’re going to answer for committing adultery.
“If I’m not guilty?”
108 You’re guilty! Jesus said, “Whosoever looketh upon a woman, to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.” And when that sinner that looked at you like that, and had them thoughts about you, he is going to have to answer for, at the Day of the Judgment. And why did he do it? You presented yourself to him, twisted up in some kind of clothes and things like that. Right. It’s a shame. You’re going to have to do it, lady.

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« 109 † And you man that call yourselves Christians, that ought to rule your house, and let your women do that, repent or your whole house will perish!
110 You might not like me after this, but I’m going to tell you the Truth, ’cause my–my hands is going to be free of the blood when I come to the Judgment Bar. That’s one thing sure, see. Yeah. Listen, brother, there is always a voice goes with the sign, you know, and you’d better hear It; not mine, but This is what the Bible said. That’s right. Oh, I know It sounds old fashion, but that’s just what the Bible said, and that’s what we’re supposed to be.
Angels has to cover their faces, to stand in the Presence of God.

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« 111 † And, women, when the Bible said, “It’s an uncommon thing, or common thing, for a woman even to pray with her hair cut.” She has no right to pray, and you put her in the choir and even make her a preacher. That’s right.
112 I know that makes you a little bit sick. But, you know, like mama used to tell me, about taking castor oil, “If it don’t make you sick, it doesn’t do you any good.” So that’s the way with the Gospel. It’s got to get you to thinking. It’s the Truth. Man and women, both, both guilty, both sides, six of one and half a dozen of the other.

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« 113 † That’s exactly right where we stand, irreverent, no matter what the Word says. “Well, it’s all right. I believe it’s all right.” You’re presuming it’s all right. The Bible said it’s wrong! And presume is “to adventure without authority.” You haven’t got God’s authority to do it.
114 These seminaries and schools and things, that pass over these things like that, it’s a disgrace. It puts young man, young ministers, on the wrong track, take them off after some kind of a man-made theology instead of the Word of God. No wonder they can’t believe a real true Message, no wonder they can’t have These things in church, no wonder they have to put Him on the outside in the last days, no reverence in His Presence. His Presence can come down, they’ll laugh and pop chewing gum, walk all around and carry on like I don’t know what, not no more reverence than nothing, in His Presence. Now, now no reverence, at all, for God or His people.

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« 115 † Why, why do they do this? Now listen close. Why do they do it? They are not conscious of His Presence. They don’t think it’s God.
116 Do you think that woman would have actually… or that soldier would have smote Him in the face, and would have put a rag around His face and hit Him on the head, and said, “Now if You’re a prophet, tell us who touched You”? If that man knowed that was God he was hitting, do you think he would have done it? Do you think that drunken soldier would have pulled beard out of His face, and spit in His face, with hawking and spitting in that face, if he’d a knowed that would a-been the Son of God? He wasn’t conscious of it.

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« 117 † And today, what people calls a bunch of fanatics, they’re not conscious that that’s the Holy Spirit working in those people. And just get by with anything; not conscious of it, not conscious of His Presence. You know, as the old saying is… Some of them say, “I go to the meeting and laugh, go to the meeting to find fault.” It’s been said that fools will walk with hobnailed shoes where Angels fear to trod. Not conscious of God, that’s the reason.
118 Why don’t you be like David. David said, “I put Him always before me.” That’s the reason he said, “I’ll not be moved,” because God is always before him. Yes, sir.

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« 119 † Now, secondly, they covered their feet. What, “They covered their feet,” meant? Humility. Covering their face meant reverence in God’s Presence. Covering their feet was humility in His Presence.
120 Like Moses in His Presence, taking off his shoes, uncovered his feet.
121 Paul when he found Jesus, the Pillar of Fire, he fell to the ground, off his feet. Where his feet should have been, he had his face, humility.
122 John the Baptist, that great prophet, first one been on the land in four hundred years, but he said, “I’m not worthy to touch His feet, to unloose the latch that’s on His sandal.”

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« 123 † See, the one over his feet, covered, meant humility. Watch this servant now before God: His face covered in reverence, His feet covered in humility, yes, and very conscious of… Be very conscious of your littleness.
124 All of us is trying to be some big somebody. “I am Doctor So-and-so, the great So-and-so of So-and-so.” You are nothing. That’s right. That’s just… You’re nothing. If you want to know how great you are, put your finger in a pool of water and pull it out, and find the hole where you put it in. See? There is nothing there. And that’s what we are. God can do without us, but we can’t do without Him. Who are you? See?
125 Being conscious of how little you are. The way up is down. “He that humbles himself shall be exalted; he that exalts himself shall be abased.”

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« 126 † Not long ago I was invited to Chicago, by a group of saints, to speak. Some great Pentecostal minister there with about four degrees in college, and so forth, and he didn’t want my little chee-chocker way of speaking up there before that great council they was going to have, so he had a man from a great Bible school there, to come up, great Bible school of Chicago, to make the speech. And the man said now what he would do, “Come up there and belittle those people, for about everything he could think of, of how wrong they was by believing there was a Holy Ghost and all that stuff like that,” before Pentecostal people. He walked up there with his chest out, and a–a collar turned around, like a tuxedo suit on, throwed all of his notes out upon the platform. He had it so masterly fixed till he could just explain the Bible, and God didn’t know nothing about It.

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« 127 † And the first thing you know, you… He see it didn’t take with the people. He kept saying something another like that, and they just set and looked at one another. It didn’t go with them kind of people, them Pentecostals. So after a while he seen he was defeated, and he got his stuff up under his arm, walked off the platform, his head down, drooping. An old saint setting over at the wall, said, “If he would have went up the way he come down, he would have come down the way he went up.” And that’s just about the way it is, too.
128 Humble yourself, see how little you can be; not what you know, what you don’t know. Let yourself get humble before God.
Now we find, thirdly, He could fly with the other two wings.

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« 129 † Now watch, first, He, in the Presence of God, He was reverent, with His face covered. Secondly, He was humble before God, with His feet covered. And His next two wings, He could fly, put Him in action. Oh, my!
130 What was God doing? He was showing the prophet how His prepared servant should be. The God was showing, “These are My servants. These are Mine. Look how they are prepared; reverent, humble, and in action.” That’s way God’s servants are. Oh, my!
131 That’s the way we should be: reverent to God’s Word, humble, and in action for God.

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« 132 † Like the woman when she was called into action, come, when she said, “Come, see a Man Who has told me what I’ve done.”
133 His sign influenced her, that He was the Messiah. She said, “Sir, we know, when the Messiah is coming… Now, You must be a prophet. We know, when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things.”
134 See, she expected Him to say, “Well, the Messiah is coming pretty soon; I’m just forerunning Him.” But He said, “I am He.”
135 That put her in action right now. She went into action. You couldn’t stop her. It was like a house on fire, as I said the other night, in a high wind. You couldn’t stop her. Down into the city she went, “Come, see a Man Who told me the things that I’ve done. Isn’t this the Messiah?” See? She was in action.
What did she do? She come up, first, humbled herself.
“Bring Me a drink.”
136 Said, “Why, our fathers drank from this well,” and so forth. And–and she…
137 He said, “Well, I’ll give you Water to drink; you don’t come here.”
She, “Sir, Sir, give me that Water.”
138 See, she was humble about it. And when she humbled herself, then Jesus showed her the sign of the Messiah, and that put her into action. She was ready to go then, she was ready to tell everybody she come in contact with. See?

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« 139 † Actually, on the traditions of the Eastern country, them man would have never listened to that woman. A woman like that ain’t got no voice amongst the people. She certainly hasn’t. She can’t say nothing. But you try to stop her? She was in action. She had to tell somebody, “Come out here and see for yourself. The Man told me what I done. Isn’t that what we’ve been looking for? Isn’t that what the Scripture says, that the Messiah, when He comes, He’ll do this?” She was in action because she got humble, and God got into her.

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« 140 † Peter, when he took His Word. When he seined all night, being a fisherman out there, and he come in, discouraged, no fish. Any good fisherman knows what that is, with no fish. Then, the first thing, he had washed his nets, laid them out upon the bank, and was letting them dry.
141 And Jesus came down and asked to borrow his boat. He preached. Then He said, “Simon, launch out into the deep and let down for the draught. Go right back where you’ve seined, all night. Go right back where you’ve toiled, hour after hour, and let down for a great draught of fish, a great taking.”

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« 142 † Now look. He said, “Lord, we’ve toiled all night and have taken nothing. But at Thy Word, Lord, I’m going to let down the net. At Thy Word!” That’s it, take God at His Word. And when he let down the net, he enclosed such a great draught of fishes until the net begin to break.
143 That put him in action. Yes, sir. Jesus’ influence on him put him into action, and he dropped the net. And Jesus said, “Fear not, from henceforth ye shall catch man.”

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« 144 † The blind man, when he was healed, sitting at the gate and… or setting in the street. And the Pharisees said, “Anybody professed Him, or had anything to do with Jesus, would be put out of the temple.”
145 They, they come, asked the father and mother. They said, “He is of age; ask him.”
He said, “Man, called Jesus, healed me.”
146 Said, “This man is a sinner. He don’t belong to our groups. We don’t know from whence he come. Give God praise!”
147 He said, “Now, whether He’s a sinner or not, I don’t know.” He said, “But this one thing I do know; wherein I was blind, I can now see.” And said, “The funny thing is, to me, that you’re supposed to be the spiritual leaders of this hour, and this Man opened my eyes, and yet you don’t know where He come from.” What did he do? He got in action. That’s right. It put him into action, because that he spread His fame abroad throughout all the country.

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« 148 † The people, at the Day of Pentecost, when Jesus told them to wait up there, and they would be… Come down, and when the Holy Ghost came down upon them at the Day of Pentecost, when they were influenced by the Word of God made manifest. Now remember, Jesus said, “Wait at Jerusalem until you’re endued with Power from on High.” They waited, not eight days, not nine days; they waited ten days, until the promise was made manifest. And the Holy Ghost fell and divided Itself, and tongues of Fire set upon each of them.
149 And while they were influenced by the Holy Ghost, they went into action, staggering like drunk man, screaming, speaking in tongues, out into the street they went.
They said, “These men are full of new wine.”
150 He, Peter, stood up, and he said, “This is That which was spoken of by the prophet, Joel, ‘And it’ll come to pass in the last days.'” What did it do? It put him into action.

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« 151 † It’ll put you into action, if you haven’t got It, It’ll put you into action when you see the Word of God fulfilled. What we’ve seen in these last days, ought to put us into action. It should do it, if we would just do it with reverence and humility. The Pillar of Fire before Paul, put him into action. And today when we see that same Pillar of Fire, by science, by Its results, by what It promised, making the Word in these last days come to pass exactly, it should put us in action. That, the sign has been given, “As it was in the days of Sodom, just before Sodom burned, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man; He’ll be manifested again, the same yesterday, today, and forever.” It ought to put every member of the Body of Christ into action, getting everything in you can, ’cause this is the last hour, it’s the last call, last call. Word by word, It’s been fulfilled. It should certainly put us in action.

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« 152 † We, like the prophet, have seen the outcome of self-exalted denominationals lose their place in Christ, lose their hold on His Word, accepting creeds. And we seen what happened to them when they did that, they spiritually died. We see what happened to the Lutheran when they refused Wesley’s call. We see what happened to the Methodist when they refused the Pentecostal call. Now what about the Pentecostals? See?
153 We seen self-exalted man, like that of Uzziah, who tried to take the place of an anointed office. The office of a man in the church is anointed, not appointed. It’s anointed. The church, the… the pastor, the evangelist, the prophet, the apostle, must be the anointed office of God, not elected by man. Man tried to elect that office one time, they cast lots for it; poor Matthias never done nothing, but God chose Paul and he did something because he was anointed. And we’ve seen these officers try to say, “This is holy bishop so-and-so, this is state so-and-so man, this is so-and-so man,” it never amounts to nothing. But when God comes in and takes over, then we see the anointing of the Holy Spirit vindicate the Word of God.

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« 154 † Now, the effects of the vision on the prophet, what did it do to this man who was born a prophet? Remember, he wrote the entire Bible. There is sixty-six Books of Isaiah, and sixty-six Books of the Bible. Starts out, like in Genesis; in the middle of the Book come the New Testament, John the Baptist; and ends up over in the Millennium. Great prophet, one of the greatest prophets we ever had, was Isaiah, and he was born to be.
155 But when he stood in the Presence of God, what did it cause the prophet to do? The prophet said, “Woe is me, for I am a man of unclean lips.” To come into the Presence of God, and see a truly anointed vessel of God, it caused a prophet to confess that he was a sinner. It ought to do us that way, It ought, the anointed Presence of God. When He seen that One crying, and the posts shaking, and these Angels going back and forth, proving They was before God, and They were the servants of God, anointed, and They cried out; he was a sinner.

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« 156 † What happened then when he was ready? Now listen, in closing. He was ready to confess that he was a sinner, “Woe is me, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among people of unclean lips. Woe is me!” Then the Angel took the tong and taken a coal off the altar, held it in His hands, and come and cleansed him with it. Then come the cleansing, after his confession.
157 Now if a prophet, called, vindicated to be a prophet of God, in the Presence of God, seeing his littleness, was ready to confess that he was a sinner, what ought you and I to do? But you know what we do? Turn our head, and walk away and laugh. That’s where we’re standing, till the cleansing comes. Look, Isaiah…

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« 158 † I want you to notice something else. God did not use books and theology, theological terms, to cleanse His servant. He used Fire. He never used creeds to clean His servant. He took Fire off the altar. And if God ever cleansed a man today, it’s got to be the Holy Ghost Fire that cleanses a man; not reading a book and doing this, or some other book by so-and-so.
159 A certain great minister here in California said, the other day, he had “the book of the year.” I different with him. The book of the year is the Bible, always been. The Book of the year is God’s Book, always.

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« 160 † And God used Fire to cleanse His servant. Then followed, after he humbly confessed that he was wrong, and then come the cleansing; and after the cleansing, then come the commissioning. See, that’s what’s the matter, some of us try to get commissioned before we get cleansed. See? We’ll say, “Well, I’ll follow this.” We got to follow God. Them Angels did one thing, lived in the Presence of God; humble, reverent, and in action before God. Then the followed, the commission; after the confession and cleansing, it was then that the clean Isaiah cried, “Here am I; send me.”

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« 161 † Oh, brother, sister, if there ever was a time that the Isaiahs ought to come down to the house of God for cleansing! If there ever was a time that the church member ought to really come and confess his sins! If there ever was a time for the backslider!
162 Just think, in the night that Sodom burned, wonder how many people walked away from the message of those Angels? Wonder how many people wasn’t concerned enough to hear Their voice? And they perished that same night, and will never be no more, only their punishment in hell.

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« 163 † “As it was in the days of Noah.” How many people laughed at him and made fun of him, and come up there just to hear his, say, “We’ll go up and hear the old crank pop off again, just to have some fun.” Get up, walk away, wouldn’t even listen to him preach. All kinds of things; and they perished in the judgments he was preaching.
164 Amos, that little preacher, knowing… from nowhere, a prophet, anointing, come up and looked down in Samaria that time. His bald head shined, his old gray beard, when he come up across the hill. He looked down, them holy eyes of his narrowed as he looked upon that city, not like tourists that come from all over the world. Cause, the priests, all of them, had sinned, and false prophets was telling them it was all right. He walked down there with no cooperation for his revival. He walked down there without anything, and screamed out. And he said, “The very God, that you claim to serve, will destroy you.”

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« 165 † And I say THUS SAITH THE LORD: the God, that America claims to serve, will destroy her. You take that for whatever you wish. What we need, is down to the altar, Isaiah. [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.]
And God said, “Who will go for Me?”
166 Isaiah said, “Here am I; send me.” I think of that song:
When the coal of Fire had touched the prophet,
Making him as pure as pure could be,
When the voice of God said, “Who will go for us?”
Then he answered, “Master, here am I, send me.”

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« 167 † First he had to humble himself and be cleansed, and get ready like we seen the prepared servant. Look at Uzziah how he was prepared, but he failed. Don’t put…
168 You say, “Well, now, I know Doctor So-and-so is a good man. I know Brother So-and-so.” They might be, but don’t look at that.
169 Look up here, see, here is the Way. God has got a Way to prepare. How did He do it? On the Day of Pentecost, Peter told them what to do. He wrote a prescription for them, and it’s always remained the same. Don’t tamper with It, you’ll kill your patient.
They said, “What can we do to be saved?”
170 He said, “Repent, every one of you, be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them that’s far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.”
171 That’s right here tonight. If God is still calling, that’s the prescription. You can still receive the same Holy Ghost that they received there, just… You can receive the same thing tonight. Just follow through. That’s all you do. Yes, then you can say:
When the coal of Fire had touched the prophet,
Making him as pure as pure could be,
When the voice of God said, “Who will go for us?”
Then he answered, “Master, here, send me.”
Let’s sing it.
Speak, my Lord, speak, my Lord,
Speak, and I’ll be quick to answer Thee;
Speak, my Lord, speak, my Lord,
Speak, and I will answer, “Lord, send me.”

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« 172 † Listen here, brother.
There is millions now in sin and shame, are dying;
Oh, listen to their sad and bitter cry;
Hasten, brother, hasten to their rescue;
Now quickly answer, “Master, here am I.”
Oh, speak, my Lord, speak, my Lord,
Speak, and I’ll be quick to answer Thee;
Oh, speak, my Lord, speak, my Lord,
Speak, and I will answer, “Lord, send me.”
173 Let’s bow our heads. [Brother Branham begins humming Speak, My Lord–Ed.]
Making him as pure as pure can be,
When the voice of God said, “Who will go for us?”
Then he answered, “Master, here, send me.”
Do you want to be humble and cleansed?
Speak, my Lord, speak, my Lord,
Speak, and I’ll be quick to answer Thee;
Speak, my Lord, speak, my Lord,
Speak, and I will answer, “Lord, send me.”

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« 174 † While they’re playing now, is there one Isaiah in here tonight, or a hundred, that wants to go, wants the cleansing of God in your life? You that don’t know Christ as your Saviour, you’re invited now to the altar, if He is speaking to your heart. I’m not very much on persuading. I think the Holy Spirit Itself does the persuading. But if you’re here, and you’re without Christ… Now remember, you will answer at the Day of the Judgment, for what you do with this tonight. See? Now if you want to come, I’m here to pray with you.
175 In Christ’s Name, I offer you the opportunity to come, seek God, and happily you might find Him. Young people, old people, middle-aged, church members, whoever you are; if the Fire of God, by the Holy Ghost, hasn’t cleansed you in your heart, until the place that you believe every Word of this Bible, and Christ is a living Witness of your… in your heart, that He has raised from the dead, then I’m inviting you to the altar. Come here and let us pray with you. Believing all of you, then, upon your own action, that you are saved.

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« 176 † Then, is there a backslider in here that would come? I am asking you, as a servant of Christ, if you’ll walk down here and let us pray with you. I don’t say He’ll take you back; I believe He will. Won’t you come try it now? If He is talking to you, come.
177 Those without the baptism of the Holy Spirit? I presume there is not any here that doesn’t, that isn’t backslid. Everyone, then, must be prayed up; Christians, and prayed up. And then if you are prayed up, and you haven’t got the baptism, and you would like God to give It to you, it’s your opportunity then, now.
178 There is one man in here that doesn’t have It. Bless his humble heart. I trust it’s another Isaiah.
Now raise your heads then.
179 There is one man bowed here at the altar, one I trust to be an Isaiah.
Now He is here. Do you believe He is here?

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« 180 † Now I’m going to tell you what you’ve done. You’ve done the horriblest thing you ever done. There is two or three hundred people here ought to be at the altar.
181 Let me show you, in the Name of the Lord, that I’m right in what I’m saying. Look. Some of you people in here, pray.
182 Here, here sits a lady sitting here with a white coat on, little white jacket, looking right at me. I can’t… She is a Christian. But she is praying for an infirmity. She has arthritis. Do you believe that God can make you well, heal you? Then you can have it.
183 The next man, sitting next to you there, has something wrong with his ears. Do you believe God can heal your ear trouble, sir, and make you well? Yes. Raise up your hand if you believe.
Now please be reverent, just a moment.

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« 184 † The man right next to him is suffering with a heart trouble. Do you believe that God can heal you, sir, with the heart trouble? I don’t know you. You’re a stranger to me. Is that right? You’re a stranger. Well, listen. If God would tell me who you are, would it help you? Can you hear me all right? Your name is Mr. Blackwood. Do you believe He can tell me where you’re from? You’re from Riverbank, California. If that’s right, stand up on your feet. I never seen him, in my life. All right.
185 God bless you, sir. Your faith made you well. That lady sitting right next to you there, has got nervous trouble. You want to be healed of your nervousness? Raise up your hand, if you do. Lay your hand over on her, mister, that she would be healed.
186 The lady sitting next to you, now, has sugar diabetes, with the red dress on. She wants to be prayed for, too. See? She wants to be prayed for. Have faith.

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« 187 † Here is a lady sitting way back here. She is ready for an operation. If she can just… O God! She has got a fallen womb. Her name is Miss Maxwell. Believe. Raise up, accept your healing, Mrs. You don’t have a prayer card, do you? You don’t have a prayer card? All right, you don’t need one. Raise up your hand if that’s right. I don’t know you. If that’s right, wave your hand. We are strangers to one another, wave your hand like this.
What did she touch? She never touched me.
188 Mr. Stewart, would you want to be healed, too, nervousness, and believe that God will make you well? I’m a stranger to you. But that’s who you are, and you suffer with a nervousness. You can’t hardly hold yourself together. Stand up on your feet and accept your healing, in the Name of Jesus Christ.

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« 189 † Here is a lady sitting back behind you there. She has got a nervousness, too. She has got something wrong in the muscles in her body. She is going to miss it and… Mrs. Newell, stand up, if that’s your name and that’s who you are. Believe! [The sister loudly cries out–Ed.]
Do you believe? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]
190 Sure, here is a lady sitting right here, she has got heart trouble and high blood pressure. Do you believe that, right, sister? Stand up if that’s right.
191 The lady sitting next to you there, she has got something in her chest. If that’s right, stand up.
192 Tell the lady, next to her, she has got growths on her face, little tumors like. If she wants that healed, tell her stand up and accept it.

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« 193 † Now there’s a group of you in here ought to be at this altar, seeking the Holy Ghost. That’s THUS SAITH THE LORD. You see what I mean? Once more I’m going to make this call. That’s the vindication that I’m telling you the truth. God is speaking to people in here, and you’re a little bit in doubt. Will you be honest enough to put up your hand, say, “Yes, Brother Branham, I’ve always been just a little shaky. I want more of God. I know there is something I’m lacking in here, and ought to have had when I was professed the baptism of the Holy Ghost”? Raise up your hand, will you do that? Just be honest with yourself. The Holy Ghost is never wrong. Why don’t you come up, then, and settle that doubt? Come! “I’ll be quick…”
Speak, my Lord, speak, my Lord, (that’s it)
Speak, and I’ll be quick to answer Thee.

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« 194 † See, I’m not telling you nothing wrong, friends. It’s the Holy Spirit calling. There is hundreds in here, if you believed me to be a prophet. Now, remember, I’m telling you in the Name of the Lord, you’ve been deceived. Come up!
The coal of Fire had touched the prophet,
Making him as pure as pure can be,
When the voice of God said, “Who will go for us?”
Then he answered, “Master, here, send me.”
195 Won’t you say the same thing? Then rise, raise up your hands.
Speak, my Lord, oh, speak, my Lord,
Speak, and I’ll be quick to answer Thee;
Speak, my Lord.
196 What’s He doing? Answer Him then, if He is speaking. If there’s a little doubt somewheres, you’re not sure now of this, don’t take no chance. “Lord, send me.”
Oh, speak, my Lord, (He is speaking. Come on.)… my Lord,
Speak, and I’ll be quick…

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« 197 † Now, folks, I’m not prone to fanaticism. I’m not prone to saying things wrong. I feel led when I say what I do.
… my Lord,
Speak, and I will answer…
198 You say, “What will the people say about it?” It’s what God is going to say about it, is it. “Send me.”
Speak, my Lord, (that’s right)
Speak, and I’ll be quick to answer Thee;
… my Lord, oh, speak, my Lord,
Speak, and I will answer, “Lord, send me.”
There’s millions now in sin and shame are dying;
Oh, listen to their sad and bitter cry;
Hasten, brother, hasten to their rescue;
Oh, quickly answer, “Master, here, send me.”
Oh, speak, my…

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« 199 † Now every person in here, we want to get ready for a great healing service tomorrow, also. And I want each one of you ministers get around these people that’s seeking for the Holy Ghost, don’t just stop in five minutes, stay there until, (how long?) until the Holy Ghost comes.
… my Lord,
Oh, speak, and I…
200 Now let the audience now put your hand over on somebody else, just lay your hand over on one another, on somebody; you that’s going to pray, that’s representing these people up here.
… my Lord,
201 Now the aisles are packed full, the altar is packed full, there is about a hundred and fifty, two hundred people.
… my Lord,
Speak, and I will an-…

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« 202 † Now start praying, “Lord, send me! Speak, my Lord! Lord, send me!”
203 Heal these, Lord, in Jesus Christ’s Name. Lord, grant it. O God, grant the prayers of these.
204 Don’t turn loose. Stay right there until it happens. Stay until you hear the cry of God. Stand until the Cherabims are shaking you, the Holy Ghost has got the coal of Fire off the altar of God, laying It upon your lips.
205 Come here Roy.
Speak, my Lord. `

–Rev. William Marrion Branham
–copied from The Table Software, available from by VGR

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« 1 † ` Thank you, Brother Neville, the Lord bless you real richly.
And good evening, friends. It’s a grand privilege to be back here in this building again tonight, and feeling the never-failing Presence of our Lord, as He’s give the promise. And now, I know that many of you has stayed over for the little Message tonight, for which I am very thankful. And many of you has to drive far yet tonight, to get home. Some are checked out of your motels, as I understand. And we are going to try not to hold you long, so that’s the reason we come in early so we could get away early.

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« 2 † And now we will, just as soon as I can, I will announce when we are going to maybe start, I’ve had some calls this afternoon, knowing when we was going to start on these books, or this chapters. And I think, if the Lord willing, I want to take, the next time that we start, on the Seven Seals of Revelations, and the seven natural seals. And, then if we get through in time, take the seven seals on the back of the Book, see. Now, that may take a little time. See, there’s seven seals that’s opened; there’s seven plagues, seven trumpets, all those sevens; and them seals we could take first. But then on the back of the Book is sealed with seven seals. Daniel heard the Voice as the thunders, and was forbidden to write it. John was forbidden to write it. But it was sealed on the backside of the Book, that is, after all of the mysteries of the Book has been given out and revealed. You notice Daniel said there, “The mysteries in the days of these voices, the mystery of God should be unfolded by that time.” See, “the mystery,” Who God is, how He was made flesh, all these things should be unfolded by that time. And then–then we’re ready for the Seven Seals on the backside of the Book, that’s not even revealed to man, not even wrote in the Bible, but they’ll have to be just exactly compare with the rest of the Bible, and I think it’ll be a great thing.

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« 3 † So now we’re going to try to hurry to get through. Thank every one of you for your kindness and your presence, and–and all that you have done, we thank you very much. And now I–I’m trusting that we won’t keep you too long tonight, because you’re so patient to sit, stand. My wife said back there, she was talking about last night, she said, “I seen women that were even rather heavyset, standing there, and their clothes wringing wet, standing there, just grasping every Word.” That’s the reason I like to stay under the anointing of the Holy Ghost, that when you come out you’re telling them people the honest Truth, see, and just nothing but the Truth. And then they can lay onto That and it’ll be all right.

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« 4 † Now I want to ask your apology for a few moments. I left a little early this morning. And the tapes are turned off at this time, and I–I’m just in a moment I’m tell the recorders when to turn the tape on. I want to finish the Countdown, five minutes for it, before I leave. I forgot and went away, I just so carried away this morning till I just went out without saying anything about it. But, I kind of left you, “What was the countdown?” See? I know we’re in the countdown, but what is the countdown? See? If you don’t know what the countdown is, then you’ll be kind of confused. And so I–I’d like to–to bring that off just… And try to be in the same tone that I was to finish up this tape at now, so the tape goes out, Countdown. Now you all will forgive me just for a moment, and I want to finish up that tape. Will you do it for just a moment, then we’ll start on the other? [Congregation says “Amen.”–Ed.] And now–now the tape recorders, if you will, snap on your tape now.
[Blank.spot.on.tape. Brother Branham explains in paragraphs 4-5 that he inserted this missing portion into his morning sermon entitled Countdown, as paragraphs 106-111–Ed.]

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« 5 † Just coming in from different places, and we’ve had a great time in the last three messages, of speaking on the subject of–of different doctrines and so forth that we have put forth. I just remember at this time I’m to give a little space in there, you people on the tape, for to change over your tapes. I’ll tell you when ready to turn on. All right. Now, I have to watch this. It seems like a bunch of made-up formal, but them boys has got to get the tape. And they can’t get it all messed up; if they do, people out there won’t understand it. So we have to take it in this manner. And if somebody will just step out of the room and signal me there, Junior, when they’re ready to have the tapes crossed over. Thank you very much, folks, I say again, for all your kindness and everything. All right, we are ready now, you can turn them on.

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« 6 † The Lord bless you. We’re happy to be here in the tabernacle again tonight. The place packed out with many people standing around again tonight, with three days of… or three times of service. I would that if anyone listens to this tape, that they would like to get back and get last night’s tape. Study it in your home. It’s the–the present stage of the ministry that the Lord has given me. Especially I’d like for ministers to hear that before I visit their churches and come in their homes. Now I’d like for them to–to get that. Now, this morning we spoke on the subject of the Countdown, the Church ready to leave.

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« 7 † And now tonight, God willing, we’re speaking on the subject of In His Presence. And, oh, how we thank God for the privilege that we can come into His Presence. But, first, I wish you all to turn in your Bibles with me to the prophet Isaiah, the 6th chapter of the prophet Isaiah. We all know that Isaiah was a major prophet, and one of the great prophets of his day. He ended his life by being sawed asunder with saws, for a testimony, as a martyr to the power of Almighty God. In the Book of Isaiah, the 6th chapter, I begin at the 5th verse, to read. “Then said I, ‘Woe is me!’ For…” Maybe I start with the 1st verse. Let’s pardon me a moment. Let’s start at the 1st verse and read down till about the 8th verse.
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
Above it stood the seraphims: each one having six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD God of hosts: and the whole earth is full of his glory.
And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of… people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this has touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin is purged.
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Who shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here I am; send me.

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« 8 † May the Lord bless His Word. I think that’s a most striking Scripture. We find that, in the Presence of God, man recognize themselves to be sinners. We may feel pretty good when we’re out different places, and feel like that we’re pretty good people, but when we ever come into the Presence of God, then we see how little we are.

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« 9 † Standing not long ago with a–a friend of mine that I had the privilege of leading to Christ, Bert Call, up in New Hampshire, a hunting partner, we was standing by Cold Brook Falls up in the Adirondack, and it was such a mammoth big falls. I taken my family last year up there to look at it. Way back off the road, you have to hike back to get to it. And when we seen that blue-green water pouring with such mighty power out of the mountains, and gushing down over the rocks, Bert stood there and looked at me, and he said, “Gee, Billy, it makes a man feel just so little,” he measured about a quarter of an inch on his fingers. And I said, “That’s right, Bert.” Now, that was all he knowed of getting into the Presence of God, to see His creation.

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« 10 † I wonder the man who wrote How Great Thou Art, if he didn’t look up one night and look at the stars, how far they are away! A few months ago, Brother Fred, Brother Woods and I, was standing with Brother McAnally out in the Arizona desert, we was measuring, trying, one star, how close it was to the other. And with the millions and billions of miles away, they didn’t look over a quarter of an inch from each other. Then we begin to think, according to scientific proof of that, those stars are probably further away from each other than we are from them. See how it is?

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« 11 † Then we realized how little we are when we realize how great He is, and how close we come in of coming to His Presence. Somehow or another, it’s always throwed a great effect upon people to come into the Presence of God. I’ve seen the time in my ministry when you would see the Presence of God come into such a place that it would bring a person up and just reveal the life to them, and call out their sins of all kinds of immoral acts, and it bring such a holy hush amongst the people till they’d drop out of the prayer line before they ever come up to be prayed for, and run to the altar and get right with God before they come up into His Presence. See, there’s something about coming into the Presence of God, it causes things to happen. I’ve seen people laying in cots and stretchers.

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« 12 † That night down there at Mexico, when that little dead baby laying under a blanket, that the little Spanish mother brought up, or little Mexican mother, rather, brought up. When they seen, several thousands of those people saw, maybe fifty or seventy-five thousand at one gathering, saw that little dead baby come to life, women fainted, people threw up their hands and screamed. Why? They realized that a human being could not do that, that they were in the Presence of Almighty God. And it caused something to happen.

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« 13 † I’ve been privileged to hear godly men speak. It was said one time of Charles Finney, little bitty fellow, never weighed over about a hundred and ten pounds, but he had such a forceful way of speaking until… He was trying the acoustics one day in a building. They didn’t have P.A. systems then. And there was a man repairing, up in the balcony, or up in the roof of the place, and he heard the man come in, so he didn’t know who they were, he just kept quiet. And Mr. Finney was going to try the acoustics. After spending much time in prayer for that revival that he was going to hold, he tried his voice to see how it would carry. He slipped up quickly to the pulpit, and said, “Repent, or perish!” And he said it with such force–force, after being under the anointing of God, till the man dropped out of the top of the balcony, down onto the floor, out of the top of the building, onto the floor.

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« 14 † He preached the Gospel in such a way till he stood in Boston, Massachusetts, in a little bay window, because there was no church could hold his crowd. And he stood there with such mighty force, and preached hell such a place, until working men with their baskets under their arms, fell into the street and screamed for mercy. In the Presence of God! Great preachers who’s been able, by the Word of God, to bring the Presence of God to an audience. Far be it that man would ever be so seared in their hearts till they could never recognize the Presence of God. Far be it!

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« 15 † When the first man, as soon as he had sinned and done something wrong, and when God came into his presence, or he came into the Presence of God, “Adam,” he could not stand in the Presence of God. He run and hid himself in the bush and tried to cover himself with a fig leaf, because he knowed he was standing in the Presence of Jehovah, the Creator. That was the reaction of the first man, after he had sinned and tried to come into the Presence of God with sin upon his soul. He could not hide, because he was tender yet. Sin had not took a hold like it has rooted into people’s hearts today, but he was very conscious that he was standing before his Creator. Now, he hid himself in the bushes and would not come out, and could not come out until God had made a preparation for him.

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« 16 † We could go back, and take in Genesis the 17th chapter and the 3rd verse, when the great patriarch, Abraham, when he came into the Presence of God, and God spoke to him (in the 17th chapter) in the Name of Almighty God, Abraham fell on his face. That great patriarch, servant of God, could not stand in the Presence of God, though had served Him for twenty-five years, faithfully. But when God moved into his presence, the patriarch fell on his face because he couldn’t stand in the Presence of God.

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« 17 † In Exodus 3, we find that Moses, the great servant and prophet of God, when he was back on the backside of the desert, that man was a holy man. He had been born for the purpose. He was born from his mother’s wombs to be a prophet. He had tried to get his education and do everything he could to deliver his people, because he understood that he was to deliver his people, but when he had understood it by a theological standpoint. He was trained. He was well scholared. He could teach the Egyptians wisdom, which was the most smartest people in the world. He knowed all the ins and outs. He knowed the Scripture from A to Z. He knowed the promises that God had made. He knowed them from an intellectual standpoint. And he was a–a great military man. But one day on the backside of the desert, when he come into the Presence of God, he jerked off his shoes and fell–to his feet, knowing that he was on holy ground. He could not stand upon his feet when he come in the Presence of God, he fell to his face like Abraham did. He could not stand in the Presence of God.

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« 18 † In Exodus 19:19, when the chosen people of God since way back in the days of Abraham, from Abraham come Isaac, Isaac come Jacob, out of Jacob come the patriarchs, and years after years had developed holy men, great men, a chosen people, a chosen race, a sanctified, holy people, and had served God their life. And one day God said, “Gather Israel out here, I’m going to speak to them.”
19 But when God came down on top of Mount Sinai, and the whole mountain caught afire, and the smoke was flying from it like a furnace, and the Voice of God roared out. Israel fell on their face and said, “Let Moses speak, and not God, lest we die.” Man, in the Presence of God, realizes he’s a sinner! Yet they were, every one, circumcised according to the Law. They had carried the commandments and everything, but when God spoke and they moved up into His Presence, they realized that they were out, they were–they were not right. There was something that was lacking, because they were in the Presence of God. Yes. And they said, “Let Moses speak, and not God, for if God speaks we’ll all die. Let Moses speak to us.”

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« 20 † It was in Luke 5, 8, that when Peter… oh, when he was a great stubborn man, and a man of great influence, great power that we understand. He was like a bully, a noted fisherman. But when he saw the miracle of God performed by an ordinary Man, looked like, which he recognized at that time that that taken more than a man to throw all them fish in a net where he, with all of his education, his knowledge of fishing, had fished all night and not even taken a thing. But he heard Someone say, “Cast your net in.”
21 And when he begin to pull, he had a great multitude of fishes, and he realized that he was a sinful man. And he said, “Depart from me, O Lord, for I am a sinful man.” Who said that? Saint Peter, in the Presence of God, asked for God to depart out of his presence, because he recognized himself a sinner.
22 Abraham recognized himself “wrong.” Adam recognized himself “wrong,” which was the son of God, recognized himself “wrong.” Moses recognized himself “wrong.” Israel, as a church and nation, recognized themselves “wrong.” “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man.” He didn’t try to say, “Now, I’m holy and worthy to receive this.” He said, “I am a sinful man.”

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« 23 † One time a self-styled religionist, with all the theology that he could learn under a great teacher called Gamaliel, his name was Saul of Tarsus, which we know as Paul, religious to the dot. He knowed all the ins and out of their religion. He was a Pharisee of the Pharisee, and a Hebrew of the Hebrews. He was a noted man, a scholar, smart, shrewd, educated, claimed he knowed God from baby up. But one day on his road down to Damascus, that Pillar of Fire shined over him and he fell on his… off of his feet, to the ground, in the dust, and said, “Lord, what would You have me to do?” All of his great training, all of his great theological training, all of his education didn’t mean a thing when he stood in the Presence of God.

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« 24 † I’d like to stop here a minute and say that’s the same thing. You might have got a DD., Ph.D., whatever you might be, you might have went to church since you was a child, you might have done all the religious acts there is, but once in the Presence of God you’ll feel so little and no count.
25 Paul realized that he was wrong, and he fell to the ground, under the influence and Power. When he looked up and seen the very God that he had been preaching, and against, and thought he knowed, and seen that he was wrong, he fell from his feet, to the ground, because he was in the Presence of God. He seen that Pillar of Fire.

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« 26 † What about the great Saint John of Revelations 1:7, when he was showed the vision, and looked, and heard a Voice speaking to him. And he turned to look to see the Voice, and he saw seven golden candlesticks. And One stood in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, with hair like wool, eyes like flames of fire, feet like pillars of brass, He was girded with a golden girdle around the paps, and He was called the Word of God. And when the great Saint John had walked with Christ, leaned upon His bosom, when he done all these things! As I said this morning, Paul’s ministry exceeded any of them. Here, after John had walked with Jesus, talked with Him, slept with Him, eat with Him, but when he seen Him standing there, that glorified state, he said he fell like a dead man at His feet. Amen. Think of it!

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« 27 † We can come to church and talk and praise God, and so forth, but, oh, brother, when we see Him coming, something will be different in our hearts! We might think we do our religious duty by go to church and pay our tithings. We might think that we keep the laws of the church and recite all the creeds, but once let us get a look at Him, the whole thing’s changed all the way around. Yes, it’s sure.
28 This great man, Saint John, a great man like that, the Bible said in Revelations 1:7, that “he fell as if he was a dead man.” After three and a half years of fellowship with Christ, was one of the writers of the Epistles, wrote behind Him, eat with Him at the table, slept with Him at the bed, and fellowshipped with Him wherever He went, but when he’s turned to see Him, he had no more life left in him. He fell like a dead man to the floor, or to the ground. All right.

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« 29 † We see Isaiah, in Isaiah 6:5, as we’ve just read, this great mighty prophet, he’s one of the greatest prophets there is in the Bible. There’s sixty-six Books of the Bible; there’s sixty-six chapters in Isaiah. Isaiah starts off in Genesis, the middle of Isaiah he brings in the New Testament, at the end of Isaiah he brings in the Millennium; just exactly Genesis, the New Testament, and Revelations. Perfect! Isaiah was one of the major prophets. But one day he had been leaning upon the arm of Uzziah the great king, Uzziah had been taken from him, and he was down. He was a pretty good fellow, he was a good righteous man, if that righteous king (a good king) recognized him as a holy man and kept him in his temple.

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« 30 † Isaiah saw visions. He was a prophet. Isaiah preached the Word. He was a minister. Isaiah was a holy man. But one day, standing in the temple, he fell into a trance and he saw the Glory of God. He saw the Angels with wings over Their face, wings over Their feet, flying with wings, crying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty!”
31 That prophet realized he was nothing. He said, “Woe is me, for I am a man of unclean lips.” A prophet, a mightiest prophet of the Bible, one of them. “I am a man with unclean lips, and I dwell among people that’s unclean lips. Woe is me, because I see the Glory of God.”

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« 32 † And he said, when that Angel cried, “the posts of the temple shook back and forth.” Brother, that’ll make you! Not only is the posts of the temple going to shake, but the whole heavens and earth is going to shake when He comes again. The mountains will flee, and the sea will fade away, and scream, “Hide us from the face of Him that sits upon the Throne.” It’s going to be a terrible time. I tell you, sinner friend, you better be checking it up. That’s right.
33 Now, Isaiah said, “Woe is me, I’m a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among unclean people. And I’m, these people has unclean lips.”

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« 34 † Now remember, if such holy men recognized themselves “sinners” in the Presence of God, what will the sinner and ungodly do at that Day? What will people do who sit in the meetings? What will the people do that’s seen the Power of God, that’s heard the countdown on the Word, that’s seen God manifest Himself, and (beyond a shadow of doubt) every Scripture fulfilled, and will still try to make it to Heaven without being born again and receive the Holy Ghost? The Bible said, “If a righteous man be scarcely saved, where will the sinner and ungodly appear?” What kind of a place are we going to stand in if we see God unfold Hisself right before us, and see the Glory of God just the same as them men did, and that kind of men cried out, prophets and sages upon whom the Word is based upon? If they cried, and fell to their feet, and screamed, “I’m man of unholy lips, uncleanness,” what will it be then for that man who won’t even confess his sins? What will it be for that teenager that won’t confess his or her sins? What will it be for that hard-hearted man that thinks he knows more about God’s creation than God does Himself? What will happen to that man that’s spent all of his life trying to disprove the Bible, where will that guy appear at? Think of it!

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« 35 † This is evangelism. This is the time to shake people. This is the time that–that God said there’d come a time, He shook Mount Sinai one time but there’d come a shaking again, that He “wouldn’t only shake Mount Sinai, but He’d shake everything that could be moved.” But did you notice the rest of the Scripture? “But we receive a Kingdom that cannot be moved!” Hallelujah! Everything that can be shook will be shaken. The heavens will shake. The earth will shake. “Heavens and earth will pass away, but that Word shall never pass away. For upon this rock I’ll build My Church, and the gates of hell will never prevail against It.” Everything that can be shook will be shaken. But we receive a Kingdom which is the Word of God Himself, and God is His Word. He don’t shake Himself. Amen! Oh, my! “But we receive a Kingdom that cannot be moved,” it’s unshakeable, said Paul the Hebrew writer.

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« 36 † Such a person and such a man, such a time and how they felt! We have also ourselves. We’ve seen the Glory of God like these man did. Sure. We seen It. We seen the Glory of God like Abraham saw It. We saw the Glory of God like Moses saw It, same Pillar of Fire, the same Power of God, the same Christ un-… revealing Himself, showing Himself, keeping His Word in the last days. How can we come by then, and walk and treat It so lightly? How can we walk around and hold to our creeds and denominations, and not take the Word of God? What will it be for us in that day? How will it happen with us, when we seen the Glory of God?

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« 37 † Some people will stand off and they make fun of It, some will laugh at It, some will call It fanaticism, some call It mental telepathy, some call It Beelzebub, some call It one thing or another. As the old proverbs is, “Fools will walk with hobnailed shoes where Angels fear to trod.” That’s right. “The fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God.'” When he sees God manifested so perfectly by His Own Word (not by a creed; but by His Word), and then walk right over It and make fun of It, he’s a fool. Because, it’s, God is the Word, and God’s made Hisself plain to them, and he’s a “fool,” the Bible said. What will it be for him when he has to stand in that place? It’ll be–it’ll be terrible for that man in that day, the ungodly.

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« 38 † Repentant sinners, though, doesn’t have any fear. Oh, no. A sinner that will repent, he knows that there’s a bloody Sacrifice waiting, to stand in his place. That’s what gives him the consolation. “I’ve seen the Glory of God. I’ve felt His power. I know the touch of His hand. I know the touch of His chastisement. I know that He’s God. And I know I’m undone, but there is One standing there for me. Amen. There’s One Who stands there and says, ‘Father, lay all of his iniquity upon Me, because he stood for Me down on the earth.’ Hallelujah! Then I’ve walked to the Throne of God, boldly, having grace in my heart, to know it’s not by good works, but by His mercy I’m saved. Not what I could do, what I could join, what I could say; but it’s by His grace that He saved me.”
39 No wonder the poet that caught that, screamed out, “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. Once was lost, but now I’m found; blind, but now I see.”

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« 40 † How can I ever go to Heaven, how could you go to Heaven? We cannot do it, we, and no way for us to do it. But there’s One made the way. And He is the Way. And how do we get to Him? By one Spirit, His Spirit, we’re baptized into one Body which will be raised up like an orbit. We’ll go out of the earth as astronauts of this last day in the face of God. Amen. Sure. Repentant sinners don’t have to worry, Someone is there in their place.
41 Oh, then after we have come into His Presence now, and we know we’ve been in His Presence, we’ve seen Him do things that He did when He was here on earth. How do you know the… How do you know the vine you’re looking at? Because the fruit it bears. How do you know the church you’re going to? By the fruit it bears. Jesus said, “He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also. These signs shall follow them that believe.”

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« 42 † Now, we see He never did ordain us to go make denominations. He never did ordain us to go make creeds. But He warned us against such. “For whosoever shall take anything from It or add anything to It, the same will be taken out, their part, in the Book of Life.” See?
43 So, we’re not ordained to do nothing but stay with that Word. And if a man is sent of God, he’ll stay with the Word, because God can only send by His Word. See? See, He must stay by His Word. Then when we come into His Presence, when a man once comes into the Presence of God, he’s changed forever, if there’s any changing to him. Now, there are those who could walk in the Presence of God and pay no attention to It. He wasn’t ordained to Life. But if he was predestinated of God, as soon as that first move hits, he knows it. That catches fire.

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« 44 † Look at that little prostitute down there that day at Samaria, that woman. She was in a bad shape mentally and physically. We know that. But as soon as she seen that sign done, of the Messiah, she said, “We know Messiah is coming to do this. Thou must be His prophet.”
He said, “I’m that Messiah that was wrote to come.”
45 She recognized it. She never asked one more question. She started right quick with the responsibility, to know that if she had found that and come into the Presence of God, she was responsible to tell somebody else about It. Hallelujah! Right. Any man that comes into the Presence of God is responsible before God, from that minute on, to tell somebody else. Look at Abraham, look at Moses, look at Peter, look at Paul. The moment they come into the Presence of God, recognized themselves “sinners,” and sealed their testimony with their life. Look at the little lady, she couldn’t stay no longer, she went to the city and told the men, “Come, see the Man that told me the things I’ve done. Isn’t this the Messiah?” They could not deny It, because It was Scriptural. Certainly. Yes, they’ve got to do it, a man, when we got a responsibility of telling others as Moses did, as Peter did, as Paul did. After these things, you’ve seen It and come into His Presence, you’re responsible for the Message to get to somebody else. You just cannot sit still with It. You must take It to someone else.

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« 46 † I remember an old sister used to be here, Brother Graham Snelling’s mother, she used to sit right here in the church, and she would sing, “I’ve just got over! I’m running, running, running, and I just got over and I can’t sit down.” She had just found something. I went over to a little colored church over here in Louisville, and all of them was standing up, singing, “I’m running up the King’s Highway, just found It, and took up the Highway!”
47 There’s something about it, when you find Christ, you cannot hold your peace any longer. The rest of your days you are a changed person, for when life and Life comes together, it makes a bright Light. True. When the bulb connects with the wire, if it’s a correct bulb, it’s got to give light; when the current and the bulb gets together, there’s nothing to do but scatter light. It has to do it. And when a man or a woman is predestinated to Eternal Life, and they see the current of God catch that bulb, it’ll throw Light everywhere it can. You might not be over a ten watt, but you’ll scatter what Light you got. If you ain’t a five-hundred watt, scatter ten watt Light. Give your Light! “Let your light so shine before men, that they might see your good works and glorify the Father which is in Heaven.” Yes, sir.

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« 48 † When a man comes in contact with God, he recognizes himself “no good.” How can a man walk around and brag about how big he is and what all he’s done, when he’s nothing? He’s nothing to begin with. One day down in Memphis, Tennessee, or one… I don’t think it was in Memphis. It was one of the places there. I was with Brother Davis and was having a–a revival. It might have been Memphis. And we was–went to a coliseum, and they had in there, not a coliseum, it was kind of an art gallery, and they had the–the great statues that they had got from different parts of the earth, of different, Hercules and so forth, and great artists had painted. And then they had the analysis of a man that weighed a hundred and fifty pounds. You know how much he was worth? Eighty-four cents. That’s all he is. Eighty-four cents is all–all the chemicals you can get out of him. He’s just got enough whitewash to sprinkle a hen’s nest, and he’s got enough, just a little bit of calcium, little potash. It would all sell for eighty-four cents. But we just take care of that eighty-four cents and baby it around.

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« 49 † There was two boys standing there, and one looked the other one, said, “Jim, we’re not worth very much are we?”
He said, “No, we’re not, John.”
50 I said, “But wait a minute, boys, you got a soul in there that’s worth ten thousand worlds, that’s been, can be redeemed by the power of God, if you’ll just let it.”
51 Man, when he sees these things, he’s responsible to tell others. I saw it when I was just a boy. I spent the whole life at it. I only sorry I got one life, wish I had ten thousand. If I had an Eternity, I’d still want to tell people about it, ’cause it’s the greatest thing I ever found. If you’ll read in Ezekiel 33, 33rd chapter of Ezekiel, there was a watchman set on a tower, and this watchman was responsible for the entire city. Amen. Now, wake, wake yourselves to your spiritual conscience a minute, while I get to this Scripture. That watchman had to be a trained man. He had to know what he was doing, for at any distance, as soon as they arose, the enemy, he could detect it. He could tell their march, he could tell their color, he could tell their rank and file. Just as far as the human eyes could see, he could see it. And he was higher than the rest of them, for he was trained to know the enemy. And God required the whole city at his hand. “Watchman, what of the night?” Hallelujah!

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« 52 † That’s the way God’s soldiers are today. They’re trained to the Word. When anything comes up that’s got a little polish to it, that’s got something else that’s not Scripture, they warn their congregation. Anything that’s not Bible, anything that’s not–that’s not God-like, such as having soup suppers, dances, and everything else, to pay off the pastors. Those things are wrong. Bunco games and card parties in the churches, it’s wrong! And the real watchman on the wall, who’s once been in the Presence of God… If he isn’t on the wall, if he’s just supposed to be on the wall, the wall may not be any higher than the rest of the congregation. But if he’s a correct watchman, God raises him plumb up into spheres that the rest of them never gets to. But he watches the flock, and God requires it of him! The man of God who stands in the Presence of God, and knows God is God, and know that God keeps His Word, and watch God perform Hisself and do His duty and keep His Word, then no matter how many organizations or denominations tries to tear it down, he knows the rank and file of the enemy. Amen. He knows what to tell the congregation, a real watchman.

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« 53 † If we have confessed that He is, we been in His Presence, and we have confessed our sins, they are blotted out the book of His memory. There’s nobody but God could do that. Now, you can do anything to me, I’ll forgive you, but I’ll remember it. If I’d do anything to you, you’d forgive me, but you’ll remember it. But God can forgive and forget it. Think of that, “don’t even remember it!” Amen. That makes me feel good. When it’s not even remembered anymore, nothing can do it but God. Nothing but God can do that. He said He would blot it out of His book of memory. I can’t do it, you can’t do it, because we’ve only got these little finite senses. But He’s infinite, God, He can absolutely forget that it ever was done. Amen.

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« 54 † A young lady come from a country church, and her father was an old-fashioned, shouting preacher, or a member of the church. And so she moved into the city, and she got all mixed up with the women down there, and got to acting like they did, and the fashions. And one day she was kind of ashamed for her papa and mama to come, or her father, rather, her mother was dead. So the old man, only thing he’d do, get up of a morning, eat his breakfast and get the Bible and read It, and cry and pray and shout all day long, and run up and down the room, and she was a little embarrassed about it. So then–then when all time through the night, if he got a hold of the Bible, started reading It, he’d raise up out of the bed, and holler, “Glory to God! Hallelujah! Oh, glory to God!” Just stomp and cry half the night.

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« 55 † So one day she was going to entertain her church members to a little tea party like they always have, you know, so she didn’t know what she was going to do with her dad. After all, it was her daddy. So she decided she’d put him up in the attic, and say, “Daddy, you don’t want to be around where these women are, do you?”
Said, “No, I don’t believe I want to do that.”
56 She said, “Well, we’re going to have the church women up here today, and we’re going to have a little meeting, a little prayer meeting. So I–I tell you, dad, why don’t you just go up in the attic?”
Said, “I just believe I’ll do that.”
57 So she said, “Read this nice book.” And she gave him a geography. Took his Bible away from him so he’d keep quiet. So knowed if he read the Bible, why, he would go to making a lot of noise up there. So he’s right up over them, you know, where they was having their party. So she give him the geography, said, “This is nice. You should read it, daddy, because it tells you all the truth about the world.”
Well, said, “I’ll be glad to read that.”
58 So said, “Now you go up there and keep real quiet till these women leave, and then I’ll… you come back down and then you can do whatever you want to.” He agreed to do it. So he goes upstairs, sits up there.

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« 59 † And they was all having their tea party, you know, talking about so-and-so, and you know how it goes, having all that big time. And about that time something cut loose upstairs, all the screaming and jumping, and the plaster falling. The old man running up and down through the attic just as hard as he could go, jumping up and down, and hollering, “Glory to God! Glory to God!” The women didn’t know what happened up there, what they had upstairs. So directly down the steps he come, hard as he could go.
She said, “Daddy, I give you a geography to read.”
60 Said, “Yes, I know it. You know,” said, “I was reading in this geography here where there’s places in the sea that ain’t got no bottom in it.” And said, “I read over here in the Bible yesterday, He said He put my sins in the ‘sea of forgetfulness.’ Glory to God!…?… Said, “They’re still going. They don’t have an end, they just keep on going.” That’s right. And he was shouting about it. Well, that’s right.

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« 61 † God puts our sins in the sea of forgetfulness, blots them out, and they’re as if they never did happen. Oh, my! Then we stand by the grace of God, through Jesus Christ our Lord, pure and holy, just as holy as He was, because He doesn’t see me when I come up there, He sees His Own Son. The only way He can see. Can’t see me, because I’m in His Son. And He only sees His Son. Isn’t that wonderful? We don’t have to think about sins anymore, it’s all gone, it’s under the Blood. Yes, sir. Don’t have to worry about it anymore, it’s all out, and out of God’s memory. He don’t even remember it no more.

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« 62 † Isaiah, that mighty prophet, when he confessed his sins, he said, “Woe is me, for I’m a man of unclean lips.” A prophet! “I’m a man of unclean lips, and my congregation’s unclean.” See? “The people I preach to, they’re unclean. I’m unclean. And woe is me. But here comes a bunch of Angels down from the Glory of God, fanning back the–the clouds, and I look up there and see His train filling the whole Heaven. And I watched these Angels that’s never knowed what sin was. They never even knowed what sin was, and they’re in the Presence of God, they got two wings over their faces, they got two wings over their feet, and they’re flying with two wings, and they cry day and night, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God.” Whew. That’d make you feel kind of unholy, wouldn’t it? Now, what did he do? He said, “Woe is me.”

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« 63 † And when he confessed his sins and said “woe is me,” the Angel went over and took the tongs, picked up a coal of fire which represented the Holy Ghost and fire, and come over and laid it on the prophet’s lips, and said, “I’ve cleansed you.” Then the wings winnowing their way like that, moved away the curtains of time, and he heard God say, “Who will go for us?”
64 But after he found out that there was a way to rid sin, God wanted somebody to go for Him, and he said, “Here am I, send me.” He had been in the Presence of God, and had confessed his sins, and been cleansed from his sins, and was ready for service. Amen.
65 As the poet caught that, said, “Millions now in sin and shame are dying, listen to their sad and bitter cry. Hasten, brother, hasten to their rescue; quickly answer, ‘Master, here am I.'”

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« 66 † When I think of Africa, India, and around the world, millions of heathens screaming and crying for mercy, and who will go? Not pass them a tract, but bring them Jesus Christ. Somebody in His Presence, like Moses, who could go down there and show them true deliverance. Not make them join a church, or shake hands and have a creed, but bring deliverance to their soul; some good godly man. Yes, Isaiah confessed his sins and was cleansed.

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« 67 † After Jacob had wrestled all night, in confessing his sins, you remember the place he was? It was called Peniel, P-e-n-i-t-e-l, Peniel. The word Peniel, in the Hebrew, means “the face of Almighty God.” Jacob, the little shyster had run all… his name was Jacob, which means “supplanter,” that’s deceiver, had run all of his life, away from God, but when he got one time in the Presence of God at Peniel, in the face of God, he got a hold of God and wouldn’t turn Him loose. God, we need more Jacobs. He held on to the face of God, in the Presence of God, he stayed until it was sunup. God said, “Let Me go, because the sun’s arising.” And he stayed in the face of God until sunup, but he went away justified and saved. Sun.

