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« 1 † ` Was here in the class and enjoyed the… [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.] And now the first Book of Hebrews, is Paul, we found, or we believe. The theologians are at end; they don’t know just which, or who wrote It. But, I believe, anyone with a little spiritual discernment would see it was Paul. It’s–it’s believed, by the most of the writers, to be Paul. And how that he…
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« 2 † In the 1st chapter, we found that it was exalting the Lord Jesus. Oh, how he brought down, to show by the–by the experience that he had had on his road to Damascus. Now, Paul was, to begin with, a real theologian. Paul was taught under Gamaliel, one of the best teachers of that day. And he was smart and intelligent, and was a real shrewd Bible scholar.
3 And I found this, when he was on his road down to Damascus, with letters in his pocket, to arrest all those that were in the blessed old Gospel way, and the man was sincere. But, I’ve always believed that since Paul seen Stephen die, I think that must have got right next to him. When he consented to Stephen’s death, and held the coats of those who stoned him, then Paul was guilty of the blood of Stephen. And he confessed, and said, “I’m not even worthy,” said, “because I shed the blood of His–of His, the martyr, Stephen. Cause, he witnessed to it.
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« 4 † And if you witness to anything, you’re just as guilty as being a partaker of it. So if we witness, say, “Oh, yes, they oughtn’t to have done this, this so-and-so.” Be careful what you say, because you’re guilty the way your judgment goes. If you can’t decide, don’t say nothing, just leave it alone. Then when you testify that you are a Christian, then you’re guilty. See? You’re guilty of being a Christian, and you must live to that. And when God makes a–a promise in the Bible… I see a man here in a wheel chair. When God makes a Promise, He’s guilty of that Promise unless He brings It to pass. God is guilty when He makes a Promise. And the Scriptures are guilty until they are fulfilled. See? They’re–they’re right there as a–as a statement that God has made. And It’s got to be fulfilled or God is guilty. See?
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« 5 † And so Paul, being a teacher, and coming on his road down to Damascus that day, about, long about noontime, I suppose. There was a great Light shined out of the Heavens, and It blinded him, and he–he fell to the earth. And he said he wanted to know Who it was. He said a voice spoke, and said, “Saul, Saul, why persecuteth thou Me?” I believe the 8th chapter of Acts.
He said, “Who is It that I persecute?”
6 And the Voice came back, and said, “I’m Jesus.” Oh! “I am Jesus, and it’s hard for you to kick against the pricks.” And what was Jesus then? Jesus, He was the Light, just a big Light shining bright.
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« 7 † Now to encourage us and get a basis here. How was He a Light, when He was a Man? Now, no one…
There was a bunch of soldiers with Paul, temple guards, going down to put under arrest. Paul was the chief captain. And they were going down to arrest those people, for their campaigns and so forth, and for their religious hope that laid within them.
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« 8 † But, now, here was Jesus as a big Light. Now, if you remember, in the beginning, Jesus was a Light. Jesus was the Logos that went out of God. And He was the… He was the Angel of the Covenant that led the children of Israel through the wilderness. And He was the Pillar of Fire that they looked at. And He was… And when He was here on earth, He said, “I came from God, and I go back to God.” So if He came from a Pillar of Fire, into a Man, then if He went back to where He was, He went back to a Light again. And there He was when Paul saw Him, He was a Light.
9 Now, all those soldiers that was with Paul did not see the Light. Then is it possible that one can see It and the others won’t see It? Certainly. All right. He, Paul, saw It, but the rest of them did not see the Light.
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« 10 † Now, when Peter was in prison, we find out this Light came in the jail, opened up the doors. And he was… That Light blinded the rest of the guards, as they walked out, Peter going. And when he got to the door, it just opened itself, quietly, closed behind him. From the inner jail, he went to the outer door. It opened by its own self, closed quietly. And then he went to the gap, went out into the city street. And he rubbed his eyes, as if to say, “Was I dreaming?” He didn’t know what had happened. But, the Angel of the Lord, the same Angel that was the Pillar of Fire that walked Moses to the sea and spread her forth, oh, and the Dead Sea… the Red Sea walled up on both sides, and Israel passed over.
11 And when they come to the swelling Jordan, He did not make Hisself visible there. But He was there, ’cause He just opened it up. And they went across in April, when the plains are all full of the water. And He stayed the spring, and He stayed the snow from melting, ’cause it didn’t wall higher and higher; it just stopped. That’s our Jehovah. That’s our Lord Jesus. Just stopped; and they walked across on dry land.
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« 12 † Now, God promised that He would take care of them, so He was obligated to His Promise. Now, Paul, aware of these things, and knowing them, he was privileged, because God was speaking directly to Paul. He wasn’t speaking to the soldiers that was with him. He was only speaking to Paul.
13 Now, when the–when the Angel of the Lord came down, in the form of a star; and the stargazers, the wise men of India, when, they saw that Star and followed It for hundreds of miles. And It went over every observatory, ’cause they kept the time by the stars. And no one saw that Star but the wise men. Oh, my! Doesn’t that thrill you? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]
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« 14 † Then, you see, God doesn’t deal with organizations. He doesn’t deal with groups of people. He deals with individuals. He reveals Himself to individuals. And now–now to say this, not this… God knows my heart. And not to say this for own person, personal praise, now; just to be there. But, did you know, that same God, that same Jesus, is with us this morning? Do you know, each one of you has a little, individual witness of it right now, that He’s here? And is… He’s done something for us in this day that He didn’t do in the other days; He had His Picture taken in this day. We got It hanging right there. See? The Pillar of Fire, the same Lord Jesus.
15 Watch how He works now. If He’s the same Lord Jesus, He will do the same things, for the Bible said, “He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
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« 16 † Now, before Paul would announce anything, whether this was right or wrong, he first went down into Egypt and spent three years, to find out if it was Scriptural or not. Did you ever know that? After Paul’s conversion, he went to Egypt for three years. There he abode, and there is where he learned this great wisdom.
17 Now, not in any comparison at all, I’m just giving you how the Holy Spirit still remains the same. Now, my church here remembers, years ago, when this Angel would appear and would show things. I was a little skeptic of It. All of you know that, you old-timers. If you… If that’s right, raise up your hand, when you’ve heard. Yeah. Look, look at the church, yet, from the old-timers. See? I was skeptic, because preachers told me It was of the Devil. And I kind of believed it, but I waited. I wouldn’t say nothing about It.
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« 18 † But, oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord! One night, yonder, He come down, an Angel, and revealed It in the Scriptures, that He was. And when I seen It in the Scriptures, then to blast across the world with It, the Message.
19 From there has went Oral Roberts, A. A. Allen, Tommy Osborne, Tommy Hicks, and what more. See? It’s a Message to the people.
20 And Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is Scripturally, He’s the same. He does the same. He is the Same. And He works the same. He manifests Hisself the same. And He’s here, this morning, the same. Now we may see Him; we may not. Whatever it is, we got a witness right now that He’s here.
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« 21 † Now, we find now that, Paul, upon this experience, and writing these letters, most of them, from jail, he had compared the Old and New Testament. Now remember, the last writer of this Bible, by inspiration, God came down and told him, “If any man shall add anything to It or take anything away from It, the same will be taken out of the part of the Book of Life, for him.” So we’d be daresn’t to add one thing to It. Oh, It must stay as It is, mustn’t be anything added to It. And we must contend for everything that’s in It. I don’t want any more, and I don’t want any less. I want just what It says.
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« 22 † Now, this Book of Hebrews, the reason I’ve chose It; one purpose, one thing; this letter, “Dear Brother Branham,” and so forth. And, I–I, we want to stay with the Word.
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« 23 † Now, the 1st chapter, was exalting of Jesus, so He’s the main One. And Paul let us know, the other night, that He was in the great beginning. And we found out that He was nothing less than “Melchisedec, the King of Salem,” the Great of the 7th chapter.
24 And now, this morning, we approach Him from another, another standpoint, from the 2nd chapter. Now, after Paul giving us this great, marvelous Message, of exalting Jesus, “And even made the Angels to worship Him.” And I think, over here, like the order types old, “And He will fold it as a vesture, but they shall perish, but Thou remaineth.”
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« 25 † And over in the 2nd chapter, the 2nd verse, I believe it is, “Has He these days spoken to us by His Son.” And, look, “Sundry times and divers manner He spoke by the prophets.” We went through and found out what the prophets was, and how God brought His Message by the prophets. “But in this last day He’s spoken through His Son, Jesus, by the Holy Spirit. He spoke through the prophets, then.” Then we got back and found out, all those prophets had the Spirit of Christ in them.
26 We went back to Joseph and found out he perfectly typed Christ. Went back to Moses and found he perfectly typed Christ. Then we come down then to even David. And when David was rejected in Jerusalem, not knowing why, but went up over the hill and looked back on the Mount of Olives, and wept over Jerusalem because he was rejected. Eight hundred years from then, the Son of David was rejected as King, in Jerusalem, and set on the same hill and wept. Oh, the Spirit of Christ, dealing with individuals!
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« 27 † Now, Paul starts off, to say:
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard,…
28 2nd chapter, now, we’re starting.
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest… any time we should let them slip.
29 Oh, may God drive that home in this tabernacle this morning. I pray the Holy Spirit will sink that so deep into your hearts. “We ought to give the most earnest heed to the things which we’ve heard.” What type of people ought we to be, when we see the great Jehovah come down and do the things that He does, and see them compared, Scripture by Scripture, that they’re the Truth? And we sit around sometimes like a warts on a log, and just so unconcerned. We ought to be busy, every minute, trying to get people to Christ. We ought to be lively stones. We should never be slothful like we are. We’ll go up to church, and we’ll see the Lord Jesus do something, or–or bless us in such a way, and then we’ll–we’ll go back out and say, “Very nice meeting.”
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« 30 † Now, the preaching of the Word, we enjoy it, but that’s not the main thing. That’s not. We should not worship the Lord just after we get through preaching the Word, as we usually do, just worship Him. That’s wonderful. But we should worship Him every hour of our life. When we’re at work, we should worship Him. Every time the opportunity presents itself, worship the Lord by testifying of Him.
If you see, some of you ladies, see a woman in the wrong, worship the Lord by taking her and saying, “Sister, there’s a better life than this.”
31 You men at your work, when you hear a man using the Name of the Lord in vain, get a chance to one side and slip over, and take him by the hand, and say, “You, there’s a better life than this. You shouldn’t use those words.” And tell him in a meek, gentle way. All those things is a worship.
And when we see someone sick, and the doctor says there’s no more can be done, we ought to worship the Lord by telling them, “There’s a God of Heaven that answers prayer.”
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« 32 † And then when we see those things take place, that we do see take place enough, we should never let these things slip. We just let it go through our fingers. That’s what’s the matter with the great Pentecostal church today. They’ve let the very cream of the crop slip through their fingers, when they had it in their hands. But, look what they done, they done like the rest the churches. “They’ve run in the gain, in the way of Korah, and perished; and the way of Cain, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.”
33 They’ve organized. Instead of having a brotherhood where we could all be one, they’ve organized themselves. Made little organizations and little isms, and sprung up from there and just broke up brotherhood. And if you don’t watch, the Baptist and Presbyterians going to pick it up, ’cause, “God is able of these stones to rise children to Abraham.” And we’ve–we’ve let it slip away from the hands by being disunified.
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« 34 † How did the Indians lose this country to the white man? Is because they were disunified. If they had made one big forefront… But they were fighting one among each other. They would have held their grounds if they’d have all come together.
35 How are we going to lose it? Because we’re disunified. How we lose our experience with God, is because we disunify. We set up one, and call this the–the Methodist, and this the Baptist, and this the Assemblies, and this the Oneness, and this the something-else, and the church of God, and the Nazarene, the Pilgrim Holiness. We disunify the Body of Christ. We should never be divided. We might differ in ideas, but let’s be heart-in-heart brothers. God wants us to be. He died for the entire Church of God. And we do not want to be disunified.
Now we ought to give the most earnest heed… lest any time we should let them slip.
For if the word spoken by angels were stedfast,…
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« 36 † You hear It? “If the word spoken by the angels…” Now, angel is the “messenger.” The word angel means the “messenger.” And just got through, in the 1st book here, “God, in sundry times and divers manner, spoke to the fathers by the prophets.” That was God’s messengers. And they were–they were God’s messengers. They were God’s angels. A messenger is an angel; or an angel is the messenger, rather.
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« 37 † A messenger! You are a messenger, this morning. You’re… You are a messenger of good news or a messenger of bad news. Oh, isn’t it beautiful, to know that we are ambassadors, that we are angels, the messengers of the resurrection? And we are God’s messengers to the sinful world, that Christ lives. In our hearts, He lives. In our spirits, He lives. And He brings us from the low debauched life of sin, and exalts us up, and gives us a “hallelujah” in our soul, and makes us new creatures. We are messengers, angels of the Covenant. How wonderful!
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« 38 † And now, in the Old Testament, “If–if the word spoken by angels were steadfast,” that way it had to be right. In the Old Testament, before a prophet’s word could be made manifest, it had to be examined and proved. They wasn’t loose with it, like we are today.
39 Just go out and have any kind of a sensation, or anything else, “Oh, glory to God, that’s it!” You’re mistaken.
The Bible said, that, “In the last days, the Devil will impersonate Christianity, so close, till it’ll deceive the very Elected if possible.” That’s right. So, we must test it.
40 And how did they test it in their day? To the Urim Thummim. The breastplate of Aaron, that had those stones in it: carbuncle, jasper, diamond, ruby, sapphire. All those stones, that represent the birth of these twelve patriarchs, was in the breastplate of Aaron. And when a prophet prophesied, and that sacred Light flashed over it, God said, “That is the Truth.” But, no matter how real it seemed, if it didn’t flash on that, it wasn’t the Truth. So, that Urim Thummim went with that priesthood.
41 But this Bible is God’s Urim Thummim today. And when a prophet prophesies, it must absolutely flash with the Bible. Then, God says, then He comes down and proves It.
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« 42 † Oh, how I can glorify God today! I’m thinking back of another Sunday morning, about like this, when I was leaving the tabernacle. And you people were weeping and asking me not to go. But, when, I preached on David and Goliath, and how you going to face that cold, indifferent world that says the days of miracles is past.
43 I said, “There’s one big giant, and as soon as we can slay him, the rest of them will take courage.” And the Lord granted that. And then there was an Oral Roberts and a Jaggers, and so forth, pulled the Sword, and we fought the enemy out of the land, shut their mouths. They can’t say that miracles don’t happen, ’cause here they are. Sure. God’s Word is Eternal. It flashed on the Urim. Flashed on the Word, that’s His Urim Thummim. And when it flashed on That, it was positive.
And to anybody that’s needy, if you’re a sinner, you want to know how to get saved, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.”
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« 44 † Today, we got so many things you have to do. “Have to turn new pages. You have to do this and do that, in order to get saved.”
I think of the Philippian jailer, when this jailer asked Paul, “What must I do to be saved?”
It’d been you or I, we’d have told him the things he ought not to do. “You ought to quit drinking. You ought to quit your gambling, your gambling. “You ought to quit this. You ought to quit that.”
Paul never told him that. He just told him the things he ought to do. “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shall be saved.”
45 Now, “He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me has everlasting Life.” That’s the Urim Thummim flashing, Saint John 5:24. “I’m the Lord that heals all thy diseases.” James 5:14, “Call the elders, anoint in oil, prayer of faith shall save the sick.” The Urim flashing. See? That’s God’s Eternal Word.
46 I don’t care how many atheotic, infidelic, agnostics, skeptics rise up. God will stand by His Word. He promised He would do it.
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« 47 † “And we ought to give the more earnest heed to these things which we’ve heard, lest any time we let them slip. For if the word spoken by angels (the prophets) were steadfast…” Were they? We could spend a week on this.
48 Was it steadfast when Moses spoke? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] It sure was.
How about Elijah, setting up on top of the mountain? The Lord told him, “Get up there, Elijah. I’ll stay there with you; want some fellowship.” God likes to fellowship with His people. But we won’t stand still long enough for Him to fellowship with us. We’re so busy skipping about, from place to place, and so much. “Set still, Elijah.” He wanted three years and six months of fellowship. We can’t give Him three minutes, hardly. Three years and six months of constant fellowship. Oh, I love that! Said, “Don’t worry about the cooking; we’ll have that already fixed up. The crows is going to feed you. And everything is going to be all right. I just want some fellowship.” This old prophet, Elijah, setting up there on top the mountain.
While he was fellowshipping with God, why, the captain said, “I believe I’ll go up and get him.” Now, don’t you never try to break that fellowship.
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« 49 † So, the captain come up, with his great army of men, of fifty. And he said, “I–I–I come to take you, Elijah.”
50 And Elijah stood up. Watch out, here’s the prophet of the Lord! He said, “If I be a servant of the Lord, let fire come from heaven and devour you.” And down come the fire. The captain said…
51 “Oh, you know what?” The king, rather, said, “That was probably a–a thunderbolt, just some lightning just passing over, and it struck them. I’ll send another fifty.”
52 Elijah stood up, one of the angels. His word is steadfast. He had to be a just recompense for everything that was done wrong. He said, “If I be a servant of the Lord, let fire come.” And the second fifty burned. All right. Every recompense!
For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedient received a just recompense…
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« 53 † Now, here is the great thing, the next verse.
How shall we escape,…
54 “How shall we escape?” If Elijah’s voice brought destruction, because he was an angel of the Lord, how will we escape when the Voice of Christ speaking through? Or, how can we fail when you’re prayed for, if It’s the Voice of Christ? If Christ ordained His Church to pray for the sick, and the Church does what He says He… for them to do, then how can It ever fail? It can’t. You can fail, but It can’t fail. And as long as you keep It, It’ll take you through.
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« 55 † If you fail, you failed by yourself. You just get away from the Word. But as long as you stay with the Word, It can’t fail. For the word of the prophets did so-and-so, how much more will the Word of Christ be?
How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which is at the first begin to be spoken unto us by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
56 Think of It, spoken by the Lord. How many times could we go back? Where could we stop, right here for a hour? When Jesus came, He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever.
57 Now, remember, first begin to be spoken by Jesus, Himself, and then was confirmed by the ones that heard Him. Now listen at Him.
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« 58 † When He came to the earth, He didn’t claim to be a healer. He said, “It’s not Me that doeth the works; It’s My Father that dwelleth in Me. He doeth the works. The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing,” Saint John 5:19.
59 Watch when Philip came to Him. Nathaniel… After Philip’s conversion, he went over and got Nathaniel. Said, “Come, see Who we found: Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph.”
