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« 1 † ` Minister brothers, and you friends out there, I say it’s a privilege to be here this morning. Such an introduction as that, why, I don’t know how I’m ever going to live up to that one.
2 But just setting there talking, Brother Noel and I, I don’t believe I’ve ever met a person just exactly… We all are made in different molds, but by the same God. Like Brother Jack Moore, he’s certainly been… Brother Noel was just saying, “Since I’ve been here with him…” That’s his son-in-law, and how he had learned to love him and respect his wisdom and things. And that… I can say “amen” to that. The many fine thing… times that we’ve had together, he and I, and Brother Brown, Brother Boutliere here. Fine man of God that I really love them with all my heart.
3 And as I see we’re all not getting any younger, well, I just think of the time now that watching us as we change since about twenty years ago crossing the deserts, and so forth together as younger man. But just knowing that there is a Land where we’ll never get old. We’ll meet there again someday.

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« 4 † Last night when I was leaving the tabernacle, there was a little lady laying back there on a cot, and she said, “Brother Branham, years ago…” I think she had been paralyzed. She said, “You told me…” I forget what the woman’s remark was now, something like this, I hope that I don’t misquote it. Said, “That this affliction I had would be for a purpose,” or something, that she would have a baby. And she couldn’t understand how that would be done and her in that condition.
5 There stood a young, handsome-looking young man, he said, “I’m the baby that she had.” Said, “I’m the baby that she had.”
6 And so many things has happened along the road, we don’t even have time here to talk it over. We will on the other side.

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« 7 † And this Business Man’s chapter. I do not belong to any organization, I guess as you all know, but I… This is the only group that I’m connected with, pack a fellowship card, is… They are interdenominational, it’s just business man. They have been a great asset to me and to the type of ministry that the Lord our Father has given me. It’s… it wasn’t exactly that I don’t like the organization; it’s just a ministry that’s given to me, and if I am not loyal to that call, then I’ll be a disloyal person to God.

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« 8 † And, I’m thinking, just before I left Tucson, maybe many of you were there, one day I was in Los Angeles speaking to the chapter. And there was… I had just raked the organization maybe a little–little hard. I–I didn’t mean to be that way. If you mean that to be mean, then I’d be a hypocrite. You mustn’t do that, no, that’s just throw off on someone. But I had talked about a tree that I saw in Brother Sharrit’s yard. It had about five different kinds of fruit on it. And I said, “I never seen a tree like that in my life.” It was a… it had grapefruit, it had lemons, it had tangerine, tangelo, oranges, everything growing on the same tree. “Well, I say, I sure don’t get that. What kind of a tree is it?”
“It’s a orange tree.”
And I said, “Well, that grapefruit?”
Said, “Yeah.”
I–I said, “How could it?”
Said, “That’s grafted.”
And I said, “Oh, I see.”
9 He said, “They’re all of a citrus family, and any tree that’s of a citrus family be… can be grafted.”
10 I said, “I understand.” Then I started shouting just a little bit, you know, ’cause I am nervous and emotionally.
11 So, he said, “What’s the matter?”

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« 12 † And I said, “Well, I was just thinking of something.” And I said, “Now I want to ask you a question.” I said, “Now, next year when the blooms come on, there won’t be oranges, tangelos, grapefruits, lemons; there’ll all be oranges because it’s in a orange tree, won’t it?”
13 He said, “No, no. No, each branch bears of its own.”
14 Said, “I see.”
15 So that still was sounding real good, because I’m… you know I’ve… course I got a degree out of Hartford and all of these other universities, you know. No… So–so I’m… watch nature, that’s the best university that I’ve ever found yet, the Creator’s university. So as I watch that, I get my sermons from the way I see nature acting.
16 And I said, “Well, that just makes me feel real good.”
17 He said, “What’s the matter?”
18 I said, “I just thought of something.”

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« 19 † So, that day, I was preaching on that. And I said, “Now, you see, when the church first started out, it was… Jesus said…” I was preaching John 15. “‘I am the Vine, ye are the branches. And every branch that don’t bring forth fruit will be cut off, burnt.'”
20 And somebody just straddled my neck real hard on that, said, “You see, I thought if you was actually once filled with the Holy Ghost and saved, you said, ‘they couldn’t get away from it.'”
21 “That’s right.”
22 He said, “What about that?”
23 I said, “Now you’re talking on a different subject. He’s talking about fruit-bearing there, not the Vine; He’s talking about fruitbearing, and not the Life. He said, ‘Well, just cut the tree back so it will grow, bear fruit.'”
24 He said…
25 And I said, “Now, see, this tree, when it started out, was all genuine, Bible Christians. Then along come a branch called Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian: lemons and whatmore.” And I said, “You see, it thrives on the name of Christianity, but it… It’s living off of that Tree, but it’s bearing its own denominational kind. See? But” I said “if that orange tree ever puts out another limb itself, it’ll bear oranges like it did at the beginning.”

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« 26 † There happened to be, setting up there, a head of a great… one of our greatest Pentecostal organizations. I don’t know how to make it so that everybody will understand that it isn’t my idea that–that I’m–I’m against those brethren, sisters; that is wrong. I’m so misunderstood, and I don’t know why. See? People think I don’t even believe in people going to church. That’s a million miles from the Truth. “We must assemble ourselves together, and that much more as we see the day approaching.” See? We must come together in unity. We might not…
27 If I lived in a city and they had nothing there but a… well, some church (I don’t want to call any name), but just any church, if they only believed one thing, that Jesus was Divine, all the rest of it was wrong, I’d go to that church. If I can’t get a whole loaf of bread, I–I’ll take a slice. See? I’ll go listen, worship the, Lord, and show Him that I’m doing my part. I want Him to know I’m alive. I’m–I’m… want everybody to know what side I’m on. I assemble with the Christians, and there worship and–and serve the Lord.

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« 28 † But it’s so hard, I… used to bother me so bad, and then I found out even our Lord was misunderstood in so many things. He’d say anything, and they’d… be misunderstood. I guess it just has to be that way. But those who are wise will understand. See? The Bible said so. They’ll catch It.
29 So this morning while saying this… And I said, “Now, they–they live off of the name of Christianity, but they bear the wrong kind of fruit. It has a denominational fruit. They set a thing, and they’re living right off of it, and living off the very Life.”

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« 30 † It’s what I was trying to say last night, that spirit can be baptized into that Spirit and still not be a Christian. See? You’re living right off of the same Life, but the fruits you bear tells what you are. See? That’s right. See? They can do all the signs, and pray for the sick, and heal the sick, and open eyes, and cast out devils, and–and do all these things, living right off of the same Life that’s in there, but still it’s a lemon. See? That’s right. “The fruits, you’re known,” Jesus said. And so then we find out…
31 And when I got off the platform, this great leader raised up, he said, “You didn’t mean that,” he said, “we know that we’re all grafted in.” Well, that is true that we are grafted, stump grafted, that’s right; but not in the Vine, grafted. So then he said… begin to kinda–kinda slur me back a little bit.

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« 32 † And there was a young fellow there, I think it’s some movie star’s people. His name’s Danny Henry, and he was a Baptist boy. Well, he come to the platform to put his arms around me, and he said, “Brother Branham, I hope this don’t sound sacrilegious, but” said “I believe that could almost be the 23rd chapter of Revelation.”
33 And I said, “Thank you.”
34 And he started to say something else and he started speaking in tongues, a Baptist boy. And when he did, there was a–a woman from here in Louisiana, she was a Frenchman, kind of a big heavyset woman, she wrote down the interpretation.
35 Well, then there was another young fellow setting over here was a Frenchman, he wrote down what he said. They compared the notes, and they both was the same.
36 And then a big, light-headed boy standing way back in the back, at Clifton’s Cafeteria, come walking forth. He said, “Let me see those notes.”

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« 37 † I went to see what they was, and all three of them was the same for the interpretation. He was the interpreter for the U.N., French interpreter. And it said this:
Because thou has chosen this straight and narrow way, the harder way, you’ve done it at your own choosing.
But what a glorious decision you’ve made, because it’s MY WAY.
See? And said… and went ahead and said then:
This in itself is that which will bring to pass, and make and bring to pass, the tremendous victory in the Love Divine.
38 You see, always, even in French, the verb before the adverb there in the–in the–in the interpretation. So in that I couldn’t say… Moses, he made his choice, he had to make his choice. We all have to make our choices and do the best that we can. And God… I respect any man’s message that he’s given about God. I… whatever it is, I respect that with all my heart.

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« 39 † Now, I see some young Brother come a while ago, Brother Stringer, I think from down in Louisiana… or Mississippi, brought us some pictures here that you seen us watching it. It was of the Angel of the Lord, when It appear. How many’s heard the story? I guess every one of you here’s heard it. You’ve had it on tape, and so forth.
40 Now, that was told me one morning at ten o’clock, standing in my room in Indiana. Told me I would be at Tucson, be early in the morning, I’d be picking a cocklebur (what we call there, a goat-header) off of my trouser leg. And seven Angels came and bursted this, and ground bursted and everything else, to… rocks rolled out of the mountains, and seven Angels stood there.
41 And I said, “Well…” I told my wife, and she’s somewhere present this morning, “You get everything ready ’cause no way a man could exist that,” I said, “come out of that. I’m going to Tucson, my work is finished here on earth. I’m going home to be with the Lord Jesus.”
42 “Well,” she said, “are you sure?”
43 I said, “Yes. Yeah, no one could–could stand that. There’s no way of doing it.”

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« 44 † I just preached The Seven Church Ages. That’s where I had called our gallant, little Brother Jack Moore to ask him about this, Jesus, in Revelation 1, standing there with white hair and everything.
45 I said, “He was a young Man.” And that’s where the revelation come about that being a wig on, and not Him; He’s wigged (and I couldn’t understand it), as being Supreme Deity. And the old judges used to in Israel, had to be white-headed. And the white stands for purity. And the English judges till this day, in supreme courts of England, put on a white wig when they come out, because there’s no other law above theirs on earth. See? And they’re supreme judge.

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« 46 † And I remember I went there in Arizona and everything, I was trying my best to… scared to death. I went to Phoenix meeting. Remember I preached the sermon, Sirs, What Time Is It? Remember that? I said that I seen that, I said, “Before it comes to pass, remember, THUS SAITH THE LORD, ‘Something’s going to happen.'” You’ve probably got the tapes in your library of tape now. And there I said, “You remember now the visions that never fails. ‘Something’s going to happen.’ Remember!”

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« 47 † And a few days after that, I was getting nervous, and I thought, “What this? Am I going to die? If… I hope it’s quick so I can get over it. I don’t want to linger.”
48 And one morning the Lord said, “Go up in the top of Sabino Canyon.”
49 And I was up there holding up my hands, praying. I felt something strike my hand. It was a sword. Now, you can just imagine how you’d feel, standing there by yourself and here’s a knife in your hand about that long. I pulled it down and looked at it. It was just a knife, one of them… and I’m scared of a knife, anyhow. And it had a–it had a–a metal, something like one of these knifes, like pot metal or something, real sharp and narrow. Had a sheath around it here, where the dueler’s used to, to keep from cutting one another’s hands, and–and it had a pearl in the handle here. Just fit my hand exactly. Well, I rubbed my face and looked back.
Right on that same spot, the other day, I saw a little, white dove come down. I’ll tell you about that later on.

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« 50 † And I was holding that in my hand, I thought, “That’s strange. Now, Lord, I… am I losing my mind? There’s no one here. I’m miles from anybody and here is a sword. I had my hand up, and where did it come from?” And I thought, “That’s the strangest thing. Now looky here, it’s a sword; see, hit it, and it was a sword.” And I said, “There’s nobody here standing here. I’m up on top of these rocks, plumb on top of the mountain.” And you couldn’t even see Tucson from there, it was so far down.

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« 51 † I thought, “Now, that’s a strange thing. Now, it’s got to be in this vicinity somewhere, Somebody that could create and make a sword and put it in my hand.” And I said, “It could only be the very God that created a ram for Abraham, could create those squirrels,” that you’ve heard. And I said, “Here is the material, three different kinds of material in it, and I’m holding it in my hand just as real as anything else I could hold in my hand.”
52 And I heard a Voice, said, “That’s the King’s Sword!”

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« 53 † And I thought, “Now, where did That come from? Was right along there in them rocks somewhere.” And I held up my hand like that, and I said, “A king’s sword.” And I looked around, and the sword was gone. And I said, “A king’s sword.” That’s to… they knight with–with a sword, I think that’s right, the army or some way, they knight with it, you know. And I said, “Well, that’s what that was probably for. It means that maybe I’m to lay hands upon ministers, or something like, that, to make them ministers.” And then I…
54 A Voice spoke back again, said, “The King’s Sword!” Not a king; the King’s Sword! See?
55 I thought, “Now, I’m either beside myself, my mind has slipped, or there’s something taking place, there’s somebody standing around here by me.”

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« 56 † And brethren, these things are true. I don’t–I don’t know how to tell you, you’ve always seen it always happen like this. See? See? And it’s… I couldn’t understand it. So… It’s the strangest feeling.
57 Just then I thought, “Now, ever Who that is that’s talked to me all my life, since a little, bitty baby boy, is standing right here, and I can’t see Him at all.” I said, “The King’s Sword?” That would be… God is the King. “And what is this sword?”
58 “The Word, It’s been placed in your hand.” Said, “Don’t fear of death, it’s your ministry.”

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« 59 † Oh, my! Down off that mountain I went; crying, screaming, top of my voice, jumping over rocks. I went down, told my wife, I said, “I’m not going to die, see, it’s–it’s–it’s my ministry.” (I told her to get with Billy Paul here, and take the children. I said, “Now, I don’t have anything, but the church will see that you all don’t go hungry and things, and I’ll–I’ll meet you across the border.”) And–and she… I said, “No, I’m not going to die, it’s something about my ministry.”

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« 60 † A few days after that I was coming out from a meeting; had a three page telegram, was from over here at Houston, Texas. And that man that criticized me so bad the night that the Angel of the Lord was taken, the picture of It taken there at Houston, he called me up, he said… sent a telegram, the wife said, “I know, Brother Branham, you’re busy. My son, Ted Kipperman’s sister’s boy, is setting in the death row to die in the chair.” Said… (what if that was Billy Paul?). He said, “He and a little girl has got to die.” And you all read it in the paper, of course. And said, “Only hope we have is for you come and hold a meeting and get the people together.”

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« 61 † And Raymond Hoekstra had already wrote me several times, but you know, I had planned after that meeting to go on a hunting trip with Mr. McAnally and them. And I thought, “Well, if I let them kids die and don’t put my effort forth, I’ll never be able to go hunting again.”
62 So I said, “All right, I’ll come.” I come over to Houston, had the meeting, and course the… they never killed them, they just… they give them life. And that’s what they wanted them to do, just give them life. So that’s about twenty-one years, I guess, in–in Texas.

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« 63 † So then, and going back, I went up in the mountain and I went with Brother Fred Sothmann. He’s here somewhere. Brother Fred, where you at? Right here. Brother Fred Sothmann, Brother Gene Norman; one day, the second day setting there, the Angel of the Lord came right down into the camp where we was at, and begin to tell about their children and things they were doing.
64 I left and went back on the hill. And I had already got my javelina, and I was trying to chase one around to Brother Fred. So I found where they had been eating on the side of a hill, and I said, “Well, now, I’ll tell you what I’ll do, Brother Fred.” I said, “Now, you go over on that point in the morning.” We go up there at daylight, climb up over the mountain. “And go there at daylight, I’ll get over on the other side. Now, I won’t shoot one, but if they run this way, I’ll shoot in front of them and turn them back. And pick out a big one.”
65 “All right,” he said.

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« 66 † So Brother Fred went over there. And Brother Gene Norman (I don’t think Brother Gene come, did he?), he was–he was on the other side. Many of you know Gene Norman, a bosom friend of many, fine brother. And he went down a little below. Where, them pigs, they just wasn’t there that morning. And I could see Brother Fred, wave at him, he was about a mile away from me. Well, I thought, “Where could they have went?” I went down into a great ravine, and come down, I thought, “I’ll see if I can find where they’re at.” Started back up. It was just a little after daylight, the sun was just begin coming up.

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« 67 † And I went around a great big chasm, oh, my, hundreds and hundreds of feet, just great rocks in the great canyon there, them big walls. And it was kindly getting… the sun was raising up, about seven o’clock, I guess, or something like that. And I set down and I was looking around, I happened to look down on my trouser leg and there was that bull-header, burr. And I said, “You know, that seems strange. You know, the Angel of the Lord told me I’d be about forty miles northeast of Tucson, I’d be picking a bull-header off of my leg.” You remember it? Do you? Yes, sir. See? I said, “That’s strange.” I was holding it.

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« 68 † And just as I looked up, I seen about twenty hogs about five hundred yards from me, come out eating this little phyllary and laid down. I said, “Now, if I can just get Brother Fred and get him around to that point there, he’ll get his hog right there. But I know he’s about a mile or two from me now. So,” I said, “if I could cross over this little ridge without them seeing me, up by this little juniper tree there,” I said, “if I get around this side, there’s a deer trail comes down this side, I can run up there and get out of the way. And hang a little piece of paper here where I know which one of the fingers to go out on, on the canyon, and get Brother Fred there just in time.”

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« 69 † I throwed this little bull-header down, forgetting about That. And started across the hill real easy and looked back, they didn’t see me, and run down and hit this deer trail. I had a great big black hat on. I started running up through this canyon real fast, and it happened.
70 The whole earth shook, everywhere. Rocks that size rolled down, dust flying like that. And I looked, and standing before me stood seven Angels; just exactly the way it was. I felt like I was standing way up off the ground. First, I thought somebody had shot me, you know, with that black hat on; looked like a javelina hog, anyhow, you know they’re dark. I thought somebody had shot me, such a… right close. And I–I seen then what it was. Well, as soon as… I got my commission, and the Scripture, “The Seven Seals which is the seven mysteries.” See?

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« 71 † Someone said to me, said, “Now…” Oh, he said, “Well, now, someday the Lord probably (you seeing visions, Brother Branham) will reveal to you what these things are, we can all get closer to God and have more power than we get in speaking in tongues and things.”
72 I said, “It can’t be that way.”
73 Cause, see, I believe the Word to be the Truth. And the Bible said, “Whosoever shall add one word or take one Word from It.” It has to be in this Word. See? It’s the mysteries that the people’s overlooked. Well, right there is where come my Message of Serpent’s Seed and the true Belief of the security of the believer.

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« 74 † I’m not disgrading my Presbyterian brethren there, and some of you Baptist brethren on the way you have security. I’m not saying this to be different, but you didn’t have it just right. See? That’s right. See? But, I had it wrong, too. But when an Angel stands from Heaven and tells you, and here it is right in the Scripture, That’s true. See? That’s right. See, He always speaks exact with the Scripture.

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« 75 † In there I watched it until that circle went up, started sweeping up, and they turned into like a mystic light, like a fog. Just exactly the way… How many seen the picture of It that was taken in Houston? Nearly all. See? Well, that’s just the way this was. It turned into the same thing, It kept going higher and higher.
76 I was running and running, trying to find Brother Fred and them. After while, about a half hour later, I could see him way down, waving his hands; and Brother Gene coming, waving. They knowed something had happened. And so then I got with them. That’s Brother Fred setting right there.

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« 77 † As it went up, I didn’t know that the observatories and things, plumb into Mexico, was taking that picture. Life magazine packed it as It went up. And many of you… Here’s Life magazine packing the picture of It. A mysterious thing here, and they said they don’t know where it come from; it’s too high. It’s above all the spheres and everything else to be… It’s too high for fog, because it’s thirty miles high and twenty-seven miles across after it got up that high. There’s not even humidity or nothing up there, you see.

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« 78 † And they thought of a plane; so they checked all the places, no planes up that day. See, they have to, on account of shaking windows and things. “There’s no planes up.” Here it is right here in the magazine, will tell you the same thing. And–and it went on and on. And today right in the…
79 Here it is in Science magazine, where, they can’t understand it, they don’t know what It is.
80 Tucson, at the university, a friend of mine went over the other day and was talking to them about it. Said, “We can’t understand what…”
81 I said, “Don’t say nothing, won’t do no good. ‘Cast not your pearls before swine.'” See? It’s to the Church, to the Elected, the called-out. See?

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« 82 † And then each one was coming, saying, “Brother Branham, I see your picture here. I see this. I…” You know how it is. But that–that long sweep as this brother has on here where it… Excuse me. [Brother Branham gets the photograph–Ed.] Here’s the way It started up, sweeping up. Actually this was on the right hand side. And you all remember I said, “The noted Angel was the one that talked to me, was on the right hand side,” even before it happened. You remember? His wings pointed back like that. That’s exactly the wings of that Angel as it went up. See, as it… So they started taking the pictures because it was so mysterious. But when the last picture, when It formed Itself into the skies and so forth, this is it as Look here packed it. You see how it rose up just as they begin to see it, you see. And there comes the–the real main and last picture, when it formed.

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« 83 † They don’t know where it come from or where it went, they don’t know yet. Science is completely stumped about it, don’t know what happened. But we know; “there shall be signs in the heaven above.” We know it. See? And He promised these things. See? And the only thing that this was permitted to be taken…
84 But I know we’re just home folks here this morning. If I ever impress you brethren or sisters as a know-it-all, please forgive me. I don’t mean to be that. I’m stand… setting here this morning talking before man who are scholars, man who are smart; I–I’m a illiterate, I can’t even pronounce my Scriptures right. I got a chapter to read this morning, I’m… was going to ask one of the brothers here to read it for me, ’cause I can’t even pronounce the names in it, First Chronicles 13, (if you will, Brother Jack, you can be hunting it up), for my subject. I–I can’t even pronounce those names, I’m letting him do it, ’cause he can pronounce them.
85 And I know I’m talking to smart man. But, brethren, these things are done that you might not look at my illiteracy, but believe that I’m telling you the Truth. It’s God telling you the Truth. That’s the Truth. See?

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« 86 † Now, and when I speak of denominations, I’m not meaning for you to be so cruel and… No, I don’t mean for you not to go to your church. Go to your church, what you’re supposed to do. But just don’t join up with them organizations, because one day I’ll be telling you and prove it by the Scripture, it is the mark of the beast. And you just remember, it’s the mark.

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« 87 † I’m preaching… I wouldn’t preach it in Brother Jack’s church, he’d tell me, “Go ahead and do it”; but I’m going to the tabernacle, it’ll be about four hours long. And my subject is, “The beast at the beginning and the beast at the end, through the trail of a serpent.” See? Takes about four hours. I got my Scriptures all laying out. The beast from the beginning, he was the beast at the Garden of Eden, he’s the beast at the end, and show that he’s a religious person and a denomination (that made the denomination); and come right through the trail of it, and prove it to you by the Scriptures that it is. I didn’t know that till the Holy Spirit give it to me the other day up there.

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« 88 † Now, in this, I was watching this one day, standing, and something said to me… looking at it, and I thought… Brother Hickerson, one of my trustees… or deacons at the church at Jeffersonville… If I don’t believe in going to church, why do I have churches? We had them all across the country, hooked up the other night, every two hundred square miles had one of my churches.
89 Now, this–this picture, I was standing, looking at it, and something… I was standing in my room. Something said, “Turn it to the right.” I listened.
90 I know that sounds like somebody’s a little mentally upset, but, you see, as I said the other night, all these great things are so scholarly… Now, I’m not against that. Remember, we have to have… Send your children to school and get education and so forth, but I’ll tell you right now, it won’t do them no good in the world that is to come, ’cause there’ll be another civilization. All this… so far above this. That civilization won’t even have any… it won’t have any schools in it, it won’t have any death in it, won’t be any sin in it. This has all that; no matter how much civilized we get, more and more death is added all the time. See? That one will be without death. But now we have to have school, we have to wear clothes, we…

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« 91 † I was going to speak this morning on Satan’s Eden (many of you’s got the tape of it), Satan’s Eden. He has made another garden of Eden, and six thousand years it’s taken him to make it, just like God did His at the beginning. God made His Eden, and Satan corrupted it. Now Satan’s made his own Eden, and God’s going to destroy it (that’s right) and put His own.
Something said to me, “Turn it right.”
I thought, “I think I’m looking at it right.”
Said, “Turn it right.” See?
92 I thought, “Maybe that Voice means turn it to the right.” And when I did, you see what it is: Hofmann’s Head of Christ, at thirty-three. Here, look in here, see His black beard, His face, His eyes, His nose, and everything else. See the part in His hair here coming up. And He’s wigged with that white Angel wig to show that the Message of Him being God is the Truth. He is the Supreme Judge of the universe, Supreme Judge of Heaven and earth. He is God, and nothing else but God. He is God expressed in human form called the Son of God, which the Son was the mask. And if that don’t make our Message exactly right: identified by the Scripture, identified in service, identified by His Presence, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Therefore those Seven Seals are the Truth, brethren. Might disagree with them, but just set down and study with a open heart one time, just let the Holy Spirit lead you from…

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« 93 † Here, when Brother Jack… I called him before preaching this and talked to him one time about “What was this white wig?”
94 He said, “Well, Brother Branham, I declare it to be that it was in… was after His resurrection in His glorified body.” I was talking to Brother Jack. And there’s… I don’t know of anybody in the world that I’d rely on anymore of their teachings on theology and things as I would like Brother Jack Moore and Brother Vayle, and such man as–as that, real theologians that’s read all kinds of books and different angles from everything. Well, but, you see, even with that, and my bosom friend, I–I–I just couldn’t receive it, there was something there just wouldn’t take it.