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« 68 † Oh, what a great thing it was, now, to know that he had wrestled through. That’s, he had seen signs of God, he had had dreams about God, but this was one time he was in the face of God, in the Presence of God. Think of it, friends, now as we hurry up. In the Presence of God, a man is changed. Jacob was changed. Now he could walk with God. Yes, he was a different man than what he was when he went up there. The battle was now over. Yes, sir. And he begin to build an altar. He hadn’t been used to building altars, you know. But, I tell you, when you come in the Presence of God, you want to build an altar somewhere. You want to find somewhere where you can pray. He built an altar. He was cleansed, and God had won.

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« 69 † And Jacob was changed from Jacob, “supplanter,” to Israel, “a prince, having power with God.” That’s what happened to Jacob. The supplanter, the deceiver, the unrighteous, the unholy, the deceiver, deceived his brother, stole the birthrights, as it was, from his brother, took a little dirty way of doing it, such a deceiver. He deceived his father-in-law. Put poplar sticks and made speckled calves, when the cows being pregnated come there, look at it, and the sheep… would see that speckled stick and make speckled cattle, give them birth marks. Deceiver, deceiving his own father-in-law. Deceived his mother, deceived his daddy, deceived his brother, but when he once got in the… He was a shyster. He was running everywhere he went, always on the run from God, he was on the run from his brother. But when he come into the Presence of God, he recognized he was a sinner. What did he do? What did he do? He seen his opportunity. He had met Something that he didn’t even think about before, and he stayed there until all sins was gone. Oh, my! God got him in His Own Presence.

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« 70 † God manages a way to get men in their Presence, then they make their decision. Some of them run from Him, some run to Him. If they’re predestinated to Life, they believe It, they hang onto It. If they’re not, they try to get away and say, “There’s nothing to It.” See? And that’s the guy that’s lost. “The guy that confesses his sin, shall have pardon. If you hide your sin, you’ll not prosper.” No.
71 So Jacob when he, you know, the next day he met Esau his brother. He didn’t need no help from him then. He didn’t need his armies. He was in business building altars. He wasn’t afraid of Esau no more.

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« 72 † Psalms 16:8, David said, “I have set the Lord before me.” That’s a good thing to do. Psalms 16:8, “I have set the Lord before me.” So, he could not be confused about it. He wanted to be conscious of His Presence, so David said, “I have set the Lord always before my face. Now I, David, have set the Lord before my face, always to be conscious–conscious of God’s Presence.” Wouldn’t that be a good lesson for all of us tonight? Set the Lord before our face so we’ll be conscious of His Presence. Put Him first. Why? Put Him first, before you. Why? Then you won’t sin when you are realizing that constantly you’re in the Presence of God. When you realize God is around, you’ll watch what you say.

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« 73 † A man, when he thinks God is gone, he’ll cuss, he’ll lust after women, he’ll do–he’ll steal, cheat, lie. He’ll do anything when he thinks that God don’t see him. But bring him into the Presence of God, he’ll stop it right now. See? And David said, “I have put the Lord always before me.” That’s a good thing. No wonder God said he was a man after His Own heart. Man will do everything when he thinks that God isn’t near. But when he realizes that God’s near, did you ever notice a sinner? Let a godly person walk up, he’ll quit his cussing, if he’s got any respects at all. See? He won’t tell the dirty jokes that he would have told. See? See, he’ll leave off that, because he knows that he’s in the Presence of God, ’cause God dwells in the tabernacle of His people. See?

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« 74 † After David did this, he said, “My heart shall rejoice.” I wish you’d read it, Psalms 16. “My heart will rejoice, and my flesh shall rest in hope.” Why? My heart shall rejoice because I’ve got God before me all the time. “And my flesh shall rest in hope; if I die, I’ll be raised up again. For He’ll not suffer His Holy One to see corruption, neither will He leave His soul in hell.” See? When David put God before him, and was conscious that constantly he was in the Presence of God. “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God.”

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« 75 † Now listen, church, I love you. And I want you to listen to me now. As Brother McCulley used to say, I’m going to say something. Always put the Lord before you, and don’t you do nothing that you wouldn’t do in His Presence, because He’s watching over you. See? The Lord is encamped about those who fear Him. He don’t… He just stays right near you. And He knows everything you’re doing, and you must recognize that. When you start to tell a lie, don’t do it, remember, God is listening at you. If you start to do a little cheat, don’t you do it, God’s looking at you. If you start to take His Name in vain, don’t do it, God’s listening at you. Start to smoke a cigarette, He’s watching you. See? His… We used to sing a song, “All along on the road to the soul’s true abode, there’s an eye watching you; every step that you take, this great eye is awake, there’s an eye watching you.” Remember, do like David, put the Lord always before your face. Then your heart will rejoice and your flesh shall rest in hope, for He promised it. Yes, sir. He knew that he would raise up because God had promised it. All right.
76 When we come into His Presence, we’re changed, never to be the same. Look all down through the ages, of every walk of life, at man. Look at Abraham. You say, “Well, the changed life is just for ministers.” Oh, no. The changed life is for everybody. See?

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« 77 † Now, Abraham was a farmer, but when he heard God’s Voice speaking to him, and saw that vision, he was a changed man from that time on. He separated himself from his kindred, from all of his associates, and walked as a pilgrim and a stranger, in a strange land, the rest of his life, dwelling in tents, because he clearly confessed that he was seeking a city Whose Builder and Maker was God. He knowed there was a God, and there was a city somewhere Whose Builder and Maker was God. That’s what Hebrews 11 tells us, that he was seeking a city that its Builder and Maker was God. He was a changed man, yet he wasn’t nothing but a mere farmer. But he saw a vision and come into the Presence of God, and he was a changed man from then on.

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« 78 † Moses, he was a shepherd, but he was a changed man when he come into the Presence of God. He was a coward, he was running from Pharaoh, with a whole army behind him. But with a stick in his hand, he went back and took the whole nation. See? Why? He come into the Presence of God. He was a changed man, a shepherd.
79 Peter, a fisherman, knowed nothing about fishing… or knowed nothing about God, only thing he probably knowed was how to catch fish. But when he come in the Presence of God, and see the great Creator Who could create fish, when He told him to let down the nets for the draw. There wasn’t any fish there, he just pulled his nets up. But he said, “At Thy Word, Lord. I believe that You’re the Son of God, and if You let… if I let down the net, You told me to do it at Your Word, because You and Your Word are the same, I let down the net.” And when he begin to pull, he said, “Depart, Lord, I’m a sinful man.” See, a fisherman, after Peter met Christ he was never the same anymore. He, afterwards, was so true to God, he was given the keys to the Kingdom. Yes, sir.

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« 80 † Paul, a self-styled Pharisee, educated and trained in all the religion of the… that there was in the world in that day, one of the highest knowed scholars in the land. But when he come before that Pillar of Fire one day, the God that he had persecuted, ignorantly. He was a Pharisee, he didn’t believe that God was a Man. He knowed God was the Pillar of Fire, It led His people out of Egypt, It had been with them all along. But when he saw this Pillar of Fire, he fell on his face. And he heard a Voice saying, “Saul, why persecutest thou Me?”
Said, “Who are You, Lord?”
81 He said, “I’m Jesus.” He was a Man that said, “How have you been baptized?” He had been in the Presence of God. He was a changed man from then on, he had been in the Presence of God. It changes a man.

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« 82 † Charles G. Finney, a lawyer, a great Philadelphian lawyer, but when he come into the Presence of God he dropped his law study and become a mightiest preacher of this nation’s ever had yet.
[Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.]… was a preacher, because one day he come in the Presence of God. He thought, once, he’d study the ministry. You know his book. I got his autobiography. He went out to pray. He thought he was a preacher. He had a desire, that he wanted to preach, and he had him a few sermons he’d try to preach. He went out one day, out of his office, to pray, went out in the woods. He got down behind an old blown down tree, where he’d go every afternoon. Very religious, but he didn’t believe in That.
There was two women in the church, kept saying, “Mr. Finney, we are praying that you’ll receive the Holy Ghost.”
He said, “I got the Holy Ghost.” Said, “I’m a preacher.”
83 Said, “Mr. Finney, you’re a great man, and you got a great hold of the Word, but you need the Holy Ghost. We’re praying for you.” Sweet little women.
84 So he went on, on. So every day he’d go out behind his office, his boss and all of them there he worked, and he’d go out of his law office and go out there to pray. And one day he was out there praying and he heard a brush break. He thought his boss was coming up, hunting him. He jumped up real quick. He was saying, “Lord God, I believe You.” Stopped, brushed before he got… “Uhm! Uhm!” raised up and said, looked around, see what it was broke the brush. And it was then he come into the Presence of God. He realized that brush had broke for a purpose. He stood there, the tears running down his cheeks. He said, “Maybe them women’s right. I’m ashamed for somebody to see me talking to my God, but I’d think it was an honor for somebody to see me talking to my boss. How much greater is my Lord than my boss!” Said, “Lord, forgive me and fill me with the Holy Ghost,” started screaming and shouting. He was in the Presence of God. He run downtown real quick to his office. He got to screaming so hard he had to go behind the door, said, “Lord, I’ll bring disgrace upon You. Hide me back here till I get over this spell.” Why? He had come in the Presence of God. He was a changed man. The sermons that he used to preach, he preached them same sermons and souls came to the altar. See, he had been in the Presence of God.

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« 85 † Moody, a little old shoe cobbler, hardly knowed his ABC’s. That’s right. His grammar was poor. Somebody told him one day, “Your grammar is awful poor, Mr. Moody.”
He said, “But I’m winning souls with it.”
86 One day the newspapers, the editor went to writing the newspaper. He went over to see how could this man hold crowds of people under any conditions, little old guy, bald-headed, and everything, and had whiskers hanging way down, kind of pot-bellied, and he was a horrible-looking man to look at. So this newspaper really give him a write-up, said, “I don’t see what in the world that anyone would see in Dwight Moody.” Said, “He’s ugly, his voice is squeaky, he’s got whiskers plumb down to his waistline, he’s as bald-headed as a pumpkin.” And said, “How in the world would anybody ever go to see anything in Moody?”
87 So Moody’s manager happened to see it, said, “Look, Mr. Moody, I’ll read this to you.” Moody couldn’t read it himself. So he said, “I’ll read you the editorial.” And he wrote it.
88 Moody just shrugged his shoulder, said, “Certainly not, they come to see Christ.” That was all. Why? He had been in the Presence of God. From making soles on shoes, for people to wear out; he shod the people with the Gospel of preparation. Why? He was in the Presence of God. Right.

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« 89 † A little woman one time come in the Presence of God, as guilty as she could be. In a moment when she realized that she was in the Presence of God, every sin was forgiven and she was as pure and white as a lily. Oh, my. How many more I could call off here of people, time wouldn’t permit.
90 But I want to talk a little bit about myself. What could been any lower than me? Where was I? Come out of a family of drunkards, come out of a family of murderers, come out of a family of bootleggers. And you know that, every one of you know it, know what kind of a name we had here. People didn’t speak to us on the street. I’d go downtown, start to talk to somebody, nobody would talk to me unless somebody wasn’t around. They’d talk to me, somebody else come up, they’d leave me. And I’d stand there and cry, “No, this ain’t so, it can’t be so. This is wrong.”

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« 91 † But one day I come into the Presence of God. He changed me and made me another kind of son. His grace brought me into His Presence. I’ve never wanted to leave It. I been in here now thirty-some-odd years. I don’t want to leave It. I’ve got the assurance that I’ll always be There. Even death itself will never separate me from His Presence. No. I’ll be with Him forever. When I seen His Presence the first time, I cried like Isaiah, “Woe is me.” Then He touched me with His grace. I was a changed person. The little renegade that used to get out here and carry on and everything, was changed, and since then I’ve been His child. Since then, I’ve desired to give my whole life for His service, only wish I had ten thousand more lives to give for Him. This one’s getting pretty well wore out now, fifty-three years has passed. About thirty-three of those has been, or thirty-two of those has been in the Gospel. I wish I had another thousand that I could spend. Why? When I once into His Presence and realized that there was Somebody Who loved the unlovable, there was Somebody loved me when no one else did, there was Somebody Who cared for me when no one else cared. I put my arms around His cross, I embraced it to me, and me and Him become one then. And from then on I’ve loved Him. He stained my bosom and my heart with His Blood, by touching me and forgiving my sins, and I’m happy tonight to be one of His. I never desire to leave this Heavenly place, though the tempter to persuade me oft hath tried; but I’m safe in God’s pavilion, and happy in His love and grace, and I’m living on the hallelujah side. My! It makes my heart rejoice.

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« 92 † I’m recommending Him to every weary person. I’m recommending Him to you that have no hope. You that’s never been in His Presence, the only thing you have to do is confess your sins and realize that you’re wrong, and God has that Angel ordained tonight, called the Holy Ghost, that’ll take all your sins away. Then you’ll cry, “Lord, here am I, send me.” Then you’ll raise your hands and sing, “I will praise Him! I will praise Him! Praise the Lamb for sinners slain. Give Him glory, all ye people, for His Blood has washed away each stain.” I love Him. Don’t you? Living in His Presence!

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« 93 † I come to the pulpit here this morning, feeling so bad and so sick from… I–I was down in Kentucky last week with some personal friends of mine sitting here. If I stayed down there very long, they’d kill me, they sure would, with kindness, some of the best cooks I ever knowed in my life. And when I get to my capacity, is done overloaded, “Brother Branham, won’t you have some of this?” And it’s just so good, I just try to poke it down. I got so full I just couldn’t even move. I–I couldn’t sleep, and I’d get up and walk around a while. And I wasn’t feeling very good when I got in here this morning. But once when I come into His Presence, that settled it. That settled it, it all vanished away then. That’s right. Oh, to live in His Presence!
I will praise Him, I will praise Him,
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give Him glory all ye people,
For His Blood has washed away each stain.
Let’s bow our heads now.
[Brother Branham begins humming I Will Praise Him–Ed.]
For He’s done so much for me.
He’s forgiven my transgression,
And His Blood has washed my sin.
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.
[Brother Branham begins humming I Will Praise Him–Ed.]

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« 94 † Now if you’re in here tonight… And I know His Presence is here. Standing in there a while ago, to a little Church of God girl, the Holy Spirit moved in upon me when I was praying for that little child. The parents had come down from the Anderson Church of God campground. And the overseer over there, knowing the child, the doctors said “could… it’s got to die right away, with leukemia.” The little, sweet little girl, in her last stages now. She come back there and held her little hand out to me, it all swelled up, with needles and things been in it, and blue. I looked upon her, I saw a vision. The parents had just been reading a book out there. They knowed nothing about it. The general overseer at the camp up there told them, said bring the child down here. They wanted to come back when we had a healing service. And I said, “Bring the child now,” felt led.

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« 95 † When I was standing right in there, the Holy Spirit went right back and brought out the history of the child. Told all about how it happened, what they had done. Told the little girl’s ambition, was to be a piano player. And that mother just almost screamed out. And that daddy said, “That’s the God’s truth.” Sitting right there in the car now listening to it, couldn’t get in, sitting out there listening to it now.
96 There come a big veil of a shadow hanging over the child. And I said, “Satan, you are defeated.” “You’re no respect of person, God. And by the power of Your resurrection, and as Your servant, I drive this devil from the child.” A big bright Light flashed over the top of her, it was over. Amen. What? Sure, He’s worthy of all praise!

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« 97 † He knows all things. He knows your heart. And you know what you’re thinking; He does, too. If there’s a little sin hanging on you tonight, and you wouldn’t want to go in the Presence of God with that on you, would you once more raise up your hand and say, “Brother Branham, pray for me, I want to be in His Presence at that day, guiltless.” God bless you. Many hands, God sees it. In His Presence. Now I’ll tell you what you do. Now just listen closely. Do like David did, put the Lord before you right now. Put the Lord between you and that sin, whatever that little besetting sin is. It might be lying, might be stealing, it might be evil thinking, it might be temper, might be drinking, might be smoking, might be gambling. I don’t know what. It might be lust, it might be anything. I don’t know what it is. Whatever it is, put the Lord before you. And then your heart will rejoice, and your flesh shall rest in hope, for you know that Christ promised He’d raise up again in the last days. When He comes forth, we’ll come in His likeness. Won’t you do it now while we pray.

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« 98 † Our Heavenly Father, a little chopped up Message by a tired weary servant, but just thinking on the subject of “dwelling in the Presence of God.” And we see tonight the effect that it’s taken upon holy men to come into Your Presence, what effect it had upon them. Sages, great powerful prophets ordained by God, and sent to preach the Word, and yet meet Him face to face and fall to the ground like a dead man. What are we going to do at that day, Lord? We’ve thought it over. We’ve been thinking it. Some forty or fifty hands has been thinking it, Lord, for they just raised them hands, or hearts beneath the hand, has been thinking about meeting Him since we’ve been speaking. What would they do if they had to meet Him?

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« 99 † My hands, Lord, is up. What will I do? Now, Father, I’ve got many things that I do wrong. I’ve just confessed my sin this morning before the church, as I confessed it to You on top of the mountain the other morning when it was blowing and snowing, and up there on top of the mountain, to how I cried out and asked You to forgive me for my stupidity. And how I dreaded to come before my brethren, who some of them regard me as Your prophet-servant. And, Lord, how I hated to come before them and tell them of a stupid act that I would do a thing like that, but, God, it’s good for my soul that I confess my sins and not hide them. So to be honest with You, and right before the people, I have confessed it, Lord. I’m wrong, I’m altogether wrong. I pray forgiveness.

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« 100 † And then, Father, I’ve been dilatory about You, serving You, many times maybe I could have went longer when I didn’t do it. Father, I confess my sins. I want the Angel of God to cleanse me from that, by the Blood of Jesus. Other hands went up tonight, some of them maybe has never asked forgiveness before; but I’m sure of this one thing, if we’ll confess our sins, God will blot them out, put, them in the sea of forgetfulness and never remember them no–no more. And, Father, as I confess mine, about misbehaving before them people, I didn’t carry on myself like a servant of Christ. I didn’t. I was afraid that man might be angry with me and think I didn’t want to hurt his feelings, but I didn’t think of what I was doing to You, Lord. And now I–I pray that You forgive me. And now, Father, I know that if I ask forgiveness I have forgiveness, and You’ve put them in the sea of forgetfulness, and You’ll never remember that no more. God, I’m thankful for that.

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« 101 † And I pray that You’ll let every person here, that has sin, besetting sin of anything before them, may they remove it and put the Lord before them like David did. For now we cry out, “Woe is me, for I have seen the Glory of God. I’m a man of unclean lips, or a woman or girl of unclean lips, boy, or something.” Whatever we might be, we’re unclean, and we ask for the Blood of Jesus Christ, the appropriated Sacrifice, to cleanse us from all sin, that we might ever dwell in His Presence. Let us go from here tonight with our hearts rejoicing, and our flesh resting in hope, knowing this, that when Jesus does come, we’ll be raised with Him in His likeness, and shall meet Him in the air, in the Rapture, when the countdown is finally over. We see the seventh church age is already counted out, and we’re ready now to take off. We pray, God, that You, before You close the door, if there be one here tonight has never come in, may they hurry in real quick, for we feel that the door of mercy, between mercy and judgment, is being closed. Those who will accept mercy will step in. Those who will not come in will have to suffer judgment. God closes the door. May there not be a door closed tonight to every one of these confessing sinners. May we all have pardon and mercy. In Jesus Christ’s Name.

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« 102 † And now, Father, for the sick and the afflicted, for those who are needy, I pray that Your grace will supply all that they have need of. May they step into Christ, into His Presence. Place Christ, Christ, the promise, “‘He was wounded for my transgressions,’ that’s my sin. ‘With His stripes I am healed,’ then I place the Lord before my sickness. ‘He’s on my right hand, and I shall not be moved,’ then I walk boldly on, confessing that I am healed. ‘By His stripes I am healed.'” Grant it, Lord, to every one of them. And we know that if we confess with our hearts and, or with our lips, and believe in our hearts, then we have our desire.
103 You said, “When you say anything, believe it comes to pass, you can have what you’ve said.” We believe that, Father, and believe that You’ll cleanse us from all of our sins, and heal all of our sickness, and give us grace, Lord, to serve You.

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« 104 † Be with these people. Many of them are going to travel the dark roads tonight. Many of them will travel many miles. Don’t let nothing happen to them, Lord. They come across the country to sit here to listen to the countdown, to see how close we was to the end time. Now I’ve asked them to go away, placing God before them, always before them, before anything else. Before their trip, before their move, before their–before they get up, after they go to bed, always before they sleep, wherever it is, put God first! “For He is on my right hand, and I shall not be moved.” Then may their hearts rejoice, to know that they have what they’ve asked for, because God promised it, and their flesh shall rest in hope. Grant it, Lord, for we ask it in Jesus Christ’s Name. Amen.
I will praise Him, I will praise Him,
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give Him glory all ye people,
For His Blood has washed away each stain.

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« 105 † Now do you believe you have placed the Lord between you and your sin, between you and your sickness, between you and your fault, between you and your ways? “The Lord is always before me, and I am in His Presence. The next time I start to light a cigarette, the Lord is before me. The next time I start to lust, the Lord is before me. The next time I start to tell anything wrong, the Lord is before me. The next time I start to say a bad thing, the Lord is before me. And I shall not be moved. Amen. I’ll live in His Presence each day, with my dealings, each day with my talk. I’ll walk as if the Lord is before me, because tonight I’ve put Him before me. I shall not be moved.” You love Him?

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« 106 † Now, let us stand up now. Oh, I just feel real good. I just feel like I don’t want to go home. And you know it’s only about twenty-five minutes till nine, I’m about two hours early. Isn’t it wonderful? Oh, my! But now as we leave, let’s remember, we must take the Name of Jesus with us, as a shield from every snare. And when temptations around us gather… tries to keep us to remember that, just breathe that holy Name in prayer.
Take the Name of Jesus with you,
Child of sorrow and of woe;
It will joy and comfort give you,
Oh, take It everywhere you go.
Precious Name (precious Name), O how sweet!
Hope of earth and joy of Heaven;
Precious Name (precious Name), O how sweet!
Hope of earth and joy of Heaven.

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« 107 † How many enjoys our pastor, Brother Neville? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Aren’t you thankful to the Lord for a good, honest, everyday man, believes the Gospel? [“Amen.”] And he’s doing such a wonderful job by obeying the Commandments of God, and preaching the Word and keeping this great spiritual atmosphere in the church all the time. Remember, I’ve come down the East Coast, went across the South, and up the West Coast, and through Canada, and I haven’t met one church that’s as spiritual as this church right here. They’ve gone to seed, yeah, either fanaticism, or either went off on tantrums, or either so cold they just can’t be moved. That’s all.
108 Now, do you love one another? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Oh, shake hands with each other, and say, “Praise the Lord.”
109 [Brother Branham shakes hands with the people–Ed.] Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord, my ministers. Praise the Lord, sister. Praise the Lord. Glad you were here, brother. Praise the Lord, sister. God bless you. All right. God bless you. All right. God bless you. I know what you need. God bless you. God bless you.
Take the Name of Jesus with you,
As a shield from every snare;
When temptations round you gather, (What do you do?)
Breathe that holy Name in prayer.
Precious Name (precious Name), O how sweet! (O how sweet!)
Hope of earth and joy of Heaven;
Precious Name (precious Name), O how sweet!
Hope of earth and joy of Heaven.

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« 110 † Let us bow our heads now. Real softly, let’s not forget that now. Let’s sing that verse again.
Take the Name of Jesus with you, (What for?)
For a shield from every snare, (when Satan tries to snare you);
When temptations round you gather, (What do you do?)
Just breathe that holy Name.
“For the Lord is before my face; I shall not be moved!”
Precious Name (precious Name), O how sweet!
Brother Neville. `

–Rev. William Marrion Branham

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« 1 † ` Thank you, Brother Neville. The Lord bless you.
It’s always kind of in a hurry. I just got in. Brother Moore had me on the phone about coming down there for their Pentecostal fifty-year jubilee. I was trying to make out dates with the businessmen over at the other place, and I said… turned the phone up, said, “Hear that ‘Only Believe’? You know what that means.” And I turned him over to Billy, and run out the door. So I–I don’t know how they’ll come out back there, but it’s… I really love to go down in Louisiana, though, to those people, them good old Southerners down there. But then I got to be in around that same dates in–in Florida, at the regional convention of businessmen, and it makes it kind of complicated when you try to tie them together just in a moment like that.

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« 2 † We’re all happy to be here this morning, and be alive and–and among those who can say “Amen.” That’s right. Now, I’m sorry that we’re all jammed up in here. And he said some of the people come up and just drove away. But we are… It’s just the best we can do at the–at the time. You know. You understand, I’m sure. [Brother Branham coughs–Ed.] Pardon me.
Can you hear better out of this one or out of this one? This one here? Good, just get it right around here so I’m close. [Brother Neville says, “This is alive. That’s a–that’s a recording mike.”–Ed.] This, recording here. All right. All right, sir.

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« 3 † Well, did you enjoy last night? I… we sure got it, and the Lord blessed us. Just so many more things could be said about the Message there, but I thought maybe you could study it, you know, and you’ll realize, and between the lines, the hour we’re living in. We’re right at the end time. And I believe that. Course, every person has thought that, I guess, since Jesus promised to return. But, you know, one of these days He’s going to come, anyhow, see. So I just don’t see nothing left to happen, only the rapturing of the Church.

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« 4 † Now, just before we approach the Message I want this morning, on the subject of the Countdown. And now we… and tonight, remember tonight’s service now, is Living In His Presence. See? And we’ll try to be quick, hurry, so you can get away so we get to work again for Monday morning. And we are grateful for all of you. I just don’t know what we would, what I would do without you. I just–I just couldn’t get along without you.

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« 5 † And I want to give a special thanks to that Sister Williams, I guess I don’t even know the woman. When I got up this morning, my, Brother Charlie Cox was there, and–and the–the doorstep was sitting full of food, canned goods and things. How that poor little woman must have sweated it out this summer, canning that stuff, the tomatoes and things of food. Now, that means so much to me. And Sister Williams, I believe they left your Bible there to be prayed, said to pray that God will… I prayed this morning in the room when I was studying for the Message, that God would take the contents of that Bible and place it in your heart. And I pray that God will bless you. Wish I could pay you for that, sister, I know you sure went through a lot to sweat that out. And I thank you so much! It’s so little to say, but let me give you a Scripture where we know, as I said last night, won’t fail. Jesus said, “Insomuch as you have done unto the least,” and that would be, see, “the least of these little ones of Mine, you have did it unto Me.” And may it return to you just the way it would be if you’d give it right over into His hands. God bless you for that.

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« 6 † Thank all of you. When you’re here, I find out on the–the tithings and things that you pay, that’s your confidence in us, that it’ll go for the Kingdom of God. Now, we are responsible for that, see, and got to give an account for it. So we want to watch everything that we do, to make every move just as perfect as we can, the way our Lord would want it, because we don’t know what time He’s going to call on us to answer and then give an account for everything that’s come our way.
7 That’s the reason I think Paul, last night, only had one coat. See? He could have had more, but he didn’t. That’s one coat’s all he could use at a time, so he just kept that one. I don’t think he cared for the riches of the world. I don’t think he cared for the popularity, you know what I mean, everybody in their great religious moves as it is today. And so many people…

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« 8 † I know this is being taped. And when I say things here, I realize I’m not only talking to this congregation, but across the world. And I… Because these tapes go out to many, many nations, and they take them even back in the tribes in Africa, back in there, and sit there, and the minister takes it and interprets those tapes to the people, back in where they don’t even know which is right and left hand. See? Way back into Australia and through there where people are–are. Don’t even… The only thing they eat is… The way they get sugar is take a little shell and dig out a bunch of ants and bite the back of them off like that. That’s how they exist on getting their sugar. And they don’t have clothing, they don’t have nothing. They take an old kangaroo and throw him up on a fire, insides in him, entrails and everything, and scorch it a little and then eat it. And that’s that, it’s terrible. And remember, these tapes are played back in there. The Message you’re listening to here is played back in there, by hundreds of missionaries taking these tapes and playing them back in there, and interpret It to the people. So, you see, when I get there on the Day of the Judgment, you see what’s going to be resting upon my shoulders? What if I mislead somebody? See? There you are. Just think of one of those souls, if I’d mislead them to the wrong thing.

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« 9 † Therefore I’ve got here my brethren in these organizations. And many of them are fine man, most of them, I’m glad of that. But some of them become so… and usually leaders comes to a place that they have to tie right in and make it like, oh, like a political affair. They play politics in it. And, in that, they get off of the Word of God.
10 And I must remain on the Word. I–I must stay there. And it just has to come to this. And I–I–I just have to move with it, that’s all. So, and we’re… You know, we use to sing a little song, “We’re floating down the stream of time, we have not long to stay.” You’ve heard it. “The stormy clouds of darkness will turn to brighter day.” That’s right. “Let us all take courage, for we’re not left alone.” That’s right. “The Lifeboat soon is coming to gather the Jewels Home.” That’s the time where I expect then to have the coat that won’t never wear out, that’s it, the Eternal one. And I must be true to God, not paying attention to things here on earth, until we get over there. And then we’ll… that’s the ones that’s going to last.

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« 11 † So I, in these thirty… going on thirty-two years of ministry, I have tried to stay true to the Word. I don’t know of one thing I’ve ever had to alter on, because I just read it out of the Bible, said just what the Bible said, and let it go like that. And so I haven’t had to take back or rearrange, because I just said it the way that the Bible says it. And, I find out, if God has spoken anything, then we must go with that Word in order to make It be fulfilled. We seen that, as I told you last night, of a vision just recently, see, that it… I had to be there, and warning to be there, and telling me six months before to be on that spot, and stand there and saying, “Go down there” (three times) “with them.” And I just walked on with the other men. And the vision passed right through exactly, God’s part, and I was left standing. So we want to remember, you’ve got to stay on the Word, just stay right with the Word. And where the Word leads, you go right with the Word, and It’ll bring you out all right, I’m sure.

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« 12 † Now, I know you’ve been in here since eight o’clock, and it’s probably ten o’clock right now. It is. So let us pray now to our Lord. Is there any special requests? I see a lot of handkerchiefs laying here. Raise up your hands for the requests. God bless you. Now He… I’ve known Him long enough to know this, that He sees every hand and knows every heart, and the only thing left to do is just ask Him. And you believe it, and it happens. Now, you believe as we pray.

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« 13 † Heavenly Father, we are now approaching the great mighty Throne of God, as mortal beings in a natural body, yet our voices speaking out the words that’s coming into that great Throne somewhere in the other dimensions where God sits. Because, Jesus said, “You ask the Father anything in My Name, I’ll do it.” And He asked us not to doubt, but, when we pray, to believe that we receive that what we ask for, and it would be given to us. Said, “Even you could say to this mountain, ‘Be moved,’ and don’t doubt in your heart, but believe that what you have said will come to pass, and you can have what you’ve said.” Father, we know that that is so true. We watch it day by day, and there’s no fault in Your Word. It’s because we can’t be at the spot, sometimes our faith won’t move us up there, we flusterate and doubt. But, this morning, we’re trying to come, Lord, with a new hope, holding onto the lifeline of Christ and His promise. And we’re coming into the Presence of God through Jesus’ Name.
14 Lord, I’m sure that You know all the requests that was made known under the hand this morning that raised up. Mine also was raised up, and it’s constantly up to You, Lord, because I am a needy person. And I pray that You’ll grant every request. Look upon them, Lord, and answer their requests, from the youngest to the oldest, from the least of requests to the greatest request. Then, Father, answer them, every one. I ask it in Jesus’ Name. Then remember mine, Lord.

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« 15 † And I pray and thank You for giving us good rest in our bodies, and for the knowledge that we have of Your Word, and the understanding we have of the Spirit, and constantly praying that You’ll give us greater understanding so that we might not be a vain, puffed up people by it, but a humble people, in order that the Holy Spirit might be able to use us to the fulfilling of the Word of God, and to place us positionally where we need to be at this hour. For we must be at the right place for it to happen. And we want to be, Lord. If it’s a housewife behind the table, if it’s for a–a factory man with a wrench in his hand, and a testimony, if it’s for the minister in the pulpit, or the deacon or trustee, or for the child at school, the teenager in the discussion at the class, wherever it is, Lord, let us be there at the right time. For we know You’ve promised it, and it’s going to happen because You said so, and, why, it’s our faith is built there.

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« 16 † Now, Lord, we feel that we haven’t got much longer. The time is coming in. We can feel the fog from the outer space, as it moves in. We know that the judgment and wrath of God is ready to fall. We can feel the effects of it already. And we pray, Lord, that You’ll help us.
17 And now help me, Lord, on this little Message this morning, of about thirty minutes, called Countdown. Help us, Lord, to understand right where we’re at.
18 And sanctify us now, Lord, taking away our sins and trespasses. And may there not be one person here this morning, lost, may everyone be ready, be in that great circle when we meet at the other side. When the roll is called, may I hear the name after name, “present.” That’s what we’re looking for, Lord. And the old will be young there forever, transformed in a moment of time, immortal, shall stand in His likeness, the sun and the stars to outshine, as Daniel said, “Those who have turned many to righteousness shall shine as the stars forever.” But we hear what You said to the prophet, “Go thy way, Daniel, for thou shall rest in thy lot, but in that day you’ll stand.”
19 O God, let us be counted worthy through the Blood of Jesus, no merits of our own do we claim, but through His merits may we be worthy to stand at that day as we confess our wrong and desire to stand in His righteousness, with the great prophet Daniel and all those who will stand when the rewards are given. Until then, Lord, make us instruments in Your hand. Make our ears instruments this morning of hearing the Word. Make my lips instruments to speak It. For we ask it in Jesus’ Name, and may our understanding understand the will of God. Amen.

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« 20 † It’s so hard to get started. It looks like there’s so much you could say and–and want to say, and seems like there’s such little time to say it. Maybe before I–I leave. I said last night, we might get a chance to–to maybe run one of the Books of the Bible, this fall or winter, before leaving. Going, I want to go overseas, the Lord willing, right after Christmas sometime.

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« 21 † Now I wish you to turn this morning for the readings, to Hebrews the 11th chapter. And now listen real close to the reading. I want to–to emphasize on the 3rd verse.
Now faith is the substance of things that hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
For by it the elders obtained a good report.
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
22 Now, that’s kind of an odd text for a background for the text that I–I want to use. Things were not made of things which do appear. Now I want to use this subject this morning, Countdown, because I want to make a–a parallel in the way of prophetic. Last night I wanted to teach a little on the Scripture; this morning a prophetic Message; and tonight an evangelistic Message.

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« 23 † Now, things that were made of things that do not appear. Now, I have learned through all these years that all things that are natural are types of spiritual things, everything that’s in the natural. And now just remember, that when you see anything in the natural, it is typifying a spiritual thing. See? All things are made after things which do not appear. See, the natural then has reflected the spiritual.
24 Now, as I was studying a few days ago, and I believe I mentioned it last night, slightly, that I was reading where… or hearing on the radio, coming in from Canada, of where that a doctor here in the United States had–had made a statement that “man was fourteen million years of evolution.” They dug up a bone over in Italy, in 1800, somewhere in the 1800’s, that this bone was supposed to be a human bone that was been… might by the… While they do it, to tell how old it was, and this doctor as an old man and has put all of his life on studying on this bone. And he says, “This bone is the bone of a man that’s fourteen millions years old.”

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« 25 † Now, how nonsense that is! How a man has throwed his life away for nothing, trying to disprove the Word of God, and he’s got nothing but just an–an endless destination out of it. And anyone knows that if you would bury a bone in the ground, within twenty years that bone is turning. Within a hundred years that bone’s about gone, just pieces of it, and no matter what condition you’d put it in. See? And then within a thousand years what would that bone be, ten hundred years? Oh, what would be ten times that, would be one million? Then fourteen times the million. Oh, my! It’s just… It’s not even sensible to even think of such a thing. A bone would not last fourteen million years under any condition. Anyone knows that. He might have picked up something that looked like a bone or something. And then how well could they tell it was fourteen million years old? See? After all, God made man on the earth six thousand years ago, and that settles it.

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« 26 † Someone was discussing it with me sometime ago, on one of my meetings. I was speaking on the evolution of man, and said he was only six thousand years old. And this man said, “Well, Brother Branham, we can prove that the world is millions of years old. So the thing that you’re talking about, you’re all wrong.”
I said, “Don’t you believe the Bible?”
He said, “I believe that man wrote the Bible.”
27 And I said, “Truly the hand of man formed the letters, but the Holy Spirit was behind the hand. See, formed the letter, ’cause the Bible said so.”
28 And he said, “Well, there–there, you’ve got to admit that they’re wrong on the world.”
I said, “The Bible’s never wrong, never wrong.”
29 He said, “Well, if the world,” said, “was, you can see the mountains how they was pushed up from volcanic.”
I said, “But you just…”
He said, “And God made that world in six days.”
30 I said, “Now, the Bible didn’t say that. You just thought it said it.” I said, “Let’s just go back now to settle your argument. The 1st chapter of Genesis, said, ‘In the beginning God created the heavens and earth.’ Period! How long He was doing it, I don’t know. He didn’t tell us. But, ‘In the beginning God created the heavens and earth.’ Period! Then, ‘And the world was out of form.'” That’s when God started to use it. See? So they just beat their brains out for nothing. See? See?

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« 31 † God made the world. He might have been a hundred trillion years making it; I don’t know how long He was, but He made it. And He didn’t say how long He was, and it’s none of our business how long it was. He just said, “In the beginning God created the heavens and earth.” Period! That settles it. That’s all of it. How long He was doing it, that’s… But then the creation begin to spring up now in the other time, when He begin.
32 And I believe, that in there, that everything on earth reflects Heaven. I believe that. Because that you see everything struggling for life is because that there is a life that it’s reflected from. And I believe that when God made the man, He started reflecting the smaller things such as the animal life, and then the next thing He created was something different. That’s just exactly the way the Bible says He did it. He made first the trees and the botany life, and He made man. And then the last thing that ever come from the earth in the form of creation was a man, nothing higher ever come. Because why? It was a perfect reflection of the highest in Heaven, which, God is a Man. See? God is a Man, so therefore it proves it. And when God came down to dwell among us, He was a Man. See? A Man, so it shows that the perfection of evolution was God, which is a Man.

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« 33 † And then you take a tree, (you take the grass and so forth), take a tree, it reflects the Tree of Life which is in Heaven. All these things are struggling for perfection. And everything in the natural, as Hebrews says here, was made of things which do not appear. Other words, they are supernatural. And the supernatural is reflecting the natural. See? Now, then the natural was Eternal, or is to be everlasting with the supernatural, but sin perverted the natural. So, and if that is so, which I believe it is, then everything that’s happening on earth is a type of spiritual things that’s happening. See? It’s got to reflect something, the achievement of man.

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« 34 † Now, we find out, like the natural body, here’s the natural body, and the body was made to reproduce itself, which was children. And now the natural body, in the natural birth of a baby, we find out the first thing comes forth is water, then blood, and then life. We find out in the spiritual body of Christ, the first thing is water, and Blood, and Life; justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost. See how it reflects, all the natural things reflecting the spiritual things. The natural birth.
35 We take, for instance, the marriage for union. We find out that, the marriage; we find the courtship, and the agreements, and then the marriage. Then it should settle it for all the time. Now, that’s the same thing it is with Christ and the Church. See? A courtship, God calling to our hearts; we surrender; the marriage ceremony, and the Bride takes the Bridegroom’s Name. See? See? See? There it is, that makes the Bride. Now, always the bride takes the bridegroom’s name.

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« 36 † There’s so many things that we could speak of here. I got a list wrote down that take me two hours to get through it, nearly, and Scriptures to back this up, like if you want some of them here to back it up. Like First John 5:7, shows the natural and the spiritual birth, and so forth, “water, Blood, and Spirit.” And three in Heaven, “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,” these three are one. There are three that agree in earth, they’re not one, but they agree in one, in the earth, that’s “water, Blood, and Spirit.” See, “water, Blood, and Spirit,” like the natural birth type it.

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« 37 † So if a man sets on the thought of “just justification is all you have to have,” he’s wrong, wrong. He’s got to be wrong. And then if the church who believes like the many of the Pentecostals, that the Holy Ghost is it, “that’s all, just repent and get the Holy Ghost,” that’s still wrong, because you’ve got to get sanctification in there to cleanse it before the Holy Ghost comes in. If you don’t, you leave out the Blood. See? And the new Birth, as people talks that the baptism of the Holy Ghost is the new Birth. Now, that’s wrong. The baptism of the Holy Ghost is different from the new Birth. The new Birth is when you’re born again. But the Holy Ghost is when power comes into that Birth for service. That’s exact. See? The Holy Ghost is… baptized into the Holy Ghost.

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« 38 † The new Birth, you have the new Birth by being believing on the Lord Jesus Christ. See? By having faith and accepting Him as your Saviour, that’s Birth, see, because you’ve passed from death unto Life. Now, if you want to back that up, take Saint John 5:24, “He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has everlasting Life.” See, he’s got Life because he believes. And that same group had to go to Pentecost to be baptized with the Holy Ghost. Exact.
39 Holy Ghost is power for service. So when talk about you got to be born again, and applying that to the Holy Ghost, many of the Methodists and so forth are wrong there. It cannot. It just won’t cope through the Scripture here. You get the thing sideways. It’s got to take it the way the Scripture’s got it placed out here. See? And the Holy Spirit is a… “You shall receive the new Birth after this”? What? No. “You shall receive power,” Acts 1:8, “after this the Holy Ghost is come upon you.” See? And they had already believed to Eternal Life, and so forth, but they had to have the Holy Ghost for power. “You shall be witnesses unto Me after the Holy Ghost is come upon you,” because the Holy Ghost is a witness of the resurrection, showing that you have become an adult in Christ.

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« 40 † Now, the natural. All things spiritual, all happenings and so forth tap, or type the supernatural, or the–the natural is a type of the supernatural.
41 Now, I went to the World’s Fair when we was right up close to it there in Spokane, and I thought I’d take the family.
42 Because I was only at one World Fair in the United States, and that’s when it was in Chicago, years ago, Hope and I went up. And we didn’t get to stay there but about one day, the pickpockets, and everything. She had a pin that my cousin give her, and I walking right along beside of her, somebody got the pin off. Just… it was just terrific. And so I… We stayed one day and come back.

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« 43 † But the World’s Fair, I taken the family and went over. It was no more than the Louisville Fair right over here. You seen the Space Needle they talked about, it was nothing else but go over here at the Elsley Build-… or the Brown Building or somewhere, and go up about eight or ten flights on an elevator and come back down. That was it. And I think that General Electric was the one who had that there. But there was one thing that was outstanding. Now, Germany had their display, Russia and all the other nations had it, because it’s a World’s Fair. The German, France, and those little displays was not much bigger a room than this pulpit would be right here.

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« 44 † But the scientists had their achievements, and the main thing they were–they were exercising on, was the use of tobacco. And if any man who smokes cigarettes and walked in there, and come out and smoke again, there’s something wrong with the man’s mind. When I seen them with my own eyes take a cigarette and place it in a machine, and pull the–the tobacco smoke from there and puff it through a tube of chemicals, and the white cancer was just filled with it, with one cigarette. And then he said, “Many people say,” these worldwide, highest achievement on it, said, “many people say, ‘I don’t inhale it.'” And the scientist took the cigarette himself and puffed a puff of it in his mouth, not blowing it through his nostrils, or however they bring it down their lungs, but just put it in his mouth and then blowed it into the same chemicals, there was none of the cancer in it. Said, “Where did it go? In my mouth. When I swallow, it goes into the stomach, course.” He said, “Now…”

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« 45 † Then the thought come up, “Why does doctors say that cigarettes are not harmful?”
46 He said, “Any man that would sell his birthrights! A doctor make a statement like that can retire, ’cause them cigarette companies will give him enough to retire on.” He actually sells his birthrights, ’cause he swore not to do a thing like that. But they do it anyhow.
47 And he said, “Here is the machinery now. We will prove it to you by scientific achievement.” And they had Yul Brynner, you know, the movie star in there. That, and when that little teeny parcel of nicotine, he said, “Now they say ‘filter tips.'” He said, “A man that does that, just shows his mental condition. For if you haven’t got any smoke, you haven’t got any tar, and tar makes smoke. And if you’re smoking a filter tip cigarette,” said, “it’ll take about three or four to satisfy what one of the other, because it just takes that much more tar to satisfy.” If you don’t get no smoke, there ain’t no tar. Have to have tar to have smoke. So that’s it. Said, “Smoke, if you’re going to smoke it, smoke one that hasn’t got no tip on it. Gets… One cigarette will satisfy where it takes three of the others, ’cause you’re just pulling that much less tar.”
48 It’s a sales gimmick! That’s all the nation is full of is sales gimmicks, and filth and everything else.

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« 49 † And there then he took that and showed how that one little parcel caught into the throat or into the lungs. And first it’s white, then it turns pink, and then from pink it turns purple. The particle–particle of the little cell looked that big through the glass, but, course, you take a powerful glass to even see the cell. Then he says, “When it turns purple, you have cancer.” He said, “A man that’ll smoke one pack of cigarettes a day has seventy percent more chance of dying with cancer than the man that doesn’t smoke it.” And it seems silly to take such a chance.

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« 50 † Now, and then he took another thing and proved it, he brought out a white rat. And he took a cigarette and put it in a machine, and pulled it across some kind of a something like white marble, and took a–a swab, and took the nicotine that was out of one cigarette and painted it on the rat’s back. Every seven days they had another rat coming out. And they’d have to have each one for the lesson of that day. And put that rat in for seven days and brought it out, cancer stood that high on the rat’s back. Some of them don’t even live the seven days out. The rat couldn’t move. I couldn’t eat for two or three days, to looking at that nasty-looking thing, standing there with the cancer, and it running down over his legs and things like that, a great big high cancer swelled up nearly a half inch on the rat’s back, of nicotine out of one cigarette. And you think that stopped them? A big fellow sitting by me there, and the sweat run off his face, said, “Kind of striking, isn’t it?”
I said, “Do you smoke?”
He said, “Yes, sir, I do.”
51 I said, “Well, then you ought to stop that.” But that’s it, achievements, what they can prove that it does it.

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« 52 † Now, I predicted that the world stands and if civilization exists, back in the time of prohibition when there was such a fine to sell a bottle of whiskey, it’ll be ten times that fine to sell a pack of cigarettes in a few years from now, if civilization exists. It’s ten times worse than whiskey. It sure is. It’s–it’s a killer, that. And you can tell the people about it, and they don’t pay a bit more attention to it. “It’s a holy roller preacher,” and let it go. You see, that’s it, they don’t notice.

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« 53 † But, my point is this, what scientific things has been able to achieve. They were there at the World Fair, showing by scientific research what science has been able to achieve in the natural things. Now, we are here showing by spiritual research what God has been able to achieve with people who will believe His Word. That’s right. See? Now, to achieve scientific things, you’ve got to work in scientific lines. To achieve spiritual things, you got to work in spiritual lines. Now, you think that rat looked horrible, in which it did, you should have seen it! Wish I had a picture of it, even, to show. If I could have got it, I would, but they wouldn’t let you have it. But notice. Course, the rat just lives a few more hours, some of them don’t even live the seven days out. But think of it!

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« 54 † You think that looked cankered, you ought to see what a soul looks that’s turned down the Gospel. You ought to look what a hideous-looking thing they are. How a devil gets a hold of a man and can pervert a son of God into a hideous-looking thing, like he is in the eyes of God. Oh, he might be six-foot tall, and shoulders like I don’t know what, and curly hair and what, that don’t mean nothing. It’s the inside of the man that’s lasting. The outside’s dust, anyhow.
55 So it’s achievement, and then they would show, had this space needle and everything, what they showed to achieve, what they had been able to do, and explaining all their atomics and so forth. They had a prediction of what the Chevrolet would be. General Motors had it on display, what the… in another, the next century, what the twentieth-century Chevrolet would look like. It looked to me like a–a gas pipe with a hood over the top of it. Now, they showed how it would work and would fire by atomic power with some sort of a wing that would lift up over one another and control. That would be a–a great advantage.

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« 56 † But I wonder if we could turn back in the pages of God’s Book, this morning, and see what the church will look like at that time, see the achievements that God has made. Oh, how happenings always in this earth are representing something that comes from somewhere else; but when it strikes the earth, it’s usually in a perverted condition because it is in the world of darkness and sin. See? But then there is a true representation in the spiritual realms of the other dimension. From being in the three dimensions, then the sixth dimension has its representation. I’m so glad of that.

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« 57 † Now, let’s just take the achievements now that we’ve been able to do in the last few years. Now, let’s start on something that’s happened. I won’t keep you long, the Lord willing, but I want you to see this quickly. And, oh, when it come to me, I felt like flying away. Now notice, now, a few years ago the transportation was by horse and buggy, not too far ago, long ago. I done my driving around in a horse and buggy, and on a saddle. When I was a boy, fifteen years old, sixteen, I rode a horse, and I went to town in a horse and buggy, driving right by this church here, a muddy road out there, and a swamp here full of weeds as high as the building, almost, of with a horse and wagon, delivering butterbeans and things off the farm.
58 Now I pass it in a souped-up car. What a difference! The horse-and-buggy day, then the automobile day.

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« 59 † And then the airplane day come along, that went from the earth into the air. Now, if you’ll watch, as sure as that achievement was by science, if the person will have a spiritual mind and understand, it represented a achievement of God’s economy with His Church. Now the days…
60 And, remember, the messenger is always comes at the end of the Message. We know in the church ages there how we got that.
61 Now, the horse-and-buggy days was who? That was the ending of the Lutheran age. See, horse and buggy days. They believed in justification. God bringing the Church from Romanism, Catholicism, He brought it into its first spiritual achievement, that, “The just shall live by faith.” That was the horse-and-buggy days, as they come from the… to the horse and buggy days, that ended.

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« 62 † Now, the next achievement man had in the way of transportation was the automobile. And, you notice, that automobile increases all the time, in its power.
63 Now, at the end of the Wesley age, brought in by spiritual achievement, sanctification, which means the church raised from a justified state to a sanctified state.
64 Now, I want you to remember this as we go along, that the church called “church” is not the Church. The Church is Church, spiritual! Tens of thousands times thousands of Lutherans that joined the church, knowed no more about justification than a hog knowed about a sidesaddle. They–they knowed nothing of it. And in the Wesley age, how the tens of thousands professed sanctification, they knowed no more about sanctifying power of God than–than a rabbit does about snowshoes. See, they absolutely didn’t know it.

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« 65 † But there was a people who achieved it. Hallelujah! You see where I’m getting to. There was somebody knowed what “justified” meant in the sight of God, “having peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” There was some of those Lutherans who were loyal. They believed It. No matter what the Catholic church said, they believed God’s Word and stood on It because the messenger of that age preached “the just shall live by faith,” and they believed in a justified state. And they was able by the grace of God to achieve justification, have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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« 66 † Now, we notice again, along came the Methodists with sanctification. There was many of those Methodists was actually sanctified. Now, there’s a lot of them claimed it and know nothing about it. The Methodist church taught sanctification. They said they got down and cried and got back up, said, “Glory to God, I’m sanctified!” And they went right on living like they always did. But some of those man and women was actually sanctified from the things of the world, and live a consecrated, set-aside life. Why? That was the automobile age which took in more horsepower. Automobile, the old T-model was probably fifteen or twenty horsepower. See, had fifteen or twenty horses bottled up in a little engine like that. Sanctification! When science achieved something by–by–by the natural, God is achieving something by the spiritual. See, something’s going on all the time. And then after the sanctified age…

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« 67 † Now, we take man like old Bevington. Man, who would have been a greater man than old Brother Bevington? And look at John Wesley, George Whitefield, Finney, Knox, many of those old Methodists who sweated it out. They went through hell on earth, torment, because they believed that God’s Word taught sanctification, the second step of grace, and they stayed with it, and they believed it, and they done wonders with it. Just the same as Henry Ford and them done with the transportation of the old model-T Ford up the side of the horse, he moved on and above the horse day. And Wesley moved on in above the Lutheran day.

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« 68 † And then along come Pentecost. And as science of the world was able to achieve an–an automobile motor, (the Wright Brothers that created or made, manufactured, rather, the airplane) the flying machine was far above the car on the earth, because he took to the air. Now, the Wright Brothers, through their achievement, was able to take science and pattern something here on earth, to show that there was a great spiritual thing fixing to happen. And when the Wright Brothers was able to achieve to get a man’s feet off the ground, Pentecost fell and took to the air with a spiritual gift, with the baptism of the Holy Ghost. He took to the air! Oh, hallelujah! Got his feet off the ground so he could he could swim around, got up in the air! Oh, how far he was above the horse and buggy! How far he was above the automobile! He was up in the air. He was knocking and puffing and banging, but he was flying. See, what man achieves on earth, for they’re made of things which do not appear. God was able to achieve something by a Spirit-filled people who were hungering and thirsting, and those that would stay with the Word.

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« 69 † Now, if Wesley hadn’t a stepped out on the Word and got a bad name behind him, was called a crazy man, and everything else, he would have never been able to achieve. But Wesley was one of God’s great scientists. Luther was one of God’s great scientists. They didn’t care what the churches said, what the organizations said. Luther didn’t care what the Catholics said, he believed the just shall live by faith! Hallelujah! And he took God’s chemicals of the Word and put it together, and the church moved by faith. Wesley put it together by the Blood, and proved it by the Blood, and the church got sanctified. The Pentecostals believed that the baptism of the Holy Ghost, that the promise is to you and your children and them that’s far off, and they put the chemicals together out of the Word, and they moved into the air. Hallelujah! They moved out, because they were able to be able to accomplish such.

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« 70 † Now, why did these man do this? Why did Luther find it? Why did Wesley find it? Why did these others? Because the material was laying here on earth that could make a T-model Ford. There was electricity that could make a–a car to run. There was gasoline in the earth, there was pistons and so forth, all the mechanics, carbon for the generator, and everything they had to have to create this stuff, and notice it started… manufacture it, rather, not create it. God’s the Creator, He had it laying here. But man who believed it in the scientific realm, of the natural, probed into it, and they wouldn’t take “no” for an answer. They believed it. It was a revelation in their heart, and they stayed with it until they proved that it was right.

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« 71 † That’s how that John Wesley proved sanctification. The–the material was laying here, the Word of God that brought it. He believed it! No matter if the whole church, the Anglican church and all turned him down, he stayed with his conviction and he proved it. And the Pentecostals come around and proved, because they had the material, that the Holy Ghost was right. And they took to the air.

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« 72 † Did you notice, one–one of those scientific achievement accompanied the other one, complemented the other one. It was only a higher form. See? The automobile was a higher form of transportation than the horse, and the airplane was a higher form of transportation than the automobile, but they accompanied one another. Horse power! Amen! If that’s horse power, what about God power? What about the Holy Ghost and power? The Holy Ghost power that can justify you, the same Holy Ghost power can sanctify you. The same Holy Ghost power that sanctifies you, can fill you with His Presence. And little science, that didn’t know their ABC’s, found it. Why? They were spiritual scientists. Amen. They seen the thing, they believed it. Man did it by education, the natural scientist. The spiritual scientist done it by revelation. One by education, the other by revelation. Oh, if we can just open up. There’s all kinds of material laying here. That’s right.

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« 73 † Now we notice how it goes, how God was able to achieve that. In the Pentecostals, taken to the air. How they… Then was restored back to the church, healing, speaking in tongues, revelation, gifts of the Spirit. That, Luther knowed nothing about it, neither did Wesley. They never taught it, they knowed nothing about it. It was out of their age.
74 Why, what would Henry Ford knowed about an airplane in them day before the Wright Brothers? See, they wouldn’t have knowed it. Then the same thing that the–the man back there and driving a horse and buggy, five hundred years ago, wouldn’t know nothing about a horseless carriage, only the Bible said it would be there. So they was able to achieve it by a scientific research. And when it happened on earth, God represented it with an achievement by His Church. “For things which are, do appear, was made of things which does not appear.” See, the reflection of it.

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« 75 † Now, now the Pentecostal age, for the last fifty years, has sent a revival around the world, with all kinds of everything in it. And they have had healings, and sickness being healed, cripples healed, blind had their sight restored to them. Do you think the world believed it? No, sir. They didn’t believe Luther. They didn’t believe Wesley. They didn’t believe the Pentecostals. But God took the Bible, in his research, a man who was willing to do it, took the Bible and proved to it that It was right. Amen. Now we got to remember that, we got to believe it, seeing those things were a type. Now we’ve lived up the Pentecostal age. The Pentecostal age, as I have proved over there, goes out into the Laodicean age.

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« 76 † But now something else has happened. We got an astronaut now. John Glenn was our first astronaut. And we find out that that’s so far above the airplane, airplane can only go as far as its pressure and so forth. But this is by an atomic power, a greater power that presses him so much higher than an airplane, an airplane even–even isn’t in it. That’s right. He’s been able to do that. All right. Now we got an astronaut, natural age.
77 And, remember, the messenger comes at the end of the former message, always. We’ve proved that there. Now we’re on the astronaut line. Amen and amen! God has…

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« 78 † Science has been able to prove that there’s an astronaut that can go so far till you couldn’t see it with your natural eyes, and it can go whether there’s any pressure there or not. He can just go on out because in a pressurized tank, and he can go up there and sail around and see the worlds around. An astronaut! Oh, my, what an age that that is coming. Yes, sir, go beyond any natural things at all, and sweep plumb on out into yonder.
79 What does it represent? A spiritual age, a spiritual time to where God’s going to have spiritual astronauts. Amen! They’re here right now! Hallelujah! The eagles of the air that can go beyond any other bird, sail above everything, spiritual astronauts (glory) that can take the Word of God and prove that He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. A spiritual astronaut! Oh, my! Glory! That makes me feel good, living in this age! Now what a wonderful thing for a spiritual astronaut! See? What is it? What did the natural scientists do? Has been able to achieve that. And God, through man who would stay with the Bible and say that “He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever,” and not afraid of the promise regardless of what anybody said, stay with it. What is it? You become in an astronaut that can go so far it’s beyond denominational thinking. It’s beyond anything else. It’s beyond the things of the church. Out yonder with God and Him alone you stay. Astronauts!

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« 80 † And, remember, in order to get be an astronaut, they had to get in a tank, and they can’t control themselves. It takes a radar power, an atomic power to lift him out beyond space, and then he’s controlled by a tower. Glory! God’s spiritual astronauts is the same! They come into a tank, and into a place, into a body, and that body is the Body of Christ. Then, it’s not them, it–it’s not. It wasn’t John Glenn, it was–it was the tank that he was in. It was the machine. He just set there, he didn’t do nothing. He just had the real pure courage to get up there and say “it’s right,” because science had proved it.