60 And he said, “Could there be any good thing come from Nazareth?”
61 Said, “Come, see.” That’s the way to be convinced: prove It. Come and see. Oh, that’s the best I ever heard. Come and find out for yourself. Don’t stand out and criticize on the side line, But, “Prove all things, and hold fast to that what’s good. Come and see.
62 Along the road they went, talking. When he walked up in the presence of the Lord Jesus, He said, “Behold an Israelite in whom there’s no guile.”
63 It took all the skin off of him, nearly. He looked around, said, “Well, Rabbi, when did You ever know me? You never did see me. How do You know me?” Philip said…
64 “Before, when he call…” Said, “Before Philip called you, yesterday, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” Amen.
65 He said, “Thou art the Son of God. You’re the King of Israel.”
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« 66 † A woman walked into His Presence, and He said, “Go, get your husband.”
She said, “I have none.”
67 Said, “That’s right. You got five, and the one you’re now living with is not yours. You told the truth.” Think of it.
68 She said, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. That, we know that when the Messiah cometh He will tell us all things.”
69 He said, “I am He, that speaks to you.”
70 And she run and told the men of the city, “Come, see a Man Who told me all that I did. Isn’t this the Messiah?” It was spoken by the Lord.
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« 71 † What happened? Jesus said, before He left, “The things that I do, shall you also.” That right? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] “The things that I do shall you do also, even more than this, for I go to the Father.” Oh, I can see them as they went forth, everywhere. Mark 16, “Went forth everywhere, preaching; the Lord working with them, confirming the Word.”
And here, Paul, giving the same thing. He said that the–the Gospel begin to be preached by Jesus, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him. That’s the Foundation Stone. Oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord! That’s the Foundation Stone.
72 And to think, two thousand years has passed. Athiests has raised, and infidels, and skeptics, and agnostics. But, today, that same Jesus confirms His Word in the same manner by those who hear Him. “Hear Him,” don’t mean just to hear a sermon. That mean, hear Him. Yes.
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« 73 † How shall we escape? Where is our escape? Oh, you say, “Bless God, I belong to the Methodist church. I’m a Presbyterian. I’m a Pentecostal.” That doesn’t have one thing to do with It. And you get on a side-line and want to call It “spiritualism, or some mental telepathy, or some devil,” or something. Shame on them!
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« 74 † “If every word was steadfast by the angels…” Jesus said, “It’s not… Little while, and the world won’t see Me no more. Yet, ye shall see Me, for I’ll be with you, even in you, to the end of the age.” And when we see Him come down, to continue to confirm His Word, how shall we escape if we sucker to some church, or some organization, or denomination, or some little pet theory of our own? You better turn loose. “For every sin received a just recompense under the angels, how much more when the Son of God is speaking from the Heavens, to make manifest His Word! How shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation?” Oh, my! “God also…”
4th verse:
God also bearing them witness,…
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« 75 † Watch this. The Lord bore witnesses. Oh, I am so happy for that! The Lord bore the witness.
76 Look. When Elijah set on the hill, and he said, “If I be a man of God, let the fire fall from Heaven and consume you.” God bore witness that he was a man of God.
God always bears witness. Your life will bear witness. I don’t know what your testimony is, but your life speaks so loud, your voice can’t be heard. But, your–your living, your every-day life will testify what you are. God bears witness. Yes. The Holy Spirit is a seal, and a seal takes both sides of the paper. They see you standing here and see you when you go away. Not only in church but at every-day work. You’re sealed on both sides, inside and outside. By the joy that you have, and by the life that you live, you’re sealed, in and outside, that you know you’re saved and the world knows you’re saved, by the life that you live, for God bears witness. Blessed be His Holy Name! My, I feel religious!
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« 77 † Think of it, brethren, there. Oh! “My sheep hear My Voice, and a stranger they won’t follow.” Oh, how that our names are on the palms of His hands! It’s before Him, day and night. His Word is always before Him, His Promise. He can’t forget it. And He loves you.
78 Now, He will bear witness of His own. You don’t open your mouth and say a word, the world will know something has happened to you.
… bear witness, both by signs and wonders, and by divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
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« 79 † Let us take just one Scripture now before closing; on the Day of Pentecost, when they received the Holy Spirit. About four days later, Peter had passed through the gate called Beautiful; he and John. They said, “Look on us,” to a man. And he said, “Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have I’ll give you. In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” And the man looked up and never questioned nothing about it. He just stood up and went walking. They were ignorant and unlearned men. But the Bible said, “They had to take heed to them, for they knew they had been with Jesus.”
80 Brother, when the world knows that you’ve been with Jesus, when you can live such an unadulterated life in this present world and in this darkness, that the world knows and can see that you’ve been with Jesus; when a rugged, old vulgar prostitute of the street can become a lady, washed in the Blood of the Lamb; God is bearing witness that He lives.
81 Take a drunkard, who is so low-down that he would run around on his wife, that he would mistreat his children, and take the food from the table, to spend on a prostitute. Let him get with Jesus once. You’ll see him returning, like Legion, who was in his right mind and clothed, to his babies and to his wife and to his loved ones. Certainly.
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« 82 † Some time ago, about forty years ago, when the religions of the world met, and the different ones got up and spoke. And the Mohammedan spoke for the Mohammedan religion. The Jains spoke for the Jains; the Buddhist for the Buddha. And the little doctor, I forget what his last name was, just at this time. I did know his name, but I have forgotten it. He spoke to represent Christianity. And he told the story of Lady Maccabee of Oklahoma, in America.
She was so ornery and so low-down, till even when they went to kill her, they wouldn’t even put their hands on her, she was so vulgar and vile. They had her arrested on a charge: smoking a cigar; driving a stagecoach; and broke the–the–the laws, the records in Oklahoma, when she passed through the street, driving four head of horses. And she was so vile and so dirty until society wouldn’t even get around where she was at; so much, till when the executors was going to execute her, they wouldn’t hang her. They just poured tar and feathers on her, to kill her.
And when this little preacher give her story, in such a way, till he had the people setting on the end of their seats, listening what would be next. When he got down to that: very vile, dirty, low-down, till the laws wouldn’t even want to fool with her, she was so low. The very Devil in hell would reject such a person, nearly, the way he told the story. Then he said, “Gentlemen, of the religions of the world, has your religion got anything that would clean the hands of Lady Maccabee?”
83 Everybody set still. Then he clapped his hands together, and jumped up in the air. He said, “Glory be to God! The Blood of Jesus Christ won’t only clean her hands, but It’ll clean her heart and make her His Bride.” Tell you:
Amazing grace! how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now I’m found,
I was blind, but now I see.
It’s grace that taught my heart to fear,
It was grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed!
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« 84 † Certainly. “How shall we escape, if we neglect such?” You neglect to eat, you’ll die. You neglect to turn a corner, you’ll wreck. You neglect to milk the cow, she’ll go dry. You neglect your teeth, you’ll have to have them all pulled out. Certainly. You pay for your neglection.
85 O Branham Tabernacle and you visitors, let me tell you something now. You neglect to testify of the glory of God, you neglect to give God the praise and glory, you’ll find yourself cold, formal, and backslidden, one of these days. You give God praise. “How shall we escape, if we neglect such a great salvation?”
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« 86 † Getting late. I just happened to notice, Brother Toms had walked in back there. We’ll close and continue this tonight, the Lord willing.
Let us pray just a moment.
87 Our Heavenly Father, to Thee be blessings, and praises, and honor, and glory, and wisdom, and might, and power, for ever and ever. Oh, to that Lamb that set on the Throne, dominions and kingdoms and everything was given over to His hand. When He raised from the dead, for our justification, He screamed to the world, “All power in the Heaven and earth is give into My hand. Go ye, therefore, into all the world and preach the Gospel.”
O dear dying Lamb, Thy precious Blood
Shall never lose Its power,
Till all the ransomed Church of God
Be saved, to sin no more.
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« 88 † Help us, as ministers, to seeing that we are requiring so much; how we must have a church, we must have this, we must have everything.
89 Our women, before going to church, is yet calling themselves Christians, will have to have a certain kind of a dress, or have to be dressed so daubly.
And preachers will have to have so much money before they’ll come, and everything has to be so-and-so.
90 O Christ, when I read here, “How they wandered about, in sheepskins and goatskins, lived in the dens of the earth, and caves.” They wandered about, under vile persecution, and, yet, obtained the Faith, under the ministry of angels. How will we escape, when the Lord Jesus has give us fine homes, and cars, and clothes, and food? And we murmur. We set around. We’re lazy. We never try to get out and do something about it. How will we escape, God?
91 Oh, I pray that You’ll burn old-fashioned conviction into every heart, this morning, Lord, that the people might be up and at it. Let us work while the daylight is shining, because the sun is swiftly sinking. And civilization is going, and there’ll be no more time. It’ll blend into Eternity.
92 O God, grant today that we go with fresh vision, with wisdom, with understanding, to know how to approach sinners and bring them to Christ. Hear the prayer of Your servant, Lord.
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« 93 † I ask, if there be any here, that doesn’t know Christ as their Saviour, would you raise your hand and say, “Remember me, Brother Branham”? Would you just raise your hand, say, “Remember me. I want to be a Christian. I don’t want to neglect it any longer”? God bless you, back there, sir. Someone else? Say, “I want to raise my hand, Brother Branham. And I want to accept Christ, as my Saviour, I’ve neglected, all the time. Oh, I go to church, sure, I belong to church.” `
–Rev. William Marrion Branham
–copied from The Table Software, available from VGR
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« 1 † ` And to give a–a little… I think there’s nothing better, to me, than just the Word. “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing the Word of God.”
2 On Wednesdays, and maybe on Sundays, one of the services of Sunday, giving the pastor just a little rest, which he’s very deserving of it, and thought maybe we’d just take a Book in the Bible. We used to do that, and sometimes stay a year on it.
3 I remember one time we stayed a solid year on the Book of Revelation. But, oh, my, the things that we learned, and how wonderful it was! Then we went back and got the Book of Daniel, or the Book of Genesis, or Exodus, and just take it, chapter by chapter, and it just tied the entire Bible together. Oh, I just love that!
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« 4 † Little later on, we’ll have to get the… If the Lord continues to bless and we go on, we’ll get into some real deep things in here, real deep. And we’ll just go from place to place, through the Scripture, with it.
5 And I like to make Scripture compare with Scripture. That’s the way it must be. It’s just one great beautiful picture. And in this Book that we’re studying, we’re going to get in, oh, salvation, and Divine healing, and miracles, and mercies. And, oh, everything comes in here.
6 And maybe when I get to a place where I have to get to the meetings… I never know just when I’m going to be to a meeting, called to a meeting, because I don’t have anything set until I just feel led to do a certain thing. And that may be before in the morning, I may fly to California, up to Maine or somewhere, just where He would call me. That’s the reason I don’t set great, long itineraries, because I can’t do that. My ministry is not cut out that way, and it’s just different.
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« 7 † And now I come home just for a little rest. I lost twenty pounds, in this last meeting. And Brother Mercier and Brother Goad was up, a while ago, and said, “Brother Branham, I notice what you do. You put your whole heart into it.”
8 I said, “That’s the only way you can do a right kind of a job for the Lord, is put everything you got right to the forefront for Christ; all your strength, all your soul, all your heart, all your mind, everything that you got.” When you’re doing anything, do it right or don’t do it at all, see, just leave it alone. You’re going to be a Christian, put everything that you’ve got to Christ, that’s, your time, your talent, your every thing.
9 I just noticing this young fellow. That’s your wife, Brother Burns, is it, that playing and singing there, that young couple. And–and it isn’t a piano, neither is it an organ, but it’s some kind of instrument, they make a strum it and pick it, and do something for the Lord. If you could do that, and sing, that’s, win souls. Do something, no matter. If you–you can whistle, well, whistle. Just do something. Just testify or do something for the Kingdom of God. Whatever you got, put it to the use in God’s service.
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« 10 † Now, we’re not going to try to stay very long, because I know you work. You got to get up early. And I’m going squirrel hunting every morning. I’ll just tell you the truth. That’s what I’m doing. That’s what I come home for, is to rest a little. And so I’m getting up, about four o’clock, and going out in the woods and, well, hunt little bit and go to sleep. And I’m gaining some of that weight back, so I’ll get rested up, after while, if you… the Lord willing. And everything is fine.
11 All right, now, we’re going to turn in your Bibles. I want you to bring your Bibles each night, that you… as you can. If somebody lacks a few, would somebody want to follow along with the readings, we got some here, we’d have the… some of the ushers to pass them out. Anybody want one? Well, just raise your hand.
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« 12 † Wonder if Brother… Doc, come here and get these Bibles. You’re standing close there, and Brother Burns. Is that right, Burns? I heard him say… [The brother says, “Conrad.”–Ed.] What? [“Conrad.”] Conrad. I called him… I’m getting kind of hard of hearing, maybe, Brother Neville. How did I ever get the name of Burns? I know the man’s face, and I just can’t, couldn’t call his name.
13 And you know, as you get a little older, I find out one thing, it’s harder for me to read this Bible. And I just hate to think of having to wear glasses, to read the Bible.
14 But, here not long ago, I thought I was going blind. And I went over to see Sam. And Sam said, “Bill, I don’t know.” Said, “I’ll just get you an appointment with some specialist.”
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« 15 † I went to Louisville. It must have been the will of the Lord. Some famous specialist; I forget his name now. But he had read my book. And he said, “If you ever go back to Africa, I want to go with you.” He said, “And if you… Them African people love you.” And said, “They’re very superstitious, especially with a knife, to go to cutting. So,” said, “I want to give six months of my life, for operations of cataracts and things, to the… in mission.” And said, “If we could go together, and you could win favor of them, like that.” Said, “Then if they had cataracts and eye works,” said, “I’d just love to give it, free of charge, six months of it.” And I forget how long you have to wait for an appointment with him.
16 And we was setting in a little room and it had a little–little red light come on, back there in the dark room. Why, I could read them letters. It said twenty-twenty. I could read it either way. And he snapped it on fifteen-fifteen, and I could read it. And put it on ten-ten, and I could read it. He said, “Well, there’s not much wrong with your eyes.”
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« 17 † So he had a little telescope. He put a little gadget back there, a little thing, you know. Them old telescopes, how many ever remember them? We used to look through them, look at pictures, just like that. And he said, “Can you read that?”
I said, “Yes, sir.”
He said, “Read it for me.”
18 It had a, oh, a whole paragraph, about like that. I started, read it; he started pulling it up, like that, getting slower and slower. He got about like this, I stopped. He said, “I can tell you one thing, you’re past forty.”
I said, “Yep, that’s right, a long ways past it.”
19 He said, “How have you done it?” He said, “The human eye, naturally, when you get forty years old, like your hair gets gray, and so forth, the eyeball gets flat.” Said, “Now, if you live long enough, that’ll come back again.” He said, “That second sight, they call it. But,” said, “a human being, about forty years old, they’ll actually…” Said, “There is nothing wrong with their eyes.”
20 I can–I can see a hair if it was laying on the floor, get it off from me. But get close to me… And he said, “Now, you read your Bible,” said, “You push it away from you.” Said, “After while, your arm is not going to be long enough, till you can’t–can’t get it out there far enough to get a hold of it.”
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« 21 † And so he made me a pair of glasses, and the bottom part you can, it’s for reading. He said, “Now, in your pulpit…” He thought I was one of these here dignified preachers, you know. And so said that the… you… The top part is just regular window glass, just regular glass. And the bottom part has got some kind of a grind in it, that I can read it close, you know, like that. So I just hate to put them on; I do.
22 And now, in Bible teaching, and I’ve got the New Testament tonight. So it’s… I got a Collins New Testament. It’s got good-sized print. But now, when I get back in the other one, I–I may have to go to them old buddies, and–and kind of read through them. But whatever it is, I–I’m glad that I got something I–I can still read. And–and–and whatever I got, I’m going to give everybody everything I can, to the glory of God, hope that He will take that age sign away. I can’t ask Him to take my age away. I… You know, that’s just one thing we all got to do. We got to go through that. And I know I’m not a little boy like I used to be, standing here on the platform. I’m forty-eight years old. And just think, two more years, will be fifty years old, Brother Mike.
23 My, can’t hardly believe it! I just… I never knew that I was past twenty till about two years ago. That’s right. That’s right. I just… I couldn’t believe it. And yet I–I… It’s hard for me to believe till looked in the glass, and then I–I know it is, then. But–but just to be looking, I just feel just as good as I ever felt in my life, and I’m thankful for that, too. All praise be to God.
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« 24 † Now, we’re studying the Book of the Hebrews. It’s been… Oh, it’s one of the most deepest, richest Books of the Bible. I tell you, it’s a Book that really will… If God permits, and we just get down into this, I believe we’ll find golden nuggets till we’ll just shout the praises of God all the time. And now I…
25 The Book of Hebrews, really what It is, It’s supposing to be written by Saint Paul, the greatest Bible expositor, I guess, the world has ever had, outside of our Lord Jesus Christ. And Paul was separating the… Now, Paul was a real Bible teacher; that is, the Old Testament. That’s the only Book was written then, called Bible. And he was trying to show to the Hebrews, separating the Old Testament and showing the Old Testament being a shadow or a type of the New.
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« 26 † Right there we could strike a home line and stay three months right there on that one thought, right there. To go right back, if we could turn in our Bibles now, course we’re on Hebrews, the 1st chapter. But if we’d turn to Revelations, the 12th chapter, you’d see it perfectly again, how the shadows. If… you that’s got your pencils and going to jot down the Scriptures. In Heb-…
27 In Revelations 11, we find out that John, on the isle of Patmos, saw a woman standing in the skies, and she had the sun at her head and the moon under her feet. And the woman was in travail, with a child to be born. She brought forth a Man Child. The red dragon stood, to devour the child as soon as it was born. And the–the child was caught up into Heaven, and the woman fled into the wilderness where she was nourished for a time, time, and a half time, or a dividing of time.
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« 28 † Now, the woman represented the church, and the Child that she brought forth was Christ. The moon under her feet was the law, the sun at her head was grace. Twelve stars in her crown was the twelve apostles. And there’s where, at what… The twelve apostles was the glory or the crowning of the New Testament. See? “For no other foundations can be laid than that which is already laid.” See? It, the Foundation, the–the New Testament, the apostles, the Doctrine of the apostles, and so forth, is the founding crown of the New Testament. And then at the…
29 The moon is a shadow of the sun. The sun just reflects its light when its behind the earth. And the moon gives light, to walk by, at night. And what a beautiful picture we have here, another beautiful picture: the sun represents Christ; the–the moon represents the Church. They’re just like husband and wife. And in the absence of Christ, the Church reflects the minor Light, the Gospel. And it–it’s the Light to walk in until the Son rises again, then the Church and the Son, the moon and the sun, blends together. See? The moon is a part of the sun, and the Church is a part of Christ. And while the absence of Christ, the Church reflects His Light. And then as sure as we can see the moon shining, it knows the sun is shining somewhere. And as long as the Church is reflecting the Light of Christ, Christ is alive somewhere. Amen. Think of it.