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« 95 † And then when it come, this, then I see what it is. Here’s His dark beard. You see It, I guess. See? His dark beard and dark hair, His eyes, nose, everything, just perfectly, and even the part in His hair coming over on this side. He is God! See? And He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. And this is Look magazine… or Life magazine. I think this is the… I forget what issue it is now; oh, May the seventeenth, 1963. That’s when it come out, if anybody wants the magazine. It’s the same picture that’s got Rockefeller and his–his wife on the back of it. And this is the new Science magazine that “it’s still a mystery.”

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« 96 † What did I say these things for? That it might give you a little view of the things that we’re trying to say, that God is identifying both in heavens and in earth to be right, these discernments, visions. We have plenty of impersonations, we always. But remember, before there can be a bogus dollar, there has to be a real dollar first; first has to be a real dollar, and then they’re made off of that. Just like we had a real Moses and a real Aaron, then we had a Jambres and Jannes after them. You see how it all comes? They see it and then they try to impersonate that, when there’s truly one original. That’s right. Not saying that to harm or to degrade, or misplace something, but just for Truth; to know that I…

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« 97 † I’m getting to be an old man, and I know my time ain’t too long. If Jesus, tarries, I may… could stay a little while; but I know that someday this heart’s going to make its last beat, and I’m entering into a great, dark chamber there called death. But when that comes, I don’t want anything to have to look back for, to try to repent for. I want, when I come to that time, to be clean and pure by the grace of God. I want to wrap myself in the robes of His righteousness, when I enter there, with this one thing in my mind: I know Him in the power of His resurrection; and when He calls, I’ll come out from among the dead and live with Him forever. And it’s my purpose here now to try to get every man… not to change your theologies or nothing, but to increase your faith in God’s promise of this day.
Now let us pray:

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« 98 † Dear God, we are a grateful people this morning, but yet, Lord, we’re living in a dark world that… There isn’t a one of us here this morning, Father, but what feels that we–we want a closer walk with You, we want that–that touch of You in our lives that can tender us and make us flexible so that You can change us at anytime, mold us into sons and daughters of God. That–that’s our purpose here, Father, that’s–that’s my only objective that I have is to try to–to live before You and to get Your Word and speak It back to the man and women that… not to be a different person but to try to honor Him who’s give me Life. Grant it, Lord.

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« 99 † May there not be a person here today… Or–or if… We’re hooked up this morning, across the nation, again. May there not be a person that’s in the sound of our voice ever have to go into that great chamber not knowing You in the power of Your resurrection. If there be sinners somewhere across the country, that… or in this building, this great auditorium, setting here this morning. If there are those who don’t know You, may this be the day that their conscience will be shook, woke up, and they’ll realize that they don’t know what minute that we may be called or summoned to answer for our lives, on High. And if our name is still on that stalk book, doomed we’ll be; but if it’s in the Lamb’s Book of Life, the real Life, then we are saved.
100 And may, Lord, as that Life travels from the blade into the pollen, into the shuck, then to the grain, while they’re passing through this morning if there be some Life that goes into the grain that’s laying back in that stalk, bring it out today, Lord, may it follow the moving of the grain, for we ask it in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

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« 101 † Sorry to take so much time. I forgot about this even being on the radio time out there, the phone time.
102 Now let us turn for our reading. And Brother Jack, have you got your Bible there? While I’m finding my Scripture, I’ll ask Brother Jack to read this Scripture because I cannot pronounce these names. Sorry. All right, in First Chronicles 13…?… [Brother Jack Moore reads First Chronicles, the 13th Chapter:
And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader.
And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and that it be of the LORD our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us:
And let us bring again the Ark of our God to us: for we–we enquired not at it in the days of Saul.
And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjath-jearim.
And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kirjath-jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the LORD, that dwelleth between the cherubims, whose name is called on it.
And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave–drave the cart.
And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
And when they came to the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, and because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before the Lord.
And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place was called Perez-uzza to this day.
And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?
So David brought not the ark home to himself to the city of David, but carried it aside in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
And the ark of God remained with the family of Obed–Obed-edom in the house three months. And the LORD blessed the house of Obededom, and all that he had.–Ed.]

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« 103 † Thank you, Brother Moore, for the reading of the Scripture for me. Now, sorry I couldn’t read that myself, but I–I couldn’t do it.
104 Now I want you to turn with me to Mark 7:7, and we’ll read the first seven verses of Saint Mark the 7th chapter.
Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
And when he saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashed hands, they found fault.
But the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they’d washed their hands… eat oft not, holding–holding the traditions of the elders.
And when they came forth from the market, except they’d washed, they eat not. And many other things were–were they… which they have received of the… received to hold,… the washing of the cups, and of pots, and brass vessels, and of tables.
Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hand?
He answered and said unto them, Well has Isaiah prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrine the commandments of man.
Let us pray.

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« 105 † Dear God, honor Your Word now, and may It accomplish that which It is purposed for. Use us as instruments to speak It, and our ears to hear from You, and our hearts to receive It. We ask in Jesus’ Name, for the glory of God. Amen.

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« 106 † Now, my subject for a few moments is this… I…
107 We are on the national telephone hookup this morning. And I understand that my good friend, Roy Borders, is listening in, pretty well tore up about last night. I’d forgot that we were on the radio… or this hookup last night. Roy, wherever you are, if you’re over in San Jose in the church there, or either down to Brother McHughes’ church, or wherever you are, don’t fear, my brother, everything will be all right. Set still, you just… He’ll make it known to me, Roy; don’t worry, son, have faith in God.

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« 108 † My subject this morning is: Trying To Do God A Service Without It Being God’s Will. Now, that’s a strange text, and I trust that the Lord will reveal this to us now. Remember, “Trying to do God a service without it being the will of God.” Now, that seems very strange. But, in this, maybe God can help us.

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« 109 † Another thing I’d like to say this morning, that we’re glad to have in our midst a friend of mine, a very dear friend, a young fellow. Many of you people on the radio now can… or the… on the telephone hookup, knows who this is. Today is his birthday, ninety-three years old, Brother Bill Dauch setting here before me, ninety-three years old.
110 Several years ago the doctor said, “He cannot live.” I just noticed him setting here now. Under oxygen tent, and his lovely wife called me and said, “Brother Branham, if you expect to see your old friend, Bill, alive, you better come at once.”

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« 111 † And I… One of my tires was cut on the side, my wheel had been knocked out, and I tore a tire off of my car trying to get to him. I was just coming from a–a–a station, filling station, and coming from the restroom where I had stopped in Ohio trying to get to him, and walking out I saw a vision. And there stood Brother Dauch, standing in the church with his hand out; it changed, and I seen you coming down the street and shook my hand. Said, “Go tell him, ‘THUS SAITH THE LORD.'”
112 He was about ninety years old then. He had a heart attack with a heart block, and a complete heart failure. Very shrewd doctor. The man is not… he don’t want… No, I won’t say that. He’s just a man who can afford… get any doctor he’d want. He had a very fine Jewish doctor who met me in the hall and said, “There’s not a chance for him to live.”
113 And I went in and slipped my hand under the oxygen tent, I said, “Bill, can you hear me?” He nodded his head. I said, “THUS SAITH THE LORD, ‘You’re not going to die now.'”

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« 114 † A week from then, when I got in the pulpit to preach my Message, here come Brother Dauch walking up through the building. And when I went over to Furr’s Restaurant, across… I mean the Blue Boar, across in Louisville, here he was getting out of the car, coming down the street, holding his hand out; just exactly according to the Word of the Lord. And that’s three or four years ago; and here he sets all the way down here, in Shreveport (crosses the nation, not by plane now, by car) uh-huh, setting here this morning. “Happy birthday, Brother Dauch.” That’s from all across the nation, from everywhere. “God bless you!”

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« 115 † I baptized him, after being a trinitarian, I baptized him when he… was one of my first meetings, when Brother Banks Wood had to let him have his clothes (he’s a good-size man, as you see), and he went into the pool and I baptized him at about eighty-five or ninety years old, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. He said he never could feel right until he found that security of something. Then he received a birth-day where he’ll never grow old. That’s right, that great Land. He even is expecting to live to see the Coming of the Lord; it can be done. But if he would sleep, he… and we are awake at that time, he’ll come first. Right. So, Brother Dauch, there’s no way now to miss it. You’re exactly on the line. Stay there, my brother, and God bless you. And I thank the Lord for a good man like that, and for giving him all of these years.

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« 116 † In the Book of the Chronicles, “Trying to do God a service without it being His will.” God is sovereign, first, we want to understand that. The people today are wondering why we can’t have a revival. Do you believe God’s sovereign? See, the Bible speaks this way.
117 And we try… As I was discussing with a group of my fine brothers, Baptist brethren, not long ago, and they said, “Brother Branham, we can only have a revival when we take the Word, word by word, page by page, letter by letter.”
118 And I said, “I believe too, page by page.” He said… I said, “They’ve been trying to do that all along.”
119 He said, “But we must find the Greek interpretation of the Word, what the Greek says.”
120 I said, “I haven’t read too much, but reading the history of the church, and the Nicaea Council, and the pre-Nicaea Council, and Nicaea fathers, so forth, they were arguing back there about the Greek. That’s two thousand years ago. One said, ‘It means this,’ and one says, ‘It means that. The Greek word means this.'”

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« 121 † Just like our language; the word see. Use the word see, you could mean “a body of water, I understand,” or many things. Bored, “to be boring a hole, make a walk,” or–or “you bored me,” or “you paid my board,” or it could mean any… many things. And those little vowels, and so forth, just change the whole meaning. So you’ll never do it like that. God wrote It like that, because…
122 And all of the Word is inspired, and He said that, “I thank Thee, Father, that Thou has hid these things from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and will reveal” (amen) “to babes such as will learn.” It’s a revelation of Him, as I said last evening, “Will reveal It to babes.”
123 I said, “It won’t work, sir.” I said, “A revival will never come until God, the sovereign God, sends it; and then He might take up a little nitwit that can’t even sign his name, and do it with it, that knows not even good English let alone the Greek.”

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« 124 † That’s what He done in the time when Peter preached at Pentecost, you know, he couldn’t even sign his name, ignorant and unlearned. But God does things in such strange way to our intellectual thinking. That makes it God. If He’d got a bunch of theologians and dignitaries, and so forth, they’d said, “That smart Caiaphas, you see, he had it just right.” But God went down and got fishermen that couldn’t even sign their name, and that’s what He took. That’s God, He takes something that’s nothing and makes something out of it to His Own honor. He took a chaos and made a Eden. Uh-huh, it’s God.

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« 125 † Now, if there’s anybody got the mechanics for a revival, is our noble brother, Billy Graham. But the mechanics is all right, but the mechanics won’t move it, it takes the dynamics to move it. You can build an automobile, put fine seats in it, make fine pistons and–and prove by science what it can do; but unless the dynamics is there, she’s just a dead piece of goods.
126 So, in the Welsh revival, one of our late revivals before our Pentecostal, no one knowed what started the revival, just a bunch of people.
127 Now, when we get all… our friend, Billy Graham, will get all of the Presbyterians, and Lutherans, and Pentecostals, and everything together, go into the city and there they’ll have a great gathering together of thousands, and thirty thousand will come (in two weeks) and give their hearts to Christ; go back another two weeks and you ain’t got a one. See, that’s the mechanics. But let God in His sovereign grace just speak to some little nitwit, as so to say, a little nobody; let His Spirit fall into a city and man can’t go to work, women can’t wash dishes, the maid can’t make the bed, a-screaming and crying with their hands up in the air. That’s revival, that’s in the will of God.

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« 128 † It was said that some noblemen from the church went over to the Wales to understand, or figure out what all the mechanics was in the revival, during the Welsh revival. And when they got off the ship with their tall hats on, and their round collars; see him come down the street, a little policeman, swinging his club around and around like that, whistling; they said, “My good man, could you tell me where the Welsh revival is?”
129 He said, “Yes, my brethren, you’re standing in the middle of it!” Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. He said, “You understand, I am the Welsh revival,” said, “because the Welsh revival’s in me.”

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« 130 † That’s sovereign! That’s what God does, and He alone has a right to send a revival. Not get the mechanics together, it’s pray for God to send the dynamic–dynamic.
131 He only reveals His Word in the predestinated. Now, when I use the word predestinate… Now, it’s a bad word to use in public, especially when we have mixed crowds between the Arminians and the Calvinists. And not a… I’ve asked you not to think I know It all, but they’re both wrong according to the Scripture. Grace is what God did for me, works is what I do for Him. See? Then you’ve got It. If you climb out on either one of the limbs, you’ll sure find yourself out on the end of the limb and can’t get back. The Book of Ephesians pulls it together, I think.
132 Now, but the word, when I use it, predestinated, don’t think that I’m… that’s the only word I know how to–to make… It’s God’s foreknowledge, see, that He knowed. He–He can’t say… He–He died that all might be saved, He did, but by His foreknowledge He knowed who would and who would not. See? That’s what He knows, I don’t know it and you don’t know it, so we work out our own salvation with fear and trembling.

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« 133 † Now, but God has His Word set, and has in all ages. His foreknowledge has caused Him to set in the church, and in the people, certain things that He did from the beginning. And then the Gospel that’s being preached to that age is only revealed to that certain people, the rest of them don’t see It. See? “Thank Thee, Father Thou has, hid these things from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and reveal It to babes such as would learn.” See, that’s predestination. Not that He did it by, you say, “I’ll choose you, and don’t choose you.” By His foreknowledge, He knowed what you would do.
134 By Him being infinite… Do you believe He’s infinite? If He isn’t, He can’t be God. Then, you think, being infinite: He knew every flea that would ever be on the earth, how many times them fleas would bat their eyes, how much tallow was in each flea, every blade of grass it would ever set on; that’s infinite. We are finite, we stumble in darkness. God likened us to sheep, and we must have a leader. And that leader’s not man, that leader is the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Christ among us. “A little while and the world seeth Me no more.” His physical being was raised up to the Throne of God, where the Spirit was on the Throne; now Christ is on the Throne, Jesus. “A little while and the world seeth Me no more, yet ye shall see Me, for I’ll be with you to the end of the world, even in you.” The, Throne of God, of Christ, is erected into your heart; and He’s setting on God’s Throne, but in the Millennium He sets on His Own Throne; which, He swore that He’d raise up this Man, His Son, David’s Son, to set on His Throne.

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« 135 † Now, He reveals these things by His foreknowledge to those who He has ordained to these things, otherwise they don’t see It. Standing right there, looking right at It, and he can’t see It.
136 How many ever seen that picture of a cow in the bush, that you just have to look and look? Did you ever see that? Or, seen the picture of Christ in a bush, or in the sky, or clouds? See, that painter has got that so fixed up till you have to look at it just a certain way. Well, then, when you once see it, you can’t see nothing else but that. Every time you look, there it is. How many’s seen those pictures? Well, sure you have.
137 Well, that’s the way Christ is, Himself, the Gospel, the Message is. When you once see the Message of the hour, there’s nothing else you can see but That. That’s all. Everything else is gone, the rest of it’s just a filler, see, see, when you once see the Message!

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« 138 † That’s–was in Noah’s time. When Noah and his group… see how… When they saw the Message, nothing else mattered. When Moses’ group saw It, nothing else mattered. When John’s group saw It, nothing else mattered. When Jesus’ group saw It, nothing else mattered. When the apostles’ group saw It, nothing else mattered. When Luther’s group saw It, Wesley’s group saw It, Pentecostal group saw It, nothing else mattered, they pulled away from everything. Why? By His foreknowledge He predestinated these things to happen.

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« 139 † He chooses His own person by His foreknowledge. Like He said in Romans 8 here, that Esau… that the–that the election of God might stand sure. That Esau and Jacob both borned of holy parents, twins, that His election might stand sure and true, He said, “I hate Esau, and love Jacob,” before either boy was borned. See? He knows what’s in man, He knowed it from the beginning what it was, therefore He can make everything work just exactly on clock time. We get all nervous and flusterated; you never seen Him flusterated, they don’t. See? Everything’s working all right, just exactly, the clock’s ticking.
140 These things that’s supposed to happen, all these women with short hair, and these man wearing their… like they got hair like their wives. I see them, absolutely, have these roller-curlers in their hair, curl it up here in front. What a perversion! That’s the results of Satan’s Eden. And like her, she’s trying to cut her hair like her husband. Her husband’s letting his hair grow like his wife. And she is wearing his clothes, and he’s wearing her underneath clothes. See, there you are. She’s getting masculine, and he’s getting feminish. See, it’s Satan’s Eden, contrary to what God made it at the beginning. That’s the Truth.

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« 141 † If I don’t get started, we’ll never get into this. But these things, and the way for Him to do it, and who will do it, that’s His Own chosen way, He chooses. That’s the way He wants it done.
142 As I heard Brother Pearry Green, our pastor at Tucson, preaching the other night about how that God made things some way (I forget what his text was), but he said, “That’s the way God likes it, that’s the way God does it.” Well, that’s right.
143 Now, who is it among us that’s going to tell Him, “He’s wrong”? Who would dare to stand up in God’s face, and say, “You’re wrong, Lord, You should do it the way I want it done, the way Dr. So-and-so said it should be done”? Who is that far gone in their mental faculties, to say a thing like that? No, you wouldn’t come out and say it, but you think it!

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« 144 † Like on my Message of the Antichrist, “There shall rise false christs.” Now, He didn’t say false Jesuses. See, nobody would stand still to be called “Jesus,” in the term of the Lord. But false christs means “the anointed.”
145 Oh, they, each one thinks they got anointing, “Glory to God, he can do this and do that!” But put him on the Word test and find out where he comes out at, see, on the Message of the hour.
146 They had anointing in the time of Jesus, but not on Him.
147 They had anointing in the time… Even Dathan had anointing in the time of Moses. He said, “Now, don’t you think you’re the only holy one among us, God’s got plenty. We’ll just start an organization here, a group of man.”
148 God said to Moses, “Separate yourself from him,” and He opened up the earth and swallowed them up. He had give His original Word to Moses, His prophet; that’s the only way He ever did do it, and the only way He ever will do it. He doesn’t change His plan, see.

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« 149 † So our ideas is wrong, His ideas are right, always. And don’t try to tell Him that He’s “wrong.” No matter who we think is best qualified, it isn’t us to say who’s best qualified. Now, there’s where you get in your organization.
150 Some little brother filled with the Spirit will go into a city and build up an organi-… build up a–a nice group of people, and at the conference they’ll meet, and all the holy brethren get along, you know, and say, “You know what? I believe little Jones here,” (he’s just a little pick among them) “I think he ought to have that nice big tabernacle, I think. Don’t you think that’s right?” No, my. There he goes. And then the congregation’s scattered. See? Separate these! God does the separating, He’s the one Who does it. But they all, each one, wants to take this little one, put him over here, and this one down here. That’s man’s idea.

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« 151 † Man has the keys, but God holds the keys actually. They give the disciples, the holy church, the keys; and watch the first time they used it, when Judas had felled by transgression. They got together and cast lots; and the holy brethren. Who would say they wasn’t holy brethren? Who say they wasn’t holy? But they cast lots, and it fell on Matthias. And when he… What did he ever do? Nothing. But Paul was the elected one! Amen. That was God’s choosing: a little, hook-nosed, sarcastic, high-tempered Jew. Not the Matthias, the D.D., you know, he–he was… But Paul, God chose Paul; the church chose–chose Matthias. See? You have no right to tell God He’s “wrong.” He knows what to do, He knows what the man’s made out of.
152 Who would ever… That church ever chose Paul? Oh, no, never. Said, “That guy’s the one that’s putting us all in jail.”
153 But God said, “I’ll show him what he’ll suffer for Me.” He know what.
154 All right, no matter who we think is right, God knows who’s best qualified because He knows the heart of man, He knows.

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« 155 † Nor does the revival, or does these things, happen at the time that we think they ought to happen. We think, “It’s this time right now, glory to God!” I notice in our chapters and so forth of the Business Man, “There’s coming right away, hallelujah, a great revival!”
156 Don’t be deceived, “He has already come, and they did to Him what was list.” See? But they think there’s a revival. Is it happening? No! It’s done, and dead, it’s over. Uh-huh. Notice, this is lamp-trimming time, coming out and going in. “They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.”

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« 157 † Notice here in our text, notice David, king of Israel, he was the one who got the revelation of bringing the ark of God back to his place; that, they never consulted it in the days of Saul ’cause Saul had backslid. So they never consulted the ark at all, the covenant, in the days of Saul, ’cause he had backslid and got away from God. So David, quickly, with inspiration… Now notice this, it’s a very treacherous text if you don’t get it right. And I feel that the hour is coming where we should be man instead of babies. Uh-huh. We should have strong meat instead of milk.

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« 158 † Notice David, king of Israel, the king had just been freshly anointed the king; or elected king, Saul… Samuel anointed him by the will of God; and he was absolutely God’s chosen king, no doubt to it. And here he is, and inspiration strikes him. It was revealed to David. He got the revelation, nobody else had said nothing about it. “Let us go and fetch the, ark, ’cause that’s the will of God that we have the ark here with us, that we consult God by this ark.” Very, very gallant thing. Don’t you think so? All right.

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« 159 † Remember, but, him being king, and got the revelation, he overstepped his place. There was a prophet in the land by the name of Nathan, he was the one that was ordained to get the revelation. There’s anything to be spoke, He said, “The Lord doeth nothing until He reveals it to His servants the prophet.” But, you see, David being king, with the anointing upon him… Now, is that the Scripture? Anointing upon him, and got a true revelation; but it was wrong. Because Nathan was the prophet of that age, and the revelation never come to Nathan, and when the revelation come to David he never even consulted Nathan about it. He’s just going to go ahead and do what he wanted to do. Uh-huh.

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« 160 † But notice who David consulted here in the 13th chapter, “But he consulted the captains of thousands and of hundreds,” back to his congregation. See? “Now, don’t you think we should do…?” That isn’t it. Now, he was trying to do God a service, but he wasn’t ordained to do it; see, ’cause God had a way.
161 Just the same as God could have spoke to the–the king about his sore and getting well, but He didn’t, He had a ordained way of doing it, that was His prophet. So He spoke to the prophet, Isaiah, told him to go back and tell Hezekiah what would happen.
162 Now, Hezekiah was talking face to face with God, and–and God could talk to Hezekiah, of course, but He made certain channels! You understand it? God has His Own set way of doing things: sending revivals, talking, speaking, whatever it is. He has His way of doing it, and we are nobody to tell Him how to do it. He does it the way it pleases Him to do it.

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« 163 † So, you see, David, being inspired… Now, you remember I said the, anointing, the false anointing? Remember the Holy Spirit can come and anoint a person, and still it’s out of the will of God. Here, It proves it right here. See? We have to go through God’s way of doing it, not our ways, God’s way of doing it. Cause, David, being a king, anointed, anointed with the Spirit of God upon him (a type of Jesus Christ), but that wasn’t God’s channel.
164 When all the congregation, “it pleased them,” the Bible said. Notice, captains of thousands and of hundreds, also the priests and theologians thought that was “wonderful.” There is your Bible schools and everything else, they thought it was “wonderful.” Even all of the people agreed, and the priests, and–and all of them agreed that the king’s anointing was right. Notice! But God had not promised to reveal His Word in Its season to them. God had His way of revealing His Word, but not to them. Remember, it was contrary to God.

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« 165 † Something like in the days of Micaiah the son of Imla. Do you remember that story? Judah and Israel were separated, and they had two different kingdoms, and Ahab was the king over one kingdom. And Jehoshaphat was over the king–kingdom of Judah, I believe it was; and Ahab was over Israel, Jerusalem.
166 Notice, and then here come in a bunch of alien and took off part of the God-given land that God had give to Israel, and these Philistines up there, Syrians, were holding that ground and were feeding their own children off of the ground that belonged to Israel. And so they needed that ground to feed their own children and their own families. God gave them… That was their God-given rights.

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« 167 † And so Ahab calls down Jehoshaphat, and said, “Come down.” He said, “Looky there what our enemy’s doing. Is it right that we, the people of God, with a God-given right that we should have this land, it belongs to us, God through His prophet, Joshua, divided this land, it should be ours; it belongs to us, to our children, and here the communists has took it over, and we have… We’re so hungry, and they have got our God-given rights. Don’t you think that we should go up there and take our land back? If you’ll join your forces: if you Methodists, and Presbyterians, and all, and Presbyterians, and Lutheran, and so forth, all take the ecumenical council here now, we’ll all set together, and we’ll take the thing.” (I’m saying and speaking in a parable now) “We’ll go get it.”
168 “Why,” he said, “certainly, we’re all one.” Uh-huh.
169 Now, the Bible said, “How can two walk together except they be agreed?” See?
170 There where that great man, that great Pentecostal man, Jehoshaphat, got mixed up with the wrong crowd. And that’s what happened to our Pentecostals today. There’s some real man in there, but they’re mixed up in that denominational crowd. Get out of that thing! It’s cursed of the Lord!

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« 171 † Notice now! There he was, and he said, “Yes, that sounds reasonable.” Said, “Our chariots is yours, our people; after all, we’re all Jews.” Uh-huh. “Sure, we’ll go up with you.” But is just enough religion left in Jehoshaphat to say, “Don’t you think we–we should consult the Lord first?” See? “I think it’d be a good idea.”
172 Why, Ahab, “Of course.” Said, “Why, oh, sure, I should have thought of that.”
173 “Well, is there a man of God somewhere? Have you got a prophet?”
174 “Ah, I got four hundred of them. I got the whole council down here, the whole denomination. They’re Hebrew prophets.”

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« 175 † Now remember, the Bible said they were “prophets, Hebrew prophets,” not heathen prophets, Hebrew prophets; a school of them, a theological seminary.
176 “Well, bring them up!”
177 And the kings dressed themselves and set before him to impress the prophet. And here come, I believe it was Zedekiah come up, the great chief of the district councilmen, or ever what he was, come up there among them. He made hisself two big horns, he said, “I have heard from God. THUS SAITH THE LORD, ‘With these horns you’ll push the Syrians plumb out of the land.'”
178 “O glory!” everybody thought that was wonderful, fine.