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« 81 † God wants man who can come into Christ and believe that He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever, and don’t take their own thinking, move out into space, controlled by the Holy Ghost. Amen. Astronauts! Whew! How far it is back from the old horse and buggy! How far it is even from the airplane! How far it is from justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost! They’re coming to eagles. The first, they were lizards, then they become chickens, then they become crows, but now they’re eagles. No one can follow them!

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« 82 † An eagle is a special bird. He can go higher than any other bird. He’s prepared to see, keep his head level when he gets up there. There’s some people can jump way up and don’t know where they’re at after they get there, ’cause he can’t see no farther than what he’s jumped. But there’s some that can look back and see what’s going on. That’s the eagle. He can stand there till he looks it over, and waits till he hears a message that tells him what to say. That’s the astronaut of God. See? It’s followed all the other achievements, why won’t it follow this achievement?

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« 83 † Astronauts for Jesus. Amen. Don’t even leave by his own power. He’s fired out. Only thing he does is get into it. That’s all you have to do, is get into it, God will do the shooting and the placing. It ain’t gasoline power no more, neither, some church creed. It’s God’s atom power that pushes you plumb out of space out yonder. Amen. Oh! Why, what is it, these astronauts? They’ve got the… They never need… just took the word justification, just the word sanctification, he’s got into the whole Bible. Amen. He’s got into all of it, because that he knows that God is able to perform every promise He ever made. He just sits there and waits. Oh, my! The Word is bound to manifest Itself. If you’re sick, and an astronaut, just remember, get in Christ, wait the countdown. That’s all. He’ll fire the bullet, don’t worry. Now, been able to achieve it because God promised it.

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« 84 † Now, how much greater is the astronaut, these things now, from the old horse power, automobile power, and–and the airplane power! You see, the astronaut, he’s so high that he can see things that a man in a horse and buggy couldn’t see. He’s so high he can see things that a man in an automobile couldn’t see. He’s so high that he can see things a man flying an airplane can’t see. He’s done went plumb out of reason. Amen. Glory! That’s it. He’s done went beyond any achievement man could think of, the organization, the denomination, “You have to be Methodist, Baptist, or belong to this one, the oneness, twoness,” or whatever it is. He’s an astronaut, he’s sailed off plumb out into space. Amen. How thankful I am!

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« 85 † And, remember, the astronaut is controlled by a radar power. You seen them bring John Glenn in. I looked down there at Cape Canaveral and seen that great big radar thing, and you couldn’t even see him nowhere, but you could tell where he was by the way that radar was pointing. That’s where he was at. See? And we got a radar, too, prayer. Prayer is the radar power that directs the astronaut. “Ask the Father anything in My Name, I’ll do it.” See? Just watch the way the prayer’s going, you can see the way he’s pointing. Amen. Just watch the way the church is praying, you can see the way the missiles will fly. You can tell it by the–the way the astronauts are traveling, by the way the church is praying.
86 He prays, “Lord, course we don’t believe in these things.” Uh-oh! That astronaut’s coming down. That’s all. Oh, brother!
87 But when all things are possible, “Lord, pour out Your Spirit upon the church and give it what we have need of. Pour upon us the Holy Ghost, and just take us out of every reason, and believe that that Word’s right and we’re going to stand right by It.” Watch the screen then begin to raise its head like this, see. The astronaut is going on and on and on, way up in the air. Hum! Wonderful! Goes beyond any denomination, goes beyond any creed.

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« 88 † Now remember, justification is lotted to a creed, that’s right, you believe justification like somewhere like the Lutherans and any of their satellites. That’s what they are, satellites, but they ain’t off the ground yet. You take sanctification and their satellites. Say, “What is the satellites to the Lutheran?” Well, Church of Christ and that bunch there. “What is the satellites to the Wesley, to the Methodists like that?” Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness, their satellites. And then the Pentecostal and their satellites, the airplane, sure, the oneness, twoness, threeness, fourness, all these on up, Foursquare, Church of God, all still creeded in denomination.

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« 89 † But the astronaut breaks the sound barrier. He just goes right on through. He don’t hear nothing. Oh, my! He just goes beyond all of it. See, he’s way up in there where all things… He’s living in the Presence of God. Yes, sir. He promised it, His Word says that He’s the High Priest. You see that great big radar sitting out there moving? Watch Him in the meeting. You can watch when the Holy Spirit comes down in the form of a Pillar of Fire like He promised. A man’s not going to be sitting there trying to reason It out with science, a real believer. What is He? He’s a Radar Screen. Watch Him. He begins to point around. Amen. And it catches that one there, that astronaut. “You have cancer. You have so-and-so. You are So-and-so from such a place. The Lord Jesus make you well.” Hallelujah! He sails off. Astronauts! Oh, my, what a Church It should be! It’s here.

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« 90 † The achievement’s been proved by science. They showed it out yonder at the World’s Fair. We got it. Amen. It’s being proved everywhere, astronaut age we’re living in. See, “It was made of things which do not appear.” See, it was made of something out of Heaven. It’s God Himself here in that sixth dimension. It’s the power of God. We’ve been in such a place till we have been lifted up into that dimension, beyond this thing of going to the grave and weeping, this thing of putting the crape on the doorknob and saying good-bye forever. Hallelujah! We done got in the astronaut, and sailed off out yonder and seen where it’s at, and returned back. Glory! We’re going to the Home beyond the sky yonder, beyond the reasoning of man. How the old will be transformed in the moment of twinkling of an eye. We shall see them there, old men and women, young again. “How do you know?” The Bible teaches it! And, God shot an astronaut up in there, we know what it’s all about, come back. There’s no worry about dying. Dying’s nothing. Sure, it’s living. Yes, sir. It’s just getting your feet off the ground so we can go. Oh, how wonderful!

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« 91 † He’s promised all these things in His Word, for Hebrews 13:8 said, “He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever.” The things that He was able, God could achieve by one man who would surrender himself to it, to the Word of God, because, as I said last night, he always stood with the Word.
92 Now, do you know what, astronauts is no really no new thing. What about Elijah? If he wasn’t an astronaut, I never seen one. He went where John Glenn never did think about going.
93 Well, you know, they had one took off in slow motion one time. His name was Enoch. He just walked on up, but he was an astronaut. Sure. He was pressurized, he didn’t have to be changed, nothing. No, he was already pressurized when he started walking. Just walked right on out of all the dimensions and everything, walked out in the Presence of God.
94 And so one old fellow was tired and couldn’t walk very good anymore. He had fussed with Jezebel, and her short hair and paint and everything, until God just sent a chariot down, said, “I’ll just let you ride up through the clouds this afternoon.” Astronaut!

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« 95 † One time One come to die for the rest of us, and God raised Him up on the third day. And five hundred man stood there and seen Him being taken up into the clouds, with a Voice saying, “I will come again.” And Angels come back and said, “This same Jesus that was taken up, the Master Astronaut, will return again in like manner, in the same kind of an apartment that He’s in, a body, immortal.” Hallelujah! “And we’ll have a body like His Own glorious body, for we shall see Him as He is.” Oh, hallelujah! He broke all the sound barriers, all the reasoning barriers, and went beyond reasoning, went beyond anything else.

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« 96 † And any man that ever lives for God will have to go beyond any five senses, he’ll have to go on any education, any achievement that man’s been able to do, and believe God, break everything and lay it aside, and sweep up into the Heaven. Amen. Oh, what astronauts and so forth has been achieved in the natural, God’s been able to do it by His church, by the spiritual, by a spiritual people who will believe. Any man or woman who will dare at any time, any time to take God at His Word, it’s an astronaut.
97 They’ll say, “Oh, that isn’t reasonable. Hear those people crying, shouting, hear this? Oh, that’s not even reasonable.” That doesn’t understand.

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« 98 † Somebody told me, said, “You had a dream, Brother Branham, when you seen that place.” I never had no dream. I was standing up there looking down where I was laying on the bed. I might have been dreaming on the bed, but I was up here looking down at myself. See? Oh, He just give me a little astronaut ride that morning, show me where to go to. And it shows that your radar will point it out, exactly where it’s at. Now, it isn’t me, it’s Him. It’s your spirit in you believing that Message, and it’s the Holy Ghost standing here where I’m at, and you believe it like that and it contacts; and here it comes right back, your answer. Astronaut! Amen. Oh, how wonderful! Yes, sir.

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« 99 † Great, science has done a great thing. And, you know, they’ve done it so great until they’re getting scared of theirselves. That’s right. They got so much greatness till they’re afraid of theirselves. You know, they said here about two years ago, it was “three minutes before midnight.” They’re scared. What are they doing? Now, man has been able, after his natural in a natural astronaut, now he’s been able to achieve this astronaut. And he thinks now that when Russia ever starts to blow this country up, or some other country, he’s going to sail off to the moon.

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« 100 † I seen the little cutest thing the other day, it really was cute. There was two little Indians standing, talking to one another, little potbellies, you know, like that, and a feather up behind their head, and just shaking one another’s hand, patting one another. Said, “Bro’der, we’ll soon have the country back to ourself, white man’s going to the moon.” Said, “We’ll soon have our country back again. White man’s going over on the moon, so we’ll have our own country again.” It’s all right.

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« 101 † Oh, now they’re all wanting to make a whole lot of these astronaut cans so they can get into it. And the–the atomic age comes, they’re going to bust up the world, they just pull this and all go over on the moon, taking a trip to the moon, and have it all over with, and so they’ll just make them another economy on the moon. They ain’t going to get there. I don’t believe, with all my heart, they’ll ever get there. See?
102 But, at the same time, the real true believer in Christ has entered his Astronaut. Amen. “By one Spirit we’re all baptized into one Astronaut.” Oh, one Body! It can stand any kind of pressure. They’ve tried it in a fiery furnace, it’ll stand fire, so it can’t burn up; seven times hotter. They’ve tried it. Everything comes out all right. So the spiritual scientists been able to prove that they can stand anything. So the–the real spiritual believer has accompanied himself and got into God’s Astronaut, Christ, believing all things; laying aside his creeds, the Pentecostal creeds, the Baptist creeds, the Methodist creeds. He’s just got into the Astronaut, saying, “Lord, when’s it ready?” Oh, my! What’s he doing? He’s coming to little meetings, he’s listening to the countdown of God’s Word.

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« 103 † You know, when John Glenn set there that morning, they was listening to the countdown. “Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero.” See? And now he’s got to a spot to where it says, “It’s three minutes till something’s going to take off.” They don’t know what it is. “Three minutes until we have the zero hour.”
104 Now notice, the real believer is in Christ. No condemnation to them that’s in Christ. Preach the Word, stay right with the Word. I don’t care what the denominations say, they’re going to believe It. They’ll stand right there, because it’s the Word. The denominationals kick up a big fuss and excommunicate them, run them out, and say “they’re crazy,” everything like that. But they stay right with that Word. As long as God promised it, they stay there because they’re astronauts. They believe the Word. And there’s no way to get rid of them. They’re going to leave you anyhow, so just–just let them alone a while.

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« 105 † But they’re in there, sitting in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus, listening to the countdown, the Church Ages and so forth. Glory! Makes you feel good, don’t it? Listening to the countdown! What’s the countdown? “All these things was promised, here is where it happened. All these things was promised, here is where it happening. Where a promise is, here is where it happened. The achievement that He promised today, here it is right among us.” What are they doing? Listening to the countdown. How far has it come? All the way from Luther. The countdown! “Justification, sanctification… Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two… Go up!” What are they doing? Waiting for the takeoff, the zero hour. Amen.
[Brother Branham, eight hours later, recorded this additional ending portion inserted herein as paragraphs 106-111. He explains this during his evening sermon, In His Presence, paragraphs 4-5–Ed.]

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« 106 † This great orbiting that the Church is getting ready to do, and the great time of the countdown, I’d like to explain to you what I think the countdown is. Now, I think we just been through it in the church here. And now you notice that, when the natural astronaut is getting ready to leave the earth, there is a countdown starting from ten back to zero. Now, I haven’t tried to break this Message down and give it a spiritual application, as it would take too much time this morning. But I want to try to explain this to you, that ten is a number of “worldliness,” man. But seven is the number of “God’s perfection.” Six days He made the heavens and earth, and the seventh He rested. And six thousand years the world is to labor against sin, or the church labor against sin, and the seventh is the Millennium, the Sabbath.

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« 107 † Seven is God’s perfect number. And now He has given us the correct countdown, and His countdown is not ten, but seven. We’ve just been through it in the Seven Church Ages. Now we find out, and over in Revelations, the first countdown was the first age. The second countdown, the second age. And on to the seventh countdown. And here visible before us, as the picture is drawed, that we had this countdown. The first number counted was Ephesus. The second number counted was Smyrna, Smyrna. Then Pergamos. Thyatira. Fifth was Sardis. Sixth was Philadelphia. And seventh was the Laodicean, the last church age. Then it’s the zero time, for the Church to leave, after the church ages has served their term. Now, we know the Thyatira age has come and gone, and the Ephesian age has come and gone, the Philadelphian age has come and gone. And we are in the seventh church age, at the end of it, the Laodicean age. And that is the countdown.

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« 108 † If you notice in our previous lessons of the churches, He held in His hand seven stars, which we found to be “seven ministers of the seven church ages.” Each one of them is perfectly identified as God took His countdown. Since the time He left, until the time He comes back, He’s gathering together a people for His Name’s sake. Started at the Day of Pentecost. The first, the Ephesian church, the star and messenger of that church we believe to be Saint Paul. He has come, and number one has been counted off. The second church age, which is Smyrna, was Irenaeus, the great saint of God who led that church age at the end. The third church age, which was Pergamos, was Saint Columba which was a great saint of God. During the time of the Dark Age, in the persecution, the fourth age and the fourth count, Saint Martin of Tours, the great saint coming from France. The fifth church age, and its messenger was Martin Luther on the countdown. The sixth age was John Wesley on the countdown.

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« 109 † Now we’re in the seventh age, the Laodicean church age. And we are looking for that great messenger of the second appearing of Elijah, on the countdown. And as soon as that appears, then it’s zero time and the church takes its way home, goes out into space, into the Heavens, on beyond moon, stars, everything else, and meet Jesus.
110 Where did this come from and where did they go? Into this Astronaut. How did the people get into the Astronaut at the first place? That’s the way they’ll have to get into it in every place, every time. That’s right. Have to come in by the same way the first did, because this great orbit of a great body of people. That in Noah’s time, there was only one door, and that door was the only door of entrance. Everything that come in, no matter if they went to the first floor under justification, second floor, or third floor, they all come in at one door. They all come in the same way.

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« 111 † And it’s the same thing in this day of astronaut. We have to come in the same way, come by the same way, by the same Message, by the same Christ, by the same Power that they received on the Day of Pentecost. The same way! It has been all the time the same One, because It’s the same Door. And how do we get into this Body? By the Door. And Jesus is the Door to this Body. So we come in and are born into the Kingdom of God, through the Door, Jesus Christ. And now the Door is just about to close at the Laodicean, last countdown, and the Church is fixing to take its orbit above all tribulations, all everything, and soar its way into the heavens of Heavens, carrying the Church to the bosom of God. Amen. [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.] Amen.

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« 112 † The morning when John’s… this Glenn took off down there, everybody was on their faces, crying and praying, wondering what he was going to be able to achieve. And the first thing, the fire begin to spread from them atoms as that great big missile lifted off there at Cape Canaveral, going up into the air like that, and people screaming and crying and wondering what would happen to their astronaut that was going up.
113 Oh, but the Church, glory, she’s spreading some fire too. Amen. The countdown’s coming! Amen! “Justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost, Laodicean church age,” we’re at the end! Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever! What’s the matter? “Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two… zero!” They won’t be crying, but there’ll be singing and shouting and praising God, as the Church takes its astronaut move into the skies to be with Jesus Christ. Amen.

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« 114 † In the natural achievement, they’re taken off to the moon. In the spiritual achievement we’re taking off towards Heaven. Amen! The natural astronaut is trying to find him a place on the moon. We done already got a place in Heaven all ready. “In My Father’s House are many mansions. I’ll go and prepare a place for you, and send an Astronaut back to get you.” Countdown’s on! Do you believe it? Amen. Countdown! “Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero!” The fire begins to spread, the ministry’s crowned in Glory. Hallelujah! And the old rocket begins to take off, not pointed towards the moon, but pointed towards Glory. Yonder She is, the fire of God spreading. The power of the Holy Ghost lifting her up and beyond the moon, stars, beyond anything that could ever be achieved by man. The Church will take her flight to the bosoms of God in Heaven, one of these mornings. Friends, the man has been able to achieve what they have by their natural things, and God (I proved it here) has typed it by the spiritual.

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« 115 † Let’s get in the Astronaut, quickly! The doors will be closed after while. The countdown’s on! Science says their countdown is three minutes. Ours may be ahead of that, it might be “one” ready for “zero!” Let’s come in. Do you believe the countdown is on? Let’s bow our heads then just a moment.
116 Father! “Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two…” God! “Nations are breaking. Israel’s awakening, the signs that the prophets foretold; the Gentile days numbered, with horrors encumbered; return, O dispersed, to your own.” What a day! The evening Light’s shining. O God, we pray that every unbeliever will quickly lay aside all of his educational thoughts, all of his ideas that’s contrary to Your Word, and this morning will get into this glorious Astronaut, because we’re born into It, in there to become a part of the Astronaut.

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« 117 † I pray, Heavenly Father, and in this great Body of Christ, that You will baptize believers today with the Holy Ghost. May the pool be filled with people this morning, confessing their sins and being buried in the Name of Jesus Christ, and boarding the old Astronaut, Lord, that’s going beyond the moon and stars, and going beyond creeds, denomination. We’ve done had the countdown. You told us what would be, the three, these three stages of this. You’ve told the church ages, how they’d go, the first church age, second church age, third church age, fourth, fifth, sixth. This count is seven. And after seven, this age; we’re already in it, the last church age. And now the countdown is on. The ages is done counted for, the Lutheran age, the Wesley age, the Pentecostal age. And now, Lord, gathering into the Astronaut, with a great magnifying glass in front of It, we can see Glory, see Jesus, see Him in all of His power, see Him in all of His promises. Everything that He promised is reflecting upon us. We thank You for this.

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« 118 † God, may the church today quickly get into the safety zone, for soon comes the zero hour and the door of the great Astronaut will be closed, the Astronaut plane. And we will go like Noah did when he got in his astronaut, as it was, he floated in and above all the waters of judgment. And, Father, we want to get into You that we might be able to float through the streams of time, on past Mars, Jupiter, Venus, over the Milky-White Way, on and on and on, where the natural astronaut knows nothing about. But we see that You’re letting him do that for a sign, that we might be ready to go. We’re moving from the earth. Grant it, Lord. Through Jesus Christ’s Name, I ask it.

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« 119 † Here lays handkerchiefs, Lord, laying here, that sick people has sent. They believe, Lord. And may they become full-membered astronauts this morning. May the power of Almighty God Who reflects His Bible upon this, that they taken from the body of Saint Paul, handkerchiefs and aprons, and the sick and afflicted was healed. May that astronaut believer, when that touches him, take off, Lord. Sickness behind! May every sick person here right now, Lord, get right into Christ Jesus, to His Word, His promise. And saying, “Ask the Father anything in My Name, I’ll do it.” May they start to count, “Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two… zero. Go on off, Lord!” May they rise from cots, stretchers, whatever it might be. May they rise from their shackled-down sickness, to go out yonder in outer space where doctors’ science, none of them, knows anything about, where the Power of God has promised by the scientific research of the Bible here, or the spiritual research, rather, of the Bible; to show that God ever was God, still remains God, He will always be God, and He is the Infinite, Omnipotent, Almighty, Omnipresent Being that can keep His Word; and can do all things, and promised us all things are possible to them that will believe. God, grant it.

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« 120 † May that wayward man or women, boy or girl, this morning, that’s not in there listening to the countdown of God’s Word, knowing that we’re right down, done counted the last thing off. She’s ready to holler “zero” at anytime, and the church to go. We see the Message ending up. We see the persecution rising, as we’ve talked of last night. We know that the time is at hand. The countdown is over. You’ve helped us here at the platform to bring the church ages down, and take everything else and prove it, that right now at most anytime it can happen. God Almighty, Who created the Heavens and earth, send Your mercies upon the people and give to them that what You have for them stored up. For we ask it in Jesus’ Name.

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« 121 † And every man and woman with their head bowed. If there be some here that don’t know Christ as their Saviour this morning, and would like to know Him and enter into this Astronaut condition of God’s grace, to go in the Rapture, would you raise your hand and say, “I’m ready, want to be ready for the Rapture, Brother Branham. Pray for me.” God bless you. God bless you, you. God bless you, and you. Outside, inside, wherever you are, just raise your hand. By this, say, “God, take me in.” God bless you. “I want to hear the countdown. I want to hear it. I want to be knowing I’m safe, that when the fire goes off I’m not going to be sitting down here in a horse and buggy. I’m not going to be in a church, riding in an automobile. I’m not going to be in one that can just get his feet off the ground now, long enough to jump and have a lot of noise. I want to be in something that’s going to take me beyond the moon and stars. I want to listen to the countdown; not some creed, some organization. But I want to be in Christ, where I can sail beyond anything that’s reason among men. I want to go.”

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« 122 † Is there another before we pray? Is there…? God bless you, young lady. God bless you, young man. God bless you, and you back there. I see your hand, and God certainly sees it. And you, my brother, you brother. “I want to be in the countdown. God, let me lay aside every weight.” God bless you, brother. “I want to lay aside every sin. I’ve got a temper Brother Branham. Oh, I couldn’t go in That like that. Pray God take it away from me. I–I, Brother Branham, I–I drink a little bit. I don’t want to do that. Pray that I’ll lay it aside. I smoke. I don’t want to do that. God knows I don’t want to do that. The thing’s just got me bound down so, I–I just do it, I just can’t get away from them. I know it’s wrong, and I shouldn’t do it. I won’t! Another thing, I’ve been doubting the Word. I’ve just been wondering if It really was right. Help me, God. Let me, let me just remember all of It’s right, and I believe It. I want to listen to the countdown. I want to a place where every time I see the Word of God say anything, I want to punctuate it with an ‘amen’ and say ‘It’s You, Lord.'” Now all… God bless you. God bless you, every one of you.

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« 123 † Is there some here now that’s sick, and say, “Brother Branham, this morning I am a Christian, but I’m… I’ve been… got the Holy Spirit. I’ve stepped off the plane now, I’m ready for the countdown. I’ve come out of all kinds of denominations and everything else, listening to the countdown. But now I want to say this one thing, Brother Branham, this morning, I’m sick. I got some work to do for the Lord yet. I’m listening to the countdown, but I want to–I want to be well. I’m stepping over on it this morning, listen to the countdown.” What’s the countdown? The Word of God. It’s counted right down. He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. “I want to hear Him as my Healer this morning. I want to raise up my hand and say, ‘Pray for me, Brother Branham.'” God bless you. Step right in now. Step right in. The altar is full, and around over here, piled up in the floor. We couldn’t run a prayer line. They’re standing around the walls and everything. We just have a conglomeration. You don’t have to do that. You’re in the–you’re in the… You’re an astronaut.

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« 124 † You are an astronaut. You’re going beyond Luther. Luther don’t believe in it all. Wesley laid on hands. The Pentecostal anoint in oil. You’re an astronaut, gone beyond anything reasoning. Just because the Word said so, I’m going on. Well, you say, “Didn’t Luther believe? Wasn’t that the Word?” Yeah, but Wesley went on above him. “Well, Wesley anointed with oil or something another. Don’t you believe that?” Yes, that’s right. “The pentecostal cast out devils.” Yeah. “Laid hands on, had healing in hands and everything else.” Yeah, I know that’s right, but go on. Go on! Wesley don’t look back to Luther, Pentecost don’t look back to Wesley. Neither do we look back to Pentecost. We’re astronauts. We’re beyond that. Let’s go on. Christ said so!
125 How do you do it? “Come lay Your hands on my daughter and she’ll be made well,” said the Jew. Jesus went and did it for him, that’s right. But when it come to the Roman, the astronaut, he said, “I’m not worthy that You come under my roof. Just say the Word, Lord.” And He’s already said it. That’s it.

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« 126 † Now let’s raise our–our hearts to God. Let’s raise our hands to God, our hearts to God. For whatever you have need of, salvation, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost, Divine healing, whatever it is, hold your hands up and hold your heart right in the Presence of God, and realize that you’re sitting in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus, and you are an astronaut of that Faith. What? Here comes the count! “Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two…” O Jesus, come now! We’re placing the power of His Name. And as we seen last night, Paul smote a man blind, let another one run over him. And we see that Jesus could do whatever He–He did, all kinds of miracles, and yet was right at the end of His road, seeing He was beat down and spit on, and everything else. The people don’t understand it. They realize that God does it to confirm that it’s right, and then tests the people’s faith.

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« 127 † Lord, we have stood here and seen total blind receive their sight, sickness; cancers that were shadow of people, healed. We have seen those who were dead and laid out for hours after hours, and come back to life again. We know that it–it’s our great Christ to which we are an astronaut in His body. And now the countdown is on, and we’re going to believe this morning for our healing, for our salvation, and for everything that we have need of. Because when we ask it in the Name of Jesus Christ, He promised, “Ask My Father anything in My Name, I’ll do it.” And that’s all we need to do now is call His Name, and it’s got to be done. We’re listening to the countdown.

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« 128 † Lord, some of them that’s been sinners, raised up their hands. They’re waiting for the countdown, when there will come a change in their heart, that’ll take all the old vile corruption out. There’s many smokes cigarettes, that’s ready to lay them down. Many that’s done things that they ought not have done, and they’re ready to lay it down, because we ask God Almighty in the Name of Jesus Christ to take away everything that’s hindering the Church this morning, from sickness to sin, and let this church be free. In the Name of Jesus Christ, may the power and the Power of the great Gospel, the Holy Ghost Fire begin to scatter, and the great astronauts of God take off to the desire of their heart today. Grant it, Almighty God. They are Yours. And may they receive their healing, their salvation, and whatever they have need of. I commend them to You, and commit them to You with my prayer, on the altar where the Blood of Jesus Christ lays fresh this morning. In the Name of Jesus Christ may they receive what they’ve asked for. And the people said [Brother Branham and congregation say, “Amen.”–Ed.].

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« 129 † So, believe It! So be It! I believe It. I believe. Amen. I know that He’s God. I know that we’re ready for God’s great achievement. What is His achievement? To leave the earth. The astronaut goes to the moon, another earth. And God’s Church (from airplane, from horseback and so forth) is leaving as an astronaut, to another world, which is Heaven. The countdown, it’s on. Amen.
You love Him? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Then let’s raise our hands and sing.
I love Him, I love Him
Because He first…
All right, Brother Neville.
Praise the Lord! And God bless you till tonight when I see you. `

–Rev. William Marrion Branham

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« 1 † ` …-vival, being very tired and worn. And we have had very much fellowship along the road, wonderful meetings, with greeting the Christians from place to place, from up, down the East Coast, and also up the West Coast into Canada. And with fine cooperation among all the different denominational churches, of the Assemblies of God, and the United Pentecostal, Church of God, Foursquare, and many of the other organizations which cooperated, having great meetings. A great success, as far as it could be called success today, and perhaps maybe many would call it “great.” But, myself, I’m a–a–a revivalist. And the revival, nationally speaking, is just about ended. And we are… I like to see revival where hearts are on fire, not adding members, but revival. Our Lord did many miracles of healing the people, and, of course, several got saved. And now I’m home, resting for a little while, and going back into the service in a few weeks, the Lord willing.

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« 2 † And now this is to the many peoples and friends of mine around the world. I wish to state tonight, here in the tabernacle… If you, any of you were present and could see, they’re real warm in the tabernacle tonight. People are packed in and all around, stand indoors, and outside in their cars and things, and it’s very hot, and it’d be difficult for the people and for myself also.
3 But I have come to this place that I want to explain what stage of time we’re living in according to the ministry that the Lord give me. And I wanted to record it from the tabernacle. It came on my heart last spring, but I waited till I got back here so I could get a–a recording of it, to send it to you peoples of the world.

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« 4 † It’s been about thirty-two years ago, that when the Lord Jesus, within a hundred and fifty yards of where I’m present standing now, here in Jeffersonville at Eighth and Penn Street, the morning when I laid the cornerstone on this tabernacle, just being then merely a swamp. And I lived just across the way to my left here. It was before I was married. I was living with my father and mother. That the Lord Jesus woke me up the morning that the cornerstone was to be laid, about early, about six o’clock. And I had been lying in bed for some time, with my heart full of joy, thinking of this great time that the Lord God was going to give me a tabernacle to preach in. I was merely a young boy then. And that day I… the girl that I was going with, which was soon to be my wife the following year, was to be with us the day we was to lay the cornerstone.

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« 5 † And I remember that morning when I had wakened up, and laying in the room, the upstairs right here on Seventh Street. Something said, “Rise up to your feet.” And I got up. And I saw, as it was, a great place, and it was like a–a–a place where they would… a river run in the valley. And I got down there to the river and I understood it was a place where John the Baptist had been baptizing the people, and they had turned it into a hog lot. And I was very critical of it, just saying that it should not be done.
6 And while I was there, there was a–a Voice spoke to me and took me up, and I noticed this tabernacle in just about the state it’s in right now. But there were so many people till they were just packed all in, in the tabernacle, in this condition, about the state it’s at now. And I–I was happy, standing behind the pulpit, saying, “God, how good You are to give me a tabernacle.”
7 And, at that time, the Angel of the Lord spake to me, and said, “But this is not your tabernacle.”
And I said, “Then, Lord, where is my tabernacle?”

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« 8 † And He taken me up in the Spirit again, and set me down in a grove. And way down the grove was just rows of trees setting just level, about twenty-feet tall, or thirty. And they looked like fruit trees, and they were in great big green buckets.
9 And then I noticed to my right hand and to my left hand, there was an empty bucket on either side, and I said, “What about these?”
10 And He said, “You’re to plant in them.” So I pulled a limb from the tree to my right and placed it in a bucket on the right side, and a limb from the left hand and placed it in a bucket on the left side. Quickly they growed all the way into the skies.
11 And He said, “Hold out your hands and gather the fruit thereof.” And in one hand fell a great yellow apple, mellow and ripe. And in the other hand fell a great yellow plum, mellow and ripe. And said, “Eat the fruit thereof, because it’s pleasant.” And I ate from one and from the other, very delicious. You know the vision, it’s wrote in one of the books, I think, Life Story, or Prophet Visits Africa.

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« 12 † And just then I held up my hands, and was shouting the glory of God. And all of a sudden, that Pillar of Fire came down over the top of those trees, and the roar and the lightnings flashed, and the winds blew real hard, and the leaves begin to blowing from the trees. And I looked way down, here stood the shape of this tabernacle, the way it sets now. And at the end where the pulpit would be, there were three trees, and those three trees taken shape of three crosses. And I noticed that both plums and apples were gathered in a clusters around the middle cross. And I ran real fast, screaming to the top of my voice, and fell down upon this cross, or by the cross, and threw my arms around it. And the winds begin to shake, and the–the fruit from the cross, and it fell all over me. And I was so happy, just rejoicing. And It said, “Eat the fruit thereof, because it’s pleasant.”

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« 13 † And then this circling of Fire called out, said, “The harvest is ripe, and the laborers are few.” And He said, “Now, when you come to yourself again, or come out of this, read Second Timothy 4. Second Timothy 4.” And then I came to myself. And I stood there rubbing my face and my hands. And just then, in the corner of the room, sun shining high, then I must have been under the vision for some hour or more, and It said, “Second Timothy 4.” And I reached quickly for my Bible, and read Second Timothy 4.

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« 14 † Now, I wish to read that now. And as strange as it seems, as I read this Second Timothy 4, the place that I stopped, and many times that I’ve preached on that here in this tabernacle, it seems strange that I’d always stop on that. Now in Second Timothy 4, the first five verses. Which, five is the number of “grace.” I read this.
I charge thee… before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
Preach the word; be instant in season, and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall heap… shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned into fables.
But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, and do the work of an evangelist, and make full proof of thy ministry.

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« 15 † Did you ever notice, and I never noticed it till this last May, I never read any more of that Scripture until there? That’s all I ever read of it ’cause that seemed like that it–it was suffices, because it was telling me to preach the Word and to endure afflictions, and to be long-suffering, for the time was coming when they would not endure sound Doctrine, but after their own lusts shall heap teachers, having itching ears, and would be turned from Truth unto fables. But, now, He never said I was an evangelist. He said, “Do the work of an evangelist.” Paul telling Timothy, see. Did you notice how it says? He didn’t say, “Now, you have been called to be an evangelist.” It said, “Do the work of an evangelist.” See? Now, we notice there then. Now, if I would say with all my heart and the best of my knowledge, that has been fulfilled to the letter. Just exactly. And that’s thirty years ago.

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« 16 † And so far as I know, that every vision that He’s ever give me has been fulfilled, except the one that I’m a change in my ministry, to where I’m to pray for people in a little place like a little room under a tent, or a big auditorium or something. It looked, to me, like a tent. You remember that, two or three years ago? Most all of it was brought to pass. I was to go down in Mexico, and how it would rain that night and what would take place down there. And He told me my ministry of the First Pull. Remember about catching the little bitty fish, or missing it? Second one was a small fish. But then He told me, “On the Third Pull, don’t fail.” See? “And don’t tell people.” I’m always trying to explain what I’m trying to do. He let me know not to tell people what you’re doing. Just do what He tells me to do and let it alone. See?

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« 17 † But I’m that type of person, I have no secrets, so I just tell everything I know. So, that’s–that’s just the breed, I guess. But that, I try… I love people, and I want people to be saved so bad till I try to tell them everything I know, unless it’s something He’s told me not to tell, of course, so that they won’t miss it. See? I want them to see it so close that there’ll be no error in it.

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« 18 † Now, that come to pass just exactly. Now remember, the charge was, if we’ll study that for a moment, “I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, Who shall judge the quick and the dead at His appearing in His Kingdom.” See? “Judge… Charge you before God, and Christ, that you–that you preach the Word.” And so help me, till this night, as far as I have any knowledge of, I’ve never preached nothing but the Word, see, and stayed right with It. It’s been a lot of trouble, and I’ve went through lots of persecutions and lots of trials, had to separate from many precious friends because of that very statement, “Preach the Word.” And I–I have.

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« 19 † You remember in the vision, or, the little translation as I would call it, recently, where I was taken and saw those people and looked back to myself and all those millions there. And I said, “I want to see Jesus.”
And He said, “He’s higher.”
20 Well, see, when people die, they–they don’t immediately go up with God. Now, you, I’m sure you’ll understand that. Maybe I ought to explain it the best that I can. Are you in a hurry then? Let’s take our time then and–and–and try to make it just as clear as I can.

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« 21 † Now, when we come along, we remember that we live here in three dimensions. And I don’t know whether I can name them or not. One of them is light, and the other is matter. Tommy, you remember what the third is? [Someone says something–Ed.] Huh? [“Atom.”] Atom? [Someone else says, “Time.”] Time. Right. Now, light, matter, and time. And our five senses contact them dimensions. Our sight contacts light, our feeling contacts matters, and so forth.

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« 22 † Now, but we have contact through science, the fourth dimension, as it was. Because coming right through this building now comes pictures, voices of radio, pictures on television, that our senses does not contact that, but yet they have a–a tube or a crystal that picks up those ether waves and manifests them. So, you see, right in this building now is live actions of people, in the air, live voices. They’re here. We know it. They’re absolutely the truth. And the only thing you do, they–they catch it on… I don’t understand the mechanics of–of those things that science has invented, but we know that it proves to us there is a fourth dimension.
23 Now, the fifth dimension is where the sinner, the unbeliever dies and goes to. The fifth dimension is kind of, well, the horrible dimension. Now this man…
And when a Christian dies, he goes into the sixth dimension.
And God is in the seventh dimension.
24 Now then, you see, the Christian when he dies, he goes under the altar of God, right into the Presence of God, under the altar. And he’s at rest.

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« 25 † To break it down, when a man has a nightmare, he’s not altogether asleep, neither is he awake. He’s between sleep and awake, and that’s what makes him have a horrible shaking and screaming, because he’s not asleep, he’s not awake. And to take that, shows where a man goes when he dies unconverted. He’s lived his time up, he’s dead on earth; and he cannot go in the Presence of God, because he’s not fit to go there without the Blood. And he’s caught. And he cannot come back to earth, because his time’s finished here on earth, and he’s caught between, and he’s in a nightmare. See? He can’t go in the Presence of God, to rest. And he can’t back, come to earth, because his time’s up. He’s in a nightmare, and there he stays until the day of the judgment. A horrible thing to be in, see.
26 And now in this vision, I believe I was caught to that sixth dimension, looking back down here and could see back. See, the sight isn’t exactly with the eyes, that’s earthly. But sight is a greater thing than… The sight that they have there, their contact is far beyond any contact that our natural senses would contact.

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« 27 † Here sometime ago I was explaining it. I was looking at a television picture where they let a man down, I think two mile or a mile deep in the ocean, and they had ray lights that went out. They was showing marine life. And there come fish by, that horrible-looking creatures. That, it’s midnight, ink black down there. And they had phosphorus on their nose and they had no eyes. Now, they have to be fed, so it looked like, to find their food, they were guided with another sense; not sight, ’cause they didn’t have eyes, couldn’t use them down there. But they were guided with another sense that they could contact their food. And I thought, “If I could have control of that little fish with my sight, how much greater could I supply his food and lead him places, how much greater my sight is than his radar he contacts.” See? And I thought, “If I could just lead him!”
28 Then it come to me, “If I could only surrender myself to God, how much greater is the sight and senses of God, Who could guide us much more than the things that we see, because the faith that He supplies us is the evidence of things not seen with our eyes.” Then if that little fish could never come up to the top of the water like other fish, because he’s pressurized. You bring him up, he would explode. No more than we can go up higher and keep from exploding. We are pressurized for the–the place that we live.

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« 29 † But now if that little fish could ever come up here and be me, would he ever want to be that little fish again down in that midnight blackness? He’d never want to be a fish no more, because he’s something greater than a fish, he’s a man; his senses are greater, his understanding is greater, his intelligent is supreme. Then multiply that by ten million, then you get what it is when you pass from this into the Presence of God yonder, where the human being is so much farther than what we are here. You’d never want to be a human being like this no more, down in this pesthouse of sickness and corruption. It’s been that in my heart, that I’ve tried these thirty years to preach the Gospel around the world, to tell people that there is a Heaven to–to gain and there’s a hell to shun, and there is a God that loves you, and a–a redeeming power that’s laying ready to pick you up at any time that you’re ready to receive it.

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« 30 † Like a man drowning, a rope hanging there, he thinks, “Well, the rope, I could pull myself out, but I’m not worthy to get the rope.” The rope was put there for that very purpose, for you to pull yourself out with. That’s the reason Jesus Christ died, for the very purpose of saving sinners. And He dangled the rope of Eternal Life, which this very night will pass over every sinner’s head in here, and a welcome sign hanging on it, “Come up out of it.” If–if you–if you wish to do it, the preparation is made.

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« 31 † Now, when I seen that place and that condition that those people were in, and how beyond anything that this world could ever think of, it was glorious. There could not be sin there, no death nor nothing could enter that spot. And there was no different between man and women, only the–the sex glands was gone from them, and there could never be no more adultery, no more nothing. But she was still a woman in the way of figure, and man was still figure, and they’ll forever be that way. Because when God…

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« 32 † Now this might be good, some of you high school kids that’s getting this stuff taught into you here about evolution. Now, I believe in evolution, but not in the way that man evoluted from–from some lower specie. Their own theory backfires upon them when they try to hybreed anything, it won’t breed itself back. So, you see, it–it’s backfired on them.

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« 33 † Now, I believe that when God begin to bathe the earth, maybe the first thing He did come forth with was a jellyfish, and from that to a frog, and on up. But, you see, it’s continually come closer and closer to the image of man, and man was a reflection of God. And that’s the reason that grass become evoluted, maybe grass, and then from grass come flowers, from flowers come shrubs, from shrubs come tree. Why? It’s a picture of the Tree of Life standing on the other side. And everything on this side that’s natural is a shadow of the Supernatural or the Eternal on the other side. Therefore, as long as there’s a born-again Christian on the earth, and we got a body here like this, it’s the very reflection of one that’s waiting on the other side where there is no death and sorrow. And that’s what makes our hearts hunger for such as that. See, there’s something in us that calls out. We just… There’s something that tells us it’s there. I believe through these years… I apologize before God and the people, of being stupid and being… making many mistakes. But through these many years I have been privileged to see many millions of people come into the Kingdom of God, and have been thankful to the Lord to let me lead them there. And I believe they’ll be there on that day.

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« 34 † Now, the vision was fulfilled. And how I ever come to ever stop, not knowing, on that 5th verse. That’s all I ever read. But there’s some more to that chapter, several more verses. Now, you might, in your hotel room or home tonight, soon as we dismiss, read the rest of that, ’cause I’ve got several Scriptures wrote out here that I want to refer to, and notes that I want to refer to. And I want you to read it when you go home. I’ll quote it, it’ll be on the tape. You want to mark some of it down, why, it’ll be all right.

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« 35 † Now, do you believe that men and women, which I know you do, are led by the Spirit of God to do things? See? And Jesus was our pattern. If you would notice it, I want to turn, you turn with me, to Saint Luke, the 4th chapter, just a minute. And I want to show you something striking. And just so we won’t get to too much of these references, but that you’ll be able to read with me here, for on this one, for just a few moments. Saint Luke, the 4th chapter and the 14th verse, we begin. Now watch real close here if you want to see something happen, this paralleled. Now notice.
And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit unto Galilee:… He returned in the power of the Spirit unto Galilee: and there went out a fame of him throughout all the regions around about.
And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.
And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.
And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it is written, was written,
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; and he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, and to preach deliverance to the captives, and to recover sight to the blind, and to set at liberty, them that are bruised.
And to preach the acceptable year of our Lord.
And he closed the book,…

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« 36 † Now, if you want to, if you want a reference to that, I’ve got it here, just a moment, if I maybe pick it up out of the marginal reading here. If you notice, that’s also you’ll find it over in Mark and different places, but in Isaiah 61:1 and 2. Now, isn’t it strange that He stopped right there, and the very next verse… That was what was applied to His first coming. And the second, next verse, is applying to His Second Coming, at judgment. He stopped and closed the book. If any of you are reading a Scofield Bible, you’ll find a footnote on it there. See? Watch your footnote, a mark to a footnote, see, and you’ll notice there. “A comparison with the–the message quoted, in Isaiah 61:1 and 2, affords the instance of the…” Where, the Scripture here, preaching, Jesus was to preach the acceptable year of the Lord; and the next verse comes out with His Coming and judgment. See? And you see how He stopped right at that.

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« 37 † And how I never noticed that, and how I always stopped at this 5th verse, “For the time will come when they do not endure sound Doctrine, but will heap themselves with teachers, having itching ears, and will be turned from the Truth to fables. But do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of your ministry.” See? And by God’s help and grace I’ve tried to do that. And I want my friends, both here and out into the lands where the tapes will go, the reason that I have took the stand that I have for the Word, is this very reason. “Preach the Word.” That’s the reason I would not tally-ate with any of the creeds, any the denominations, because I have been commissioned of God to stay with the Word. Now if anybody else wants to do anything else, that’s up to them.

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« 38 † And if you notice, in the vision that I had of my ministry, it was I’ve never crossed those trees. I have never proselyted. I have never said, “All you trinitarians be oneness” or “all you oneness be trinitarians.” I have planted in their own vessels. Just exactly. I went to the trinitarian, I went to the oneness, I went to everybody, and stayed between and never joined any of them; but stayed between, being a brother, just exactly what that vision said do. And I’ve eat the fruit from both sides, salvation on both sides.

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« 39 † And now, did you notice, there’s many trinitarian people sitting here, there’s many oneness, and there’s many different ones. But how little you would be to fuss about it, because if that part of the vision was true, the other part’s true, too. Both fruits was found in the cross. See? Both of them was in the cross, all clustered together, and both plums and pear, or peach, plums and apples rained down on me there. Both of them. All found in the cross, because they all believed in God and are filled with the Holy Ghost, and have the Christian works and signs following.
40 Now, the denomination won’t have nothing to do with it. It’ll be the born again that will have anything to do with it. It’ll be your experience with God that will have to do with it. Now, we see so much of that. I’ve got several Scriptures here that I’d like to refer to. Maybe I will a little later on.

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« 41 † But now I want to take you from the 5th verse, on down to the 18th verse. And now to save time, I–I won’t read it. But now Paul, starting off over here in Timothy again, if you notice how he begin to speak, it’s pathetic. Now if you notice after the 5th verse.
For I am now ready to be offered, and my time of… departure is at hand.
Fixing to leave the scene. Starts off, see, “I have…” Well, watch. “My…”
… I’m ready, and my departure is at hand.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me at that day: and not only me only, but… all them also that love his appearing.
42 And then he goes ahead to tell, “Do all, do these things.” What? For him to bring the coat. Now we start right off, and he says:
… Demas has forsaken me,…
43 There must come a time in his ministry when he was a young evangelist, a young prophet, everybody was for him. But now you notice on down in here, said:
… all men has forsaken me:… (What for? The Word.)

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« 44 † When Jesus, the young Prophet of Galilee, He got a time and He was forsaken. All man who stay with God’s Word gets to that place where they are forsaken by the world and the religious world. Jesus fed five thousand, one day, and they picked up baskets full of–of fragments off of five loaves and two fishes. And the very next day, I believe it was, He begin to come down with the Word, and all of them begin to depart from Him. And He looked around to the disciples, and said, “Will you go, also?” Even seventy of His Own ordained ministers left Him. And He said, “Will you go, also?”
45 And then Peter spoke those notable words, by saying, “Lord, where would we go? Thou only has Eternal Life.”

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« 46 † Notice. But the time come when the forsaking time come, and it’s–it’s got to come. It must come. And now I’ve got several prophets and things in here to refer to, to prove to you that that time come. And it’s arrived for me. No need of trying to rub away from it, it’s here and you just must take it. They didn’t rub away from it, they stood and took it, and not being ashamed of the Gospel.
47 You notice Paul, “I’ve fought a good fight. I’ve finished my course. I’ve kept the Faith.” Oh, my! On down here it said, “I’ve fought with beasts. And I–I was delivered out of the lion’s mouth.” And the things that he went, God was good to him. But the time had come when he was going to depart.

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« 48 † Now, let’s just wonder, why would a man, a minister, associate like Demas was to Paul, ever leave Paul?
49 You know Brother Baxter, many of you remember him. He used to read… It was about Demas. He said, “You know what I’m going to do, Brother Branham, when I get to Heaven, the first thing I’m going to do?”
And I said, “What?”
50 He said, “I’m going to walk right up and find out where Demas is, I’m going to sock him just as hard as I can.” And said, “He’s going to turn around and say, ‘Baxter, what’d you do that for?'” He said, “Why did you leave poor little Paul when everybody forsaken him?” I don’t prescribe to that, I don’t believe they’ll have some fights up there, but I just thought about Brother Baxter saying that ’cause he felt so sorry for Paul.

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« 51 † Well, what had Paul done? He had preached just as loyal as he could, and the Holy Spirit was on him. And when he wrote down there about those lady ministers and things, I imagine there was a blow up. Said, “Let the women keep silent in the churches, not permitted them to speak,” and him in jail right then.
52 Could you imagine what some of them bishops said? “Huh! That guy up there in jail, what business he got writing down here with us? See? And he’s got Timothy, a winebibber, with him. And so here he is up there now, that he’s feeding Timothy on wine, and here he is laying in jail, and writing down, tell us what the Holy Ghost ought to tell us to do.”
53 But he said, “If… What? Come the Word of God out of you, and came it from you only? If any man thinks himself to be spiritual or a prophet, let him acknowledge that what I write is the Commandments of the Lord.” See?

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« 54 † See, the time comes, friends. And I want the people in the land that the tapes goes to, to remember that the separating time has to come. It must do it. I don’t know how far I am from the end time, my end of the road. I don’t know. That’s up to God. I don’t know what tomorrow is, and who… I don’t know what it holds, but I know Who’s holding it. So that’s where my faith is built, on that.
55 Now, I imagine Demas didn’t forsake him and start off to nightclubs. I don’t imagine Demas did that, ’cause Demas was a Spirit-filled man. He was a great helper. If you ever took the history of Demas, he was a notable preacher, a fine cultured man, highly polished, educated. He was a smart man. But why would he forsake Paul? That’s the thing. What made him do it, forsake Paul? I don’t believe he wanted to go to a nightclub or anything. But I believe it was God separating Paul. Now I imagine Demas…

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« 56 † Let’s take some of Demas’ thoughts. As I was sitting down on the hillside, wondering the other day, about daylight, and I was thinking, “Why would Demas want to leave that fellow? Why would he leave that poor little preacher that led him to the Lord, the man who spearheaded the revival amongst the Gentiles, a prophet indeed?” No one could say but what he was a prophet. He was more than a prophet, he was an apostle, and a great and mighty apostle to the Gentiles. And Demas would associated with Paul, had fellowship, and seen the Spirit of God move upon that man. And why would he turn his back on such a person as that, had been vindicated that he was a servant of Christ? Did you notice Paul here, “Loving this present world.” Now, I don’t think Demas backslid. I don’t think he did that. But I think he–he got the wrong opinion of Paul.

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« 57 † Now, Demas come out of a rich family and he was wealthy, and money sometimes means religion to people. Like they say in California, “If you haven’t got three Cadillacs, you’re not spiritual.” So it means, if you’re not successful, if you don’t have the finest church there is in the city, the people won’t go. It’s almost that way here, Poogh. You, you’ve got to have the finest church in the country, or they say, “You, oh, you mean you joined up with a little bunch like that?”
58 Did you know our Lord didn’t have a place to lay His head? Did you know He only owned one coat? See? And He had… He was just kind of a person was pushed about. And He didn’t have no place to lay His head. But they could have thought the same thing, and did, about Him.

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« 59 † And, now, I believe Demas saw a failing, seemingly, in Paul’s ministry. I think that he thought the old fellow was washed up, before God. Now, he thought that a people that would pluck their eyes out to give to Paul…
60 Now, Paul said that, he said, “You would have, at least, plucked your eyes out, to give them to me.” Cause, Paul, we think, had bad eyes, ’cause he said, “I’ve wrote with such big letters.” He said, “big letter” but I’ve got the–the lexicon, and it says “with big letters.” He was in Rome, in prison there. It was something wrong, he said his eyes had been bothering him since the Heavenly vision. So he… The people would have plucked out their eyes, seeing Paul suffer, his eyes bothering him, and he suffering. And he asked the Lord to heal him, three times. And he said, “Except I would get exalted above the abundance of the Revelation, there was sent to me a messenger of the Devil that he might buffet me.” Now, it would get pretty good, then hit him again. Then he’d get good, and hit him again.

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« 61 † You see, Paul had a ministry greater than all the rest of the apostles put together. Some of them could have said, “Well, I walked with Jesus.” Why, man on the street walked with Him when He was here. But Paul saw Him in the Pillar of Fire after He was dead, buried, ascended into Heaven, and returned back and called Paul, see, see, on the road down to Damascus. And he had a greater ministry than Matthew, Mark, Luke, or any of them others. He was far beyond them. And he said, “Except I get exalted now and say, ‘Now, you fellows don’t know nothing about It. I seen the Lord after His resurrection.'”
62 Well, they say, “We walked with Him.” Well, so did all them people down around in Galilee and Nazareth and through the country there. They all walked with Him.

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« 63 † But, you see, Paul had talked with Him and saw Him in the form that He was before He was made flesh. See? And He commissioned Paul in that state, while He was in that Light. He commissioned Paul. And–and Paul had saw Him. And he said, “Except I get exalted, feel a little higher than some of you brethren, there was given to me a messenger of the Devil,” that keeps him beat down. And he said, “I sought the Lord three times to take it away from me. And He said, ‘Saul, or Paul, My grace is sufficient.'” Then Paul said, “I’ll glory in my infirmities, ’cause when I am weak then I am strong. See, I will glory in it!”

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« 64 † Now, did you notice now, a man that had a ministry greater than any of the rest of them that had been on the field, Paul, the greatest ministry of all of them, that had seen Jesus in a Pillar of Fire, and commissioned him to do what he done, and was vindicated by the same God, and the same Power, with signs and wonders beyond any question; and was so poor he only had one coat, preaching to a bunch of people that would have plucked their eyes out, and some of them millionaires. And yet Paul had one coat. He said, “Bring that coat, getting cold up here.” He was in the mountain country. He only had one coat.
65 And Demas, to a man that was of high standing, high caliber, cultured, educated, and a rich man that had many changes of clothes, “That guy, was something wrong with him. That had so many friends that would pluck their eyes out to give it to him, and yet he was so poor he had one coat. Something was wrong with Paul.”

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« 66 † Oh, you know, that spirit don’t leave the world, they still have it that way. Money ain’t God. There’s only one God. See? But people think because you have a big ministry you ought to own all this and all this, and all these great big things, and big schools and big so-and-so. God doesn’t deal in them things. Or, at least, that’s been my opinion. God deals with an individual. He never did ordain us to go do such things.
67 But Paul, with one coat, and he tells Timothy here to bring it to him because it was getting cold up there. Uh-huh. A man that had a ministry that preached to tens of thousands that Paul did, and a ministry that could do all kinds of miracles, and seen Jesus in a Pillar of Fire, commissioned him, and yet owned one coat. Demas said, “A fellow like that,” he’d turn away from him.

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« 68 † Now, when he was up here preaching towards Troas, we find out that there’s a man up there was a coppersmith. And he was a rascal. And he hated Christianity. And he done everything to Paul that he could do to him, had him throwed in jail. And every… even Paul warns Timothy of the same thing, “Watch that guy.” And here’s Demas! O God, let the people hear it! Here stood Demas standing by a man that struck a man blind, for disputing with him. Now, you Church of Christ preachers, put on your coats now. I had one tell me one time, said, “Smite me blind! Smite me blind! You got the Holy Ghost, smite me blind.”
I said, “You’re already blind.” See?
69 Now, why didn’t Paul smite the coppersmith blind? That same kind of a spirit that’s on people that think that, is the same thing was on Demas. A man that could smite a man blind, for disputing with him, and then turn and let a coppersmith spoil his ministry in the city. No doubt Demas said, “He, he’s washed up, he’s lost all of his gifts. He’s–he’s lost his gift of smiting blind.”
70 Don’t you see how that spirit still lives, say, “You’re washed up, brother”? Oh! It–it just goes over the people’s head. They just don’t get it, that’s all there is to it. See? They just can’t see it. See? They don’t understand.

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« 71 † Now Demas… didn’t smite that man blind because he wanted to. Didn’t Jesus say, “I do nothing till the Father shows Me first”? Haven’t I told you years ago, with my own mother was laying, dying, and would say, “Bill, what’s my outcome?” I couldn’t say nothing till God said so first. And that’s just what happened. Man can’t, man is a failure to begin with. He’s only an agent to which God works through, and God works His Own will. But when you see these super-duper people that’s always having this and that and the other, you’d better stay away from it. See? Jesus Himself didn’t do that. He said, “I only work as the Father works. He shows Me what to do and then I go do it. I can’t do other… anything otherwise than that.”

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« 72 † And here Demas saw Paul, a man that had a ministry like that, and yet was so poor that he only owned one coat, and wanted Timothy to bring it to him. One coat! But, Paul set the example like Christ was, He had one coat. Then why does riches and lots of money and things mean so much to people today? Notice now. And he had power till, anybody that was contrary to what he preached, he turned around and said, “You’ll be blind for a season.” And the man was blind.
73 And here was a coppersmith, done ten times to him what that man done, and yet got away with it. Demas must have thought, “Well, see, the old fellow’s washed up now. He’s lost his ministry.” No, no, he hadn’t lost his ministry, not at all. God don’t do things like that. God’s not an Indian giver. Yeah. Notice now.

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« 74 † Paul was something on the order like Elijah. Elijah the prophet went up on the mountain by the commission of God, and called for fire to fall out of Heaven, and it fell. And he called for water, and it come. And then he commanded by the message of God and killed four hundred priests, chopped their heads off, let them roll down the hill; and then run at the threat of a–a woman, one little hypocrite woman, or, she was an infidel. Jezebel, that one little woman which was the keynote to every bit of it, she was the one caused it. Looked like he’d have got her first. But God has ways of doing things, and His servants only can work according if he works according to the will of God.

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« 75 † Don’t you see, friends, you’ve got to move according to God’s way of moving. How many times have I set and counseled brethren, and how I would like to walk over and shake their hand and say, “Brethren, it doesn’t make any difference, let’s just be brethren along.” How can I do that and keep my commission, “Preach the Word”? Don’t want to do that.
76 I’ve stood amongst ministers, and say, “Brother Branham, my aunt’s over here. I know you’re a prophet sent from God. Go over and restore her sight.” Wish I could, I’d do it. I can’t do it till He tells me to do it. See? No one could do it. Elijah couldn’t do it, no one else could do it.

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« 77 † Now we find out that Paul… Demas preaching with Paul, had seen Paul see a crippled man laying there, and said, “I perceive you have faith to be healed. Stand up on your feet! Jesus Christ makes you well.” Had seen him heal the sick, and yet he leaves his friend Theophilus sick.
78 “Paul’s lost his ministry.” That’s what Demas must have thought. “Why didn’t he, if he had a gift of healing, why didn’t he go up there and heal that buddy that had stood by him so faithful? He said, ‘I’ve left him up there sick. And I ain’t got no coat, and I want you to bring me that coat along. And be careful that coppersmith, he just ruined that meeting in the city. I had to leave the town. He put me in jail.'” I imagine Demas said, “What kind of a preacher has this turned out to be?” See?
79 And, brother, they got a lot of them Demas spirits in the world today. They don’t know what it’s all about. See? No need trying to explain it to them, ’cause they won’t get it anyhow. See? See? A servant of Christ follows the Footprints.

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« 80 † One of our deacons here, I don’t know whether he’s here tonight or not, it’s Tony Zabel. He’s usually around here. And he came to me and he said here not long ago before he got–come over here, he said–he said, “I–I had a dream, a funny dream.” He said, “I–I dreamed I was trying to find my way upward towards Heaven.” He said, “I seen a man coming with a black robe on and was a–a–a reading a book.” And said, “I–I got to this man, and I asked him, ‘Which a-way to Heaven?’ And he said, ‘Ask the man ahead of me.'” And that was a–a pastor of a church that he had went to.