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« 30 † Now, the law was a type of the grace, but law had no saving power in it. Law only was a… The law was a policeman. The policeman put you in jail, but, you see, it taken grace to get you out of jail. See?
31 So the Blood of Christ, the Gospel, delivers us from sin. Law only makes us sinners. The law only said, “You are a sinner. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not bear false witness.” See? It’s a policeman that says you’re wrong and you’re guilty. But the Gospel is the good news. Christ died to save us from all of our trespasses, transgressions of the law. Christ died to take us out.
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« 32 † Now, Paul, as soon as he was converted, he never consulted with any seminary, neither did he consult any ministers. But did you notice? He went down into Arabia, and was there three years, in Arabia. Now, this is, to my opinion, that…
33 Now, we’ve got to get a background of this, so we’ll know how substantial it is. And the first lesson, tonight, we take our background.
34 Now, Paul was such a Bible teacher, because he was taught under that great, all-time famous Gamaliel. And he was one of the best known of the day, that great teacher of the law and the prophets. So, Paul was well schooled in those things.
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« 35 † And then I like him this way, this great revelation, being honest in his heart, a murderer, had consented to Stephen’s death and saw Stephen die under the rocks and clods of being stoned to death. I think it must have got next to Paul when he saw Stephen raise his hands to Heaven, and said, “I see the Heavens open. I see Jesus standing at the right hand of God.” And he said, “Father, lay not this charge of sin against them.” And he fell asleep.
36 Did you notice that? He never died. He fell asleep. Just like… I don’t believe he ever felt another rock. Just like a baby on the bosom of its mother, falls asleep, Stephen fell asleep in the arms of God.
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« 37 † There is something, about Paul, that got next to him. Then he, any man under conviction, trying to fight It, he rolls over to the high priest and gets some letters. Said, “I’ll arrest all those people that’s making all that noise, and those heretics;” which was considered, what we would call today, some “radical fanatic,” or something like that, making a lot of noise and causing disturbance. “We’ll just go down and settle it.”
38 And on his road down, a little old… not a great highway like we travel. And them roads in Palestine, just little trails, like a cow trail through the woods where the cattle, and the sheep, and the horses, and the donkeys, and the camels, went over the hills.
39 And Paul, on his road down to Damascus, about noon, one day, a great Light shining down and struck him to the ground. No one saw It but Paul. I want you to notice that. And right here, this is not personal now, but just so we’re leading into this background. That you’ll know that that same Jesus…
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« 40 † Now, when He was here on earth, He said, “I came from God, and I go back to God.”
41 Now, when He led the children of Israel, He was the Pillar of Fire. And He was made flesh, then He returned back to that same Pillar of Fire. And when He met Paul on the road to Damascus, He was that Pillar of Fire, that Light, see, a great Light. And Paul said, “Who is It that I persecute?”
42 He said, “I am Jesus, who you persecute,” the Light. Oh, isn’t He wonderful? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]
43 And here He is, tonight, right here with us. Had His picture taken right there, the same Thing, see, Pillar of Fire, Light, just the same as He was, “Same yesterday, today, and forever.”
44 Now the men that was with him did not see that Light, but It was there just the same. The results give the same.
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« 45 † Now, is it possible that–that someone could see Christ in this building and no one else see Him? Sure. It happened there.
46 It happened also one night when Peter was in prison. And that Light came into the prison, and touched Peter, and walked right by the inner guard, the outer guard, walked by the gate, the main gate, and the city gate. Peter said, “I must have been dreaming.” But he looked around, but the Light was gone; Christ, that Eternal, everlasting Light. There He is. Now, on the road down…
47 And look, another thing, if we would speak of this, just come in my mind. But the wise men that followed the Star, all the way from India, the Orient, months, coming through the valleys and deserts, passed over observatories. And they kept the time of the night by the stars. And no historian or anyone ever mentioned of ever seeing that Star but the wise men. It was just meant for them to see It.
48 So you can see things that the other fellow might not see. To you, It’s a reality. To him, they don’t understand. Just like a conversion; you can be converted and enjoying the blessings of God, just–just drinking in the blessings of God. And the next fellow, setting by you, “I don’t see a thing.” See? See? That’s it. “I just don’t get it. I don’t see what it’s all about.” Well, he’s just not getting It. That’s all. Where, you are.
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« 49 † Notice now, Paul on his road down. And as soon as this great experience happened to him… Now, he wasn’t satisfied… That’s what makes Paul so good, now.
50 Our lesson tonight is not deep. It’s a shallow lesson, but, oh, we will get into the deep, after while. But this is a very shallow lesson, but it’s just starting off. And what it is, it’s one thing, that’s exalting Jesus Christ. Paul, to begin.
51 And before he would do this, Paul was a Bible scholar. And a Bible scholar will never rest his doctrine upon experiences. No, sir. They’ll never rest their doctrine upon experience. You can have any kind of an experience. But it must be THUS SAITH THE LORD. Right.
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« 52 † Now, in the Old Testament, they had three different ways they can know a message. First, the law, that was just the law. Then, they had a–a prophet; a dreamer; and they had the Urim Thummim. Now that may be a little deep.
53 The Urim Thummim was the breastplate that Aaron wore on his breast. In there was twelve stones: jasper, sardius, carbuncle, so forth, on down. They got all twelve of the big stones, that was in the breastplate, showing that he was the high priest of every tribe, the twelve tribes of Israel. This breastplate hung on a pillar in the church. And when a prophet prophesied, and they wanted to be sure it was right, or not. The prophets or the dreamers stood before this Urim Thummim, and he told his dream or his vision, whatever he had saw. And if the Sacred Light… Oh, do you see it? God always dwelt in the supernatural realm. The conglomeration, those lights, were just normal until this voice went forth. And when the voice struck those stones, if it wasn’t supernatural, she laid dormant. But if it was supernatural, those Lights all reflected the rainbow color together. Amen. Then, that was God speaking, “That is My prophet. That dream came from Me.” It was according to the Urim Thummim that they judged.
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« 54 † Remember Saul when he backslid? He said he couldn’t have a dream. And the prophet, Samuel, was dead, and there was no way. He said, “Even the Urim won’t even speak to me.” Nothing. Saul stood before the Urim, and his words were dead thumps. See? God just refused him. And that Urim Thummim, that was Aaron’s vindication of his priesthood. After Aaron going, Moses… The–the plate hung on the pillar.
55 Now, the Aaronic priesthood ceased when Jesus died. And now, separated law from grace, we still have a Urim Thummim. And Paul was using It. See? The Urim Thummim today is God’s Immortal, Eternal, everlasting Word. See?
56 “For whosoever shall take anything out of this Book, or add anything to It.” I don’t want anything outside of It, but I want all It’s got. That’s the Church we want. And all things must be proven by the Word.
57 That’s the reason I took a flop recently of among the Pentecostal people, because, saying, “I could not understand where oil running out of your hands, or blood out of your face, was a sign you had the Holy Ghost.” That’s not Scriptural and I–I just couldn’t take it. It’s got to come from the Word.
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« 58 † And now, Paul, he just loved the Word. So, before he would ever witness this great experience that he had, he went down in Egypt for three year. I believe it was three years, three years down in Egypt. And you know what I believe he done? I believe that he took the Old Testament, and searched through the Old Testament, and found that That was really the absolute Messiah. He had to prove his experience by the Bible. Amen. Oh, my!
59 Look at him when he was in prison. You notice, there’s a–a space of Paul’s life when he was in prison there for a long time. He wrote the Book of Ephesians. He wrote this Hebrew Letter. See? He had time. God laid him away over there in a prison, and he wrote these Letters to the churches. One to the church of Ephesus. He wrote one to the Pentecostal church, had lots of trouble with them. The Pentecostal church he had more trouble with than anybody else. Still has it. But he was thankful for them. The only thing he could teach them… When they come in: one had a tongue, one had a psalm, one had a sensation, one had a feeling. He couldn’t talk, speak to them, “Eternal security.” He couldn’t speak to them, “predestination.” He couldn’t talk to… They were babies. They all had to–had to feel something, or see something, or have funny feelings, and, or something around them, some evidences.
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« 60 † But I believe, when he spoke to the Ephesians, he could speak on, “God has predestinated us unto sons and daughters, and adopted us as children in Jesus Christ before the foundation of the world.” Look at that. My!
61 Watch him come over in the Book of Romans, and so forth. They were grown-up. Oh, they spoke with tongues, sure, and they had other signs of the Holy Spirit among them. But they didn’t make doctrines, and sensations, and little quivers, and funny feelings.
62 Paul said, “You–you–you go to extremes with that. When you ought to be teaching, you’re still babies and have to have milk.”
63 That’s what I’ve always tried to contend this tabernacle to be, not a bunch of babies. Let’s be grown-up. Stand on the road. Oh, my! There you are.
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« 64 † So, Paul goes down there, first, to see if his experience matched God’s Bible.
65 Oh, wouldn’t it be wonderful, today, if people only done that again, if we made our experience match God’s Bible? If it doesn’t, then our experience is wrong; it don’t flash in the Urim Thummim. If it flashes in There, amen, we got It. But if it doesn’t, some… I don’t care how good it seems, how real it looked like it was right; if those lights didn’t flash on that Urim Thummim, it was wrong.
66 And no matter how much experience you’ve had, how real it seems to be, how presenting it is, how educational it is, what a great tool it is to win souls; if it doesn’t flash in the Word, it’s wrong. Right. It must line up with the Word.
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« 67 † Now, I believe, and there’s a middle of the road. The road, now, a lot of times… I used to go to a Nazarene church. The Lord bless those dear people. Old-fashioned, sanctified Methodists is what they are; church of God, Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness, and many of those good old holiness churches. And they used to sing a song:
I’m walking in the grand old highway,
Telling everywhere I go,
I’d rather be an old-time Christian, Lord,
Than anything I know.
68 Good. Wonderful. And then they used to talk about the highway of holiness. Now, if you read over that, they get that out of Isaiah, the 35th chapter. Now, if you notice, he said, “There shall be a highway, and a way.”
69 Now, and is a conjunction. See? A highway, it wasn’t a highway of holiness. “It shall be a highway, and a way, and it shall be called, ‘The way of holiness,'” not the highway of holiness. “The way of holiness!” And the way of the road is in the middle of the road. It’s built like this so that the waters will wash off the trash, to both sides, keeping the road clean. You don’t, you have puddles standing in your road, all the time, if it isn’t built right. “The way” is the middle of the road.
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« 70 † Now, on this side, when people get converted, their minds is set right on Christ. And if they’re just a little scholarly, and don’t keep under prayer, they’ll get real cold, and stiff, and starchy, and indifferent. And then if they’re just a little bit nervous, if you don’t watch, they’ll just get radical and wild, on this side, see, they go into sensations and everything.
71 Now, but, the real Church is a real sane Gospel, right in the middle of the road. It’s not cold and starchy, neither is it fanaticism. It’s a real good, old, warm Gospel, heartfelt love of God, going right down the middle of the road, calling from both sides. That’s right. Now that’s what… And how you going to get that, church? Right out of the Word, the Urim Thummim.
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« 72 † Now, Paul wanted to get this church right in the middle of the road, so he went and studied three years on the Scriptures that he knew. Therefore, Paul wrote the bigger part of this New Testament. God had him do that because it’s coming a Gentile age. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the four Gospels, they were Jews. But Paul wrote the most of the letters.
73 Now notice, now, we’re going to start getting this background now, where he’s at, writing It, from prison. And he’s had all this experience. But, first, this experience was first proven, and this is his key letter to it. This is his key letter. Romans and Ephesians, and so forth, have their place, but this is the key letter.
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« 74 † Now, the whole 1st chapter, is, exalting Jesus, and separating Him from being a prophet. That’s the whole theme now. I’ll try to get to it just as quick as can now, so we won’t stay too long. The whole theme, is, separating the new chap-… new… The 1st chapter, is, separating Jesus from any prophet, or any law, or so forth, and showing Who Jesus is. Now look, “God.” We start out, the first word, “God.”
God, at sun-… who at sundry times…
Sundry means that “way back,” back time.
… sundry times and in divers manners spake in the past unto the fathers by the prophets,
75 Now, see, “God, in sundry times, way back, He spoke to the fathers by the prophets.” That’s how He had to give His Message, through His prophet.
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« 76 † God would send His prophet like Elijah, Jeremiah, Isaiah. And if you’ll notice, never in all the history of the world, did ever the church produce a prophet. Search it in the Old Testament, New Testament, or in this day, in the latter day. Show me any prophet was ever raised out of the church in the last day. Show me one ever come up, out. And show me one time that a prophet, a real servant of God, that the ecclesiastical system of the world didn’t condemn him.
77 Just think of it. Jeremiah, Isaiah, all down through the Old Testament, they condemn it. Jesus said, “You garnish the tombs of the prophets and make them white, and you put them in there.” That’s right.
78 The church continues that. Look at Saint Patrick. You Catholic people claim him. He isn’t no more Catholic than I am. That’s right. But you claim him.
79 Look at Saint Francis of Assisi. Claim him. He isn’t no more Catholic than I am.
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« 80 † Look at Joan of Arc. You burnt her to a stake, as a witch, because she saw visions and is spiritual. Burnt her to a stake. And that woman screaming for mercy, and they burnt her to a stake. About a hundred years later, they found out that she was a prophetess. She was a servant of God. Oh, course, you got a big penalty: you dug up the priests’ body and throwed them in the river.
81 “You do garnish the tombs of the prophets, and put them in there.” Right. Never did the ecclesiastical system ever produce a man of God; never did, hasn’t today, and never will. Organized religion has never been God’s theme.
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« 82 † The oldest organized church in the world is the Catholic church; Luther, second; then come Zwingli; after Zwingli, come Calvin; Calvin, on, the Anglican, Anglo-Saxons taking up, then the Anglican church; and King Henry the Eighth, when he protested, and so forth; and on down to the Wesley Methodist, and Nazarenes, Pilgrim Holiness; and on down to the last, is Pentecostal, all organized. And the Bible plainly teaches that the Catholic church is a–a ill-famed woman, and the Protestant churches and their organizations are her daughters, Revelation 17. That’s exactly right. So they’re…
83 Not the people, now. There is good in all them churches; sainted, saved people. But God doesn’t call His people by an organization. He calls them as individuals. God deals with individuals, whether you’re a Methodist, Baptist, Protestant, and Catholic, or what you are. God, before the foundation of the world, knew you, and predestinated you to Eternal Life, or either you was predestinated to Eternal loss. Not…
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« 84 † He wasn’t willing that you should be perished, you would perish. But, Him being infinite, He had to know the end from the beginning, or He isn’t God. So Jesus never come to earth just to say, “Well, I’ll see if somebody be mercy… If I act and die, in a hard way, they’ll probably think, ‘Well, I… ‘ It’ll–it’ll persuade their hearts, and they’ll…” God don’t run His business like that.
85 Jesus came for one specific purpose, that’s, to save those who God, before the foundation of the world, knew would be saved. He said so. That’s right. So you’re… “It’s not him that willeth, or him that runneth; it’s God that showeth mercy.” Paul said that. Same man here.
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« 86 † He said, “That’s the reason God could say, before Esau or Jacob was either born, He said, ‘I love one and hate the other one.'” Before either boy was born, God knew that Esau was a shyster, and He knew that Jacob was a… he loved his birthright. So He knew, before the world ever was formed, about it. Now, we’re going to find out in a minute Who that was that knew it. This chapter has got it.
God,… in sundry time and in divers manner spoke… to the fathers by the prophets,
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son,…
Has done what? “Has spoken to us in this last days by His Son.”
87 Now, how would you think then, that, what would be a prophet? Would we have a prophet then of this day? Absolutely. Would He speak by it? Sure. But he that… The prophets of the old day was the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
88 Now, let’s get that straight, ’cause I don’t think it’s soaking in right. Now, this is just like Sunday School, so we want to get this clear. See?
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« 89 † Notice. Let’s take the Spirit of God that was in Moses, perfectly the… is the foreshadow of Jesus Christ. All of the Old Testament characters foreshadow the cross. Moses, born a proper child, hid in the bulrushes, taken away from his parents, so forth, and was… He was a king, or a–a leader, law-giver, intercessor, priest. Everything that he was foreshadowed Christ.
90 Look at Joseph, loved of his father, hated of his brethren, and sold for almost thirty pieces of silver. Throwed into a ditch, supposedly dead; taken out. In his persecution, butler saved, and butcher lost; two thieves at the cross. And then when he come out, he raised up out of that ditch, and was set at the right hand of Pharaoh, the biggest commercial… the–the–the nation who whipped all the rest of the world. And no man could come to Pharaoh except they come through Joseph; Jesus setting at the right hand of God, and no man can come to God except through Christ. And when Joseph left that throne and started out, men went before him, screaming and blowing trumpets, sound the trumpet, saying, “Bow the knee! Joseph is coming.”
91 And when Jesus comes, a trumpet shall sound, and every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess. Yes, sir. There He was.
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« 92 † And when Joseph died, he left a memorial to them who were waiting for deliverance.
93 I put my hand on the old casket, here not long ago, it was made out of lead. And his body was supposed to stay… his bones… Said, “Don’t you bury me here, for someday, God is going to visit you.” He was a prophet. “God is going to visit you.” And said, “When you go up to the promised land, take my bones.”
94 There, an old Hebrew, with a beat back and bloody, could look over in that casket and say, “Someday, we’re going out.”
95 Jesus left a memorial, an empty tomb. Someday when we go over to the grave, and our loved ones, and hear the little old clods, when they say, “Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust, and earth to earth.” But, brother, we can look across the sea, to an empty tomb. Someday, we’re going out of here. We’re going home. He is coming. Everything was typed.
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« 96 † Look at David, rejected by his own people, dethroned by his own people. Being a king of Jerusalem, was drove out of Jerusalem by his own people. And as he went up Mount Olive, he looked back and wept. He was rejected.
97 Eight hundred years from then, the Son of David, King of Jerusalem, set on a hill and wept, because he was rejected.
98 That was the Spirit of Christ in David. All foreshadowed the cross. Them prophets back there spoke in His Name. They lived in His Name. They acted in His Name. Sure. “God in sundry times and divers manners spoke to the fathers through the prophets, but in this last day through His Son.”
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« 99 † So the prophets and spiritual men, this day, is only the reflection of Christ. There, by the law they stood, look. Over here they stand, looking back the other way, through grace.