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« 179 † Watch how close it gets to that razor edge now, between right and wrong. And remember it’ll fall on one or the other sides, till it comes down sometime like a honed razor between the difference of right and wrong. It’s got to be every Word of God; not just almost every Word, but every Word! And it’s got down today, not to Lutherans, not to Methodists, not to Pentecostals, but to that honed age, in this age where the antichrist anointing is so perfectly, it would deceive the very Elected, they’ll fall on the wrong side if they don’t watch it, like a wedge. Watch! Be careful! We’re not living in a Pentecostal age now. We’re passed that age, just the same as it’s passed Lutheran, and passed… See?

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« 180 † Notice. Now the prophets all prophesied, four hundred of them, well fed, well fixed, Hebrew prophets gave them witness, one accord, “THUS SAITH THE LORD, ‘Go up, the Lord is with you.'”
181 Jehoshaphat said, “Well, that–that sounds all right. But,” said, “have you got another one?”
182 “Another one? We got the whole denomination here, we got the whole council gathered out here. Why do we need another one?”
183 He said, “Ah,” said, “I thought maybe there might be another one.”
184 He said, “Oh, yes, there is another one, but he don’t even belong to this council.” Uh-huh. “He’s an outcast. It’s Micaiah, the son of Imla, and I hate him.” See? Said, “They won’t receive him into fellowship, and he’s just a common outcast to begin with. And he’s constantly, everything he prophesies, he just won’t encourage my seminary a bit.” Uh-huh. “And he does all these things evil, he’s always prophesying evil against me, just to be different.”
185 “Oh,” Jehoshaphat said, “don’t let the king say such a thing as that. But I’d like to hear what this man’s got to say.”

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« 186 † Said, “Well, we’ll find him.” So they sent out somewhere in the wilderness, and they sent a man.
187 Said, told him, said, “Now, on your road back now, I want to tell you something. Do you want to get back in the denomination again?” See? “Do you want to have fellowship with all of them again? If you do, say the same thing the district presbyter says, say the same thing the bishop says, and they’ll bring you right back. Now is the time to do it.”
188 But could you imagine a anointed, true prophet of God compromising on one Word of God? No indeedy!
189 He said, “As the Lord lives, I’ll only say what God says!” We need a son of Imla. “As the Lord lives, I’ll only say what He says.” That’s right, “What He says.”

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« 190 † So when they got down there before the people, all the prophets, they said, “Now, you say they…
191 He said, “Wait, give me tonight, let me see what the Lord’s going to say.” So, that night, the Lord appeared to him in a vision and told him what to say.
192 The next morning he said, “What do you say, Imla?” when they was all standing out… I mean “Micaiah, son of Imla,” said, “what do you say now? We’re all here together, all of the priests, and all of the prophets, and all of the kings, and everything setting here together. What do you say now at this great council?”
193 Said, “Go on up,” said, “but I seen Israel scattered like sheep having no shepherd.”
194 And Ahab said, “What did I tell you! That renegade can only prophesy evil against me!”
195 How could he say anything else when God was saying the same thing? A prophet’s supposed to be the mouth of God speaking, not his own thinking. His… You see, he’s com-… so completely yielded to God, he don’t want to hurt nothing, but he has to say what God says, ’cause he has no control of It hisself. See?

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« 196 † He said, “Now, didn’t I tell you?”
197 And then up come the–the big man with the horn, and smacked him in the mouth, he said, “Which a-way went the Spirit of God when It went out of me?” In other words, let me try to break that down, “Looky here in… Looky here, I want to tell you something, Micaiah. Do you realize that I am a master in the Scripture? Do you realize that I have the anointing?” Or, “the Baptism,” we’d say it today. “Do you realize that I have that?”
198 Imla said, “I’m not doubting that.”
199 He said, “But listen! The Spirit of God has told me, and bore witness with all my four hundred here, that we’re ‘going to push the Syrians out of the land.’ And who are you to come around and say that our great king is going to be slain?” He said, “The Spirit of God told me that.”

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« 200 † Let me just break it down so you’ll understand it. And maybe we find Micaiah say, “Last night in the vision, sir, I saw God setting upon a Throne. And I saw all the host of Heaven gathered around Him, uh-huh, and they were having a council in Heaven. They said, ‘Who can we get to go down and deceive Ahab? Because under the Throne here is a prophet, a true prophet, his name is Elijah. And he has prophesied by My Word and said that “That wicked Ahab, because he slew Naboth, the dogs will lick the blood of that wicked man,” and we’ve got to make That come to pass because It’s already been spoken, It’s THUS SAITH THE LORD! It has to come to pass, got to be there. And how are we going to do it?'”

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« 201 † “Then down from the creeping regions of the lost, way down in there come a spirit moving up, he said, ‘I’m a deceiver, and if I can do a service to You, I’ll go down and get in his prophet.'” Because they was so organized, they’ll only understand one thing, and that’s a little emotions. “‘And I’ll cause them to prophesy a lie. And I’ll get Ahab to listen to those dignitaries instead of Your real prophet; ’cause he’ll examine everything he says with your Word, he’ll examine his visions by the Word, he’ll examine everything he does by the Word, and if it ain’t with the Word he wouldn’t listen to it. But if it… I can deceive these others, and I’ll… they… Ahab’s got so much confidence in that great unity together of their safety, so they go around together and they’ll get together. And I’ll cause Ahab to listen to them, go out there. And that’s how we’ll do it.'”
202 “God said, ‘You can do it, you’re a real deceiver; you go on down.'”

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« 203 † And then Zedekiah smacked him in the mouth, said, “Where was you…?”
204 He said, “You’ll find out when you’re setting in the inner cell.” Uh-huh.
205 He said, “Go up!” said Zedekiah to the king. Said, “Go up and return in peace!”
206 Ahab said, “Take that fellow and put him into the prison. Put him in shackles, feed him bread of sorrow and water of sorrow. And when I return back with my victory from out here, which my prophets has told me that ‘this revival is sure to happen,'” said, “I’ll tend to that fellow!”
207 Listen at Micaiah’s last words to that man: “If you return at all, then God never spoke to me.” Oh!
208 See, God has His way of doing things. These man thought they were doing God a service. Be careful! Not emotion, not enthusiasm, not imaginations, but it must be “THUS SAITH THE LORD,” must be right. All right, no matter… We find these things so.

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« 209 † Notice now when David had made this great proclamation, and it seemed like that it was good, a good thing to do. There we find out that the… (Am I tiring you? Am I too late to have another?) David made this great proclamation, he consulted not the prophet.
210 Now, anyone knows that Amos 3:7 says that God promised that He would never do nothing until first He revealed it to His prophet. Through the church ages we’ve had reformers; but promised by Malachi 4 that there would be a prophet in the land in the last days (because it has to fit that pattern, see) before the end time come.

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« 211 † Before Jesus come the first, Elijah come, Elijah of Malachi 3. Matthew 11 says so, “If you can understand it, this is who was spoken of, ‘Behold I send My–My messenger before Me.'” Now, He’s prophesied, all theologians believe that; that, in the last day, the Spirit of Elijah is to come, too. It has to come five times, God uses that Spirit: Elisha, Elijah, John the Baptist, and for the Gentile church, and then for the Jews in Revelation the 11th chapter. That’s, God’s g-r-a-c-e, f-a-i-t-h, Je-s-u-s, Jesus, the–the letter five. Can’t stop at four, it has to go to five. See? Notice!

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« 212 † Now, He promised that, so that sets the Bible just exactly to this day, and the Sodom and Gomorrah. And Elijah was not… That wasn’t Elijah; That was the Spirit of God on Elijah; Elijah was just a man. Now, we’ve had Elijahs, and Elijahs’ coats, and Elijahs’ mantles, and Elijahs’ everything. But the Elijah of this day is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is to come according to Matthew the seventeen-… Luke 17:30, says the Son of man is to reveal Himself among His people. Not a man, God! But it’ll come through a prophet. Now, He never had two major prophets at the same time, never, in the world. See? No matter how much there’s… two–two heads can’t… It has to be one head. God has to get one man under His control. See? There’s one God; there was Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, but one God over it all, notice, and just used them offices. So has He with Elijah, the Spirit of Elijah; He used that Spirit, but the same God controlling It all the time to fulfill His Word.

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« 213 † Now, notice in this now, David thought he had everything in order. And he was inspired. See how the Holy Spirit can anoint a man? But it’s got to be in the order of the anointing. The outside spirit can be anointed with the Holy Ghost, and the soul as dark as pitch. The cocklebur grows on the same water that builds… puts life into the wheat, puts life into the cocklebur; but at the bottom of the cocklebur, it’s a cocklebur life. It’s rejoicing, and blooming, and got life, and doing everything that the wheat does, but the soul of it is cocklebur. See? False teachers can rise, teaching all kind of trinitarianism and everything else, and be anointed with the Holy Ghost, and perform just as many miracles as the true Gospel can. But by the Word here, that’s what does it. See what I mean? Now, it’s all right to teach this, I guess, I’m–I’m in a interdenominational tabernacle this morning, in–in this hotel here.

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« 214 † Notice, watch what we’re saying. Now, well, listen. David had all the emotion that the real revival had. Notice! They shouted, they screamed, they danced, they really got something out of that anointing. Sure did! All like a real revival, but, you notice, God was not in it. God was not in it. He had a prophet setting right there in the land that they ought to have knowed. See? David should have knowed that.
215 Same thing today, we got all the mechanics, like the great denominations, crusades of our time, but the result’s turning out the same as it was then; our results of our great crusades, and all of our big fine reason, our big buildings, and our big… building thousands, and adding members and things, it turns out the same way, all a flop. I’m not saying that to be different, I’m saying that to be honest before God Whose Book I’m standing by this morning. See? All turns out a flop, same results.

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« 216 † Now let us see what happened when God (in His time and age) and His prophets are not considered, just depend on theology, priests, denominationalism like we do today. Now, closely. It all gets messed up. If the true Spirit of God there, It’ll direct it into the Word; not just one place in the Word, the entire Word for the entire age. See?
217 The Day of Pentecost, the Spirit directed it right into That, to Joel 2:38. See? The day of Luther, It directed it right into That; Wesley; in this last pentecostal move; but this is another age, this is the calling out of the Bride. Not two thousand years ago at Pentecost, or the repeat, or the return. Pentecost…

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« 218 † The Holy Spirit was in Luther, the Holy Spirit was in Wesley; it’s God’s Word being anointed. And the Holy Spirit returned to the people of the age and they begin to have the restoration of the gifts. They found out, by yielding themself to God, the Holy Ghost spoke in tongues through them. They laid their hands on the sick, and they was recovered. They danced in the Spirit. See? That was the age of the reformation bringing the church back into order. And the last order of the church was placing the gifts into the church; like Luther placed justification, Wesley placed sanctification, Pentecost placed the gifts. But what did they do? The same mistake, as nature has patterned to the wheat stalk, they denominated (which is against God, contrary to God).

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« 219 † Now, we find out that when… Then when these stalk gathers comes together, they form their own idea. And no matter… When the “new issue,” as they call it, come forth out of the Assemblies of God, what did they do? They couldn’t receive It. No matter how much Truth it was, the baptism in the Name of Jesus Christ, they were already the General Council. Man had done took it over, the Spirit had done left them. Right! And then this come forth… I’ve talked to some of your best leaders; they say, “Well, what would we do now?” They would embarrass themselves. When they know it’s the Truth; if they don’t, they’re spiritually blind and ignorant to the Bible. Not saying that nasty, now, saying that reverently. Cause, there’s not a place in the Bible where anybody was ever baptized using those titles, “Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.” And never was used till after the ecumenical council, the Roman Catholic church. Their own catechism witnesses the same thing. It’s a Catholic dogma! Not a Bible doctrine, but a Catholic dogma. And you Methodists brought out your catechisms and everything just like they had, just gradually growing out of it. And now when you come to Pentecost, and spread out some of those dogmas, you still held on to them.
220 But now is the Bride-calling, now is when the Seven Seals has been opened, now when the complete things that the reformers left has to be opened; and only Malachi 4 can do that, because it takes the revelation straight from God to an individual to do so. That’s right! It can’t come to a group, never did. One man! That’s what God promised in the shadows of the coming for His Bride, an Eliezer. See?

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« 221 † Notice when priests, ministers, and so forth, get their own inspiration, and truly anointed. David was anointed. The Bible said so. But, you see, he went through the wrong resource, he went to the wrong channel. He channeled his anointing on the wrong side, to the people and what they thought, to the captains, what they thought, instead of to God’s holy channel to find out what THUS SAITH THE LORD was, “Is this the time for this? Is this the season for this? Is this the will of God?”

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« 222 † Then if he’s a true prophet of God, he’ll go before God first, say, “Father, what is it?” like Nathan did later on to David.
David said, “Is it right for me to live in a house of cedar, and the ark of my God under tents out here?”
223 And look at Nathanael, said, “David, do all that’s in your heart, for God is with you. You’re a anointed vessel of God.”
224 But that being a prophet, and his mistake, and God’s duty bound to His prophet. That night He appeared to him, said, “Go tell My servant David, I admire his courage, I love him for this, ’cause he’s a man after My Own heart, and I know it’s time that My ark would be that way, put under something, but I just… It ain’t the season for it to happen. I’ll let his son do it, but I won’t let him do it.”
225 Then here come Nathan with, “THUS SAITH THE LORD, David, the great revelation you had is as wrong as it was when you brought the ark up.” (Uh-huh! Uh-huh! See?) “Don’t you do it. Don’t try it! But God said He’ll have ‘your son to do it.'” There! See? There you are!

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« 226 † David was anointed to say that because aforehand he could see it, just as Abraham sought for a City on the earth. You know, he was looking for It because he was going to live here someday, Abraham is, in that City. And he went around looking for It. And right on the same grounds where he looked, it was just above him then, and will return in the Millennium and he’ll live in that City. But being a prophet, he was ordained and inspired, he knowed there was a City somewhere, and he was looking for It. But, you see, the whole revelation of it was hid from him, it wasn’t for his age. [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.]… on down to John, where he saw It coming down from God out of Heaven. That was the City.

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« 227 † See, everything has to be in its season. You plant your wheat in the spring and… or in the fall and cut it the next summer. See? It’s got to come up through the stalk, then come up through the tassel, and shuck, and on into the… It’s got to be in season. All nature runs in continuity. The Spirit of God made nature, and all God and nature in continuity. All the things that’s put in the temple was a pattern of what He saw in Heaven.

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« 228 † You see a tree struggling trying to live, that means there’s a tree that don’t die. You see a man struggling for life, it shows that there is a tabernacle waiting somewhere that don’t die. “If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved we have one already waiting.” The good Heavenly Father permitted me to walk behind that curtain one day and see it. How many heard the…?… See? Looking a-pass the curtain of time. There it was just the same as I’m preaching to you all, there they stood. Souls under the altar crying, “How long?” Not just a myth, somebody who had intelligence: “How long, Lord?” See? While we feel that now, as our age, like Brother Bill Dauch setting here at ninety-three. There’s something longing for that young man again. There’s something… You’d give anything. How I’d like to. Brother Jack, and all the rest of us. Go back, Brother Gerholtzer, in here, into that young manhood. What do you want to do it for? To be young and run around again? No, sir! Because we feel we’d have more time to glorify this God that we love.

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« 229 † And my dear brethren, I have this Message this morning, there is a Land beyond the river that they call that sweet forever. There we’ll glorify Him through the ages, and all the ages, and Eternity. Why do we feel that? Because the deep is calling to the deep. And as long as the deep’s a-calling, there’s got to be a deep to respond to that call or there wouldn’t be no call. Before there can be a creation, there has to be a creator first to create the creation, or there’s no… That shows the very evidence that there is.

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« 230 † Notice these priests, all out of line. Notice the anointing, all right, nothing wrong with the anointing. Same with you Pentecostals, but watch what channel you’re moving in now. The day has changed since Pentecost, something else for us. If there’d been no prophet in the land, perhaps David would’ve been right. That’s right. But there stood Nathan, vindicated, ordained, witnessed by God to be a prophet.
231 Watch! The ark in the Bible always is a type of the Word to us, because it was the Word of God in the ark. And was… Notice the ark that they brought up, look how they did it. It was not put in its original God-ordained position. Now, God said back here in the Law that it must… how it must be done, how this ark must be moved, and who it must be moved by. But David, under his anointing…

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« 232 † My brethren, don’t you miss this. And my sisters, you who want to be women preachers and so forth, don’t you miss this. No matter how much your anointing is, you’ve got to get in God’s provided position. David’s anointing was all right, but in doing it he got enthused and stepped over the boundary line. What did he do? He stepped over the boundary line. Instead of putting the ark in its original position, he carried it on a new cart and not over the hearts of the Levites. It was supposed to be carried on the shoulder of the Levites, which is over the heart. The Word is not in the mind, It’s in the heart! “Not on a new cart.” What was that? Some… Represented something new, David did there, spoke of every denomination there’d ever be. God’s Word is not to be by… carried by state presbyters or bishops, and so forth, of denominations. It’s the Baptism of the Holy Ghost in the heart of man, and not in some ecclesiastical move. The Holy Spirit is a treasure of God’s love in the heart of man and women to obey. See?

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« 233 † Was on the shoulders of His ministers, His ministers was the Levites. Put it up over their left shoulder and packed that ark like that, because it was up over their heart. They had the burden of the Word on their heart. Amen! Now you got the burden of your denomination on your heart, the burden of your congregation: whether you’re going to build this, or do that, or do something else. The burden of how many more you’re going to get to your denomination; instead of the burden of the Word of the Lord, till that people will see only the Word of God and nothing else. But you got It on a new cart now. See? They’re packing It up here in the ecumenical council even, shouldered. I don’t want to get critical, and may God help me, now. I just telling you the Truth.

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« 234 † Now, influenced by creeds and ecumenical councils, the Word, the real Word of the season of that age was ignored, because they had a lot of emotion. But David, the anointed king… He was king, but he was anointed king. You say, “I’m a minister, anointed.” Then stay a minister, don’t try to be a prophet. See? If you’re evangelist, stay evangelist.
235 Remember Uzziah, in the days of Isaiah, the young king… the young prophet. Uzziah was a great man, anointed man, God blessed him; blessed hisself. Yeah, I preached on that to you here one time. And one day he got so highly up till he thought he could just take the office of a priest, and he took the fire and went in before the Lord, and the… them priests told him, “Don’t do that, Uzziah!” But he got exalted. The prophet couldn’t tell him nothing. The priests knowed their order, they was keeping their order, he said, “That’s not your order, Uzziah. Don’t do, that!”

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« 236 † Well, he made them “Shut up!” And he went with the–with the fire, in to offer, take a priest’s job; he was anointed king, not a priest. And those priests was trying to tell him, “You’re a wonderful king, you’re anointed, God has blessed us now; but you’re a king, not a priest.”
237 And you pastors shouldn’t never tell a prophet what to do, or you evangelists tell a pastor. See, each one has his office if it is perfectly identified.
238 So he went in with the fire, and was stricken down with leprosy and died.

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« 239 † Now here’s David, king, David’s trying to do the same thing here. He’s taken it upon hisself. “Well, that’s fine, got to go. Looky, lots of people. What do you say, captain? You have ten thousand.”
240 “Glory to God, David, I feel the Spirit.” Oh, he did! He did feel It. “What do you think, David? Do you feel It?”
241 “Glory to God, It’s all over me! Let’s check it and see if it’s right, let’s see. Where does the ark belong?”
242 “With us! Belongs among us.”
243 “Who should we consult? Sure, the ark. Just the same thing as that ground belonged to–to Israel instead of the Philistines. That’s right. They belong to us. And as I feel the anointing, too.”
244 The captains of hundreds, all the congregation, “Glory to God!” They clapped, and they shouted, and they danced, and jumped up and down.
245 They had the Spirit, but what do you think Father was thinking? “How I’ve sent Nathan, that prophet down there! They know what to do, and so does David, but now he’s just all enthused and stepped right over his boundary line and went to do this.”

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« 246 † All right, notice, “carry It on the shoulders” was God’s original plan. There is five must’s. I want you to put these down, if you’re… I see you’re writing. (And it’s twenty minutes, twenty something minutes after ten, so I’ll try to be through by eleven, if possible. I’ll hurry just as quick as I can.) No matter how sincere a man may be in doing God a service, no matter how sincere, how much anointed, how much of a Presbyterian, Baptist, Pentecostal; no matter whether you’re a bishop, deacon, whatever you are, pastor, evangelist, prophet, whatever it might be; there’s five must’s that must be considered first. No matter how much anointing, how good it seemed, how the people shouting, everything the Spirit’s a-doing, there is a must.

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« 247 † Now, my brethren, while you’re getting your paper ready, can you understand now why? Now remember, you’ve all thought, and have been taught among you, not… (see, I’m speaking across the nation)… that I did not believe in speaking in tongues. I do believe in speaking in tongues, but you can still speak in tongues and not have the Holy Ghost. First Corinthians 13, says, “Though I speak with tongue of man and angels, I ain’t nothing yet.” See? That’s the anointing of the Holy Ghost, that has nothing to do with the soul inside you. You can speak in tongues and deny the Word. I’ve seen it done, and you see it too. See? A woman can preach the Gospel and… See? They can do all… They cut their hair, and still shout and speak in tongues and everything else. Uh-huh, that’s exactly right. You got to line up with the Truth of the Word.

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« 248 † Notice! No matter how sincere a man may be, no matter how great he’s used of God, no matter what he is, he must be this: must be… The thing that he’s speaking of must be timely by the Bible. Somebody say, “Well, Moses back there.” I know what Moses did, but that not what God’s doing today. “Well, back yonder, thirty years ago, Luther said…” That might be fine, but that’s not what He’s doing today. “Well, forty years ago, Pentecost fell.” But that’s not what He’s doing today. See? It must be timely.
249 It must be according to the Scripture. It must be in season, the second one. Thirdly, and it must be according to the way that God’s Word spoke it would be.

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« 250 † And you say, “Glory to God! The Holy Ghost fell on me, hallelujah, just like It did on the Day of Pentecost.” But that might be different today. It fell on David, too, didn’t it? Sure, It did. Fell on Uzziah, but it was wrong! See, you got to go deeper than that now. See? You got to go deeper than that. Now, don’t feel hurt, just–just be reverent. See?
251 And notice, and it also must come to the man of God’s choosing. Not a denominational choosing, none of the people’s choosing, but according to God’s choosing. And if it’s a message from God, of a great revelation from God, it must come to His prophet. Now, if you want the Scripture of that, it’s Amos 3:7. See? Now, it must.
252 There’s five things it must be: It must be in season. It must be at the time God said it would be. It must be written in the Word of God. It must be in the season of God’s time, see. And it must be by God’s choosing.

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« 253 † And God doesn’t need any of us to interpret His Word, God is His Own interpreter. He don’t need our seminaries. He don’t need our wisdom, it’s nonsense. See? Eve got that, uh-huh, and missed the Interpretation by her wisdom.
254 Say, “Oh, boy, that guy’s a smart man.” Well, that don’t mean a thing. Sure. Ahab was a smart man. Belteshazzar was a smart man. Satan was most cunning and crude, subtle, none of you could withstand him, none at all.
255 I don’t depend on… none… no wisdom, just depend on God. See? How is God? He is the Word. And then how does God interpret His Own Word? Listen close now, don’t miss these things. How does God interpret His Own Word? By making It come to pass, not just one here, but all of it for that season.
256 Not say, “Noah go out and preach,” the inspired, but, “Build an ark, put doors in it, fix it this way, and that way.” What if he put the door on top instead of the bottom? What if he put the window on the bottom, the door on top? See? It’s got to be instructed according to the time, because that’s exactly what God’s going to use it for. It must be that way, and it must come by inspiration.

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« 257 † I heard a guy say one time, said, “I believe that man prays for the sick, I believe it’s fine. But as being a prophet,” said “I believe he’s God’s prophet; but as a teacher, why, he’s a ‘Jesus only.'” What a… What kind of a person would you call that? A man doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
258 The very word prophet means that “he is a revealer of the Word of God,” the Interpretation only comes to that. And that’s why today we’re in such a need of this great person that’s supposed to be sent to us in the form of the prophet Elijah, because it’ll be the revelation of God made known to us by vindication, showing that it’s the day and the hour and the season that God promised it to be in. And, remember, he’ll be spoken against; always has been, always will be. Rejected, just like the shuck will pull… First he’ll be accepted, because the shuck only holds the wheat until it’s able to get forth to the sun. Pentecost will only sheltered the Message, give It an open door until It gets scattered, and then the shuck will pull away, and the wheat will lay in the Presence of the Son, see, to ripen.

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« 259 † There won’t be any denomination, you just remember. Brother Jack here’s a historian, many of you here are. There’s never been a revival but about three years after the revival they started a denomination on it. Is that right? And this last great miracle move of God in this last days, it’s went twenty years; and it’s a million miles from a denomination, going further away all the time; the shuck’s pulling away, no cooperation, no nothing with It. See? Always it pulls away from It. There can’t be no more, it’s a wheat now. But we’re plenty green. Uh-huh. That’s right. Have to lay in the Presence of the Son to be mellowed up, that’s all of it. Plenty green; we haven’t got the sincerity, the sacredness, the thing we ought to have in our midst, to know that the Spirit of the living God, moving in His Word and showing us the things yet.