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« 81 † He went a little farther and he met another man, he had on a black robe and was singing songs, going on. And that was another pastor. Both them pastors are personal friends of mine. And he said… And fine man. And he said, “‘Which way do I get up the top of the mountain here?’ He said, ‘Look here.’ Said, ‘See, standing way up there on the top, that little bitty guy?’ I said, ‘Yes.'” Said, “There stood a guy with a pair of overalls on, wearing a little cowboy hat.” [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.]
82 Someone said, down in Kentucky, said, talking about me down there, said, “That guy looks anything like but a preacher.” Might look like a farmer or something, but–but, you know, it ain’t looks.

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« 83 † And said that it was me standing up there. And he–he climbed up till he got to me, and said I got him by the arm and led him on up till I got top of the hill. And there was a wilderness to go through. And I said, “Tony, I must leave you here and you must walk some of this by yourself.”
He said, “Brother Branham, what can I do from here on?”
84 Said I said, “Come here, Tony, look down there. You see them barefooted tracks with Blood in them?” I said, “That’s what I’ve followed all the way. Just stay on That.” That’s the only thing I know to point man to; not to a creed or a sensation of some sort, but to those bloody Footprints that leads to the Bible, the Blood of Jesus Christ.

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« 85 † Now, how that man must have felt, a man with so many millionaire friends, and one coat. A man that was… had power to smite a man blind, and let a man run him out of town. Never done a thing about it, got up and went out. Prayed for the sick and had left his friend sick. And Demas left him. All the rest of them left him. All of them left him. Paul said, “All men left me.” Every one of them left him.
86 I say this. When a man stands true to the Word, not just in one meeting, but in every meeting, when a man stands true to the Word, the time will come when they’ll leave him. Exactly. They did it. They did it to our Lord. They’ll leave him when he stands for Truth. “All men has forsaken me.” And now what do you think that Demas and some of them men thought when we all know, that know the Scripture, that Luke was a doctor, and Paul, wherever he went, took this doctor with him? And preaching Divine healing, and leaving his friend sick. So poor, he had one coat. And let a man run him out of town, when he could smite a man blind. See, they thought he was washed up. But he wasn’t! He was exactly in the bloody Footprints. He was following on. I hope you’re understanding. He said, “All man has forsaken me.”

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« 87 † Demas, loving this present world, popularity of men. “Hello, Doctor Demas. I know you got your Ph.!”
88 Oh, sure, they love that. Jesus said, “How you like to stand in synagogues, and be called ‘Rabbi,’ and so forth.” Said, “You only receive more damnation.” See?
89 Now, we know when they seen this doctor following him, or with him, and Paul took Luke, said, he said–said here, “Luke is–Luke is the only one hadn’t forsaken. And Luke is–is good to him. But, Luke is prosperous to him. He needs Luke for his ministry.” And this doctor following a man around wherever he went, and preached Divine healing. And a man that preached Divine healing could heal the crippled and raise up the dead, and everything else, and see mighty visions, and speak things that would come to pass, and left his own co-worker sick. And could have had a million dollars and built buildings worth tens of thousands of dollars, and big schools and things like that, and didn’t even have but one coat to put on his back.

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« 90 † Demas said, “I ain’t associating with a guy like that. He’s just… He’s a low class of person. I’ll go up with the denominational brethren. I’ll go up where I’ll be somebody.” If it was such a thing, I’d like to walk, and right after Baxter gets through, see, for leaving that poor little guy in that shape. He ought to have been standing by him. Paul was the one led him to Christ. But, you see, it’s without knowing the Spirit, knowing what the will of God is, then doing the will of God. See? Now, but there he left him in that condition. Left him! All men had forsaken him.

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« 91 † How I think of that! How a servant that’ll stand true to the Word, sooner or later, just remember, the people are going to forsake him. Now, we want to strike that just for a few minutes, and I won’t keep you too long now, ’cause I want you here in the morning. Always when God’s servant stands true to the Word, all forsake him. And it… Now, just take anywhere you want to, anytime in the Bible or in history, that when a man stayed true, no matter how popular he was, when he stayed true to the Word, the time come when the religious world forsaken him and cut him off. Now, just read it, if you take the Bible from Genesis over to the Book of Revelation, and pick up in the Pre-Nicene Council and take down to the Nicene Fathers, and every man, every saint, every prophet, every true servant of God that stayed with the Word, was forsaken by the ecclesiastical thing and cast down. And Paul was one of them.

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« 92 † And if there’d be one today, it’d be the same thing. It’s exactly the truth. You have to hit that place. It has to come. They think that a man that would have a ministry like that, he ought to have the world right under his thumb. He should, but they won’t come under his thumb. See? And a man like that wouldn’t put a ministry, or a world under his thumb; he’d put it under his Master’s thumb, ’cause he’s not here representing himself, he’s representing his Master.

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« 93 † You know, men try to seek honor one from another, and they honor one another, and dishonor God by doing so. See? We try and make big people among us, and when we’re no big people and little people, we’re all little people. There’s only one big One among us, and that’s our Lord. See? And we make our organization so much bigger than God, “the great holy church of this, that, or the other, the great holy bishops,” and so forth. There’s no such things as that. That’s the honor of man. There’s only One holy, and that’s God. And the Holy Ghost, which is God, is among us. It’s not us that’s holy, it’s the Holy Spirit that’s in us. It’s not… When we see things done, it isn’t us doing, it’s the Holy Spirit. Jesus said, “It’s not Me that doeth the works, it’s My Father. He dwelleth in Me, and He’s the One that does the works.” And it isn’t him that–that’s doing it. All right. But we find them true servants down through the time.

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« 94 † Now here is the thing I want to kind of exercise on for a few moments. Now, it’s usually at such a time as this when men has stayed true to the Word and all men have forsaken him until God steps in in defense of that person and crowns his ministry. That’s right. What a consolation. Our consolation is built in the promise of God’s Word. No matter what the world says, what the world does, that’s not our hopes, is not built in what the world is doing.

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« 95 † I think that song is so pretty. Wish I could sing. I always wanted to sing. See? “They that wait upon the Lord, shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like an eagle, they’ll run and not be weary, if they walk they’ll not faint; teach me, Lord, to wait. Teach me, Lord, to wait down on my knees.” I like that. “And in Your Own good time You’ll answer my pleas; teach me not to rely on what others do, but just wait in prayer for an answer from You.” That’s it. That’s the true servant that waits for his Master’s turn, knowing this, that the Scriptures cannot fail regardless of what happens. The Scripture’s got to stand true. In such a time as that, is when God usually steps in to help them.

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« 96 † Let us look at Elijah when he had been forsaken. Why? Because he had stayed true to the Word. He said, “All men has forsaken me.” And he was excommunicated from society, from the organization, from the even national organization, of the national church of Israel, the priest and all had throwed him out, and he had not even a coat as much as Paul, but a little piece of sheepskin, or, leather draped around him, and set up on a mountain and was fed by the birds. Yes, sir. Why? For the Word-of-God’s sake, ’cause he was true to THUS SAITH THE LORD. Now they all went modern. The first lady of the land, Jezebel, had got all of the fashions and things out. And the priests had give in to it and so forth, and all of the preachers and so forth, they coordinated into it. But not Elijah, he stayed true to that Word. And for such a thing he was forsaken, till he cried out, “Lord, I’m the only one left, and they even seek my life.”
97 But God give him some consolation, said, “I got seven thousand yet down there.”

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« 98 † See, I don’t believe Elijah felt puffed up about that, that he was the only one, but I think he was just so forsaken. Every time he’d go up to a priest to hold a meeting, they’d turn him out. He’d go down here, “Get out of here, you fanatic! Get out of here! Go do this!” It showed when Elisha come along, his successor. Well, what did they do? They even… The young fellow was baldheaded, and they sent their little children out to make fun of them old “quacks.” Said both of them was considered quacks, said, “Old baldhead! Baldhead, why didn’t you go up like Elijah did?” They didn’t believe he went up. Uh-huh. See? Just they thought he was a bunch of quacks. But they were true to the Word, with an a vindicated ministry. Elijah stood. All right.

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« 99 † Daniel took a true stand. You know where I get that in Daniel 12, or Daniel 9, I believe it is. When you… Daniel took a true stand for the Word. What happened to him? When he was the right-hand man to the king, but he took a true stand for the Word, and was excommunicated and throwed into a lions’ den. A man of God standing true to the Word!
100 The Hebrew children stayed true to the Word, under the king’s proclamation that “whosoever shall not bow to that image when the psaltery sound and the trumpets be blowed out, and so forth, ever who will not bow to our image will be throwed into the fiery furnace,” and they turned their back to the image. And re-… They, regardless of how unpopular they become, regardless of how excommunicated they’d be from the society, they stayed true to the Word. I like that.

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« 101 † Jacob, another. He had a… been away from home for a long time, and he had a call to go home to see his people. And he was on his road, true to his call, true to his leading. He had things fine over there, but God begin to deal with him to go home. And, on his road home, was throwed between two tight places. His wife and children on this side; and his hated brother, Esau, coming here with an army to meet him. And he stood at the little brook, brook Peniel there, and there he stood. And what a condition! Esau, hating him, coming with an army to meet him, and here was his wife, two wives and children all on this side of the brook, and he was caught in a tight place. Why? Because he’d have stayed in his own land it’d been all right. But he had a call, the Word of God had called him to his homeland. Hallelujah! God bless a man. He got a change, too. Yes, sir.

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« 102 † Jesus, true to the Father’s Word, “I do only that which the Father says. It’s written, ‘The man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'”
Jesus, forever true to that Word, it come a time when He lost all the friends He had. Every one of them forsaken Him and went away. All of them. And the people saw Him mocked, scoffed, lost confidence in Him. “How could a man that could speak to a dead man in the grave and raise him up, how could a man that could foretell events to the mark and never had… never fail; and set in the courts with His face bleeding from plucks of beard, and the gaumiest drunken spit from the soldiers running down His face, with a rag on His head, and hitting Him on the head with a stick, and saying, ‘Prophesy and tell us who hit You, and we’ll believe it’?” Well, the disciples just walked away, said, “Ah!”

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« 103 † See, they so quickly forget what God did! How Moses said at the Red Sea, when he stood there and said, “God has done ten outstanding miracles, are you still so delinquent that you don’t know that He’s still God?” He went down there and he smote the lands, he–he put a curse on the lands. He brought frogs, fleas, flies, everything, and a–a blast that killed all the firstborn, and the death angel passed through the land, and yet those people didn’t want to follow him at the Red Sea. How quickly, as soon as your popularity… When they seen this great shining spears of a hundred thousand men coming like that, or maybe, yeah, or maybe a million men coming, and the roar of the chariots and the dust flying, they just give up and fell back, “And, Moses, we ought to have died back there.” See? God said He let them die in the wilderness for unbelief. “Moses, your ministry is washed up, that’s all. You ain’t no more.” See, they don’t understand. They don’t get it.

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« 104 † And now the same thing was when Jesus, the young Rabbi or Teacher, or Prophet of Galilee, when He was doing all those miracles and things, “How could He ever stand and put up with such a thing as that? How could He let a man bind Him with chains, when He could break the seal off of a grave and raise a dead man out of Eternity? How could He do it, when He could speak to a widow’s dead son and raise him to live again; and Lazarus, dead and rotten in the grave, and bring him out? How could He stand, say, ‘I’m the Resurrection and Life. He that believeth in Me though he were dead yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die.’ And stand and be bound with fetters and spit in the face, and not open His mouth?” The disciples, “He’s lost His ministry.” Yeah, that’s the way it goes. God, this poor world!

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« 105 † Even His church, the twelve that He had delighted in and told them everything, and loved of them, they turned their back upon Him. Only one stood by Him, that was the man John. Right at an hour when everything was gone, and all hopes was gone, there He was bound, and took up there and mocked and spit, and put His back to the… Not knowing that that fulfilled the Scriptures.

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« 106 † Why, don’t you know that the things that are going on today is fulfilling the Scriptures exactly to the letter? Why does people may say these things? Why does these denominations rage? Why do they do that? It’s written in the Scriptures they’ll do it. They walk right into it and do it themselves, blindly, not knowing they’re doing it. You think Judas knowed he was playing the part of Judas? You think Pharaoh knowed he has playing the part, when God raised him up for that purpose? You think Esau would have done the things he did? Certainly not. Said, “They got eyes and can’t see, ears and can’t hear.” But watch the Scripture, just unfolding. See? We’re at the end time, it’s got to be this way.

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« 107 † Now, His church forsaken Him. All men and nature forsaken Him. Talk about somebody being forsaken, Paul had no forsakening at all to what He had. Even the very creation that He created was forsaking Him. The moon and stars and sun, and everything, blotted off. Man, God, nature and everything forsook Him, nothing standing there, He died alone. Did He lose His ministry? He was fulfilling His ministry, not losing it. That goes with it. That’s the thing that takes place. That has to go with it.

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« 108 † Now, everything forsaken Him. But it was at this time that God stepped in on the scene, because any man that knows the Word will stay with the Word, knowing that the Word is God. See? And the Word has to unfold Itself. The unfailing Word must unfold Itself. It’s got to, in order, because the Word is God. And if It worked on others all down through the age, It’ll work the same way right now, because It’s God. Don’t never forget that. For Jesus knowed that He being the fullness of the Word, He was not only a Prophet, He was God Himself. He was the Word. That’s the reason not only man forsook Him, but also nature forsook Him. The whole creation forsook Him, everything, the stars, the moon, and no light when He died. Everything forsaken Him, see, because He was Creator of all things. “He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.” See? He was Creator of all things. All things! Now, the only thing, that we–we don’t create but we try to convert, and those who we try to convert is the ones who forsakes and walks away. See? When the time comes for the Word to make Its real show, it has to be that way. Now, just remember, it was then that God steps in on the scene.

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« 109 † And in the life of our Lord Jesus, the mighty works that He done for the first year and six months of His life, oh, how He was a mighty Man! There never was nothing like Him on earth, never was since, never will be after. But what happened? He got more mockery than any, all the rest of them put together. Mocked by nature and mocked by creation, mocked by everything, because it was in a perverted condition. That’s the reason men’s hearts mock the true servant of God, because it’s perverted. Nature is perverted, that’s the reason.

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« 110 † If nature is as pretty as what it is, being perverted, what will it be when it gets converted back to the will of God? If a land can bear grapes that takes two man to pack them on their back, what will it be, and that a perverted land, what will it be when it’s converted back to God? Christ comes, the desert shall blossom as a rose. It’ll be a conversion. And the dry places will spring up from the water, and the earth shall bloom and blossom. Oh, that will be a time, and when men’s hearts shall be converted into godly men, that’s been to making their choice now, will live in that place. Amen.

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« 111 † “In that dark hour, mid rendering rocks and darkening skies,” said the poet, “my Saviour bowed His head and died; the opening veil revealed the way to Heaven’s joys and endless day.” He had to do that in order to make a way for us. That’s right. But what did God do? He was true to the Word and He embraced the cross. But was it the end of His ministry? Was His ministry washed up? God crowned it with the greatest crown that ever could been crowned. He crowned it on Easter morning, on the resurrection. He crowned the ministry of our Lord Jesus, He raised from the dead and is alive forevermore. He wasn’t washed up because all men forsook Him, He was crowned! Yes, sir. Yes, sir. He was crowned because that He was, had been forsaken, and He must do that when He raised Him from the dead.

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« 112 † The same was with Elijah. We spoke of him a few moments ago. Elijah, that poor old broke down prophet laying out there in the wilderness, and had to be fed by what the birds would bring him. And his little old skinny drawed up, brown-looking body, little cruse of oil hanging on his side, his whiskers all out, and head probably bald and sunburned, crippling, going down on a stick like this, but down beneath that little old heart beat the Spirit of God. When God seen His little old tired servant getting down to the end, everybody forsaking him, and everything else, did He let him down? He sent a chariot down, picked up His tired servant, “You don’t even have to walk up like Enoch did, I’ll just take you home in a chariot.” That’s right. He crowned his ministry with a chariot ride home. That’s not so bad, you know. Yeah. Yes, he didn’t have to walk home, He just sent a chariot and picked him up ’cause he was tired. I like that. Amen. Poor, little, old tired servant, He picked him up and took him Home.

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« 113 † It was at the time that Daniel stood so loyal to God, that he went in… They said, “That man, you know, he was once a great fellow here in this kingdom. He’s told all kinds of things. And he’s brought the soothsayers in, he taught them things.” And the Medes-Persians and how he done. But under the reign of Darius, it was Daniel that stayed true to God. It was Daniel that stayed with the Word of God and wouldn’t mingle with anything else. And he said, “Well, his ministry’s washed up, because I seen it in the local paper, he’s going to be throwed to the lions’ den in a few days.” Going to Federal prison, or something, you see. “But we’re going to throw him into the lions’ den.” But what did God do? God sealed His ministry with a change of the king’s heart, that Darius sent to every language, people across the world, that every man should fear at the God of Daniel, because He was a God that could deliver. Amen.
114 So, you see, it’s at that time when men forsake men, God’s servants that stay true to the Word, that God seals their ministry with a crowning time.

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« 115 † Yes, it was the Hebrew children under the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, when they wouldn’t bow to the image. They stayed true to God because God Word said, “Don’t bow before any image, to worship it.” They stayed true to the Word. And it was in the local paper, in the news, all about it, whatever it was in them days. They had ways to scatter news. Not in a local newspaper, of course not, just saying that so you’ll have some idea. But it was in there they was going to burn them in the fiery furnace seven times hotter. For days before that, they throwed in all the material to get the furnace so hot that it was seven times hotter, overheated seven times. Why, it would have consumed them, to get in a hundred yards of it. But they went right in the fiery furnace, and come right out without even any smell of fire on them. And Nebuchadnezzar said, “Every man that fails to worship this God, let his children and him be killed, his house burned and made a dunghill.” That’s right. See? He… They had a world-wide revival because they were true to the Word. That’s what happens. Yes, sir. Stay true to the Word, yes, and it always pays out wonderful.

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« 116 † Jacob, we mentioned him a while ago. I got his name wrote down here. Here he was, a little coward, but he was staying. He was afraid of Esau over there. My, my! And he knowed he was away from God. Been away from God all these years, but he always tried to stay true to that Word. And here God called him and told him to go to his home. Here he was right in the line of duty, and there was Esau with an army. It was at that time that he was changed from the name of Jacob, “supplanter, shyster,” to Jacob… “a prince before God,” when he walked out the next morning, with his ministry crowned. Walked right out and meets Esau, and wanted no help from him. Amen. True to the Word. That’s the way God does things, isn’t it? He–He does things in His Own way. All right.

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« 117 † Many of my brethren, they’re having great popularity today amongst their denominational brethren. You just speak one name, boy, and it’s just like fire, anywhere, that’s right, you say this certain name of this person. And, after all, when the Lord spoke to me down on the river that day, it spearheaded that revival around the world, from there come every one of those great evangelists.
118 They went right back with their brethren, see, those denominations in which they come out of. They come out here and hold this meeting, mixed up with the denominations, they go right back into them again. They got a lot of favor, big names on radio, papers, and everything. Everybody speaks well of them.

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« 119 † But all men has forsaken me because I’ve took a true Word, and stood by the Word. I’ve stayed right here to what He said to me, preached the Word, not a denominational philosophy. “Preach the Word,” that was my commission, “stay with the Word.” And, brethren, who is listening to this on tape, I was a great guy when I come among you, just healing the sick, speaking of visions and showing things. But when I went to tell you the Truth about the Word, what did you turn your back on me for? Do you realize it’s just fulfilling what the Scripture said? Yes, it does that way. Now I can hardly get in a place.

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« 120 † Letter comes all the time. One come the other day, said, “Brother Branham, I had the greatest of confidence in you, but I heard you say that a certain denomination which I belong to was backsliding.” Said, “I have no more confidence in you at all now, from now on.” Said, “There was about twenty-five of the brethren of my denomination setting in one of your meetings,” said, “we just got–got right up and went off when you said that.”
121 Well, all men has forsaken me, but there’s one thing, He stood by me!…?… I’m not, I wasn’t disobedient to the Heavenly vision that happened down there on the river. I’ve stayed true to Him. He’s been true to me. I’m trusting in Him, someday, I don’t know when, for a crowning of my ministry. I’ve stayed just as true as I could be. I don’t know what it’ll be. I don’t know when it’ll be. And just when He’s ready, I am done up here. I hope He will crown my ministry of this, of letting me take the clothes of the Word, and dress His Bride in the clothe of the Word, and for His righteousness. I hope He will crown me, let me stand on that day, say, “Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.”

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« 122 † There’s so many hills to climb upward, the strain, sometime it gets hard; but the One that points the pathway, knows just what’s best. He knows what’s best. “The toils of the road will seem nothing, when we get to the end of the way.” Let’s hunt for that bloody footprint. Just remember, friends, “The sands has been washed in the footprints of that Stranger on Galilee’s shore; and that voice that subdued the rough billows, will be heard in Judaea no more. But the path of that lone Galilean, so gladly I follow today; and the toil of the road will seem nothing, when I get to the end of the way.”

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« 123 † In this first part of the Scripture I read, He gave to me, I was a young man, just a boy, standing out there, shoulders straight, chest throwed out, shock of wavy, black hair. And now I stand stoop-shouldered, baldheaded, graying, an old man of fifty-three years old. But He’s sweeter as the days go by. And I’ve not shunned to declare to you the whole Gospel of Jesus Christ. And my heart’s desire is to meet the Church which He has died for, clothed in the righteousness of His Own Blood, dressed in His Word and the righteous of His Word, for His Word can never fail. And therefore, I know if I’ll stand by the Word and be true to the Word, and if the Word abides in me and I in Him, at that day I’ll be happy that I stayed true.
124 I don’t know what the future holds, but you see where we’re at, don’t you? You see why everybody’s saying, even to some of my own colleagues, said, “Why, Brother Branham’s all washed up.” See? Yeah. “All washed up.” See? “Ah, we don’t hear much more done.” See? Well, we… They just don’t understand, that’s all, just don’t understand it. See?

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« 125 † I think the greatest thing that Paul wanted, when he said, “My time is up now,” the greatest desire of Paul’s heart was to be a martyr. That was the desire of all their hearts in them days. If they… Did you ever read the Foxe’s Book Of The Martyrs, and also read also The Nicene Council? The greatest honor that could be, when different ones (and Polycarp and them) walked into the lions’ den, they shouted with joy. Walked in there knowing that they was going to be a martyr. When they was burnt to the stake, they screamed with joy, for the honor of being a martyr. When Paul walked down to that chopping block, to have his head cut off, led from that prison house, a little old dungy place down there, in a hole in the wall, where they had him. I walked down there, looked at it. Little old crypt back there where they slammed his body into it. And now want to make him a saint or something another. Same group of people! There he walked down there. He said, “O death, where is your sting? Grave, where is your victory? But thanks be to God Who gives us the victory through the Lord Jesus Christ. I’ve fought a good fight. I’ve finished the course. I’ve kept the Faith. There’s a crown laid up for me, and not only for me, but all those who love His appearing.”

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« 126 † We’ve come down to the 6th verse now, to the 18th. I don’t know what it’ll read for me, but I’m only quoted you what it’s read for others. And I’m going to continue to stay true to the Word until He’s finished. That’s where the ministry is today. I’m not washed up. I hope I’m just washed in. That’s it. That’s right. Let us bow our heads now while we pray….?…

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« 127 † There’s a little rope reaching down from the Throne tonight, it’s called the Lifeline. While I’m praying, I hope it drags by every unconverted person in here. Won’t you reach up and take a hold of it, sinner friend? You say, “Brother Branham, you said you was getting old, and I guess that’s the reason you’re…” No, brother, sister. When I was just a little boy, I believed This. I’ve give my life for It. And there’s only one regret I have, I haven’t got but one life to give. If I had ten thousand lives I’d want to give them all for It. Yeah.
128 Won’t you take a hold of the Line when it passes by tonight, your way? You say, “Brother Branham, I’m not worthy to take a hold of It.” I know you’re not, child. But you go do something to get worthy, and tell me what you done, I want to do it, too. There ain’t a thing you can do to get worthy. You was born unworthy. There’s only one thing you can do, just take a hold of the way that’s made for you. You’re drowning, don’t drown in that. God’s throwed out the Lifeline, let’s–let’s reach and get it tonight.

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« 129 † Heavenly Father, I remember right here at this same desk, this same place where I spoke of that morning, that when I dedicated the church right upon this ground here. And that cornerstone lays there, still holding a leaf out of the Bible that I wrote that. I said, “Lord Jesus, with Your grace I’ll stay true to the Word.” And now I see it’s produced just exactly what it done in other times. And here I am in this tabernacle tonight, after traveling the world, back again, and the little cornerstone still lays there and the paper’s in it. Search me, Lord God. I made many mistakes. I–I’ve done wrong, Lord. Many times I’ve failed You, as I just testified a while ago about a failure. God, I–I, quick as I do it, I–I–I want forgiveness. In my heart I love You. I–I know You showed me recently about that place we’re going. I don’t know when You’re through with me now, Lord. I–I’m here tonight, I… by Your grace. And I–I don’t know when You’re through, but I know this has to come to this. But when it comes that time, I–I don’t want to be a coward. I want to stand like the rest of them stood. But, God, if–if–if I have to seal my testimony with my own life, or whatever it is to be done, Lord, crown it then. Not crown me; crown the ministry that I’ve preached, Lord, it’s Your Word. And I know that Word is more than able to raise me up again at the resurrection. And I’m not ashamed of the Word that I have preached, because It’s the power of God unto salvation to as many as believe.

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« 130 † I thank You for the little church still standing today. When I took that stand for the Word, the prophets prophesied and said, “In six months it’ll be turned into a garage.” Thirty years has passed, she’s more on fire today than it’s been in years. “Upon this rock I’ll build My Church.” We thank You for our pastor. We thank You for the deacons, the trustees. We all got a little part to play, Lord, and we want to play it loyal, we want to play it right.
131 There may be some in here like to join up with us tonight, Lord. And the way they join it, is just to take a hold of this little Lifeline and go to pulling, wrap It around their wrist, tie It around their heart, and say, “Now, Lord, pull, lift me up,” and they’ll come forth and shine as gold. Grant it, Lord. We’re looking for that time.

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« 132 † We believe that it’s near the end. We see that as we have been teaching here, the Laodicean Church Age is now on, we see there can’t be nothing else happen but the Coming of the Lord. And, Lord, wouldn’t that be a great crown for the Word, to see the Crown Himself come? I’d like to be standing here and say, “There He is, that’s the Lamb.” Like John did. “Behold the Lamb that we have waited on, this is He.” The Lord will quickly come to His temple, take away His people in a Rapture.
133 Make us ready, Father. Wash our hearts in Your Blood. Make us pure and clean, that Your Word might abide in us. And may we remember that we must act upon the Word, in order for It to take a hold and be effective. Grant every sinner repentance. Bless everyone that’s in here. The saints, those, some of these old precious warriors, Lord, has been battling along the line for years, made fun of, talked about and ridiculed. They’re still going on because they got Life. They know Who they’ve believed, and persuaded He’s able to keep that which they’ve committed to Him. We thank You for that. Pray that You’ll heal the sick that’s in our midst. Take all of our sins and sicknesses away. And, Father God, get glory to Yourself.

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« 134 † I’ve got so many precious friends, Lord. I–I love them, and I know other men has down through the age, too. Precious friends, loving friends, young and old, and we love them with all of our heart. Now make us true, Lord, just true to the Word, that we might meet them in a better land someday where there’ll never be no sadness nor sorrows. We’re looking for the Coming of the Lord, soon. We believe that He shall come.
135 Now bless the unbeliever here tonight, Lord, and may he become a believer and accept You as his Saviour tonight.

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« 136 † And while we have our heads bowed, if there would be someone here with your head bowed, would say, “Brother Branham, way down deep in my heart, I–I want to come to the end of the road, fighting a good fight. I want to be a Christian. I’m going to raise up my hand.” God bless you, and God bless you. That’s good. God bless you, you. “I want to come to the end of my road, with a good fight behind me. I’m accepting Christ just now. I want Him to be my Helper.” All right, the Lord bless you. God bless you, lady in the back. That’s good. He–He knows you. I’ve learned enough about Him in all these years, about thirty-two years now behind the pulpit, I’ve learned enough about Him now to know that He knows every move that you make. He sees the sparrow. The hair of your head are numbered. See, He knows all about it. You just raise your hand, and mean it, that’s all you have to do. And there’s water ready.

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« 137 † Remember, what do you do? You repent, believe on the Gospel, and then be baptized. What for–for? In the Name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins. That’s your testimony, that you are. Your sins are gone when you are baptized; you’ve confessed them, and you believe. Won’t you catch the Lifeline now as it pulls across your heart, and saying, “Come this way, pilgrim. Journey with Me, take My cross upon you. Learn of Me, I’m meek and lowly in heart, and My burdens are light.” Just reach and take a hold of It.

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« 138 † How many Christians are in the Way tonight, in here, that are happy that you started a long time ago? Done made your start, and way down along the road, still coming down towards the end. I pray that God will crown your ministry, whatever it is. It may be a housewife. I pray that God will crown your ministry. It may be a preacher. It may be a deacon. It may be a lay member. It may be a farmer. I don’t know what it is. Whatever it is, may God crown your life with the glory of His Word, and His Second Coming rapture you and take you away into another Land where you’ll just feel like that little fish I talked about, out of that blackness down there. See, you couldn’t go up There with this kind of a body. Neither could you go up like these astronauts, see, you have to be in a pressurized tank. You’re not pressurized for it. But when God changes you, you’re pressurized then, you’re going in the Rapture then. When these old earthly senses has been lost, and you’re gone on in that glorious way of the cross, going Home with Jesus.

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« 139 † Now, Father God, we thank You for these hands that come up for to be Christians. I believe that they meant it in their hearts. I pray for them, that they will not anytime fail. And if they do fail, may quickly they have that Advocate with the Father. Which I have learned to be such a great thing, Father, that when I make all my mistakes, then I find that I have an advocate, right quick, with the Father, through Jesus Christ. And I’m brought back into grace again. The loving hand of the Lord wipes away, there’s a bloody Sacrifice laying there that I confess to be my Saviour.
140 All that’s sick and needy, I pray that You’ll supply their needs and heal all the disease, Lord. And those that are here now sitting under this glorious anointing of the Holy Spirit, as we feel It so sweetly pouring over our souls.

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« 141 † Father God, You know what I was thinking about coming down from Canada the other day. I thought, “Oh, how I would love to get in an old-fashion revival again, and just the saints of God, singing, and the power of God, falling.” Oh, how my heart longs for it, Lord. May there break such a revival in this Tabernacle, oh, that the power of God will–will just pour down in streams of grace, go into every heart.
142 I thank You for this little place, Lord. We wasn’t able to keep it this way, it’s been Your grace that’s kept it spiritual. And now I believe, Lord, the most spiritual little spot in the nation, that I know of, is right here at Eighth and Penn Street. How I thank You for this, Lord! Going into the churches and see them cold and indifferent, and the women so bold that they can’t even blush, and not an “amen” or a tear on the cheek, or nothing, and no salvation, no nothing but just join their church and say their creed. And, O God, then come into a sweet little warm place where the fires are built on every altar of their heart. What a comfort it is, Father! What a comfort! Thank You, Father, and may it ever remain until the Coming of the Lord Jesus. Bless us together now.

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« 143 † And tomorrow’s the Sabbath. And, Lord, help me in the morning, if it falls my lot to preach on that Countdown. God, may I be able to bring it in such a way till the people will see it, Lord. And now may they see the state of the ministry, and where it’s at, and what we’re waiting for, and why everything is going on the way it is. May they read from the 5th verse on, and then realize the place that we’re standing.
144 And now, Father, I pray that You’ll bless us and give us good rest in our bodies, and bring us back tomorrow. Bless all these people standing around the walls, and leaning from one foot to another. Women, men standing out in the rain out there, and around the windows, and sitting in their cars, and all up and down. I pray that You’ll bless them, Lord. May they go home with the grace of God in their heart. I pray in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

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« 145 † Do you understand now? Read from, first, Second Timothy 2:4, Second Timothy 4, from the 5th verse on down, before you go to bed tonight, if you can, and you’ll see where we’re at. Why did them men forsake him? Why didn’t they come? And now just compare that ministry with what we’re going through today. Compare the teaching of Saint Paul. Remember in the little Heavenly thing that I saw, I said, “Well, will Paul have to stand with his people?”
They said, “Yes.”
146 I said, “I have preached the same Word he did, just exactly stayed with the same Gospel.”
147 And millions throwed up their hands and said, “We’re resting on That.”
148 Lord bless you. Do you love Him? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]
Until we meet! Till we meet!
Till we meet!” `

–Rev William Branham

15-1108E Images of Christ

Preliminary: Brother Joseph explains the morning events when our Lord Jesus Christ raised Brother James Jackson back to life. Medically proven. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Also explained at branham.org/articles/11112015_Resurrection

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Songs: 478,134,106,22,32,28,142,1,114,534

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« E-1 † That’s mighty sweet thing. I’m so glad to be in the house of the Lord. There’s only one better place, and that’s be with the Lord, isn’t it. When it’s… All–all the hardships, and trials, and troubles of life shall blend away into a great glorious tomorrow. And we certainly looking forward for the time that when we will see Him.
And someone was asking me the other day, said, “Do you think, Brother Branham, that the coming of the Lord is at hand?”
I said, “I certainly do.”
Said, “Well, I’ve heard it for a long time.”
“But,” I said, “one day, you’ll hear it for the last time. See? That’s right.’Cause He–He will arrive someday. And whenever it is, I just want to be ready, I… that…

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« E-2 † We were speaking the other day before some business men that were attorneys, and so forth, and… And they said… One said, “What is your–your main objective in life?”
I said, “I have one.”
He said, “What’s that?”
I said, “Saving souls for Christ; that’s…?…” The the only thing that I… My highest ambition, and only ambition, is to see Jesus Christ glorified. I live for that.
And I’m so happy, our testimony that thirty-one years is in the making now I have humbly served Him. If I should live a million years… I’d had that much life to live; I’d want to live every minute of it for Him, for I… And if I knew I’d be turned down at the end, it’s such a privilege to live for Him. He is so real and so good. And I have never found nothing in all my travels of life that would anyway compare with the fellowship that we have together when we’re alone, He and I. There’s no sweeter communion. It’s greater than the love for anything, for wife, children, or anything, is the love of Christ. It’s so good.

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« E-3 † Now, we’re so glad to see this revival continuing on through the week, and heard that Brother Parnell and the others has been doing some great speaking here. And we’re trusting that during this revival… Revival is sometimes misunderstood. Someone thinks that revival is to bring new members in to the church. No. Revival results is that. But a revival is to revive what’s already in the church (See?), is to–is to bring that…
They was… One time I stood by the seashore. And I–I guess I’ve quoted it many times, but it’s… It was long years ago. And it’s the first time I ever seen a… Well, it wasn’t a sea; it was Lake Michigan. Hope and I were up there when the World’s Conference was there. That’s in, I believe about 1922, Brother Higgin, the best as I remember, when the World’s Conference was at–at Chicago.

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« E-4 † It was my first time to see a large body of water. And I stood out there that day and seen those great waves. That was just as Easter morning. They had sunrise service out there. And to see those great waves move in and out. And, oh, looked like they were so happy. But I got to thinking, “You know, there’s no more water in that lake, and it going on like that, than it is when it’s perfectly still. It’s the same amount of water, not one drop more.” But I thought, “Well why does the–the winds come down and–and shake the lake up like that?” It’s to get all the trash out of the lake. See? It throws all the stuff to the shore when…
And then I think that’s like a–the lake having a revival. See? It shakes it, and jumps it, and jerks it around, until all of the dross gets out.
And that’s just the way a revival is, is to let us come into the Spirit of the Lord, and rejoice, and make wrongs right, and a closer walk, and re-consecration, and dedication, until all the things and doubts of the world are all throwed out on to the bank. See? Then it’s a good clear running from then on. When the old ship of life begins to stir through it… Oh, they don’t have to watch so much, because everything’s out of the way. That’s good.

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« E-5 † Well, tonight we don’t want to keep too long, this being Monday night, and the first night of the week, to–our revival night. And I was so happy to announce that the revival goes on.
And I have many friends. I see some brethren here, and folks who have given me dreams, that they have dreamed about in the last few weeks. And the Lord has helped me to have the interpretation of those things. I–I don’t know who’s in our midst, and how many strangers, or whatmore. But the Lord God still gives interpretation to dreams. They’re exact and perfect.
And He’s the same God that was in the days of Joseph, when–when the king dreamed the dreams, and he interpreted it for him, and it was exact. And some of those dreams even are lasting yet today, the results still goes on. And Daniel, in the days of Nebuchadnezzar…

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« E-6 † And our glorious little humble pastor said a few moments ago… Well, he–he just didn’t want to ask me to help out some more this week. He said, “I know you’re tired, Brother Branham.” But said, “Well,” he said, “we’re just waiting and wondering.” Why, that’s fine.
By the way, I had to cancel the meeting to Sydney, Australia, on the account of they wouldn’t permit me a visa at this time (See?) to leave the States at this time, and so, and other things. So I can’t go right at this time. I don’t know when I will be able to go. But soon I’ll be able.
But while we had to set it back a little bit, I’m going to Chicago now to the–the meeting in Chicago coming up, which they had advertised that I was to be there. But not knowing to me, the time that I was supposed to be there, I was to be in the Fiji Isles, where they said there’d be many people gather out to… in the islands. But I won’t be able to take the meeting just now there, because of visa rights. And… But I will soon. They’re just waiting.

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« E-7 † Now, I will be in Chicago… Gene, do you know what dates that that is? Does anybody know what that was advertised? I don’t even know when it was, I just seen it in “The Herald of Faith.” I believe it’s beginning about the fourth or fifth of the month, or something like that, or it’s in the next, about a week from now, ten days.
And so I been under lots of strain, and I desire your prayers.

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« E-8 † Now, tonight, I have chosen for some Scripture reading, if you’d like to read with me, out of Saint John, the 13th chapter, just a portion. You who keep your Bibles near, and likes to read behind while we’re reading…
And immediately after this service tonight, there’s going to be a wedding rehearsal here. So as soon as we’re dismissed, if… We’ll rush real quickly as we can, not rush, but soon as the building’s empty, then they want to rehearse the wedding. And there’ll be a wedding here tomorrow night. Two of our children in this Tabernacle fellowship is to be married tomorrow night. As you all know. Our lovely Brother David Wood is marrying–marrying Marilyn Jeffries tomorrow night at the Tabernacle just before the services. And so this wedding is to be rehearsed just as… It won’t be a formal; it’ll be a semi-formal wedding for tomorrow night.

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« E-9 † Now, before we read His Word, let us pray. Father God, as we come most reverently into Your Presence, bearing before us that all sufficient Name of Jesus, we are assured that You will hear us, because He said, “Ask the Father anything in My Name, I’ll do it.” And therefore, we come as Christian believers, boldly to the throne of grace, knowing this, that if our hearts condemn us not, then we know we have our petition answered by God.
And we pray that our lives be so satisfying to Thee through our confession of our wrongs and His righteousness to forgive us, that our desires will be fulfilled tonight. And Lord, our greatest desire is to see Your great grace shed upon us, and it to forgive our sins, and to heal the sickness in our midst. And You might speak to us in the way of a revelation, or prophecy, or just anything that You would desire to say to Your Church. And may our hearts be receptacles unto Thy Spirit. May we be so connected with the main line tonight, that the Holy Spirit could speak to our hearts and get glory out of His Presence.

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« E-10 † Now, Lord, we would pray for all that are sick and needy, for just before coming, as our secretary brought to my desk in the last two days, just long strings of names across the nation that’s suffering, dying, emergencies wrote in red. And as I lay my finger on each of them coming down the page, O God, with the presence of this church tonight, I plead Your grace and mercy for each. Thou knowest every one of them, and what they have need of.
And we would not forget those, Lord, who are convalescing tonight, that’s yonder in the homes of the aged and infirmed. O Lord God, many of those are Blood-washed children of Thine. And oh, when we are getting old and our loved ones has forgotten, there’s one consolation we have: God never forgets. All of our deeds are recorded on the Book of Life, and they are forever in His Presence. And we would plead for them tonight, Lord.
We ask for mercy for our nation, and for those who are sinning and doing wrong, and for those in the barrooms, and–and in the different positions of sin tonight, we would ask pardoning grace, Lord. And we’re praying that You will so sustain us, Lord, that our hearts will be so full of love for Thee, it’ll be our utmost desire to serve Thee, and to see those saved. Bless the reading of the Word, and all that we do. Humbly we’ll bow our heads and thank Thee, for we ask it in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

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« E-11 † Now, turn to the Book of Saint John, the 13th chapter. We’ll read for a portion:
Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
And supper being ended, the devil now have put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him;
Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;
He rises from the supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself.
After that he poured water into a basin, and begin to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.
Then cometh he unto Simon Peter: and Peter said unto him, Lord, does thou wash my feet?
Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do now thou knowest not; but thou shalt know hereafter.
May the Lord add His blessings to His reading of the Word.
I want to take for a–a text tonight, just for a short time, the subject of “Images Of Christ.” And I want for a subject: What would this be… What does it take to make a Christian?

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« E-12 † Now, I know this is altogether not an evangelistic text by no means. And yet, it is an evangelistic text, because the Church can never progress until It knows what grounds It’s progressing on. And I believe that before anybody can ever move or have real confidential faith, it’s first they have to know where they stand and how to stand after they make their stand. I believe that’s essential. For you cannot just headlong plunge into something with faith, when you don’t know where you’re plunging. You’ve got to know.
And if our faith is set right and in the right position, it gives a constant satisfaction.

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« E-13 † It’s just like it’s been said about a woman. That maybe when she is married, if she’s so–so anxious to embrace her first little baby, that she doesn’t hardly know–can wait. But she… her anticipations is so, but behind that, there is a fear if it doesn’t quickly show up that she will not have this baby. Then that drives her farther away all the time.
Now there’s a remedy that they do in these days, and it’s worked in all ages. If that woman sees or believes that she’s not going to give birth to this baby, if she will just go out and adopt a baby, then the first thing you know, she will have one of her own.
Now, that’s proven correct nine out of ten times, because that strain of wondering, “Oh, maybe I won’t have it.” But that takes that little satisfaction there, and it’s maybe God’s way of getting her in condition, then she will have her own baby, because that scare and anticipations will finally leave her.

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« E-14 † That’s the same way about people who want to get healed. They… If they can just have one little visible evidence. Like Elijah when he said… Gehazi said, “I see a cloud about the size of a man’s hand.” Elijah says, “I hear the sound of abundance of rain.” He saw the evidence.
That’s why, many times, I tell the people, “Go on. Start praising the Lord.” See, because that is the adopted baby. ‘Cause it’s in their intellectual until it comes into their soul that they’re healed. Then faith makes it right.
You’ve got to know what you’re doing. You got to have confidence in what you’re doing.

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« E-15 † Therefore, so many times we hear this expression, “Oh, what is a Christian?” Some people limit it to joining a church.
Someone said, “Well, a Christian is a–a church member, someone who takes up their affiliations with the church.” I believe that all Christians should do that. But I don’t believe that’s Christianity. See? That’s what a Christian does after he becomes a Christian. But it doesn’t mean that because he does it, that he is a Christian.
Then some say, “No, it’s going to church and serving a declaration of creeds, and being loyal to those things in which the church teaches.”
And then there are others that says that perhaps packing a little–a little something on them, a–a little cross or something, that that is the sign of a Christian. Well…
And then there’s others who believe that, perhaps maybe, if they would burn a candle or do some kind of a penance, that that’s a Christian. If they will merely be immersed in water, or they will do some sacrifice, or give some good to the church, or–or help the neighbor, buy some coal for the widow, or some shoes for the orphan… That’s the acts that a Christian should do, but that still doesn’t make them a Christian.

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« E-16 † And then some says that if you pack an image of Christ in your car or on your wall, that that is a sign of a Christian. Well, them things are all right, but I don’t believe that packing an image makes you a Christian. I believe that being an image of Christ makes you a Christian. It’s not what we do outwardly; it’s what happened inwardly that makes us what we are. Then therefore, if He is our image, and we are in His likeness, and members of His Body, we should be images like Him. Then our lives should reflect the image of Christ, not in our joining church, or in our packing crucifix, or our emotions, but it should be in the living Presence of the living God that’s reflected through our life.

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« E-17 † It’s been told me by authorities, that before they had the days of the smelter to take the s–the dross out of the gold–take the iron and the pyrite. The pyrite is so close like the real gold, till it’s called the fool’s gold. But the way they got all that out, that they beat it out with a hammer. The Indians used to do that. And the old goldsmiths used to do it. Beat it with a hammer, and turn it over and over, and beat until all the dross was out of it. And the only way that they knew that it was down to the gold, was when the beater could see his reflection in it. The one who was beating could constantly look until he could almost shave by his own reflection in the gold that he was beating.
And when the Holy Spirit of God begins to beat on us with the Gospel hammer, until all of the things of the world is beaten out and we can reflect the image of the Lord God, then I believe we become Christians. For the word “Christian” means “Christ-like,” and to reflect Him.

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« E-18 † Now, that doesn’t mean that we have to grow a long beard, as the artist pictures Him having. And neither does it mean that we grow long hair as the artist pictures Him having, or to wear robe as He wore; for we’re living in another day. We don’t necessarily have to be that to reflect His physical image; but we must, in our souls, reflect His Spirit image and His manner of life.
I do not believe that Christians consist of joining churches or creeds. I believe it’s a reflection of Jesus Christ in a human being. For we are His members–the members of His Body. And we bear His image, the Scripture says.
Now, what kind of an image was He? He came not to be some great somebody, yet He was, but He came as a servant. He came, not to be ministered to, but to minister. Our text tonight reflects what He was. That’s what makes Him great in my estimation. Yet, being the very God of eternity, the very God Who created the heavens and earth; and when He came here, He took the lowest position, the most dis-desirable job that anybody could have; that was a foot-wash flunky.

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« E-19 † Of all the payings of the early days in the Oriental world, the foot-wash flunky was the lowest paid man of all. For in those days, animals walked on the highways at the little byways that they went by. And along the road, it stunk all along the road where the animals were, and the dust flew up and got on their legs and in their feet. And such an awful stink as there was.
And as soon as someone come to visit another, he could not come in in that manner. He smelled bad from the stink of the road and the dust, like around the–the livery stable. So, the first thing he did, he had a little booth, a reception booth. And the lowest paid man on the place, just like some slave, stayed back in there to wash the feet of this guest that was coming and give him another pair of shoes to put on, little sandals, and slip it on him. And then he was anointed. And then… with a oil, and He could go in then to be the guest of his friend. ‘Cause he’d feel all out of place going in so full of the stink of the–the roads, and sweaty and so forth. And the foot-wash flunky was paid less than any man that there was.
And the God of Heaven humbled Himself to be… The greatest that there was become the lowest that there was.

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« E-20 † What a difference of the so-called reflecting Christian today. What a difference. Why, the so-called Christian today wants to be served. Oh, he begins to think that he’s somebody. What a difference from it was with His… reflecting Him. He never come to be ministered to, but He be–He come to minister. “Let he that’s greatest among you, be the servant of them all.”
And we have seen today, that our modern trend of Christianity is, “I’m somebody, and you’re nothing.” Oh, it’s a… It’s wrong. It should not be that way. We are trying to reflect Christianity in the wrong way. God doesn’t want us to do it that way. He… We sing the song, “To Be Like Jesus.” But when it comes to humble our pride, and to get down like He did, then we draw a line. And in doing so, man has formed denominations that they can separate themselves, seemingly not having the Spirit, as the Scripture says. They separate themselves, “We belong to a–a certain-certain church. It’s a–it’s a bigger church. It’s a better church. Our denomination is a greater denomination.”
That doesn’t act like Jesus. That doesn’t reflect His love and His personality. He came to the lowest, to the street harlot, to the beggar, to the bum, and got right down in the dust with them. That’s the Christian life. That’s the way it should be–to reflect Him in that way.

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« E-21 † Oh, I know people say, “That’s the… That’s days are past.” It isn’t. If Christ still remains Christ, if His Spirit is still the Holy Spirit that was in Him be in you, It’ll make you take that position too.
But today, we try to think that we’re different. How far it is from His prayer when He prayed that this would all man know that we were His disciples when we have love one for another. And instead of that, we fuss at one another. We despise one another, because we don’t agree upon certain things. And we go out and–and accuse each other. See, we’re… And yet claim to be Christians. I know people who claim to be filled with the Holy Spirit, is guilty of such things, going out and–and really saying evil things about other Christians when they ought not to do those things.

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« E-22 † Now brother, sister, when we have that kind of a spirit, we might as well get it in our mind that we’re not Christians yet. No matter how much we confess; it’s what we possess that counts. We cannot be Christians and not love all peoples. We might different with peoples. But Jesus didn’t put in and say, “When now, here all you Pharisees, you’re all going to hell, and there’s no chance for you, because of this, that, and the other, because you are a Pharisee.” But He went to them, and He ministered to them, and He helped them. He done everything that He could to help them.
But today the educations, and church membership, and ties of world has brought the church together in such a way until the intellectual has taken the place of the spiritual. You cannot get to God except by the Spirit. There’s only one way that a man can come to God, and that’s through the Holy Spirit. Jesus said, “No man can come to Me except the Father draws him first.” That’s just as true as it can be, Christians. We want to take a little notebook tonight in our heart, and count up these things now.

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« E-23 † Let’s think this. Oh, some of us claim to have all the knowledge. We have those who say, “Now wait…” They love to be doctors, and holy fathers, and so forth. But knowing all of this–if you had all the knowledge, it wouldn’t do you any good. Except you was–had a Spirit in you of love. The Bible said, “Though I have all knowledge and have not charity, I’m nothing.” And what good does our knowledge do when someone say, “I wouldn’t go to a revival like that, because those are not educated people. I–I wouldn’t associate with them.” No matter whether they don’t know their ABC’s or not, they can know Christ. Certainly.
You never can get too low. May God always keep that Spirit in me. No matter how…?… low, what he believes, what he doesn’t; what creed, color, or what, I want to reach a hand out to help him. Sure. I want that Spirit in me. I will not think I’m better than somebody else. I could stick my chest out and say, “All the people stand when I come in.” Or, “I had the greatest campaign of them all.” Who am I anyhow, but the clay that God has made? Let me humble myself, that His life will be reflected. Let’s all Christians feel like that. Knowledge gets us nowhere.

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« E-24 † For instance, what if there is a cage full of canaries. And the cage is the size of this Tabernacle. And one little canary bird flies up in the cage and says, “Gentlemen, I want to tell you all something. I happen to be just a little superior to you all. You see, I’m–I’m a canary that knows all about the human being. Oh, I can explain it all. I seen the lady walk through the house; I’ve seen the children play. I know all about it. Now, you all listen to me.”
And about the time he’s pouting off his little brain, a Princeton University, college man steps up with a polishedness of grammar. And he begins to carry a conversation with that little canary bird using the highest grammar that he can, and speaking to this little canary bird. I’d imagine the little fellow’d turn his head sideways; he would listen from one side to another. But he don’t know a thing he’s talking about. Yet, he can hear him, yet, he can see him, but what does his knowledge amount to? Nothing. Because he don’t know what the man’s talking about. Why? He’s got a canary brain. He hasn’t got a human brain. He just understands as canaries understand.

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« E-25 † And that’s the way the human is. I don’t care how intellectual you are, we still got canary brains, because we’re only human beings. God’s knowed by the Spirit and by the revelation by the Holy Ghost. We’ll never be able to understand Him through intellectuals. You might talk in inter–and have intellectual meetings, and psychology, as much as you want to, and people will never know God. They can’t.
You can explain, and say the people that cry and turn the other cheek are just the old fashion. But that’s the man that’s reflecting Christ in his life, a man who is humble. A man who will walk with God will act like Jesus.

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« E-26 † But, you see, the little bird couldn’t understand. Yet, he thought he could. Because he’s not made that way; his intellectual will not compare with the intellectual of this smart student.
And neither will our intellectuals ever match God. How can our little infinite mind ever compare with the finite mine–or the finite mind of us ever compare with the infinite mind of God? That infinite mind of God is so far beyond human intellectuals until it would never be.
The only way that bird will ever know what the man’s talking about is by yielding himself, and accepting it, and doing whatever he thinks that the man wants him to do.

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« E-27 † That’s the only way we know God is to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit. That’s old fashion. It’s God’s program. It’s always been God’s program. It always will be God’s program. “‘Not by power, not by might; but by My Spirit,’ saith the Lord.” That’s where it comes.
Longfellow once said this: “The way to succeed is to find a worthy cause that’s being talked about, a worthy cause that’s being talked about, and then hold on to it.” Sure. Something that’s being talked about, turned down by–by science, and if it’s worthy, then hold on to it.
Do you know, in 1872, the medical association of the United States turned down bathtubs? They said they are absolutely unsanitary, and said they will scatter diseases. Bathtubs–they finally come to it.

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« E-28 † And this old fashioned Gospel that we’re talking about’s washed in the Blood of the Lamb. It may seem old fashion, but they’ll have to come to it sooner or later. It’s a worthy cause. Hold on to it with all you’ve got. It’s a Blood-washed way. It cleans a man up. Not going out here drinking, and smoking, and riding around, and calling themselves Christians because they belong to a church. It’s that clean, unadulterated Holy Spirit in a human life that reflects Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
That’s why people today reject the new birth. Oh, they’ve got what they call the new birth. “I went up shaking hands with the pastor.” But that’s not a birth. The reason they–they won’t accept it… That’s why they go join churches, because they can come in some intellectual way. God said, “Except a man be borned again, he cannot even see the Kingdom of God.” No matter how intellectual you may be, or how good a Christian you claim to be, you got to be borned again.
You say, “Then, Brother Branham, I’ll have to come to some little mission?” That doesn’t mean that. It means you’ve got to receive the new birth. You got to be borned again.

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« E-29 † This is a mixed audience, and I’m going to say something. What is a birth? If a birth happens on a straw-tick, or it happens on the floor, or in a hospital that the rooms are decorated in pink silk, it’s a mess anyway you take it. That’s right.
And so is the new birth. It’s a mess anyway you take it, but it produces Life. Amen. It produces Life. What kind of Life? Servant Life to humble yourself, to deny yourself. That’s the kind of life.
“Oh,” they say, “but I see them crying and boo-hoo around the altar and carrying on.” Sure. They’re being borned. It’s a mess. I don’t care where you go. You might get up your face all full of tears, and your eyes red, and your hands raw from beating on the altar, but it’s a birth. It does something to you. It makes you a servant. It takes the starch out of you. It makes a image, molding new life, new creation. May be all messed up when you get up, but you’re borned again. No matter where you are, it makes a new life. It brings a new image life. It makes a servant out of you. You want to serve then. Jesus wanted us to serve one another. Lerve–Love one another. And as we serve one another, we serve Him.

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« E-30 † Now remember. It’s only the sick that demands attention–service, just the sick. They demand attention. And when you see a preacher… And may I not only limit it to a preacher, but may I limit it to every church member that wants attention: “I’m somebody,” just remember, there’s a spiritual sick person. They’re needing attention. They need the attention of the Spirit of God to give them something that’ll take that attitude out of them and heal them from their selfishness, and big ideas, and “big me and little you.” The Holy Ghost makes us all the same. Too much spiritual sickness–anemics…
You know what anemia is? It’s someone hasn’t got any blood. They walk funny. They’re topsy, tipsy-topsy all the time.
And that’s what’s the matter with many of our church members today. They are anemics. They need a Blood transfusion of Calvary, that’ll give them rich Royal Blood to make them walk in the old fashioned Holy Ghost hewed out way of God, that’ll give them something to live for, give them a confidence that’ll make them walk in the image of their Lord.

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« E-31 † For myself, if I had a choice to make, I want it to be like He was. He came to be a Shepherd, and He was a Shepherd. A shepherd is one who goes after his sheep.
A famous picture, I don’t think we have it on our walls here. But I’ve set in my room and looked at it. I just can’t call the artist’s name at this time. But when he lost that little black sheep, and he leaves the ninety and nine and goes to look for it, what does he do? He strays through the wilderness. He cuts hisself with briers. He pulls through the dangers. Prowls all through the night, until finally, way down on the side of the mountain, hanging by a little bush, risking his own life, he reaches and takes the little fellow out of its fallen condition. Then he brings it back to himself. And another artist painted a picture of him bringing it home.
Now, it looks like that the shepherd would just stick his arm under the sheep and start bringing it like that. But did you notice how the Spirit caught the artist’s brush. He didn’t put it under his arm, he put it over his shoulder.

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« E-32 † Now, I want you to see the care of the Shepherd. Now, Jesus, when He was casting out devils, He said He done it with the finger of God. Now, if a devil’s bothering you, the only thing that takes of God, he’s–he’s just so insignificant till He just takes His finger and casts it away. But when a sheep comes home…
Where is the strongest part of a man? Across his shoulders. You notice how a man, always his shoulders is the biggest. Where can he pack his greatest load? Across his shoulders. Where is he the most surest of? When the load’s across his shoulders.
So He takes the sheep, lays it around over His shoulders, and gently walks back with it. All the powers of God wrapped up in that little lost fellow bringing him back. But a devil’s so easy, He just casts it out with His finger. He’s a Shepherd.

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« E-33 † A shepherd has to stray to find the straying. And a good pastor is a shepherd. Frankly, the–the word “pastor” means “shepherd.” And sometimes in the church a–a little cult, or a little click will rise up in the church. One side will get one way, and one side the other way. A real good shepherd will go with that cul–click, what to do? To bring them back. A real true shepherd, what’s he doing? He will stray himself. What to do? To bring back the lost. What’s he doing? He’s reflecting the image of the good Shepherd, trying to win that soul back. If they got off in some place, brother, like they was going to tear the world up overnight, that pastor will go right along in order to get them right, win them right back this way again. That’s a good shepherd. He’s reflecting the image of Jesus.
Brother, I know it’s called heresy; it’s called fanaticism. But if I had a choice to make tonight, my choice would be to be like Him. I want, if anything in my life, to reflect the image of the Lord Jesus. My life.

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« E-34 † I’m going, after tomorrow night… After this wedding, I’m going into the wilderness, and I mean to stay there, because I way down in my soul, I feel that I need a close walk with God than what I’m on… I don’t want to just walk… I try to walk right before Him. But I–I want a closer walk with Him. While the Branham Tabernacle’s having a revival, I want one myself. I just don’t want it to happen in the building; I want it to happen in me. I want a closer walk.
I want more of the Holy Spirit in me to reflect Christ in me. I want to be like Him. I know that every crue–true Christian wants to be like Him. That’s my heart’s desire: to be like Jesus. He… Well, I want Him to be my… I want Him to be the… He is the example of what I want to be. And look. It’ll take the Holy Ghost to do that. That’s the only thing can do it.