100 That in the Hebrews 11, the last chapter, I’ve often wondered that. In the last chapter, the last part of the 11th chapter of Hebrews, when he talks about Abraham. The great faith chapter, and at the end, he said, “They wandered about in sheepskins and in goatskins, and was made destitute, and sawed asunder. They wandered about, no place to go, hated, and despised, and persecuted. Of whom, this world isn’t worthy of such people.”
101 Then Paul stands and said, “But without us they’re not perfect.” For they only looked to the cross, and we look through the cross. We have the Spirit of Christ after It become human flesh and dwelt among us. We come here by the Holy Ghost, which is a far better plan.
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« 102 † And sometimes I wonder what Christianity expects today. A preacher going with a tent will have to be… or some new church or some new charge, calls himself a prophet, walks up there, say, “Well, if they’ll give me so much money. If I can have the best car. If they’ll… If my salary will be raised every six months.”
103 We have to have the best. We have to have the best homes. We have to have the best clothes. What will we do when we stand in the presence of those men who wandered, in goat skins and sheep skins, no place to lay their heads, wandering about in deserts? And somebody can make fun of us and we’re ready to quit church and not go back anymore. What Christianity requires today. We ought to be ashamed of ourselves.
O God, be merciful to us.
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« 104 † In that day, He spoke by the prophets, but this day through His Son. That was the word of a prophet, there. This is the Word of the Son, today. Oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord!
105 In other words, if you’re looking at the shadow, the negative, you might make a mistake. But This is developed, the picture is clear. That was by the prophet; this is by His Son. That was by a negative; this is by a positive. Amen. You see it? There isn’t a chance to lose. It’s a positive thing, this day through His Son. Oh, how wonderful!
… whom he has appointed heir… (oh, my)… heir of all things,…
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« 106 † What was it? It was an appointment. Oh, listen. He was appointed, Christ was, heir of all things. Oh, the Devil knowed that, from the garden of Eden, you see, when the Devil heard that Word there that day, in the judgment of those people. Said, “Because you come from the dust; dust you’ll return; and the woman’s Seed shall bruise the serpent’s head.” A promised Seed.
107 Satan constantly watched for that Seed. When Abel was born, he said, “There you are, that’s the seed.” And he killed Abel. His son, Cain, killed Abel. And as soon as Abel died, he said, “I got the seed.” He slew it. He said, “I got it.” But, Abel’s death, Seth’s birth was the resurrection again. Watch how they come down.
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« 108 † That line of Seth, it come down, a humble, righteous man; on down through Enoch; on down to Noah, to the end of the antediluvian destruction.
109 Look at Cain’s line, become smart people, educated, science. Don’t the Bible say… Did not Jesus say, that, “The children of this world are wiser than the Children of the Kingdom”? Look at the side of Cain yet today: smart, educated, skeptic, very religious; see, very religious, but scientists, builders, great men.
110 Take great men. Look at Thomas Edison, many great men. Look at Einstein, the brains of the world, so-called, today, the brains of the world. But we don’t try to use brains. We let the Mind that was in Christ be in us, and look to this Word, and call that so.
111 Medical doctors, though we salute them with whatever we have, but the most of those are skeptics, agnostic. Look at the smart, intelligent people today. They’re on that side over there, the Cain side.
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« 112 † But look at the humble and meek. There is your resurrection again. Oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord. There you are. Notice.
… he made him heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Who made the worlds? Christ. “Christ made the worlds?” Yes, sir. Let’s go just a little further.
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his presence,…
The brightness of whose glory? God’s glory. The express image of Whose Presence? God’s. Oh, I love this!
… or express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word…
There you are. The Word, that upholds all things. Jesus said, in Matthew 24, “Heavens and earth will pass away, but my Words shall never pass away.” He upholds all things.
113 Science tries to down It, and say, “It’s an old Book. It’s been translated.”
114 Even the Roman Catholic church, Bishop Sheen said, “That’s been translated four or five different times, and not much to It. You couldn’t live by It if you had to.” But He upholds all things by His Word. Amen. That’s what I think about It. I believe the Bible.
… the word of his power, (there’s power in the word), when he had by himself purged our sins,… (looky here)… set down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
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« 115 † What is Paul trying to do? He is trying to show that God purposed all things in Christ, and Christ was the express image of God. The entire rest of the chapter deals with how that He was higher than Angels, higher than all powers. Angels worshipped Him. Paul was trying to magnify Him.
116 Now, I want to try, if I don’t get any further than this, the rest of it is just magnifying Christ. What Paul says over here, like in the 11th chapter, and all about talking about the world. He said, “What–what Angel did He say, ‘Thou art My Son, this day I have begotten Thee’?” See?
117 “The end of the world, they shall perish. The world shall perish. But the… And all the things of the world shall perish. He would fold them up like a vesture. They’d be old, and turned, and go away. ‘But Thou remaineth. Thou remaineth forever. Thou art My Son. This day I have begotten Thee, and will never perish, setting at the right hand of the Majesty.'”
What does right hand mean? Not, God has got a right hand that somebody is setting on it. Right hand means the “power and authority,” got the authority of everything in Heaven and earth. And all the Heavens and earth is made by Him.
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« 118 † Now, Who is this great Guy, this great Fellow? Christ. Here, God in Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, it’s not… It’s a trinity, but It’s not a trinity of people. It’s a trinity of office, of one God.
119 He was the Father leading the children of Israel. That was His office, the great Jehovah Father. And He dwelt on earth, called the Son. And now He dwells in His Church, called the Holy Ghost. Not three Gods; one God in three offices: Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
People try to make Him three different Gods, God the Father. That’s the reason, Jews, you could never… You’ll never bring this to a Jew, no, that there. He can’t. He’s got a commandment, that, “I’m One God.” There’s only one God.
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« 120 † In Africa they baptize three different ways: they baptize once for the Father, and once for the Son, and once for the Holy Ghost. The Apostolic Faith mission, they baptize three times, face forward, to His death. What they call the Full Gospel on the West Coast, or the East Coast, baptize three times backward, said He… unto His burial.
And he said, “When He died, He fell forward.”
121 Another said, “Wait. You bury a man on his back.” Just little old technique things, when, they’re both wrong; both wrong, according to the Scripture.
This is the Urim Thummim. It settles it.
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« 122 † Now, here, let’s just picture that out and see what–what it looks like, tonight. Here it is, if you want to see it. In all of about twenty-five years I’ve been a minister. I’ve studied that. And I’ve often wondered at gifts in the church. What is those gifts? Prophecy, speaking with tongues, interpretation of tongues, Divine revelation, so forth, that all comes through Christ.
123 Now look. Christ is the Head of all things. And He’s the Head of the Church. And did you ever see a big diamond? A great big diamond that is chipped right, it’s got little chips knocked off of it, chipped off of it. That makes a correct diamond. What’s the chips for? The real diamond, the way it comes out, it’s been bruised; the real diamond, when it’s found.
I was in Kimberly. You, many of you, that’s heard you can pick up diamonds on the street, that’s correct. Billy and I, and Mr. Bosworth. The president of the Kimberly diamond mines, take… He was my usher in the meeting there. And they taken us over. And just out of… They mine them about, oh, about seventeen hundred feet under the earth. They come out, a blue stone, big blue, like this bluestone you get around here. And those natives, they put them seventeen hundred feet in the ground, to mine them, to keep the price up. You’d go on the river there, they got it guarded for hundreds of miles. Take two ten-gallon buckets, he said, and pick it up, full of–of sand, and if you could get home with it, you’d be a multimillionaire, there’d be so many diamonds in it. But they have to work and mine them, to keep the price up on them.
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« 124 † Now, the diamond, when it comes forth, it’s just a big, smooth, round, like, piece of glass. There’s a blue diamond, black diamond, emerald, and a clear diamond, white diamond. But when it come forth… Then when it’s made and put into use, there’s a part of that diamond has to lose. And it has to lose the–the chips off of it. Knock little chips, because, when it comes in direct light, like that, it makes a sparkle. The chip, what makes the sparkle, the way it’s cut. It’s cut, chipped, and then, when it does, it makes a sparkle. And one will go a green light, the other one will go a blue light, and maybe another, emerald light, and red light. And different lights go from it, like a rainbow color. They call it, “fire in the diamond.”
125 Now, each one of those lights represents gifts. But it’s, only, Christ is the Diamond. And He was the One Who came, and was bruised, and wounded, and chipped, that He might reflect Himself back as a Light to the world. He’s that Master Diamond.
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« 126 † Could you imagine, before there even was an earth, before there was a light, before there was a star, before there was anything? There’s a Great Fountain going forth, of Spirit, and out of this Fountain came the most pure of love, ’cause there was nothing for it to come from that but love. Now, we, what we call love, today, is a perverted love. But just as we get an essence, or a little bit of that love in us, it changes our whole opinion.
127 Then out of there come another stream, off this main Fountain, the Diamond, and it was called righteousness, absolutely righteousness. Now, that’s the reason we had to have law. That’s the reason law has to have judgment. If no judgment doesn’t follow law, law doesn’t do no good. And when judgment was passed by law, which brings death, and there’s no one who could pay the penalty but God Himself. And He paid the penalty of our death, and took our sins upon Him, that we might be the righteousness of God through Him.
128 Now, when these great Lights went out, or great rays of Spirit: love, peace, that’s all there was, That. There wasn’t no suffering. There wasn’t no–no hate, nor no malice; it couldn’t come from this Fountain. That was Jehovah. That was Jehovah God. And now, as the theologians call it, a theophany went from That, which was called, in the Scriptural, the “Logos,” the Logos that went out of God. It’s hard to explain, but It was a part of God.
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« 129 † Now, here is what happened. Oh, excuse me. I–I–I just get on this, this just gets me right where I love it. See? The Logos, and this great Fountain, this great Fountain of Spirit which had no beginning or no end; this great Spirit began to form, in the creation, and the Logos that went out from It was the Son of God. It was the only visible form that the Spirit had. And It was a theophany, which means a body, and the body was like a man.
130 Moses saw It when It passed through the… by–by the rock. And he looked at It, said, “It looked like the hind part of a man.”
It’s the same type of body that we receive when we die here. “If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting.” That was It. And that was the theophany which was the Son of God. That Son, that Logos, became flesh, because we were put in flesh. And the theophany, the Logos, became flesh, here among us, and It was nothing else but the dwelling place, for that entire Fountain dwelt in Him. Oh, do you see it? There It is. That was the One, that, in…
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« 131 † Looky here. Let’s turn now right quick to Hebrews, the 7th chapter, just for a moment of–of grace, God being willing. Let’s see what it looks like here. Abraham!
How much time we got? We got ten minutes. All right. We catch this, then we finish it up next, next, or Sunday, Lord willing.
132 Abraham was returning from the slaughter of the king.
For this Melchisedec, king of Salem,…
How many knows where, who, what Salem was? Jerusalem.
… king of Salem, prince of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
Listen.
To whom also Abraham give a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation the King of righteousness,… after that also the King of Salem, which is, the King of peace;
Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor ending of life;…
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« 133 † A King come down from Salem, and met Abraham coming from the slaughter of the kings. And this King didn’t have no father, had no mother, had no beginning of days or ending of Life. Who did Abraham meet? Now think. He didn’t have no father; He didn’t have no mother. He never had a time that He began, and He never has a time when He will end, so that same King of Salem has to be living today. Amen. You see it? It was that theophany that was that Son of God. What Salem? That Jerusalem which is Above, that Abraham, being blessed, was searching, find, trying to find the City whose Builder and Maker was God. He wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, everywhere, destitute, wandering, and was seeking a City whose Builder and Maker was God. And he met the King of that Salem, coming down, and he paid Him a tenth of all the spoils. Amen. That’s Him. Oh, Brother Graham, that was Him. That was Him.
Abraham seen Him again. One day he was setting in the tent. He looked, coming up there, and he seen three men coming.
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« 134 † You know, there’s just something about a Christian, that he knows Spirit when he sees It. When he… He just knows it. There’s just something Spiritual about it. Spiritual things are Spiritually discerned. You know. Yeah, he can just tell it, if he’s really born. “My sheep know My Voice.”
135 And he just knew there was something. He run out. He said, “Come in, my Lord. Sit down. Stop a little bit. I’ll get a morsel of bread and put in Your hand. I’ll wash Your feet. Rest Yourself, then go on about Your journey, for You–You’ve come to visit me.” Up in the barren land, taking the hard way, the way with the Lord’s despised few.
While, Lot was living in riches, the nephew down there, but he was living in sin. That’s what most riches-ness produces is sin.
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« 136 † So Abraham brought them up, while he got a little water and washed Their feet. He run out into the calf, and got a fat calf into the herd, and killed it; give it to a servant, to dress. And said, “Sarah, knead your meal.”
You know what kneading, it is, means. You know, mom used to have an old, kind of like a wedge, she had in the–the meal barrel. Did you ever see one of them with a sifter? And you had a wedge in there, you raked the meal, you know; and get heavy like that, and rake it through, like. I’ve seen mama do it, many times, the wedge, have a little round thing that’s got a little screen wire on it. She’d get that meal up and sift it like that, you know, and pat it back and forth, like that. Then take the wedge and rake it around, like that, to get it all down. And that’s when we have to go down and get our meal ground at the old grist mill; and big old burrs, you know, heavy, made real corn bread. You could saw logs all day, on it.
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« 137 † So then, said, “Knead some meal, right quick. And make some hoecakes right here on the hearth, right quick.” And they milked the cow and got some milk. And they got, churned it, and got some butter. And then they went and killed the calf and got some meat, and they fried the meat. Got the butter milk, corn bread, and they got some butter to put on the hot hoecakes. Oh, that’s really good. And they smeared it all on there. And he took it out, and set it down to these three Men.
138 And while They were eating, They kept looking toward Sodom. And after while, They got up and started walking away. And said, Abraham, said, “You won’t keep it from me.”
139 “I can’t keep from you what I’m going to do. I’m going down there. The sins of Sodom has come in My ear.”
Who was the Man? Dust all over His clothes, and setting there eating the flesh of a calf, and drinking the cow’s milk, and eating some hoecake corn bread, and some butter. Who is this strange Fellow? Two, or three of Them, setting there. Dust all over His clothes. Oh, yeah, “We’re from a far Country.” Yeah, way away. And so He said… Well, Who were They?
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« 140 † He said, “I can’t keep from Abraham, seeing that he’s the heir of the earth.” Amen. “I reveal My secrets,” other words, “to those who are heir of the earth.” That’s where the Church ought to be today. That’s right. Get the Secrets of God, know how to hold yourself, and act, and what to do, and how to walk, and how to live. We’re the heir of the earth. Right. He reveals It to you, ’cause He won’t keep nothing back. That’s why we’re watching these things come to pass.
The world say, “Ah, that’s a bunch of fanaticism.” Let them say it. The heir of the earth knows these things. [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.]
… for they shall be called the children of God.
Blessed are they that are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
He makes His secrets known to them, reveals it to them, showing them what to do and how to live, forsaking the things of the world; walking godly and living godly, in this present world, walking along with Him. Let the world say what they want to.
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« 141 † So He said, “I can’t keep this secret from Abraham, because, seeing he’s the heir of the earth. But,” He said, “I’m going down to destroy Sodom. I’m going down.”
142 “What are you going to do, Mister? Where You from? What’s it all about?”
143 Come to find out, He said, “And another thing, Abraham, you’ve waited twenty-five years for this promise I give you. You done got all the birdeye up, the–the pins and everything, for this baby, twenty-five years ago. You still been waiting on Me. Now I’m going to visit you, just about the time of life, according, time of life, next month I’ll be with you.”
144 And Sarah, back in the tent. And this Man had His back turned to the tent, talking to Abraham, like this. And Sarah went, “Huh!”
145 He said, “What made Sarah laugh?” Ho-ho-ho! How about that? That was quite a telepathy, wasn’t it? “What made Sarah laugh?”
Sarah said, “No. I never laughed.”
146 Said, “Oh, yes, you did.” She was scared. She was trembling. Who was That, to know what she was doing back in the tent? That’s That same God that’s with us today. Same One. He knows all about it. See? He just reveals it as you have need. See?
147 “What you laugh about?” See, His back turned to it. The Bible stated that, that, “His back was turned to the tent.” But, He knew it. “What’s she, back there, doing this, you see?”
So, He said, “I’m going to visit you.”
148 Who is this strange Fellow? You know what happened? He walked right out there and vanished. And the Bible said that That was Almighty God, Jehovah, that great Fountain, that Theophany, that Logos.
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« 149 † Some preacher said to me, some time ago, said, “Brother Branham, you wouldn’t actually think that was God, would you?”
150 I said, “The Bible said It was God, Elohim.” Which, He was Almighty God, the El Shaddai, that’s right, the Strength-Giver, the Satisfier. Amen.
151 Oh, I feel religious! Think of it, here, as He is now. I’m going to show you Who He is here, then you’ll see Who the Son is. That was Jesus, before He had the human Name, “Jesus.”
152 Stood there at the fountain that day. And they was all drinking, you know, and, “Having the waters was in the wilderness,” and things like that. He said, “They was eating the manna.” Said, he said, “Our fathers eat manna in the wilderness, for forty years.”
153 He said, “And they’re, every one, dead.” Said, “I am the Bread of Life that come from God, out of Heaven. He that eats this Bread shall never die.”
154 Said, “Well, our fathers drank from the Spirit, from a spiritual Rock that was in the wilderness, that followed them.”
155 He said, “I am that Rock.” Glory! Saint John, the 6th chapter.
“Why,” they said, “what?”
“Yes. That’s right.”
156 “Why,” he said, “You are… You’re not even fifty years old.” Course, His work made Him look a little old, but He was only thirty. Said, “You’re a man not over fifty years old, and You say You seen Abraham, that’s been dead for eight or nine hundred years? We know now that You’re a devil.”
157 He said, “Before Abraham was, I AM.” There He is. Who was the I AM? A perpetual Name for all generation. That was the… that Pillar of Fire in the burning bush, “I AM THAT I AM.” There He was, that Theophany met here, called the Son of God, the I AM, the Jehovah.
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« 158 † Thomas said, “Lord, show us the Father. It’ll satisfy us.”
159 Said, “I been so long with you, you don’t know Me?” Said, “When you see Me, you see the Father. Why say, ‘Show us, Thou, the Father’? I and the Father are One. My Father dwelleth in Me. I’m just a tabernacle called the Son. The Father dwells in Me. Not Me that doeth the works, it’s My Father that dwelleth in Me. He doeth the works, not Me”
160 Now, standing back there, again, Moses seen Him, the hind part of Him, said, “Looked like the back of a man,” the Logos that went from God.