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« 260 † We have false impersonators rise up. What’s that to do? To deceive. The Bible said they would. “As Jambres and Jannes withstood Moses, so, will these in the last days.” See? They do the same thing, come right along impersonating It, just exactly. See? Be careful! Watch the Doctrine of the Bible. Watch the message that follows them signs! Still the same old school of message? Forget it!
261 God sent the miracles and signs to attract attention of His people. When Jesus come just healing the sick and so forth, so did the prophets. They thought, “Oh, glory, He’s a-coming, He’s going to be a Pharisee. He’s going to be a Sadducee.”
262 But He said, “You generation of serpents and vipers.” Said, “You’re of your father the Devil, his works you’ll do.” Said, “Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His Blood, there’s no Life in you.” He didn’t explain It. He didn’t have to explain It. Hallelujah. That was for another season. Uh-huh. He just said what He had to say, “I always do that what is pleasing to the Father, and that’s keeping His Word. If I don’t, My life and My works don’t compare with His Word I’m supposed to do, then don’t believe Me, I’m not Him; but if it does, then believe the works if you can’t believe Me,” He said.
263 Notice now these must’s that must be done.

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« 264 † Now, see, God had not revealed the thing to them by His provided way, He had revealed it by inspiration, but it was in the wrong channel. See, inspiration will go fine, but if it’s in the wrong channel, it’ll be channeled wrong. Like you take a bullet and shoot it directly to a target, it’s making its way right to the target, but a puff of wind can blow it out. Now, in your automobile, you go down the road sixty, seventy miles an hour and a puff of wind blows you, you can straighten your wheels back up, throw it back on the road again. But you can’t a bullet; ain’t nothing there to straighten its wheels up, it misses the target. See, it must travel in its original channel.

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« 265 † So must the Word of God travel in Its original channel. No little puff of wind’s going to blow It off; no little denomination, or nothing, is going to blow It off; no little persecution’s going to blow It off: It’s directed to the point! It’s going to hit there, too. And then God… When It hits that point, God will vindicate It, “Bull’s-eye!” Uh-huh, exactly what He said He’ll do. Here it is in the Scriptures, this, “THUS SAITH THE LORD, ‘It shall come to pass!'” Here it is. See? There you are.

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« 266 † Now, God had not revealed it in His provided way. So they went about to do it apart from His Word, and apart from the season, just the same as they have now. When man, no matter how sincere, trying to do Him a service outside of His provided way, they always mess it up. Like Balaam, Balaam thought he was doing God a service.
267 Do you think God lies? Does God ever change His mind? Well, people act today like He did. When He said for women not to cut their hair; they say, “We can cut it, Dr. So-and-so said we could. Brother So-and-so said you’re just too narrow-minded.” Uh-huh, uh-huh. See?
268 “Well, can this happen? This happen?”
269 “Yeah, uh-huh, So-and-so said so.”
270 God don’t change His mind.

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« 271 † Do you believe Balaam was a prophet? The Bible said he was. Do you believe he was a prophet? Now, remember, Balak come to him and said, “Go down and curse this people, for they’re all over the face of the earth. They’re not even a denomination, not a nation, they’re just a scattered bunch; and we are the dignitaries of the land. Now you go down there and curse them people, and I’ll pay you for it.”
272 And Balaam done exactly what a prophet should do, he said, “I’ll not go. You just wait here, overnight, let me see what God says do.”
273 So he went in, he said, “Lord, there’s some people out here with me that come, wanted me go down and curse some other people down there.” Said, “What do You want me to do about it?”
274 God said, “Don’t you go, for them’s My people!”
275 Balaam went out, said, “Go on back to your house. I can’t go with you, God told me not to do it.” Now, there’s God’s original Word: “Don’t go!”
276 Well, then they went back, said, “You know, your bishop wouldn’t listen.”
277 “Well,” the king said, “tell you what we do. He needs a little money, I believe that could persuade him. Or maybe I’ll make him state presbyter, maybe I’ll get him some great something to do. I’ll might make him the bishop, you can’t tell what I might do. Here, I’ll tell you what I’ll do. You fellows ain’t got enough education to persuade him anyhow; your his and hain’ts, and tote and fetch and carry, ain’t right. He wouldn’t listen to you, we’ll send a real educated bunch down, more dignitary.”

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« 278 † They went down there, said, “Doctor Balaam, Doctor Balaam, greetings to you. I bring you salutations from the king.”
279 “Morning, brethren.” See?
280 “Now, Doctor Balaam…” And, oh, the vocabulary, how it was really poured on. And said, “Now, the king has said that he will exalt you, and he will also give you great honor. And, you know, they only offered you so much money to take this charge, but the king says he’ll triple it, quad-triple it, if you’ll just come to take it.” Then, Balaam, got itching hands. He got foolish ideas and he stirred his mind.
281 Now, remember, he called God by it, anointed, but he stirred God right away from the original plan. And that’s exactly what Pentecost has done! To be popular, you Oneness, you Trinity, for popularity you denominated to be different, you organized and you’re dead! You’ll never rise again. But, you see, you ought to have stayed with God’s orig-… He pulled you out of that Assembly to make you a people, but you organized and went right back into the same puke you come (excuse me) out of, the same stuff you come out of, “As a dog goes to its vomit and a hog to its wallow.” I’m sorry I said that, forgive me, that’s not right for the platform here. See? I just said that in the flesh. Notice now that that’s what I mean, to vomit. I should have said it like that. The word was all right, but just misused. See? It was used all right, but just a missound, uh-huh…?… Vomit, “As a dog returns to its vomit.”

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« 282 † If the Assemblies of God, the General Council, organized Pentecost at the first place and got them into that so they could not accept the revelation, don’t you know, Oneness, you done the same thing. How could you receive a Message of “serpent’s seed, Eternal security,” and these other things that’s come forth? You’re so tightly organized till you won’t even let It in your door, uh-huh, uh-huh, same thing Balaam did. But God didn’t change His mind.

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« 283 † So Balaam went over and said, “Lord, now look, I really got an opportunity now to be somebody. You know I been a nobody, but I got a opportunity to be somebody. What do You say about it now, Lord?” Now, he should never have said that! He knowed exactly what God said do!
284 So do every one of you that’s baptized in the name of the “Father, Son, Holy Ghost,” on these other issues of the Bible that’s supposed to be in this day, you know what to do about It, is accept It! When you see God plainly vindicate “It’s the Truth,” that’s God interpreting His Own Word. But will you do it? No, your organization won’t let you do it!

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« 285 † Many of the ministers there in Tucson that’s listening in this morning. Brother Gilmore, I have nothing against you; Brother Brock, First Assembly, and Friendly church. You man, I was there all that time, you wouldn’t even let me come in. I… Sure, you couldn’t, you can’t and remain what you are. You can’t accept revelation, ’cause you’re denominated. And listen, just as Uzziah was killed because he was under that false inspiration, so is many true Christians losing their experience back in those old dead denominations, because they’re putting their hand on the Ark when they’re not ordained to do so. Now you can believe It, or not believe It, that’s up to you. God’s your Judge. God never did take back His Word. What He said the first time, He says for every time.
286 He told Balaam, “Don’t you go!”
287 And then Balaam come back, said, “But Lord, could I go?”
288 Now look! God said, “Go on!” Now, He give him permission to go. There is a permissive will of God, and not the original will of God. You see what a trouble he got into?

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« 289 † And any man that builds anything, any organization, or anything outside of upon the Word of God, it’s shaking sands and will fall! It’ll die as sure as anything, because the Word of God is a growing Body of the Bride. You can’t have it all foot, all arm, all thigh. These things come in their season.
290 And Pentecost, you made it all one thing, therefore you can’t accept new revelation. That’s the reason you stay right where you’re at and die; moves on. (So much, don’t want to wear you out.) But God doesn’t change His mind, His first decision is exactly right. So God doesn’t change His mind, He just let you go on in your permissive will. “God’s a good God,” as Oral Roberts says. He’s also a fearful God!

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« 291 † Look, just like you say, “Glory to God, I want to speak with tongues!”He’ll let you do it, but that ain’t no sign you got the Holy Ghost.
292 Remember what Thomas said, the old doubter? “Unless I have some evidence, got to stick my fingers in His nails, His hands, and in His side, I–I–I–I won’t even believe It.” Now, there you are, the same thing.
293 Jesus said, “Here you are, Thomas, stick your hands in here then if that’s what you want to know.” See? See? Now, if you want the Thomas route, go ahead. But what did He say? “How much greater is their reward who has never seen and yet believe.” Uh-huh.

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« 294 † Notice, notice, by doing this, he caused the death of sincere man; putting his hand on the ark when he shouldn’t have done it. A great, sincere man, think the anointing and everything was just right, but the ark was moving in it’s wrong way. “The oxen,” the Bible said, “stumbled,” not the Levites. The oxen stumbled and the cart was being pitched over; and a sincere man, with his heart full of love, put his hand upon the ark to hold it back, and was stricken dead because no man could touch that ark but a Levite. See how God keeps His Word, keeps His channel, keeps His order? Uzziah was smitten with leprosy. Here is David, altogether caused the death of a man, and a great disaster; being anointed with the Spirit, both of them, but out of God’s channel. Is that right? He died. Oh, it scared David to death, it called the–the name of the place, as Brother Jack read it. See? He marked him there.

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« 295 † How many times denominations has done the same thing to sincere believers. The Catholic church, the Methodist, the Baptist, Church of Christ, even the Pentecostals, has caused a-many spiritual death with that same thing. When It come, with these things, they found… and they can’t go no further, because that’s what their denomination believes.
296 Look today, the big crusades, same thing. They don’t do nothing but make them more a “twofold child of hell, worse than they was in the first place.” Makes them harder, really, come to the Truth. Have one of these big revivals, and all of them come in, carry on a little while, and go back out and they start all this sin again. Hear of another revival, say, “Ah, I had so much stuff; I tried it, there’s nothing to it.” See? They don’t know the channel. Don’t see.

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« 297 † I heard our great evangelist Billy Graham, set one morning at a breakfast like this, and he said, “I…” Here, he puts up the Bible, in Louisville, Kentucky, said, “There is God’s example.” And that’s true, the man said the truth. He said, “You go… Paul went into a city and had one convert, come back a year from then had thirty out of that convert.” Said, “But I go into a city and have thirty thousand converts, and come back in six months and can’t find thirty.” He said, “You know what’s a matter?” Said, “You lazy preachers,” said “you set around with your foot upon the desk and–and call these people by phone instead of visiting them after supper and talking to them.”
298 Oh, my heart was burning. I thought, “O great man of God, I hate to disagree with you here, but who was the lazy preachers on Paul’s one convert? What he done, he took him into the Word, he took him into the Message, he took him to where he found God; his heart was on fire, he set the country afire! And only thing you do is put them in a Baptist or Methodist church, or something, no wonder there’s nothing to burn.” Uh-huh. Yes, sir!

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« 299 † Then look what the Word has promised for today. Let’s find out whether it’s Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostals, or what, for today. Now you can go to read your Scriptures. Take these Scriptures I’ve been quoting to you. Also Revelation…
300 If I had time, I’d read it, but I just haven’t. I got about twelve or fourteen more minutes. I got to close on time, at eleven, if I get out right.

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« 301 † Notice Malachi 4, Revelation 10, Seven Seals. Didn’t the Bible say… Now watch! There was a Angel, a Messenger from above; and a earthly messenger. And each messenger was for the age of the church. He said, “In the days…” speaking now, “there came a angel, messenger” (word angel, English word means “messenger”). “… came down from Heaven, and He put His foot on the land and sea, and swore by Him that lives forever that time shall be no more.” Is that right? A rainbow around His head, and all these things just taking place. That Angel was Christ! Certainly! But what did He say? “But in the days of the seventh angel, the seventh church age.”

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« 302 † Always it’s right at the end of the church age where they got the thing so… the ecclesiastic so messed up until God sends a messenger, and that’s the Message to that church age. Then they take his message, ’cause he just lives a little while, and God… then they take his message instead of carrying it on with the rest of It, they make a–a denomination. And then they come make another denomination; another messenger, take another one.
303 You all seen in my book, it’ll all be drawed out in The Seven Church Ages, which He told me; which I stand by as a witness to God to be judged at the day of Judgment for It. It come from God, not from my thinking. Notice, here. I thought–I thought different from that, if I was going to have my own thought. Like Brother Jack told me about the Angel there, how that “That Christ was a glorified body.” But it wasn’t, it was showing that the Message being right, the Supreme Deity, He was God. See? Just the very thing I had been preaching from the Word. The Word always bears record of the Word.

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« 304 † Now, quickly now, as we are fixing to close in a few moments.
305 Now, He said, “In the days of the Message of the seventh angel, the earthly angel, seventh church age, then all these mysteries that’s been lost back through these other six church ages should be revealed right then.” Well, that’s exactly what those Angels said. Here is the Seven Seals, or the opening of these mysteries. And you try to get It before those denominations. Contrary to what they… Brother, they close up like a clam, but they’ve always done it. But it’s season!
306 How many knows that this is the seventh church age? Say, “Amen.” [Congregation says, “Amen!”–Ed.] The Laodicean Age, a lukewarm that God spues out of His mouth. And they spue God out of their mouth; there’s not another age in the Bible where Jesus was found on the outside trying to knock, get back in. They put Him out, no cooperation. Who is Jesus? The Word! The Word was put out. The husks throwed out the wheat! He said, “I stand at the door and knock, and any man in them shackles out there will hear My Voice.” O God, have mercy!

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« 307 † It was at then, when that man died, that David with the anointing saw what he had done wrong. O David, you pastor, can’t you see your dead creeds and denominations you’re holding on to? Can’t you see what it’s doing? It’s killing a Uzziah. Spiritually dead, and you wonder why there ain’t no revival; letting your women cut their hair, paint their face, wear shorts; send your boys away to ricky schools, and so forth like that, where half of them comes home homosexuals, and everything.

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« 308 † Notice David’s objective: he was bringing the ark to his own house. That wasn’t the capitol, that wasn’t the place, it belonged in Jerusalem. But David was bringing it to his own house, he wanted the revival to be on his own denomination. “Oh, if you’re Assembly, all right. If you’re Oneness, all right. If you’re Pentecostal, okay.”
309 Like somebody said, said, “Brother Branham, how you ever have anybody to listen to you?” Said, “I can see Billy Graham, he’s got every denomination in the country with him. I can see Oral Roberts, every Pentecostal hangs right to him. But,” said “you’re against the whole thing.” Uh-huh. Said, “How in the world do you ever get anybody?”
310 I said, “It’s God!”
311 “I the Lord hath planted it before the foundation of the world. I’ll water it day and night unless some of them should pluck it from My hand,” Isaiah. “I’ll water, I planted it. I put their names on the Book before the foundation of the world, by predestination. I’ll water it, just keep on moving. I’ll furnish the water, you just spray It out.” Right. See? “I’ll water it day and night unless one of them gets plucked out of My hand.” There you are.

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« 312 † Want It come to the city of David, the city of Jerusalem. There was no place ready for it at that time, and so is it today. These great mysteries that’s been unfolded by the Seven Seals, there’s not a place in any denomination… would have to quit being a denomination to take It. All the way from Luther on down to the Pentecostal Oneness, there’s not a place can receive It. Neither can a man receive It and stay in his denomination. He’ll have to follow the wheat or go with the shuck, either one he wants to.

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« 313 † Christ is our Ark, the Word. They want their denomination. He cannot, notice, cannot be carried on the new carts of the denominations, His Message cannot go on the cart of a new denomination when It’s supposed to be bore and come on the heart of a prophet. It cannot. He promised it, It would be thus, and that’s the way It must be.
314 So the denomination will never receive It, neither can they receive It. And they’re just as blinded to It as the Jews was when they hung Jesus to the cross, when Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t even know what they’re doing.” Don’t despise them, but just think: for what if you was in that same condition with your eyes so blind that you can’t wake up and see what’s going on?

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« 315 † Neither could they see that That was their very God. When He was hanging there on the cross, and them singing the 22nd Psalm in the temple, two hundred yards away, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? They pierced My feet and My hands.” See? “All My bones, they stare at Me. Why has Thou forsaken Me?” And there, the very God that they had sung about, blind enough to have Him tacked to the cross, and didn’t know it.
316 Now, don’t the Bible say that the Laodicean church, that thinks that she’s so great by her denominational members, she’d be “naked, miserable, poor, blind, and don’t know it”? What does the blind mean? The blind means for this Laodicean church like it did the ending of the Jewish church, blind to the very Christ that they had on the outside, knocking, trying to get in; “naked, miserable, poor, wretched, blind, and don’t know it.” O God of mercy!

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« 317 † Why can’t the wheat lay out in the Presence of that Son yonder, to see the hour we’re living in? Yes, Christ is our Ark, but His original way to do it. Then here He is… They had His Spirit all right, we know that. They wait upon the Lord, see His plan on His original Word in Its season to be vindicated, that’s what we should be doing right now. And He–He reveals their faith by His Word, seeing Him confirm every plan that He promised, not man’s schemes of denomination, not making members for our own ark.
318 They got a Methodist ark, a Baptist ark, a Presbyterian ark, everybody’s going into this ark for the great tribulation coming; “Glory to God! I was baptized in the Methodist ark, the Presbyterian, the Pentecostal ark.” There’s only one Ark, that’s Jesus Christ, and He is the Word!

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« 319 † Notice, God told the prophet, said, “Eat the scroll,” in the Old Testament. The prophet of the New Testament, He said, “Eat the little book.” Why? That the prophet and the Word would be one! See? That’s the Ark, the Word of God.
320 God has promised His Word, how It would be fulfilled and how It would come to pass when He chose His Bride, how it would be done. It’s happening right before you, in the Name of the Lord, and that’s by the original Word! The evening-time Message is here.
321 How many remembers Haywood when he wrote:
It shall be Light about the evening time,
The path to Glory you will surely find.

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« 322 † Yes, the evening promise of the Seven Seals, of Revelation 10, Malachi 4, Luke 30 and 10. Read Deuteronomy 4, 4: 1 and 4, then 25th and 26th verse, and see what He said about for this last day. This was Moses saying to Israel to “Keep every Word, don’t you add one thing!” Moses, that prophet had been up there and seen that Word of God. And It was wrote out to him and a-vindicated by God’s Own hand writing It. He said, “You keep every Word, don’t you add one thing to It or take one thing from It.” You can read that in the 25th and 26th verse of Deuteronomy 4.
323 Notice! Don’t you add to It, don’t you take away from It; ’cause if you do, God will take your part from the Book of Life. And it shows that you wasn’t His seed.”

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« 324 † Remember! Everything that God has promised us, everything that God’s spoke to us, everything that’s been told to you in the Name of the Lord, it has happened! God has never made one promise null, but He’s kept every promise that He said, has told us, has been the Truth for these twenty years, Shreveport. I’ve preached to you through the power of God, and the courtesy of your pastor, and I take you to record today. Even to women passed bearing; man, children, afflictions, healing, prophesy, things that would happen, not one of them has ever failed! Now, stay away from those denominations, they’re leading you to death.

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« 325 † Samuel stood one day, and they said, “We want a king, we want to be like the rest of the world.”
326 Well, Samuel said, “Don’t take that king. He’ll take your sons, and daughters, and he’ll do this and do that.”
327 He said, “Yeah, I know you’re right.”
328 But Samuel said, “Listen to me. Did I ever take any of your money? Did I ever beg you for a living? Did I ever tell you you had to give me so much salary to hold a meeting for you?” Now judge yourselves, even now! See? He said, “Did I ever tell you anything in the Name of the Lord but what come to pass?” Not one thing.
329 “Oh, yes, Samuel, you never did beg us for money, you never did want big things. Samuel, that’s true, and everything you told us in the Name of the Lord come to pass. But, Samuel, we want our denomination anyhow!”
330 “Then go take it. It’s up to you.” That’s right.

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« 331 † You can think you’re doing God a service, and if you’re going out of God’s way of doing it, you’re going to keep messing it up, on and on. O Church of the living God! Please forgive my Irish way and my sense of humor, but in the sincerity and sacredness of my heart, you Assemblies of God, you Oneness, Presbyterian, Methodist, whatever you are, flee for your life. Remember, get out from there.
Nations are breaking, Israel’s awakening, (getting ready for that remnant)
The signs that the prophets foretold;
The denominational days are numbered with horrors encumbered,
Return, O dispersed, to your own.
The day of redemption is near,
Man’s hearts are failing for fear,
Be filled with His Spirit,
Have your lamps trimmed and clear,
Look up, your redemption is near.
332 Do you believe that? We’re at the end time, we’re here. The handwriting’s on the wall, the second Coming is at hand, the Bride is being chosen, watered, drawed out.

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« 333 † Now, that don’t mean drawed out from church, that means drawed out from denominationalism. You must go to church, but don’t join any organization. Jesus went with all the organizations, but He never joined a one of them. Neither did He side with any of them, no indeed, but He was among them. There’s where the Light’s got to be scattered. And you stay right where you are, scattering the Light. See? That’s what God’s using you for. A hungry-hearted people, let them know that Jesus Christ is real, just the same as He was yesterday, He is today; and will be forever.

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« 334 † It is possible, a man or woman with all sincerity, trying their best to do God a service, and stirred it in the wrong way. With a genuine anointing of the Holy Spirit upon them, but stirred it contrary to God’s plan for the age, and chaos the whole thing. Now, if you believe that’s the Truth, say, “Amen.” [Congregation says, “Amen!”–Ed.] We just read It. Chaos the whole thing by not coming God’s provided way to do it.
Let us pray.

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« 335 † O church, here and across the nation, listen to your humble servant this morning. Will you? Look where you were at a few years ago when this first started; now look what impersonations has capitalized on It, and great millions and billions of dollars has flown into the organizations. See? Still away from the Word of God. Buildings and organizations is not the way God stirs His Spirit. He stirs It right into His Word, to make It live. And if you were ordained from the beginning of the earth to that Word, every Word will come right on top of the Word. Like a human cell will not have one human cell, and the next the cell of a dog, and the next the cell of a cat; it’ll be human cells. But it’s got to have a cell first to start with. Is that right? say, “Amen.” [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Well, if it is the Word cell to start with, the other Word cells are ordained to make it a full body.
336 Don’t be children, only in love, but be man in Spirit and in judgment. Judge ye whether I’ve told you the Truth or not. Judge ye whether It’s the Word of God or not. Judge ye whether it’s the hour we’re talking about or not. Judge ye whether these things are promised. Now, are they vindicated? By things that there’s not a human being in the world could do it. But It’s become so common to us till we’re letting It flow right on a-past us. Wait, church, wait.

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« 337 † If there’s one in here this morning that doesn’t know Jesus Christ, doesn’t stand justified this morning, your sins all gone as though you never had sinned, and you want to be that way… ’cause remember, one day, maybe today, maybe in the next five minutes, but one day that heart’s going to stop. And that inside of the inside is going to take its flight to stand in the Presence of God to be judged according to what you do with this Message this morning, according to this Message that you see. Not… It ain’t me, I’m just a mouthpiece. Like this microphone, it can’t say a thing ‘less I’m talking in it. And neither could I say anything unless God was talking through it, but you see God’s vindicated it to be the Truth. You want to be a real Christian.
338 Now, we have no place for an altar call, but right at the table where you’re setting. The place is packed and jammed, overflowed. I couldn’t call you to an altar, there’s no altar here to call you to. But the altar is in your heart. Won’t you let that little conviction that “Jesus Christ is real” move right up close today and call the rest of His body to you, manger Him in your heart? If He isn’t there, would you raise your hand, in a sign to Him, saying, “Lord, fill me, fill me with Your Word and with Your Presence, that I might live by You”?

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« 339 † While every head is bowed, every eye closed, all across the nation, raise your hands here in the visible audience and out there too; and I’ll offer prayer for you. That’s all I can do, I cannot fill it. God bless you. I cannot fill it. God bless you; and you. God can fill it. God bless you. Hands are going up here in the visible audience, everywhere. “Fill it. Fill me, O Lord. Fill me.” And now, after I… Thank you, sister. Thank you, brother. God bless you. After I… God bless you, sister dear. You. After… I think now I’ve caught the most of the sincere, trying to be, I want to raise my hands with you.
340 O Lord, never let me come to a standstill. Continually, Lord, let me not stop at one thing, let me just move on, Lord, till I’ve completed everything that You ordained for me to do. Regardless of the price, regardless of the cost, regardless of the critizism, how hard the cross is, I’ll remember the cross that You bore.
So this consecrated cross I’ll bear
Until death shall set me free;
Then go home, a crown to wear,
There’s a crown for me.
Must Jesus bear the cross alone,
And all the world go free?
No, there’s a cross for every one of His sons,
There’s a cross for me.

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« 341 † Dear God, the Word has gone forth. It cannot return void, It’ll find Its place somewhere. If the seed has already been planted, It’ll water it till it grows. And none can pluck it from Your hand, “All the Father has given Me will come to Me, no man can pluck them out of My hand. My Father has given them to Me before the foundation of the world”; when the plans were all drawed up, as so, Jesus was given His Church, His Bride.
342 The bogus marriage of the world, to these denominations. You came and died into the world, You redeemed Her, You justified Her, She never did it at the first place. She was trapped into it, blind. And as the song says:
I once was lost and now I’m found,
I was once in Laodicea, blind, but now I see.
And 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.
And the water of God fell upon my soul. I was parching.

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« 343 † God, at this little altar of every heart present here and around the nation, may the waters from under the altar of God gush out this morning upon Your Church; and water it, Lord, for the season’s just about finished. Give it Life, the Waters of Life, that it might be able to lay in the Presence of the Son to be ripened for Your great garner.
344 Father, I pray for them. But the stalk must dry, so I cannot pray for it; it must die, so it is dead. But I pray for the wheat, Lord, that’s forming into the Body of Christ. Grant, Lord, that the fresh waters of God will keep Its cheeks bathed with tears of joy and understanding until the combine comes to take it Home. In Jesus’ Name, I commit it all to You, Lord; the results is Yours. Amen.