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« E-35 † I’m not interested in seminaries, and what somebody’s got to tell me. I don’t care about kissing crucifix, or pulling through your heart, or saying prayers to the dead. I’m interested in one thing; that’s more of the Holy Spirit to take over William Branham. I’m not interested in joining a greater church than what I belong to. I belong to the real Church of the living God–the Firstborn. I was borned into it. And I want more of the Holy Ghost in my life to reflect Christ, Who I love. I don’t care what plane or level I have to come onto to get it. I don’t care if I have to go here, go there, be called fanatic, holy-roller, or whatever it may be, I want more of His life to be reflected. I’m not interested in the plane I have to come on; I’m interested in the Holy Ghost, so I can be more of a servant like He was. He was the Lord’s Servant.
Never come to be served, or to minister to; never come for He to be ministered to, but to minister to. He took the place of a servant. And if the King of heaven could do that, and we’re the members of His body, let’s all be likewise. Not be different, but humble ourselves in His Presence. No matter what the world’s got to say or the intellectual people; think nothing about that. Just receive more of the Holy Ghost and be like Jesus: humble, meekly, lowly. Take His place, and He will take yours at the judgment.

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« E-36 † Let us bow our heads just a moment. Would I see tonight a group of hands in this building of the members of this Church and other churches. When I say this church, I only mean there’s only one Church: that is the Church of the New Born, the Church of the Firstborn, the Church of Jesus Christ who’s not born of the world, but borned of the Spirit of God. Could I see a bunch of hands go up and say, “God, make me like Jesus. Mold me, oh, Lord. Wash me, oh, God.” God bless your hearts. “Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.”
“Lord, there’s little kinks and curves in my life. I been sitting listening to Brother Parnell, and Brother–Brother Neville, and the other fine ministers, and–and Brother Collins, and many of those brethren who are preaching. I been listening. But, Lord, tonight, I just come to this conclusion: What are they telling me? What are they trying to get over to me? I see that they’re trying to get me to be like Jesus. And there’s no way for me to do it. I–I’m a leopard. I got spots. And if I lick them, I just make them whiter. They just become more plainer to the world.”
“Lord, let me lose myself. I don’t care what kind of a mess it looks like to the world; I want to be borned again of the Spirit of God. And I want You, Lord, to fill me tonight with Your Holy Spirit. Wash me, sanctify me. Let the Blood of Jesus sanctify me. Cleanse me and fill me, until I lose myself and find it, Lord, in Thee.

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« E-37 † O Lord God, the Creator of the Heavens and earth, Who brought again the Lord Jesus from the dead, brought Him by the quickening Spirit of the eternal God, brought up that body that You dwelt in and has raised it to the throne of heaven… He come to the lowest that there was in the earth, the prostitute, and become the lowest servant, went to the lowest city, dealt with the lowest people, received the lowest name, and become the poorest of the poor, even to nature; the birds had nests, and the foxes had dens, but the Son of man had not a place to lay His head. And yet that quickening Spirit Who honored that true Servant that made Hisself a servant that we might have an example to go by, It raised Him up from the pits of hell, brought Him by the grave, and brought that body out, and set it in the heavens of heavens, until He’s exalted so high, till He has to look down to see the heavens; and give Him a Name above every name that’s named both in heavens and earth…

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« E-38 † Lord, may we receive His Spirit tonight. May that be the hunger of every heart in here. You seen the hands that went up, Lord. Not to say creeds, or not to join churches, or–or fuss upon these things or that, but to be humble in our hearts, to be made conformed to the image of God, may it be done by the Holy Spirit, Lord. May God’s Holy Spirit make us, not by intellectual’s conception that we should be and we’ll act like it, but… That’s adopted baby. But, Lord, may it really happen by the Holy Ghost in a new birth, that transforms us by the renewing of the–of our spirit to make us like Him. Hear my prayer, Lord. It’s feeble; I know, Lord. It’s feeble.
Not only am I praying for those who held their hands, but for my own hands who went up. Make me like Him. God, no matter what You have to do to me, what planes I have to come on, make me like Him. I want to be like Jesus in my heart. Grant it, Lord. And not only me, but make all these here tonight thus. Grant it, Father, for we ask it in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

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« E-39 † Church membership is all right. I have nothing against it, or any of those things. But, brother, to be a Christian means to be conformed to the image of Christ. We want to be living images, not pack an image, but be an image of the Lord Jesus.
There’s a little song that I want you to help me to sing right now. I don’t know; I can’t sing it, but I’m sure you all can. “Help Me To Be Like Jesus.” How many ever heard it? I know we all want to be that way. So let’s sing it to Him. I’m conscious that the great Holy Spirit is here. You couldn’t hide. David said, “I make my bed in hell, yet He will be there.” He’s–He’s going to be everywhere. So, He’s right here tonight. He knows every move, every action, everything that we do, every look, every thought. He knows all about it. Don’t you believe that? So…
To be like Jesus, to be like Jesus,
On earth I long to be like Him;
All through life’s journey from earth to glory
I only ask to be like Him.
Don’t you like that? Listen to this now.
From Bethlehem’s manger came forth a Stranger,
On earth I long to be like Him;
All through life’s journey from earth to glory
I only ask to be like Him.

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« E-40 † You know what goes back in my mind right now? Yesterday, I picked up the old ledger of the church. It’s been; I haven’t seen it. Well, frankly, it’s the first time I ever looked into it. I had to use it when the church was first founded.
And there was Brother Seward’s name on there. And there was Brother George DeArk, and Brother Webber, all them names on there. And I seen down the little Sunday school classes. I seen our total offering of five classes was a dollar and sixty cents for this Tabernacle, with hundreds setting here, a dollar and sixty cents. See?
Then I looked at the chart for today. And I thought, “How many’s gone?” I seen Brother Frank Broy there, my own… That’s my father-in-law. I seen all them old-timers: Mrs. Webber, all them old-timers. They’ve all climbed up the ladder, gone upstairs. They’re all gone.

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« E-41 † I remember when we used to stand here, and I thought, “Lord God, our church may look a little better, and we’re anticipating a building one. But, Lord, do You love us any more now than You did then?” No, I don’t believe He does. When we used to stand and sing, I only long to be like Him, all through life’s journey. I can see little old George with his collar open like that, and the sweat was running off of him, winding his handkerchief between his fingers. I can see those dear old sainted faces back there, crying with their hands up. Preachers walked into the building, and said, “Hey, boy. How do you get people in one accord like that?”
I said, “I had nothing to do with it.” They were formed and transformed to the image of God down on an old sawdust bench, down yonder somewhere where they found Christ in their heart. What a sweet smelling Saviour. Those prayers was that went up constantly all night long. We’d sometimes come in and go to one another’s house, and go home at the break of day, pray all night long.

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« E-42 † We don’t find that sincerity no more. It seems like it’s all gone. What’s the matter? What’s the matter? Let’s go back to the first love we have, and:
Just be like Jesus, to be like Jesus,
On earth I long to be like Him;
All through life’s journey from earth to glory
I only ask to be like Him.
Would you really? Let’s sing it with our hands up.
Just to be like Jesus, to be like Jesus
(Conformed to His image),
On (love one another) to be like
(We’re members of His Body. We must be like Him.)
All through life’s journey from earth to glory
I only ask to be like Him.
Do you really mean that? Say, “Amen.” Why, isn’t that a sweet Spirit? I’d rather have it than anything I know in the world. I… You can take all the rest of the world and its fancies, all your intellectuals, all your doctors, rabbis, bishops, holy fathers; give me Jesus. That’s right. Just let me have Him that old fashion way. I feel Him way down in my heart. And watching my lives and see my desires is to serve Him, humble, meek, and lowly. That’s what we need, friends, is a re… That’s Jesus. That’s the Jesus of the Bible, not a Jesus of the intellect, but a Jesus of the soul.

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« E-43 † He’s here tonight. How many’s sick and needy, raise your hand? Needs Christ, you’re sick, and want to be prayed for, raise your hands up high so I can see who you are? Well, how many has a desire in their heart to pray for somebody else that’s sick, let’s see your hands go up? All right. There’s quite a few of them.
How many believes that Jesus is still the same? (We don’t have no prayer cards out, I don’t… There’s no prayer cards, is there? I–I don’t think they was around.) Do you believe that Jesus, our Saviour, can come tonight to us? And if we sing and I talk of reflecting His image, what would He do if He stood here? Do you think He would do like He did at–in John 4 where He seen the woman at the well, and told her, knowed what was on her heart, and explained it to her, and told her, and she knew He was the Messiah? You believe that? Do you believe that that same Jesus that–that is a High Priest [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.] Hand of God?

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« E-44 † Do you believe that same Jesus tonight that, walking along one day, and there was no prayer line, but there was a little woman who had a blood issue. She pressed through the crowd till she touched His garment, went back and set down. And Jesus turned around and said, “Who’s touched me?” Do you believe that Jesus is still the same Jesus today friend? And her desire in her heart… See, she was scared. She went back and set down. She waited. And Jesus said, “Who touched Me?”
And the–the… Peter, the apostle rebuked Him, and said, “Lord, why, everybody’s touching You.”
Said, “Yes, but this was a different touch. Virtue went out of Me. I–I felt it.” And He looked all around through the audience until He seen that little woman. And He told her that she had a blood issue, and her faith had made her whole. Is that the Jesus?
Would… Could we humble ourselves tonight, and become transformed by renewing of our spirit, by the Holy Spirit, that we could yield our lips, our eyes, and your faith, and my faith that He would come out in the audience and move in you and move in me to fulfill His Word, that He’s a High Priest of our confession. He sets at the right hand of God to make intercessions upon our confession. He also is a High Priest that can be touched the same way He was when He was here on earth by the feeling of our infirmities. Do you believe that? That same Jesus…

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« E-45 † How many in here has a need for yourself or somebody else, some of you that I do not know, somebody that you know that I don’t know of that? I say it like that. I do not know nothing about you or your request, but you believe that Jesus is here to conform Himself, to make Hisself visible to us, to act in us the same way He did when He was in Jesus Christ? You believe that, raise up your hands? Any of you that knows I don’t know you now. See? I don’t know you.
Well, let’s see. Where can we concentrate, first time. Now be reverent. If He will do this, will you believe Him with all your heart? I just feel. I was just going to call you up here and lay hands on you. Don’t believe I’m going to do that. I believe Jesus is here. We… Not to… Not to pack an image of Him, but be an image of Him. That’s the Jesus we want, isn’t it? To be an image… All right.

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« E-46 † Now Lord God, here’s a great statement. But it is You, Lord, Who made the promise. Now, we must press forward. Now, something must be done, though we are not a–even a denomination, we’re just a little humble poor bunch of overrun people, that many of us would be kicked out of big intellectual churches. If we went, we couldn’t dress like they did. And then, another thing, if we would raise up and the Spirit would bless and we would say, “Amen,” as the Scriptures says, we’d be turned out immediately. And many would not be received: some of them because of their color, some of them because of their creed, some of them because that they love You so much, and they’re… They got the Spirit; they’re dead to the things of the world and’s been borned anew. But they’ve got new life, servant’s life.
But we have gathered here, Lord, under this little roof that You’ve give us, that we appreciate. Now, Lord, let it be known that You’re Christ, the same, and that this great One that we’re speaking of, He’s present now to make known, and to do just as He did when He was here on earth. Grant it, Father, that they might see and believe, for I ask it in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

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« E-47 † Do you believe that what you ask for, you get? What is faith? Faith is truth. Faith is something that you know positive of. Faith is not nothing you guess at. Faith is what you know (See?), something that comes down into your soul. I wish those who doesn’t know me, and I don’t know you, and still you have a request or desire, would you raise your hands again? I just want to get a–a general idea. Every person in here that I don’t know. All right. It’s just everywhere. I don’t like to speak to people that I know, because some would say, “He knows them.” But there’s many hands that went up that I didn’t know.
Now, if the Lord Jesus will grant this, will the rest of you believe it with all your heart, and accept your healings and whatever it might be? Please, let’s–let’s just in our hearts pray, “Jesus, take all the doubt away.” Why, Jesus can’t doubt. If we’re in His image, we believe. He believed God; He come to do the will of God. He didn’t care what man said or anyone else said; He come to do one thing: to be a Servant to His Father. And His Father dwelled in Him. We come to be the servant of God; the Holy Spirit dwells in us. We want to serve Him.

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« E-48 † I’m going to concentrate on a woman, a–a colored woman setting right back here. I believe she raised her hands that I didn’t know her. Being that–that… Well, there’s two of them there. All right. Neither one of you ladies know me or I know you. If that’s right, raise up your hands that I don’t know you, raise up your hands? All right, all right. We’re strangers to each other.
In the Scripture there was spoken… The reason, I noticed you’re–you were colored people. See? There was a woman one time in the Bible, the 4th chapter of Saint John. Jesus came by the well, and there was this Samaritan woman. She was a–a woman of a different race.
And Jesus spoke to her just a few moments till He found out what her trouble was, and told her what her trouble was. And when He told her her trouble, she said, “Sir, I perceive that You’re a prophet. Now, we know when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things.” But they didn’t understand Who He was. Why, she said to He, “Who are You?”
And Jesus said, “I am He that speaks to you.”
She went back into the city from whence she come, and said, “Come, see a Man Who told me the things that I done, told me what’s wrong. Isn’t that the very Messiah?”

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« E-49 † Did you women ever read that? Sure, Saint John, the 4th chapter. Well, if Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and you’re standing twenty yards from me, or sitting rather, do you believe that same Jesus speaking between us could reveal to me what you’re wanting from here? If I’ve told you the truth, this Bible being right, He can do it, can’t He? If He will do it, you’ll believe it?
The woman at the end looking to me this a way, she’s suffering with a back trouble that she wants to be healed of. That’s exactly right. If that’s right, raise up your hand, lady at the end. There you are.
Now, what about you, lady? You believe too? I believe you said you was a stranger to me also, next to her? You have trouble with your head, and you got a skin trouble too. If that’s right, raise up your hand? Now go home, you’re both to be well. Your faith made you well.
You believe that Jesus is here tonight? What about some of you, the rest of the building, somewhere else? Believe.

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« E-50 † Here’s a woman setting here praying. She’s a warrior; I know her. But I can’t help, ’cause that Light’s hanging over her. That’s Miss Bruce. Now, Miss Bruce, I don’t know a thing about what’s wrong with you. You were healed of a cancer one time. But right there at that door, the first time I ever saw… told… saw you standing in that door, the Holy Spirit told me something that nobody knowed besides you and the doctor. That’s right, isn’t it? Do you believe He can tell me what’s wrong now? I know you. But I–I don’t know what’s your trouble. I have no idea, ’cause you’re healed of the cancer. But I can’t help that Light hanging over you. It’s staying right there.
Now, I see somebody else arising up. It isn’t for you. It’s for somebody’s got cancer. And that’s exactly right. And then I see a woman or something. She’s a sinner or something, has a dra… habit of drinking or something. And you’re packing two handkerchiefs on you for me to lay my hands on for their–for their deliverance. That’s THUS SAITH THE LORD. Exactly right. Now, you be the judge, is that right? If that’s right, raise up your hand?

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« E-51 † Somebody back in here that I don’t know, raise up your hand. Somebody that I don’t know. Here. There’s… What is that? Raise up your hands again, right there in the corner. There’s four, five women setting there. You believe me to be His servant? You believe that what you see is operated by the Spirit of God? You do? If you can believe…
The woman setting looking with me with the little hat, glasses on, white looking earrings… Yes. It’s not for yourself; it’s for somebody else, and they’re in serious condition. It’s a inward bleeding. They’re in a hospital; that hospital’s in New Albany. That’s the truth, THUS SAITH THE HOLY SPIRIT.
The young woman, did you raise up your hand, the woman this other side looking at me this way? You believe me? You have a desire on your heart? You believe that God could reveal it to me? All right. You’re pray–praying for somebody else too. It’s someone’s got cataracts on their eyes; they’re afraid they’re going to go blind. That’s true. Now, if you believe for her, she won’t go blind, if you believe it.

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« E-52 † The woman right straight back on the end there, back behind the woman that raised up her hand, you got a nervous condition. That’s right. The nervousness is in your throat. That’s right, isn’t it? There… Raise up your hands if those things are so, you women there I’m talking, all right?
What was that next woman there? Was a… You raised up your hand too, sister there? Raise up you hand there, elderly. All right. You got rheumatism that you want prayed for. That’s right, isn’t it? Raise up your hands. You believe?
Somebody–somebody in the back of the church, believe. Have faith.
I see a woman looking right straight at me, is looking between two women right here, she’s got a finger up to her mouth. She’s facing an operation for appendicitis. That’s exactly right. If that’s right, raise your hand, lady. There she is.

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« E-53 † Do you believe? What is It? It’s Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Do you believe with all your heart? Now, just a minute…?…
To be like Jesus, to be like Jesus,
On earth I long to be like Him;
All through life’s journey from earth to glory
I only ask to be like Him.

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« E-54 † Now, you see the deadness of the Church of this day? What would have happened in the days of the Lord Jesus when that took place? That woman so thrilled, she dropped that water pot, and into the city she went. She said, “The Messiah’s here!” But today… Yeah. You haven’t got messy enough down at the altar to receive a new birth yet. There’s something wrong somewhere. That would send the Holy Spirit through this place here, would set a revival. The reflection of Jesus Christ, His image conformed here moving amongst the people to do that, what’s the matter? There’s something lacking. We need a revival.
How many others are sick, raise your hands, that’s sick and needy. Lay your hands on one another. Let’s pray. Right quick now, put your hands on one another. Be ready to receive your healing. If you’ll believe it with all your heart, you can be healed right now.

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« E-55 † I was amazed. We talking about a woman, a birth. I’ve never had yet in my life one woman as I know of, ever walked to the platform desiring a baby. What happens, if I could see her, and see it happen, her longing desire for the right thing. I say to her, “Lady, you’re seeking a baby.”
She say, “Yes, Brother Branham.”
I know a woman forty-nine years old, got a little boy baby now. All of her life she lived with this man since, well, since about sixteen years old. She’s forty-nine, and he’s fifty something. And as soon as He said, “THUS SAITH THE LORD…” That’s right. “You shall have this baby.” She went home and bought the clothes for the baby. Three years later, being fifty two years old, she gave birth to the little boy that she longed to have.
Why? When she heard it spoke, she knowed it had to happen. What’d it do? It put her in the right attitude. If these… The Holy Spirit’s so good to come and speak these things to the people. If it’ll–if you’ll get in the right attitude now, the healing’s finished.

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« E-56 † O Lord, You’re God, and You’re God forever more. And we are–we’re so happy to know that You promised that You would have a remnant when You come to the earth. Regardless of what goes or comes, there’s going to be people that’s going to be ready. And we know that there’s a tithing that man gives to God, and there’s a tithing amongst the people. Perhaps maybe we’d say a tenth of all the world’s harvest, through the ages will be that elected that’s been called.
O Father, we pray as we’re laboring here, all of us together, searching through the city, trying to bring in sinners, trying to do something for the Kingdom of God… We go down in the city; we watch the indifference. We see it. And as Lot in Sodom, it vex our soul’s daily, to see women smoking cigarettes and–and claiming to be Christians, and drinking, and carousing, and wearing immoral clothes, and–and man lusting, and… oh, the sin of Sodom… Our hearts are grieved within us, Lord.

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« E-57 † Oh, no wonder faith becomes at a low ebb, when people are like that, lacking the Blood of Jesus that would sanctify their souls and set them afire for God. Yet, they will not receive it. And the little missions on the corner’s a beating the tambourines and the drums are… In their cars they’re–they’re laughing at us bringing in the saints of the living God.
Oh, how we m… thank You Father, for some playing, somewhere that’ll preach the Gospel, that’ll reach out the hands for the people. Grant, Lord, just now, as we pray and know that Your great Holy Spirit and the Angels are–are in their positions here in this church. God, forgive every sin.
The people are sick here tonight. There’s many of them. You showed Yourself to be here, Lord, through Your servant. Many of them out there who was reaching, and calling, and pulling. And Lord, You know that–that You’re the only One Who could permit this be done. You’re God, and God alone. And You do it for the very purpose that You promised that You would do it. And it’s the last sign to the Church, as You spoke. The end time is here.

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« E-58 † Then You asked this question, “Will I find faith when I come to the earth?” You never asked, “Will I find church members? Will I find creeds? Will I find sincerity?” You said, “Will I find faith when I come to the earth?” Lord, may these sick people… Let their faith loose. Come away from the flusterations and doubts and fears. May their faith be turned loose just now. And if they turn their faith loose, the sickness will have to turn loose, the devil will leave his hold, and they’ll be set free by the power of Almighty God. Let the Holy Ghost surge every heart, baptize every soul, and heal everybody that’s in Divine Presence. Grant it, Lord. For this I ask: that the devil leave every person that they’re tormenting in here tonight. In the Name of Jesus Christ, Satan, turn yourself loose from these people. As a servant of God, I cry on their behalf asking for mercy for them. Amen.

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« E-59 † How many believes with all your heart now, with all that’s in you, that Jesus Christ is reflecting Himself on the earth today among His people? Do you love Him? Then let us sing this old song together, “I Love Him, I Love Him, Because He First Loved Me.” All together while we stand now. Everybody now. All together. How many knows it, raise your hand? I Love him. Let’s worship Him now.
All the sick, all the afflicted, stand up to your feet now, receive your healing. I believe, and with all my heart, if you’ll just let your faith go right now, the Christ of God, Who’s present is to…
What is He doing? Making us His image. See, His Spirit, here, reflecting Himself right out to you… How… You know it isn’t me. I don’t know those people, ever who they were, that raised their hands. They raised their hands that they didn’t know me; I raised my hands that I didn’t know them. But God knows them.
What is it? It’s the Christ reflecting Himself. It’s your faith to believe it. It’s my faith to a ministry that He confirmed it to me by an Angel, Whose picture you see. It hangs in the Religious Halls of Art, and where it’s all over the world it’s known.

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« E-60 † The Pillar of Fire that led the Children of Israel, when It was made flesh, It was in a form called the Son of God. He said, “I come from God, and I went to God. I go back to God.”
After His death, burial, and resurrection, Paul met Him on the road to Damascus in a form of a Pillar of Fire, in a Light that put his eyes out. Paul said, “Who are You, Lord?”
He said, “I’m Jesus. It’s hard for you to kick against the pricks.” Jesus said, “A little while and the world (kosmos, the world order, the church members, and so forth) won’t see Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me, for I (personal pronoun) I (the same Jesus) will be with you, even in you to the end of the world. And the works that I do, shall you do also. More than this shall you do, for I go to my Father.” Amen. Oh, my.
I love Him, I love Him,
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary’s tree.

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« E-61 † Oh, while we sing that again, I want the Methodists, and Baptists, and Pentecostals, and Nazarenes, and Pilgrim Holiness, Church of God, all–all of you together, I want you to shake hands with somebody in the front of you, in back of you, and the side of you while we’re doing it now. All together:
I (God bless you, brother.) love Him,
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary’s…
Now, this is the order of the resurrection. “We which are alive and remain shall not prevent them which are dead; for the trumpet of God shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first; we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them…” Meet one another before we meet Him, meet one another before we meet Him… “Be caught up together with him–with them to meet the Lord in the air.” All together.
Now, we met one another, shook one another’s hands. Now let’s greet Him.
I love Him, I love Him,
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary’s tree.

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« E-62 † A young woman fell right out of the line, come up and knelt at the altar sobbing and crying. Would there be others here that feels that same conviction, would like to kneel with her? We’d be glad for you to come right up and take a place. God bless you, brother. Would someone else move right up? That’s fine.
I love Him (Mold me, Lord. Make me.), I (Go down to the potter’s house. Someone else come to take the place?)
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary’s tree.
Oh, isn’t He wonderful? Blessed Lord, this young woman, Thou knowest. I do not. But there is some strange thing struck her just a few moments ago, that out from that audience she come without any persuasion. That was You, Lord. She’s knelt here at the altar, while loved ones near with their arms around her, asking for mercy, and for guidance, and for spiritual strength to her. Let it be done, Lord. It is written, now let it be done, that You will withhold no good thing from them that walk upright before You. Your promises are “yea and amen” to all those who will love You and will follow You. Let the young woman know this definitely tonight, that there is nothing in the heavens that’s promised in the Word of God but what God is more than willing to pour it right into her heart at this time. May there be such a satisfying portion given to her, while she’s knelt prostrate at the altar, may the Holy Ghost give to her those things that’s desirable in her heart. Grant it, Lord, for we ask this in Jesus’ Name.
He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On…

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« E-63 † Dear Father, may this woman’s desire…?… that she loves so dearly. May the great Holy Spirit perform the work that only He can do…?… We commit it all to Thee, and pray that Your loving kindness is better than life. David said so, “Because Thy loving kindness is better to me than life, my lips shall praise Thee.” Give to her the desires of her heart, Lord, as this church and I Your minister will–and the other ministers that are in the building, sincerely ask for her request in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. If you’ll claim it, sister. God bless you.

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« E-64 † Now, while these people are consecrating themself… concentrating them–themselves to the Lord, while His Spirit is moving in the building, I would that we stand still just a minute. The pastors are dealing with them at the altar. Let’s be in prayer just for a moment now. He’s coming along. And let’s us be singing now. He’s speaking to each one. Let’s bow our heads so we be in prayer.
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary’s tree.
I love Him, I love Him,
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary’s tree.
I can, I will, I do believe;
I can, I will, I do believe;
I can, I will, I do believe
That Jesus saves me now.
I can, I will, I do believe;
I can, I will, I do believe;
I can, I will, I do believe
That Jesus saves me now.
I’ll take Him at His word;
I’ll take Him at His word;
He brings to me salvation free
And I’ll take Him at His word;
I can, I will, I do believe;

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« E-65 † Look here, young fellow. Want a deep walk with God? Believe that He’d give it to you? If you’ll believe it with all your heart, you can have it. Do you believe it and accept it?
believe;
That Jesus saves me now.
All that love Him, raise up your hands, say, “I love Him with all that’s in me.” All that is within me. Isn’t He wonderful? While we bow our heads just for the closing prayer, remember the service tomorrow night.
I’m going to ask you is… If you will now, as quickly as possible, each one of you that raised your hand for salvation, closer walk, believe you have it. If you can’t feel it, take the adopted child. See? Keep saying you have it until it become a reality.
You that accepted healing, and you don’t feel any different… You say, “My–my faith is not enough to move it right now, Brother Branham,” take the adopted child way. Just keep say, “Lord, I am healed. I believe it.” It’ll come. You get your right mood (You see?), and then your faith will be right. It’ll take it. You just believe it with all your heart.

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« E-66 † Now, tomorrow night, the services will begin at seven-thirty, regular time tomorrow night, and every night this week. Come out and hear Brother Neville and these other ministers, and all of us together that’s trying to bring forth a revival. God bless you. We can’t bring it. You got to… You got to bring it with us by praying. Come and making your presence here. God be with you.
Now, I wish you would, just as soon as it’s dismissed, as quick as you can to… out of the building. We got about a half hour’s of rehearsal here to take place, and some of the men are working. And we’re going to bow our heads. And I believe I heard Brother Junie Jackson back in the audience. Brother Junior, are you here tonight? The brother from New Albany Methodist church… or… All right, Brother Jackson, would you dismiss us in a word of prayer?
[Brother Junior Jackson dismisses in prayer–Ed.]
[Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.]… Who are to be in the wedding, come forward right quick now. The Lord bless you. And we’ll see you tomorrow night.
Child of sorrow and of woe
It will joy and comfort give you…
Anywhere… cause it’s…?…

–Rev William Marrion Branham

15-1108M Accepting God’s Provided Way At The End Time

Preliminary:This is the morning that Brother James Jackson was raised from the dead. More details are given in the evening serviceand on branham.org.
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« 1 † ` [Brother Carl Williams says, “How you doing, Brother Branham?”–Ed.] How are you, Brother Carl? Fine. Thank you. [Brother Williams speaks to the congregation, “You be seated, please.”] Push another chair back. All right. Is it mine? [“Yes.”] Hum! Here it is.
2 Well, it’s certainly nice to be back in the house of the Lord, tonight, and especially this one, because I had the privilege of dedicating this house of the Lord, some time ago, when our precious Brother Sharrit built this place. And we dedicated it to the Lord for His service. And it’s good to be in the house of God at any time. Isn’t it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] It’s a real nice place to be.
3 And down here in this frigid zone, that where it… I come down here to get away from the cold weather, and I got right into it. I said last night, “I hope I didn’t bring you all all this trouble.” Well, you know, they say summer takes its winter’s rest out here. And maybe the winter come to look in on it, see how it was getting along. But it’s good to–to be here any time.

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« 4 † I’ve always had a–a feeling for Phoenix, since a little boy. I love Phoenix. And Phoenix was my first place to ever preach to people that wasn’t the white race of people. That was the Indians. I went up to the reservation. I guess there may be people here tonight remembers when I made God a promise on a platform: if He would heal an alcoholic and a woman with TB, I’d go to the reservations to–to minister to the Indians. And they reminded me of it. And both of them were healed. And I went up to the Apache Reservation, and there the Lord gave us great victory.
5 I can’t think of that lady’s name that was healed with cancer up there. It was an outstanding case. I believe she was a missionary up there, the Assemblies of God, the best I remember that. We went with her, Mitchell. And that’s right. Is there anybody here was along in that meeting up there at the reservation then, at that night? I thought… Yes. That’s right.

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« 6 † I–I thought I was going to be up against it. I–I couldn’t make them understand what I was meaning. I’ll never forget that night. There was a… long after I had preached a while, and told them about Christ. I was standing on the steps of the mission hall. And they had the place full, then they were all on the outside. So I was talking to them. And one outstanding thing, that night, was the–the old Indian brother they had brought in on a board, and ‘long some time towards morning. And they–they were wet, where they had walked across the–the river. Forded it down there, somewhere, brought him in.
7 I asked the young fellow. I said, “Aren’t you afraid you’ll take pneumonia?”
He said, “Jesus Christ take care of me. I bring my daddy.”
“Good.” I said, “Do you believe he’ll be healed?”
“Yes.”
8 He was shaking with palsy. The two young boys were packing him. I prayed for the old man.
9 After while I heard something screaming. Looked down; the old man had the board on his own back, going around, waving at everybody. Just simple faith to believe, it’s all it takes.

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« 10 † I remember that night, a sweet old Indian woman, she had long braids of hair hanging down. And she was on crutches, and they were very home-constructed, they, like broom sticks with a piece of board over the top of them, like a two-by-four, and then wrapped rags around. And, really, the next one to come was… She was in line, coming from the inside the building. But there was a little, young Indian boy, very strong-looking little fellow. He was beat all the rest of them in, to get in the line. And the poor old thing was trying to get her sticks out. And she had seen two or three healings before she had got in the line.
11 And I thought, when she looked at me, and them great big, deep wrinkles, and tears cutting down through those ditches in her cheeks, I thought, “Somebody’s mother.” I never said one word to her, never prayed for her, anything. She just looked up at me. And as she did, she just handed me the crutches and walked on away, just that simple.

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« 12 † My son is trying to gear me up here. Can you hear that better? I read a story today about a–a–a pig being taken to the sanctuary, and I guess you noticed. [Someone adjusts Brother Branham’s microphone–Ed.] Now, that feels better, anyhow. That’s the way life goes. Got a lot of knots in them anyhow, hasn’t it?
13 Now the people are standing, and–and we don’t–we don’t want to take any more time than we possibly can help. And you’re such nice people, till I–I would just like to talk a long time to you.
14 And we’re here now in visit with the Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship. And the original convention is being held over at the Ramada, beginning the last part of… Let’s see, what is the date? [Someone says, “Twenty-four.”–Ed.] Twenty-four. Twenty-fourth through the twenty-eighth, at the Ramada Inn. And there’s going to be some marvelous speakers over there, Brother Oral Roberts and many others. And I… We always have a good time. That, when the people come together like that, we have a great time at this Ramada Inn.

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« 15 † It might be that Brother Oral and I might hold a healing service over there. You can’t tell. That would just be fine. Yeah. So–so we–we never have had one together. I don’t know what he’d think about having one, he and I together, but I’m willing. If he can stand me, why, we’ll try, and then pray for the sick people.
16 And we haven’t been holding healing services, if you’ve noticed. We haven’t been giving out prayer cards or nothing, because of the congestion of the small churches, you know. And the people, you can’t hardly get the people in and out. And then when you do, it causes a conglomeration of mixing around, and the fire marshal wouldn’t appreciate that. So we just kind of omitted the healing services so far in the meetings, and just been trying to bring a simple, little Gospel Message. To… And your presence, and cooperation with me, and your prayer for me, encourages me to be here. And I hope the little messages encourages you to continue on, being living for Christ.

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« 17 † And I notice, many times, the people come from one church to the other. And that gets us all acquainted, and–and we just get as… real chummy with one another. I like that. We might as well set together here, in Heavenly places, ’cause we’re going to that kind of a place where we’ll be together in Heavenly place, in Heaven.
18 There was a little line of criticism I got the other day in the mail. It might pass it on while we’re kind of adjust your feeling. Any minister knows, you have to say something another, kind of adjust yourself to the audience, and the audience to you. There was a…

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« 19 † A businessmen packed the article in their… the Business Men’s Voice, of–of a little… I think we’re just going to call it a vision. And it was a little different, usually, from visions I have. I was… had been taken from where I was at, up. Look, didn’t look to me much further than the roof of that building. And there I was in another place where I seen all those who had passed on. Many of you read the article, of course. And in there, after He had told me them was… who they were, and they all were young again. And they were real…
20 I always was afraid to die. Not afraid that I’d be lost, but I didn’t want to be a spirit. I only… I want to be a human, a man. Cause, I always understood as a man, shake people’s hands. I’d think, “What if I’d get there and I’d meet Brother Rose, and he’d be a little, white cloud or something? I know it was Brother Rose, by some other sense, but I couldn’t shake his hand. I couldn’t talk to him. Or…” I–I’d wonder, “Wouldn’t that be awful?” But, I thought, “Then when I returned back, course, I’ll have a resurrection.”
21 That Scripture had never occurred to me before, that, “If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting.”

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« 22 † So that morning, I had gotten up. I was thinking, “Boy, you’re fifty years old. If you’re going to do anything for the Lord, you’d better hurry up. You’re going to be too old, after while.”
23 And all at once, I was caught up into this place, and could look back and see myself down here. Never had that experience. Many times I’ve had visions of seeing myself standing somewhere, and then… Oh, if you don’t understand it, you’d think you’d lost your mind. You, you are here, watching yourself there. And then you leave here, and you’re in yourself there. Uh-huh. It’s maybe way back, years ahead, and so forth. It’s hard to explain. You don’t. You can’t explain it.
24 You can’t explain God. You got to believe Him. See? If you can explain it, then it’s no more faith. You just have to believe it.

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« 25 † And after He had told me, seeing all these people, and they were… They had bodies. They… There couldn’t be sin. The men and women… Those women were hugging me, and they were women. But there were no possibility of ever being sin again, because, see, the glands of our bodies will be changed there. We have… We’re different sex now, because that’s for reproducing the world, and our–and our marriage to bring children. But then there’ll be no more need of that. There’ll be no more children born. We won’t have sex glands in the new world, see, not at all. But, yet, the woman will be woman, in stature. And so will men be men. But there will be no more male and female among them, in that way. And them glands won’t be in, so there’ll be no way at all for Satan to ever play another trick on them. So, in that, I noticed.

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« 26 † These women run up and throw their arms around me, and say, “Our precious brother, I am so happy that you are here.” Now, it was amazing. All of them, young, all the most prettiest women, long hair, dresses long, you know, like robes, white silk-like robes. And how pretty they looked!
27 Then here come brethren, just… And the most handsome men I ever seen, looked like all of them about twenty years old. And their eyes, sparkly. They, oh, they just every ounce of man. And I wondered. And they were picking me up and hugging me and saying, “Our precious brother.”

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« 28 † I wondered how. I looked back down and could see myself down here, yet, laying down. Well, now, thought, “That’s strange.” And then I asked.
29 There’s a real lovely lady come up, threw her arms around me, said, “Oh, Brother Branham, we’re so happy you’re here, our precious brother.”
30 I looked at her, as she went away. And that Voice that was talking to me, said, “Don’t you recognize her?”
I said, “I–I do not.”
Said, “She was past ninety when you led her to Christ.”
31 And there she was, the most beautiful thing I had looked at, in the way of a woman. And I said, “No wonder she said ‘Precious brother.'” See? Now she can never change no more. She’s that way for Eternity.
I said, “I want to see Jesus.”
32 Said, “He’s higher than this. Someday He will come, and you’ll be judged by the Gospel that you preached, ’cause you was the leader.”
I said, “Well, will Paul have to be judged by his crowd?”
He said, “Yes.”
I said, “I preached the same Gospel he did. Just exactly the way he said It, that’s the way I said It.”
33 And them millions of voices screamed out, “We’re resting on That.”

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« 34 † Then a strange thing happened. I used to have a little, saddle horse, and I–I called him Prince. And how I loved that little old horse. I used to ride him every morning, ‘fore school, run my traps. And I seen this little old horse come up to me, and lay his head across my shoulder, and nicker. And I patted him. I said, “Prince, I knew you’d be here.” And I felt something lick my hand. It was my old coon dog. He put me in school, furnished my clothes, hunting. I said, “Prince, or, Fritz, I knowed you’d be here too.”
Then I felt something happen. I was going back.

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« 35 † That was wrote in the Christian Business Men’s Voice. And a minister wrote me the other day. He said, “I appreciated that vision, Brother Branham. It sounded all very good till you mentioned horses. Heaven is made for human beings. There’s no such a thing as horses in Heaven.”
36 Well, I said, I answered him back. I said, “Brother, I never said I was in Heaven. I was asking where Jesus was, and He was still beyond.” I said, “But if it might help you a little, the book of Revelation, it says, ‘When Jesus left the Heavens of heavens, He was riding a white horse.’ And all the host of Heaven was following Him, on white horses. See? So that was coming from Heaven of heavens.”

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« 37 † And what made me feel so good, when I started to go back, He said, “All that you ever loved, and all that ever loved you, God has given to you.”
38 Some bright day, on the other side, it’ll be different. I just can’t… You just can’t afford, people, to miss that place. Don’t do it. Whatever you do, make… Don’t be afraid. There’s no need of being scared. There’s nothing to be afraid of.
39 Oh, when I thought to come back, it made me sad. “Will I have to go back again? Will I have to go back, to what I was afraid of being?” See? And then when we come to the resurrected body, then we will eat and drink. They didn’t eat and drink. They had no need of eating and drinking. They wasn’t going nowhere, and they wasn’t tired. It was just… There’s no word that I could use. It was perfect; that wouldn’t make it. It’s beyond what I call perfect. They–they had just arrived, that was it, at–at that place, and it was wonderful.

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« 40 † So, oh, listen, friends. I–I think I’m in my right mind, and I–I–I know it sounds strange. But I’ve never been able, and never tried, to explain to people these things. Many things that’s… It’s beyond explaining. And you’d only confuse the people’s mind. But if I could, and felt to do so, it would be alarming.
41 But notice this. I say this. Don’t be afraid. Death is just a scarecrow, trying to keep you away from something. My, it’s so glorious! It’s beyond anything that you could think of. No wonder the Bible said, “Eye has not seen, ear has not heard, neither has it entered the hearts of men what God has for them in store that love Him.” Oh, just to look past the curtain of time! Then, I’ve tried harder than ever before in life, to try to win people to Christ, since then. You can’t afford to miss it. Don’t do it. Be sure that you’re right with God, and other things will be all right.

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« 42 † Now, I just got a few notes wrote down here, I thought I would speak a little bit tonight from. And I think tomorrow night we’re way up in, about twenty miles from here, or more. Mesa, I believe it is. Mesa. Is that Mesa? Mesa. And then the next night at Tempe, Tempe. And I’ve got the schedule in my pocket here, out of the paper Brother Williams gave me. But, I been pretty busy, I just haven’t looked it over yet. Billy just comes and gets me, and said, “We’re going so-and-so and so-and-so, and here we go.” Then I get over here, and he tries to choke me. [Congregation laughs–Ed.]

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« 43 † Now, is everybody feeling real religious? Say, “Amen,” if you are. [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Real good. That’s fine. Now, let us just bow our heads now.
44 As, we have just, our little senses of humor and of expressing. We’re children, and we rally and talk as children. And we… Even God has a sense of humor, you know.
45 So let us bow our heads now and speak to Him before we read His Word. While we have our heads bowed, is there those in here who does have a request for prayer? Let it be known by your lifted hand. God bless you. Let us bow our heads now.

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« 46 † Our Heavenly Father, we are coming into Thy Presence now as we bow our heads and our hearts in humility. We are approaching by faith, beyond the moon and stars, to the Throne of God, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, because we are sure that if we come in His Name that You’re going to hear us. We will be accepted in Your Presence through His Name. What a privilege that it is, to know that we are accepted in the Presence of God, through the Name of Jesus Christ.
47 And He told us, Father, that whatever we asked in His Name, that You, in Your abundance of mercy and grace, would pardon our sins and would give to us our desire. Father, we’re so happy for that. There’s not another thing that we could think of, that would be a higher privilege, than to have this privilege.
48 It would be a privilege for we American citizens to approach our president. And all we’d have to do, to go through, to get to approach the president for just a moment of time, to take up a moment of his busy schedule. We would have to go through offices, and–and every way, to get to come, and have to state our reasons, and–and would have to be examined before we’d have that privilege.

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« 49 † But, to think of it: the God, Creator of heavens and earth, is waiting for us to approach. We, unworthy sinners, He is waiting for us to approach in the Name of the Lord Jesus, with the assurance that we will be granted what we ask for, if we can only believe that we will. Then, we’d watch our requests very close and know that we would not speak foolishly or ask foolishly. And if we would, we pray You pardon us, Lord.
50 And we’re asking tonight for mercy upon each one of these hands that was up. May their requests be granted to them, Lord. May they feel assurance in their heart right now, that while we’re in Your Presence. That, when we open our eyes and raise up our heads from the dust, from which You molded us, may we feel that anchored assurance that we have been granted that what we asked for.

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« 51 † We would ask for those, Lord, perhaps in the building tonight, that has never come into Your Presence, by the way of prayer, to ask pardoning for sin. May this be the night that something will be said, or something done, or some acting of the Holy Spirit that would cause their hearts to quiver and ask that pardoning grace.
52 Heal the sick. Lord, we pray that You’ll grant to them, tonight, the assurance that the prayer of faith is now being prayed. “And it shall save the sick.” For we could say, and add this, that that’s THUS SAITH THE LORD, for it is written in the Word of the Lord.

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« 53 † Now, Father, we pray that You’ll bless these little comments that’s been provided here today for Your Word. Pull from this reading a context to every heart. And if I should fail in any way, Lord, and miss the unction of the Holy Spirit, may He in Divine grace go with the Word and place it in the heart where it was supposed to be. And may we tonight see the hand of the Almighty stretch across this building, and do things that would be the exceeding abundant above all that we could do or think. When we leave tonight and go to our different homes, may we be able to say like those that came from Emmaus, “Did not our hearts burn within us, as He talked to us along the way?” For we ask it in His Name. Amen.

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« 54 † Now, many people kind of write down, and the text that a minister uses. And I, if you wish to now, I’d like to read two places in the Holy Script. That is, in Genesis the 22nd chapter, we will go first and read. And then in Saint John 12:32, we’ll read for the second part of the Scripture. Now, in John… In Genesis 22, we begin with the 7th verse of the 22nd chapter.
And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for the burnt-offering?
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for the burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
55 And now in Saint John 12:32, we read these Words from our Lord’s lips.
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
56 And now for a text that I would like to speak from, on this, is, “Accepting God’s provided way for the end time.” Let me quote that again, because, on the tapes. I believe they’re taping these Messages. And on the tapes that we have, some five hundred texts that I guess I’ve preached from, they’ve got something similar to that, but not exactly this. Accepting God’s Provided Way At The End Time.

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« 57 † You know, there is many ways that–that people take, but really there’s only two ways that a man can go, that’s, the right way and the wrong way. And all of us here, tonight, we’re on one of those roads, the right one or the wrong one. There’s no middle ground. Jesus said, “You cannot serve God and mammon,” meaning, “the world.” We’re either right or wrong.
58 And now if we’ll just get away from our own way, is the only way we can get in God’s way. And God has made a provided way for everything. He has provided the way. And where we get in trouble, is not following that way, and–and injecting into It our own ways. And that makes a perversion. And anything that’s perverted is–is not dependable. So, God has a way. And let’s just look at some of His ways.

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« 59 † Let’s take something in nature. Because, nature was my first Bible. I know God is a Creator, and He created nature. And He lives in His creation, in nature.
60 Let’s take, for instance, the tree. I just pulled up under one, a few moments ago out there, or Billy did, and the limbs on it. And I noticed the leaves falling. Now, we have never been able, and we never will be able, to find a better way for a tree to hide its life through the winter, than God’s provided way for it to hide its life.

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« 61 † Now, what if we tried to manufacture some other way than the regular provided way for the tree? What if every August or September, in the land especially where I come from, the North, if we would have to go out to the apple orchard and get some kind of a–of a instrument and place it into the tree, along about August after the apples are ripened, and pull the life out of the tree and take it into a good warm place, and keep it through the winter, the life, sap life out of the tree, and place it in a good warm container and keep it till Spring, and then inject it back into the tree? You know, that would never work. It would never be so. And to try to do it would only kill the tree.
62 But God has a way to take care of that life through the winter. God made a way. Knowing that winter would come on the tree, He made a way for it. I was had the privilege of leading a seventy-five-year-old infidel to Christ, by that, not long ago.

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« 63 † Mr. Wood, a neighbor of mine, and he was a Jehovah Witness by faith. And he had a boy that was crippled, had a leg drawn up under him. And his wife, I believe, belonged to the–the Anderson movement of the Church of God. And they come to Louisville, Kentucky, where they lived out in a little place called Crestwood, about thirty miles from Louisville.
64 And at the meeting there at the auditorium, they seen a girl that was had this here disease, that, she’s turning to chalk or stone. And she had, already paralyzed her, way above her hips, that she hadn’t moved for, oh, several months. And it come from her feet. She was prayed for, one night, and the next day she was running up-and-down steps, just as hard as she could go.

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« 65 † And Mr. Wood brought his son. Course, he never got in the meeting. And immediately after that, I was taken overseas, went over for our Lord. And on the return I was having a meeting up at… in Ohio, and he brought the boy, named David. And he was setting way back, oh, almost a half a city block.
66 And the Holy Spirit came in and said, “There is a man here tonight. And he and his wife sets way back in the back.” Never saw him in life. And said, “The man, name is Wood. He is a contractor. He has a crippled boy that had polio, that drawed one limb up under him. But, THUS SAITH THE LORD, the boy is healed.”
67 Him not being used to such, the boy set there for a while. And after a bit, his mother said, “David, why don’t you try to stand up?” And when he stood up, the leg was as normal as the other.

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« 68 † The man sold his business and moved over, next door neighbor. Oh, he’s such a lovely brother! The other morning when he knowed I was coming out here for extended time, he’s… About daylight, when I left home, there he was, standing out on the street, crying like that; hitchhiking, like he was going to go with me. And he hugged me and went on down the lane. Such a wonderful brother! He’s been a real chum to me.

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« 69 † We were down in the state of Kentucky, squirrel hunting, about three years ago. And it got real dry. And now, if any of you eastern people know what a gray squirrel is, he… Houdini the escape artist is an amateur, to him, when he’s scared. So, I love to hunt them, so we hunt them with .22 rifle. And we had hunted. I was on my vacation about two weeks, and we been camping out. And it was very dry. And you could just walk through the woods and break a–a leaf, and that little fellow, oh, my, whew, you just can’t see him. He’s gone.

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« 70 † So Brother Wood said, “Brother Branham, I know a–a place down here that’s got deep hollows.”
71 How many knows what a hollow is? Well, what part of Kentucky you from? And that’s what they call it down in Kentucky. Down here, I believe you call it a canyon or something, where the water goes down the branch. And you get in those deep places, and it’s still damp, and you can walk and not make noise.
72 He said, “But the old fellow is an infidel, and, oh, he hates preachers.” And I’d only been in the country once before, and that was in a meeting.
And I said, “All right. You, you know him?”
He said, “He knows my dad real well.”
73 I said, “Let’s go ask him, because we’re not doing any good here.”

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« 74 † And we went over in his little truck, and up through the woods, and down over the hills. Oh, my! Finally we arrived at a little place. And there was two old men setting under an apple tree. It was about the 20th of August.
75 And so he got out of the truck, went over, and he said, “My name is Wood.” Said, “I am Banks Wood.” He said, “I wonder if it would be all right if we hunted on your place.”
He said, “Are you Jim Wood’s boy?”
76 Now, his daddy is a reader in the Jehovah Witness, or he was. And the whole family come to Christ, every one, by visions. Every one, tell them just what would happen, and it did just that way. Oh, how wish I could stop and tell you just that family story, how they come in. Every one of the children in the Kingdom of God now, baptized with the Holy Ghost.

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« 77 † And so when Banks accepted it, his… all of his people excommunicated him. That was all. He was out.
78 But, one by one, each one of them passing by, to say “hello” to him, the Holy Spirit would catch them and tell them things, and then they’d come in. And then they’d go tell some other. Then he’d come, It’d tell him something, then he’d come. And that’s the way the whole family come into Christ. And so when we got the… out of the…

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« 79 † He got out of the truck, and he said to the man. He said, “Are you Jim Woods’ son?”
He said, “Yes.”
80 Said, “Jim Woods is an honest man. Yes, sir. Help yourself. Hunt where you want to.”
81 He said, “Thank you.” Said, “I brought my pastor along with me.”
82 He said, “Woods, you don’t mean you’ve got low-down enough to have to carry a preacher with you wherever you go?”

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« 83 † I thought it was about time for me to get out. So I got out of the truck, and I walked around. Oh, my! (You brethren hunt. My hunting partners, I know you’re in here.) And how bloody and dirty, and whiskers about that long, you know; hadn’t had a bath for two weeks, and, oh! So I got out of the truck and sidled over. And he looked me up-and-down, two or three times. I guess he thought, “Some preacher!”
I said, “How do you do?”
And he said, “How do you do?”
84 And so Mr. Wood started to introduce me as who I, my… his pastor. And he said…
85 ‘Fore he got a chance to do it, the old man said, “Well,” he said, “I tell you right now.” He said, “I’m–I’m supposed to be an infidel. I haven’t got much use for you guys, call yourself preachers.”
I said, “Yes, sir. All right.” I said, “That’s to opinion.”
And he said, “Well, you know, I’m an infidel.”
86 I said, “Don’t believe that’d be worth bragging about. Do you think so?”
He said, “Well, I reckon not.”
87 So I said, I thought in my heart, “Lord, if You ever help me, You do now.”
88 So the other old man setting there, he never said nothing. The old slouch hats, I don’t know what… You know what it is, sewed up with twine cord, you know. And so they set there a little bit.
89 And so he said, “You know what I got against you fellows? You’re barking up the wrong tree.”
90 How many knows what that means, “barking up the wrong tree”? That’s a lying dog, you know, that barks up the wrong tree. The game is done gone from there. There ain’t nothing up there. See?
91 So he said, “You fellows are barking up a tree. There’s nothing up there,” in other words. “You’re talking about God, and there is no such a thing as God.”
“Well,” I said, “of course, we believe that.”
He said, “Well, you might, but I don’t.”
I said, “Well, that’s all right.”

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« 92 † And he said, “You see that old chimney up there on the hill?”
I said, “Yes, sir.”
93 Said, “I was born up there.” And said, “My dad built this place down here. We moved down when I was about sixteen years old. After the death of my father, I took the place. I’ve raised my family. I’ve been here seventy-six or seventy-eight, or something like that, years.” He said, “I’ve looked constantly, every day, through the skies. I’ve looked all over the woods. I’ve looked all over the ground. And I haven’t never seen anything that looks like a God.”
I said, “Well, that’s too bad.”
94 And he said, “That’s the reason I think that you fellows are barking up the wrong tree.”
95 I said, “Yes, sir.” And then something happened. I looked up to the tree. I looked down, and there was apples laying on the tree. I said, “You mind if I have one of them apples?”
96 He said, “Help yourself. The yellow jackets are eating them up.” You know what yellow jackets is, I’m sure.
97 So I–I got down, and got a hold of one of the apples, and rubbed it on my trouser leg, you know. And I took a bite. I said, “That’s a dandy apple.”
He said, “Yes, that’s a good one.”
I said, “How old is that tree?”
98 He said, “I planted it there. Let’s see, it’s forty-seven, forty-eight years old, something like that.” Said, “I planted a little bitty sprout.” Said, “I picked it up from somewhere, away somewhere else, and brought it over here.”
I said, “Yes, sir.” And I said, “Does it bear each year?”
99 “Every year she bears fine apples.” Said, “We can a lot of apples out of there.”
100 And I said, “Well, that’s wonderful. I’m glad to hear that.” And I said, “You know, here it is only the fifteenth of August.” I said, “It’s ninety in the shade nearly all the time.” I said, “It’s strange that all them leaves are falling off of that tree, and we haven’t had no frost.”
101 And he said, “Oh, that’s–that’s, the sap has gone back to the root.”
“Oh,” I said, “that what it is?”
He said, “Yes.”
I said, “Then goes back to the root, what for?”
102 He said, “Well, if it stayed up there, the winter would kill it.”
I said, “Kill what?”
103 He said, “The tree. The germ of life is in that sap, goes down and hides down in the roots.”
I said, “Oh.” I said, “Now, will that… What about…”
He said, “Well,” he said, “that’s nothing unusual.”
And I said, “No, no. That’s just an act of nature.”

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« 104 † He said, “You know, I want to tell you something.” He said, “Before you go any further, I want to say this. That I did hear of a preacher one time, that I’d like to hear once. If he ever comes this country again, I want to hear him.”
I said, “Oh? That’s nice,” I said.
105 He said, “He was over here at Acton about two years ago in a campaign out on the–the Methodist fairgrounds out there, the Methodist campgrounds.”
106 And Banks looked. I turned to Banks, I… That’s, Brother Wood. I said…
107 And he said, “I forget what the man’s name was now.” Said, “You know, he had never been in this country before.” And said, “Old lady,” somebody, “lives up here about a mile, up on the hill.” Said, “She was dying with cancer. And they took her to Louisville, a hundred and twenty miles, and the doctors cut her open. And her whole stomach was wrapped, intestines and all, with cancer. And they could do nothing for her.” And said, “Then they brought… sewed her up and brought her back. And my wife and I had been going up every day. And they couldn’t raise her up no more; we just had to pull the draw sheet and change her bed.” And said, “We been going up there for several weeks.” He had been just looking any night for her to die, or any time. And said, “Her sister lives back over on another creek.” You know, that’s the way you name, down there. It’s not a road; it’s a creek. “Over on another creek.”

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« 108 † I heard somebody laugh. It’s just full of Kentuckians in here. Over… Well, I was born on what they call Little Renox down there. My grandpa lived on Big Renox, that empties into Bumshell. Bumshell Creek comes right down to Little Renox, and runs out down by the Casey’s Fork, and runs right on into the Cumberland River. Now, that’s just across Greenbrier Ridge. That’s where my mother was born, up on Greenbrier Ridge.

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« 109 † And he said, “This woman lived over on another place.” And said, “That’s about twenty miles from here. And she come that night, and was setting way back at the back of that campground.” And said, “This preacher, when he was up on there, he prays for the sick.” And said, “He was telling the people about who they were, and all about it.”
110 Said, “This woman got in late, and she didn’t get one of them cards that they were giving out.”
111 And said, “This preacher turned around to her, and told her, said, ‘You know, you, lady setting back there, you are So-and-so. And tonight when you left home, you put a little handkerchief in your pocketbook, with a blue figure in the corner of it.’ Said, ‘And you’ve got a sister named So-and-so.’ And said, ‘She is dying with cancer of the stomach.’ I’ve just saw it in a vision. Now, take that handkerchief, and go lay it on her. And, ‘THUS SAITH THE LORD, she’ll be made well.'”
112 He said, “And the lady… That night, we heard the awfullest noise, up on the hill. I thought they had the Salvation Army up there,” he said, “about midnight. And we thought the old lady died.”
113 And he said, “You know what? Me and my wife went up the next day, to see if we could offer comfort, early in the morning. And there she set at the table, with the coffee pot, just pouring coffee, and her and her husband was eating half-moon fried apple pies for breakfast.” I said…

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« 114 † How many knows what the half-moon apple pies are? You know, I’m at home now. That was just… I love them, and I like sorghum molasses on them. And I’ve looked all over this place for sorghum molasses. And if I get back here again, I’m just going to bring me a bucket, ’cause I just can’t hardly get along without it. And you know, I–I use a lot of them, ’cause I’m kind of a Baptist, you know. I–I–I don’t believe in sprinkling them cakes. I just baptize them all over, real good. And I… So I pour the molasses on them, heavy.
So then he said, “She was eating that.” I said…
I thought, “This is it.”
I said, “Now, you don’t mean that.”
115 “Well,” he said, “go right up there and see for yourself.” Said, “That’s been two years ago.” And said, “She don’t only do her own work; she does the neighbor’s work.” Now, see, he was preaching to me then.
116 You know, my mama used to say, “Give the cow enough rope, it’ll hang itself.” So that’s about right. He got his own foot in his own mouth, that time, when he said–he said, “Go up there and look.”
117 I said, “Now, look, sir. You mean the doctors cut that woman open and found her with cancer?”
“That’s right.”
118 And I said, “And sewed her up? And then you mean to tell me that man over there, fifteen miles from here, saw that woman and told exactly what would happen when they laid the handkerchief on? And that woman got over that cancer?”
Said, “Go right up there. I’ll tell you how to get there.”
119 I said, “No, no. I’m taking your word.” I said, “I’m taking your word.” I said, “Yes, sir. Yeah.”