161 Then what happened? This was God. And the reason He had become from Logos to flesh… What? How do you… What happened to that? Five minutes before that, He was a… He was the Logos. But what did He do? He just reached over…
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« 162 † Now, our bodies are made out of sixteen different elements of the world. We know that. It’s made out of potash, and–and a–and a little calcium, and–and petroleum, and cosmic light, and atoms, and so forth. All bundled together, and makes this body, comes from the dust of the earth. You eat food. As you eat the food, that turns into… from the dust, and it come from the dust, and it just–just goes right on. Your flesh, as far as your flesh, is no different from a horse, or from a cow, or anything else. It’s still just flesh.
163 And, boy, you glorify the flesh; but that spirit has a soul in there, my brother. That’s right. But your flesh is just dust of the earth, like the animal. Your flesh is no more than an animal. And if you lust after the flesh and the thing you see, lust after women, lust after all these different things, it’s still animal. That’s right. That’s right. You shouldn’t do it. The Spirit of God will lead you on and put you on a higher plain than that. That’s exactly right.
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« 164 † Now, and here, this great Theophany standing there. What? That great Jehovah God, you know what He said? He just reached over and got a handful of atoms, got a little light, and poured it in him like this, went, “Whew,” a body, and just stepped right into it. That’s all.
165 Said, “Come here, Gabriel,” that great Archangel. Went, “Whew.” “Step in that.”
166 “Come here, Michael,” the Angel at His right side. “Whew.” For the… “You step in that.”
167 God, and two Angels, walked down here in human flesh, and drank the milk from a cow, eat the butter out of the milk, and eat some corn bread, and eat the flesh of the calf. Two Angels and God. The Bible said so. That’s Melchisedec, that Abraham met, coming from the slaughter of the kings. That’s the Son of God.
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« 168 † Go ahead, here in the Hebrews, the 7th, said, “But made in the order of like unto the Son of God.” There He is. He made all things by Him. And He walked right out there, and just changed that dust right back to dust again, and stepped right back into Glory.
169 And the Angels, as soon as They delivered Lot and Mrs. Lot, and she kept looking back. He said, told them not to do it again. And They stepped right back into in to–to the Presence of God.
170 Now, what a great hope we have, this great Faith that we serve tonight! The living God, the Jehovah, the Pillar of Fire, is with us. Shows Himself in power, and action, and magnify. Let them take the Picture of Him, the same Jehovah. The Son of God that came from God, went back to God, and dwells in His Church forevermore. There He is.
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« 171 † He has our names on His Book, with a sworn oath by Himself, for there’s no one greater He can swear by, that He’ll raise us up in the last day. “He that eats My Flesh, and drinks My Blood, has everlasting Life, and I’ll raise Him up at the last day. He that cometh to Me, I will in no wise cast out. He that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting Life, and shall never come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto Life.”
172 That same One could just reach and grab a handful of calcium and potash, go, “Whew,” and there you are again. And my name is on His Book. Oh! Oh! Oh! What do I care how stooped my shoulders are getting, how old I get? Certainly not. Not a bit of worry.
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« 173 † Brother Mike, one of these days, bless your heart, brother, when that great trumpet will come, that sound, and that Joseph will step forth. Hallelujah! He will say, “Children!” “Whew.” There you’ll be, made in His likeness; young forever, old age is passed away; sickness, troubles, sorrows has vanished. Glory be to the living God!
174 That’s Who He speaks through, today, His Son. “In sundry times and divers manner He spoke through the prophet, but in this last day through His Son, Christ Jesus.” He speaks to every man’s heart that He has called. If you’ve ever felt His Voice or heard Him knock at your heart, please don’t turn It away.
Let us pray.
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« 175 † Heavenly Father, tonight, as we’re so happy to know, at the opening of this Hebrew Letter, how Paul went right back into the Gospels. He just wouldn’t take it upon a hearsay or upon an experience. He wanted us to know what was Truth. And he went right back into the Gospels, and he… back into the Old Testament, the Gospel that was preached to them. And he seen, through the Old Testament there, all the shadows and types. That’s why we got this great Book of the Hebrews tonight. And we see It, Lord, and we love It. And through ages, It’s been burned, It’s been scattered, It’s been tried to be done away with, but She waves on just the same. For Thou hast said, “Heavens and earth shall pass away, but My Words shall not.”
176 Then the skeptic would say, “Well, you said, ‘Paul wrote this.'” Not Paul, but God that was in Paul; that creative Being that was inside of Paul.
177 Just like was in David, when he said, “I’ll not suffer my Holy One to see corruption, neither will I leave His soul in hell.” And the Son of God taken those Words from that prophet, and went right into the bosoms of hell. And said, “Tear down this tabernacle, and I’ll raise It up in three days.” And He did it, because God’s Word can’t fail. One iota can’t fail. How we thank God for this, this great Urim Thummim, and to know that our experiences tonight, Lord, flashes right on this Bible here! We’re born again, have the Holy Spirit.
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« 178 † Dear God, if there be a man or woman in here tonight, boy or girl, who has never witnessed this, how could they raise up if there’s no Life in there? Oh, they say, “I have Life.”
179 But the Bible said, “She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she is alive.” You say you have Life, but you’re dead. “You claim,” said the Bible, “that you have Life, but you’re dead. Thou say you are rich and have need of nothing; but not know that you’re miserable, and poor, and naked, and blind, and don’t know it.” And that is the condition of the churches tonight, Lord. How they miss these great, valuable things.
To know that the great Jehovah God, Who can only produce by… He said, “Bring me those little fish.” He had to take the fish to–to make something with it. Showing, that the resurrection had to be something, to do something with. He not only made fish, but he made cooked fish; He cooked bread. And He fed five thousand with five little fish, little loaves and two fishes. O Lord, it was in His hands, and He was the Creator. But He had to have something in His hand.
God, may we lay ourselves in His hands, tonight, and say, “O God, take me as I am. And when the end of my life is here, let me go with this hope that was within me, knowing I been born again, and Your Spirit has bore record with me, and witnessed with my spirit, that I’m Your Son, or Your Daughter.” And at that last day, You’ll raise them up. Grant it, Father.
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« 180 † And while we have our heads bowed, would there be one would raise your hand, say, “Remember me, Brother Branham, in prayer. I want God to know me when… ‘fore I leave this earth, that He will know me so much that He will call my name. I’ll answer.” The Lord bless you son. God bless you, and you; and you, lady. Someone else? Just raise your hand. Say, “Pray for me, Brother Branham.” That’s what we’ll do. God bless you, young lady. That’s good.
181 Now, while your head is bowed, praying, I’m going to sing a verse of this song.
Covet not this world’s vain riches,
That so rapidly decay,
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
They will never pass away.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
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« 182 † While she is playing now, and your head bowed, will you just reach your hand up, say, “Yes, Lord, here is mine”? What will it do? It’ll show your spirit, in you, made a decision. “I want your hand, Lord.” God bless you, little girlie. “I’ll raise my hand.” God bless you, little girl, down here. That’s fine, honey. God, you know, is happy to see you do that. “Suffer the little children to come to me.”
183 “I want, God, You to hold my hand. And at that day, I want to be in Your hand; that, when You call, I’ll come.” Yes, like Lazarus was. God bless you, sister.
When our journey is completed,
If to God you have been true,
Fair and bright your home in Glory,
Your enraptured soul shall view.
What will you do now, then?
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
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« 184 † Heavenly Father, several hands went up, in this little meeting, tonight, that they want to take a hold, tonight, of Your unchanging, Eternal hand. Knowing that what is committed to You… You said, “I… All the Father has given Me will come to Me, and none of them will be lost. And I’ll raise them up at the last day. Can never perish, can never come to judgment, but has Eternal, Eternal Life.” And there’s only one Eternal Life. That comes from God, alone. It is God. And we become part of God, so much that we’re sons and daughters of God. When we have God’s Spirit in us, we think like God. We think of righteousness and holiness, and we try to live to please Him.
185 Grant, Lord, that that type of Life will enter every person that raised their hand. And those who should have raised their hands, and did not, I pray that You’ll be with them. Grant it, Father. And when journey is ended, life is finished, may we enter into peace at that day, with Him, where we’ll never be old, never be sick, never be no trouble. Until then, keep us joyful and happy, praising Him, for we ask it in His Name. Amen.
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« 186 † All you believers, now, let’s just raise our hands and sing that chorus.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Now let’s hum it. [Brother Branham begins humming Hold To God’s Unchanging Hand–Ed.]
187 While you’re doing that, your neighbor; you say, “God bless you, neighbor.” Shake hands with somebody setting next to you. “God bless you.” On both sides now. On both sides, shake hands. “God bless you, neighbor. God be with you.” Build your hopes on things Eternal.
Doc, I know it’s there, brother. I know you’ve been there, Brother Neville, long ago.
When this journey is completed,
Going to happen, one of these days.
If to God we have been true,
We’ll see Brother Seward there.
Bright and bright, your home in Glory,
Your enraptured soul shall view.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
I like that worship, after the message.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Time is filled with swift transition,
Naught of earth unmoved shall stand,
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold…
Let us catch a view of Him, that unseen One in the midst now, and just worship Him now as we sing.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Peace! Peace! Wonderful peace,
Just worship Him now.
Coming down…
The message is over. It’s worship.
Sweep over our spirit forever, I pray,
In the fathomless billows of love.
Just bathe in Him.
Peace! Peace! Wonderful peace,
Coming down from…
That great Fountain, It’s opening up.
… above;
Sweep over our spirit forever, I pray,
In the fathomless billows of love.
Doesn’t that just do something?
Wonderful peace,
Coming down from our Father Above;
Sweep over our spirit forever, I pray,
In the fathomless billows of love.
Isn’t there something about It, just rich and sweet?
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« 188 † And wonder if there’s a sick person wants to be anointed and prayed for. If there is, just find your place. This is the lady in the wheel chair there? Just let her remain. I’ll come, pray for her. She won’t have to get up from the chair. Another? All right.
Oh, don’t you just love this part of the service? How many feel, just know that the Presence of God is here? That’s what I talk about. That same… You just feel like… How many feels like you could just scream out? Now let’s just see. Just feels like something, you could, wants to scream out. See?
It’s peace! Peace! Wonderful peace,
Coming down from the Father Above;
Sweep over my spirit forever, I pray,
In the fathomless billows of love.
Shine on me,
189 While we’re in worship, we’re going to anoint the sick now, and pray for them. Won’t you come right this way, lady?
190 What does this mean? “The prayer of faith shall save the sick.” Everybody in prayer now, just hum that song. Think of Jesus healing the sick. Anoint her in oil. `
–Rev. William Marrion Branham
–copied from The Table Software, available from VGR
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« 1 † ` I’m just so grateful to be here. I appreciate your prayers when you heard the little accident I had. It just goes to show that Satan cannot take you until God’s ready. And I guess many of you wonder how it… what happened. I’d always been favored… As you know I… my hobby, or what I relax by, is either to go fishing or go down at the range and shoot, or go hunting, or something like that. I’m glad of that. If I’d have played golf, it’d been out there where women half naked. And if I’d been–and if I’d been a ball player, you know what it would been, that. But I’m–I’m glad it was outdoors, such as fishing, hunting and things.
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« 2 † And I always cherished one of those Weatherby Magnum rifles. And I guess someone would have bought it for me if I’d have said something about it, but I kept it to myself because it’s too much money they want for them to put in there, and me knowing missionaries without shoes on their feet. And then let someone pay for that, take that much money and pay for a rifle? Brother Art Wilson give Billy back there a model seventy Winchester not long ago, a two-fifty-seven Roberts. Mr. Weatherby put out a paper that he could take that gun for just a little change in there and make a Weatherby Magnum out of it, just perfectly safe. So Brother Rodney comes here to church, Brother Rodney Armstrong sent it away and had it converted into a Weatherby Magnum. It just happened not to be converted right. So when I fired it, is the Weath-… The Winchester Company says that their gun will stand sixty-nine hundred pounds of pressure. You know what that would be.
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« 3 † And I just had the gun up, Brother Wood went down there with me, and it was just about an inch from my eye, like that. And the pressure that blowed sixty-nine hundred pounds for fifty yards, the gun barrel went out towards the fifty-yard line, the bolt went back this way, and the gun just disintegrated in my hand. Just a blaze of fire about as high as the ceiling there, and that was about all I knew for a second or two. And, I come to, blood was spurting way out like this, and I thought I had been killed, so I kind of caught my hand up like that for a moment. And Brother Wood… I tried to look, and I couldn’t see out of this eye, and couldn’t hear at all. I felt like I was walking up in the air. And I seen Brother Wood going out towards the target to see where the bullet hit, and I tried to attract his attention. Then he got there and we come on up. And the ring of shrapnel had went right around the eye. And my face looked like he just throwed hamburger in it, where it just blowed up my face. And a big heavy pieces stuck just above the eye, and made a circle right around the sinus bone and the skull bone here. Doctor Adair picked them out.
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« 4 † A few days later, course, the next day, Doc was in the hospital himself. They sent me over to a specialist about the eye. He found a ring, just below the sight, of about thirty pieces of shrapnel went plumb in deep into the eyeball. It cannot be picked out. Went, just missed the sight and made a ring around like this. He said, “The only thing that I know,” he wrote Doctor Adair a letter, said, “the good Lord must have been sitting on the bench with him, to protect His servant, or he wouldn’t even have a head left on.” All Brother Wood would have found would just been from here down, see. That pressure that blowed back! I don’t know how it did it. But that big heavy bolt out of a model seventy rifle had blowed all the way back, if you know where the Conservation Club is, all the way back to the deer pen. And part of the gun we never did find.
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« 5 † So, it just goes to show something. I have a sermon one day on that, the Lord willing, on “A conversion is all right, but you better keep it low. If it isn’t predestinated to the load that it takes, it’ll blow up every time.” That’s right. So don’t try to… It better be the original. Not mocking from some… [A sister speaks from the congregation–Ed.] Now look, see. It’s… Oh, course, you could imagine that things would be said like that.
6 But, as far as I know, there–there isn’t one thing… Course, my ears, you can imagine, it still has a ringing when this microphone rebounding. That’s the reason I wasn’t here this morning. You talk, you hear it blast back and forth. But they taken me over to a specialist, said, “The eardrum isn’t even swollen. And then the eye,” said, “you’ll be just the same sight you ever had.” Said–said, “It went in below the sight. It just made a ring around the eyeball, embedded itself.” Said, “You’ll always have shrapnel.”
7 I said, “I’ve had it since I was two years old, that’s from another one.”
8 Brother Roberson back there, I called him up and was telling him about it. Said, “Don’t mind that,” said, “I got two or three pound in me,” he said. He’s a veteran from the war. “So it won’t hurt, I’ve had plenty of it.”
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« 9 † And I remember the vision of the Lord not long ago. Do you remember me telling it here? The sweetness of the Lord that morning, said, “Do not fear whatever, wherever to go, or what, for the never-failing Presence of Jesus Christ is with you wherever you go.” So he can’t, Satan can’t kill me until God says “it’s finished.” See? He might try it, but he’ll never succeed in doing it.
10 So then, the strange thing, I was going on anyhow, going on to my meeting, which I could see out of this left eye all right, and I was going on to the meeting anyhow. And then they, the brother that was going in the Indian reservation, had to cancel that meeting, or postponement, until I come back to West Coast and go up on the West Coast. So we’re going to take the meeting there. And during this time, Brother Arganbright has got a hold of me, and then when that meeting is over, I go too up to Anchorage, Alaska. Reason I was depending so much…
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« 11 † Many of you remember the vision that I had, where I had shot the grizzly bear, nine-foot grizzly bear, (and church remembers me telling it here), and the caribou. I had another. Remember it’s on tape here, I seen a great huge brown bear. That might be a Kodiak and it wouldn’t have worked down there in Canada, ’cause they’re not there, you see. But wherever it will be, it’ll be. It will be, that’s THUS SAITH THE LORD. It will be. See?
12 And now I thank you for praying for me. I knew many of you’d be praying when you heard that I had gotten hurt. And one little group that just… My daughter back there, Rebekah, wrote Sister Dauch that comes here at the church, a letter, and told her about it. And she called up Meda a couple nights after that, said, “I don’t know whether it helped or not, but all of us group up here got together.” The Methodist minister and–and Brother Brown, their relative and all of them got together, prayed all night for me. Said, “I don’t know whether God heard or not, but, we knowed that Brother Branham prayed for so many, we thought we’d pray for him.” That’s the kind He does hear, see. Yes, sir, those kind like that!
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« 13 † Brother Crase, one of our brethren here, Satan after him just recently, hit a culvert, oh, it just cut his… completely. I don’t see how he ever got out of it alive. And so he was laying out there in the hospital and said there was a little brother come in from New Albany, named Medcalf, and he said, “Brother Crase, I–I’m–I’m not worthy to come pray for you, but” said “the Lord just put it on my heart, so I couldn’t help it.” And just come out and knelt down, and said a little prayer and went out. God healed Brother Crase right there. See? When, see, it’s the gift of healing in the Body of Christ, you see, one member to another.
14 Don’t think because you’re just a lay member; that, you’re just as much member as anybody else. That’s just as much my finger as this arm is my arm, or this ear is my ear. See? It’s just a member of the body. And we all… If one member suffers, all members suffers with that. A unity, how a blessed unity! Now I…
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« 15 † Then after that, now, I have taken some more meetings and I left a little time there for a night again with the tabernacle, if the Lord willing. And, if God willing, this next coming Sunday morning I want to speak on The Prophet’s Trail, and then, at the tabernacle.
16 Tomorrow night, or Sunday night, I’m up here at the Gospel Tabernacle, one of our brothers, Brother Ruddell. I want to speak on the subject, Letting Off The Steam, if the Lord willing.
17 And then the following Tuesday, we have to leave then for Wisconsin, with the Full Gospel Business Men’s regional convention. I’ll be there for three nights. That’s at the… Billy, what’s the name of that city? Received… [Brother Billy Paul Branham says, “Green Lake.”–Ed.] Green Lake, Wisconsin. [“Thursday.”] When? [“Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; the seventeenth to nineteenth.”] Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth, at Green Lake, Wisconsin, the regional convention.
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« 18 † And then on Sunday, of the twentieth, I’m in Chicago at the High School auditorium, that same auditorium that we was in the last time. You remember what that name is? [Brother Billy Paul says, “Stephen Mather.”–Ed.] Stephen Mather High School auditorium, for Sunday afternoon.
19 Then on Monday I’m over at the… I forget the name of the place where the Lord showed me the convention that time about the Ministerial Association of Chicago, meeting with me to discuss the subjects, you know. I said, “And the Lord showed me over at that place.” It’s a farewell meeting on Brother Joseph Boze, which is to be here tomorrow by plane to see me, and a farewell party on him on Monday.