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« 345 † [A sister in congregation gives a message–Ed.] Amen.
346 So Father, God, we thank You. And, Father, we pray for our little sister, handsmaid here, for her strength. I’m thinking of a time that when I–I walked in the presence of her, how that the Spirit came upon her and gave the same message that the Angel of the Lord gave on the River that day: “As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of the Lord Jesus, you are sent to forerun the second.”
347 Seeing it shaping up now into the wheat part, God, we thank You for everything You’ve done. Our hearts are filled beyond speaking. I feel so full, Lord, I just don’t know how to say anything else. But thank You Father, again, for all that You have done for us. Through Jesus Christ’s Name.
I love Him,…
Let’s just sing to Him, now. Remember, He’s here.
Because He first loved me,
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary’s tree.

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« 348 † Does it make you feel real little, real little? All emptied out, just ready for the Spirit, see.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Covet not this world’s vain riches,
That so rapidly decay,
Build your hopes on things Eternal, (no denomination, now)
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
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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« 349 † How many is trying to do that? Raise your hand. Now reach right across the table, put your hands in one anothers’ hands, like this. Together… You can be seated, that’s all right, or whatever you want to do. Listen closely. Let’s sing it together now. This represents our unbroken chain of the love of God. We’re holding one anothers’ hands because we believe in God. We touch each other because we’re brothers and sisters, the same vibrating Spirit, the Eternal Word of God dwelling in our hearts being made manifest.
When our journey is completed,
If to God we have been true,
Fair and bright our home in Glory,
Our enraptured soul shall view!
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand! (Spirit of the Lord!)
Hold to God…
Just get your mind on Him, see. This is the kind of meetings we must set in in the future.
… unchanging hand!
Build your hopes on things Eternal, (The Word is the only thing that is Eternal.)
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Covet not this world’s vain popularity, education,
That so rapidly decay, (Look at it today, what it’s done.)
Seek to gain the heavenly treasure,
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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« 350 † [A sister speaks in another tongue. Brother Branham begins humming Hold To God’s Unchanging Hand. Another sister gives an interpretation–Ed.]
351 How we thank You, Lord. As we set in this solemn moment, almost like a funeral, for we’re facing the burial of a dying, dead world; a dying, dead church.
O God, gather Your wheat quickly, Father. Come quickly, Lord Jesus.
352 Bless Thy people, Father, bring sincerity and deepness to the hearts of the people. May we get off of those fragile bubble dances, settle down into the deep riches of the honey of God. Grant it, Lord. Keep our hearts established with love and sincerity.
353 Bless Thy people everywhere, Father. As we leave this place may we go in the Name of the Lord Jesus to speak that which is sincere, that which is Truth, that which is right, may we shun that what’s wrong, Lord. When a man begins to lie to us, may we quickly turn our back upon him, turn our back to all dirty, filthy jokes and things of the world, and just turn our back and walk away. Help us, dear God. Mold us, make us, break us, and make us into the images of sons and daughters of God that we might act with the virtue of the Holy Spirit. We commit ourself to You, with our hands in each others’, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Let’s stand. Brother Noel. `

–Rev. William Marrion Branham
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« 1 † ` Amen. The Lord bless you. You can be seated. Sounded so good to come in tonight and hear you praising the Lord, and get back home again and see everybody. I been looking for this since last Thanksgiving when I was here, to get back to my tabernacle again. [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] I don’t know where he went. Here he is over here. I just wonder if he was going to still say “amen” to that, you know. [Brother Moore says, “Amen.”] It’s always good to be here. And I looked forward, as I said, since last Thanksgiving.

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« 2 † We have just left New York City, where we had a wonderful campaign. The Lord blessed us there in a mighty way. And we was at the Morris Auditorium, and the crowds packed in, and up-and-down the streets. And they would stand out there, waiting. If–if one come in, just a bystander, you know, and would think, well, something; some people, you know, go to church, and then the first thing, something said, that they don’t like, they’ll get up and walk out. And they was out there voting, who would get that seat when they come out. And I come by each night, and nearly a city block away, and they would be piled up-and-down the streets. And the Lord did bless us and give us souls, and many great healings taken place.
3 And then at the Business Men’s breakfast, we had a wonderful time, sold out their tickets. And–and then I think they had to let hundreds in, that didn’t have tickets. Then they filled the corridors, and around the hall and doors, and so forth. And we just had a wonderful time. An Episcopalian priest and everything there, and the Lord blessed us greatly.

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« 4 † And then we stopped in at home, my other home, in Jeffersonville. Course, I live now in Tucson, Arizona, as you know, for the last two years.
5 And now I’m on the road back to Tucson now, for the Business Men’s breakfast next week at Phoenix. Where, right immediately after the first of the year, we start a campaign there, a few days prior to the Business Men’s International, I believe, or national convention at–at the Ramada Inn.
6 And it’s so good to be here in–in this fine city of Shreveport, tonight.

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« 7 † Now, usually I speak a long time. But I’m going to try my best to keep it down, three or four hours, anyhow, to this and to this time. And I know I just wear you out, but, see, I don’t get to see you so often. And many goes Home before I… go Home to Glory before I get to see you again, and I think, “Well, this will be our last earthly chat together before you take your flight.” And many has gone, no doubt, since this time last year. And probably, if the Lord tarries, and we get to get back again next year or sometime, it will be some more, here tonight, maybe myself. We don’t know what time we’re to be called. And, you know, the Lord Jesus might even come before this services is closed tonight.

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« 8 † Now, as you know me, I’m not an orator, I’m not a speaker. I–I just love the Lord and do what I can for His glory. And when I stand here in this platform, knowing that man like Brother Moore and many great man has stood in this platform, it makes me feel kind of–kind of… not out of place, I don’t mean that. But, I mean, my grammar and things, I feel like, if the people didn’t love me real well, they’d get up and walk out when I got in the pulpit. So they just bear with me, and I’m thankful for it now.

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« 9 † But I always come with this–with this objective. I don’t come here just to be seen; if I did, I would go to your house for a visit, see. I come here to do the very best I can for the Lord Jesus Christ, while I’m here. I’m here for no other purpose but to serve Him, and the best that I know how, and to bring to you the Word just as It’s given to me, pray for your sick and afflicted. Now, we’ll have a night, or two, Brother Moore and I will get together, that we’re going to pray for the sick.

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« 10 † Then, each night, we want every person that’s not a Christian, hope something will be said or done, that you’ll become a Christian. And if you’re not, if you’ve already believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, and accept Him and been baptized, and you haven’t received the Holy Ghost as yet, don’t let this get by. Just let this be your night. Because, remember, there will be just so many names on that Book. And when the last name is added, that’s all of it. And yours might complete It.
11 When the Lamb come and took the Book out of the right hand of Him that sat upon the Throne, that was the Book of Redemption. And those names was put in there before the foundation of the world. When that last name was called, the Book, the plan, everything else was revealed then, the Seven Seals was opened by the Lamb. The mysteries of the whole Bible was hid in There. If we had time, I’d like to…

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« 12 † Just got through with those Seven Seals, just recently. I’d like to go through them again. And just how the Lord blessed us! Many of you has heard of it, and read in Life magazine, and things, the things that taken place during that time. When, they caught the picture, even, of the seven Angels, as was predicted as we went West. And He told me, three months before, where it would be and how I would be standing there, and there it was! And the–and the cameras, oh, for hundreds of miles, caught the picture of It right there, just exactly. Was foretold exactly! And if I ever preached anything that was inspired, in my life, it’s The Seven Seals. And so I know we’re at the end time.

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« 13 † And the last name goes on that Book, or, the last name that’s redeemed, that was put on that Book, that settles it, He comes to claim what He redeemed. And it might be a strange time. Did you ever think: people will go right on preaching, the church will go right on even thinking they’re getting people saved. It’s too late then, it’s all over, see, and the Message will go to the totally lost; just like it did in the days of Noah, seven days in the ark. It did in the days of Sodom. Jesus Himself, His–His third stage of His ministry, He went and preached to souls that were Eternally lost, that were in prison, that repented not, the long-suffering in the days of Noah. And we don’t know what time these things might happen.
14 And let’s be warned. Don’t just stand around, let’s do something about it. If we’re not right with God, let’s get right with God.

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« 15 † One time, I think, in the 11th chapter of Matthew, I believe it is, about the 6th verse, or something, I’m not sure of that. It’s the 11th chapter, I’m pretty sure. John’s disciples was sent by John, one time, to see the Lord Jesus, to ask Him if He really was the One, or should they look for another. He said, “Go show John the things that happens. Tell him, ‘Blessed is he who is not offended in Me.'”
16 And then when they crossed the hill, and Jesus perhaps watched them, He said, “What did you go out to see?” And they… Said, “Did you go to see some kind of a man dressed in fine clothes?” He said, “They’re in kings’ palaces. And a reed shaken by a wind?” He said, “Did you go to see a prophet?” Said, “I say unto you, and more than a prophet. If you can receive it, this is he who the prophet spoke of, Malachi 3, ‘And I’ll send My messenger before My face.'”

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« 17 † The disciples asked one time about this question. They said, “Why does the scribes say, the teachers of the Scripture, that, ‘Elias must first come before these, all these things happen’?” Now remember, He was talking to the disciples, not to the Pharisees. The disciples, they said, “Why did scribes say that, ‘Elias must first come’?”
18 He said, “Elias is already come, and they did to him what they listed, and you didn’t know it.”
19 What if someday you would find out, we’d hit a tribulation period or something, you say, “Well, I thought the Rapture was to come first”? See? And the voice would speak back and tell you, “The Rapture is already, and you didn’t know it.”
20 “As it was in the days of Noah, wherein eight souls were saved by water, so will it be at the Coming of the Son of man.” People go right on, just thinking they’re just doing the right thing, and it’ll all be over. O God, have mercy on us! Let’s, let’s check up, right now in these next few nights, see where we’re at.
Let us bow our heads again.

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« 21 † Lord Jesus, with these things in mind, and presented to this church, presented to these people; God, I pray that You will save every soul in Shreveport, this time, that’s wrote in that Book. If there is some here that isn’t saved, Father, may this be the hour that they’re saved. If there is any in this congregation, tonight, may this be their night.
22 Bless Brother Moore, Sister Moore, and their family, their children, their children’s children. God, we just thank You for them. And Brother Lyle, Brother Brown and all the–the brethren here at the church, Brother Don, and these fine bunch of people, all the members here, the laity, we just thank You for them.

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« 23 † And we pray, Heavenly Father, that our meeting together here at this Thanksgiving… It might be the last Thanksgiving we’ll ever meet together on this earth, so, God, let us take advantage and conserve the time. And we realize that it’s–it’s getting late, and we want everything that we can do, that’s in our power, to get the work done for the Lord Jesus before He comes. Somehow, I kind of feel that He is waiting for us to–to finish the job. So, help us, Lord, tonight, as an individual, each one of us, that we might be so concerned about others, that we go out into the streets, or into the neighborhood, and–and bring in the lost, that they might be saved.
24 Bless Thy Word. Thy Word is Truth, Lord, all Truth. So we pray, that as we try to endeavor to break this Bread of Life, Truth, to the people, that the Holy Spirit will come, because of that broken body there at Calvary where sin had to break it, and will divide Himself among us again, in fellowship around the Word. For we ask it in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

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« 25 † Now, if you will, I want you to turn with me. Many of you like to kind of keep the–the Scriptures where a minister reads, or an evangelist. And I want to read some, tonight, from Deuteronomy, the 4th chapter, beginning with the 7th to the 14th verse. And the Book of Hebrews, 14th chapter, the 25th verse through the 29th, inclusive. Deuteronomy 4.
For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;
Especially the day that thou stood before the LORD thy God in–in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they will learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the midst of heaven, and darkness, and clouds, and thickness, and darkness.
And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard His voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard the voice.
And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might do them in the land wheresover ye go over to possess it.

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« 26 † And now in the Book of Hebrews, the 14th chapter, beginning with the 25th verse.
See that you refuse not him that spake. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven:
Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shall, I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
And this word, Yet once… signifies the removing of… things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. There…
Wherefore we receive a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptable with reverence and godly fear:
For our God is a consuming fire.

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« 27 † Now I got a few notes here, and some Scriptures written down, that I’d like to refer to for a few minutes, as I would title this a strange little title. And these tapes is ready at any time anyone would want them. Mr. Maguire here will be able to–to furnish you with these things. And I want to take the text, from a text of this subject, rather, like this, The World Is Again Falling Apart.

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« 28 † We was coming down yesterday, or last evening, through Memphis, Tennessee, got in there kind of late in the afternoon, or part of the evening. And we could hardly get through the streets, the–the children and people were so crowded. And I thought, “What could this be?” The–the people wasn’t dressed like they had been to a religious meeting like maybe our good brother, Billy Graham or Oral Roberts. And I didn’t think they were in that district at that time, anyhow. And the women were wearing slacks, and little children around them, were just with overalls on, and so forth, coveralls. And I wondered what it was, and finally we found out. They had had a–a Santa Claus parade. There had been many thousands had been watching it on the streets, and so forth. And we just had an awful time getting through Memphis, because it’s coming Christmas time.

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« 29 † And Christmas is such a great commercial day, until it’s taken Thanksgiving pretty near out of the picture, because… in the–in the world of business, anyhow; because that the–the commercial world is so much greater influenced by Christmas, because there is so many people shop. And they just… Thanksgiving is just a little passing-by. And we find out, as we see Christmas nearing again, I thought it would be a good thing to speak on this subject, as we’re nearing it. Seeing that, really, Christmas is not…

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« 30 † We celebrate this 25th day of December for the birthday of Christ, but, course, anyone knows that it wasn’t Christ’s birthday. That was the Roman sun-god’s birthday, that when the church was converted into, or, brought into Catholicism, was formed at the council at Nicaea. Instead of it being the “sun god’s,” they made it the “Son of God’s” birthday. That was when, the sun, it’s from the 20th until the… I mean the 21st till the 25th, it’s kind of in its… Forget what the name you call it, rightly. It’s when it’s hardly a second-or-two’s time when it’s passing through that stage. And it was the sun-god’s birthday, and they just taken the “Son of God” and made that His birthday, to blend it in with their pagan tradition. And it’s no means, at all, being Christ’s birthday.

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« 31 † He could not been born at that time, because Judaea is about the same on the–on the… high up the equator, as this is, and we–we find out that, in Judaea, in the wintertime, 25th of December, she is blizzardly and cold. Shepherds cannot be on the hill, and many reasons that it couldn’t be.
32 And then He was nature born, like all other nature, He–He came forth in the Spring. Usually when the lambs are born, in the Spring; and He was the Lamb. Now, I believe, He was born, myself, March, April, or somewhere along in there, in the early Spring.

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« 33 † But we find that they made a day of merchandise out of it. People crowding on the streets, and rubbing shoulders, and fussing over things, and wondering about giving somebody a present, how much they will pay for it.
34 The other day, I was surprised. In a place I was standing, and two ladies was talking about giving their father the birthday… or the Christmas present for this year. And one of them said, “I got him a quart of whiskey.” And the other one said, “I got him a pack, or a carton of cigarettes,” or something another like that. And they were saying, one give so much more for the whiskey than they did the cigarettes.
35 And I thought, “If that isn’t a way to give a–a… swap or give a present in commemoration of Jesus Christ, the Son of God!” What a death-finding thing it is!

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« 36 † And I see our world in such a sadness as it is now, polluted from every side, not a way in the world for it to ever come back to itself again. We better take heed, what we’re doing in these days. For we have, just now in mourning, of one of the great tragedies, and–and one of the great… We never thought that thing would happen in America, but it’s here anyhow. And our own letting-down on the Gospel, it’s become worm-eaten with such stuff as that, and will get worse. There is no doubt at all, in my mind, but what it’ll just continually getting worse.
37 But we find out, at this Christmas, to get down to the subject, that this Christmas finds the world just about like it did two thousand years ago, when Jesus came. It hasn’t changed very much since then. Cause, this, that Christmas found the world falling apart, and was looking for a Messiah to help hold it together. And–and that’s about the way it is today, we are doing the same thing. The World Is Again Falling Apart.

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« 38 † Now, that’s not only in America here, but that’s all over the world, wherever you go; the religious world, the political world, the everything, the–the world of moral. It–it, there is just no more of it, it’s just… Morals is just amongst the good people, anymore, and that’s very hard to find. It’s–it’s a shame. And politics and everything is corrupted, till the whole thing is sick and putrefied sores, from the head to the feet, the whole world. Our political system, our religious system, our moral system, everything we’ve got, is gone! Just, there is no way to keep it together. She, she is finished! The… We’re at the end of the road. That’s all there is to it.
39 We, I know we talked about it a long time, but one of these days it’s going to be passed talking about, it’s going to be a historical thing, and we’ll find ourself outside if we don’t watch at this time.

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« 40 † I wonder, if we this Christmas, if God should send Him again like He did back there two thousand years ago, if He would send Him to us in 1964, I wonder if we wouldn’t do with Him as they did then? I just wonder if His Coming would be any more, He’d be any more welcomed, in the–in the–in the political world or in the religious world, than He was then? I just wonder if we’re in any more shape to receive Him, as He was then? But we know He was rejected then.
41 What would we do to Him if He come? Perhaps the religious world, that I’m basing this on, would do to Him like it did the other time. They would crucify Him if they could, (they haven’t changed), for the same reason that they did the other time.

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« 42 † Why did they do it, did they crucify the very One they were praying to come on the earth, to save them, to get them out of the chaos? They crucified the only hope that they had. Why? Why did they do it? Because, when God answered their prayer, He answered it in a way that they didn’t expect it to be answered. When He come, He never come in the taste of their theology.
43 And if He come again, today, He would come the same way; out of the taste of the world or the churches’ theology, and the way they would think of Him. He always comes. As God’s people, when they get in trouble, and pray, then God gives them what they pray for, but He gives it in the way that’s good for them. And they refused It, because It don’t come the way they think It should have come. They rejected God’s anointed Word, and He is the Word.

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« 44 † Now, God, in all ages, at all times, when He begin, “When He spoke His Word in sundry times through the prophets, in this last days through Jesus Christ, His Son,” we find out that each one of those prophecies was to suit a certain age. Like King Nebuchadnezzar when he had this dream, and the Gentile world from the head to the feet, and Daniel gave the interpretation of this dream; that was a–a prophecy to the whole world, forever, every section of the Gentile Kingdom, as it would come from the head to the feet. And the prophets has always spoke the Words that should happen along each age. And when God…

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« 45 † The people gets in trouble, and God answers them. He sends them a anointed prophet or some kind of a messenger, because He cannot go back on His Word that He has destined for that age. But, what He does, He sends a messenger to make that part of the Word live to that age. Always does it, see. He formed His Word in the beginning. He knowed the end from the beginning. He spoke His Word. And each age, when they get in trouble, they would… they would pray, and God would send an anointed one. And that anointed one would absolutely make that promise of that age, that was foretold for that age, live. And that’s what He does all the time. God never changes His program. Now, we never find God changing.

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« 46 † God settled it one time, how He would save man, that was in the garden of Eden, under the shed blood. We tried every other system, from fig leaves to education, psychology, denominations of systems, and so forth, and every bit of it has–has been rejected; and it never has worked, it never will work. God will only meet man under the shed Blood, and that’s the only place that He’ll ever meet him, because that was His first decision. He’ll never meet man under any kind of an ethical system. He’ll never, no way in the world! Just come right back to God’s Way, that’s what He said first. And He is infinite, cannot change, and He’s always the same. That’s where He meets man, and there only. That’s the reason we fail to have fellowship today, that’s the reason the church is so separated, because each one is separated in a system, and, when they do that, then God turns them down, right there. He wants us to meet under the Blood, where we have all things in common, down by the Cross. God’s only purpose of doing it! God always sends His Word.

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« 47 † And we find, today, that the world today is just like it was in that day; finding itself, its political system, and so forth, all falling apart, and looking for a messiah that will hold it together.
48 Now, the word messiah means “the anointed one,” something anointed. God! This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, the whole Book was sealed with the Seven Seals of the revelation of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ was in Genesis; Jesus Christ was in the middle of the Book. Jesus Christ was in–in the Exodus and Genesis, and He was in the middle of the Book and He was in the–the New Testament, and in the Revelation and plumb on to the end, “the same yesterday, today, and forever.” It’s all God!

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« 49 † “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.”
50 “God in sundry times and divers manners spake to the fathers through the prophets.” When the Word of the Lord came to the prophets, and them only, because they was anointed with the Word, they had the right to interpret the Word. And God worked through them, proving that the Word was right. “If I the… there be one among you who is spiritual, or a prophet, I the Lord will make Myself known to him. And if what he says comes to pass, then hear him. If it doesn’t come to pass, don’t hear him.” That’s no more than good reasoning, to any man.
51 Now we find ourselves here, in the last days now, when we’re looking for the Coming of the Lord again.

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« 52 † Well remember the old Baptist preacher that baptized me into the Name of Jesus Christ, when I was just a little boy. And he used to discuss this subject with me, about John the Baptist. He said, “Brother Billy,” he said, “when John… When He said, ‘Suffer it to be so,’ and then he suffered Him.” He said, “Then John, baptized… Jesus baptized John, because we know John had never been baptized, and yet he was preaching baptism.” Well, that always kind of stunted me, a little.
53 Then here not long ago, it was revealed to me, at this way, that there met in that pool, in that hole of water, the two greatest messengers the world ever seen: a–a man that was above all the prophets, which was John, “there never was a man born of a woman, as great as he”; and there was God, Himself, manifested in a body of flesh. And remember, and the Bible tells us that, “The Word of the Lord comes to the prophet.” And when the Word was made flesh; here stood the prophet in the water. And the Word and the prophet came together, they knowed one another! Right. The Word Itself, made flesh, incarnate Son of God, came to the prophet, in the water.

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« 54 † Prophet said, “I have need to be baptized of Thee, and why comest Thou to me?”
55 He said, “Suffer that so, for thus it is becoming to us that we fulfill all righteousness.”
56 Notice! John, being a prophet, knowed that He was the Sacrifice. And the sacrifice must be washed before presented for sacrifice. And that’s the reason He had to be baptized.
57 Oh, today, it’s becoming to us, that we fulfill all righteousness of our day. The hour is here. The Bible tells us what’s to be happening in this day. We know what the Bible says will take place in this day. It’s up to us to hold onto God until these things happen. It’s the hour! Pray for the anointed one that will give us the deliverance that we are looking for, because God has promised it.

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« 58 † They rejected God’s anointed Word then, and so it fall, fell apart. And again we find out, at this time, it’s also falling apart again. I find out, as I said, our politics are corrupted, our church life is corrupted. What taken place? Here is what did it; when you get away from, anytime, away from God’s program, you’ll find corruption. It cannot stand. God’s Word is infallible, and there is nothing else will take Its place, never can.

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« 59 † Our educational system, our denominational system, has took the place of the Holy Spirit leading in the church. Our great fine training of ministers and things has taken place of–of the all-night prayer meetings, and the old-time way we used to get to God. Now, instead of having preachers, we got lecturers, men knows the Word just as well, they can sit there and put It together in such a way that it’s astounding how they can do it. They know the mechanics, but that ain’t the Dynamics. We want the Dynamics. I don’t care about the mechanics; I want to know the Dynamics. What does It do?
60 I don’t know how that car runs out there. It’s got pistons and cylinders, and I don’t know how much pressure it used. The only thing I know is the dynamics, put her out there and drive it.
61 That’s what we know, God made the promise, “I’ll pour out My Spirit upon all flesh, your sons and daughters shall prophesy.” How is He going to do it? I can’t tell you. I just want to know the Dynamics of God’s system. That’s the main thing.

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« 62 † Today we’ve studied the mechanics until it’s all mechanical. What good is an automobile without something in it to drive it? What good is the lights if the–if the… or the fixtures, if there is no current to go in it? See, we’ve got all the mechanics, we got schools and educators, and so forth, that can train a man, till he can stand in the pulpit with such manners till he’s an eloquent person. That still don’t bring the Power of God. Where is the Power of God that used to be to the church? Where is that pentecostal Blessing that used to flow through the churches? That’s the reason our world is falling apart, because we’ve got away from the real principles of God, and educated men into systems and things. And that is what’s got us in the condition we are today. I believe that’s the reason our world is falling apart.

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« 63 † These episodes has been on the earth since the days of Noah. We find out when God’s… had Noah, the prophet of righteousness, going forth with his message, there was an episode of immorality in that day, as the Bible said, “Eating, drinking, marrying, given in marriage.” We find out, gluttonous and immorality, and so forth, taken place in that day. And then the world fell apart because the people rejected the message of God, for that day. Noah was a prophet anointed of God, sent of God, with a message from God, and he gave the people a warning before the judgment come. And they snickered and laughed, and made fun of it, and scoffed, and the whole world system fell apart, in that day, and they was drowned beneath the seas. That’s right. Why? They rejected the message of the hour.

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« 64 † We find out the same thing took place in Egypt, when Moses led the children of Israel out. The whole Egyptian system had become corrupt. And we find now it taken place again, when God sent an anointed messenger down there for His Word. It was to fulfill His Word.
You say, “Was it to fulfill His Word?”
65 He told Abraham that’s exactly what He would do. And there had to be someone come on the scene, at that time, to make that Word live right before them. God had sent His Moses down there, and, the very thing that He promised to do, he did it, because he was the anointed Word for that hour. He said it would judge that world. God’s Word said, “I’ll judge that nation with great, mighty wonders and signs.”