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« 120 † I was eating this apple, you know, all the time, chewing it. I said, “That’s a fine apple.” I said, “I want to ask you a question. What made that sap leave the tree and go down into the roots?”
121 “Why,” he said, “it had to, to preserve its life for the winter.”
122 I said, “Then next spring it comes back, bringing you another bunch of apples?”
“Right.”
123 And I said, “Now I want to ask you something. What intelligence runs that sap, say, ‘Here, it’s fall. Go back down in the roots and hide. If you don’t, the winter will kill you. Go back down into the roots and stay there till spring. And then when it warms up and gets just right, now come back up and bring up some more apples for this fellow’? Now, you know that’s botany life. It has no intelligence of its own. Then, tell me what intelligence sends that life down into the root of that tree. It has no intelligence of its own.”
He said, “That’s just nature.”
124 I said, “Then take a bucket of water, and set it on that post out there, and see if nature will run it down in the fall of the year, and bring it back in the spring. See? No, sir. What is it?”

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« 125 † Now, aside for a minute. It’s God’s provided way. It only operates the way God provides for it. A little voice says, “Get down to the roots,” and down it goes. Now, it does that without any intelligence. What ought we to do, by the same God speaking to us? We, but we got a right to refuse or to accept, and, mostly, we refuse. The tree can’t refuse. It only knows one routine, that’s, obey its master.
“Well,” he said, “I never had thought of that before.”
126 I said, “I tell you what. You think on it, a long time, while we go hunting. And when I come back, you tell me what it is… what tells that tree sap to go down into the roots, and stay for the winter, and come back again next spring. When you find out what intelligence that controls that–that tree life, and says, ‘Go down in the root, and come back,’ I’ll tell you it’s the same Intelligence that told me, ‘to go put that handkerchief on the woman, and she’d be made well.'”
He said, “Tell you?”
127 I said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “What was that man’s name? Do you remember?”
He said, “I can’t think of it.”
I said, “It wasn’t Branham?”
He said, “That’s it.”
I said, “I’m Brother Branham.”
128 There on that spot he raised up, took a hold of my hands. He said, “For once in my life, I see what you mean.” I led him to Christ.

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« 129 † Last year I was down there. He’s passed on, went on. The mercies of God! There set his wife, under a tree, peeling apples, off the same tree. I walked up and I said, “May I go hunting?”
She said, “We don’t allow any hunting.”
130 I said, “I’m sorry.” I–I–I said, “I thought I had permission.”
She said, “Who’d you get permission from?”
I said, “Your husband.”
And she said, “My husband is dead.”
I said, “Just recently died, didn’t he?”
Said, “Yes. He never give people permission.”
131 I said, “Out under this apple tree… Last year, I was down here, and we were talking about this tree.”
She said, “Are you Brother Branham?”
I said, “Yes.”
132 She dropped the apple pan. She said, “Brother Branham, he died in the victory of Jesus Christ, his last testimony.”

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« 133 † What is it? Just seeing, not trying to go through all the mathematics of how it happens, but just a simple little thing, watching God provide a way, and something keeping in the way. See, the same Intelligence that would say to a dumb tree, “Go down and hide for your life,” that same intelligence was the One Who showed a vision of the woman. And he caught it. And he could not deny it, either one. There stood the tree, and there was the woman. Amen. See? God’s provided way!

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« 134 † Neither have they ever found a better way for a chicken to get out of a eggshell, than to peck his way out. They haven’t got any better way. Science has never been able to produce anything else. If you cracked the shell, to take him out, it would kill him. He’ll die. He must follow God’s provided way, in order to live. Amen. That works on human beings, too.
135 He is equipped. Did you ever notice a little chicken when he gets out of the shell? He’s got a extra, little beak upon his shell, a little white scratcher. And the little fellow in there, just as life begins to come, he begins to nod his little head. What does that do? That little scratcher scratches the shell, and makes it thin. As he gets a little more life, he begins to hammer with that little thing. And after he’s already out of the shell, he don’t need it anymore, so it just drops off.

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« 136 † And the thing that does, it’s a protection for the end of his bill. If it wasn’t so, he’d have a deformed bill, and couldn’t pick up his grain. Oh, my! God’s provided way of survival! God fixes him up, just the way to get out of there. There’s no better way. Anything else would kill him. He must come God’s provided way. Now, if you try to manufacture some way or figure out some way, you’ll kill it.
137 That’s what’s the matter with the Christian church today. It’s tried to accept some manufactured way, in the stead of beating its way through, to the Kingdom of God. It’s tried some other way, and it won’t work. You kill your patient. You kill your–your–your baby, God’s baby, by trying to manufacture some way. “Oh, there’s no need of this here boo-hoo and crying. There’s no need of all this, all this.” Oh, yes, there is. “There’s no need of this dying.”

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« 138 † Unless there’s death, there cannot be birth. Birth only comes by the substance of death. “Lest a corn of wheat falls in the ground and dies, it abides alone.” It must rot, and get into corruption, and then from that corruption springs forth life. No other way it will work. It must first corrupt, and be corrupted. And that’s the way we must be; die to ourselves and be born anew of the Holy Spirit.
139 No, they haven’t found any better way for a chicken to get out of a shell, than to peck his way through. That’s God’s provided way for him, and he’s equipped to do it. God wouldn’t provide a way without providing a instrument for it. So He provided the way, and provided the instrument for the chicken to free hisself. Amen.

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« 140 † Now, neither have they ever found any better idea for ducks and geese to come south, from the north, than to swarm and then fly their way down. No other way. You see, before they fly down south, or fly from the south back north, they swarm, first. Before they leave their grounds or homes, to a new home, they swarm. Bees does the same thing. They swarm. That’s a nature. What is it? They have a revival. They all swarm and get together. You never heard such a noise in your life.
141 And before we can ever leave this habitation, to a new one, we got to swarm in a revival.
142 Oh, you get around a bunch of ducks and geese, you never heard so much jabber in all your life. What are they having? A revival. They’re fixing to take to the air. Amen.
143 That’s what we need today, is a swarming revival. No other way; not membership. God doesn’t count majorities. He counts sincerity in His provided way.

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« 144 † Now, they have never found anything else to take its place. There could not be a better way. Now, for instance what if science would say, “Poor little duckies. We just don’t want them to swarm any more. And we’re going to throw a net over them, before they get ready to swarm. And we’re going to herd them right into a coop, and we’re going to carry them down south.”
145 That’s like, run them into some organization or something, you know, cooping him up somewhere. That’s on his way to a slaughter. He knows he’s going to a slaughterhouse when he gets in a coop. But when he’s going God’s provided way, he’s far away from that. So, maybe oughtn’t to have said that. I didn’t mean it in–in the way of being a slander against an organization. But you know what I mean. Maybe that’s all…
146 That ain’t the way to do it. You can’t run into an organization, and coop yourself up and say, “I’m Methodist, or Baptist,” or some more. That isn’t it. No, no.
147 You got to swarm. That’s right. You got to come to a place you can peck yourself through.
148 These, they get together, and they get into this coop. And–and when they… If they do that, they know they’re on the road to the slaughterhouse.

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« 149 † But, now, what if you could put them all, herd them and put them into a cage, and pack them down south, turn them loose. Then, before they get ready to swarm, then throw a net over them. “We don’t believe in days of miracles.” See? “You little ducks, you can’t fly no more. That used to be for ducks of another age.” As long as God makes a duck, He makes them all the same. And if God makes a way for a duck to go, that’s the way all the ducks go.
150 And you know what it would do? It would finally kill that duck. He’d be so soft, his wings wouldn’t grow out right. He couldn’t fly no more. Just like his barnyard cousin, all belly and no duck. See? He ain’t got no wings to pick hisself up with. That’s right. See? He would become a softie like his barnyard cousin, his denominational brethern that don’t go nowhere. See? That’s right. See? That’s right. That’s all he would be, an old softie. He wouldn’t know nothing about flying free. Amen.

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« 151 † That’s what’s the matter today. We try to coop them up, and tell them, “The days of miracles is past. And he couldn’t trust hisself, his feet off the ground. It would kill him. He wouldn’t live very long.”
152 But, you know, that little duck would say, if he could talk back, “No, thank you.”
153 “Oh, it’s easy. You haven’t got a thing to do. You can just act the way you want to.”
154 He’d say, “Thank you. I do act the way I want to, because there is something in me, moving. Amen. And I must act the way I want to.” And every man that’s born of the Spirit of God, there is something moving in him. He’s got to fly into the heavenlies, some emotion, something another that makes it real.
155 The little fellow would finally become like a chicken, a domesticated bird. He just couldn’t get his feet off the ground anymore. So if the chicken would always continue to fly in the air, why, he could go all right. He could go east, west, north, and south, and see things.

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« 156 † And another thing, you see, he just wouldn’t make it. Because, on the road down from Canada, he picks up different kinds of materials, food that he wouldn’t get if you had him in a cage, just feeding him corn all the time. Can you read between the lines? You put him over there, so he just knows the Apostles’ Creed, so-called, and how to go to Sunday school, and that’s just about all there is to it; pay the preacher, and live the way he wants to.

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« 157 † But, oh, when you’re in flight, amen, when you’re in flight, you pick up more than your denominational creed. You pick up the vitamins, the spiritual vitamin that builds a body that’s solid, full of muscles, with wing feathers that can lift you up off your feet and show you things that is to come. The Holy Spirit, “When He, the Holy Ghost is come, He will show these things to you, reveal these things to you that I’ve told you; and will show you things that is to come.” Yes. No, you couldn’t coop him up and take him. It wouldn’t work. No. If you coop him, he’s headed for the slaughter.

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« 158 † Neither could man ever choose a better route than what he can. You might go and say, “Now, Mr. Duck, I’ll tell you something. You’re going the wrong route. You must go over here, reroute yourself. Go down the coast over here, it goes. It’s better than going the way you go.” It just won’t work. No. No. They think they know a better route than God’s provided route for them. But, they know.
159 Or, could you choose a better leader for them than the God-provided leader God has given them? And man will never be able to choose a bishop, or an organization, or anything else that’ll take the place of the leadership of the Holy Ghost to the Church. There’s not another thing could do it. God’s provided way! God provided a way for them, a Leader, an inspired Leader.
160 And that leader is inspired. Why, I’ve watched them a many time, when I take an early hunting trip, going for sheep or something when you have to go early, up in the mountains. Haven’t had even frost. Maybe, up there, that little snow will cap the mountain. That cold wind will sweep down across the mountain. There’s a natural born leader among them. He’ll run right out on that lake like that, and honk four or five times, and there the swarm comes. Yes, sir. They all know him. They know him by the way he honks. Oh, my!

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« 161 † You know what I was speaking about last night, the Gospel trumpet, if it gives an uncertain sound. His sound don’t give an un-… He doesn’t give an uncertain sound. They’re real ducks. They know the sound of a duck. What if you just put an old guinea out there, or turkey? His honk wouldn’t sound right. They know the sound of a leader.
162 And the church ought to know it. “Having a form of godliness, deny the power thereof,” from such, don’t let them lead. “Heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent,” and despisers of those ducks that does fly. See? See what I mean? See?
163 They know that Gospel sound. “My sheep know My Voice.” [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.] “A stranger they will not follow.” God always proves it right.

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« 164 † Notice, now. And they cannot get a… You could not choose for them. What if you went out there, and you said, “Oh, wait a minute, little ducks. You’re certainly wrong. Here is a fine big drake. My, he looks kingly among you. And now you know what I’m going to do? I’m going to pour a little water upon top of his head, and I’m going to inaugurate him. I’m going to make him King Duck. And I’m going to put a crown upon him, and dress him a little different, so you all will all know him. Always follow this fellow here, because he’s cultured.” Turn him loose on the pond. He could honk as much as he wanted to. Every duck would turn his back on him, ’cause he gives an uncertain sound. Yeah.
165 But let that little duck that’s been chosen of God to be the leader, let him honk, and watch them all swarm to a revival. “Where the carcass is, the eagles will be gathered.” He knows all about it. See? So He–He has a provided way. And the ducks know the provided way. Too bad that man doesn’t. All right. But that’s the way it happens, now. All right.

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« 166 † If he is the inspired leader-duck, he’ll bring them to God’s provided place for them. And if we would only listen to what the Leader says, the Holy Spirit, He will bring us right back to the Word again. That’s God’s provided way. Along the road we don’t need creeds and denomination, and wild weeds. There’s certain duck-grass and stuff that we have to eat, the ducks do, going down. And there’s food that the… Really, the–the flowers of God, heavenly-bound creatures eat along the road, and that is, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.” See?
167 That duck, leader-duck, will lead them to God’s provided place, just as straight to Louisiana. Where, one of these others wouldn’t know where he was going, get up there and circle around.

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« 168 † I was reading in Life magazine, about three or four years ago, where there was an old gander started with a bunch up there. And he claimed he was a leader. And the first thing you know, they wound up over in England, have never got back yet. That’s right. So they have to watch what kind of a duck or gander they’re following. So they say, over there in England… Them is Canadian honkers, too. And they get over there in England, and all around, swarm, but they don’t know which way back. Oh, my!
169 It’s too bad the church played a whole lot of that, too, followed off in a place, they don’t know how to get back. Say, “Well, we… I understand that grandma said, times grandma said that her grandma said, that they used to have healing services in the church. That days of miracles is past,” let somebody lead you off on the wrong track. Better follow God’s inspired way, the only way.

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« 170 † Notice this little duck. No one has ever been able to route them any different. They know that little leader will lead them just exactly to God’s provided place. And how does he do it? By His God-provided instruments. He’s got his antennas out, all the time, like we ought to have, catching the Spirit, our spiritual antennas.
171 Now, we find out that he’ll go up in the air, way up in the air. He’s got his antennas out. He knows the kind of food that these little ducks has to live on, to make this flight. So when he picks up something way down on the ground, you’ll see him soar off, and down he comes. The whole group will come right down, just have a gastronomical jubilee. And he’ll honk, up in the air they’ll go again, straight on towards the south. That’s right. God’s leader, God’s leader for the ducks. That is right.

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« 172 † I want to say something else. You know, they have never been able to scientifically get, find a better way for a baby to get what he wants besides crying for it. You know, they can’t educate him to grunt. And they can’t educate him to talk that quick. But you know how he gets it? He just takes God’s provided way for it. He cries for it, yells, and kicks, and screams till he gets it. See? That’s right. That’s the only way, is cry for it. They can’t find a better provided way than God’s provided way. That’s right. Just let it go. And those natural things…

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« 173 † I stopped, here not long ago, in Germany, and was speaking to a large group of people. And I said, “What’s the matter with you Germans? You know, I was coming down the street, and a dog barked, and he barked in English.” I said, “A mother was trying to pacify her baby out there at the car, a while ago, and he was crying, and he was crying in English.” I said, “What do we get all scrupled up about? See? They are going God’s provided way. And we come from a tower of Babel, you see, got all scrupled up.” That’s right!

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« 174 † Knows God’s provided way is the best way. They know no better way for the baby to get what he wants than to cry for it. As Dr. Bosworth used to say, “The baby that cries the loudest gets the best service.” That’s about the way it is.
175 That goes for God’s children. I could parallel that for you. A man get up, on, say, chew his chewing gum real well, “You know, Father, I’m here tonight. If You want to give me the Holy Ghost, all right. I’m here. But if You want to heal me, I’m setting here. But if You don’t, why, all right. It’s Your will, Lord.” He’s done wrote the will out, here in the Bible. “This is Your will.” All right. This is His will, right here. “And if You want me to have it, I’ll have it. But, nevertheless, if You don’t, why, it’s all right.” You’ll never get nowhere.

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« 176 † But let that one get there and cry out, like Buddy Robinson. He stopped in the middle of the cornfield. He tied up his mule. He said, “Lord, if You don’t give me the Holy Ghost, when You come back you’ll find a pile of bones laying right here. I’m going to stay here till I get It.” That’s business.
177 God always recommends to His people, His believing children, to always go in His provided way. That’s God’s idea, to recommend to His children, His provided way. Cry for what you have need of. He wants you to cry out.

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« 178 † When Peter started out, walking on the water, he thought he was getting along all right. “See how big I’m doing?” He started sinking. He didn’t say, “Well, I guess it failed,” on down to the bottom, a few bubbles come up, and that was all of it. See? No, no.
179 He cried out, “Lord, save me.” Amen. And that Eternal hand reached down and picked him up again. Why? He cried out.
180 That’s what’s the matter with the church. We don’t lay there long enough. We don’t cry out long enough. We don’t hold onto it. If a little baby wants something, he’ll kick and scream, turn red in the face. We’re afraid we’ll take the (what is it, you call it?) mascara out of our face, or whatever it is, that paint. You get–you get what you want from God, you’ll take it off, anyhow. So, you don’t have to worry about it. You’ll mess your hair up, but that don’t make any difference. No. No, sir.

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« 181 † Now, God don’t expect us to come to Him with some intellectual speech. I remember I tried that when I tried to get saved. I was going to write Him a letter and put it in the woods, ’cause I knowed He’d come through the woods and tell me. Tell Him I’m ashamed of myself, and I–I didn’t want to do it. And I got down there to pray. I said, “Now, let’s see. I seen a picture one time, that they held their hands like this.” I said, “Mr. Jesus, I wish You would come here a minute. I want to talk to You just a minute. I’m listening.” Nobody. I said, “I did it wrong. All right. Mr. Jesus, maybe I’m supposed to do it like this.” I said, “Mr. Jesus, would You come help me? I’m a sinner. I want to talk to You a minute.” Nobody come. I folded my arms. I said, “Mr. Jesus, would You come here? I want… I hear people say, ‘God talked to me.'” I said, “Mr. Jesus, would You come here? I want to speak to You.”

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« 182 † Course, then the Devil come on the scene. That’s the way he does. He might tell you, “Your knees are hurting. No need of asking, see. You wait, get it tomorrow night.” He’s always around when you’re not ready. And then he said to me… But always, what he says, take advantage of what he says. Take advantage of it.
183 He said to me, “You know what? You’re already nineteen years, or twenty years old.” Said, “You’re already twenty years old. You’ve waited too long.”
184 I said, “O God, I’ve waited too long. Lord, even You don’t hear me, I’m going to tell You, anyhow. I’ve always wanted to do this.” Oh, brother, that brought Him on the scene. See? What was it? Cried out, just simple. Cry out! “Lord Jesus, You promised it, Lord.” He come on the scene.
185 That’s the way to bring Him on the scene. You’re just a baby. Cry, cry out for it.
186 Don’t try to say, well, most something, another, and some great wrote-out prayer you practice on, for an hour or two. That don’t do any good.
187 Like they say, “Did you say a prayer?” No. It’s a sin to say one. You pray one. Don’t say one. Pray one. “Say a prayer for me.”
188 I said, “Don’t do that for me. You can pray for me, but don’t say no prayer.” No, sir. No. Just, pray for me when you pray. All right.

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« 189 † Cry for your needs. That’s God’s provided way. Didn’t Jesus explain it when He said the unjust judge, to the woman that cried day and night? How much more will the Heavenly Father give them the Spirit who cry out for It, day and night? Seek, keep seeking. Knock, keep knocking. Just keep on till He opens. Stay out with it. Cry until the promised Word is vindicated, then you got it. You don’t have to worry no more. You see the Bible promised it, then stay right there and cry until you get it.
190 If a little baby sees a cookie and he wants it, he just cry, and cry, and cry, and stick, kick, and scream, and holler, and turn red in the face. His mommy get him a cookie, and it’s all over. See? He got what he saw, what he wanted. If he wants to lick off your ice cream cone, he’ll just keep raising a fuss till he gets it. See?

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« 191 † Well, that’s the way we’re supposed to do. If I see a promise in the Bible that’s God’s Word, then I just stay there and cry out till God gives it to me. And He’d do that, get you off His hands; you see, that would be in the natural. But He’s wanting you to do it. He likes for you to ask. “Ask abundantly that your joys might be full.” Yeah. Yeah.
192 Cry until His Word is vindicated. Now, friend, let’s watch just a minute now. Cry until the Word is vindicated.
193 The trouble of it is, we get a cookie and think that’s all there is. There’s a whole table full. We get so we can speak in tongues, we say, “Oh, brother, that’s it.” Oh, no. That ain’t. That’s just some of it. That’s right. “Oh, I got happy enough to shout.” That’s some more of it. But there’s a whole lot more of it. Just keep on crying out, until…
194 That’s God’s provided way for His people. God’s provided way always is to take His Word and hold onto It until It’s vindicated to you. Now, do you follow me? God, a provided way, hold onto the promise until it’s made manifest to you.

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« 195 † And, remember, I’m on record for this. That, any promise of God in the Bible, if… It’s on conditions now. Just because you believe it’s there, that don’t make it so it’ll happen.
196 Them Pharisees and Sadducees was just as religious with those sacraments as they could be. But God said, “They stink in My nose.” See? There was no sincerity. There was nothing to it that should be.
197 You’ve got to come upon basical promise, and then upon your mental attitude towards it.

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« 198 † Look at those four hundred priests that day, or prophets, Ahab had out there. They said, “Ramoth-gilead belongs to us. Joshua, by the Holy Spirit, divided this. And the Syrians has got it.” And one prophet said, “Now, looky here, that’s fundamentally right.” Now, he was a real Baptist. And he said, “That’s exactly right. That’s the fundamental promise, promise. That land belongs to us.” So he made him two big horns, and said, “Go up there, and take these horns and push Syria plumb off. That belongs to Israel.” That’s right. Fundamentally, it was right.

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« 199 † But what did little Micaiah say? He said, “I saw Israel scattered like sheep having no shepherd.” See?
200 Ahab, that hypocrite down there, letting Jezebel run him around, doing everything. The real Word of God coming through the prophet, had cursed that thing. And how could God bless what the prophet had cursed in the Name of the Lord? See? Can’t be.
201 No matter how much religious nation we are, how much background we got, the thing is corrupted and corrupted. It’s gone.
202 No matter how great our organizational life is in church, we believe in it, it’s fine, all right, but the thing is corrupted. God has done laid them up on the shelf, and there they lay. And never a piece of history that any one ever rose again. So, it’s wrong. It’s finished, wrote off. It’s no good.

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« 203 † His Word is always what He wants to see vindicated. It’ll only be vindicated upon certain conditions, that’s when you meet those conditions. You seen people that can take the Word of God and they just make it live for them. And others come right back with the same Word and can’t do nothing with it. It’s on conditions. That’s right.

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« 204 † Look here. I’ll show you an example of that in the Bible. Israel was on the road up to the promised land. Here come Moab, which was the–was the same religion, exactly. That was Lot’s daughter’s child. And notice when Balaam come down, it was God talking to him. He put seven altars, just like Israel had seven altars. He put seven clean sacrifices, bullocks on the altar. That’s just exactly what Israel had. And another thing, he put seven rams, speaking of a coming Messiah. That’s exactly what Israel had. Fundamental, they were both right, fundamentally. But it was on conditions. Amen. He failed to see the real promise of God.
205 That’s the same thing it was in the coming of Christ. That’s the same thing it’s come back to today. It’s on condition. Right.

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« 206 † Job. God (doing what?) making a provided way. Job, a prophet, needed a comforter.
Now, listen close now. My time has got away.
207 Job needed a comforter. And men tried to provide that thing for him, and they could not do it. They always got Job off the line. But Job come right back. He needed a comforter. God provided a comforter for him, when He give him a vision of Jesus Christ. And he cried, “I know my Redeemer liveth. My Redeemer,” there’s only One, “and at the last days He will stand upon the earth.” Now remember the vision.
You said, “‘My Redeemer.'”

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« 208 † He showed him Christ. Christ is the Word. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.” And when Job, being a prophet…
209 Now listen. Job, being a prophet, the Word of the Lord comes to the (what?) prophet. Absolutely. That’s where the Word comes to. That’s how you know whether they’re prophets or not. They stay in the Word. The Word is revealed to the prophet. And Job was a prophet. He couldn’t see the end, but when he saw the Word, being a prophet, he said, “I know my Redeemer liveth,” after the church had failed, after everything else had failed.
210 Even his loving wife had failed him, and want him say… “Why don’t you just go on and curse God, and die the death, Job?”

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« 211 † He said, “Thou speakest like a foolish woman. The Lord gave; the Lord taken away; blessed be the Name of the Lord.” And the thunders begin to roar, and the lightnings flash. The Spirit come upon the prophet, and he saw the Word. Then he said, “I know my Redeemer liveth. At the last days He will stand on the earth. Though the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. Amen. I shall see for myself. Mine eyes shall behold, and not another. We brought nothing into this world, and it’s certain we take nothing out. The Lord gave; the Lord taken away; blessed be the Name of the Lord.” What a Comforter! He asked for a church member; God give him a vision. He asked for the bishop to come give him comfort, the presbyter; God gave the prophet a vision. That’s what he needed.

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« 212 † Israel needed a way out of Egypt. They needed some way, some military strength or something, to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians. God provided a prophet with the vindicated original Word. Moses! That right? They wanted a army to rise up and to take them out, and beat the Egyptians down. But God sent them the Word, the prophet with the vindicated Word that God had spoke before to Abraham, saying, “Thy seed shall sojourn in a strange land. But I’ll visit them with a mighty hand,” the Word that God had spoke. They was crying for a deliverer, and God sent them a prophet with the Word. God had a provided way to tell the difference between the believer and the unbeliever. And God…

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« 213 † Now, some of them said, “Well, now, if the plague falls, we’ll just go in the hospital. If the plague–if the plague happens to fall, you know what we’ll do? We’ll go get Dr. Jones. He’ll know how to take care of it.” It didn’t work. Yet, they were smart. “Well, if the plague falls, we’ll just go down beneath the ground, in a cave, and shut the door down.” That won’t do it one bit of good. “We’ll stay in the house, and put a mask over our face, and–and put some disinfect on it.” Didn’t do a bit of good.
214 God made a provided way. Yes. And it was (what?) the blood. God provided it, as simple as it seemed, to take the blood of a lamb and sprinkle the door. Yet, God said that was His way, and He honored it. “All out from under the blood died, the firstborn.”

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« 215 † When Noah needed a provided way, to saving of his household, God had him to construct an ark. They might have built mock boats. That’s what people think today. But, you see, this was a special boat. They probably had boats then, the same as they got now, but this was a special boat. It was a… Listen to me now. It was a God-constructed boat.

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« 216 † And a church today is the same way. It’s got to be a Bible-constructed church. My experience is not to be the best member in the church, but an experience that’s constructed by the Word of God. “These signs shall follow them that believe.” God-constructed experience, the only thing is going to take me up. Is the only thing is going to take you up.
217 Anything is going to lift above that, I don’t care how many, “I come…” Say, “Look, I–I’m a good Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, or a Pentecostal.” That won’t mean one thing to God.
218 It’s got to be God-instructed. And that’s the Holy Spirit, by the Word. And the Holy Spirit will never instruct anything but the Word, because It is the Holy Spirit. Men moved, oh, wrote the Bible by the Holy Ghost, God’s provided way.

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« 219 † Now, Israel needed a–a provision. And God give it to them, and separated the believer from the unbeliever. The same thing is today, the believer and unbeliever, separated.
220 Moses. I’ve got to skip a lot of notes now. But, Moses, a faithful servant of God!
221 Now listen, old timers. Some of you like me, that’s getting way up in their years, listen.
222 Moses had served God faithfully. He had put up with all their chiding, and all the Dathans that raised up and said, “Say, there’s other men that’s prophets besides you. You’re not the only pebble on the beach.” And he knew he had God’s message for them. Impersonators raised up.
Moses just said, “God, what can I do?”
223 And He said, “Separate yourself. I’ll just swallow the thing up. Take your rods, and go in there and see which one buds. See? I’ll show you who is priest, who is prophet.”

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« 224 † And Moses had served the office faithful. Then when he got old, a hundred and twenty years he had walked faithfully with God. All these forty years in the wilderness, stood all kinds of persecutions of nations and people, constantly. And then it come to a place to die. He needed a place to die. God provided him a place on the Rock.
225 O God, let me die there, too, upon the Rock. The Rock was Christ, you know. God provided a place for Moses to die. That’s where, only, I want to die. Let me die in Christ.
226 And then when he was dead, his body laying up there, he needed pallbearers. So God provided pallbearers, Angels. Why? They was the only One could take him where he was going to. Amen. God provided the pallbearers. That’s right.
227 I am depending upon the Holy Spirit, upon the Word, the promise. Not take you out for a nice big burial. They did the rich man that way, but he lift up his eyes in hell. See? Not about a fancy burial. It don’t make any difference. I want to take God’s provided way. “Them that are in Christ will God bring with Him when He comes.” That’s the provision. God made His faithful prophet a place to die.

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« 228 † Enoch, after walking five hundred years with God, and God told him, “Enoch, you’re not going to have to die. You want to come up home? Are you homesick, Enoch?”
He said, “Yea, Lord. I’m homesick.”
229 Said, “Have you walked in the pesthouse down there long enough?”
He said, “Yes.”
Said, “All right, just start walking.”
230 Enoch needed a ladder. God give him a highway. That was God’s way for him. Provided him a highway, upward! He didn’t… He just went right up, like that. He didn’t have to strain, at all. Just run right up; and the Holy Spirit, behind him, lifted him right up. He went right up the highway of holiness, right into the Kingdom of God.

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« 231 † Elijah, after he had condemned bobbed hair and painted faces, for all of his life, of that Jezebel, the first woman, her and the renowned president of that time, who put a poor example before the people and got them all carried off. And–and, actually, he thought he was the only one preaching that. He just carried the thing every way. And he done so much, till he was getting tired, and he wanted to go home. And he knowed God was from Above. He needed a rope to climb up, to come up to Heaven, but God sent him a chariot with two horses hitched to it. That’s God’s provided way to take him. Might have been looking for a rope, but God sent a chariot. That was His way. Joshua…
232 And at the end of the road, that was Elijah’s end. That was Noah. That was, all the time, the end.

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« 233 † Now, Joshua, when he come to the end of the trail, through the wilderness, watch, he needed a bridge to cross over Jordan, into the promised land. God… He, he needed a bridge. But God’s provided way was a power, not a bridge. He sent a power, and He held the river back. And he walked across on dry land. That was God’s provided way, not a bridge. He had a better Engineer. So, He just sent him power, pushed the water back until he walked over on dry land.

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« 234 † Daniel, for the cause of God, was throwed into a lions’ den. He needed a fence, but God sent him an Angel. What a different! That was God’s provided way. He needed a fence, but God give him an Angel. What a better fence it was! He always gives you better than you ask for, always. Yes. He needed a fence; God sent him an Angel.
235 The Hebrew children, they needed some water, to put out that fire. But God sent them the fourth Man. That’s all they needed. He untied their hands, and talked with them. They walked out without smell of fire on them. They needed water; He sent the fourth Man.

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« 236 † The wise men up at Babylon, up in India, they knowed that something is fixing to happen. They knowed the King was born, and they needed a compass. God sent them a star to lead them to the King. See? They went God’s provided way. I can just imagine some of them saying, “Say, Balthazar, you know, you’re a great man. Did you bring your compass?”
He said, “No.”
“Well, how you going to get there?”
“I’m going God’s provided way.” That’s the way.
“How you going to get there?”
“God’s provided way.”
“What is it?”
237 “That Star, that’s it. That’s God’s provided way for us.” They needed a compass, and God give them a star.

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« 238 † The world needed a Saviour one day, and God provided His Son. When He come, He was not recognized. He was not wanted. They said they wanted a Saviour. But when God sent it in His way… They asked for a king; God give them a Baby. They wanted a mighty man to stomp out Rome. God give them a little, crying Baby in a barn. See? But it was God’s provided way. We… But they didn’t want it the way God wanted to send it. They want it the way they wanted it. See? So, therefore, they went into chaos because they didn’t accept His way. There was some that did.

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« 239 † This was the birthplace of the Church, was at Pentecost, after Jesus had commissioned them to “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. These signs shall follow them that believe.” He had told them what to do. Told them to go up, city of Jerusalem, and wait. They needed a charter. They needed a charter. They wanted to draw up a creed. God give them the Holy Ghost. Oh! They needed a denomination, but God give them a Spirit. What a difference, how God does do it! The Holy Ghost was God’s provided way to lead the Church, not a bishop. The Holy Ghost, that’s what, that was their charter. And from that day, to this, it’s been every true born-again child’s charter: the Holy Ghost.

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« 240 † Now, after two thousand years, friends. We’re closing. Now, after two thousand years, man is determined to have his way. He made hisself a charter. He made hisself a man-made ethics. And what did he do? There has become, by it, a great falling away from the Truth. They got off on… The people don’t know what to do. Creeds, denominations, all kinds of isms, sensations, and everyone says, “The Bible says this.” They’ll take this part of It, but won’t take that part of It. They don’t follow the charter, therefore they lose the course. And after all these years, when we got nine hundred and something different organizations of Christianity, and each one condemning the other, and saying, “This is right, and they’re wrong; and this is right, and that’s wrong,” and so forth. And the poor people are so confused they don’t know what is right and wrong.

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« 241 † What do we need? We need to get back on the course, get back to the charter. What do we need? We need a genuine, true Scriptural sign of the Truth. A vindicated Gospel Truth is what the Church needs for this end-time way. God promised to give them a sign for this last day.

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« 242 † Do you remember when Jesus was speaking and said, “The queen of the south shall rise up in the last day, will rise up and condemn this generation”? She come from the utmost parts of the world, to hear the wisdom of Solomon. He had a spirit of discernment. How she come so far, to see that spirit of discernment! He said, “A greater than Solomon is here.”

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« 243 † He said, also, “As in the… like the prophet Jonah. Jonah, as he was in the belly of the whale for three days and nights, so must the Son of man be in the heart of the earth, three days and nights.” And He said, “A wicked and adulterous generation will seek after a sign.” If this ain’t that sign, or that generation, I don’t know where it’s at: a weak, wicked, church-going, adulterous generation. They would seek after a sign, and He said they would get it. “For as Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days, so would the Son of man be in the heart of the earth.” But there would be a resurrection, like Jonah come out of the belly of the whale.

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« 244 † Malachi, the 4th chapter, promised us that in the last days, that, “There would come forth the Message that would turn the hearts of the children back to the Faith of the fathers, the original Faith of the fathers.” They promised it. Jesus promised it. Faith of the end-time believers will see the original Messiahic sign. Notice. If He is raised from the dead… And creeds has put Him out, all these years, and denied that Truth. Then the thing that we’ve got to look for, in the last days, is a turning back to the–the original Faith, back to the Faith of the early pentecostal fathers.

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« 245 † And they seen His resurrection. And today we are seeing His resurrection, the sign of His resurrection. Jonah, three days and nights was in the belly of the whale, and on the third day he arose from the whale. Jesus raised from the dead, after being three days in its belly. Two thousand years He’s been absent from the church. But He promised, through Joel, “What the palmerworm left, the caterpillar eaten. But I will restore, saith the Lord, all that the palmerworm, and the caterpillar, and the locust, and so forth, eat up. I will restore it in the last days.”
246 The prophet said, “It shall be Light in the evening time.” The same sun shines in the east shines in the west. It’s been a day, a dark day. They’ve joined, and put creeds and things. But in the evening time it shall be Light: the same sun, the same results, the same signs, the same wonders, the evening time.

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« 247 † How did He prove Hisself to be Messiah? Now, the question is, after two thousand years of hammering against it, is He still Messiah? Well, what He was then, Hebrews 13:8 said, “He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever.” What He was then, He has to be the same today. How did He prove Himself to be the Messiah? According to the Word of God. “For God had said,” through Moses, “the Lord your God shall raise up a prophet likened unto me.”
248 That’s the reason the woman at the well, when He told her her sins, “Why,” she said, “Sir, I perceive You’re a prophet. We know when Messiah cometh He will tell us these things.”
He said, “I’m He, that speaks to you.”
249 She run quickly and told the people in the city. “Come, see a Man Who told me what I done. Isn’t this the very Messiah?” And the people believed it, because they were looking for that Messiahic sign, four hundred years without a prophet.

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« 250 † Jesus said, “As it was in the days of Lot, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man,” when God revealed Himself in a body of flesh, eat the–the meat of a calf, drank the milk from the cow, and set there before them. God, Jehovah, Him manifested in the flesh, with His back turned to the tent, and told what Sarah was talking about in the tent.

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« 251 † “It shall be Light in the evening time.” God’s vindicated Word is the sign of the day that we’re living in. It shall be Light. And He promised, through Malachi 4, through many places of the Bible, that the end-time people would see the same manifestation that they saw, ’cause He can’t change that sign. He’s promised it.

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« 252 † Now, we heard Him speaking in tongues on Calvary. We seen Him doing all the things that He did do. We seen the apostolic Church back there at the beginning, how that apostolic Church, the moves that they made. We see it turning right back into the Church again here in the last days. What is it? It’s God, vindicating, just like He did to Moses, like He did through the ages. He has provided a way that we might not be deceived, that we would know. Jesus said, in John 14:12, “He that believeth on Me, the signs that I do, the works that I do, shall he do also.” That’ll be it. Now, if He died and He’s dead, then them works ceased. But if He lives again, then His works continue on as it was, for He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. You believe that? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]

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« 253 † Listen. Let me say this. Jesus proved He was the Messiah, by the Bible signs of the Messiah. He proved it. He was. Now, may God let me prove now that He still is the same. You believe it? He proved it. He was. He proved He was. May I, by the grace of God, prove He is. He proved He was. Now let’s prove that He is. That’s exactly what He promised. That’s what He said. That’s the way He told it. “And these signs shall follow them that believe.”

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« 254 † What is it? God’s provided way, the resurrection way. The thing that brings a man from his stupidity, into the Light of the Gospel; brings him from an intellectual brain, like some great regime of a machine, and humbles his heart before God.
255 “Well,” you say, “that man is so smart, Brother Branham. He had four degrees. He’s got a Bachelor of Art. He’s got all this.” I don’t care what he’s got. He’ll have to forget everything he learned, in order to know Christ. That’s right. He’ll have to humble himself and get away from anything the world did to him.

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« 256 † And you learn Christ by humility, believing Him at the evening time. What did I say over here, at the beginning? What was it I spoke of here? Accepting God’s Provided Way At The End Time. Each one of these men, each time through the Bible, through nature, we see.
257 Now, God don’t take a tree today, and make it something another, and then tomorrow make it something else. No. He makes a day, today the sap goes down, tomorrow it comes back another way, and the next time He has them pull the sap out? No.
258 He stays right on course. And each one of these men we’ve talked about, through the Bible, God stayed right on His course with them, exactly by His Word. Not a one of them but what was exactly on His Word, all through the Bible, exactly on His Word.

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« 259 † Then when you say, “Well, I’m exactly on His Word,” then He vindicates that to be the Truth.
260 Now He is still on course, tonight, if we’ll just believe it. Will you do it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]
261 Let’s bow our head. Now, just as reverent as you can be, for a moment.
262 God’s provided way, that He might bring the believers to a Rapturing Faith. God’s way, His provided way, to bring believers to Rapturing Faith.

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« 263 † Before I make the altar call, I’d like to say this. I feel led to do this. Is there sick people in the house? Raise up your hand.
264 I’m going to ask you to please be just as quiet, set still, just a minute longer. Now, we’ll be out in five more minutes, if you just be real reverent.
265 Now, see, you, when you’re disturbing, you’re disturbing somebody.
266 I’ve got the whole thing under the control of the Holy Spirit. I must have it, in order to do this. God made the promise. It wasn’t me. It was Him that made the promise.

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« 267 † Now, as far as I know, there is some people here that I know. There is some I do not know. I can actually see about, I suppose, about four people that I know. And one of them is Brother Williams here, and Brother Rose. I know them. And Mother Sharrit is setting over at the door. I, course, I know her. Here is Sister Williams setting here. I know her.
268 And this lady setting right here, about two rows in front of me here, she works at a dry goods store, and is a friend to the family. I don’t know her name, but I believe she’s a member of Brother Outlaw’s church up there. I think that’s right.
269 And then I see Brother Dauch and Sister Dauch, from Ohio, setting here. I heard Brother Sothmann, way back there somewhere, say “amen,” a while ago. I watch. That’s about all that I see and know in here.

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« 270 † How many of you that’s sick, and knows that I do not know you, raise up your hands, that knows I know nothing about you, raise up your hand. All right. You just have faith now and believe.
271 Now, if I have told you the Truth, God is obligated to vindicate that Word to be the Truth. Is that right? It’s right. Now, that will be the provided way then, according to what I’ve said tonight. That’s God’s provided way to tell you, “This is the Truth.”

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« 272 † Because, anybody knows that it’s totally impossible. It would be a miracle that science cannot explain. You can’t explain a miracle. It’s beyond explaining. And if God should speak in here, tonight, to one person that would know that I was a stranger to them, and tell them what they’d done, or what they ought not have done, or what they will do, or what they ought to do, or something, just like Jesus did when He was here on earth. He made Hisself known to the public that that was the Messiahic sign. How many knows that, say, “Amen.” [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Then, the church believes it. That’s the only way. The people, when He did that, they…
273 The woman touched the hem of His garment. He turned around, said, “Who touched Me?” Physically, He didn’t feel her, but it was her faith that did it.
274 Now, you can have that kind of faith if you will just pray and say, “Lord Jesus, take away every doubt from me. Take away my doubts, and let me believe this. I’m desperately in need. And I’m coming, tonight, for the Bible says that Jesus Christ is the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmity.”

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« 275 † Did you know, this sign, this miracle, has not been done in history since the death of the last apostle? That’s right. I’ve just come through the–the… all the history books that I know of, Hislop’s Babylons. I come through the Foxe’s Book of the Martyrs. I come through the pre-Nicene fathers, the Nicaea Council, and the post-Nicaea. I come through all those books. Not one place have I seen it, in the history of Martin Luther, John Wesley, the first revival, the Welsh revival. They been crying, shouting, praising God, finally dropped into speaking in tongues. And then this was supposed to be the last sign. That was the last thing that Sodom saw before she burned.
276 And remember, He didn’t reveal it to Sodom. He revealed it to Abraham, the chosen and elected. And the gift is not going to the worldly churches out here, if you notice. It’s going to the elected Church. That’s the ones that’s being benefited by it. They’re the ones that will receive it.

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« 277 † If it would be done out there, they’d say the same thing they did when He performed it, “He is Beelzebub, a fortuneteller.” And anybody knows about fortuneteller, knows that’s–that’s a crazy thing to even say. They don’t know the first principle of telepathy or fortune-telling. That’s a work of the Devil, trying to copy the work of God.
278 God shows a prophet; the Devil has a medium. The two are pretty close together. Jesus said it would almost fool the Elected, if possible. It’s true. We got lots–lots of impersonation. He said, “As Jambres and Jannes withstood Moses, so will these men of corrupt mind, reprobates concerning the Truth. But their folly will be found out.”

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« 279 † Now, in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, I take this audience under my control, but for the Holy Spirit, by the Holy Spirit, in the Name of Jesus Christ.
280 I ask you, as believers, don’t you move. Set still. And you believe that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, that I’m here to make known His works and His ways.
281 I been very reluctant on these things, the fifteen, sixteen years I been on the field. But there’s an hour coming now when something is fixing to take place. The Message will go to another nation, another people. But while we are in the Presence of His Holy Being… The Church in America, I believe, is just about called out. She’s finished, She’s washed, She’s ready, the real Church. Hypocrisy still remains on. But the true Church was a true Church, to begin with, the born again, the predestinated to the call of God.

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« 282 † If you believe with all your heart, I ask you to pray and say, “Lord Jesus,” in your heart, “let me touch Your garment. And how will I know that You’re still the same High Priest? Speak to me through the lips of Brother Branham. And if he has told me the Truth, which, I believe he has.”
283 Be sure to mention that in your prayer, ’cause He told me, “If you get the people to believe you.” That’s the only… you… He couldn’t do many mighty works, because they didn’t believe Him. Don’t believe me as Him, but believe that He sent me. And I’m here to manifest Him. He proved that He was. May God help me to prove that He is raised from the dead, the Messiah, same yesterday, today, and forever.

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« 284 † Now just be in prayer. I’m watching and waiting. Just pray. And if the Lord will grant it, and will prove to you that this is the end-time sign, will you walk in the Light? Will you believe Him, have faith in Him? He is no respecter of person. Just have faith, all along, everywhere. Now, while you have your heads bowed, I’m thanking the Lord.
285 Here is that Light that you see in the picture. He is right here in this room now. And I see It right by the side of a woman who is setting to my right. She’s praying for a son that’s in trouble. Just don’t doubt. Have faith.

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« 286 † To my left there is a woman, and she is scared. She’s afraid that she’s got cancer. She’s very much shook up about it. I hope she don’t miss it. The woman has tried, for a long time, to press her way in. She’s afraid. She isn’t from here. She comes from another city. And the city is a smaller city than this, though it lays south from here. It’s by the side of a mountain. It’s Tucson. The lady’s name is Mrs. Bach. You believe? Will you accept your healing? All right. Don’t be scared of it no more. Your faith makes you whole.
287 A lady by the name of Mrs. Hushey. Don’t forget. God can prove that son innocent, if you’ll believe with all your heart. Don’t doubt. Have faith. Believe.
288 A lady setting over here on the side to my right, she is suffering with a heart trouble. Her name is Mrs. Cloud. If you’ll believe with all your heart, accept your healing, the Almighty God will make you well. Will you believe it? All right. You believe with all your heart.
289 A lady way back here to my right, in the right-hand row, dark dress on. Mrs. Yates, believe with all your heart, and your back trouble will go from you. Oh, my!

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« 290 † You love Him? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] You believe Him? [“Amen.”] Is He the same yesterday, today, and forever? [“Amen.”] Now, if He proves that, and you see that it’s right, and those people will bear record I’ve never seen them in my life.
291 But, look, now, if you will take my word for what I’m saying, if you will believe with all your heart and lay your hands on one another, you’ll be healed if you’ll just believe it with all your heart. It’s a sign of the end time.
292 Now put your hands over on one another, you that’s going to pray for each other. If you’re a sinner, confess your sins. If you’re a backslider, confess that you’re wrong. If you’re sick, confess that you want to be healed, and say, “I believe You, God.”
293 Now, the Bible never said, “Just the prayers of William Branham will do this.” But He said, “These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover.” Do you believe that? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]

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« 294 † Now, how many times, how long have I been with you, Phoenix? This is about seventeen years, I been coming here. Have you ever seen it proved wrong one time? Has it always been just exactly the way the Holy Spirit spoke it. [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Through the thousands times thousands, and through the multitudes of times; how many times around the world, of all nations, and kindreds, tongues, and people; it’s Jesus Christ, not your brother. And I’m quoting His Word to you. “These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover.”
295 Now lay your hands on somebody and pray for them. Don’t you… Don’t pray for yourself now, because they are praying for you. You pray for them. And now let’s bow our heads in the august Presence of Jesus Christ, Who proves Himself to be among us. Now, He’s your God, the same as He’s my God. Now you pray the way you do in your church. Pray for that person that’s got their hands on you. You pray back for them, and believe on God.

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« 296 † Confess your sins, say, “I’m wrong, Lord. I been a doubter; I’ll be no more. I’m believing right now that You’re going to heal me.”
297 “Heal this person, Lord. Heal this woman. Heal this man. Heal this woman. Heal the baby. Heal the young girl, the young boy.”
298 O Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, how can we sit here, Lord? This ought to bring a Rapturing Faith, a power of God that would sweep this whole audience, Lord, into higher heights, and of the glory of God.

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« 299 † Let the Devil, that’s had these people bound, turn them loose; upon the–the promise of God that I believe in, upon the Bible that I teach, upon the God Who proves that it is the Bible, that proves that He is the God of the Bible. After two thousand years, He still lives among us tonight, resurrected from the dead, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Upon the basis of His shed Blood, and His living Being, Presence, after two thousand years, I challenge the Devil with all of his impotent spirit of sickness and diseases, turn these people loose, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Come out of them, that they might go free. Turn loose that sinner. Turn loose that backslider. Turn loose of that sick man or woman. I claim their healing, their salvation, in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Leave them, thou foul, evil, unclean spirit of unbelief and doubt. Depart from this church, from this bunch of people, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

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« 300 † I believe. I believe that the prayer of faith has been prayed. I want you to do something now. Right where you’re at, drive down a post in your mind, “Right here on this seat, this night, when I stood and heard the Word, saw God vindicate His Word, prove that It’s right, the prayer of faith has been prayed for me. If the Devil will ever try to tell me again I’m sick, or anything wrong, I’m going to bring him right back to this post. Right now the prayer of faith has been prayed for me, and I’m saved from my sickness. I’m saved from my sins. I’m a child of God, and I’ll not cater to the Devil’s lies anymore. I am God’s free servant.” Amen. Will you do it? Say, “Amen.” [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Raise your hand and say, “I believe it.” [“I believe it.”] Amen. Amen.

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« 301 † To me, that settles it. The work is done. It’s all over. God said so, and that proves it. How can He do anything else but vindicate His Word? If He will vindicate it to me, He can vindicate it for you. You believe that? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] All right.
302 Let’s stand on our feet and praise Him, then, give Him all praise and glory. Amen. All right. Glory to God!
303 Thank You, Lord Jesus. We love You. We praise You. We accept these things. We believe that You do it for us now. Thou art our Saviour. Thou art our Healer, and we love You for it. Blessed be the Name of the Lord, forevermore. Receive these people, Lord, and let them be Thy servants from now on, through Jesus’ Name.
God bless you. — Rev. William Marrion Branham

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« E-1 † Our heads for prayer… Almighty God, it is with the grateful hearts that we bow before Thee tonight, to offer to Thee the very adoration of our heart for ever sending Jesus to the earth, that we might be redeemed and have the privilege someday of looking upon Him Who saved us. We are here tonight; we have gathered in His Name, for He has promised that wherever two or more would gather in His Name, He would be in our midst, and then, if we would agree upon anything that it would be granted. Lord, we are perfectly in agreement tonight: that if there be any in this building that is not saved, may they be saved tonight, or any listening in in radio-land, may they be saved tonight. Heal all that’s sick and afflicted, and get glory to Thy Name; for we are Thy servants, and we are here to serve Thee to the best of our knowledge. Now, we commit ourselves and our spirits, our thinking, and all that we are, we commit into Thy hands for Thy service. In the Name of the Lord Jesus, we ask it. Amen.
You may be seated.

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« E-2 † I’ve been sitting in the car, enjoying the–the band that played. And Mrs. Piper, always how we enjoy her message in songs, and then to hear Brother David speak, which is always an inspiration to me, to hear that warrior of the Lord speak what he thinks about the Lord Jesus. Now, he’s having services here every morning at, I believe, around ten o’clock.
And I was talking to the tape boys, and they’re taking tapes on it. And they said that they would save every one of them for me that I could hear them all, after we get to a place where I can have the opportunity of hearing them. And I’m sure he will do you good.

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« E-3 † Brother duPlessis, I have knowed him now for some years. He’s known me longer than I have known him, for he would be in the meetings and I–I wouldn’t know it. But I know his family, and they’re all fine Christians.
When I was in South Africa, his brother was my interpreter, a fine Christian gentleman. And I like David’s spirit. Now, he’s gone, so he don’t hear me. But I like his spirit, that gentle, right straight to the point, compromising for nothing; but yet, gentle with it. I like that.
You know, Jesus wasn’t a sissy by no means. He wasn’t just a feminish type person; He was man. But yet, He could speak right straight to the point, but yet, with gentleness. And I see a person can do that, I just think of the Spirit of Christ being in them.

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« E-4 † So Brother duPlessis is preaching again tomorrow. And I think tomorrow night, he was telling me, that he has to leave. I was sorry I didn’t get to talk some with his wife; she’s one of the nicest ladies. We met her at the breakfast the other morning; and such a nice lady she was, real typical Afrikaans woman.
The Lord willing, I hope to be in South Africa this year with Brother David in another big campaign, where I think that the queen campaign, that I ever held for the Lord was there, where thirty thousand raw heathens accepted Jesus Christ as personal Saviour one afternoon. One… Thirty thousand, tagged raw heathens, blanket natives, and never had heard the Name of Jesus before, as far as I know. And with… Now, they wasn’t all natives. Some of them was… They claimed about ten thousand Mohammedans (See?), was in that group.

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« E-5 † Now, talking to a missionary years ago, and he was talking about that one precious jewel. He’d been in the mission fields for so many years and had won one Mohammedan. They’re the hardest there is to win, ’cause they’re from the old Medes of Persian that alter not. And their religion is tops, and they say it’s the best. And you just can’t change them. So…
But when… You see, where I think we’ve made our mistake, we haven’t did as Jesus commanded us to do. See? See, we’ve went and made churches, and had denominations, and had schools, and that’s all right. But Jesus never exactly commissioned His Church to do that. Was to preach the Gospel (See?), heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, that’s the commission. See? And we’ve done other things besides that. And that’s the reason the Gospel hasn’t got out the way it has. Back to the general orders, brethren. That’s right. Back to the order.

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« E-6 † “When I…” Jesus said, “If I be lifted up, I’ll draw all men unto Me.” See? And that’s why I go through America here, is trying, without taking an offering, just the free will people, whenever they want to give me something, till I get enough money together to take off over there to win a few thousand souls to Christ. Then at the day of the judgment, you’ll be credited for it, ’cause the Lord commissioned me to go, and you’re helping me to go. So that’s–that’ll make us all in with it on that day.
Won’t you be glad to know that that day, when it comes, and it’s all over, and what a great time it’ll be then to set down…

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« E-7 † I can start anywhere and get off of a plane, and there’ll be people there at the airport. “Brother Branham, you remember me? You prayed for me so-and-so.” Get on a train; somebody walk through, say, “Are you Brother Branham? Why I was healed in your meeting of cancer ten years ago.”
And I just think what it’ll be when we set down on the banks of the river on the other side. And here we’re just safe. “Yes, I–I remember that meeting, the Lord bless you. Good bye.”
But there, we’ll just… I want a date with each one of you people when we get over there. I want to set down with you for a thousand years of peace (See?), ’cause we ain’t going to have no time when we get there. See? So we’ll just… Be a just a little few minutes chat, just a thousand years of peace with you, and we’ll talk it all over then. Be wonderful.

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« E-8 † Now, speaking of tapes and so forth, some people has been asking me, “Where can we get the messages?” Now, these messages here hasn’t been very much, because it’s hoarse, and–and I’ve been tired, and lots ahead of me, and things that the world knows nothing about. But we have got some messages where I’ve had in my Tabernacle, and things, where that we were rested.
I think we got five hundred different sermons all–yeah–all in tape. And the boys has that at the table with… so forth. And they just sell them for just a l–little over the cost of the tape. They let them have just for the handling charge, about. And you’re more than welcome to get them at the desk. It’s… I been getting little notes, “Where can we get the messages?” So that’s where you get them, at the book table at the concession.

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« E-9 † Now, we was having a glorious time last night, or I was, anyhow. I was just… Puts me in a mind last night when we… I was–just remember going out and seeing the church standing, screaming, and praising the Lord.
I was just thinking about one time I’d… I love to fish so well. And most all preachers like to fish, you know; that’s where they… Peter seen the Lord, one time, and the Apostles when they were fishing. I think that’s the reason preachers like to fish. I don’t know about eating the chicken now; they all like about that crowing of the rooster.

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« E-10 † But I was way up in northern New Hampshire, and I was fishing for those little brook trout in the native home of the white-tailed deer. And I was three days back in the mountains with a pack on my back, and I’d put me up a little tent, and had a stove in there where I could keep warm a little at night. It was early spring.
And so I’d been fishing up along the stream, a catching plenty of fish. And I… That morning when I left early, befo–way before sunup, I took my fly line and went up. And I took a hatchet so I could cut some of (a little hand axe), so I could cut some of the willows away. I couldn’t… A big hole down there where I knowed some trout was laying, and I couldn’t whip that fly into it just right.

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« E-11 † So I’d caught a nice mess of fish, enough for breakfast, and I was on the road back, and–and I heard a noise. I–I looked around the little bushes I was coming around, and my little tent was torn all the way to the ground, a little pup tent. And there were… An old she bear, an old sow, and two cubs had got in there. And they had rim-wrecked that tent till it was just torn to pieces. It isn’t what they eat; it’s what they destroy. And I had an old stovepipe in there, and the old mother bear would just hit that to hear it rattle, you know, just… And I noticed they’d just tore up everything.

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« E-12 † And she heard me when I come around the corner; the ground had a little frost in it yet. And she looked up, and she cooed to her cubs, and she run off. Well, one little cub took off with her, just little fellow, you know, just a little bitty guy, cute. And so he run off. And she… Because the other cub didn’t come, why, she kindy stopped, and she went to calling to that cub, cooing to it, kinda sounded like a bird making a noise. And she… And this other little cub set. He had his back to me all humped up like that. And he was doing something; I thought, “Well, he must have found something; he’s tearing into it.” So she cooed again and act like she was coming back towards me.

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« E-13 † Now, you know, you go to fooling around their cubs and sometimes they’ll scratch you. So I had a hand axe in my hand, an old rusty pistol laying in the tent, but it was tore up. And they… I didn’t want to kill the old mother; it would leave two orphans in the woods. And I didn’t never want to be guilty of that. Well, I looked for a tree to see how I could get up that tree right quick, you know, if she come.
So I thought, “I’m going to see what’s the matter with that little fellow.” And he was just so interested, doing something; and he had his back to me so I couldn’t see him. I kept my eye on her, ’cause she kept cooing. So I walked around sideways till I got to where I could see the little fellow. He had my bucket of molasses open. And so I…

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« E-14 † I love pancakes. I know I got a lot of brethren and sisters out there that love them too. And I–I had me a bucket of molasses, and… You know, I don’t believe in sprinkling; I baptize them. I’m a Baptist. I really pour it on, a plenty of molasses, you know.
And this little fellow had opened up that bucket. They love something sweet anyhow. He had his little paw in it. And he’d sock his little foot down like that, and lick like that as he brought his paw up just over his face. And he’d sopped that bucket out as clean as it could be. He was molasses from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet. And I hollered, “Get out of there!” like that. And he turned around and looked at me, and the molasses was in his eyes; he couldn’t see. That was one of the cutest sights I ever seen–no camera, of course, at that time.

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« E-15 † And the old mother kept cooing to him. And I thought, “That’s right. See, there’s no condemnation to him. Why, he had his hand in the molasses bucket plumb up to his elbow.”
That’s about the way we did last night. We wasn’t pay any attention to what anybody else was saying; we just had our hand in the molasses bucket, just molasses all over.
And the strange thing was, when that little fellow got over to his mother and his little brother, well, they begin to lick him, ’cause licking some of the molasses off.
I hope you got enough on you last night, till they’ve licked all day long on the testimonies that we had last night.
Oh, there’s great things if we’ll just watch God in nature, how He works. So amazing. Climb to the top of the mountains, and set there, and take time off, and just–just worship the Lord. It–it’s really good.