20 Then we come right straight home and leave then, for it’ll be time then to leave for Southern Pines, South Carolina, or North Carolina. And then down to Columbus, South Carolina. And then to the Cow Palace on the West Coast. And then up through to Grass City, and on up into the Spokane, on into Canada, and then in Alaska. So be in prayer for us, we really need your prayers.
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« 21 † And we’re taught in the Scripture that all things work together for good to them that love God. And I believe, since this, and seeing the loyalty of the people and so forth… Someone said, “How would it happen, and what would God let it?” I could have got killed on the road going out there, something or another, He–He had something to bypass it. Remember, the Scriptures cannot fail, “All things work together for good to them that love God.” And, if I know my heart, I love Him. I–I love Him with all my heart. And it brings us a little closer together.
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« 22 † And, to think now, that everyone that’s heard of it, can’t understand how I’ve even got a head or a shoulders left, you see, and sitting in all that blast. That, this close to me, which would probably be nearly two thousand pounds of blast right in your face. See, that’s enough to just disintegrate you, see, just sweep it out. If it burst that heavy steel gun and blow that barrel plumb out towards the fifty yard line, and–and the stock, you should just see the gun. It just don’t look like a gun, it’s just pieces picked up.
23 And then, out of that, without one defect. Praise be to the living God! Just enough to keep me from going up there till the word from Eddie come that I wasn’t supposed to come at that time. “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me!” And it makes us to know that, to appreciate God being with us. God is with us, and how thankful we are!
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« 24 † Now, I told this morning I thought I’d come down, then precious brother here when I got back… I said to Sister Wood today, I guess Brother Neville… Billy called me and said, “Listen at the message if you can.” And I believe a little piece of that metal had worked out and got down in below my eye there, it was really giving me a bad way to go, but it’s out now. They got it washed out. And so then he said… Tonight I thought I’d go down, and that precious brother probably preaching like that, I know what it is when you have one big service then you’re real hoarse, you know, and–and throat burning and hurting. So I thought I’ll go down, and I picked out a couple Scriptures to read. I thought, “Communion night.”
I always want to take communion.
25 Then I had a couple of friends, they’re here somewhere. I don’t see too well, as you understand. It’s still got belladonna in that eye which is dilated, just kind of a blur. And so they’re here, friends and relatives of my precious good brother, F. F. Bosworth, in Glory. So the Lord bless those people, we just had prayer for them in the back room.
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« 26 † Now, don’t forget, Wednesday night is our midweek prayer meeting. And I think, Brother Jackson, his is Thursday night. And Brother Junior up here is on… Or, Brother Ruddell is on Wednesday night. And the tabernacle in Utica is on Wednesday. [Brother Neville says, “That’s on Thursday night.”–Ed.] On Thursday night. And then back here Sunday morning for a congregational service.
27 And then now, and Sunday night I have to get with Brother Ruddell. I was going to make it on a Wednesday night, but the following week, but I can’t do that, so I had to put it on Sunday night. But now the people here at the tabernacle, stay right here at the tabernacle, see, ’cause I’m going up to Brother Ruddell’s for that night just to speak, not for healing service. And, but remember, stay right at the post of duty, right here at the tabernacle. This is your place, see. And so we’re going to expect a good time. And then you all pray for us as we go along.
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« 28 † Trusting that God will meet with us tonight now just before the communion. And now I think… Is that all we have, announcements, that we know of? [Brother Neville says, “Yes.”–Ed.] Now, laying the path… [“Funeral, tomorrow afternoon.”] What, brother? [“Funeral, tomorrow afternoon, at two o’clock.”] A funeral. [“At Edmonton. J.T.’s mother.”] Oh, yes. The funeral of… one of our brother evangelists from this tabernacle here is just… Well, he’s one of us here. He goes out and pastors and preaches, a Brother J. T. Parnell. His precious little mother died the other night, a little, stooped, gray mother. And it’ll be at Edmonton, Kentucky. The funeral service is tomorrow. I know many of you wondered, could get flowers to her, but we couldn’t. And the only way the church get a wreath there, they had to phone it in and then let the mailman take it out. And it’d have to go out tomorrow, whether it gets there or not, the flowers, so makes it difficult. But we sure want to share the sympathy, brother, with our Brother Parnell losing his mother, which, I’ve done the same just recently. And I’m sure that Sister Spencer and many others here who is sharing sympathy, too, who’s just recently walked through the shadows and sorrows.
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« 29 † Now let us bow our heads just a moment, in His Presence, for prayer. Now I want you to pray for me. And it’s kind of difficult here tonight, trying to see, and this light blurring. And–and my eye is all right, but they put some belladonna in it to dilate it. You know what it is. And it’s been that way about six days now, see, and he said it might last for another week or ten days. So you pray for me. And then the rebound from this microphone against the walls, you pray for me. And could I see your hand, and God, as you’ve got a request just raise up your hand. God, answer prayer, as we solemnly assemble and bow now.
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« 30 † Our Heavenly Father, Thou hast chosen that we should gather together. It’s the will of God that we should assemble ourselves together as we see the Day approaching, and that regularly, Lord, to bring ourselves closer to You and closer to each other, in a bond of fellowship, through the shed Blood of Jesus which makes it possible.
31 We’re so grateful tonight, Lord. I–I–I never was so grateful to–to be here, Lord. I, I’m just so thankful to You. I just cannot find the words to express how thankful to have eyesight and hearing, and to be among the living here on earth, to continue the Gospel. It makes us so appreciative, Lord, when we see how close that only… When man of great understanding just scratch their head and say, “How could it ever be? Only the hand of God!” Then I bow my head in humility, Lord, to see that the miracle was granted to me, that it be performed around where Your servant stood. I’m so grateful. And now, Father, I rededicate my life in service to You again, after walking down there. Never can be in life any closer to death than then, and then live. So I thankful.
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« 32 † And now I pray for all these people who raised up their hands tonight, each one of them had a request. And many of them has thanksgiving, nearly all, Lord, in their hearts, for what You’ve done for them also.
33 Now we’ve come tonight to assemble on a very special occasion, that is, to take what we call the “communion,” or, the “Lord’s Supper.” Commune is “to talk with, or converse with.” And that’s what we are doing now, Lord, conversing with our Lord, communing, talking, waiting upon Him for His answer.
34 And now, Father, we pray that You’ll commune back to us tonight through the written Word. And give us something in our hearts, stabilize our–our–our journey, Lord, and give us new courage. And bless our pastor, Lord, our precious brother, Your servant, and his wife and family; and the deacons and trustees, and every person that comes to the church. O God, draw us closer to Thee. May there be, as the poet said, “Blessed be the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love. Our fellowship of kindred mind is like to that above.” Grant it, Lord. Bless all other worshippers across the world. And now, Father, break the Bread of Life to us as we wait upon Thee. In the Name of Jesus Christ, Thy beloved Child, we ask it. Amen.
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« 35 † Now, many people like to mark down the words where a minister might read. And I have… This afternoon after I was out with Brother and Sister Wood… We had been down to see our Brother Gobel Roberson, and so we had, in his exhibition room. So we come back, and I thought… Sister Wood was telling me what a wonderful message that our pastor had this morning. And I just happened to think of the poor little guy, may have a sore throat, and I have too, but I–I thought we can share this together, maybe, if he asked me to speak. And I dropped down a few notes here that I would like to talk on.
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« 36 † First, let us turn to Second Corinthians 6:7 to 10. First Corinthians, the 6th chapter, 7th verse and the 10th, inclusive. And then Genesis 14:18 to 19. And draw from there, the Lord willing, a con-… or a context from the text. And now I will read from First… or from Second Corinthians, the first, Second Corinthians 6:7 to 10.
By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
By honour… dishonour, and by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
As unknown,… yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; and having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Genesis 14:18 and 19.
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high…
And he blessed Abraham, and said, Blessed be Abraham of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
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« 37 † And if I would call it a text, I would like to speak on the subject, the… Possessing All Things. As in Corinthians here, we… It said that we are–are poor, yet possess all things. Possessing All Things. Now, I like that. Now in Genesis we read of Abraham meeting this great Man called Melchisedec, Who was the Possessor of both Heaven and earth. Then, He was the Possessor of all things, Possessor of Heaven and of earth, that’s, of all things.
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« 38 † Now, we know the story of Abraham and what had happened. He had been called to a–a place of duty. He had been called out of his land, the land of the Chaldeans, and the city of Ur, where he had been there with his father and his people. And that’s down in the Shinar valleys, probably a rich fertile land. And Abraham, as we understand, wasn’t any special person in the sight of the world. And otherwise, he wasn’t a king, or a monarch, or a potentate. He was just a man. And he had married his half sister, which was Sarah, and probably married her when she was a young woman. And God had called him at the age of seventy-five, to a life of service, and it also included his helpmate.
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« 39 † And right here we could start. I believe that when God calls a man to service, if he’s a married man and has a helpmate, He calls his wife with him, because they two are one. And so, wherever, we find later on that God possibly would have killed Sarah when she doubted the Angel’s message, twenty-five years later, when they were sitting under the oak that day, but when she laughed when the Angel told her, or told Abraham that she was going to be mother, and Sarah laughed within herself and said, “How could I, old?” Ninety years old, and her husband a hundred years old. His… her womb been dried up for years, and his body as good as dead. Then how could she ever have pleasure with her husband again? And she laughed to herself.
40 And the Angel, with His back turned to the tent, said, “Why did Sarah laugh?”
41 And she denied it. Now, that’s telling God to His face that He’s “wrong.” See? And that would have took her life, but God could not take Sarah, because she was a part of Abraham. See? And she was in the covenant with him, so she had to go with him. So He could not take Abraham… or take Sarah, without taking part of Abraham, for these two are one.
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« 42 † A beautiful type of us today, unworthy, worthy of death when we sin, but God cannot kill us, because He would… we are a part of Christ. See? That’s our grace, because we are in union with Christ. Isn’t that a beautiful thought, union with Christ? So therefore, our sins, when we do them, we ought to quickly confess them, that “they’re wrong,” because God would take our life. But the Blood answers in our place, and God just can’t cross that Blood. See? He just can’t do it, because it’s a promise that He won’t do it. So He can’t break His Own promise. See? So God’s got Himself, as it was, sewed up. See, He can’t break His promise. And He promised It through that Blood, whosoever believed had Eternal Life, and He cannot break that promise.
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« 43 † So we find that Abraham, in obedience, left his home, left his land, and separated from everything, all his earthly position, possessions, to travel in a strange land, sojourning. A type of the Church. We’re asked to forsake everything that’s in this world, in order to follow Christ.
44 Now, we find Abraham following on, year after year. And he took some portion with him, which was his father, and he died right away. And then he took his nephew, which was Lot, and Lot separated himself from argument sake, and went down to live in Sodom, yet he was a part of Abraham. And God gave the land and all that was in the land, to Abraham, he heired all of it. God said, “Look east, west, north, and south, and all of it belongs to you and to your seed after you. All yours!”
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« 45 † Now, one day Abraham had it kind of rough, and Lot having it easy, wading in sin. How easy it is and how pleasing sin looks to be, and how innocent it looks to be. Now, if Lot says this, “As long as I believe! I believe in God, so why can’t I go down here in Sodom, and–and it’ll be all right. I’m a believer.” But it wasn’t all right.
46 See, God, when He called Abraham, He called him to separate himself from everything. And that’s what we have to do. God calls us to a total separation from sin, “Come out from among it, be not partakers of it!” Shun it, the very appearance of evil. Separation, completely annihilated from it! Stay your distance away from it. Don’t tread upon its grounds, no matter how–how it… nice it looks.
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« 47 † You people, you might think here now, here it is, “Brother Branham, I–I sometimes I’m tempted to steal, or sometimes I’m tempted to smoke.” Or sometimes the women think, “I’m tempted to dress like the people of the world, you know, the immoral clothes and things. I’m tempted,” the young ladies. Now, you think that’s tempting, what about over here where you’ve got every little move to watch, you see, in a ministry. What a greater thing it is over here, and what they’d have to answer more for. Because, you have to answer for your own souls, but we have to answer for everybody we speak to. See? So Satan just constantly… Where you’d say, you: “Isn’t that a pretty little dress? It’s all wrong to wear, but isn’t it beautiful? It’d fit me just right.” Where it is to me… Now, that, you know that’s wrong. But in a minister it’s, “You should go to this meeting here, this is just it. They say it’s so great, the congregation.” And yet you’ve got to wait and hear God say “go,” see. “Oh, would you go over here and see this person here? This is such-and-such.” And you got to watch, be careful. See? Oh, it’s so sly. And now we have to watch those things.
48 Now, Abraham had to watch, too. But he, instead of going down into Sodom with Lot, he separated himself and went up into the desert, took the way with the Lord’s despised few. That should be our attitude. Take the way with God’s people regardless whether it’s hard or easy, go anyhow. Be ready to go at anytime, now, wherever He might call you.
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« 49 † Now, after this come up, then there–there come a king that went on a warpath with a little tribe of people up there, and swept down through the valley and took all the little groups, little kingdoms out, and took, come into Sodom and took the king of Sodom and Gomorrah, took Lot (Abraham’s nephew), his wife, his daughters, his children, all of them, and all their possession, all they had, went right on out through, cleaning out the country as it went. Oh, what a horrible thing, the wages of sin is death! Lot realized, no doubt, walking along there and maybe with a–a rope or a chain around his neck, as a slave; his children, young girls to be ravished; and his wife, and everything, and probably die at anytime. He disobeyed one order, and maybe going into another kingdom somewhere to be a slave the rest of his days.
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« 50 † But Abraham, when he found out that Lot had been taken, that was part of Abraham’s possession. And Abraham might have said this, “God, You told me that if I would obey You and walk in here, in this land, You would give this to me. It belongs to me. And Lot’s part of this, and I’m going after him.” So he garrisoned, or gathered together his servants, and put arm on them. And he took his servants, and took out until he pursued and found this king with all these other little kingdoms. Look what a great army they were then! But under the directing of God, the Chief General, he separated himself, and fell in upon them and slaughtered the kings, and brought back Lot and all the little kingdoms, brought them back to them, to their homeland again.
51 What a picture of Christ in Abraham there, coming after the enemy had captured everything, and Christ come and brought us back again.
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« 52 † Now we find in this great story that Abraham, on the road back, coming back after the victory was over, he met the Possessor of Heavens and earth, Melchisedec, which is the King of Jerusalem, King of Salem, which was Jerusalem, which is King of Peace, which is King of Righteousness. He had no father, He had no mother, He never did begin and He never will end, so that was nothing else but the Almighty. And He met him on the road home, from the slaughter of the king. He met the Possessor, the One Who owned all things met him on the road back. What a glorious thing! Now Abraham…
53 I like this. Abraham was heir to all, by the promise, so he could lay claim to everything that was in the land, and the land itself. Abraham had been given the promise. Now, we understand that Abraham was the poorest man in all the country, because he lived out in the desert, and lived in peace with God. And Lot, rich, lived in the city and become of the governor of the city; he set in the gate, he was a judge, and judged the city, and had all the riches and things. But Abraham was in the desert, and the… perhaps the poorest man in the land, and yet a claim to possess all. Amen! That’s what I like.
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« 54 † Oh, tonight, we may not be rich in this world’s goods, but we possess all things. The Church, Itself, possesses all things. Yet poor, yet rich and possess all things. I like that. He… We–we are. The old song we used to sing years ago, “My Father is rich with houses and lands, He holdeth the wealth of the world in His hand! Rubies and diamonds, and silver and gold, His coffers are full, He has riches untold.” And we are a possessor of it, because we are a child of the King. Amen. The child always falls heir, we know. All right.
55 Abraham could lay hold on it, yet poor, his cattle was starving; Lot took the best ground. His water was short. Hot days, and the herdsmen had been in trouble, and everything looked like gone wrong for Abraham, yet he owned the whole thing.
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« 56 † And, today, the true believer is cast out from among the people, called a “fanatic, holy roller,” or some kind of an insulting name, some kind of a religious fanatic, and yet is heir to the whole Heavens and earth. “Blessed are the meek, they shall inherit the earth.” Oh, my! Talk about push you out in a cabin or somewhere, and hardly enough money to pay your rent, yet you own it all. Amen. Have to work and toil and sweat for a few dollars, to make an earn… honest living, to put shoes on your children’s feet, and to feed their little hungry mouth, and yet own, heir to everything that’s here. “The meek shall inherit the earth.” They possess it. Oh, my, I like that! Possessor of the earth! What is? The believer. The believer has a title, abstract deed, that’s right, by Jesus Christ, that “He shall be the possessor of this entire universe.” That’s right. “The meek shall inherit the earth.”
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« 57 † Abraham had–had, could possess that land, because… and what was on it. God give it to him. And Lot was a part of that land. So Abraham had a right to it. He could–he could call or lay hold on it. He said, “Now, God, You made me the promise, that what was this land and all in it was mine, and You made the promise. Now my kinsman has been taken, and all he’s got is gone.”
58 In other words, if I’d apply it today, I’d say, the Church could say, “Lord God, here’s my brother, he’s laying here, stricken with cancer, he’s stricken with tuberculosis, he’s got so-and-so. I lay hold of the promise, it’s my possession. You, You’ve told me so!” Amen! There you are. Then, then you can go after that enemy, that devil, and slaughter it just the same as Abraham slaughtered the kings and brought back his possession. Amen. I like that. It’s to the believer.
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« 59 † Yet Abraham had a right to the promise, and the promise was his, yet he had to fight to possess it. Amen. There you are. The believer today, yet we’re heir to all things, yet we’re heir to every spiritual blessing, every physical blessing, every blessing the Bible promises, yet you have to fight every inch of it. That’s the way God’s got it set up. It’s always been that way. You have to fight to possess what you know is your own. You have to fight to possess it. And that’s what we have to do now.
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« 60 † You say, “Brother Branham, I need healing.”
61 The promise is yours. But, if you ever get it, you ain’t going to get it easy, I’m going to tell you that. You’re going to have to take it away from Satan. Satan captures your health, you’ve got a right to go to–to Satan, say, “Give it back! Hand it over! I come in the Name of the Lord, the Possessor of Heavens and earth, and I’m His heir. Give it back! You took my child, you got her mixed up with the wrong boy. You took my boy and mixed up with the wrong girl. I claim them! That’s right. I claim my children, I claim my brother, I claim my sister. Yes, Satan, you’ve took them from God’s house, coaxed them out there, but I’m coming after them. I claim them.”
“Well, how you know?”