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« 66 † There stood a man, just an ordinary man like you or I, got the Word from God, and went out there and spoke creation into existence. Said, “Let…” Picked up the sand, and said, “Let fleas come from the earth.” And the Word of God, through that prophet’s mouth, being it was right in the hour that it was supposed to be, fleas covered the whole earth. He covered the earth with frogs, with lice. He covered it with all kinds of–of pestilence and things. Because, God made the promise, and the hour was there for it to be anointed, the anointed Word for that hour that they live in.
67 That’s what we need today, is not back in some seminary system, but anointed Word for the hour that we live in, to bring forth Jesus Christ to the world again. “The same yesterday, today, and forever.” There is a–there is a program laid out for this day, a promise of God. And the only way that we’ll ever be able to get right, is to let that Word be anointed. That’s right. It’s always happened. Yes.

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« 68 † We find out the great moral pollution in the days of Nebuchadnezzar. He had a man anointed. When the hand writing come on the wall, He had a man could read it.
69 Days of Lot and Sodom, we find again the world falling apart. God saved what could be saved, out of it.
70 In the days of Jesus Christ, we find out that man-made systems had got the world in such a condition, and their politics of that day, until, they, the whole world was falling apart, at the first Christmas.
71 Now we’ve done the same thing, turned right back around and corrupted the Word of God, by systematic religion, till we find it falling apart. What one of them systems can we rely upon now? What system can we go to, the Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, or Pentecostal system? There is nothing at all we can do but come back to that anointed Word of the promise for this hour. These systems are frail, they’re faltery. They, they’re, they’re man-made systems, and they will not save you. There is no Life in them. Only Life is in the Word of God. It is Life. He said so.
72 And the way it was then, as they were praying, people finds themselves at the end of their journey, or the end of their ropes, as it was in the days of Noah and the days of Moses, and so forth. When they find themselves, that they can’t go no farther, then they begin to pray. And when they begin to pray, God always answers. Then Jesus was born.

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« 73 † The world at that time, as I said, was falling apart. Each nation was looking for a messiah, just as we are today. Rome was looking for a great genius who could come among them, a–a great fellow who had all the military gimmicks, that he could go over there and stomp out Greece and the rest of the world. Greece was looking for the same thing, somebody who could tell them how they could conquer the rest of the world.
74 The Jewish religious world of that day was looking for a general. They thought there would come a Messiah down from Heaven, with a great rod of iron in his hands, and He would beat Rome down, stomp them off and run them into the sea. And all there, they was looking for that type of a man. They wanted a general.

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« 75 † Like a whole lot like our denominations of today, our denominations are looking for a superman. Our nation is looking for a superman. Russia is looking for a superman. The eastern world is looking for one. The U.N. is looking for one. The churches are looking for one. But what kind of a one are they looking for?
76 Russia is looking for a messiah that’s anointed with–with brains that he knows how to conquer outer space for them, beat everybody to the moon. They want to conquer the world. That’s just…

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« 77 † But, you see, when they ask these things, and ask for this, they don’t ask as Jesus said. We try to make God like a–like an errand boy, “Lord, You do this for me! And You do this for me! And You go do that,” tell Him what to do.
78 Jesus said, “When you pray, pray like this manner, ‘Our Father Who Art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thine will be done.'” Who, find where we do that? We’re always wanting God to run errands for us, or do something for us. But when we’re willing to say, “Thy will be done,” commit ourselves to Him, commit our ways to Him. All that we are, commit it to Him. That’s when God will move, when you’re willing to let Him work on you, not you work on Him.
79 Let Him tell you, not you tell Him and twist it around. “Come to our system, O Lord God, make all of us Methodist, all of us Pentecostal, rule over the rest of them. We want a genius, we Pentecostal people, we Methodist and Baptist.” We got seminaries, building great big ones, saying, “The–the end of time is at hand, the Coming of the Lord,” building millions of dollars worth of seminaries, and so forth. Trying to what? Get us a messiah. That’s right.
80 Let the Lord raise up something out somewhere, every denomination gets them one of the same kind. That’s exactly. Find out. Watch when Divine healing struck, how many Divine healers? Every one had to be a Divine healer.
81 There was one Moses in the days of that come-out. There was one Elijah, one Elisha, one Isaiah, so forth.

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« 82 † Now we find out that the world wants their own messiah. Russia want theirs, and United States wants theirs, the church world wants theirs. Each one wants their own messiah, but they want it in the way that–that they can control it. They want to have control over this messiah. Oh, sure. Yeah, they, if they could have. If God would send it in their own taste, they certainly would accept it. But you see, then, God knew their needs. He, He’s not promised to send us our wants and what we ask for, but our needs.
83 They wanted a general; they got a Baby. See, that’s what they needed. They needed a baby (what?) to humiliate them, to humble them.

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« 84 † That’s what the self-styled church needs today, humble itself back again. Got to a place, there is no confession and there is no love among the people. It seems like it’s dying daily. Church is cooling off. Everywhere, you find the revival is over, and you find a cooling off. We need a humiliating. And we…
85 They asked for a general; and got a Lamb. Why? That’s, God knew what they needed. That’s what they needed. They needed a Saviour. They thought they was saved, but God knew they wasn’t.
86 And that’s what the world needs today, again, is a Saviour, a Saviour of this condition, something that can hold it together. Not an educated regime, some kind of a mechanical system, or some kind of an educational system. What we need is the Power of the Lord Jesus Christ, and saving grace, back in the church again, when men, women, boys, and girls, can be saved.
87 Have we waited too long? Is there many out that will never come in? Has the last name been redeemed? Is that what’s the matter today? It could be, you know. You know, it–it could easily be, and never interrupt the Scriptures, at all. It could be. So, we don’t know now, let’s be careful.

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« 88 † But they thought they was saved, and–and, but God knowed better than they did. And the same thing happens today.
89 They had took the Word that God had give them for that day, that they ought to have knowed the day that He was coming, and had made a tradition out of It. Jesus said, “You’ve taken the Word of God and made It of no effect, by your traditions.”
90 That’s the same thing that’s happened today in our systematic, religious systematic world. The systems of the world has took the Word of God and made It traditional. And that’s the reason It hasn’t got any effect in It. There is nothing will come out of It, because It’s been mixed up.
91 You can’t put genuine corn in something that won’t, ‘less it’s earth, and it won’t grow. You can lay it in the sun and keep it warm, you can do what you want to, but it takes a certain kind of earth. It must be in there. It must be buried. It must be under the right atmosphere, to make it bring forth.

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« 92 † And so does the Word of God! You can’t take a church and bring it to life, on some tradition. You might bring members, by the millions, but you’ll never bring down the Power of God until we get back to the original Word again, back to the foundational Word, back to the Blood, back to the–the Jesus Christ, back to the old-fashion prayer meetings, and back to God! We may be so far gone, now, that the hour is far passed. But, anyhow, the Gospel must be preached. We’re not to judge that.
93 God knew what they had need of, so He gave them what they had need of. So again, we find, what they had, we have done the same thing.

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« 94 † Russia and all the rest of them wants theirs. And the different scientists wants to make themselves a great name. Each nation wants to get its brainy man. We want ours. We want the educational system in it. We want a denominationalism. That’s just exactly what we got. That’s what you did. That’s what you wanted, that’s what God gave you. Now what you going to do with it after you got it?
95 We’re talking about Russia for another minute. The Russians are calling for a man who can conquer space. They’re training them as fast as they can, their scientists. What if they get one, what if they get their messiah, what we going to do? And mercy on us if they get it! Remember, Germany just got such a messiah not long time, not very long ago, a Hitler. And we know what it done to them.

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« 96 † Now what about the church, what kind of a messiah is the church looking for, today? You, the church, has cried the loudest. So, what we hollering about a messiah, what are we hollering? “Revival in our time! Back this, that, and the other.” What are they looking for, to do it? What more do you want? What does the church want, anyhow?
97 We’ve already got It! God gave It to us. It’s His promise for this hour. We look in the Bible, we see it everywhere through the Bible. Anointed ones come on and made that Word live again, right in the hour for that hour. And we’ve got the Messiah. This is Him, the Word! “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” And the Word remains God, Hebrews 13:8, “The same yesterday, today, and forever.” We know what is supposed to take place in this day. We’re wanting a Messiah. And God gave us the Messiah, His promised Word for this day. It’s just waiting for somebody with faith, to anoint It and make It live again. Yes, sir. It’s a real Messiah, It’s the Word of God’s. Which, Jesus said, “Both heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall never pass away.”

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« 98 † But the church sits spiritually dead, gone, the hour has passed them. They’re in a slump, and hardly know what to do, one running this way and one that way. And here every promise that God made in the Bible, every one of them, is laying there just as good as they ever was. It’s the hour! What makes the church like this? We’re in the age of the Laodicea, when she has to come this way. This is the hour for it.

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« 99 † But remember, in there is the hour that the sleeping virgin come to buy Oil, and that was the same hour that the Bridegroom come. We find today, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and different denominations, that, a few years ago, you couldn’t have hired to got around a bunch of Pentecostal believers. Certainly not. But there they are, today, coming in. Don’t you know what Jesus said? They come in to buy Oil, and said, “Give us some of your Oil.” The ones that had Oil, said, “Not so. Go buy It, lest… from them that sell It.” And while they were trying to buy It, while they were trying to get It! Do you know what hour we’re living in, Pentecostal people? When they come, they might have got a confusion, they might have done this, that, or the other; but, according to the Scriptures, they did not get It. While they were trying to do it, they might have went through all the emotions, and then in all the isms and the sensations, but the Devil can impersonate all those things. While they were buying It, or trying to get It, the Bridegroom came, and the ones that had Oil went in.

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« 100 † And there is the hour we’re living. We never seen it before. Jesus said it would be so, then it’s so! What are we seeing? We’re seeing the Word, that God said would happen in this day, happen right under our faces. “Oh, then awake, ye saints of the Lord, why slumber when the end is nearing; let’s get ready for that final call,” for we don’t know when it will be. Yes.
101 Our world system, our church system, our denominational system, all of our systems, are polluted and corrupted. What we lack today is what they had yesterday. That’s right. It seems like a drying out, of the churches, hardly can find a church anymore that’s alive with the Word and with the Spirit of God, and great things taking place like it was not long ago.

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« 102 † Now, we find out that God knows what they had need of, so He–He always answers a promise. It’s just this great Word that we see, a promise, they ought to have knowed that it was just exactly what God promised, that would take place in that day.
You say, “How, what was to take place?”
103 Isaiah 9:6, the prophet said, “Unto us a Child is born, the Son, a Child; a Son is born, a Child is given: and His Name shall be called ‘Counsellor, Prince of Peace, the Mighty God, Everlasting Father’; and the government shall be upon His shoulders, and of His Kingdom there will be no end.”

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« 104 † We know that we was to have a Child born in that day, a virgin should conceive and bring a Child. And It didn’t come through any of their systems, therefore they didn’t want nothing to do with It. They rejected It. But the anointed Word, God (Emmanuel) made flesh among them, stood there, He said, “Which one of you can accuse Me of sin, unbelief? Search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have Eternal Life, and they are they that testify of Me.” He was thoroughly identified that He was the Messiah, the Messiah to take place in that day. And the systems had–had messed the people’s mind up, in so many systematic rules, and so forth, till they had made the Word of God of no effect. They couldn’t see He was the Messiah.

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« 105 † And as it did it then, so has it done it again. Right. The systematics of the world, the mechanics, has got the pistons where the–where the exhaust pipe ought to be, in their big mechanics. And therefore how can it run? It can’t do it. Wasn’t built that way.
106 The Church cannot run without the Power of God, through the Word. And the Holy Ghost will only confirm the Word of God, for that’s what It’s to do. The anointing is to confirm the Word.
107 And Jesus was the Anointed One, the Word made flesh. That’s the reason He walked out into the water there, He was the Word coming to the prophet. He was baptized by the prophet. And the prophet then raised up, and said, “I must decrease; He shall increase.” We find that that’s God’s way of doing it.
108 But did they receive It? They should have knowed It. They should have watched the acts of God. They seen the Word fulfilled. They knowed the Scriptures said it, but they couldn’t believe It would come like that. It had to come either to the Pharisees or the Sadducees. If it come to the Pharisees, the Sadducees would not have received It. Vice versa, the–the Sadducees wouldn’t receive It, because they said the Pharisees would have It.

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« 109 † And that’s just the way it is today, our systems, and the whole thing was rotten and polluted. Oh, my! The hour that we’re now living, blinded world, walking in darkness, stooped in the systems of this world, like sheep without a shepherd. When they’ve had the Word of the living God vindicated before them, and walked right away blindly, and leave It, how can you expect anything else? Amen. There we are.
110 Then, the world is falling apart. Why? The very Word that bound it together has been rejected. We find that in Hebrews, 11th chapter.

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« 111 † Einstein said. I was listening to a lecture of him, here the other night, New York City, that he made one of his last lectures. He was talking about a constellation, a little galaxy, it was, out in the constellation. He said, “If a man started through space, traveling at a speed of light…” What is that, eight thousand… [Someone says, “Hundred and eighty-six thousand.”–Ed.] A hundred and eighty-six thousand miles per second. “It would take him a hundred, take him a hundred and fifty million light years to get there.” He found Eternity. Then said, “To come back, it would take him another hundred and fifty million years, which would be three hundred million years. And the space, that he was gone from the earth, would only be fifty years.” There you are, broke into Eternity! Oh, my! The greatness of God, when He made the whole solar system!

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« 112 † And this astronaut, the other day, flying around over Russia there, and said he “seen no God, Angels.” How ignorant can people be! When…
113 God! And the whole solar system, He blowed it off His hands; and He sits so many million years, light years, beyond that. And the whole thing is upheld by His Power and His Word. Hallelujah! Every star has to hang to its place. Yes, sir! Then, was humble enough to come down and be made one of us, to die for us; we’re without excuse. If one of them stars would happen to move from its sockets, from its orbit where it’s at, if that would move, it would affect the whole system. The whole system must turn exactly the same, for one depends on the other.

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« 114 † And God’s system, when it’s in perfectly harmony with Him, the whole thing works perfect. That’s right, because it has to.
115 But the church never took God’s system, it made a system of its own. That’s the reason we’re all out of harmony. That’s the reason the church is so scrupled. That’s the reason the world is falling apart today, because we’ve adopted our own systems. That’s the reason the political world is apart. That’s the reason the religious world has fell apart, is because we’ve adopted a system instead of taking God’s Eternal plan for the ages. Amen. That’s what’s the matter with the world. That’s exactly what’s wrong, is because they’ve adopted something else. It’s got the people so, “I’m Presbyterian. I’m Methodist. I’m Oneness. I’m Threeness. I’m…” Oh, mercy! No wonder we can’t hold together, there ain’t nothing to hold us together.

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« 116 † Mr. Nixon made the brightest remark I’ve heard any president or a vice-president make in the last few years, when he said the other day, “What’s the matter with American people, they’ve lost love and respect for one another.” As American citizens shooting one another down, in the street, how can we? My!
117 If you can’t different with a man, and love him the same time, then shut up. If you can’t tell him, like a daddy correcting his child, with a willing arm to put it around his neck and hug him afterwards, you better leave it alone. You haven’t went far enough, yourself, to know what you’re talking about. Right. I can differ with a man, certainly; still he is my brother, I’ll hold his hand. I can’t let him get by with that; if I do, if I didn’t tell him, I wouldn’t be the correct brother to him. That’s correct. But I can tell him, and tell him I love him, and prove it to him, I love him.

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« 118 † You don’t have to shoot him down, in the street. I differ with Mr. Kennedy and–and his politics, and his religion, and so forth, but he didn’t deserve that. No, sir. No, indeedy. No man deserves that.
119 So, we find out the whole world is corrupted. Our nation, politics, religious systems, and everything, it’s corrupted.
120 It’s just waiting. The Word of God, that was prophesied for this day, is waiting for somebody to come by and vindicate It. Wonder if He has already done it? Then where we at then if He had done it? If He’s done it, then where we at? Most miserable!

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« 121 † I said a hard thing about Mrs. Kennedy, a couple times, about her setting fashions for the world, with these water-head haircuts, and, “How our sisters and them cut their hair, and dress like Mrs. Kennedy,” I said, “like a Jezebel of old.” That’s true. I believe that. I–I–I feel sorry for the little mother there tonight, with her children, exactly.
122 But let me ask you something. If Jacqueline Kennedy would have heard the Messages that some of you Pentecostal has, about bobbing your hair and things, she might not even had bobbed hair. You’re supposed to be pentecostal, and you still do it! Uh-huh. Uh-huh. She might not do it if she had had the opportunity and heard the Message, see, you’ve heard. There you are. We’re in a bad place, folks. That’s exactly right. Yes, indeed. O God, how the morals, the thing…

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« 123 † Womanhood is one of the thing that holds our nation together. It’s the backbone. And womanhood, the fine virtue that God give for a woman to be mother, why, it’s–it’s–it’s gone. Long ago has the–has the–the–the women of this world, the virtue of them, bowed to a Hollywood fashion goddess; patterning themselves, and dressing themselves, and acting as some of these Hollywood stars does. And many times that even ungodly dressing, sex appeal, is regarded as fashions in the churches. And the pastors behind the pulpit, with not the–not the audacity, not the–the strength of the Holy Spirit; like a Lot sitting down there, vexing his soul, and in too much of a meal ticket to tell the people that it’s wrong. Yeah.

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« 124 † What we need today is a rooting out. We may root out too late now. The hour might be passed. We never have another revival. I know you’re looking for it, but I don’t see it in the Scripture.
125 I look for a Rapture, for just a handful of people. That’s right, just a handful of people. They’ll never be missed in the world. When they go, you’ll never know it’s gone. That’s right. It’ll come like a thief in the night.

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« 126 † And if He don’t cut the work short, for the Elected sake! There is some elected to Eternal Life, we know that; all of them are, that’s got Eternal Life. And if they–and if they… or then He don’t cut it short, for their sake, no flesh will be saved. The world has met its doom, every two thousand years. We know the system has fell apart. It fell apart in the days of Noah. Days of Christ, it fell apart. And here is 1964 coming up, what does it leave? Thirty-six years to another two thousand; the twenty-first, twenty-first century coming up. What happens? The work still has got to be cut short. Jesus said, the–the corruption of this day, “The elected would be deceived and wouldn’t be saved, if it would be possible.” There we are. And the calendar tells us, according to science, that we’re about fifteen years off of that. We’re behind on the Roman calendar, according to the Jewish calendar, that we’re fifteen, twenty years behind on that.
127 So where are we at? We see nations breaking, and Israel awakening, the signs that this Bible foretold for this day. We see the mechanical things taking place. Now the Spirit, the dynamics of that promised Word, to get into His Church and drive them into Calvary yonder, and to the Rapture! And there we are.

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« 128 † No wonder we’re falling apart, there is nothing… The very Thing that created the earth, the very Thing was put here for the earth to turn on, the very Thing that systems and everything else was to revolve around, this Word that, by God, framed the world. Einstein said in his, said, “There is only one explaining of the Scripture… Only one explaining for this world being in existence,” said, “that is Hebrews 11, ‘By faith we understand the Word of… by the Word of God, that the worlds were framed together by the Word of God.'” That’s all. There is no one can tell how it hangs there in the air, and how it can turn around and make its twenty-four hours around the equator, so forth like that, and around its orbit, everywhere, and come back to the same spot and never miss a second. And every star turning in its cycle like that, and helping one another as they go around.

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« 129 † How that moon watches down there upon that sea! If that moon ever moved out of its place, we would be covered over with a hundred foot of water, in just a second, or two. That moon! Watch, even you could drill a hole here, you people drilling oil, drill down here. See how far the coast is from you? You drill a hole down here in the ground, and watch in the evening time, how the tide comes in, it’ll bring the water up in your pipe, your salt water. Certainly. What is it? That moon controls it, yonder.
130 It’s God’s system. It’s God’s plan. It’s God’s Commandment. But, we make our own, we won’t take His. Let’s hurry now, as to get through. Like then, is the same this Christmas, we do find our world falling apart. Oh!

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« 131 † God got anointed, and He promised His Word. He anointed us back there, and He told us, told them, “When He anointed Jesus Christ…” Peter said on the Day of Pentecost, he said, “Jesus Christ, a Man approved of God among you by signs and wonders, which He did in the midst of you; you yourself know.” They’re witnesses. Also said, “After the resurrection, and so forth, how He had done! How by wicked hands you took the Prince of Life and crucified, Who God raised up; and we are witnesses.” How Nicodemus came and said, “Rabbi, we know. We Pharisees, the Sanhedrin Courts up there, we know that You’re a Teacher sent from God. No man could do the things that You do unless it be of God.” They knowed that promise was for there, and they knowed it was, but their systems had them so tied till they couldn’t do nothing about it.

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« 132 † So is it today, the very same thing. You can’t do it, you’ll give up your fellowship card the first time you do it. You just mark out there on that Word of God sometime, see what happens; you are finished. You won’t be popular. You’ll be kicked out from among them, and everything else.
133 Oh, if you got a little ministry, they’ll hold you for what money they can, draw a crowd in off of your ministry, pull money and things. But just watch when it comes to the Word, watch them how they back up on That. You think a servant of God don’t know that? Well, Jesus even knowed that Judas was among Him. Why didn’t Jesus say something to Judas? The same reason it is today, you have to wait till that hour comes for that deceiving. That’s right. They got it. They’ll get it.

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« 134 † Notice, but they didn’t want the way that He came, so is it today. The churches then wanted their systems anointed. The Pharisees wanted the Phariseeic system anointed, the Sadducee wanted the Sadducee system, Herodians so, so forth. That’s the way today. If they’ll… If God will send an anointing, and anoint the Oneness, oh, my, wouldn’t they tell the Twoness about it, or a Threeness, or whatever it is? Wouldn’t the Assemblies tell the Oneness about it? “I told you we were right!” The Methodist would tell the Baptist, “O boy, see, we got her!” You are wanting your system anointed.
135 But God only promised to anoint His Word. Amen! I know that is scorchy, but that’s what is Truth. God never changes. He anoints His Word. Yes, sir. The anointed, promised Word for that age is what God anoints. The promised Word for that age!

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« 136 † Today they want an educational system, (why?) so they can do anything they want to, and still hold their Christian profession. Oh, if they got a great big something, where you can go in, go down the lines, and things, and chew chewing gum, and–and kick one another in the side; and go out and have the recreation halls and things, where you all go out and play basketball and things like that. I ain’t got nothing against basketball, baseball, football, or whatever it is, a big… if that’s all your god is, is a big bag of air. But let me tell you, what we need today is the Word of God, anointed for this age, that will bring forth the Power of the Holy Ghost again. Yes, that’s all right, but that don’t belong in the church. No, sir. Have to build something like that, to keep the church together, you had better burn it down or kick it out, or get something in there that will bring the Word back again. And that’s the things of the world, oh, mixing it with the Word of God, you cannot do it. No, sir.

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« 137 † Yes, sir, now they are wanting a system. The world will take a system. Now we find out, each little system in its own, each one of them says, “I want It to come to me. I want It to come to mine.” Oh, they’re getting great machines, and educating preachers, and things like that, and bringing them out, hatching them out, boy, with intellectual; till, my, a fellow feels his words, his grammar, is so bad, he hate to even go in the pulpit behind one. But what we need today is not educational system, it’s not lectionaries.
138 What we need today is the Gospel handled by the Power of God, to vindicate the Word of this hour, to where will come somebody who will stand up and call black “black,” and white “white,” somebody that will stand up and tell the Truth, whether It takes the hide off or shucks you down, or what It does. That’s exactly what the–what the hour calls for, today.

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« 139 † But the people want something. The people today, women, what do they want? They want a–a–a people, a pastor, who will stand up and say, “It’s all right. You can do this, or do that. Or, that’s all right, there is nothing wrong with that, dear.” That preacher needs a Gospel whipping; let bobbed hair, wear paint.
No, you say, “What does that got to do with It?”
140 Don’t you know the outside of you reflects what is on the inside? Don’t the Bible say you shouldn’t do that? “It’s not even common for a woman to pray like that.”

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« 141 † And you man want something like that? Preachers, you can’t say it, because you’ll give up your fellowship card, the big council will kick you out if you say something about it. God help a man that would think more of a council card or a fellowship card than he would the baptism of the Holy Spirit, with the Word! How can the Holy Ghost, that wrote the Bible, deny what He wrote?
142 “Well, the days of miracles, oh, we don’t need that today. Divine healing, these other things, that, there is no such thing. That’s fortune-telling, that’s, oh, mental telepathy.” You, poor, degraded, what’s the matter with you? We need–need the Gospel, if the Holy Ghost is in you!

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« 143 † If I told you, “The life of Beethoven was in me,” I could write music. If Beethoven lived in me, I’d live Beethoven’s life. If Shakespeare was in me, I could compose poetry. I could write plays, if Shakespeare lived in me.
144 And if Jesus Christ lives in you, the works that He did, and His Word, He is the Word, will confirm Itself this day, by the very promise that He give. Amen. That’s what God is waiting for. That’s what holds the world, apart, what holds the world together, the religious world together, is His Word, hold any of the Word together. Yeah.

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« 145 † The people wants that kind of a system, though. They’re going to get it. They are already in it, right now. The World Council of Churches will give them just what they want, every one of them together. How these Pentecostals can sit in these conventions, and get in the Vatican City and write a circulated letter, and say, “The most spiritual thing I ever said, when I set beside Holy Father Pope So-and-so,” and be a Pentecostal and know how… It’s a dead Pentecostal movement. The whole thing is dead. It’s corrupted. It’s gone! It’s right back in the Confederation of Churches where it belongs. Exactly right.

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« 146 † But the Church of the living God, that Bride, moves right on just the same. And She’ll go in the Rapture, by the Word, that’s right, the Word and the Word will come together. If we’re a part of Christ, part of It, we have to be His Word, ’cause He is the Word. Right. Yes, sir.