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« E-16 † Now, the Lord willing, Sunday afternoon, I–I promised to try to tell my Life Story, Sunday afternoon. It’ll be the first time for years and years. And Saturday morning, is the businessman’s breakfast at the–at the Clifton’s cafeteria. If you can’t come… It’s always packed out in there. If you can’t come, tune in on the radio, ’cause they really have a great time.
And then Sunday afternoon and Sunday night, back here again. And of course, if you’re strangers and going to be in this city, why, come around the Temple if you haven’t got anyplace to go. We’d be glad to have you here for the Sunday school services. I’m sure you’d have your soul fed.

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« E-17 † Now, we are going to open the Word of God. And I wish to read just one verse, found where we was reading this… Last night, we finished up on the 20th verse of the 4th chapter of Romans, of reading. Tonight, I want to read the 21st verse. And then last evening, we started at the 11th chapter of Genesis and come over to the 16th chapter of Genesis, and just hitting the high places of the life of Abraham. Now, we read here:
And being fully persuaded that… he was able to keep that which he had promised.
If God has made a promise, God will keep that promise. “Being fully persuaded that that what He promised, He was able to perform.” God keeps His promise. And Abraham was fully persuaded. No matter how ridiculous it looked to the carnal mind or anyone else, it looked all right to Abraham, because Abraham never looked at so much at what the promise was, or how ridiculous it was, he looked at Who gave the promise. It depends on what you’re looking at.

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« E-18 † And now, we’ll background just a little bit to get to the spot where we wish to tonight. And then tomorrow night, we aim to climax this studying of Abraham, the Lord willing.
Now, I’m a long ways from being a theologian or a teacher. But what I know about Him, I like to tell others, because it means so much to me. And I hope that’ll mean as much to you to hear it as it does to me to speak it. And then we’ll all be blessed.
Now, we found out last night, that Abraham was just an ordinary man. He was a man that God looked at and seen his heart. Now, that’s the way God looks upon man; He looks upon the heart of man. Man looks at the outward appearance; God looks on the heart. So no matter how poor you are, how unqualified you seem to be, how uneducated you are, how literate you are, that has nothing to do with it. God looks at your heart. Always remember that. It’s in the heart God deals with.

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« E-19 † A few nights before, we took the subject. In the garden of Eden, the devil chose the man’s head by intellectual. God chose his heart by faith. And if you walk by faith, you have to believe things that you cannot see or even reason with your mind. We cast down reasons. When God says anything, we don’t look at it no more intellectually; we let it soak right down into our heart and call anything contrary to it, as though it wasn’t. We look at what God said, Who gave the promise.
That’s where the world’s so tangled today. It’s at too much intellectual preaching. Instead of Spirit filled churches worshipping in the Spirit, they’re listening to intellectual messages. And you can’t reason this out. There’s no way at all to do it.

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« E-20 † I was thinking… Wished I had another week here in the Temple, I’d like to get into something of a subject that I have in my heart of the lay–restoring of the true church of God–how what the palmerworm eat, and the caterpillar eaten, and all these different bugs. It’s the same bug; it’s different forms of its life. And it eat all away. And what they have eaten and made up all these man-made things, God will never restore by them. He’s going to grow it right out of the stump. “I will restore, saith the Lord.” It won’t come out of any creed. It’ll come out of God: “I will restore.”
These palmerworms, and cankerworms, and so forth, that’s eat on God’s heritage, has eat it down to a stump. But it will not come through these, or neither will He use them. He will come right from the stump, right up with it. “I will restore, saith the Lord.” And He’s going to restore a faith in the people.

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« E-21 † The last book before Revelations, in the little book of Jude, said, “I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, and it was needful for me to write unto you, and to exhort you, that you should earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered unto the saints.” They’d fallen away from it. And if they’d fell away then, thirty-three years after the death of Christ, how much more have they fallen away tonight?
But God will restore that Church to its former condition. I believe it. “I will restore.”

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« E-22 † And then, we’ve got to get back. And that’s why I was teaching on Abraham, to let you know… The greatest thing I find in the church tonight, amongst the people, all the churches… When I say church, I mean all of them. I find two different classes of people. I find fundamental people, who positionally know their position in Christ, but they haven’t got any faith for it. Then I find the Pentecostals, who’s got a lot of faith and don’t know who they are. So then, it’s just like a man that–that’s got a lot of money in the bank and can’t write a check; and the other one can write a check and hasn’t got no money in the bank. If you can get them two together… If you could get the faith that’s in the Pentecostal in the fundamental people, or get the–the Holy Ghost, I mean to say, that’s in the Pentecostal people in the fundamental believers, or get their position, let them… the Pentecostals know their position, just as the fundamental knows it, there’d be something happen.

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« E-23 † But the trouble with the people today, those who have the Holy Spirit, they just… They don’t know what to do with It. They blow It all out in steam, instead of making It work for the Lord. They–they shout It out, and praise It out. That’s all right, but let’s put It to work. Let’s make It work for the Lord.
Like Benjamin Franklin, when he caught electricity, he begin to scream, “I got it. I got it.” But just to say he had it, could… ’cause he felt it. He had it, but it’ll never do no good till he puts it to work. Now look what it does.
And the Holy Spirit will light up the world with the Gospel just like electricity did, if we can put It to work. But you’ve got to let the Holy Spirit work. People today are… People are entertained.

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« E-24 † If you’ll notice on the platform in different places, everywhere–not only here, anywhere–the people come by, they expect… They’ve had too much of this here high pressured, latter day, Divine healing campaigns. It’s exactly right. People saying, “I got it in the hand. Whew. Feel it? Feel it? You feel it?” No, you don’t feel it. You might feeled your hand, but that’s all you feeled. That’s right.
Jesus never did say, “Did you feeled it?” He said, “Did you believe it?” See? Not did you feeled it? do you believe it? Faith is not feeling; faith is something that you don’t feel; you have no senses will declare it, only that sixth sense, that faith that knows it. You don’t feel, taste, smell, or hear it; but you know it. Because Jesus said so; that settles it.

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« E-25 † And if I could ever get a message sometime that would shake the people away from all this here Hollywood evangelism and get them down to the Bible to THUS SAITH THE LORD, then something will happen. And that’s what I’ve longed to see. We’ve had a stir here in the Temple. But I’d like to see a–a revival in the Temple.
Now, a revival is not bringing in new members, a revival is reviving what you’ve already got. That’s what we need, is a revival.
Did you ever see the sea have a revival? Sure. When it goes to leaping and jumping, and the waves a beating, there’s not one drop of water more in it than it was when it was perfectly quiet. But it’s got a revival, throws all the trash up on the shore. That’s what it does.
And that’s what the church needs tonight, is a revival to throw all the nonsense out of it, and throw it out on the shore, so they can get back to Gospel solid foundation.

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« E-26 † That’s what the–the Bible said, “Come and buy of Me, gold–pure gold, tried in a fire.” The old beaters used to take the gold when they beat it, and they would beat that gold, and turn it over, and beat it, beating the dross out of it, until the reflection of the beater, he could see it in it. Then he knowed he had the dross out of it.
And that’s the way God takes the Holy Spirit, and takes the Christian and the Church, and beats it with the Gospel, and back and forth, and back and forth, until it reflects Jesus in it. The Holy Spirit can see the works of Jesus going on in the Church, then things begin to go fine.
But there’s too much dross in the Church today. Too much. Now, they’re fine people, the–the best in the world, the cream of the crop. But the Church needs to make Itself ready. Get ready. The Bible said, “And she… The Bride had made Herself ready,” as I preached on it at Pisgah the other day.

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« E-27 † Now, Abraham was a man that God gave the promise to, made the covenant, absolutely unconditionally with Abraham and his seed. And if you’re Abraham’s seed, you’re absolutely heirs of the promise just like Abraham was. See? And it… Abraham’s faith… If you’re Abraham’s seed…
Now, it doesn’t mean physical seeds, ’cause them are Jews. But as Paul said, that which is a Jew outwardly is not Jew. It’s a spiritual Jew inside. A Jew, a real spiritual Jew is a man who believes God’s Word just like Abraham believed it, and calling anything contrary to it as though it was not.

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« E-28 † Now, that’s the kind of a church… If we could get that type of church… If we could get this group, right here tonight, under them kind of a conditions, there’d be a revival break in this place here that, why, twelve o’clock, one o’clock in the morning, five o’clock in the morning, they’d be walking these floors in this building all night long praising the Lord. They’d be a revival break out here that all… The newspaper men would be standing in the door in the morning. He’d scatter across the world, everywhere, “A revival broke out in Angelus Temple. There’s something like the day of Pentecost going on.” God wants that. He wants it, but He can’t wake His children up. He can’t get them to the–realize that.

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« E-29 † Now, we left Abraham, last night, at the confirmation of the covenant, and how He would do it, how that He would–God would take His own Son and make Him a Sacrifice, like He showed Abraham. Nothing that Abraham could do to do it, just keep on believing. God had already promised a son. Now, He didn’t say, “Now, Abraham, if you’ll do a certain thing, I will send my Son,” He said, “I will do it. It’s already done.”
Jesus was the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world. And did you ever think this? Your names was not put in the Lamb’s Book of Life the night you give your heart to Christ. Did you know that? The Bible said, “Your name was put in the Lamb’s Book of Life from the foundation of the world,” God’s foreknowledge.

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« E-30 † What are you scared about? What’s you so scared? You’re–you’re afraid. Seem like that you just can’t step out there and toe the line with the enemy, or call anything the devil says is a lie. Let God’s Word be true. See?
You were chosen of God. You didn’t choose yourself; God chose you. When did He choose you? Before the foundation of the world when the Lamb was slain. Now, the Bible says that. The Bible said in Revelations the 20th chapter, I believe it is, that the antichrist in the last days, deceived all that dwelled upon the earth whose names were not written in the Lamb’s Book of Life from the foundation of the world. How long? Since the foundation of the world, when God, with His foreknowledge seen you and put your name on the Book; when the Lamb was slain, you were slain with the Lamb. Hallelujah! My!

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« E-31 † People are scared. “Oh, if I can just… I–I–I’m afraid I–I–I might make a mistake. I…” Make a mistake? You can’t do no worse than just set and do nothing about it. Get up and be going. Get the job done. Make some kind of an effort. You’ve got to move. When the Holy Spirit begins to move on a person, he ought to walk with his shoulders back and his head up praising God. Sure, ’cause it’s God that spoke the Word. It’s God that give the promise. But we just look over the Word and we say, “Well…”
It’s just like an old fisherman, one time, was coming from the sea, and there was a man going down to the sea. And the man wanted to… He’d heard about the sea; he’d never seen it. He’d read about it; he thought it was wonderful. So he said, “You know, I believe I’ll take a rest and go down to see its great briny waves, how they flash, and–and the deep waters reflect the blue skies, and the gulls, and smell the salt air.” He said, “It will be wonderful.”
And while he was going, he met an old salt, sailor, coming from the sea. And he said, “Where goest thou, my good man?”
He said, “I go down to the sea.” And he begin to tell him how wonderful it must be.
Said, “Aw, there’s nothing to it.” Said, “I don’t see nothing so thrilling about it. I was borned on the sea sixty years ago, and I been on it ever since. I don’t see no thrill about it.”

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« E-32 † You see, he had been in it so much until it lost its thrill. And that’s the way with you people. You’ve seen the working of the Holy Spirit so much, till it’s lost its victory, or you’ve lost your victory over it. It becomes a common thing. God begins to show things, and move things, and the Spirit hits you and–and the Word comes forth. Say, “Yep, that’s pretty good. I sure believe that’s the Word of God.” Oh, my! It should thrill us. Should be fresh every day (Yes, sir!), just new to us all the time, just thrills us to feed and feast on the Word of God.

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« E-33 † And God promised Abraham there just what He was going to do. So we took the covenant, how they made it. Tore the contract in two–one person made–took one part of the contract, the other person took the other part of the contract.
Now, when this contract was finished, they had to come together. And boths pieces of the contract had to dovetail. You see? You write a contract out and tear it, and then try to duplicate it one time. You’ll never do it. See, because it’s just the tearing of the paper and everything. It has to fit perfectly.
And when God made His contract with Abraham’s seed, He took His Son, Christ Jesus, to the cross. Do you believe that? Then He took Him there, and tore Him apart as a sacrifice, lifted up His body from the grave, and set it on His own right hand, on His throne in glory, and sent back the other part of the contract, the Spirit, to the Church to fill the Church.

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« E-34 † No wonder Jesus said, “The works that I do, you do also.” His works were continued. How long? “Go ye into all the world. He that–and preach the Gospel. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; he that believeth not shall be damned, and (conjunction) these signs shall follow them that believe.” How far? To all the world. How many? To every creature. How could the Apostles do it? It hasn’t been done yet. So the commission still stands the same.
“A little while, and the world won’t see Me no more.” That Greek word “kosmos” means “world order.” “The world won’t see Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me (‘Ye,’ that’s the Church), for I (personal pronoun) be with you, even in you, to the end of the world (Not the end of the Apostles, but the end of the world.); and the works that I do shall you do also.”

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« E-35 † “Ye abide in Me, and My Words abide in you…” Now, “abide” means to “stay there.” If you take God’s promise in your heart, “I’m the Lord that healeth thee,” get it in your heart, let it stay there. Don’t never take it out. Let it stay there. Act on it. “If ye abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, ask what you will and it shall be done unto you.” Oh, my! That’s the real truth. If ye abide in Me (the Holy Spirit, Christ), and My Words (My promises, all) abide in you (stay there), just ask what you will, and it’ll be done to you, ’cause It’s got to do it.

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« E-36 † Then we find Abraham believed God. And then, when he was about ninety and nine years old… That’s lacking one year, in being a hundred. Little Isaac hadn’t come yet. He’s still praising God for it, for he knew God made the promise. God has to keep that promise. God has to keep His promise in order to be God. Oh, if I could… If that could soak down on the left side below the fifth rib and then hang there. See? When God makes a promise, God is duty bound to keep that promise. He can’t alter it. He can’t change it.
We–we’re finite. We can say, “Well, I’ll be there.” We should say, “If the Lord is willing.” But see, we’re finite. We can say things and make mistakes. But He’s infinite, and He cannot make a mistake. And the…

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« E-37 † Any time that He does anything, it’s done perfectly. It can never be any better. And the way He ever act is perfect. If a sinner, the first sinner come to Him and repented, and God accepted him–his repentance, if the second sinner come, He’s got to act the same way He did the first time. If a man come to Him for healing, and God healed him upon the basis of his faith, the next time a sick person comes, He’s got to do the same thing, or He did wrong when He healed the first man. He made a mistake; God will have to stand, say, “I made a mistake by healing the people back in the days of the Apostles, ’cause I don’t heal people now.” Could you imagine God Almighty saying something like that? Never! It’s not God; it’s us! Nothing wrong with God, it’s us, our faith: if you can believe it.

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« E-38 † Every preparation’s made. Healing is already atoned for. Sins are already atoned for. All things are ready, come. That’s right. The wedding supper’s set. Excuses are made. But He said, “Go into the…” The last call was go get the sick and the halt, a campaign of healing just before the wedding supper. Now you see where we’re at. “I’ll… Go get the lame, the halt, the blind out of the streets, and highways, and hedges, and bring them in. Heal them, and let Me show My mercy to them, then they’ll believe Me.” That’s right. That’s God’s last call, supper call is healing, the last call.

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« E-39 † Now, after Abraham, when he was ninety and nine, we come now to 17th chapter, the next chapter of Genesis. And God appeared to him again. And when He appeared to him this time, He appeared to him in the Name of Almighty God. The Hebrew word there is El Shaddai, which means… “El” means “God, the strong One” from Genesis 3, “the strong One.” “El”, “God, the Life Giver.” “Shad, S-h-a-d,” means, “breast, like the woman.” “Shaddai” means, “breasted,” plural. And God appeared to Abraham in the Name of God, the strong breasted One.”
What a thing to appear to an old man a hundred years old, and his body as good as dead, after He had made him a promise that he was going to have a baby by his wife Sarah, and her ninety. Think of it.

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« E-40 † Now, what a promise. “Abraham, you are old. You–your strength is gone. And for the last twenty-five years you’ve trusted Me. But now I want to tell you what my Name is. My Name is the breasted One, the strong One. I–I’m the breasted God.”
Now, watch. Not “a breast God,” but “breasted” both for spirit and body: Wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed. The breasted One, the strong One, the strength Giver…

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« E-41 † You take a little baby, when it’s weak, and run down, and dying. The mother takes the little baby in her arms, lays it up to her breast. The little fellow’s fretting and crying. But just as soon as it begins to nurse on the mother, what’s it doing? It’s pulling the mother’s strength into its own body. It quits crying, starts laughing. It’s satisfied.
And God, when a believer can take a hold of God’s promise, God, through Christ, pours His strength into the believer’s body. And while he’s recuperating, he’s satisfied. Hallelujah! The believer, nursing from the Word, the breasted One, the New Testament and the Old Testament, nursing from God’s promise. As he takes God’s promise of healing, salvation, whatever it is, he’s laying on the bosoms of God just as satisfied as he can be. Nobody can shake him away from there. He’s holding on for dear life and nursing God’s strength into his body. Hallelujah!

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« E-42 † If you’ve been the wickedest woman in this country, your name is not fit for the dogs to bark with, let me tell you something. If you take a hold of God’s promise, and lay a hold of that and live, and God will pour His strength into you, till you’ll be so sainted, till everybody will know you’re a Christian. Yes, sir! If you been a bootlegger, gambler, whatever you might be, that doesn’t matter if you’ll take a hold of that breasted God. And all the time you’re nursing, your little old feet’s a moving, your hands are moving. What is it? You got growing pains. You’re coming out of it. The–the breasted One, the strength Giver, the all-sufficient One.

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« E-43 † “Abraham, you’re old. You’re just like a little baby. Why, you have no life in your body, and you’re just… Your body’s as good as dead. But I am the breasted One. Just take a hold of My promise and just keep nursing.”
He nursed for twenty-five years. We can’t nurse ten minutes, and then call ourself Abraham’s seed. “Hallelujah, I’m Abraham’s seed.” Take a hold of God’s promise and stay with it. Just stay there, nurse the Satisfier.

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« E-44 † When a man hears (faith cometh by hearing)–hears that Christ died for his sins, and he’s accepted, because God’s knocked at his heart. He’s got an invitation to the wedding supper. Then he just takes a hold with all that’s in him and nurses, and nurses, until his spirit begins to grow. He’s filled with the Holy Spirit. He becomes a real borned again Christian.
A man that’s sick hears that he… Faith cometh by hearing; God is the Healer. You just take right to the other breast and just lay right onto God’s goodness, drawing His promise, pulling it from the Bible, every day, reading It, believing It, taking God, praising Him, satisfied that you’re going to be perfectly well…

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« E-45 † There’s a little woman was here last night in a wheelchair. I don’t know whether… I don’t see her here now. I went down to pray for her last night, a couple nights ago. She got up out of the wheelchair and went walking down through there. And some man wanted to help her, said, “Get away from me.” She went walking on. Last night when I went down to pray for the wheelchairs, I thought I’d pray for her. She said, “Brother Branham, the Lord’s already healed me.” She said, “I’m just setting here resting, going to be up in a few minutes.” Said, “I’ve walked four or five times today. I’m getting better all the time.” She’s probably setting out in the audience somewhere tonight, or some… She’s not here in a wheelchair anyhow. Why? She took a hold of that breast of God, and she’s nursing back her strength. Certainly.

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« E-46 † Oh, I’m so glad to know that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. He feeds His little ones, pours His strength into His believers through His Word. “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” Then when the believer comes, he comes up to El Shaddai, and he leans upon His bosom, and he just draws His–he draws God’s strength right into his own body by believing His Word. Oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord.

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« E-47 † Now, He said, “Abraham, though you’re old, your age is past, and you’re–you’re so old. You’re a hundred years old. You believed the promise, but I’m the breasted God. I’m pour–going to pour My strength right into you. (We’re going to find out tomorrow night if He did it or not.) I’m going to nurse you right back to strength again. You just keep believing that promise.”
“Lord, I’ve had it for twenty-five years.” Just hold on. Stay with it.
And Abraham believed God. He believed that it was the truth. And he knew that Sarah, now nearly a hundred years old, yet he was going to have that baby by her, that God promised twenty-five years before, and not one sign of baby yet, no signs of–of anything natural could happen–be happening to the woman, so she could be. She was many years past menopause: ninety years old, she goes in menopause at forty. There you are. And sometimes forty-five, she’s over. And here she is ninety. Oh, my! And then we’re Abraham’s children. Uh-huh. Abraham’s children…
Then what happened? Now, this is not fiction. This is the Bible. It’s God’s truth, His promise. I’ve tried It and tested It, and I–and I know you can take God’s Word, and He will make It right with you. He will bring it to pass.

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« E-48 † Now, here she is. And the first thing you know, Lot got down in Sodom and got all mixed up again. And after God had made that promise to Abraham that He was El Shaddai, the strong One, then he pitched his tent out into the plains under an oak tree.
And one day… It was right in the heat of the day, about three or four o’clock in the afternoon, I suppose, when the Western sun was shining down hot there in Canaan. And the direct rays of that heat can raise blisters quickly. And he was setting out there in the tent door with his head down, perhaps studying, or thinking about God. And he raised up his eyes, and he seen three Men coming. And somehow, Abraham wanted to be friendly. So he thought them Fellows walked kinda strange, yet dusty from the road, and ordinarily dressed, and they come walking up. And Abraham went out and invited Them.

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« E-49 † In other wise, something like this. “Sirs, You’re tired. Your feet must be weary. Now, I have a nice shade tree here. Won’t You come in and set down here under the shade tree, and–and I’ll fetch a little water, and I’ll wash your feet for you. It’ll refresh you. Get you a good cold drink, then you can go on your journey.”
They said, “Go ahead, Abraham. Go ahead, sir. Whatever you’ve said, why, let it be that way.”

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« E-50 † I can imagine seeing Abraham run down through the little tents, you know, like that, and got to the big tent. He said, “Sarah, pour out three buckets of meal right quick, knead it, get all the lumps out of it, and get–make some cakes on the fire. Somebody’s out there. There’s just something about them Fellows that seems strange to me. They’re not ordinary preachers.”
So he run out to the back of the tent, and there’s a little corral out there where they had the calves, and he felt till he got the fattest one, and give it to his servants, said, “Go, dress it right quick.” And he went back out, and Sarah baked the cakes and give them to Abraham. And he come out and give Them the cakes, and they set down to eat.

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« E-51 † Now, think of it. They were eating veal chops, drinking milk, and having corn cakes and butter: pretty good diet. So he had them all out there eating. And I can imagine Abraham getting a fly bush (I don’t guess you all ever know what a fly bush was.) and shoo the flies off, you know.
How many knows what a fly bush is? Well, look at the Kentuckians here. We never had a screen door till just a few years ago. We always had an old fly bush. And I guess, it was my time there on Sunday dinner to stand and fly–and shoo the flies. A little old log cabin, no–no windows in it, and just door you pushed together. And the flies would come in, so you’d have to keep them shooed out all the time.

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« E-52 † So, I can see Abraham standing there with a fly bush, a shooing. He kept looking down to Them, he said, “Now, these are strange Fellows. They’re dusty, traveled far.” And after while, when They got through eating, why…
Strange that them Men were eating; They were dressed in ordinary clothes, dust on Their clothes, eating meat, drinking milk, and One of them was God Himself. That’s what the Scripture says. Abraham called Him LORD, capital L-O-R-D, Elohim, the great Jehovah God.

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« E-53 † I know a many of the writers try to say that was a theophany, so forth like that. But that wasn’t so. He was eating meat, and drinking milk, and eating corn bread. That’s right. He was absolutely a Man, setting in human flesh.
Someone said to me not long ago, said, “Billy, you don’t mean to tell me you believe That was a man.”
I said, “Absolutely. It was God in flesh.”
He said, “Where did He get that flesh?”
I said, “The great Creator of heavens and earth, two Angels with Him… The Bible said they were two Angels and God Himself.”
“Why,” he said, “where did He get that body?”
I said, “What are we made up of? Sixteen elements: petroleum, and calcium, potash, and cosmic light. Well, God just said, ‘Come here, Gabriel. Come here, Michael. We’re going to take a little trip down and see father Abraham.’ Reached over there and got a handful of calcium, and a little potash, and cosmic light, and “pfft,” breathed it together like that, and stepped into it, and talked to him.” Hallelujah! That’s our God. That’s the reason I believe Him in the resurrection.

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« E-54 † My wife said to me not long ago; I was combing these two or three hairs I got left; she said, “Billy, you’re almost bald-headed.”
I said, “I haven’t lost a one of them.”
She said, “Pray, tell me where they’re at?”
And I said, “All right. You tell me where they was before I got them; I’ll tell you where they are waiting for me.” Amen. Right.
Brother, I’m telling you; I believe in the resurrection. God will speak one of these days, and we’ll come forth in His image and in His likeness, men and women, not angels, but men and women. God made Angels; we’ll never be Angels. We wasn’t made for Angels. Men are made men. God made man. He intends him to be man. It’s God’s pattern.

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« E-55 † And He made this body and He stepped into it, and eat, and disappeared right before Abraham: God Himself, Elohim. And there He was, talking to Abraham.
And He said, “Now, Abraham, where is Sarah, thy wife?” A stranger, how did He know he was married? How’d He know he had a wife, and how’d He know her name was Sarah? You see the same Holy Spirit in the building here at night, saying the same thing. A stranger, dust on His clothes, in human flesh, said, “Abraham, where is Sarah, thy wife?”
“Oh,” he said, “she’s in the tent.” And the Bible said the tent was behind Him.
And He said, “Abraham, you think I could keep anything from you, seeing that you’ve believed God all this time?” Said, “I’m going to visit you next month just according to the time of life by Sarah.”
And Sarah, in the tent… She never laughed out loud, but he said, inside of her, inwardly she smiled to herself.
And the Angel with His, the Man in human flesh, eating cakes, eating bread, and meat, with His back turned to the tent, said, “Why did Sarah laugh?” He’d never seen her. He knowed who she was, knowed he had a wife, and know what she was doing in the tent. Hallelujah! If that ain’t our God, I don’t know why. “Why did she laugh when she was in the tent?”

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« E-56 † Notice. That was just a few hours… One more message was preached down in Sodom, and that was to make ready to get out, and then the fire from heaven fell. Is that right?
Now, see, that’s the way God acted. When Jesus came at the end of the Jewish dispensation, He said–done the very same thing. Is that right? When He went to the Samaritans, He did the same thing. Now, that we’re at the end of the Gentile age, He’s got to do the same thing. He never did it till right at the last of the age, at the closing.

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« E-57 † Now listen what Jesus said, “As it was in the days of Sodom…” Oh, let it sink in. “As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of God.” The Spirit of God in human flesh, in His Church, revealing and making manifest the sign of the Messiah as He did in that day, as He did in the days of Christ, as He is at the end of the Gentile dispensation, just a few hours before the bombs fall, before the world will be destroyed…
Great men, scientists, generals, and so forth, are saying that the next war will only last about three minutes. Russia’s got them timed right for Hollywood and Vine. He’s got them timed for Lakeside Drive in Chicago, and for New York City, and for everywhere. Them bombs are setting ready. We got it timed right on Moscow and different places. It just takes one person to make a mistake to pull one of them off sometime. And what happens? The Bible’s fulfilled then. That’s the only thing that’s left.
Can’t you see what God is doing, friends? Can’t you pinch your… not your hands, but pinch your spirit with the Word of God and believe it.

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« E-58 † God promised that before the Christ would come, that the Spirit of God would be made manifest just like it was in Abraham’s time. Why? Now remember, He never did that down in Sodom. He did that to Abraham. That’s why the message don’t get the right of way like it should have; It’s only to the elect, the Church world, Abraham’s seed.
Oh, you children of Abraham, surely you’re not that blind. Don’t think I’m speaking of myself. That’s a lie. I would say if that would be me, that I–I’d be a liar. I’m speaking of the Spirit of God in our midst, doing the same thing, the Angel of the Lord.

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« E-59 † You’ve got the picture of It here. Science has took Its picture–the scientific mechanical eye of the camera. George J. Lacy examined that picture from Houston that night; he said, “Brother Branham, I have said sometimes that you were–it was psychology, so they told me, that you’re–that you could read the minds of people, that you was a great mind reader.” Said, “I know better than to say that.” He said, “I thought it was psychology.” But said, “The mechanical eye of this camera won’t take psychology.” Said, “The Light struck the lens; the Light’s there.”
What is it? The same Pillar of Fire that followed the children of Israel. It’s the same thing here today, the same Christ. Any Bible student knows that the Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel through the wilderness was the Angel of the covenant, Christ, the Logos that went out of God in the beginning. And when It was made flesh and dwelt in a human body here on earth named Jesus, look what It did then. Look what It did when It come down in some flesh and talked to Abraham. Look what It did when It was here on earth, that walked in Galilee, what It did. Well, here It is back again tonight, dwelling in all of us, the universal Church, doing the same thing: Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and for ever. Now, to clear your minds; I feel it: “Christ is not a Light.” Christ is a Light.

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« E-60 † Christ, when He was on earth said, “I came from God.” Is that right? What was He then? The Pillar of Fire. “I go to God.” Did He say that? After His death, burial, and resurrection, Paul was on his road down to Damascus, and all of a sudden, a great Light struck him to the ground that blinded his eyes. The others didn’t see It. Paul saw It. And He… They heard the voice. And He said, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?”
He said, “Who are You, Lord?”
He said, “I’m Jesus.” What? The Pillar of Fire again to fulfill His promise. “I come from the Spirit world; I go back to the Spirit world.” The flesh was only brought here for a sacrifice to redeem us sinners, that we might be worthy by His grace to enter in, because we’re invited to come in.

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« E-61 † Seeds of Abraham, can’t you see this is your hour? Can’t you tell this is the time that–that God is calling you? We ought to repent!
What the Church needs tonight is not new members. Why, the United States is combed over and over and over by so many evangelists, until it’s just burnt territory. That’s the truth. America has absolutely sinned away its day of grace. You mark it down on a book. You’ll never have a universal revival in America. It passed that about three years ago. It’ll never be a revival. Some of you young people, mark my word down for that. There’ll never be a nationwide revival, no more, like the Billy Sunday days and so forth. You’ll have little spurt ups, like that, till Jesus comes, but it’ll never be.
God has turned from it and gone to the foreign nations. There’s where the people come. One sign from the Lord done; thousands will run to the altar of heathens. And it can be done over and over to this bunch of Americans, that’s been taught this way, that way, and all confused, and never stop to look in their Bible.

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« E-62 † You know, you… The Bible is–is the Word of God. It’s given to the people to feed on.
Why, you got so many ways drawed up. “It’s got to be this way; it’s got to be the way my church says. It’s got to be the way my church says.” When Jesus come the first time, it was all together different from what their churches was saying. And it’ll be altogether different from what they’re saying today when He comes again.
Because, He said, “I’ve hid this from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and will reveal it to babes such as will learn.” If you’re willing to learn, take the Bible and search the Scriptures. “For They are They that testify of Me,” said Jesus, “in them you think you have Eternal Life. And they testify of Me.”

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« E-63 † You know when–when He come, His ministry was so supernatural till it blinded the eyes of the preachers of that day. They couldn’t see It. They said, “Aw, Him telling them people what’s wrong with them, and telling them their names and things, that’s a devil spirit in Him; it’s Beelzebub.”
Jesus said, “I will forgive you for that. But someday, the Ho… [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.]… is coming to do the same thing. One word against It will never be forgiven in this world or the world to come.” Watch Sodom.

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« E-64 † Now, He said, “As it was in the days of Noah,” blasphemers and so forth, and “as it was in the days of–of Sodom…” Sodom is when the fire fell. Fire’s going to fall this time, not water, fire. The fire will fall from heavens, the Bible said so. Those volcanic gasses that’s up there… Some of these days, they’re going to push one of them missiles through there; it’s going to set a chain around like that, perhaps. And that’s the way it’ll come.
It’s–it’s at hand. We know it can’t be much longer. Science says three minutes longer before midnight. The clock will strike one of these hours. And it’ll be gone within just a few minutes. The world will be on fire. But before that happens, the Church is going to glory. Then if the end of time is that close, the coming of the Lord is closer.
So what are we doing? We’re setting watching these things. We go home, say, “Wasn’t that amazing?” That’s not the way to do it. Grab up the Scriptures and start through It with prayer on your heart: “Lord God, is it that close? Help me, oh, Lord, to know Thy Word.” And search It, and lean over It, and stay with It, and miss a few meals, and pray to God, and you’ll come back to the church so charged with the power of God, things will going to taking place around here. We’ve got to have It.

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« E-65 † We see the marking. Abraham… See how that was given to Abraham? Abraham seen that sign before the fire fell in Sodom. And Abraham’s seed will see the same sign before the fire falls in the modern Sodom of today.
God help you people. I love you. I don’t mean to be rude. I don’t mean to be scolding, you people, in radio-land, and you people here. I’m not trying to scold you. But I–I want to wake you up. It’s going to be past before you know it. The day of visitation, and you knew it. Did not Jesus set and look over Jerusalem, and His Spirit… He wept and said, “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, if you’d have only knowed your day. If you’d have only knowed it. But you–you… it–it’s past now.” And sometimes down in my heart, I feel the Holy Spirit just weeping for the people.

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« E-66 † Oh, I feel It. I’m tired; I’m weary; I’m wore out. Wife said, “You can’t go another time, Honey, you’re–you’re about to fall. You’ve ministered all day; you’ve been week after week. You look awful. You’re so nervous, you can’t sit at the table. You–you’re on the middle of the floor at night with a pillow in your arms, praying for the–for it.” Said, “You’re so nervous, stay home, honey, before you die.”
I said, “But, sweetheart, them precious souls out there to which Christ died for, I must do it.” And that’s why I’m here. I love you. God, reveal that to the people is my prayer. I–I’m not here to be seen; I’m here because I love you and I’m trying to shake you with the Gospel out of that formal, modey condition that the people are in.
Get back to God: all night prayer meeting, revival in your home, revival in your soul. Get back to believing God, acting on His Word, taking His Word and believing It. You’re the seed of Abraham. God’s give you the promise. God showed you the sign. Watch that Spirit.

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« E-67 † Not me, I’m a man, just flesh that He picked up back yonder in the gutters of sin. But if He was going to get somebody righteous, who would He get? There’s none of us righteous. One can’t pray for the other one. One can’t tell–call the other one this, that, or the other, because we’ve all sinned and come short of the glory. But God made a promise that He would do it. He’s going to use somebody. You can just depend on that, because He spoke It, and His Word has to be fulfilled.
He knowed it before the foundation of the world what He would do. Certainly He did. He knowed just the hour, and what He would do, and how the Message would go through, and how they would turn their backs to it, how they would slothfully daydream and walk away, how some would receive It and burn in their hearts with It. Because that those things are done, people try to think back and say, “Aw, that’s just a man. That’s just a telepathy or something.” They said the same thing in His day. “If they called the Master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call them that’s His disciples?” How could they call it Beelzebub, ‘less they be doing the same thing that they called Beelzebub.

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« E-68 † Here you are. You’re in the last days. You’re in the last hours, not only last days, but last hours. Think of it, friends, while we pray. Bow your heads. Radio-land, God bless you out there.
This is a serious moment. It’s a time of decision. It’s a time when you have to m–do something for God. I’m not speaking; I’m… ‘Course I’m speaking to the sinners, but I’m speaking, primarily tonight, to the church, to the church. This has been year after year that this thing has moved through the nation. The end is at hand. The signs have been done.

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« E-69 † He said, “Watch the fig tree when it puts forth its buds.” Said, “Consider it.” And how that the fig tree puts forth its buds; “When you see it, the fig tree and all the other trees putting forth its buds, you know that summer’s nigh.” Now looky here. The Jewish nation’s having a revival. The Catholic church is having a revival. The Baptist under Billy Graham, the Methodist under Jack Shuler, the Pentecostal under Oral Roberts. All the trees are putting forth their buds. The time is at hand. No certain person we can say in Israel, because God deals with Israel as a nation. The Gentile worlds is individuals.

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« E-70 † Let’s pray now. Seek God. The thing that God said would take place, and He give the example to Abraham, your father. And we… If we’re not Abraham’s seed, you’re lost, ’cause the promise was made to Abraham and his seed. The promise was given absolutely without condition. Now, wake up, and let us pray.
Now, you in radio-land, you the seed of Abraham out there, you that’s sick and needy, you there at the barroom, pool room, wherever you may be, riding in the automobile, find you a little place now just for a minute. Let’s pray. If you’re setting at the table, eating, and the message is coming into the–to the room, just bow your head a few minutes. Lay your hand on the table and say, “God, be merciful to me. I don’t want to be lost. Something’s speaking to my heart right now.” I say, “And Lord, let it be me.” And if you’re in the restaurant, then make God the promise now while we pray, and then slip out somewhere, get out of the pool room, wherever you’re at; pull your car off the side of the road somewhere and park it safely, then get down on your knees. Slip over home right quick, get down in the bedroom, say, “Lord, I want to talk it over with You.” Oh, it’s later than we think. Let’s be ready.

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« E-71 † And you here at the church, you Christians, oh, you Abraham’s seed, you stars of the morning, you who come from the dust of the ruts of sin, that God’s made you shining stars to shine by the side of the Bright and Morning Star, shake yourself, rise up, get the dust off of you. Let’s believe and know that God is here while we pray.
Eternal God, that brought again Jesus from the dead, and has presented Him to us as a Sacrifice sufficient to take away all sin… We pray, Lord, for those out there in radio-land who are bowing at this time, and ask that Your mercy, O God, will save them, that let them know that that little strange feeling that they have in their heart, it’s You talking to them, for You said, “No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first. And all that will come to Me, I’ll give them Eternal Life and will raise them up at the last day.” You promised that.
Oh, the great Seed of Abraham, through Who we are blessed, the Lord Jesus Christ, grant tonight, Lord, that if there be any there, which I believe there is, may they make that great surrender to Thee just now. As we have been reading of Thy Word and seeing Your promise, and hearing the Words of the Lord Jesus say, “As it was in the days of Sodom,” God manifesting Himself through mankind, showing signs of supernatural move… And then years later, the great Moses promised that when that One’d come, that He’d be a God-prophet; and when the Israelites, the true in heart, saw Him, they knowed He was the Messiah.

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« E-72 † When the woman at the well was told of her sins, she said, “You must be a prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things.”
And Jesus said, “I am He that speaks to you.”
Then she could run into the city and say, “Come, see a Man who told me the things that I’ve done. Isn’t this the sign of the Messiah?” And You promised that same thing would visit the Gentiles just before the world would be destroyed by fire like Sodom was. And here are the seeds of Abraham seeing that same thing happen.

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« E-73 † Lord God, be merciful. And quickly, Lord, shake them. Let them not look at flesh, that same flesh that God dwelt in disappeared in a little bit after that. It vanished, because God only used it. So will the flesh that He’s using now, will vanish one of these days. It’ll go back to the dust of the earth if Jesus tarries. But the Spirit of God will live on forever. Lord, let people see this. Heal the sick and the afflicted. Be merciful, God, and save the lost. Bring back that wandering boy or girl, man or woman tonight; bring them safely to the fold of God. Grant it, Lord.
And in this visible audience, may the Holy Spirit get a hold of hearts here and wake them up, and make great faith be accumulated in this building, that the people of God might see the works of God, and believe on God, for it’s this purpose that these things are wrought, through the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

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« E-74 † I want to see Jesus someday, don’t you?
When I reach that strand on the far off land,
I want to see Jesus, don’t you?
How many knows the old song? “I Want To See Jesus, Don’t You?” It’s a beautiful old song.
I remember one morning, waking up, and going in to my little old stove, and trying to make a fire. And the thing wouldn’t burn, and I was setting there. Oh, I was cold, and frost all over the floor, and little old cabin, and–and I was trying to get the fire to burn, and the wind was down the chimney, and it wouldn’t do it. Sister Cadle come in from Indianapolis, saying–singing it, “I Want To See Jesus, Don’t You?” I sit down there on that cold frosty floor, raised up my hands to God. I said, “Lord, let it be now that I will see Him. I–I–I’m sick and tired of it. I’m homesick now. I want to get out of it.”
Sometimes people get feeling that way. Sometimes that God permits that to happen just to make us lonesome, make us want to see Him, hungering and thirsting to see Him.

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« E-75 † Setting right back down this row here on the left hand side, There’s a person setting there, a lady, praying. She’s got cancer. If you’ll believe, lady, that God will heal you… That Light’s over you, setting right back here. She’s sitting right behind my daughter-in-law there, Loyce. If she’ll just believe with all of her heart, right back there towards the end, you can be healed, if you believe it.
Right down here. Lady looking right at me, right here. She’s suffering with high blood pressure, setting right out there at the end of the row. If you’ll believe… Yes, you put your hand over on her.
And because you did that, you yourself back there, you have varicose veins, setting next to her. That’s right. Raise up your hands, so that they’ll see that who I’m tal… All right. Now, you’re healed too. You can go home and be well. Amen.

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« E-76 † Can you believe? Look. Way back there, a man. There’s that Light. I’m looking right straight at It. The man has something wrong with his hands, and something wrong with his knees. He’s got epilepsy also. Just come from a hospital. If you believe, back there behind that man, you can be healed if you’ll just accept the Lord Jesus. All right.
You believe the Lord Jesus Christ is here? You believe He could reveal things, like He did the Angel of the Lord when He was in that man of flesh. If I’d turn my back and you’d pray, you believe that He could do the same thing? You believe It? You would accept It’s the same Christ then, the same Holy Spirit that was in that human flesh that talked to Abraham? You believe that? Some of you women, then, pray.

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« E-77 † Let it be, Lord, for Your glory. Let it be. Let someone pray, Lord, someone that I know not. Let it be tonight, that these people will see that this message is truly the truth. Let it be, in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
There’s a woman, right directly behind me. She’s suffering with a female trouble, and she’s up for an operation. She’s a young woman. And she’s just recently become a Christian, ’cause It looks real bright around her, setting right back over here in the aisle. You believe with all your heart, with your head down there? Stand up on your feet now. I do not know you, do I, lady. We’re totally strangers, is that right? You and I? Everything was said is the truth?

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« E-78 † The same Angel that was on that man that had His back turned to the tent that knowed about Sarah, knowed about her. The same God is here tonight, Abraham’s God, speaking the same thing to Abraham’s children. Do you now believe with all your heart?
Now, I tell you, is there a sinner here that doesn’t know God, but feels strange in your heart, would you want to come down here now without any persuading? Are you convinced? Come down here just a minute. Come here, sinner friend. Let us pray. A sinner that doesn’t know God, will you come?
Is there a backslider that would like to come back to God? Come down here just a minute.
Now, I’m going to use, in that next few nights, just altogether on healing, but I–I want a revival. I–I’m not satisfied. I want to see the Spirit of God moving.
Children, look, how many believes I love you? Raise up your hands. You know I’m not scolding you. But you’ve got too much Hollywood around here. You’ve got too much fashions of the world. You got too much care. Break out of that. We need a revival. Amen. My, my! You need God, people, you need to wake up. We’re at the end of the road; judgment is here. Amen.

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« E-79 † Oh, I wished I… Brother Duffield, you’re one of the nicest men I ever met. Brother duPlessis… I–I wish there was some way I could let the people see what I’m talking about. We’ve got to have a wakening right quick or you’re going to miss the rapture, friends. It could happen at any time.
How many would like to make a consecration to God, raise up your hands. Stand up on your feet. Consecrate yourself newly to God. How many feels you need a consecration, raise up your hands.
How can I do it? How can I, friends? I can’t do it. You say, “Brother Branham, would you see some more visions?” If you won’t believe that, you wouldn’t believe it anyhow. That’s exactly right.
Them visions make me weak. I’m trying to build up enough strength to finish up this week through Saturday and Sunday, the biggest healing services we’ve ever had. That’s why I’m holding my strength back for, for them nights to put everything I’ve got right into it.

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« E-80 † Here’s people that’s coming up now, to giving their life to Christ. Some of the personal workers walk with them. You come. Somebody else that needs Christ, walk down here at the altar.
I tell you, friends, as I said the other night: You’ve heard so much mighty rushing winds, and so many earthquakes, and so many shaking things, till you’re failing to hear that last one. What was that last? A still small Voice. See? That’s something in your heart that says, “Oh, yes. Yes. There It is, I see It.”
Oh, if we could wake up to that. That’s what we need. Who could pray a prayer that would dedicate these people over. I don’t believe there’s a minister in the world can do it. You have to do it yourself. It’s you have to do it.

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« E-81 † How many now will lay your hand over on somebody else, and pray for them that they’ll be consecrated to God? Don’t pray for yourself, pray for the next fellow. The person standing next to you, pray for their consecration. That’s it. Now, that’s the way. Pray for somebody else. Do something for somebody else. That’s the way to do it. Say, “Lord, consecrate my brother, consecrate my sister. Pour down Your Spirit upon them.” That’s it. You pray now. That’s the way to do it. Consecrate yourself to God. And if you feel the power of God in your life, raise up your hands and say, “Thank You, Lord. I’m making my promise now to You.”

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« E-82 † O Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, send Thy Holy Spirit upon this group, and fill this place by the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Grant it, Lord. Pour out Your Spirit. Condemn the people of unbelief, and send down faith, power, joy, peace, satisfaction. May they come to El Shaddai, take a hold of His breasts, and draw the strength and power of God, through prayer, back into their souls and in their bodies. Grant it, Lord. Hear the prayer of Your servant. Grant it as they’re praying and believing, and acting, and believing this is the seed of Abraham, knowing that the Holy Ghost is present. (Wait a minute, just a minute.)

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« E-83 † “I Will Praise Him.” Oh, wonderful.
It doesn’t take too much prayer; it just takes some believing. You prayed a whole lot; start believing, laying aside every weight and the sin, the unbelief that does easily upsets you. How many borned again Christians are here, raise up your hands. Just look. Oh, that’s wonderful. Let’s sing now. Close your eyes. Raise your hands. How many feels better right now, feel like you got some faith down in you, feel like you could blow the lid off and go on, feel that you’re Abraham’s seed?

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« E-84 † The little organist is giving us the tune, “I Will Praise Him.” Let’s lift it up high, and raise our hand to God, and sing,
I will praise Him, I will praise Him,
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain.
Give Him glory, all you people,
For His blood has washed away each stain.
All together. you Methodists, you Baptist, Pentecostals, all together now, come on.
I will praise Him, I will praise Him,
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give Him glory all ye people,
For His blood has wash away each stain.
Now, while we sing it again, I want you to turn around and shake hands with somebody in front of you, behind you, your side, saying, “Praise God, Christian. Praise God, Christian.” Say, “I feel better. I feel like traveling on now.” Say it while we sing. Now, come on.
I will… (Up in the balcony, now come on. Get the starch away now.) 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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« E-85 † Now, while preaching hard, and having to shove the Word out there just as hard as I knowed how to do it, you don’t think I was angry with you, do you? You know it was just trying to build up your faith. Is that right? Raise up your hand if you believe that. God bless you. I’ll sing it with you now with our hands up.
I will praise Him, (Hallelujah!) 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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« E-86 † All that believe every Word of God, all that feels that you can lay upon the bosom of El Shaddai and draw any promise from God that you desire, say, “Amen.” [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Say it real loud, “Amen.” [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] That’s right. “Amen” means “so be it.” We can do it. God bless your little royal hearts. All right. Let’s bow our heads now for prayer. All right, Brother Duffield.

Rev. William Marrion Branham

15-1028 Remembering the Lord

15-1028 Remembering the Lord
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« 1 † ` Thank you. Lord bless you, brother. Happy to be in, tonight, in the Southside Assemblies of God, to worship with you people, enjoying this fine fellowship that you are no doubt constantly enjoying.
2 Just being a little tired. We was down last night at–at Tucson, for the banquet down there, and we certainly had a–a wonderful time. The Lord blessed us. And I been living on the good part of it, all day long.
3 So, now, I met, heard someone last night. I never knew Brother Carl Williams’ son. I was, today, just bragging on that certain young man that got up and was talking about the–the young people’s rally. And I told my daughter. I said, “Now, you want to make it your business to get in there.”
She said, “I don’t know nobody in there.”
4 I said, “You’ll know somebody, or everybody will know you. Just go on in, anyhow.”
5 And I’m praying that she receives the baptism of the Holy Ghost during this rally up there.
6 I said, “That fine young man standing there, and his face shining with the glory of God!” And I was repeating it to Billy.
7 He just stood and looked at me, said, “Daddy, don’t you know who that was?” Said, “That was Brother Carl Williams’ son.”
8 Well, that, I–I know you have come from good stock. If you… See?
So glad to be in Phoenix tonight.

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« 9 † Well, if there ain’t Brother Pat Tyler. Where in the world did you come from, brother? I suppose hitchhiked, from New York here. That’s just about the way it goes.
10 Remember seeing Brother Gene, Brother Leo, here tonight, Brother Ed Daulton, many of my friends around here, and Brother Ed Hooper. And, my, up here tonight I got a good view of everybody, and can look around, fine.

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« 11 † Well, I’m getting a little bit tired. I been going quite hard, and so we are–are long hours. And I… My wife said, “Say, I notice you begin to talk in your second voice.”
I said, “I had to call on it this time.”
12 Sometimes when I talk, I go down, talk deep in my throat, then that part gets sore and wore out. I come up, the top part, and talk from there out, like that. We just have to learn all kind of things when just working for the Lord, don’t we, when we wear out?
13 And, my, I hope all these are ministers back here. If it is, my, we’re right in good keeping tonight, such a fine bunch of men setting together. Well, that reminds me of the promise, that, “We’re setting together in Heavenly places, Christ Jesus,” where His Blood cleanses us from all sin.

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« 14 † Now I’m going to try, truly, to let you out early tonight. Remembering now that, tomorrow night, we’re over to Brother Shores. Is that his name? [A brother says, “That’s right.”–Ed.] Brother Shores, at Eleventh and Garfield. That’s another Assembly of God out there. Yeah. Assembly of God there, and the First Assembly of God.
15 And then I’m just going to listen to these other guys for a while now, until next Sunday morning, I suppose, over to the convention. I’m… We’re going to have a wonderful time. I just feel that we are going to have a good time.

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« 16 † And my purpose of being here is kind of, oh, kind of pinch-hitting, you know, going around helping every place, and little fellowship with the brethren, and have a night here and there, to let get acquainted. And–and maybe a little revival spirit begin to strike the people, and then make that lead up, what we can, into there, and then the great climax. And I think, Brother Oral Roberts is the person this time to bring the climax at the banquet next Monday night. And I know we’re expecting a great time, and all through the rest of the week.
17 So you pray for us now, and go out in the streets, in the hedges and highways. And “ask” them? No. “Compel.” Compel them, compel them to come in. For this would be a wonderful time for Phoenix to get its great visitation that you… And I know that God is willing when we are ready, yes, sir, when we are ready. Let’s… That’s why we… these revivals are, is to try to meet conditions, and get prayed up, and get ready for this thing to happen.

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« 18 † Now, just before we approach the Word, let’s speak to the Author, as we bow our heads in prayer. Now with our heads and hearts bowed to God, I’m sure, in a audience of this size, there is bound to be many requests. And if you have one, and like to be remembered to God, just raise up your hand, and in behind that, say, “Lord, remember me.”

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« 19 † Our Heavenly Father, You know what is behind each of these hands. You know what flashed on their mind, and Thou art more than able to answer each request. And we pray that You will grant it, Lord. We ask that Your favor will smile upon us, tonight, in the way of the pouring out of the Holy Ghost upon us.
20 And remembering, Lord, that, tomorrow night in the–the First Assembly of God, that You’ll pour out Your blessings again upon us. And then over at the Ramada, the finishing up of the week, O God, may there be literally hundreds saved. Grant it, Lord. May there be such a–such a pouring out of the Spirit till the newspapers cannot hold their peace any longer, but they’ll have to publish to the public what is being done. Grant it, Lord.
21 Just make Yourself known to Your people, Lord. May their humble hearts reach out by faith and believe that we will receive these things that we’re asking for.

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« 22 † Then we would pray, Lord, for the ones who would like to be here tonight and cannot get here. They’re sick and afflicted, and–and in such conditions that they couldn’t get here. We pray for them, Lord. May the Holy Spirit visit each and every one.
23 Bless these brethren who has come for such a long ways across the icy fields. And many still on the road, coming. Protect them, Lord. Bring them in safely.
24 Now, bless this Assembly, this fine pastor, his congregation, his trustees, deacons, and all that they stand for, Lord. We pray that You’ll be with them and help them. Now we pray that You’ll give us thy Word. We can only read It, Lord, and read the text. Thou has to furnish the context, and we’re looking to Thee. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

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« 25 † In the–the book of First Corinthians, the 11th chapter. If someone… You know, you usually like to read, or mark down a place, say, “I…” Maybe someone would find something behind it that they could maybe improve on what’s been said. Or, ministers, and sometimes the laity, takes it, and–and reads it over, and listens to what’s been said. Many times I do that, mark down a text. So if you wish to read behind us tonight, turn to First Corinthians, the 11th chapter, and we’ll begin reading at the 23rd verse.
For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night… which he was betrayed took bread:
And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
After the same manner also he took the cup, and when he had supped, saying, This is the cup of the new testament in my blood: this do you, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
26 And now for a text, I’d like to take from there: Remembering The Lord.
27 Now, of course, any, we all know, in–in our church, we read this at the communion service each night. And it is a–a–a great text to read, or a great Scripture at that time, and it applies there. But I just wanted those words, “In remembrance of me.”

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« 28 † Now, communion has many times been the great dispute down through the ages, between Protestant and Catholic. They say the Catholic takes this communion, and they take it in hopes that they have did something to merit some good thing, that their sins will be forgiven by doing it. The Protestant takes it as in remembrance that Christ has already forgive them, and they take it in rejoicing that they’re already forgiven.
29 Paul goes on to say in here, that–that, how to come to the Lord’s table. If there’s anything wrong, make it right before we get there. “For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.” And now we are very, very much to be in prayer when we take communion.

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« 30 † But I’ve wondered many times if, that word, we use it just right, communion. Now, commune means “to talk to,” see, “to commune with.” And I wonder if really, when we meet together like this in Heavenly places, if that isn’t communion, that we are communing with God, talking to Him.
31 And, then, if we just set still and let Him answer us back! Many things, and the one of the horrible things that I do, I try to do all the talking, and–and not set still long enough for Him to answer me back. We do that so many times in prayer. I think if we would get off of our heart what’s in it, and express ourself to the Lord Jesus, and then just kneel, and just be still a while and–and just see what He would say back to us. See?
32 And sometimes I’ve did that, and my whole opinion was changed, you see. I’d go ask Him something, “Now, Lord, these people, really, they got something. I–I believe they want me over there.” And I’d just start praying, and first thing you know, I–I’m just satisfied that that’s the Lord’s will; but, after I pray, if I just–just linger a little while, see, then it’s changed, altogether, sometimes, sent somewhere else. Just commune with the Lord. Oh, what glorious fellowship, just to get down and talk, and commune, and wait for Him to talk back.

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« 33 † And to think of what a great Person that is you’re talking to, the Creator Himself, and communing with Him Who put your life in this volcanic ash that you’re living in. And then someday you’ll have to leave there, and then it’s in His hands where it goes from there on. And you have the privilege now to make your choice which way that soul goes when it leaves.
34 And what a wonderful thing to commune with Him upon the basis of His promises, then hear Him commune back to you, and say, “It’s all well.” My, that–that really expresses it right. We don’t have to look to any creed. We don’t have to look to–to any dogmas. Only thing we have to do is just know that He witnesses back His Word, that it’s settled, and that’s all of it. Then the burden rolls away.
35 I’ve thought of coming to this table, that we call it tonight, now that I’ve got it expressed that it’s just as much communion here as it would be taking what we call the Lord’s supper.

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« 36 † You know, them eastern people back there has got that thing all mixed up, and–and I can’t get them straightened out on it. And all up in the north, they take me to when I go to supper, and they say it’s dinner. I–I… They say it’s breakfast, and lunch, and–and–and–and dinner. Now, where does my supper come in at? I’m trying to find out. See? And they say, “Oh, that’s all.”
37 I said, “But it wasn’t, we didn’t take the Lord’s dinner. He called it the supper, the Lord’s supper.” And I feel like I’ve missed a meal, if you call it, start calling it that way.
38 But now when we come together in this way, there God comes down. And the–the communion table is, actually, break, broken, bodies of the Body of the Lord that we separate among us. Now, that is the literal Body, of the–the bread that we break, representing the Body of Christ.

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« 39 † Did you notice on the Day of Pentecost, what a great thing we have there? That, God, Who led the children of Israel through the wilderness, He, that great Pillar of Fire. And on the Day of Pentecost, this great Fire fell, and then divided Itself among His people. Oh, to think how that He wants us to sit together in Heavenly places, then, each one enjoying that warmth of the Fire of the Holy Spirit. “Cloven tongues set upon them like Fire, licks of Fire,” God dividing Hisself amongst the Church. Oh, wouldn’t that, though, just set our hearts burning. That’s when we can come together in Heavenly places.

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« 40 † Now, we know that His table, where the people set together and commune with Him, is like an oasis in a desert. And an oasis, in the desert, where there’s a great spring, where weary travelers come and set around this oasis in the desert, and–and refresh themselves, and then remembering how it got there.
41 And that’s the way it is in the Church, that, this table of communion where all the blessings of God, the full Gospel, everything that God has for His Church, is brought out, laid out among us. And it’s like an–an oasis in this hot, burning, sinful desert that we’re traveling through. And then when we come in, and talk of, read the menu, and then we see that He turns back around, and He’s not fresh out of this, or fresh out of that, or this struck off, but He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. He’s got everything on the menu, ready to give it out. That’s the good part. Then we can just look over the menu and just take the whole thing. I just like to… I like the complete course. Don’t you? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] I just like to take it.

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« 42 † And while we are enjoying these blessings, each one feeling His Presence, and saying, “Amen. Praise God! Hallelujah!” so forth, in that we can remember the One that brought it to us and made it possible, the death of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Remember Him. I think that’s what, many times, that maybe we enjoy so many blessings, that we forget just where they come from.
43 One time I was amazed. Went with a bunch of Christians of a certain church, and they set down to eat, and never returned thanks to God, for their food. Well, I thought it was kind of strange. And I went to another house, and they, still, they just went ahead and eat. And I–I questioned it. And they said, “Oh, well. That’s just… God just provides that, anyhow. See?”
44 I said, “It reminds me of a hog under a apple tree, you know. The apples will fall off, and beat him on the head all day long; he’ll never look up, see where they’re coming from.”
45 And that, you know, we, I think it pays us to stop and look up, see where these things are coming from. Oh, how glorious it is to remember our Lord, remember what all He did for us, and remember that there was no one else could make this possible. There is nothing could make it possible but our Lord. And He so freely did it, when there was no worthy person; there was no prophet, there was no sage, no potentate, no monarch, no king. No one could do it but the Lord Jesus, Himself, and He so willingly did it for us. Let’s just remember. He’s done it for His children down through the age.