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« 62 † “I’m an heir of all things. Amen. It’s given to me. I’m an heir, I can claim everything that God promised me.” Amen. There you are. “It’s mine.” How do you get it, something you done? No, sir. It’s the unmerited gift that God gave us, and it’s ours, it belongs to us. Satan cannot hold it if you go to him in the–the Scriptural authoritative Word, with faith, to say, “It’s mine! Lay it down.” Amen. Glory! I like that. “Satan, you lay it down. You took it from me. You give it back, because I’m serving notice on you. I’ve got the notice written right here on the Word, ‘Heavens and earth will pass away, but this notice shall not.’ So I come with this notice, to serve on you, that Jesus Christ said whatsoever I ask the Father in His Name He’ll give it to me. If I say to this mountain, ‘be moved,’ and don’t doubt in my heart, but believe that what I’ve said shall come to pass, I can have what I said. Lay it down!” That gets him started. Don’t get him started, gets him running. “Lay it down, because I have come with the Scriptural authority. I am a believer.” You get it? Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
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« 63 † What did he have to do first, Abraham, in order to do this? He had to lay his faith upon the solid-rock foundation of God’s promised Word. Look, only thing he had was a little bunch of servants, probably a dozen. And there was probably couple of thousand man, armed. And his man wasn’t soldiers, they were servants, cattlemen, sheepmen, herders; probably old rusty knives that they had picked up somewhere, and laid up in the… out there, and several rains had fallen on them, they were rusty. But Abraham wasn’t looking at the rusty knife, or the no shield at all. He was laying his faith upon God’s Word. There you are. That’s what does it. That’s what.
“How you going to fight them when you get there?”
64 “That’s not up to me. It’s up to me to lay my faith on what God said. It’s mine, I’m going after what belongs to me.” Amen. Now, when people that’s sick can see that, the sickness is right about over with right then. See? Sure.
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« 65 † When a sinner can see that you don’t have to sin! Lot of people, they sin because they have to sin. That’s a pitiful shape when you say you “have to sin.” But when you realize you don’t have to sin anymore! There’s people that just stand up and curse and laugh in your face, and–and call you an “idiot” and everything else, they are wilfully sinners. See, then there’s no hope for them. But that man who does something constantly, they don’t want to do it. He–he steals, he don’t want to. And he lies, he don’t want to. He–he does things he–he doesn’t want to do, he don’t want to be a sinner. There’s hopes for him if you can let him see what’s the Truth. See? Come up to God’s promise and lay your faith on that, and walk out there to the enemy. He just simply can’t hold it no longer, that’s all, because it’s yours.
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« 66 † Now, let’s look at this fellow now. Here Abraham said, “I’m heir. This belongs to me, everything in this land belongs to me. Because God… I haven’t got it yet.” But he had it, it was his, anyhow.
67 Now we are heirs of all things. Is that right? We are heirs of all things. The Bible just got through said so here. We are heir of all things, everything. We don’t possess it yet, but it’s ours. Amen. Oh, glory! I don’t own an inch of land, but it’s all mine, anyhow. Sure. It’s all ours, belongs to the people, the Church, the believers, the Bride of Christ owns every speck of it. Russia fighting for it, United States fighting for that, and this fighting for this and this over here, and then they call us “crazy.” Just sit still, you own it, anyhow. Amen. All going to fall heir to it, anyhow, so let them fuss and blow up one another. It belongs to us. We are the ones that gets it. They’d never even think it, but we do, anyhow. Do, anyhow!
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« 68 † Who would have thought that little old poor man up there, them little old skinny, boney cattle up on top the hill, owned all of it? All Palestine belonged to him. Yes, sir. So when he come to a place that the showdown come, God proved to be with him. He took that little handful of man and went out there and slaughtered every one of them, and brought back his possession. Amen. I like that. Why? He laid his faith upon God’s Rock promise. That’s what it take. He didn’t build another foundation, go join an organization or get something like this. He laid his faith upon that Promise! Amen. That’s it, on that Promise, and there he marched forward! Rusty sword or not rusty sword, made no difference to him, he had his faith laying on the Promise.
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« 69 † And when you come forth to be prayed for, if you want salvation, if you want Divine healing, no matter what, if–if you are a believer, you’re an heir of every promise. So lay your faith upon the promise and march forward, and tell Satan, “Give it back! Give it back! It’s mine.” Don’t let him bluff you. Stand right there on the line, he’ll give it back. God said he would, so he has to do it. That’s your authority. That’s right, heir of all things!
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« 70 † He stayed on that foundation, promised Word, and he had an heir. He was the heir, so he knowed it. All right, sir, after the promise had been vindicated to him, he had fellowship then with the Promiser (I like that) after God made the promise. And then, see, Abraham had never had a test before, so he… of that kind. So he knowed it all belonged to him, and that was the promise, yet he had never had to fight an army. He didn’t know nothing about it. He–He wasn’t a trained man to fight. Abraham wasn’t a fighter, he was a farmer. And Abraham could not do anything, because he–he wasn’t a soldier. His man wasn’t soldiers, they were farmers. So the only thing he could do was just take God’s promise, put his faith upon the promise and move out, go after it. Then when Abraham seen that, and got that promise, and found out that God vindicated it to him, that He does keep His promise… Amen! There it is.
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« 71 † If you’ve never received the Holy Ghost as yet, don’t know nothing about It, and something in your heart telling you that you want It, you stay right there. That’s Eternal Life, that’s what you’re heir to. Stay right there, and look Satan right in the face and say, “You are the robber, you are the one! I’ve come to possess what Jesus Christ died for me to have, now hand it back! Get out of my way!”
72 Then, the first thing you know, the Holy Ghost will pour upon you. Then something happens. Something will happen. What is it? God vindicated He keeps His Word. That’s just exactly. Then, see, then after you see the Word is vindicated to you, that you are saved, you do have the Holy Ghost, then what? Abraham had won the victory, here he come marching back; he was going down, with his faith laying on the Word that he could bring it back, what he had lost, and here he come back with it, marching the victor’s march. That’s the same thing you can do. If you don’t have Eternal Life, ask God. Confess your sins, believe on the Son of God, accept the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and say, “God, I come for It, I’m here to receive It.” Then you come back, the victor’s march. You got It. Amen. Just shining, my, the birds sings different, and everybody. You’re in love with everybody then. That old hatred, malice, strife is done gone. Love everybody! Oh, you’re just having a great time, singing, shouting, praising God. Don’t care what anybody says about you. It’s all right. Sure, on the victor’s march!
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« 73 † Then Who come out to meet him? Who come out to meet him? Melchisedec. Melchisedec come out to meet him after he had had his Word vindicated. Melchisedec is the One give him the Word. Then he put his Word… his faith on the Word, got the victory and returned back, then he had fellowship. Amen. Now, you will, too. Oh, His Word will become something new to you, whenever you once get the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Oh, my!
74 Oh, you say, “I can’t see these things. I don’t believe in shouting. I don’t believe in speaking in tongues. I don’t believe in Divine healing.” It just shows you’ve never got the victory. That’s right. But one time you get the victory, then you’ve got it. Then you have it. Yes, sir, then you can shout. I…
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« 75 † You seen one time I used to think about dancing in the Spirit, see somebody stand and dance in the Spirit. Now, I’ve seen the mockery put on of it, but I’ve seen the real thing, too. So, I come to find out, why could people dance in the Spirit? Well, I never seen one yet get out of the way, I never seen one yet act immorally. I–I always see it just as decently and in order and sweetness, and even sinners run to the altar and get saved when it’s going on. Well, I wondered why it was, and I come to find out it’s victory.
76 David danced before the Lord, when the ark was brought back to Its resting place. Amen. When David saw the Word, as It was then with the tables of stone, brought back to Its right place, David rejoiced and danced in the Spirit, around and around and around. Why? He saw the Word back in Its place. Amen.
77 What the Word needs, is not out of some seminary, some theological mix up; but an old-fashioned, God-sent preacher behind the pulpit, with the Word, seeing God vindicate It, proof.
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« 78 † Then David said, “Glory to God, this is It!” And around and around and around and around. His little stuck-up wife set up there, being the king’s daughter, said, “Why, he–he–he embarrasses me.”
79 And David said, “You don’t like that? Watch this!” And around and around he went again. Yes! Oh, my, what a time he had!
80 You know, God looked down out of Heaven, said, “David, you’re a man after My Own heart.” See? See? Why? He had done lost all pride, he had done lost all of his. Yet he was married to a king’s daughter, but that wasn’t even considered then. He knowed that he was acquainted with the Possessor of Heavens and earth, and here was the Word of God coming right back among them again, and David was so happy he danced. He just danced as hard as he could.
81 Miriam, she grabbed the tambourine and went down the bank, dancing on the other side. After she had come through the Red Sea and seen her enemies drowned, then she could dance in the Spirit. When she seen the enemies that had tormented her, dead, then she danced in the Spirit. That’s right. Now, see, after! After the battle’s won, then the glory of God comes down.
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« 82 † Now, we find out that He met him. And after the promise had been vindicated, he–he had fellowship. Melchisedec come out to bless Abraham, and He said, “Blessed be Abraham, and blessed be the God of Abraham, the Possessor of Heavens and earth.”
83 Oh, my, how I like that, believer’s promise! You say, “What’s that got to do with us?” To every believer! The believer’s promise is Eternal Life. The believer’s promise is Life, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, patience, fruits of the Spirit, Divine healing, a dozen things I got wrote down here, nearly, that is your possession. It belongs to you, but you cannot have it until you fight for it. It’s yours. Everything that’s seen, every temporal thing that’s seen, belongs to me. God give it to me, because through Christ He gave it to me. And things unseen belongs to me. Amen. I like that! What you can see, like Divine healing, so forth, like that, that’s good, we appreciate that; but the unseen!
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« 84 † Now, science can probe around here and say, “Well, let’s see, let me take this man. You said he was healed, let me take him down and examine him. Let me see what happened. And you say you had a tumor once, sir?”
“Yes, right there.”
85 “Well, let me give a scientific research and see if it just didn’t sink in and didn’t go away. You say you were once blind and now you see. How do I know? Let me scientifically look and see it.”
86 Now, they could probe around on that, but yet I–I’m heir to that, too, everything physical. And then I’m also heir to things that can’t be seen, where science can’t probe. Amen. Amen. Unseen things, amen, I’m heir to that. Yes, sir. The things that can be seen, I’m heir to that. This actual earth, I’m an heir, you’re an heir. Every believer is an heir, he’s an heir to it. All right, then the unseen! Possessor of what? Heavens and earth. Amen. All things! You believe that?
87 You say, “Brother Branham, what about out there where you can’t see? How you know?” It’s still mine. That’s right. Heaven belongs to me. Glad it’s mine, God said so. And that’s right. “Well, you’ve never seen, how you know it’s there?” I know it’s there, anyhow, God said so. “How do you know you’re an heir to it, when you never seen it?” I believe His Word. Amen. See? I’m an heir, you’re an heir with me, we’re all heirs together through Christ Jesus.
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« 88 † Did you notice here in the Corinthians here, in Second Corinthians, Paul said, even of death, we possess death. Think of it. Possess death? Yes, sir, it minds us. Amen. Well, glory! I done forgot about that explosion of the gun now, see. Why didn’t he kill me? Because he couldn’t. That’s why. God wasn’t ready. He could come as much as he want to, but he can’t take you. Amen. Glory! I paid my debt to that a long time ago when I believed on Jesus Christ Who’s alive forevermore. Now death listens to what we say. Amen.
You say, “A possessor of death?”
89 That’s what Paul said here in Corinthians. Death, even, we possess it. Why, when they was fixing to cut his head off, he said, “Oh, death, where is your sting? Where is your sting? Show me where you can scare me.”
90 Death said, “I’ll squeeze you down and put you down in the grave, and you’ll rot and canker.”
91 He said, “Oh, thanks be to God,” [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.] “Who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Yes, sir. Death, hell, and the grave, I possess it all, because He conquered it all for us. Possessor!
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« 92 † Just like Joshua and Caleb brought back the evidence of an unseen land that had been given to the people by a promise. Joshua and Caleb brought back an evidence that there was such a land. Now, down here they had the promise of it. God gave them the promise, and they come right up to the land, but they had never seen it, and Joshua and Caleb went over into the promised land and brought back the evidence that the land was there and it was a good place, flowing with milk and honey. Amen! What was it? They was going to possess that land. They had the promise. They was on their road over there, and they were almost to the Jordan, and Joshua crossed over and brought back the evidence that it was a good land.
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« 93 † Just what Joshua did for the children of Israel, (Joshua means “Saviour,” the word Joshua), and that’s the same thing Jesus done for the Church when they killed Him. He conquered death. He conquered hell. He conquered the grave. And He rose up again with the evidence, the baptism of the Holy Ghost, that there is a Land beyond the river, that they call the sweet forever. Amen. He come back and brought us an evidence. What does It do, Brother Branham? It makes you stop lying, stealing, drinking, cursing, immorals, everything. It makes a new creature out of you. I who were once dead in sin and trespasses, nevertheless I live, not me but Christ lives in me. I’m a new creature in Christ Jesus, amen, heir to the promise. Hallelujah! Yes, sir. That land belongs to us. How do you know it? Joshua rose from the dead, brought back the evidence, the Holy Ghost. I got It. Amen. Whew! Glory! I’m an heir. Oh, a child of the King, a child of the King, heir to all things! The Bible said so. The same God–the same God that give Israel a promise of that promised land (it was an unseen thing to them), that same Bible, that same God gave us a promise of Eternal Life, and the Holy Ghost bears record of it. Christ is alive, not dead. He lives right among us, lives in us, through us, works around with you. Amen.
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« 94 † It was Him sitting on that bench down there the other day when Satan seen a chance to kill me, but he couldn’t do it. Amen. And he’ll never do it until Christ says it’s ready. Amen. No matter how many times he comes, he’ll go back empty-handed until Christ gives an order. Amen. A promise, God promised it. It’s God’s Word that promises it, and we believe it because we’re heir.
95 I’m an heir of Divine healing. I’m an heir of joy, got a right to be happy. “So what makes you so happy?” I got a right to be. “How do you know?” Because I’m an heir to it. Amen! Whew! Now I feel religious. Yes. I’m an heir to the happiness. I’m an heir to joy. I’m an heir to peace. I’m an heir to Eternal Life. I’m an heir to the Holy Spirit. Amen. I’m an heir to every evidence It’s got. Amen. I’m an heir to the authority of God. Amen. “Who made you that?” Not me; He did. Every one of you is an heir to the same thing.
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« 96 † An heir to a throne! “He that overcometh shall set with Me on My Throne, as I have overcome and set on My Father’s Throne.” Amen, an heir of all things! Not just one thing; all things! Everything’s under your feet. Even death is under your feet, grave is under your feet, hell is under your feet, sin is under your feet, everything is under your feet. You’re an heir! And you’re… You are dead, and your life is hid in God through Jesus Christ, and you’re rose again to Eternal Life, and sitting in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Oh, my! Whew! Call us anything you want to, call us what you want to, say we’re crazy if you want to, but we’re heirs. Heirs to what? All things.
97 “Are you an heir to the Branham Tabernacle?” No, I’m an heir to all things. Both seen, present, future, to everything, I’m an heir to it.
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« 98 † And every sin and wickedness has been put under my feet, by the grace of Jesus Christ. He rose on Easter morning, triumphed over the death, hell and the grave, and made me an heir, and said, “Wait yonder and I’ll give you the promise.” And His anointed authoritative servant said, “The promise is unto you and to your children, to them that’s far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.” I’m an heir. Amen. Amen. Jesus proved it to us, on His resurrection. Oh, my.
99 When we’ve entered that battlegrounds between death and Life! “I’m a sinner, Brother Branham.” You don’t have to be. You’re a sinner because you desire to be. You don’t have to be. The debt’s already paid.
100 “Brother Branham, I wish I had joy.” You can have it. You’re just letting Satan rob you from the privileges that Christ died for. I’m an heir to it. It’s all mine. Everything He died for, belongs to me, belongs to you. We’re His children, we’re heirs of it, everything that He died for.
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« 101 † Now, when you enter into that battleground. “Ah, there is no such a thing as the baptism of the Holy Ghost. You know, you’re–you’re–you’re going to act funny. And there’s going to be something, going to be something different.” I don’t care what different it is, I’m an heir to it. That’s Life, and I’m coming after It. That’s right.
102 That’s what ought to be the motive of every sinner. “I’m coming to receive It upon the basis of the Holy Spirit Who is here now and telling me to come and receive It. It’s mine. I’ll never rise till I receive It. I won’t be a fanatic. I’m going to stay right here, I don’t care what anything goes. I’ll never cease praying till You give me the Holy Ghost, Lord, and I know You’ll do it right now. If there’s anything wrong in my life, tell me about it and I’ll do it. What is it, Lord, I’ll go make it right.”
103 If God doesn’t reveal anything, say, “Then, Satan, I come for It. You can’t stand there no longer, get out of my way!”
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« 104 † There you are, heir of all things. Heir of Eternal Life. Heir of Divine healing. Oh!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
Born of His Spirit, washed in His Blood.
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Saviour all the day long.
Perfect submission, all is at rest,
I in my Saviour am happy and blest;
Watching and waiting, and looking above,
Filled with His goodness and love.
Hallelujah! There you are. This is my story, and this is my song. I’m an heir of salvation. What is salvation? Something that’s given to you. It’s a gift. I’m heir of salvation. What kind? For Eternal Life. Salvation for my soul, salvation for my body, salvation for my weariness, salvation for everything. God made me heir of everything through Christ, and He died, rose, and returned back and brought the evidence, and poured It out upon us. Oh, my! Glory! Oh, my!
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« 105 † Now, you go up there, what do you do? When you go just like Abraham did, go up there with that promise. “God, You told me it’s mine. I got faith in Your promise. I’m bringing Your Word. You promised this. You said, ‘Ask, and you shall receive. Seek, you shall find. Ask, it shall be given. Knock, it shall be opened.’ Here I am, Lord. I’m here. I’m knocking, seeking, asking. I’ve got to receive It.” There you are. Something takes place then, oh, when you lay that Word down.
106 Look what Satan did when Jesus laid the Word down on him. “And It’s also written…” He jumped away from that Wire, as I said the other night. Yes, sir. Then what, after you overcome? How do you overcome? Could you ever do it by yourself? No. Somebody went before you and overcome for you. It’s Christ. I’m just an heir of it. I don’t have to do anything. I’m an heir of the promise. The only thing I have to have, is put my faith on His promise. Do you see it?
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« 107 † “Brother Branham, are you worthy of that?” No. “You think I’m worthy?” No. “Do you think the Bishop’s worthy?” No. “Is there ever a man worthy?” No. “Well, why?” You’re an heir.
108 If you was the biggest drunkard in the world, and your father left you a million dollars, whether you’re worthy or not, his–his–his heir, you’re the heir of your father’s heritage. Whatever he left you, it’s yours whether you’re worthy or not. He left it to you. Amen.