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« 147 † They have refused the anointed Word of promise, of this age, and He is always the Word. If God sent us an anointed, promised Word again, for this age, in 1946, He would be the same He was when He come in the beginning, the anointed Word for the age. Hebrews 13:8 throws it right back in your lap, and says, “He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” That’s exactly right. And we… And He would stay with the Father’s promised Word for this age. If Jesus comes, He would be just exactly what the Word said It would be in this age.

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« 148 † That’s what Elijah was in his age. That’s what Moses was in his age. That’s what Noah was in his age. That’s what, everywhere, every prophet ever come. And the–the Word, when It come in fulness, the entire Word made flesh among us, It did just exactly what It said It would do in that age.
149 If It come today, He would be just exactly Jesus Christ living out His promise of what He promised to do, just as the Word.
150 He was the Word. Isaiah 9:6 is Jesus Christ. And when It was made flesh and dwelt among us, It lived just exactly what It did. Moses said over there, in the Book of Exodus, “The Lord your God,” or Deuteronomy, “the Lord your God shall raise up a prophet, likened unto me; and it shall come to pass, whoever will not hear Him, will be cut off from amongst the–the people.” And when He come, He did just exactly what the Word said He would do. And they found fault with Him, because their systems had cut It off and made the Word of God non-effective to them. See? They couldn’t believe such things as That. They couldn’t believe those kind of things, because it was passed the time, they thought. Oh!

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« 151 † For, He has proven His Word to be the same. He would vindicate the Word today, as He vindicated It then. He would condemn, fiercely, every denominational system in the world, if He come on the earth today. That’s what He did, the first place. That would be the thing He would hit. That’s exactly what He hit when He come the first place. As He did then, so would they do for this time, too. And He did then, for He never changes His Word. He never changes His system. It’s always the same, It’s the anointed Word each time, for the age. That’s right.
152 So again, as we find it today, if He come, His plans for holding the world together would be rejected just like it was then.

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« 153 † But listen, in closing, I want to say this. We are not promised a system, we are not promised a denomination, a super denomination, a super plan of some sort. But we are promised the Kingdom, an Eternal Kingdom. Amen. That’s what we are promised, having Eternal Life in this Eternal Kingdom. And the Government is controlled by the Eternal King, His Eternal Word given out to His people that has Eternal Life. And the Eternal Life people feast not upon the things of the world, but it’s written, that, “Man shall live by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.” So when we both now… We receive this Kingdom, and we find out that, “Both heaven and earth will pass away, but this Word shall never pass away.” And this Word is the Kingdom. This is the King and Kingdom, the System, the Life, it’s every bit right in Here.

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« 154 † If God judges His world by a church, which church is He going to judge it by? How many is there? Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of different denominational churches. If the Catholic is right, which Catholic? If the Greek Catholic is right, then the Roman is wrong. If the Roman is right, the Greek’s wrong. So, you see, if the Methodist is right, the Baptist is wrong. If the Baptist is right, the–the Pentecostal is wrong. If the Pentecostal is right, then the Presbyterian is wrong. See? So you would be all so confused.

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« 155 † But God hasn’t left us without any witness or any–any–any standard that we should stand by. That’s this Word! He said, “Let every man’s word be a lie, and Mine be the Truth.” That’s right.
156 For, “Both heavens and earth will pass away.” We’re told here, that, “We receive a Kingdom that cannot be moved.” Yes, sir. When all these worldly kingdoms are falling now, and the whole world falling apart, yet we are baptized into a Kingdom that cannot be moved. Amen. We receive a Kingdom. So, when the world falls apart, we are borned into this Kingdom that cannot fall apart. It’s God’s Eternal Word, and we stand on that. It can never fall apart.

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« 157 † We so hear so much about this new system going to bring, the religious system, you know, going to bring peace upon the earth, when the Catholic and all the Protestants unite together. Some of them believe in Divine healing, some don’t believe, and some believe this, and some believe that. And you have to forfeit your big fuss you been fussing about all the time, your evangelical belief, to get into the World Council. And every denomination will have to come in there. So, if denomination is cursed, and to belong into it, what does it do? It throws you right back. If Rome is the mother of denomination, and she is the beast and the mark of the beast, then they made an image unto it, council, the churches all together make an image to the beast, so right straight back to the mark of the beast again! The system of the world, denominationalism, has brought up a system to bring the mark of the beast.

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« 158 † And you see it as well as I see it, that right now it’s going to be forced, that, all that’s not in that already set in order, the big machine sitting there; the mechanics is there waiting for Satan to get into it, with the dynamics. See? And, when it does, no man can preach the Gospel, no man, without belonging to this system. There is the mark of the beast. And remember, at that time, the Bride is gone, so you see how close it is. All right, so you see where we’re at.
159 You can see what: this great slump, these things they’re going on about. “Oh, wake, ye saints of the Lord, why slumber when the end is nearing?” Why do you do it? Sometime you sin away your day of grace. Don’t you never do that. Yes, sir.

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« 160 † Now, this system will not bring about a world peace. If that will bring about a world peace, what happened to the Prince of Peace that was the Word? It’s antichrist in its teaching. It’s against exactly what God stood for, what He told us. “These signs shall follow them that believe,” they believe that’s nonsense. Acts 2:38 is another thing, to them, they know nothing about. All the Word, and so forth, they know nothing about That, and they deny It. Fulfills exactly what the prophet said in II Timothy, the 3rd chapter, “They’d be heady, high-minded, having a form of godliness, and would deny the Power thereof, in the last days.”

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« 161 † That denominational system is the mark of the beast. You’ve knowed. If you never heard me say it before, that’s the reason I’ve racked it so hard. Because now I think the time is just about finished, so might as well let it come forth and tell the Truth about it. There she is. That’s the marking of the beast, exactly. Rome was the beast, and she was denomination, the first organization.
162 And we come out of her, we Pentecostal people, to not be partakers of it; and turned right back, “like a dog to its vomit, and a hog to its wallow,” right back in. No wonder our Pentecostal system is done, and so is the Methodist’s, Baptist’s, World Council of Churches, and all! They’re being swallowed up in the Council of Churches, making a mark or–or an image unto the beast, to give it its power. “And it had a head wounded unto death, and then live,” pagan Rome to papal Rome. Oh, my, how blind has Protestants been! And here you are, right now sitting right in the midst of it. And there is nothing you can do now. The system is done formed. They’ll take it and don’t know they’ve took it. They’ll just be in there, that’s all. They can’t get out of it. It’s already done.

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« 163 † It’s not foreign to people, though. It’s been preached. Remember, God give a witness of it, vindicated it by His Word. The things that He said He would do, He did it just exactly. So, it’s without excuse. Yes.
164 It’s a false mechanics. It’s brought about things just exactly what Jesus did, “You by your traditions has made the Word of God of no effect.” For rejecting that true Word, they’re right back in the same thing again, their teachings and the same thing like they was in the beginning, and, that against Christ, teaching the Word to believers in this age and tell them to–to reject and to turn down.

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« 165 † When God made His Word flesh among His people, in the age of Jesus Christ, at the first Christmas, what did the Phariseeic moves and all them denominations? Said, “Don’t you even go to one of them meetings. If you do, you’ll be excommunicated when you do it.”
166 Don’t you see how things repeated right back again? “Who is this Man? What school did He come from? What fellowship card does He have? What group does He have? Whence cometh this Man?” As, He come today like He did then. “We’ll not have this Man rule over us. We’ll not have nobody tell us what to do. We are Oneness. We are Threeness. We are Presbyterians. We are this. We don’t have to put up with It!”
167 I know you don’t, but you’ll either take the Word or perish! That’s all. That’s no other way but That, but That’s what holds us together. God’s Kingdom is not a kingdom of this, it’s not, God’s Kingdom is not a system of this world. Jesus said so. Jesus said, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If it was, My delegates would fight.” He is the Word.

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« 168 † We’re like Abraham. Abraham received the Word. And anything was contrary to the Word, he called it as if it wasn’t. And any true born child of God receives God’s Word, and, I don’t care what anybody says, what system speaks against that Word, the Word is true, anyhow.
169 God is obligated to meet you on the basis of them promises. Outside of them promises, He can’t meet you, because you done cut yourself off from Him. That’s the reason our world is falling apart. In closing, we might say this.
170 Anything that’s contrary to It, it’s though it wasn’t. Such a man-made system, we never look at that. No, sir. Being then baptized into this Kingdom, we are now sitting in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus, oh, my, with our anointed King with us; feasting on His Kingdom, promised Word anointed and vindicated right among us. Amen. Whew! There it is, His Kingdom promise made right before us, nothing can turn you from It. No, sir.

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« 171 † Abraham, though his wife old, and him getting older all the time, didn’t bother him a bit. He never staggered at the promise of God, through unbelief. No matter how much you say, “It’s impossible. He can’t get by with it,” he stayed with It, anyhow. Because why? The King was with him, showing him the visions and showing him what would come to pass, and it happened just like He said, and he knowed that was God.
172 And when God makes a promise and you see it, and He tells it and it happens, and tells it and it happens, and tells, it happens, and it never fails, it’s God for the day. Oh, feasting on these Heavenly promises of His promised Word for this age, oh, knowing, with an absolute assurance of faith, that there is coming a new heavens and a new earth. Amen. “A new heaven and a new earth, for this first heaven and first earth will pass away.” But in this new heaven and new earth, Paul said over here in the Book of Hebrews, the twenty-… 14:25, he said, “For we receive a Kingdom that cannot be moved.” How did we get into it? Not by a religious system; but, a Kingdom of God is within you. The Kingdom! The King and His Word is the same, and It’s within you, vindicating the hour that we’re now living in. The promise that God made for this age, here we are, living with the King, sitting in Heavenly places, watching Him doing these things.
173 And how can we turn from that Word, to some system? What does it do? It denies the Word. You have to receive to reject Truth, before you can have an error. That is exactly right. Do you believe that? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]

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« 174 † The hour that we’re living, O God, the world is falling apart! There hangs in the hangars, bombs, there hangs the thing to do just exactly.
175 The Church is ready. She is sealed in, ready to come. There will be a big outpouring of the Spirit, yes, sir, to grab that Church and take Her into the skies. Exactly. Because, see, the Church, the Word, the Bride… And, Christ, His ministry is in His Bride, which is His Body, the celestial Body, or I mean to say, the–the supernatural Body of His here on the spiritual body on earth, His Spirit is in there living His Life right out, until Him and the Church becomes one in the wedding. See, they become one. He takes them, just a little minority in the last days.

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« 176 † And then all those virgins that has slept, down through the age, they all rose, you see. Now, that is on the seventh watch, the seventh church age, the last, end time, the Laodicea, at the end, when just a little group of them went in. But, it brings all the resurrection of all those who died in their ages, living to that Word that was ordained of God and preached to happen in that day, as we went through those church ages and seen exactly the Word that would meet them in that time; how Luther raised up, how we find out, in Luther age, went forth the beast like a man’s face on it, and went forth, which was a “reformer,” meaning man. And, when, all ages, each one met just exactly to the requirements of God’s Word.

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« 177 † And so will this age meet exactly to the sign and wonder and thing that God promised to do in this last days. And the Church Itself will be ready and will go in the Rapture with Jesus, because, “We receive a Kingdom that cannot be shaken. It cannot be moved. Heavens and earth will pass away, but this Kingdom shall never pass away.” Amen. I’m glad to be, tonight, amen, tonight, in that Kingdom. Aren’t you happy to be in It? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Oh, my, to be in a Kingdom, That!
178 Just think, what could you promise yourself today? In another ten to fifteen years, if the world shall stand, if it does stand that, every man in Shreveport, every woman, you’ll have to pack a gun, on the street, with you, in your pocket, to protect yourself. The hoodlums! How you going to stop it? Try it. Well, the whole…

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« 179 † I was in New York, the other week. And went down through there, for miles, was nothing but these teen-age hoodlums with earrings in their ear, and ratted hair, leotards on, and girls with little bikinis, they called it, on like that, out on the street. And the public has to give them the right of way. Oh, what is the matter with this country? It’s because it’s a–a sign of a moral-decayed, God-rejected nation. That’s all.
180 How can you build upon the chars of some ruins like that? How you going to do it, when hoodlums walking the street and shoot the very President right out of his car?

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« 181 † And another night, a roadhouse man, up for rackets and everything, just walked right in and jumped before the Texas police force with over a hundred and something standing there, walked right in; and everybody looking at him, pulled his gun out and shoot a man in cold-blooded murder, and walk out. He’ll plead “insane,” and go free.
182 Right in our city, a man walked right into a garage, the other day, in a little syndicate, and took a–a–a man that was a–a car dealer. He didn’t like him, and he just pulled out a gun and shot him, four or five times. And he said he was insane; they let him go. If it’s “insanity” pleaded for that man, then also Oswald had a chance, should have had a chance to plead insane.
183 What is it, though? You see where it’s at, the whole thing is a big bunch of corruption! The whole thing is guilty, and the whole world stands guilty, and the church stands guilty before God. Amen. No wonder we’re falling apart!
Let us pray.

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« 184 † Lord God, here we are. The hour is here, Father. It may be later than we think. Maybe corruption has so set in, and the cankerworm has been eating, and the caterpillar, until all the Life is gone. I pray Thee, Lord, to be merciful. Grant, Lord, if there is a man or woman, boy or girl, in Presence now, that doesn’t know You, that they will accept You just now, Father. It might be the last name that will ever go on the Book, out of Shreveport.

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« 185 † And while we have our heads bowed. Is that person here would raise up your hand, say, “Brother Branham, I am thoroughly convinced that what you said is right. The world is falling apart, and we receive a Kingdom that cannot fall apart. And, as for me, I am not sure whether I’m in that Kingdom, or not.”
186 Don’t you rely upon whether you have had some kind of an emotional work-up. Don’t you rely upon whether you spoke in tongues. I believe in those things. Sure, I believe in speaking in tongues. But I’ve heard devils speak in tongues and give the interpretation to it, write in unknown tongues, witches, see. You can’t go by that.
187 But if the Life of Jesus Christ is in you, It’ll live Itself out, believing every Word of God. Because, He can’t deny Himself, He is the Word.
188 Now, if He is the Word, and He is in you, and then you say, “Well, Brother Branham, I tell you, I just can’t take That. I don’t believe This, these things are for this day,” and here It is promised for this day, oh, my brother, you’ve been deceived. Some spirit has got upon you and deceived you.

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« 189 † Lady, if you, or man, or whoever you are, if those things that’s so real, real in the Word, that Jesus Christ died for; not just to have a church or to have an emotional bunch, but to have a bunch that’s got His Spirit, living in Him; His Bride, His Word is in there, every Word is true. And you know It doesn’t operate through you that way, you know there is things, in the Bible, that you just can’t believe to be so; and you want to be remembered in prayer? Now with every eye closed, every head bowed, I wonder, if at this late hour when…
190 It may be almost passed feeling time, see, because there will come a time like that when the Spirit of God will be withtaken from the earth, there will be no more. The Church will remain a while, that’s right, preaching, ’cause it has to preach to the Eternal lost, just as every ministry did, coming down through the age. The last part of every ministry preached to the Eternal lost. And there will be a ministry now that will preach to the Eternal lost after they have refused to receive It.

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« 191 † But if there still seems to be a spark in your heart, that you would like to have Christ in you, and all the world dead, would you raise up your hand, say, “Remember me in prayer, Brother Branham.” The Lord bless you. Yes, yes, ten or fifteen hands. Would there be another before we pray? Now we’re fixing to close, in about two or three minutes. God bless you, young lady.
192 Just think of it, think, think of it, what if it would be too late? What if you’re the last person He’ll ever knock on the door?
193 She is falling apart, we know that. You can’t stay here, that’s one thing sure. You can’t stay here. You’re going. Just mark it, you are going. And if you’re…

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« 194 † Just don’t be worked-up. Don’t say, “I belong to church.” You be sure of That. If Christ doesn’t live you, in you, till you’re… all your mind, heart, soul, body.
195 You, you say, “Well, I think…” You haven’t got no thought coming, brother. Let the mind that was in Christ be in you! “I think the days oughtn’t to be… I think this oughtn’t to be. I think the Word don’t mean this.” We have no thought coming.
196 If the mind of Christ is in us, then we will recognize that Word to be the Truth, and It lives right through us. You can’t help it, It’s Christ!
197 Take the life out of a watermelon vine and put it in a pumpkin vine, it’ll bear watermelons. You can’t keep it from it, ’cause the life in it is.
198 And if–and if you say, “Well, I don’t believe That, the–the Word here,” then that ain’t the Spirit of Christ. See, there is some other spirit in you.

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« 199 † Is there another before we pray? God bless you. God bless you, and you, you. Yes, that’s good. Now, somebody else, just a moment now. God bless you, young fellow. You, little lady. You, sister. God bless you, and you. All right, is there another? God bless you, back there.
200 Don’t be afraid now. Don’t be ashamed now. Tomorrow night may be too late. See? It might be tonight that heart stops beating. It might be tonight you turned It away, your last time.

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« 201 † How many in here doesn’t have the baptism of the Holy Ghost, raise up your hands, you know that–that you don’t have It? My! That’s the way you go in. The Holy Ghost is Christ. That’s how you are sealed into the Kingdom, Ephesians 4:30, “Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed unto the day of your redemption.” And if you–and if you have thoughts of this Bible, that It isn’t true, then the spirit in you is not Christ, ’cause Christ is the Word.
202 There is the Kingdom that cannot be moved, that’s the Word. That’s the Kingdom that cannot be moved. “Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word will not.” If the Word is in you! “If ye abide in Me, and My Word in you; ask what you will, it’ll be done for you. Works that I do,” Saint John 12, 14, “the works that I do, shall you do also; even more than this, because I go to the Father. Yet a little while, and the world seeth Me no more; yet ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world.”
203 Watch what His works was, see if it’s returned to us in the last days. Have they rejected It? Worldwide! And the world is falling apart again, this Christmas, like it was that Christmas.

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« 204 † Our Heavenly Father, there was many hands went up here tonight, maybe thirty or forty, in this little group of people, went up tonight, that they knew they wasn’t just where they should be. They knew that You did not dwell in them, in the Measure. Some, maybe something in the Bible, they say, “I just… I–I–I accept It because I–I just think maybe I ought to.”
205 But, Lord, You promised that You would be the Word, and You are the Word. “And I will come to you, and make Myself known unto you.” We find that Your systems, Your system, never changes.
206 When You come in the Old Testament, You said, “The Word came to the prophets.” And when It did, they prophesied and It come to pass, because It was God.

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« 207 † Now we realize that when You sent us away, and commissioned us to go into all the world and to make disciples, and You said, “When He the Holy Ghost is come upon you, He will bring these things that I have taught you, unto your memory.” That’s, again! “And will show you things to come.” Still! “God, in sundry times and divers manners spake to the fathers through the prophets; in this last days through His Son, Christ Jesus.” The Holy Ghost Itself, coming, a Revealer of the written Word, and a Shower of things to come! It said, “The Word of God,” in Hebrews 4, “is sharper than a two-edged sword, a Discerner of the thoughts that’s in the heart.”
208 And sinful and church man, today, can sit and see You do the same thing, and call It an evil spirit, just like they did in the days gone by. “If they call the Master of the house ‘Beelzebub,'” and we see it.
209 Lord, God, what more can we do now? There is hungry hearts here that’s raised their hands. Take them right now, Lord, fill each heart with Thy love. Grant it.

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« 210 † And while we have our heads bowed. If you that raised your hands would like to come around the platform here, don’t–don’t put it off, see. Just this next moment now, just get right up, real quick, and come here, just stand. This might be the night that you receive the Holy Ghost.
211 Friends, look, this isn’t going to last all the time. It, it’s going to end. It’s ending right now, and it may already ended. But as long as you’re trying to desire to get to Christ, then there surely is something there, yet, pulling you that way.

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« 212 † Won’t you come now and stand right here for prayer? You that desire to, would walk right up around the altar, just a moment, while we keep our heads bowed. Now the people are coming right up. That’s right, come right up around the altar. Say, “The world is falling apart, I don’t want no world in me. I want a Kingdom in me, that cannot fall apart.”
213 Jesus said, “There is nothing will be lost. I’ll raise it up again at the last days. Yes, I’ll raise it up.” He promised, so you cannot fall apart. God is going to raise it up. I don’t care what it is, He is going to raise it up.

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« 214 † Did you know there is nothing can be annihilated by man? Nothing can be annihilated. You say, “What about fire, when it’s burning up something?” It don’t annihilate it. It’s just the atoms in there breaking those chemicals apart, and you get heat from it. It goes right back to its original condition, the way it was in the beginning; acids, gases, lights, and so forth, as it was. You can’t annihilate nothing. If–if the world stood long enough, it might come right back to another piece of paper, or another tree, or whatever you’re burning. See, you can’t annihilate it. God has made it so.
215 Oh, you can’t annihilate God’s creation, that’s exactly right, so how much more can He raise up that what He has promised!
216 Won’t you come? Will there be some more now? There is a little group here, not half what held their hands up. I thought you really meant it when you raised your hands, especially on a Message like that.

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« 217 † How many of you in here, now with your heads bowed, knows this, that you have seen God keep His promise, right here across this platform, and knowed the secrets of the heart? One, not one time has He ever told anything but what happened. You know that’s true. In the meetings, everywhere, just exactly what Jesus Christ did when He was here on earth, He has done it again. You know that. You’re aware of that. I was thinking of His healing.

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« 218 † Two weeks ago, before I went to New York, there was a lady come in with a cancer in the throat. The Holy Spirit spoke to her, in the meeting. Here she was there, Sunday, with a cancer in a piece of a rag, she had coughed it out. The doctors looked at it, and said, “The life went out of the cancer, and it’s come loose.” And she coughed it out.
219 Another one had a cancer in the female glands. And she had it right there, with an enlarged picture, with the doctor’s statement with it. She had passed it, two days later.

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« 220 † A little fellow standing there, that hadn’t had no memory, from–from months and months and months. He had fell and hurt the back of his head. He didn’t even know who he was or where he was at. With just a word of prayer, and laid hands on him, I said, “What’s your name?”
He said, “Billy Dukes.”
I said, “How old are you?”
He said, “Nine years old.” Said, “Where am I at?”
221 The Power of God! Wish you had been with me in Colorado, a few weeks ago, when something happened that would shake you, to know what it was. We’re at the end time, friend.
Don’t, don’t put this off any longer. Come. If there is another one here, come up. Will you? Will you come?

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« 222 † Now, if you’re not coming, see, I–I can’t, I–I–I–I… All I can do is just tell you the Truth, see, then it’s up to you. Like Noah, he went in, the ark shut behind him, nothing happened for a while; but the world perished on the outside, and the world went right on living just the same. See?
223 Pilate went right on, after he had crucified Jesus. I’ll preach on that, in a few nights, “blood on your hands,” the Lord willing.
Notice now, is there another one, before we close?

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« 224 † Now I’m going to ask the real consecrated women and men, who knows God, to come down and stand here and lay hands on these people. This might be the last time that they’ll ever have this opportunity. Some of you consecrated people that know God, come up and stand with these people. They’re having pink cards on them, nearly every one of them, that means that they’re, they’re strangers among you. I think that’s right. Come, lay your hands on them. Some of the Life Tabernacle members, come here. Some of you brethren up here want to come? Come on, this is the hour. Don’t you–don’t you love this, people? My! Where is our zeal? Where is our something that makes us move on? What’s the matter?
Now if the audience will wait just a moment, to this prayer.

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« 225 † You people standing here, now look, don’t you rely upon some emotion, although it has emotion in It. Don’t you rely upon whether you’re going to speak with tongues, or not. Don’t think nothing about it. God will take care of that, see. You ask for Jesus Christ to come into your life and to live Hisself through you. You don’t want more thoughts of your own. You want His thoughts. “Let the mind that was in Christ be in you.” Oh, this is…
226 This, well, you’re just going to hear these things the last time, once. Now look, I want all the audience to stand to your feet, out there. Now, you dear people that come up here for the baptism of the Holy Ghost, tomorrow is Thanksgiving, there is no working tomorrow. This is your soul, brother, sister. This is your Eternal destination. This, it’s either now or never. And as long as you feel that one little draw! And just think of these Truths, they’re laying right before us. Don’t be dead on those things, folks. It’s real. It’s proven, real, perfect every time. And it’s the Word, confirmed!

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« 227 † I’m looking at a man standing right here. I can’t think of his name. I believe it’s Blair, Reverend Blair. When I was over at Hot Springs, here not long ago, I picked up out there in the audience, that man setting there, and an evil spirit was trying to get to that man, to make him doubt me. Now watch what happened. I said, “You might need me sometime, see.” It wasn’t but just a few weeks ago until his wife called me, the man was dying. See?
228 And the man accepted, he knowed then it was the Devil trying to get him to believe It was some kind of a hoax or something. “But how would he know that?” he thought. So then he… By prayer we drove the evil from him.

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« 229 † And then a few weeks ago, see, Satan knowed that that time was coming, where he would be laying there with swelling in his side, I believe his wife said, or something, with a high fever, delirious in his head; know not what it was, some infection in his side, swell his sides out. And his little wife called me at Tucson. I said, “Sister, have you a handkerchief?” I believe she had something another there, a little scarf or something. I said, “I–I can see it. Take this and lay it on Brother Blair, in the Name of the Lord Jesus.” And he had asked her to come call.
230 What if Satan would have succeeded and make him disbelieve, and knowing that was there? He wouldn’t be standing here tonight with his Bible over his heart. See?
231 It’s Satan trying to make you disbelieve This. That’s right. Don’t you listen to it. Remember, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” See, these things are proven so.
232 Now let’s just all, you here at the altar, let’s just raise up your hands, and say, “Lord Jesus, help me right now,” each one praying.