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« 46 † Now let’s just talk a few moments on something that somebody would have to remember. I’d imagine, way over in Glory tonight, there’s a man by the name of Noah, and he certainly has a lot to remember the Lord for. For in the time that when God was going to destroy all the wickedness off of the face the earth, God remembered Noah. And Noah remembers how he escaped the wrath of God, by God’s mercy. How that the–the great waters started flowing down the streets, and the winds howled, and the rocks moved from the mountains! And what a terrible storm! Houses blew away, and the fountains broke up, and God had Noah inside the ark. Now, if that ain’t a wonderful place to remember Him by, yeah, yes, to be inside the ark, safely secured in the Presence of God, to live with Him!

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« 47 † Then we could call another group of people, or at least I’d say three, and they were called Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. How that they had took their stand for God, remembering that He keeps His promise! And how that, in this great hour, because of their stand, even their own brethren, many of them, had turned off into the world. But they were going to stand, regardless, and they took a stand for God. And when the furnace was het seven times hotter than it ever was het before, and they was pushed into this furnace.
48 And they can certainly remember that fourth Man that was in there with them, that kept all the–the heat and the death away from them. There is something about that fourth Man. Might talk about Him a while, yes, sir, how that He was the only One could make that possible. There was no other person could do it but that fourth Man. And He was the One that provided life, in the jaws of death. Amen. And He–He kept the fire blazes back, and preserved them. And, oh, as long as there can be a memory, and it’ll never fade out, so they can remember that great day down in Babylon.

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« 49 † There was another man down at Babylon, can remember also, and that was Daniel, when he had purposed in his heart that he wasn’t going to defile himself with the things of the world.
50 That’s a good stand to take. That’s where we people ought to take, kind of buckle up the armor a little tighter. That’s it. We’re not going to defile ourself with the things of the world, no matter what the other church does. Ourselves, we’re going to buckle it on. We’re going to stay right with that Word.
51 No matter what comes or goes, we’re not defiling ourself. If the rest of them want to do it, go ahead and do it. If them women want to cut their hair, let them cut it. We’re not. That’s right. If they want to wear manicure, let them go. Ever what that stuff is, paint, let them go ahead and do it. We’re not going to do it. If the rest of them says they can smoke cigarettes and get by, well, let them go ahead. But we’re not going to do it. That’s all. Uh-huh. The rest of them can go home, dismiss Sunday–Sunday school early, for a television program, or Wednesday night, omit the whole service for a certain program. No matter what they do, we’re going to serve the Lord.

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« 52 † We’re going to take the place like Joshua, “For me and my house, we’re going to serve the Lord.” We remember what He did to bring this blessing to us, and we cherish it so much that we cannot defile it in any way. It’s a treasure of Eternal Life that we have, and we by no means want to defile ourselves with the things of the world, not at all.
53 And Daniel purposed in his heart the same thing, though he become a citizen there; but not by his choice, because he was an alien. And every born-again Christian is an alien just as soon as he’s born again, because he’s Heavenly bound. His–his possession lays in Heaven.

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« 54 † And here some time ago, the wife and I, about two years ago, was… Brother Mercier and them would get a little kick out of this, as to say. We was over to the shopping center. And in our city, it’s… Oh, there’s many religious people, so-called. But we seen a–a woman that had on a skirt, and it was the strangest thing, ’cause none of the rest of them seemed to have on one. And–and so we know many of them that sing in choirs and everything. And the… and so we… My wife said to me, she said, “Well, why?”
55 And I said, “Well, you see, they’re not–they’re not of our citizenship.”
She said, “What?”
I said, “No, they’re not of our…”
Said, “They’re Americans, aren’t they?”
56 I said, “Sure. They’re Americans. That may be true enough.”
57 I find in traveling, in missions, in missionary and around the world, I go in to–to Germany, there is a national spirit, called, it’s a German spirit. It’s the spirit of the nation. I go up in Switzerland, I find out, just brothers, almost speaking the same language, but there’s another spirit. See? And it’s a different spirit in Switzerland. Then I come over to Finland, it’s altogether a different spirit. Then I come to America, there’s a spirit of America. That’s right.
58 “Well, you say, aren’t we…” She said, “Aren’t we American citizens? Why is it that our people, so-and-so?”
59 And I said, “Well, you see, honey, you see, each nation lives off, on the spirit of the nation. That’s the national spirit.”
60 She said, “Well, then, wouldn’t we be living on the American spirit?”
61 I said, “Oh, no.” I said, “We are born again. We live on a Heavenly Spirit, where holiness, righteousness.”
62 And we, we’re not Americans, as far as that goes, because America is just a earthly nation. But when a man of Germany, of Switzerland, or wherever he may be, when he becomes born of Heaven, he takes on a Heavenly Spirit. And his nature and his makeup look for things above, where Christ sets at the right hand of God. Amen. Oh, how we ought to remember that, that He died that we might be able to be fortified from this thing, inoculated. That’s right.

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« 63 † A good healthy plant don’t… You don’t need to spray a good healthy plant. The bugs won’t get on it, anyhow. That’s right. No bugs will bother a healthy plant. It’s that hothouse type that has to be sprayed all the time, some kind of a hybrid affair. And that’s the way it is today. We have to spray and baby the church too much. It ought to be a rugged individual of Christ, washed in the Blood of Jesus Christ, and born of the Spirit of God. And all the worldly bugs scatter. They don’t even fool around, anyhow. That’s awful rude, but I hope it took hold. It’s kind of a rude expression, but you know what I’m talking about.

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« 64 † Oh, how Daniel, and purposing that in his heart, he can well remember the payoff. And someday we’ll remember the payoff, too. So when he come to remember that, in the hour of distress, God sent an Angel in the lions’ den, and closed the mouth of the lions, that they could not bother him. What a memory to think about! He, throwed into a lions’ den, because he had purposed in his heart to serve God, and he could remember that. How did it go? Something like this, “God has sent His Angel. He seen the innocence of my heart.” Oh, there you are, the innocence of your heart. God could see that in Daniel, and his purpose to do what was right, and He sent His Angel and had kept the lions from bothering him at all. What a memory! We could go on and on, with that.

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« 65 † Let’s just remember another person right away here, or group of people, that’s Israel. When Israel had put their place, or theirselves in position, to take the stand for God. And there was coming a death angel one night, that was going to take the firstborn of every house. And how that Israel was even commanded to remember that the blood was on the doorpost. That was the thing that held back the wrath of God, and kept there, them alive, was the blood on the door. It was a memorial. And it, always, it’s still a memorial, the blood on the doorpost and on the lintel. What a memorial night that was! And it was to be rehearsed down through the–the ages that was to come, that God, at that night, made a difference between the righteous and the unrighteous.

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« 66 † Oh, I don’t know whether it’d be night or not, but there’s coming a day when God is going to show the difference between the righteous and the unrighteous. And it’ll be a memorial to us, to know that the Blood is certainly upon the lintel and the doorpost. And wherever you look, or your understanding; you look with your eyes, and see with your heart. That’s right. You’ll remember you’re looking through the Blood of the Lord Jesus, the way He would look through it. What a time! They were…

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« 67 † Israel had another thing they could always remember, that when they took their step upon what they heard Moses say, that great vindicated prophet with the Word of God, and when they took their stand to march. Because, they seen God vindicate that the message that he was bringing was the truth, and it was according to the Scriptures, and God was with him. And he had met this One Who had no name, called the I AM. He had really met Him, because they had seen Him working with Moses.
68 And then they had another great memorial, that when they started on the march, there went a Pillar of Fire before them, to lead the way. What a memory they could think of, a memorial thing, that they didn’t need no compass. Amen. What did I say? They didn’t need no compass. They had the Light of God to lead them.
69 What a memorial it was to the wise men, how they needed no compass, and a Star led them.

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« 70 † What a memorial it is to us today, to have a Holy Ghost to lead us; not some creed, or some fashion, or something to lead us, or some man-made something. But the Holy Spirit comes in with the tie-post of the Word, and confirms His Word, and proves that it is–is the truth. What a memorial to our hearts, to know that the living God still lives. Oh!
71 Remembering Him, what He did, led them all the way to the promised land, by this way.

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« 72 † Elijah had a great thing to remember God by, when he had done his duty, exactly what God told him to do, to command the rain, not even dew to fall until he’d call for it. Went up and set down by the brook Cherith, in there. He stayed there for all this time. How he could remember that! How was he going to get food, through these years? But God served him with the ravens. A God of Heaven! No question, “Where did the ravens get the food?” We don’t know, can’t tell. The only thing, that he just knowed, he just committed hisself to God’s Word, what He promised him. And God took care of the rest of it.
73 That’s all we have to do. Brethren, that’s all we need. It just takes Him at His word. How is He going to do it? I don’t know. But, you see, we try to inject our own ideas, and there is where we mess up.
74 What if he’d said, “This other brook down the hill would be just as good, ’cause it’s got more water in it”? Huh-uh. No.

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« 75 † What if Abraham would have thought that he ought to take Sodom? It never would have happened right. But Abraham took the way the Lord led him, his one promise he had to hold to.
76 Elijah could remember when he had done all he could do. He–he had rebuked all the–the women of that day, that tried to fashion after the first lady, the president’s wife, and–and all those things that he–he had rebuked. And–and they called him an old, I guess, just an old, simple sort of a fellow. And he went, but done exactly what God told him to do. And then it come to a showdown, where he said, “Let’s see which, these things, are right. Now, you call the prophets of–of Baalim up here, and–and you call his prophets. And let me call on the Lord.” Oh, what a showdown, when he knowed His Word had promised it.

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« 77 † What could we say today as Christians, in the front of Buddhism, Mohammedanism, or anything else? “Let’s see who is God.” Amen.
78 Some time ago, down there in India, where we was at–at the meeting, and there there had been many people, but four or five come to the platform. And there was no way of estimating how many people were there. And I prayed for a little leper. He had no arms, and his ears was eat off, and little stubs. And he was trying to hug me, and I hugged him, and prayed with him. The Lord told me what was wrong with him, and–and about his life.
79 And–and I could see the Rajahs and those setting out there. They said, “That’s telepathy, you see.” You could–you could tell it, the way they was thinking, what they were–what they were going to put back to me.
80 That day, I’d been entertained in the temple of the Jains, where there was about seventeen different religions in there, and every one of them against Christianity, and, “There was nothing to Christianity.”
81 But, that night, God changed the program. We got to reading off the menu, by His spring. So the Holy Spirit begin revealing. And after a bit, an Indian came by, and he was blind. I said, “The man is blind. We can all see that. But he’s a married man. He has two sons.” I said, “I’ll spell their name. I–I can’t pronounce it.” And that was just exactly right. I–I could.

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« 82 † Them what they call holy men, and all of them out there, and them Mohammedan priests, and sitting out there. And so they–they knew then, they thought I was reading their mind, a telepathy.
83 And so I happened to look back, and this blind man, just a vision above, was standing there looking at me. Oh, my! You know, God’s servant, the Holy Spirit, had already brought the… what the menu wrote, you know. I know it was ready to be served.
84 I said, “Now, they was telling me today that the Mohammedan religion is the greatest in the world, and the Buddhas, and all.” I said, “Now, I want some of you priests out there, the Buddha priests, the Mohammedan priests, come give this man his sight, sure, now, if he–he is so great. This man is a worshipper of the sun. And we all know, we who believe that he was wrong, he worshipped the creation instead of the Creator.” I said, “He was wrong, and we know that. But,” I said, “surely the God that’s the Creator; and the man is willing to come and serve that Creator; surely He’s ready to manifest Hisself.”

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« 85 † Now, I want to say something. I wouldn’t have said that by no means if I hadn’t have seen that vision. I knowed better than that. You see, that’s what we don’t want, to go presuming. Presume means “you’re advancing without authority.” That’s why we want to watch when you say it’s THUS SAITH THE LORD, not just an impression, but something you know definitely, positive, the Lord has said it. And I felt very consoled with seeing the vision, knowed it had never failed.
86 And I said, “Now, the–the… If this man is wrong… Now, the Mohammedans say he was wrong, and then you making a–a–a Mohammedan. Then, Buddha would say he was wrong. And the Sikhs, and the Jains, and whatmore, they’d all say he’s wrong. But surely there’s a Right somewhere.” Oh, my! Oh, what a glorious thing! Then I said, “Now, the One that will give him his sight, he promised he would serve that God.”
87 He went blind, from looking at the sun, ’cause it was the sun god. See? And he thought that paid his way in Heaven. Now, we could remember Christ, that He–He suffered not to put our eyes out, but to give us sight. See? So then, and if…

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« 88 † I said, “Now, the One that will come and produce this, I’ll follow that clan.” I said, “I’ll serve the One that gives him back his sight.” And that was the quietest group I ever heard. Nobody said. Then I said, “Well, there is the Mohammedan priest out there now, why don’t you come give him his sight?” I said, “Why? Is because you can’t. And neither can I. But the God of Heaven has raised up His Son, Jesus Christ, Who has showed me a vision just now, that the man is going to receive his sight. If it isn’t so, then I’m a false witness of this Christ. And if he does, then I’m a true witness of Him. And you have to re-… You should repent, or you must, if you… or you’ll perish in the clans that you’re in now.” What a time! And I said, “Now, if that’s false, then you should put me on a plane and send me back to the United States, and never let me in here again.”

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« 89 † Oh, but when our God came on the scene! The man, as soon as I prayed for him, he could see as good as I could. He run and grabbed the mayor of the city around the neck and begin to hug him. And, why, we was about four hours. I didn’t have shoes, no pockets in my coat, and the militia couldn’t hold them back, and it was a stampede. And you should see what…
90 But what was it? The same God, the same God that could call fire, bring fire down, to take away His sacrifice; can bring His Holy Spirit, to confirm His Word, that It’s the Truth, as long as you are sure that is the Truth.

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« 91 † Now, Elijah was positive that was the truth. He had heard the Voice of God. There’s no question to him.
92 And there’s no question in your heart tonight, that God still gives the Holy Ghost like He did on the Day of Pentecost, it’ll happen. If there’s no question that He keeps His Word and heals the sick, it’s got to happen. But you got to be positive of it. You’ve got to really see it by the real eyes of faith, then accept it and stand right there.
93 And he had a lot to remember God for, when he was… Now he has a lot to remember, what He did in them days.

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« 94 † The immoral woman that Jesus found up at Sychar up there, that she was a Samaritan, which was rather an offcast people that really believed God. They was about half Jew and half Gentile, and they were a–a race. They believed in God. And this little, immoral woman in her condition, very marred by sin, and one day perhaps had got discouraged with all their traditions of the elders, of pots and kettles, and washings, and so forth.
95 She went out one day to the same old Jacob’s well up there, and she was going to let down her–her bucket, to get some water. And she changed springs. Oh, how she can remember that there was One setting there that said, “In Him was living Water.” What a thrill it was to her, when that living Well revealed her sins, and told her where she was wrong, and described what she had did to her. And it put a message in her heart, that set her on fire with the glory of God; and into the city, and to the men.

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« 96 † Now, you know, that really isn’t legal in that country, for a woman to go through the streets, and especially a woman marked with immorality. But I’m telling you, when she got cleansed and a drink of that fresh Water, you try to stop her! It was like trying–trying to put a–a fire out, or a house on fire, and it real dry, and a high wind in dry weather, that was really blowing that blaze.
97 And you couldn’t stop her, because she had found something that was real. Her sins was revealed. And when her sins and wrong was revealed, she can remember tonight, in Glory. She can remember that there was a Spring for her. There was a place where, all the creeds and–and the churches had turned her down, but yet she found a oasis. She found a place where there is Somebody Who cared. What a rejoicing!
98 And how we can rejoice with her, we who was bound down with creeds that pulled us away from God, and we found a Fountain filled with Blood drawn from Emmanuel’s veins. There we lost all of our starchy condition. And–and we drank from the Fountain and refreshed. And we remember the One who paid the price, that we could have His Spirit upon us, Jesus Christ, the Son of God. What a memory to remember by!

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« 99 † I imagine tonight that Hagar could have something to think about, too, when she had been put out, misunderstood. Now there’s many of us here can think about Hagar, as she, her being misunderstood.
100 Who walks the right life with God, who takes the straight, narrow way, but what knows what to be misunderstood means? I’m misunderstood. Every person, all you brethren that try to live right, and you sisters, you’re misunderstood.
101 Your neighbors think you’re some old model, and they try to throw off on you. “Why don’t you attend these societies? And why don’t you have these card parties, when things?” And you shun those things. You’re misunderstood.

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« 102 † So was Hagar misunderstood. And she had her child, little Ishmael, that was the fruit of her womb, from a legal marriage to her husband Abraham. And she was–she was a slave girl. And she had been given by her mistress, Sarah, to Abraham, to wife; which, polygamy was legal in them days. And she lawfully had married the man, because she had been given to him. She had bore the child, just what their hopes was. There’s nothing the woman had done out of the way. And, yet, misunderstood by her mistress, and put her out into the wilderness to die. What a place to be!
103 And the water was spent from the bottle. Little Ishmael’s throat was beginning to dry. He was crying for water. It got worse. And only a mother’s heart could hear that baby cry of a little, parched lips in–in the desert somewhere, of her only child, and feeling his little body drying out, and he’s dying. No water, just rocks and sand, as you would look out here in the deserts of Phoenix. Not a place. Misunderstood! What a time!

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« 104 † There she was, a slave girl, to begin with, and had tried to act in the right way that she was supposed to act. And here she’s got the baby in her arms, and it dying. And she was so sad. She laid it under a little bush. And went about a bow-shot, and she knelt down to pray. And there appeared a well, oh, my, “The well of Him that liveth and seeth me.” Still stands today. It was put there, some way. That well still stands as a memorial.
105 I haven’t got education enough to pronounce it. But I–I tried it, a while ago, when I was writing some little notes. And I–I tried to pronounce it. I couldn’t do it. But you know what it is. I–I call it one thing, another. I said, “I better not say that. It’ll just show my ignorance worse.”

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« 106 † But one thing I want to say. I know where there is another Well that was put down on the Day of Pentecost. It’s just as open tonight as it was the time when it was opened back there, and the waters is just as fresh to every man or woman that wants to take the right road with God’s Word, and walk with Him.
107 I come to this well, remembering Jesus Who made it possible that me, an alien, a drunkard’s son, could come up to that Well and be pardoned of my sins, and drink of Eternal Life.
108 Oh, how Hagar must have felt when she seen that well! It saved the life of her and her child. She sure can remember that oasis, all the days of her life, and all–all through time that she can remember it.

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« 109 † We could go on and on, with characters. But, let’s just think this, don’t miss seeing your well now. Don’t miss seeing the spot of refreshment that brings Life.
110 Jesus was sent from Herod to… from Pilate to Herod, for mockery. What he missed! What, what was the matter with Pilate?
111 And then when Pilate sent Jesus to Herod, and then how foolish Herod was. When, he heard of Him, and he had heard of His ministry. And Pilate being a Jew… Or, Herod, I believe it was, Herod was a Jew. And standing there before Him! And there he was, standing in the Presence of all the prophets had prophesied about, from Eden out. Standing in the Presence, and he never asked pardoning of his sin. He never–he never–he never… Wonder if he even thought, he took a second thought, of what, Who he was standing before? He never probably knew Whose–Whose Presence he was standing in.
112 Oh, you say, “That was–that was a horror! That was the most foolish thing.” It was. It was the most foolish thing that the man ever done. Well, we think of–of how bad off he was.

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« 113 † But wait a minute. We have men today do the same thing, stand by the same Fountain, and still make the same mistake that he did.
114 All the prophets, for four thousand years had pointed to Him. But because He didn’t come in the way of their creeds, said He would come, they cast him out.
115 There, exactly right. It’s exactly right. Yes, sir. Still cast Him out. They don’t want nothing to do with it, ‘less it comes according to their book, you know, the way that their textbook reads it, you see. It has to come that way.
116 Oh, all the prophets through four thousand years had spoke of Him, and here He stood before him, and he never said a thing about, ask for pardoning. There he is in the Presence, and the–the fulfillment of all of the words of the Hebrew prophets, standing right before him, and he never asked for pardon. He just stood there. Oh, that was a terrible thing!

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« 117 † But we do the same today. Only, we stand by Him, after six thousand years. We make a greater mistake than Herod, and Pilate, and–and Caiaphas, and the priests of that day, because we got two thousand more years of record added. And we still make that same mistake. Just, I just…
118 I suppose that–that Herod never even give it a serious thought.
119 Now, I just wonder how serious we think about This. How serious do you try to consider this Word? What does that Word mean to you? Do you know that is God in print form? But we ride right over it, for some sort of a creed, and say, “Days of miracles is past. Dr. Jones said so-and-so, so that settles it.” And, yet, this Bible laying in every book store, pretty near, Bible stand, churches. And ministers, and so forth, standing there, and read over the top of it, and ignore it, because of creed, try to place it back in some other age.

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« 120 † As I’ve made the remark, two or three times since being in Phoenix, it struck me so. Men are that way. They always praise God for what He has done, and looking forward what He will do, and ignoring what He’s doing right now. They do it. They fail to see it.
121 Now, perhaps Herod could have praised God for what He brought the children out of the wilderness, so forth. And they said, “Someday He will send a Messiah. Glory to God! We’ll see Him then.” And here He was, standing right before them, and they never knew Him.
122 “He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. But as many as did receive Him, to him… gave them the power to become sons of God.” I like that. Yes, sir.

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« 123 † There in His Presence, I suppose he never took a serious thought about it.
124 And many today do the same thing, don’t take it seriously. They don’t take a serious thought. They think, “Now here, I go to church, and I’m just as good as you are.”
125 Now, you just don’t want to take that attitude. You could be as good as me, and be no good at all. See? But you want to not make any man your example. You want to make God your Example, Jesus Christ, and you want to take His Word. And if you don’t…

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« 126 † Now, remember, the Bible said, over in the book of Revelations. This is the complete revelation of Jesus Christ. “Whoever takes one Word out of It, or puts one word to It, his part will be taken out of the Book of Life.” So That is the Revelation.
127 “God in sundry times and divers manners,” Hebrews 1, “spoke to the fathers through the prophets, but this last days through His Son, Christ Jesus.” And, Christ, revealing Himself, making Himself known, taking His Word and just making It grow.

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« 128 † Standing the other day, talking, I believe, with Brother Carl Williams, there was a palm tree. I believe it was Brother Carl, or someone. And I said, “Isn’t that a beautiful tree?”
He said, “Yes.”
I said, “What is it? Volcanic ash.”
129 That’s all it is, dust of the earth, with a life in it. And that life was a certain kind of life, made it a palm tree. Over here stands another, it’s a different kind of a tree. It’s a fig tree. What is it? Volcanic ash from the earth, with the fig tree life in it.
130 Well, look at us. What are we? The same as that tree, volcanic ash, but with a human life in it. And that human life is of the earth, and must go back to the earth.
131 But there is a Life that comes from Above, that, a man, he lives by that Life. It’s Eternal Life.
How foolish! Could not we seriously consider that, friends?

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« 132 † Now, it isn’t an emotion. It isn’t keeping a lot of creeds. It’s an experience. It’s a Birth. First, you have to experience a death before you can witness a Birth. Like, line that right: experience death, and then witness a Birth. Any seed has to do the same thing. And this Seed is God. And when It’s placed into your heart, it brings forth the Birth of a son of God.
133 And that’s the way Jesus was when He was on earth. He said, “Who can condemn Me of sin? Who can accuse Me, rather, of sin?” Sin is “unbelief.” “If–if you can’t believe Me, believe the works.” “Search the Scriptures. In Them you think you have Eternal Life. They are the Ones that testify of Me. They’re the Ones tells Who I am. And if I don’t meet that qualification, just exactly what the Scripture said, the Father said I would be, when I come; if I don’t meet that, then I’ve done wrong.”

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« 134 † Oh, if we Christians, if we ministers, if we men, women, Pentecostals, and the rest of us, if we can’t take what God said His Church should be, if we can’t measure up to the stature that He said, then we can be condemned of sin, of unbelief. We try to say that the days of miracles is past, and all these other things, that, and so-and-so, and so-and-so, then we can be accused of unbelief. For, there’s only one sin, and that’s unbelief. “He that believeth not is condemned already.” See? You don’t even get to first base if you don’t believe. “He that cometh to God must believe that He is, and a Rewarder of those that diligently seek Him.” So what if a church…
135 That’s what God wants. That’s what God will have, a bunch of people that can say, “What has Jesus Christ promised? What has been promised in this last days that hasn’t been manifested through us?” Amen. Then we can set down, remember Him, remembering Him when we come together.

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« 136 † If there’s anything we’re lacking, let’s do it. If there’s anything lacking with us, let’s get back to that. Let’s remember what He required, not what we think we ought to have, but what He said we got to have. See? We got to have it that way, the way that He said it. But wonder if we just…
We say, “Well, I–I–I belong to this.”
137 I wonder if you give it a serious thought, to know that that don’t mean a thing to God. That don’t mean nothing. Herod probably–probably said, “Well, now wait just a minute here. You know who I am?” See? He never thought seriously. And we ought to think seriously.
138 You know what he did? When Christ was placed before him, for the first time, that all the prophets, sages, and down through the ages, that spoke of this One coming. And there He stood right before him. You know, his… the… On the occasion, that God placed Christ before Herod, he only asked for entertainment.

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« 139 † I wonder, brethren. Let’s think seriously now. We Pentecostal people, I wonder if we receive the Holy Ghost just for entertainment? But there’s more than that goes with It. There’s a life got to be lived. I wonder if that’s the hindrance of our churches today, brethren. I wonder if that’s the reason that we’re still back here in the wilderness, wandering around, instead of over in the promised Land, possessing all things? I wonder if there isn’t something we haven’t thought seriously enough about it. See? You must think seriously.
140 If Pilate would have did that, he would have released Him. If–if Herod would have did that, he would have released Him. But he didn’t think seriously, his first occasion.
And then what did he do? He asked for some tricks.
141 Oh, they, that’s what it is today. They want to make Christianity a trick, some little gimmick that you got in your hand. And, listen, Pentecostal people, be deeply sincere in these things. When you speak with tongues, and give the interpretation, you be sure that that’s interpretation. See? Don’t have a gimmick. Why do you want a gimmick, when God has got the real thing for you? See? Why accept a substitute, when the skies are full of the real. See? See? We must be sincere. You mustn’t try to just kind of ignore it and pass it over. We mustn’t do that. We mustn’t ask for tricks.

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« 142 † We must ask for service. Amen. “Lord, if I’m to be the doormat, make me the best doormat You ever had. Whatever I am to be, let me be.” Not, “Make me… If I can’t be a Billy Graham, or an Oral Roberts, why, I ain’t going to be at all.” See? Why, you’re just as much thought of as Billy Graham and Oral Roberts, if–if you got a… if you’re the doormat, if you are God’s. God needs a doormat; He–He wants a good doormat. That’s all. See? It doesn’t matter.
But we go along, presuming that we’re supposed to be this or that. Don’t do that.
143 Just ask for service, whatever it is. See? Whatever it is, let God choose your service. See? And then when He gives you service, remember that it is Jesus that directed you here. You were born for that purpose. Be a–a good servant to Him, wherever it is. Yes.

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« 144 † Jesus said, “Why do you call Me ‘Lord,’ and do not the things that I tell you to do?” We ought to study the Scripture. We ought to find out what God’s program and plan is. He said, “You call Me ‘Lord.'” Said, “But why do you call Me ‘Lord,’ when you don’t do the things that–that I command you to do?” See? Yes.
145 Lord is “ownership.” The landlord owns the–the land. And the people, today, they’ll gladly accept Jesus for a Saviour. They–they don’t want to go to hell. They’ll–they’ll accept Him as a Saviour. But when it comes to “Lord,” oh, no. Huh-uh. See?
146 Lord, is, you to be His property. If He wants a floor mat, He makes you a floor mat. And you’re just as happy, a floor mat, as you would be a, morning star. See? See? See? You–you–you want… We–we want…
147 We don’t want to have him “Lord.” We want a Saviour, but we don’t want “Lord.” Then He comes “Lord,” and He speaks to you about certain things of the Word. “Well, I now, I–I don’t know about That now, see. Well, just… I just can’t imagine me doing That,” you ladies here.
You say, I’ll get tired after while. No. I won’t.

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« 148 † I’ll be like the fellow said one time, he went to preach a revival. He said he preached on repentance; the third night, repentance; fourth night, repentance. He preached a full week on repentance.
149 And the pastor of the church and some of them, got back and told him, said, “Brother, we–we really admire your sermon. But haven’t you got another one?”
150 Said, “Oh, yes, sir.” Said, “I got another one. But let them all repent, then I’ll preach on something else.” So, yes, sir.
151 Let the church get started on its ABC’s. Then we’ll go to algebra then, how–how to be prophets, and get gifts, and so forth like that. But let’s first learn this first step, first. Learn to walk before you can run, you know. So, and if you’re weary with the footman, what are you going to do? All right.

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« 152 † But we–we want to remember our Lord. That’s what you got to remember, that it’s Him you’re serving. You don’t get these gifts just to have a lot of fun out of them. That’s right. After all, there’s many that talk about gifts, that I’m sure, from the way they act, they don’t know what it is. See? See?
153 The gift, gifts of God, and things, are not something that’s just played with. The gifts of God are gracious, and they’re weary. They’re wearisome. Didn’t Ja-… In the Presence of God, is not shouting. The Presence, that’s just God’s blessings He pours upon you. See? But the Presence of God is a troublesome thing.
154 I don’t want you to forget to get that tape, if you can, Sirs, What Time Is It? And remember that.

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« 155 † Jacob, when he laid on that pillow, rock, one night. And the Lord appeared to him in a vision, and he saw Angels descending and ascending. When he got up, he said, “This is a dreadful place, none other than the house of God.” Dreadful place!
156 When Isaiah the prophet had prophesied for many years, under Uzziah. And when Uzziah was taken away from him, because he tried to usurp the part of a priest, and he was stricken with leprosy and died. And Isaiah probably had been forty years old, fifty. And he had been a prophet, oh, ever since a baby, because prophets are born. “Their gifts and callings are without repentance.” And there he was, a–a prophet of the Lord, down in there, praying, one day, and confessing his sins down at the altar.
157 And all of a sudden, he came into the Presence of God, and seen God setting in the Heaven, and His train. He saw Seraphims with Their holy faces shaded with wings, and Their feet covered with wings, and flying with wings, crying, “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty.” Yeah.
158 And Isaiah remembered then that his little journey wasn’t very much. What did he cry? He knowed, his–his gift, he hadn’t acted right with it. He was far away. He said, “Lord, I’m a man of unclean lips, and I–I–I dwell among people with unclean lips.” And then the Angel… See, it’s a dreadful thing. He said, “Woe is me.”

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« 159 † It’s not the thing of blessing, and shouting, and screaming. That’s good. Now, remember, I’m not condemning that. But, I’m telling you, that’s not what I’m talking about.
160 It’s the power and the Presence of God, which brings such a holy fear, until you’re paralyzed in His Presence. You’ll always remember. You remember it.
161 And Isaiah remembered, as long as he lived. I imagine, when the saws was cutting through his body, he still remembered those Angels crying, “Holy, holy, Lord God!” Certainly.
162 Jacob, in his last hours, could remember those Angels ascending and descending, and it was such a dreadful thing to him.
163 It’s not what people think it is. It’s something different. What we need to do is come into His Presence, remembering Him, that He brought us here not for frolic, but for service, brought us in here to–to work for Him.
He had something to remember.

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« 164 † What about Judas Iscariot? He’s got something to remember, too. Judas has got something he’s remembering tonight. Certainly is. And he’ll always remember it. Certainly. Why? He sold the Lord Jesus for personal gain.
165 I wonder, tonight, if there isn’t many doing that same thing today, selling your birthrights for personal gain, when you should be on fire for Christ. When you should be doing something for Him, working for Him, or something, you go join somewhere where you can live any way you want to and still claim to be a Christian. That’s what the world is looking for tonight. The world, I said, not the believer.
166 The believer is looking for every straight road he can walk in, to get right.
167 But the unbeliever is wanting somewhere where he can go and just maintain his profession of a Christian, and then just live anyway he wants to. That’s what this nation wanted for a president, and that’s what they got. Exactly. That’s what the–that’s what the church wants, that’s what they got. Yes, sir. That’s what you get.

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« 168 † But the believer wants to get everything shaved off of him. “He wants to lay aside every sin, and the weight that so easily beset him; he might run with patience the race that’s set before him, looking to the Author and Finisher of our Faith, Jesus Christ.” Yeah. Remembering Him, as we lay aside every weight. Women letting their hair grow. Men quit being Ricky, and come on into church and do what’s right, and all this other kind of stuff. And pastors with deacons on their board, married three or four times; and all these things, compromising, because they pay heavy on the plate and all; have to knuck down to some organization because they tell you this is It, and the Bible says something different. “Lay aside every weight.”
Remember Jesus. He become very unpopular.

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« 169 † The young Rabbi was One of the greatest Men in the world, in the day when He was healing the sick and doing everything well, making people healed, and giving the sight to the blind, showing the people, and manifesting God through them, by the thought of their own mind. He could speak to them. He was a great Rabbi.
170 But one day He set down and begin to tell them the Gospel Truth. He wasn’t popular from then on. No, He never. The first thing you know, and all the group walked away. And then the seventy said, “This is a hard saying. Who can understand it?” And they walked away.
Then He stood and asked the disciples, “Will you go also?”
171 They said, “Where would we go, Lord? You, alone. We’ve sold out. We’re ready, no matter what it is. We’re ready to go.” Let’s remember Him like that.
172 Remember, He was our Example. He done everything, condemned every Pharisee, condemned everything of the world, went through the world without a spot on Him. He was a Lamb examined by God. He said, “This is my beloved Son. I’m well pleased in Him.” He lived such a life.
173 And then He took all the sin of the world, my sin and your sin, and laid it upon Him. And then even the perspiration coming from His sacred brow, like drops of Blood, spatting on there. Not because that He was guilty, but was my guilt doing that, and your guilt.
174 And if He can do that for you and I, how could we stand up under some dogmas and nonsense of the world, and the things of this modern day? We ought to remember our Lord, remember what He paid for this price of salvation. Never be ashamed of it. “Be ready to give any man account for the hope that rests within you.” We should do that, brethren.

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« 175 † We’re getting in the last hours now. The sun is setting. Civilization has come from the East. Now it’s on the West Coast. It can go no further. The barrier is there, and all the sin of the world is heaping up, and rolling up in shameful waves of Hollywood. It’s bounced plumb back into the church. And what a time it is! We ought to remember that, brethren.
176 Remember our Lord. What would He do if He stood here today? He would hold to that Word. In the midst of every temptation, He’d stay that Word. He did it. He was your Example.
177 When Satan come to Him and said, “Turn these stones into bread,” He said, “It’s written…” See, constantly with the Father’s Word. We must remember and do the same thing. He was our Example. Yes, sir.

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« 178 † Those priests of that day will have a lot to remember, too. They’re remembering it tonight in the world of the lost.
179 You say, “Brother Branham, would you call those priests…? Holy priests, that, they were godly men.”
180 Now, wait a minute. They made themselves godly. They had a false holiness, a false piety that wasn’t really belonged of God. Jesus plainly told them, “You are of your father the Devil, and his works you’ll do.” And He told them what they were. And they have a lot to remember, too. Because, when they seen that genuine manifestation of the Messiah, proving that He was Messiah, they deliberately turned It down and said It was a evil spirit doing that. Said, “It was Beelzebub.”
181 And Jesus pronounced that that was blasphemy. “Whosoever would speak a word against the Holy Spirit would never be forgiven.” They got a lot to remember. Let’s not take their place, brethren. Let our lot not be like theirs.
182 But if I have to be, let me be like Nathanael, saying, “Thou art the Son of God. You are the King of Israel.” Let me stand as one of those. Let me stand.
183 Let you women stand as the woman at the well, how she stands tonight. She’s got a lot to remember, as we spoke of. She found a fountain.

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« 184 † And now, those priests, they’ll have… Why did they do it? Because of pure green jealousy. That’s the only way. They was zealous of their creed. They were. They were zealous of their traditions. Their elders had set up a tradition which was contrary to the Word, and they were zealous of that tradition.
185 Brethren, let’s you and I not have to answer for that, zealous of any tradition. Let’s remember Jesus, what He was. Stay with what He said. By just pure green jealousy, they did these things. Oh, what a thing! Yes, sir. They…
186 The rich man has got a lot to remember, too. He was presented with the opportunity to receive Jesus Christ, but he loved the praises of men more than the praises of God. And, remember, the Bible plainly says that he remembered it after he was dead and in hell, and the message come back to him, “Remember, in your lifetime, you had the opportunity.”
187 And Phoenix, you’ve got the opportunity. The world has got the opportunity. Don’t let it cross your path and you fail to see it, like Herod and–and–and many of them did.

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« 188 † Now, they show that those priests actually knew Who He was, ’cause Nicodemus expressed it when he come. He was one of the chief of the Pharisees. He said, “Rabbi, we know that You’re a teacher comes from God, ’cause no man could do those things except God was with him.” See, they knew it. But, see, they got to remember that. They knew better, but didn’t do it.
189 Let your creed hold you down, from the baptism of the Holy Spirit, because they tell you there’s no such a thing.

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« 190 † Here a few months ago, I was out at the hospital to pray for a woman, in our city in Indiana. And there was a little lady laying there, wanted to get right with God. She had been… She was a backslider. She once come to my church. She went back out. And, course, seven devils entered, worse than they ever was. And there she lay, in a hospital, dying.
She said, “Brother Branham, I don’t want to die like this.”
191 And I said, “All right, sister. You don’t have to, if you still got a desire in your heart to serve God. He’s never left you. You left Him, but He never left you. Now you can, if you can.”
She said, “I–I want to, Brother Branham.”
I said, “All right, we’ll pray.”
192 There was another lady laying there, with her lips down, looked at me with a… like she could run through me, and her and her son. She was lying on the bed; going to an operation, the day before. And I said… And I seen her go, looking at her son, looking over at me.
193 And–and I said, “Do you mind if we have a word of prayer?”
She said, “Pull that curtain.”
I said, “Well, I… Are you a believer?”
She said, “I said, ‘Pull that curtain.'”
I said, “I just asked you.”
She said, “I’ll give you to understand, we are Methodist.”
I said, “Well, that certainly expresses it then, see.” See?
194 What was it? She didn’t want to see some other person, that poor, backslidden woman come back to God. Now, she had been a Methodist, it’d been different, you see. Didn’t remember Jesus there, you see. She just remembered her creed.
195 Just remember. All right. Oh, what a horrible thing it’ll be in that Day of the Judgment.

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« 196 † Few weeks ago I was riding on an elevator in Louisville. I was going up for an examination, a physical examination, to a doctor friend of mine, to get a–a–a pass, so if I want to go overseas with Brother Rowe and them right away. And so I thought I’d take my physical while I had a chance, and I went up.
197 There–there was some men with us, going up on the floor. We went way up, about eight floors, in Louisville, and at a building, and, so, the Heyburn building. And when I was up just about as high as we could get, to stop, these… One of these fellows was drinking a little, I think. He looked around, said, “Well, boys, I guess this is as high as we’ll ever get.” Said, “We better get off.” I never said nothing. He didn’t know I was a preacher. So, I just waited to get off.
198 I said, “Just a minute. That remark you made.” I said, “If we’re trusting in our own merits, this is as high as we’ll ever get, but,” I said, “if we’ll trust in Jesus! Remember Him.” Amen.
199 We can go higher, when we pass, as the Brother Outlaw singers said the other night, Jupiter, Venus, Neptune, Mars, the Milky White Way, and go on, and on, and on. There’s no difference. Beyond every solar system, into the heavens of Heaven! I’m glad for that.
200 Just remember that He went on and above such things as that. Yes. If we’re trusting in our merits, we’re certainly lost. But if we trust in His merits, we’re saved.

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« 201 † Oh, we can remember Jesus in His grace, that He lifted us up and promised it, that, even now, right now, we don’t have to be earthbound. See? We’re not earthbound now. We’re Heaven bound. “We’re already dead. Our lives are hid in Him, through Christ.” And we’re raised with Him; not, we’re not–we’re not dead with Him. “We are raised with Him, and we’re setting in Heavenly places.”
202 Remembering Him, setting in Heavenly places! “When, Brother Branham?” Right now. Yes. We won’t be raised with Him. We’re already raised with Him. This is the Firstfruits of our resurrection: passed from death unto Life, and alive forevermore; setting in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus, already raised with Him from the dead. Yes. What a glorious thing it is to be setting in Heavenly places with–with Jesus Christ, the Son of God! Yes, sir. We can remember Him now, and all of His promises that He made us, while we’re setting right here now.

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« 203 † I was looking at that clock back there, and I thought “My, I’m doing real well. I’m getting done here now, seven o’clock.” I had about three more pages of notes, and I pushed them back under there. When I looked down at my watch, and seen it wasn’t seven o’clock. So I thought, “I’m doing real well.” Where have I been? Have I been lost all this time? I knowed I–I felt awful good, but I didn’t know I felt that good. And–and I’d… I kept looking at that clock, and I thought there is something wrong, somewhere.
204 Well, that’s what’s going to happen, one of these days, friends. Time is going to stop. And we’re going to take our sky-ride into Eternity, where there’s no more time. Won’t it be wonderful?

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« 205 † But while we’re setting here now, where time means nothing to us, we’re already lifted up into Heavenly places. What can we remember? We can remember every promise that He made us. “If ye abide in Me, and My Word is in you, you can ask what you will.” Is that right?
206 I can remember Saint John 5:24, “He that heareth My Words, and believeth,” not make-believeth, now, but, “believeth on Him that sent Me, hath,” that’s present tense, “everlasting Life, and shall not come into the condemnation of Judgment, but has passed from death unto Life.” And we’re living right now in Christ Jesus, setting in the Heavenly. That’s what He promised. We can remember.
207 We can remember how He told, made Himself known as the Messiah amongst the people. The believers saw it. And we remember, in Saint John 14:12, that He said, “He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also.” We can remember He promised that.
208 We can remember He promised in the last days that the Holy Spirit would be manifested in human flesh, just exactly like He did at Sodom before it was burned. We remember Jesus made that promise. I remember it. He said so. Jesus said so. I believe it just as much, if I was setting right there and He told me about it, ’cause it’s right Here, and that’s the way I believe that Word. I remember He said so. That’s all.
“The works that I do shall he do also.”

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« 209 † I remember, I was reading in the Scripture, other night, where Jesus said, when, “I have many things to reveal to you, tell you. But, you, I can’t do it now. But when the Holy Ghost is come, you see, He will bring these things back to your remembrance, and then He will show you things that’s going to come.”
210 I remember that the Holy Spirit spoke and said, “The Word of God is sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to asunder the marrow of the bone, and is a Discerner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart.”

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« 211 † I remember that Jesus passed through a crowd one day, and a little woman touched His garment. And went out there and set down, and out in there, stood up, or wherever she was. And Jesus turned and said, “Who touched Me?”
212 When, Peter thought He’d went out of His mind. He said, well, rebuked Him and said, “Well, everybody is touching You.”
213 He said, “But I perceive. I gotten weak. Virtue has gone.” He looked all around. He found the little woman, told her, “Her blood issue. Her faith had saved her.”
214 I remember that the Bible teaches, in Hebrews, that He is now a High Priest, oh, that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmity. That’s right.
215 I remember the Bible said, in Hebrews 13:8. I’m remembering Jesus. He made… In Hebrews 13:8, He said, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” Oh, how we can remember Him! Yes, sir. Oh, how we…
216 “Yet a little while and the world sees Me no more; yet ye shall see Me,” the Church, the believer, “for I’ll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world.” That’s right. “I will never leave you.” Oh, it’s not just something that happens today and gone tomorrow. It’s Eternal. “I’ll never leave you. I’ll never forsake you.” Oh, my! That would make us scream, shout, cry.

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« 217 † We want to consider this seriously. Remember Jesus, not just in a haphazard way. He promised this. And if that isn’t no good, then the Bible is no good. And then what are we setting here for? What are we even living for? What are you trying for? What’s your efforts for? What are you sweating it out for? If it’s any right, at all, it’s either every bit right or none of it right. Remember, it wasn’t you or I, or your pastors, that made the promise. It was Jesus made these promises. I remember He said it.

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« 218 † I remember He said, “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature.” How far? “All the world.” Yeah. Two-thirds of it don’t know nothing about Christ yet. “All the world, to every creature. These signs shall follow them that believe.” I remember He said that. If I can remember that, how can I accept something, then, that says that that day is gone? I remember He said, “To all the world, every creature. And these signs shall follow them that believe.”
219 How can I put myself with a group of people that deny that Word, when God was watching over His Word, to vindicate It? How can I hook myself up with unbelievers?

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« 220 † O God, let me remember Jesus. Let me remember the stand that He took. Let me remember that He is my Saviour. Let me remember that I am dead. I’m no more. I been dead thirty-three years. This is Christ that lives within me.
221 And if I look out and see him doing things uncommonly, unseemingly, then I know that I never died; William Branham is still alive; you’re still alive. As long as you’re disobeying His commandments, then you’re still alive. But when you’re obeying His commandment, “If you love Me, keep My saying.”

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« 222 † How wonderful, to think that He promised this! “Yet a little while, and the world won’t see Me no more. The world won’t see Me, but yet you’ll see Me.” Oh! “Wherever two or three are assembled together, I’ll be in their midst.” I remember that. You remember that, brother? [The brethren say, “Amen.”–Ed.]
223 “And the works that I do, they’ll do it also.” What kind of works did He do? There you are. See?
224 “Oh, well, course, now, Brother Branham, that was for another day. It’s–it’s not that.”
225 I remember that’s what He said. I don’t remember what you said. That’s all gone, see, but I remember what He said. See? “He that will come after Me will deny himself,” deny his own thoughts, deny his own thinking. You could deny your father, your mother, your wife, your children; but there is something so real that you can’t deny That. It keeps you. And He’s here.
226 Now let’s just remember every promise that He made, as we bow our heads.

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« 227 † Our Heavenly Father, there was many requests just a few moments ago. Uplifted hands come up from all over the building. But, Father, Thou art the living God. And I pray Thee, Lord Jesus, to bless these people. May Your Holy Spirit dwell upon them, give to them Eternal Life, give to them what they have need of.
228 Let us remember, You made the promise. You are the one that’s responsible for this promise. Let us remember, no matter what any one else says, You are the One. You are the One that we’re looking to, to fulfill Your promise. You’re the One said, that, “He that believeth in Me, though he were dead yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die.” I remember You said that, Lord.
229 And then You said, those who did believe in You… Now, You said, if we believe, we had Eternal Life. And You said, those that did believe in You, the works that You did they would do also.
230 Now, Father, we know that you are God, and we know that there is none other but You. And we believe You, and we are trusting You now, in the Name of Jesus Christ.
Now, with your heads bowed.

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« 231 † How many in this building that knows that you’re not remembering your Lord in the way that you should remember Him? And at the end of this little, chopped-up Message, you’re willing to raise your hands and say, “God, make Yourself so real to me till I remember You upon my… Your commandments will be on my bedpost? ‘I put the Lord always before me,’ as David said. Lord, give me more of You, that I can remember You.” Put up your hand, say, “Pray for me, brother.” That’s almost unanimously everywhere. “Lord Jesus, be merciful to me.”

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« 232 † Now, is there those here tonight who has never confessed Him as your Lord? And now you might stand before Him… And we’ve told you, just a few moments ago, that He promised, that, “Where two or three are assembled, I’ll be in their midst.” Now, He promised that. Then, He’s got to be here. And you’ve never accepted Him as your Lord?
233 Will you do that rashal thing that Herod did? Will you give that commitment that Pilate did, to brush Him off on somebody else? “My mother, she was a Christian. My daddy got enough religion for all of us.” Would you do that? “My wife is a religious woman.”

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« 234 † What about you? Will you raise your hands and say, “God, remember me. I’m a sinner, and I want to be right with You. I’ll raise my hand”? How many hands in here that’s that way? Is there… You mean there’s not a sinner in the building? God bless you, lady. God bless you, lady, here. There you are. I thought there was something pulling wrong here. I…
235 You understand, that, Jesus said He was here. And He knows your thoughts, you see, in your heart. Thank you for your sincerity. Really, there is more that should raise their hand.

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« 236 † But would you raise your hand then? Say, “Re-… Brother Branham, I–I’m just playing the part of hypocrisy. I go to church. But when it really comes to being born again, I just join church. I really don’t know Christ. I still love the world as much as I ever did. I–I just… Oh, I enjoy going, listen at a message or something. But when it really comes to taking time and loving to go out, and spend them hours in prayer with Him, and commune with Him, remembering Him, I–I don’t do that. I don’t even have the desire to do it. I know then, Brother Branham, I can’t be right and have that kind of a feeling. So, I’m raising my hand to God, ‘Be merciful to me.'” Raise your hand. Be honest with it. That’s right. God bless you. That’s right. Yes, sir. Lord bless you. Amen.

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« 237 † I’m just waiting, see if the Holy Spirit would reveal something else. God bless you sir. God bless you. Sure. I just want Him to search your heart. That’s what He’s here for. All right. God bless you, little lady. That’s very fine.
Just as you think of it, take it seriously now.
238 “Oh, Brother Branham, I–I got to hurry home.” Listen. You’re going to hurry out of this life, one day, too. See? Think of it now. This is the hour. This is the time.
239 Say, “Well, I tell you. Our pastor, he’s a–he’s a brilliant man, very educated. I’d rather hear it from…”
240 It don’t make any difference who brings the Message. It’s–it’s not the messenger. It’s the Message you hear. See? No matter what type of a man would walk in the door there and–and give you a message that–that you–you inherited a million dollars, you’d accept the–the money. Accept your pardon.
241 With your heads bowed now, and your eyes closed, I’m going to ask you something real sincerely. And I want you to tell me the truth.
242 Women, you wearing short hair, how many really feel that you should have long hair? Raise your hand and say… God bless you. That’s good. I know you did. I–I… There’s hopes for you. But when you’re so seared, that you can’t do it, you don’t even feel condemned, see, then there is something happened to you. Because, the Word said you should.

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« 243 † How many, you women, wear shorts and them clothes, or smoke cigarettes; and–and you men, too, that know that you’re doing wrong? And say, “I don’t want to do that, Brother Branham. I really love God, but that–that thing just holds onto me. And I know it’s an evil thing. I’m going to raise my hand. In–in raising my hand, I’m asking God to move it from me.” Raise your hand. Be honest. God bless you. That’s right. Yeah. That’s right.
244 That’s sincerity. That’s honest. God will give us a healing meeting in a minute, on that sincerity. We can believe that. Have faith in God.

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« 245 † Heavenly Father, You seen the hands. You know the conditions of the people. You know what’s all is in their hearts, Lord. I pray that You give forgiveness to every one of them. And, now, give to them the desire of their heart. Move their heartaches. Do that, Lord, which they have need of knowing. I pray that You’ll grant it to them, through the Name of Thy beloved Son, our Lord Jesus. We ask it for God’s glory. I commit them to Thee, Father, God, that You will perform Your work in them, through Jesus Christ’s Name. Amen.

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« 246 † Now, as you raise your head. How many feel lots difference about it, just raise your hand, say, “I feel lots different.” Now, how many knows that He promised that He–He’s “the Lord heals all of our diseases”? Do you believe that? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Would you?
247 How many of you believe that He promised this, that, “A little while and the world won’t see Me no more, yet you’ll see Me”? You believe that? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Do you believe it’s possible then, if Hebrews 13:8 here said, “Jesus Christ, same yesterday and forever,” you believe it’s possible that we could see God? [“Amen.”] How would we see Him? In the manifestation of His Spirit, His living Being. Would you believe that? [“Amen.”]
248 I’m going to ask my brethren not to pray on this, back there. Only, pray for me. Let the audience, this time. We’re coming on to the meeting in a few days, and we’ll maybe catch that.

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« 249 † I want this audience in one control. I want to take these spirits under my control, in the Name of Jesus Christ, for His glory, that His Spirit might operate and prove to you that He still lives.
250 I take His Word here. It said that, Saint John, Saint John the 14th chapter and 12th verse, said, “He that believeth in Me, the works that I do shall he also.” Do you believe that? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]
251 Then, every one of you people out there, that’s sick or needy, or have need of something, you pray. Just touch, remember, the hem of His garment. “He’s the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities.”
252 Does the Bible say that, brethren? [The brethren say, “Amen.”–Ed.]

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« 253 † And then how would He act, if He was the High Priest? The same way He did when He was here, ’cause He’s the same High Priest. How would He do it? When His body is the Sacrifice on the Throne of God, how could He do it? He sent His Spirit back, the Holy Ghost. “And He will take the things that’s Mine, and show them to you.” Now, if you want to see if God…

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« 254 † The reason I base this upon this, knowing this, I know that the Message that I preach to the people is the Truth. I–I–I believe that with all my heart. Though, It cuts off here, a little bit that way; not to be mean, not to be different, but to be honest. And, therefore, I know He said that. If He would take the things that was of God… And this ought to make you to know it. If He take the things that is of Christ, and will show it to you, and show you things to come, and do the very works that He did, that’s the Holy Spirit. It’s got to be.
255 Pray now, and you touch His garment. I’ll yield myself to Him, and see what He will say to you. Just pray.
256 Is there some here that’s never been in the meeting before? Would you raise your hand? Yes, there’s plenty.
257 Remember, Jesus Christ never at one time ever claimed to heal people. He said, “It’s not Me that doeth the works. It’s My Father,” and in Saint John, the 5th chapter and the 19th verse.
258 When He passed through the pool of Bethesda, and there laid great multitudes, of numbers of people, maybe thousands laying there, lame, blind, halt, twisted, He went to a man that had maybe a prostate trouble, or might he had tubercular. It was retarded. He’d had it for thirty-eight years. And He told him, “Take up your bed and go into the house.”
259 The man could walk. He said, “When I’m coming down, somebody else…” And there was men there way worse than he was.

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« 260 † But Jesus knew that he was there, and knew he was in that condition. When He was questioned, He said, “Verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself. But what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise.”
261 That’s His same position today. No prophet, no one has ever been able to do anything outside of the sovereignty of God’s will, that’s right, what God will.
262 I don’t know. I want, if… That’s the reason. I know bunch of these ministers setting here. There’s not too many out there that I know. If I should see Him over someone, I would try to, if being willing, I tell the people that I knew them.
263 You pray, and see if He is still the High Priest that can be touched. That would put Him right here before us, and you’d see that He’s here. Is that right? Say, “Amen.” [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] It’d certainly make Him here. Just have faith.

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« 264 † Here is a little lady setting right here with her head up in the air, praying just as hard as she can. She wearing a green coat, setting right there. She is praying for a condition that’s in her head. That she… That bothers her. Is that right, lady? Raise up your hand if that’s so. If I’m a stranger to you, wave your hand back and forth. It’s left you now.
265 Say, will you do me a favor while you’re there? That Light switched right over on the lady setting next to you there. She is praying also. I want to ask you something. You said, “Remember me, Lord.” All right, He has. You suffer with a sinus condition. If that’s right, raise up your hand, and wave your hand. All right. There you are. See?

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« 266 † You believe? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Now, “A little while and the world won’t see Me no more.” Ask those women. You see them. Ask them if I know them.
267 Here, here sets a young man setting here, praying for his father. I never knowed you. Don’t know who you are. No. Know nothing about you. But you’re praying for your father. He’s not here. He’s across a great water somewhere. He is suffering with stomach trouble. He’s in Puerto Rico. That’s THUS SAITH THE LORD. That’s right. See? Believe.
See what I mean?
268 Here is a lady setting here, look interested, the red hat. Mrs. Aldridge, Aldridge. Uh-huh. Yeah. She is suffering with heart trouble. You believe that God will heal you? All right.
269 You do me a favor? There’s a lady setting next there, by the name, Mrs. Cook. Mrs. Cook has got trouble with her legs. That’s right. Mrs. Cook, raise up your hand. If I’m a total stranger, raise up your hand. All right. Have faith in God.
270 Lay your hand on the woman next to her. She is Miss Russell. She is suffering with lung trouble. Raise up your hand, Miss Russell, and believe it with all your heart, if I’m a stranger to you.

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« 271 † What about the next? Yeah. Only thing you have to have is faith.
272 The lady next to her is suffering with stomach trouble, too, and her name is Mrs. Dillman. If you’ll believe with all your heart, you can be.
273 Mrs. Harmon, setting next to her, just come from the hospital. She’s had a–a operation for a–a rectal trouble. You believe, Mrs. Harmon? If you do believe with all your heart, you can go home, be made well.
274 How many believes now? [Congregation says, “Amen.” ]
275 “A little while and the world will see Me no more.” And then what am I trying to say? Remember, Jesus promised. Jesus said, “I’ll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world. The works that I do shall you also.” Remembering Jesus promised these things, Jesus brings them to pass.

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« 276 † Now, also, remember that Jesus promised, that, “He that believeth on Me has everlasting Life.” You that raised your hand, a while ago, after this healing service will you come up here now and stand here for prayer? He promised to give Eternal Life the same as He promised healing.
277 Now, did you know He promised this also? “These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay hands on the sick they shall recover.” Do you believe that? Now lay your hands on one another then. See, He’s here. I can’t heal you. He’s already done it. Now put your hands on somebody, and pray for somebody, right next to you there. Amen.

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« 278 † Now bow your heads and pray just like you do in your church. Pray, “Lord God, heal this person. This person is praying for me.” And just ask God to heal and make well. Believe it with all your heart. “Lord, I believe Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever.” His Word can’t fail.
279 Remember, He promised, “A little while and the world won’t see Me.” They don’t see Him at the dog race tonight. They don’t see Him in the picture show. They don’t see Him in these formal churches. But you see Him. He’s here. Remember, He promised it, and He’s here to answer your prayer and give you the desire of your heart.
Lay your hands on one another and pray.
280 Lord Jesus, I come, remembering that You said, “In My Name they shall cast out devils.” And I cast every spirit of unbelief away from this audience, away from these people, for the glory of God.” `