109 I was a sinner, but I’m heir. I was no good, not yet, but still I’m an heir. I should die and go to hell, but I’m an heir. I’m an heir of what? Eternal Life. “How do you know you’re going to get It?” I feeled It. The Holy Spirit brought It. Jesus rose from the dead so It could come. And now It’s come, and It bears record and vindicates just exactly what It said It would do. I’ve passed from death unto Life. I’ve become, a new creature in Christ Jesus. Then I’m heir. Yes, sir. Now I’m on my march. Amen. Things are slaughtered. What’s all them mean things I done? Just like Miriam did. Look back there, there they are, dead, buried in the sea of forgetfulness, in the Book of God’s great Book in Heaven. It’s done been. My name has done been put on that Book, and done sealed, and put down in the sea of forgetfulness, and a new Book, with a new name written down in Glory. And it’s mine. Yeah. Now we’re heir of all things, then.
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« 110 † Then like when Abraham, what did God tell him? “This land belongs to you. What’s in this is yours. Look east, north, west, and south, it’s all yours, everything here. I want you to come journey in a strange land, and I’m going to make you heir of that land. I’ll give you this, to you and your seed, for after you forever.” Now, Abraham, only thing he had to do was put his faith on that promise, pick up his sword and take off. When the crucial moment come, he got down there and God fought his battle. And when he fought the battle, he slaughtered the kings.
111 And here he was coming back, amen, all over now. Brother, he could shout. Hear all the young men shouting and praising the Lord! Here comes Abraham, and Who come out to meet him? Melchisedec, King of Salem. And look what they did. After the battle was over, they could sit down and take the bread and wine. The King brought out bread and wine. Why did He do him? After the battle was over, after the victory was won, then they could sit down and take the communion together, talk with each other and eat the communion together. Oh, that’s what God wants His children to do tonight.
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« 112 † “Then what about you, Brother Branham? What about that Church you’re talking to?” We are the seed of Abraham, they’re the Royal Seed of Abraham. We’re the seed of Abraham, by the promise, through Christ Jesus we become Abraham’s seed and are heirs with him according to the promise. Then if Abraham was an heir, I’m an heir. I’m an heir with Abraham, and so are you. And how did it come? Through the Royal Seed of Abraham, which was Christ Jesus, the promised One, by faith. Abraham received a son, as one from the dead. And we received a Son that was not even a son, and no way to get here, and God made Him and sent Him to us. And He come and paid the penalty of our sins, and by His death I become an heir. Oh, my. There you are. And all the wickedness of the Devil is behind. Praise be to God!
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« 113 † Overcome! How many has overcome, tonight? Let’s see your hand, “By the grace of God I’ve overcome.” Praise be to God. You know what I think we ought to do right now? I just get started right here and keep you half the night. Let’s just have a good dedication service, dedicate our lives anew to God. How many feels like doing that? Oh, I got more than one now, I got both hands up, and my heart, too. I want my life to speak for Christ. I want to dedicate myself anew to Christ. I want His will to be done, mine to be put in the back, and–and His will do be done. I want to have the victor’s march. Not because it’s me; because I know that the Gospel that He preached is suffering today on account of denominational man-made dogmas and everything else. The great victory that we should have has been held back by the enemy. God, let me pull this Sword, let It sparkle and shine, and march forward. Let my will be in the back, and His Word going in front like that, a sharp two-edged Sword making a way.
114 Let’s stand to our feet now and dedicate ourselves anew. Each one in your own way, dedicate yourself to the Lord. Let’s raise up our hands now to God, each one.
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« 115 † Our Heavenly Father, tonight we are dedicating ourselves to You in the best that we know how. We know that we are heir of all things. You promised it, Lord Jesus, and we believe it. Now, we’ll never be able to do it unless You, Lord… unless we ourselves put our faith on Your promise. Now, You said, in the Bible, “He that eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood has everlasting Life, and shall not come into condemnation, but shall pass… has passed from death unto Life. He that eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood has Eternal Life, and I will raise him up at the last day.” That’s the promise. That’s what You said. That’s what we believe.
116 And, Lord God, O Holy Spirit, move upon us. Oh, move, God! Move, O Lord, in us. Spirit of the living God, receive us, Lord. In Christ’s Name receive us. Cleanse me, mold me, shape me, O God, into an image of the Son of God. Take me, Lord, I am Yours. I give You this church. I give each soul here to You, with mine, Lord. Now mold us and fashion us, and let us forget our sinful wicked ways, and know as long as we lay our–our faith, what faith we got, on Your promised Word, You’ll carry us through from victory to victory. You’ve promised it.
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« 117 † Satan cannot harm us, Lord. He could do everything he can do, and he can’t touch us. When You turned him loose on Job one time, You said, “Don’t you take his life.” He done everything but take it. But he couldn’t do it, because Your promise was still there to Job.
118 And, God, You’re still the same God today. You protect Your Own. We know it’s the Truth, and we dedicate ourselves anew. Wash our sinful souls, Lord, as we confess our faith. And, Christ Jesus, receive us. And when we start to take this Lord’s supper, God, commune in our hearts to us. Tell us now where we’re wrong. Show us where our wrong is, Lord. We humbly repent of it. I humbly lay all my sins upon the altar, Lord. I humbly place myself on Your Word, Lord, and at Your mercy.
119 Here am I, Lord, do with me as You see fit. That’s the cry of this church, Lord, “Do with us as You see fit.” I can only speak for my–for my ownself, Lord, but I believe in their hearts they believe the same thing. Do with us as You see fit. We believe. We want to be heirs, and we know we are heirs as long as we stay in Christ Jesus. We’re heir with Him before the Throne.
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« 120 † Now be with us. Heal the sickness in our midst, Lord. If there’s a sick body here tonight, touch it, heal it, make it well. Grant it, Lord. If there’s a sick soul, may it be healed right now. Let that crippled soul be straightened out. May that feeble knees that hung down and them weak hands raise up in glory and shouts to God. May the crooked paths be made straight. May there be a highway in the wilderness for our God.
121 Lord, we believe You’re coming soon, and let us blast forth Thy Word, Lord, and make a highway in the wilderness, the crooked places straight, for our Lord. Let us blast out every denominational root. Let us blast out every root of bitterness, blast out all malice, envy and strife, that the true Word of God might flow like rivers of joy. Grant it, Father. We give ourselves to You now just before we take this Lord’s Supper. In Jesus Christ’s Name. Amen.
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« 122 † While, Sister Spencer wants prayer for her body! [Sister Spencer speaks to Brother Branham–Ed.] God bless you, Sister Spencer.
Heavenly Father, this poor old sainted woman, and this one sitting. You see a woman crippled. “Ought not this daughter of Abraham be delivered on the Sabbath day?” And now maybe the most of her friends, Lord, the old-time friends that she used to entertain, those ministers, as they set in her house, they’re done passed on, many of them, done taken the great highway to Heaven. She’s left alone, Lord, as a testimony. No one now, just her children, and maybe a friend in here and there, Lord, a relative now and then. But she stands alone like a big forest that’d been blowed down, and one tree left. God, I pray that You’ll look down on mercy, Lord, that she taken roots down deep. And standing on the hill of Calvary, Lord, rooted and grounded in the Faith of Christ. I lay my hands upon this dear old woman and condemn this knot under her tongue, that it leave her and she be made well. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you. Thank you, Sister Spencer. It shall be done. Just don’t doubt it a bit. All right.
My faith looks up to Thee,
Thou Lamb of Calvary,
Saviour divine;
Now hear me while I pray,
Take all my sins away,
Nor let me ever stray
From Thee aside.
Listen, sing with me now.
While life’s dark maze I tread,
And grief around me spread,
Be Thou my Guide;
Bid darkness turn to day,
Wipe sorrow’s tears away,
O let me from this day
Be wholly Thine!
123 From the bottom of your heart now, only God knows it, from the bottom of your heart, do you really mean that, “Let me from this day, Lord, be wholly Thine”? Let’s sing that last part again.
Nor let me ever stray
From Thee aside.
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« 124 † Now all together. Great Shepherd of the flock, You taught us that we should pray like this. [Brother Branham and congregation pray together–Ed.] Our Father Who art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us of our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil; for Thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. You may be seated.
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« 125 † I am requesting prayer for Sister Shepherd’s child. It just comes to my mind that they called a while ago for prayer for the child, and I offered prayer for it. I had an interview to meet right here, and I couldn’t go by the house. But they said the little girl was sick and had a fever, and kind of stiffening, which is no doubt just a virus that’s going around. You know about it. Sometimes their muscles draw in such a way you have to work them back and forth with their hands, like Mrs. Haley and many down here. It’s a virus that’s going around. And she… offered prayer. And I said if the baby wasn’t any better by nine o’clock or time we close the service, to call over here and we’d come by; if the baby was better, okay. So let’s just humbly now, before we take the communion, pray for that child.
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« 126 † Lord Jesus, that little baby, I don’t know how old it is or nothing, but it’s one of our beloved disciples here, Lord, one of our believers. It’s their child, of Sister Shepherd and Brother Shepherd, a little jewel that You’ve given to them, Lord. We pray that You’ll watch over it, and bless it and protect it, and heal it and make it well. We claimed it right now. After this message, we claim that. We claim it for God’s glory, according to His Word. In the Name of Jesus Christ, may the sickness turn loose that child. And may the child recover and be well, for the glory of God. Now it has been spoken, now it shall be done. Amen. Do you believe?
If we trust and never doubt, He will surely bring you out;
Take your burden to the Lord and leave them there.
Leave them there, oh, leave them there,
Take your burden to the Lord and leave them there;
If you trust and never doubt, He will surely bring you out;
Take your burden to the Lord and leave them there. (That’s all you do.)
If your body’s racked with pain and your health you can’t regain,
Just remember God in Heaven answers prayer;
Now, Jesus knows the pain you feel, He can save and He can heal;
Take your burden to the Lord and leave it.
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« 127 † Now let’s just shake one another’s hands while we sing this last verse.
Leave it there, (fellowship, you know, communion) leave it there, (praise the Lord!)
Take your burden to the Lord and leave it there;
If we’ll trust and never doubt, He will surely bring you out;
Take your burden to the Lord and leave it there.
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« 128 † Oh, isn’t He wonderful? Now, now with our confession, our belief, our confession of our sins, believing that all of our sins is in the sea of forgetfulness. He that will confess his sins, God is just to omit them. See? They’re in the–the sea of the Blood of Jesus Christ, never to be remembered no more. How many of you women know what bleach is? All of you. Now, let’s just take a great big washtub full of Clorox, that’s one bleach, a great big tubfull of Clorox. And then you’re going to take a little eyedropper, and you got one drop of black ink in that eyedropper, that’s your sins. Stand right up over the tub, and squeeze it down, then look down in the tub and find it. What become of it? What become of the ink? When it struck that bleach, it was so powerful it just took the coloring right out of it, it can never be no more. What is it? It’s gone, it’s eternally lost. What is it? The–the ink itself becomes Clorox. That’s the Blood of Jesus Christ to every confessed sin. What is it? It’s forgotten, it’s done, it’s finished, it’s omitted, it’s divorced, it’s put away. It can never be remembered against you no more.
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« 129 † [A sister speaks from the congregation–Ed.] Somebody is calling my name, somewhere. [The sister testifies of just being healed.] Well, praise the Lord! Still living! Thank the Lord. We thank the Lord. O God, how we praise You for Your goodness. Yes, humble little soul back there touched, the Lord touched her. All right. He’s the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities.
130 Remember, every word is an Anchor, steadfast and sure. There’s not… See? Just lay your faith right upon it and don’t move, just stay there. Now, you can’t lay it down there and then grab it up and say, “I’ll try it again.” Lay it there. Stay right there with it. Yes, sir. Like Abel did, die out to your own thoughts. Just say, “God, it’s Your Word, it’s not what I think. It’s Your Word. There it is.” And Abel died on the Rock. And, that, He’ll touch just like He did sister there. Just so simple.
131 We try to make it… We don’t. Satan tries to make it so complicated, you know, say, “Oh, you know, that was for a day gone by,” and all that. That’s just unbelievers.
132 But to you who believe, He’s precious. Now disallowed, indeed; but He is a precious Stone coming to a lively Stone, a precious Stone, the chief Cornerstone. Oh, my. Oh, he that touches this Stone is healed! That’s all. Amen.
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« 133 † Now, aren’t we thankful to the Lord? Just glad, I’m so glad that the Lord is God. Amen. So glad that He’s a tender Father, full of mercy, honors His Word, keeping His Covenant, never forgetting It. He keeps His Covenant. He has to, He’s God, He made It. He’s the Fountain of all Truth. See? There cannot be anything else but unadulterated Truth all the time. Every Word He speaks is infallible. And this is His Word. And, O God, let my faith be infallible in It, amen, then It can become infallible as the Word is infallible, then the Word in that kind of faith will produce anything the Word says It’ll do. Amen. So, cleanse me, Lord. Try me, cleanse me, heal me, protect me, bless me, and give me Your mercies, is my prayer to God. Amen.
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« 134 † Now, I’m going to read some of the Word now, found in First Corinthians, the 11th chapter, 23rd verse.
For I have received of the Lord that which I also delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night… which he was betrayed took bread:
And when He had gave thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, and eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
After the same manner he took… also he took the cup, and when he had supped, saying, This is the cup of the new testament in my blood: this be in you, as oft as you drink it, in remembrance of me.
For as oft as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you do shew forth the Lord’s death till he comes.
Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the blood, the body and the blood of the Lord.
But let a man so examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.
For this cause many are sick and weakly among you,… many sleep.
For if we should judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
Wherefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, tarry one with another, tarry one for another.
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« 135 † Now may I say this. Jesus gave us this commandment before He went to His death, knowing that He was going there. The disciples still wondering what He was talking about, when they wrote this down. But He said, “This cup is the New Testament of My Blood. This do as oft as you eat it and drink it, you shew forth My death until I come.” Oh, those precious Words!
136 The disciples no doubt wondered, “What does He mean, ‘show forth His death’? How can we do this?” Here was all a mystery to them, but not to Him. He was God. He knowed what He must do. “Show forth…” So He said, “When you come together to eat…”
137 Now, “He that eats and drinks, unworthily,” comes up here and professes to be a Christian, taking the body of the Lord, and then goes out and lives with the world and–and denies Christ and His power, and things like that, you–you do a great dishonor to God. You–you do dishonor to Christ, so don’t you take it. But if you’re trying with all that’s in you, to live right and to show forth that you are a Christian, that you love Jesus Christ, then it’s your duty to do it.
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« 138 † And now over in… I believe it’s Saint John, the 6th chapter, Jesus said, “Whosoever eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood has everlasting Life, and I will raise him up at the last day.” Now, that promise, isn’t that a glorious thing? “I will raise him up.”
139 Did you ever think what you’re here for? What are you–what are you going to school for, children? What are you working for, dad? What makes you get up, and mother, of a morning, and get the kiddies to school, wash their face, and make up the beds and cook, and–and–and do it all. Come in, wore out that night, and the next day start the same thing. What do you do it for? Why do you labor and slave, dad, and everything? Come in at night, and weary, and one of the kids gets sick and you walk the floor, and cry and pray and struggle, and they get well; and then back, and you do it again. And every Sunday wash their faces, and get them down to church. And, well, what’s it all about? What he here for? Is that all there is to it? My, that’d be miserable, and knowing you got to go anyhow. See? What’s it all about?
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« 140 † Oh! Brother, it’s an examination time, it’s an opportunity time! It’s the opportunity to accept This. Tell me something to take Its place. Tell me something better than That. Produce anything in the world, be the king of the earth, rule the universe, be a Khruschev or a Kennedy, or whatever you wish to be, you’ll die just the same. Right! You don’t know what time it’ll come, any minute. But here, when death does strike, you got Eternal Life and can’t die, with a guarantee by the God of all creation, Who’s Possessor of Heavens and earth, “I’ll raise him up again at the last day.”
141 Help thou my unbelief, O God. Fill my soul, O God, cleanse me, fill me, charge me, send me out. Let me not die, let me live to tell the Story. Let me go to every crack and corner of the earth, and preach the Word and sow the seed, yes, sir, that there may be a harvest in the last day, of the true unadulterated Word, with believers in Christ.
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« 142 † Is your sins under the Blood, by faith tonight in Christ Jesus? We shall now take the communion. Not the communion; you commune as you eat with one another. Just commune with God. The communion is not the bread, not the wine, the communion is “talking back and forth with God.” And this is a symbol that we take, that we believe in His death, broken body, His burial and resurrection, we believe in the Presence of the Holy Spirit. And we believe that He has give us Eternal Life and we cannot die, we have passed from death unto Life. And someday when we separate from one another here, we’ll rise again in the resurrection with each other, joined together with Christ Jesus, as a Body. Amen. Upon these basis, and the confession of my sins, and my faith in the Son of God, I take myself and the church before these articles that God left for us to do, to show forth His death until He comes.
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« 143 † Jesus said, “This is My body which is broken for you. Eat, do this in remembrance of Me.”
144 Our Heavenly Father, after we have confessed our sins, hearing Your Word, after we have confessed that we are unworthy, and we are trusting only in the merits of the Son of God. We’re unworthy creatures. Forgive us, Lord, of all that we have did. And now, by faith, we come to the table of the Lord. And now as this bread is presented to represent the body of our Lord, I pray, Father, that You’ll sanctify it to its intended purpose. And may every person that partakes of this have Eternal Life in their soul. And may that every person takes it have healing in their body, and live the appointed time that You’ve given them. And may they serve You all the days of their life, and be raised up in the last day in the resurrection, to be gathered together with the tribes of the earth that are redeemed by the Blood of Christ. Grant it, Lord, in Jesus’ Name we ask it. Amen.
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« 145 † The Bible said, “Also He took the cup, and when He had supped, saying, ‘This is the cup of the New Testament, as oft as you drink this you show forth the Lord’s death till He come.'”
146 Heavenly Father, we hold to You the fruit of the vine tonight, this wine. And we pray, Heavenly Father, that You’ll sanctify this wine, it represents the Blood that was shed for us at Calvary. Through this Blood we have remission of our sins, by faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ. Forgive us of our… all of our unbelief, Lord, and give us faith and understanding, and make us Your servants, Lord, that we can serve You all our days. Be with us, Father, as we join together around this table, and bless us in this fine fellowship and communion with You. And may You speak to our hearts and point to us our work that we should do. Grant it, Lord. Sanctify this wine for its intended purpose. In Jesus Christ’s Name we ask it. Amen. `
–Rev. William Marrion Branham
–copied from The Table Software, available from VGR