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« 233 † Our Heavenly Father, we are assembled here, O God, it’s between death and life, for these people standing here. Let the Holy Ghost come into their life right now. May there come the Power of God, that’s brought them up around this altar, may It come to them in the resurrection of Christ, and will give to them that great Eternal Life that they are seeking for. Lord, churches everywhere are dying, spiritual water seems to be taken off of the earth. And while there is an opportunity for these people to come beneath the Fountain, grant, Lord, that their parching souls, tonight, that’s hungering and thirsting for God, may be filled with the Holy Ghost right now. Grant it, Lord. Let Thy mercies and grace be upon them.

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« 234 † Now just–just keep your head… keep praying, just keep praying. Everybody, see, just keep praying. I pray for you. I’ll do all I can, but I can’t give you the Holy Ghost. God has to do it. Look, form Christ right before you, in your mind. Look out there and see if you see Christ before you, as you close your eyes. Then walk right into Him, and say, “Lord Jesus, here I am. You and I are going to be one, from this on. I’ll take every Word that You’ve told me tonight.” Now just stay there, just keep staying, if you stay tonight, tomorrow, the next day, just stay until it’s all over, praying, believing that God will fill you with the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
235 Come here, Don, lead them in a prayer. God bless you, Don. `
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« 1 † ` Saint John, the 11th chapter, beginning with the 18th verse, I wish to read.
Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:
And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.
Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou had been here, my brother had not died.
But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou will ask… God, God will give it thee.
Jesus said unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.
Martha said unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and… life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
She said unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world. (And watch that!)
Then when she had said so, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.

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« 2 † Let us pray. Heavenly Father, confirm those Words to our hearts, tonight, as we wait on Thee now. Thy Word, Thy servant, and the text, is all committed to You, in Jesus Christ’s Name. Amen.
You may be seated.

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« 3 † My purpose of being here is to try to help the people of God. Not insomuch as to pray, and lay hands upon the sick, but that they might recognize Jesus Christ in our midst, the Son of God in our midst. We are speaking tonight on this subject: Then Jesus Came And Called.

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« 4 † Now on this time that we’re speaking of, it was a very sad time. If you ever read the story in the life of our Lord, we find out that He was a great friend to this boy, Lazarus. He was… After the going away of Joseph, or he had left and come to live with Martha, Mary, and Lazarus. And they were great friends. They had… He was like a pastor to them, a–a real friend. And made Him little things to wear, a coat to wear, I believe, they claim, and it was wove throughout without a seam. And then they had done things for Him, because they believed in Him. It was they–they had believed and had seen that. They had left the church, and so forth, to follow Him. And that was a great thing in that day, which even the penalty of it could be death, to–to go away from it.

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« 5 † But, Jesus, this Fellow that was going round as they claimed, tearing up their churches, and saying evil thing about their priest, and–and so forth, He had–He had done a great harm to them, they thought. And–and to even confess Him would a-been to–to be put out of the synagogues. And then if you’re out from the church, they–they thought you had no–no chance for redemption. If you didn’t belong to one of their sect, like Pharisee, Sadducee, or something, there was no redemption if you was outside of that. And if they had the right, the keys, and they could just kick you out if they wanted to. That was their own saying. No wonder Jesus said, “You, by your tradition, has made the Word of God of no effect.” See?

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« 6 † And now it’s repeated again, ’cause we all know history repeats itself every so often. And it’s sad to say, but it was prophesied to repeat, and it has done it again.
We find that Jesus wasn’t well thought of.
7 Many times, people want to judge the man who doesn’t agree with them. We’re not to do that. We can disagree with one another, yet be friendly. If I couldn’t disagree with a man, and still love him and pray for him, and disagree with him upon the basis of the Scripture, and for better enlightenment, then I won’t say nothing to him. I always want to disagree with him, friendly, ’cause I love him, and I–I certainly don’t want him to be lost. And he should do the same thing with me; we don’t want to be lost. And we must base our thoughts upon what the Word says. Let the Word be Truth. Not our creed or what our thoughts, but what He says; no private interpretation, just what the Word said.

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« 8 † The other night, I did something and it seemed sacrilegious almost, I believe it was at a ministerial breakfast the other morning. I put Jesus on a trial. I said, “Just as they did then, so do they do today.” Maybe it would be good if I repeat it just for a moment, if we have the time. Now, I said, today we find out that…
9 In Luther’s reformation, he, in the time of that, he said the just shall live by faith. “The man that believes, he that’s got It.” But we found out many of them said they believed, and didn’t have It.
10 In the days of–of John Wesley, if they got the second blessing, they called it sanctification, entire sanctification, they got happy and shouted. “Everybody shouted, had It.” But they found out they didn’t have It. A lot of them shouted, and didn’t have It.
11 The days of Pentecost, they said, “Now the restoration of the gifts has come, the baptism of the Spirit. He that speaks in tongues, has got It.” We find out that many spoke with tongues, and didn’t have It.

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« 12 † So they say, “Well, the fruit of the Spirit, that’s what It is.” Oh, no, not the fruit of the Spirit. Christian Science has that, where hardly… Love is the fruit of the Spirit. Then, and they have more love than anybody, and deny the Deity of Jesus Christ; just call Him a prophet, just an ordinarily man. See? So that doesn’t do it.
13 Let me question that just a minute. Let’s take Jesus on trial. And God forgive me for this statement, from the platform, but I’m going to be against Him for a minute, just to bring you the Light. See?

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« 14 † “Now I’ve got you people here tonight; I’m talking to you. I was back in another day when Jesus of Nazareth was on earth. I come to you, and to reason with you against this Fellow, Jesus of Nazareth. Now we all know that God is love. The Bible says He is. All right, and the love, the Spirit is long-… long-suffering, gentleness, patience, meekness, and so forth, and love. Now I’d say, I want to ask you something. We’re going to take what–what we know, a Christian.
15 “Look at this old priest of yours. His great-great-great- grandfather was a priest. He had to be born in that lineage of Levites, to be a priest. We find out, now, he doesn’t have a young man’s life like the rest of you did. What does he do? He sacrifices himself, he is up there to study the Word, the Word of God. He goes through it, day and night, day and night, has to know every letter of it, every word on the scroll. He has to know it by heart. He–he, just something about it that he must know.

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« 16 † “Then, besides that, when your father and mother was married, who joined them together as husband and wife? Your godly old priest. Who was it come to your father when he was in need and had owed some money on his farm, that the mortgagers was going to take it. Who stood by him? Your kind old priest. Who stood by your mother in the room there when she was giving birth to you? Kind old priest. Who comes to you when you’re sick and needy? Your kind old priest. Who was it blessed you and committed you to God, and circumcised you the eighth day? Your kind old priest. When your father and mother was about to divorce, who brought them back together, held them together? Your kind old priest. When there is trouble in the neighborhood, who takes care of it? Your kind old priest. Certainly.

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« 17 † “Now this kind old priest knows that the Bible said that God requires a lamb for a sacrifice. Many of you man are businessmen, so you don’t raise sheep, yet God requires a sheep. They made some stalls up there, they sold their sheep so that the–the businessmen could go up and buy it, offering a sacrifice for their soul, that God requires.
18 “What did this young Fellow, called Jesus? Where did He come from? Said He was born, a virgin birth. Whoever heard of such a nonsense thing? We know His mother had Him before her and Joseph was born… or her and Joseph was married, He was born. Now we find out that He’s a–He’s a bad name, to begin with.
19 “What membership card does He have? If He was a godly Man, what group did He join with? When your priest studied, studied, studied, studied, to know that Word; here He comes around, tearing down what he has built up. Would you call that ‘God’? Certainly not.

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« 20 † “Now, the other day, when your priest had made that place up there, the… and for where you could buy the sacrifice, what did this young fellow do? Kindness? He beat, put some ropes together, some…?… and looked out upon the people, with anger; kicked over those tables, and beat them out of there. And you call that fruits of the Spirit, looking upon them, with anger? And, look, depriving the man of his opportunity to worship Jehovah! The businessman wants to worship Him; he don’t raise lambs, and he went there to buy it. And He turned it over, and kicked them, and run them out.”
21 Who has the fruit of the Spirit there? See? There you are. See, not fruit of the Spirit, not speaking in tongues, not shouting.

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« 22 † You say, “Then, Brother Branham, what is the evidence? What is the evidence?” The vindication of the Word in the hour.
23 They had the Bible. He was exactly what Jehovah said would happen. It don’t need any interpretation. It interpreted there. There was your priests, there was all they had, and everything else just so routined and everything, but yet they failed to see the Word. And He made that Word live out for that age. That’s the evidence of that age.
24 Luther had the evidence of his age, Wesley of his age, Pentecost of its age, but we’re in another age. Those things are good. But like the baby, has got a finger, an eye, and nose, but after a while he has to become a human being. He has to become a–a matured child; then be born, have a soul, body, spirit, can move around.

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« 25 † Now we find out that, all this, Jesus had declared it in just a few. Just those who He had ordained to Life, saw Him. Not great crowds; His crowd could never like be like Caiaphas’ crowds. Why, Caiaphas could have called the whole nation together. Jesus called just a few together. Not many knew Him. Thousands times thousands, when He came on the earth. He went through the earth, and they never even knowed He was here.
26 So did they again! He’ll come to those who are called to Life. He knows who is called to Life. And He’ll not… It’s His business to take care of that.

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« 27 † Now we notice that then they come out of the church, and they had believed Him. Everything the Word had been saying about Him, there He was.
28 And one day He left their home. I want to speak of three things: Jesus had left; death had come; and all hopes was gone. I want to speak on those three things for a few minutes.
29 Jesus had left. And when He left, trouble come in. Now when He leaves you, or your home where you dwell at, trouble is on its road. Satan has got an open door when Jesus leaves.
30 He had gone, and–and as soon as He did, then death came in. And when Jesus goes out, death comes in. To be separated from Him is death, so death come in when Jesus went out.

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« 31 † And death had lingered with Lazarus. And then the One that they believed in and loved, they had sent to Him to come pray for Lazarus, ’cause they had seen Him and knowed that He knowed God, that whatever God… Martha expressed it back there, “Whatever Thou sayest to God now, God will do it.” She recognized that He and God was one. He was the Word of the hour, so she recognized that. And she knew, if she could ever get in contact with Him, but He was gone and they couldn’t get a hold of Him. And they sent for Him, and, instead of Him coming, He went on further. And then they sent again, and, instead of Him coming, He went on further.
32 Sometimes we wonder why those things happen, but doesn’t the Scripture say that, “All things work together for good to them that love God”? He knows what He is doing. If He delays, that’s all right. He knows what He is doing. There was a purpose.

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« 33 † We find out that He said, in Saint John 5:19, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing.”
34 The Father had told Him to go away, and to be away so many days. After the days was accomplished, then He said what He said then, that, “Our friend Lazarus sleepeth.”
And he said, “Well, he does good.”
35 He said, “He is dead. And for your sake I’m glad I wasn’t there.” Cause, they’d a-been trying to get Him to go to him, to heal him or say what had to be done. But He knowed what had to be done, so He had done just exactly what He was ordained to do: stay away. You notice Him at the grave when He come back. He expressed that when He came back and found this home.

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« 36 † All hopes was gone. Lazarus had died. Every hour, they kept thinking, “He might come on the scene. He might come on the scene. He might come back.” Finally, he died, the breath left him.
37 They went out, embalmed him, taking the blood from his body, wrapped him in linen, spices, and embalmed him and laid him into the grave, put a rock over the grave, which was their custom of burying in them days. A hole in the ground, just maybe in the rock, and lay a rock over the top of it, that was their custom.
38 First day passed, second day passed, third day passed, fourth day passed, the man was already rottening in the grave. His nose had probably fell in. That, I think that’s the first thing that falls in, is the nose. And he was already rotten. His–his flesh had gone back to the dust, of the earth, or going back. His soul was four-days journey somewhere, from him.
39 All hopes of ever seeing him again, in this life, was gone. And then when all hopes was gone… They had waited, “Maybe if He’ll come the first day, second day!” No. Then he died, and He hadn’t come. Then desperation set in.

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« 40 † After a while there was somebody must have told her, “The Master is outside.” Here goes Martha down the street!
41 Jesus came in that dark hour when every hope was gone. That’s usually when He comes. See? He comes just at that darkest time, then Jesus appears on the scene.
42 Now watch, He come and called for Martha. His Presence brought new hopes. No matter if the boy was dead, yet His Presence brings new hope.

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« 43 † You might be setting here tonight, my friend, where the doctors has give you up, with cancer, heart trouble. Maybe in a chair, crippled, all science has said there is no hope for you; the deposit of calcium has–has knotted your–your–your bones, that you can’t bend them no more. Or, either your–your heart is so bad, the doctor says you might go at any minute. Oh, and great bunches of people with cancer and TB, maybe the last hope you got, and it seems like that the doctor has turned you down. Yet, to be in the Presence and recognition of the Presence of Jesus Christ, brings hopes again.

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« 44 † Somebody can even name it to you. Maybe you’ve never heard of it before, but let somebody say, “I know where there is a church, they believe in God and they pray for the sick,” quickly now (you’re ready to die), see, new hopes spring up. It always does. In that dark hour, that’s usually when somebody says something about it, tell you about Jesus. His Presence brought new hopes.
45 May It do the same thing tonight, like It did last night, when we see that vindicated Word beyond any shadow of doubt, that’s been made manifest and proved; that that Jesus that lived nineteen hundred years ago, that died on Calvary, rose up on the third day, and appeared to those disciples and opened their eyes, and made this promise of the day, is right here tonight in our presence now. It’s bound to bring hopes to people. New hopes flash up.

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« 46 † Maybe somebody said, “The church has been kind of dry for a while. We haven’t had any good fresh water for–for–for a few months. We haven’t had a revival. Looks like everybody is so stagnant, or something another. We just go to church and sing a hymn, and–and hear a few messages and go back.” But all of a sudden, then, when we begin to get dry, then Jesus comes on the scene, freshens us up, brings something new to us. He is always there to do that. New hopes comes when–when Jesus comes in. His Presence brings new hope.
47 She knew that He was that manifested Word of God. She had seen that age. Or, if she wouldn’t, she’d a-still been Orthodox. She’d a-still belonged to the church. But she had seen that promised Word. She had seen that promised Word manifested by Him and she knew that He was that living Word. And when she heard about it, she didn’t care how many criticized her, what else, she took out for Him just as hard as she could go. See? She knew He was that manifested Word.

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« 48 † No doubt but what she had read of the story of Elijah in his day. Now, he was God’s manifested Word in that day. He was a prophet, and the Word of the Lord comes to the prophet. And there was a woman in there, who had a little baby that had been given to her by a blessing that the prophet had blessed her by, and she had the child.
49 One day, about eleven o’clock, he must have had a sunstroke. He was out in the field with his father, the Bible doesn’t said it was, say it was sunstroke, but he begin to cry, “My head! My head!” About eleven o’clock in the day. And he had a servant, the father did, to take him to the house. He laid on his mother’s lap till about noon, got sicker and sicker, and finally died.

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« 50 † And now, instead of going to spare, all the neighbors come in screaming and going on. But that steady mother, her baby was dead, she took it up in that little room that she had provided for the prophet, and laid him upon his bed, like that. And she said to the servant, “Saddle me a mule, and you ride straight, and don’t you stop unless I tell you to.” Oh, my! That’s it!
51 We ain’t got time for debating and fussing. This is past that day. Let’s go on. We got to get there. We got a need.
52 And so he said, “You go forward, and don’t you slack your riding unless I command you to.” And they went till they got to Elijah.
53 Elijah, being a man of God, not like Christ; Christ knew all things, ’cause He was God. Elijah was a portion of God. That was Christ in Elijah. And that was the message of the hour, for the Word of the Lord for that hour was with that prophet.
54 Jesus was the fulness of all those prophets, every one of them only manifested Him. That’s all. All the way from Joseph, from thirty pieces of silver, everywhere, He–He portrayed Christ. So did Moses!

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« 55 † David, setting as a rejected king upon the hill, weeping because he was rejected. Eight hundred years after that, the Son of David set on a hill. That was the Spirit of Christ in David there. And He… My! He was both Root and Offspring of David. And so He set up on the hill, weeping, as a rejected King, “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how oft would I have hovered you, as a hen would her brood.” What was it? It was Christ back there.
56 It was Christ crying when David wrote the hymn, “My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me. All My bones, they stare at Me. They pierced My feet and My hands. They parted My garments among them. They cast lots for My vesture.” That was Christ speaking in David. That’s right. He was the manifestation of the Word. Christ come to fulfill them things that had been spoken by the prophets, ’cause the Word was with the prophets.
57 He said that in the lesson last night, that He come to fulfill what the prophets had said about Him, ’cause they had the Word. And Elijah was God’s prophet, the Word of that day.

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« 58 † So the Shunammite woman stayed with that prophet until he come and manifested the power of God, and laid hisself upon the baby, and the baby come to life.
59 Now Martha must have recognized this, although she had been busy taking care of a house, dishwashing, and so forth. But there she showed her color. She showed really what was in her. She went to get Him immediately. If God was in Elijah, God had to be in Christ, ’cause He had proved that He was that Person. Amen. I like that, that determination! She goes to Him. She had to get to Him. And she find out there, as she got to Him–to Him; now remember, knew that He had never changed, that God never changes His program. If He was in Elijah and could raise the dead, He was in Christ and could raise the dead, though He hadn’t done it, ’cause it’s the same God.

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« 60 † Neither has He changed yet! Just as much God tonight as He ever was. He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. He changes not.
61 And He knew she knew that it was in Him. Watch, just in a few minutes it proved it, when she said something to Him about her brother, and she said, “Lord, I–I believe that You are.”
62 And He said, “I am the Resurrection and the Life. Though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. I AM.” That’s the I AM was in the burning bush, with Moses. “I am the Resurrection. I am the Life. I was the wall. I am still He. I am the Resurrection and the Life. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me, shall never die.” After this great assurance that she had, that He was the promised Word; when He said, being a Prophet, He could not lie; therefore He, when He said, “I am the I AM. I am He that is the Resurrection and Life.”

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« 63 † She said, “I believe that You are the One, the Son of God that should come in the world. Although my brother is dead, laying out there in the grave, he’s… his body has decaying now; but even now, whatever You say, it’ll come to pass.” Right!
64 All she wanted was to hear Him say it! Amen. Oh, Martha, where are we tonight? “Just speak the Word; my servant will live!” Just hear Him say it! They might have come told her He said it, but here He was Hisself. O God, open blinded eyes, that they might be able to see! When He, in His Presence, speaks the Word, always is manifested.
65 She said, “Whatever You ask God, God will give it to You. Just let me hear!” She wanted Him to say the Word. That’s all she wanted to hear. Just get the Word, that’s all she needed, was hear Him say He would do it.

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« 66 † And He would have done it right then, but, you see, by the vision that the Father had showed Him, He had to be standing by the grave. Oh, my! Hold your faith! God is working everything right. It’ll be all right. Just wait till she got to the grave.
67 Notice, she could just get Him to say it, even when he was yet… All hopes gone, all everything. He was dead, rottening in the grave, but just hear Him say it, is all she wanted.
68 Now when He said, “I am the Resurrection and Life,” she believed it. She believed it. Now notice, now she had to believe for the impossibles, when she heard Him say, “I am the Resurrection and Life. Though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die.” Said, “Do you believe this?”
69 And she said, “Yes, Lord, I believe it. I believe that You are the Son of God that was to come into the world.” I like that. I like that.

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« 70 † I’ve said this before. It might stand again now. I was talking to a woman not long ago, it was a certain church that I mentioned a while ago, that doesn’t believe that He was God, His Deity; He was just a prophet, an ordinary man.
71 He was that, truly. He was that, plus God. See, He was the manifestation. Jesus is the body, the Boy, the Man; God was what dwelt in Him. God was in Him. He was a God-man. He was a Man, yet He was God manifested in flesh. When we see Jesus, we see God. That’s what He said, “When you see the Father, see Me, you see the Father.” Because, He was the reflection, because He was the Word, amen, that was in the beginning. Amen.

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« 72 † He called the prophets, “God.” Do you know that? He said, “You call them ‘God’ who the Word of God come to. How can you condemn Me when I say, ‘I’m the Son of God’?”
73 Cause, the same Word said He would be there, and there is the Word made manifest again. And still they wouldn’t believe it.
74 This woman said to me, “I can prove to you.” Said, “I like to hear you preach, but there is one thing you do too much.”
“Well, what’s that?”
Said, “You brag too much on Jesus.”
75 I said, “I hope that’s all He has against me when He comes.” And she said… I said, “I hope that’s all He can, fault He can find in me.” I said, “If I had ten thousand tongues, I could not speak enough, oh, my, what He is!”
She said, “But, you, you make Him God.”
76 Said, “He was. Or, if He wasn’t, He was the greatest deceiver the world ever had.”
She said, “He was a prophet.”
77 I said, “He was a prophet, that’s true: a God-prophet, the fullness of the Word. The prophet just had the Word come to him, that’s what make him–made him a prophet. But He was the fullness of that Word.”
78 And she said, “I can prove to you.” Said, “You make Him Divine.”
I said, “He was Divine.”
And she said, “He can’t be Divine.”
I said, “But He was.”
She said, “You said you believed the Bible.”
I said, “I do.”

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« 79 † She said, “I’ll prove to you, by your own Bible, that He wasn’t Divine.”
80 I said, “Do it. If the Bible says so, then I’ll believe it, ’cause I believe the Word is right.”
81 She said, “On the road from down to Lazarus’ grave, you remember that in Saint John 11?”
I said, “I certainly do, madam.”
82 Said, “Well, now, on the road down, He cried. The Bible said, ‘He wept.'”
I said, “Certainly, the Bible said He wept.”
Said, “How could He be Divine and weep?”
I said, “He was human.”
“Human and Divine?”
83 I said, “Yes, lady. You fail to see. He was a–a man going along there, crying with those that were crying, that’s right, grieving with those who grieved. He was a Man. But when He straightened His little, frail body up, and said, ‘Lazarus, come forth,’ and a man that been dead four days, stood on his feet. That took more than a man, that was God in the Man.” Who can raise the dead, but God? He is the Resurrection and the Life! That’s right.

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« 84 † That night out on the sea, when He was out there, tired, laying in the back of the boat, where ten thousand devils swore they would drown Him that night, and that little old boat flopping around like a bottle stopper out there on a stormy sea. Them devils thought, “We got Him now. He is asleep; we’ll sink the whole bunch.” Oh, He was a Man, tired, but when once aroused, He stood His foot up on the brail, and looked up and said, “Peace, be still,” and the winds and the waves obeyed Him. That was more than a man.
85 He was a man when He was hungry. He come down off the mountain, looking for a piece of bread or something to eat, or a fig off of a tree. But when He took five biscuits and two fishes, and fed five thousand, that was God in that Man. That’s right.

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« 86 † Oh, every man that’s ever amounted to a hill-of-beans believed that, all the poets that believed that. No wonder one wrote:
Living He love me; and dying, He saved me;
Buried, He carried my sins far away;
Rising, He justified freely forever;
Someday He is coming, O glorious day!
87 Eddie Perronet, when his songs would not sell. One day, staggering under the impact of the Holy Spirit, grabbed a pen, he wrote the inauguration song, when he wrote:
All hail the power of Jesus’ Name!
Let Angels prostrate fall;
Bring forth the royal diadem,
Crown Him Lord of all!
88 Hallelujah! Certainly, that’s what we believe He was. Yes, sir.

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« 89 † She has got to believe for the impossibles now, to modern thinking of that day. So do you have to believe for the impossibles, to see new Life, to see something happen. But if He recognized… She recognized Him to be the Word, then the impossibles can take place, because He is the creator, and will stand by everything He said.
90 “And all things are possible to them that can believe.” That’s His Word. But the impossibles are made manifested when God is took at His Word. Yes, sir. When God is took at His Word, the impossibles are–are made manifest. When God says it’ll be, then you take that Word and watch what, the impossibles happen. It certainly will.
91 But notice, even in all that, she said, “Even now, Lord, whatever You ask God, God will do it.” She knew that she could just get that Word to come from Him. That’s all she needed to do, was get that Word. Yes, it was her darkest hour, and Jesus come along and called. Oh, what a thing they saw, a resurrection!
Let’s look at some more where the dark hours come.

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« 92 † There was a man one time, named Job, one of the oldest prophets in the Bible. He was a great man. He had–he had loved the Lord, and he done all he knowed how to do. And Satan desired to sift him, so he said to God one day… Yeah, God said to him, rather, “Where have you been, Satan?”
93 He said, “Oh, walking to-and-fro and up-and-down on the earth.”
94 He said, “Have you considered My servant Job? There is none like him in the earth. He is a perfect man.”
95 “Oh,” he said, “sure, You give him everything, do everything for him. Certainly, he’s a great man. But let me have him one time, I’ll change the tune. I’ll make him curse You, to Your face.”
96 He said, “You can’t do it.” That’s His confidence in a believer. Why? He is Infinite. He is Eternal. He knows the end from the beginning. He knowed Satan couldn’t do it. For, He is the Word, He knowed what Job would do.

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« 97 † Now, remember, Job, he broke him out in boils, killed his children, took everything he’s had. His health was gone. Even his comforters came, and they couldn’t do nothing but just accuse him of being a secret sinner. And old Job got in such a place until he got so distressed.
98 You have to get in distress, first. You have to get to a time we’re at the end of the road.
99 Job got into the end of the road, when he said, “Cursed be the day that I was born. May the sun not even shine, and may the moon not shine by the night, may the name never be called.” And in that distress, then Jesus came along. He looked down, and he said, “I see a man. A flower die, and it rises again in the spring. If a tree blows down, it comes up again through the scent of water.” He seen all botany life living again, but said, “A man layeth down, he giveth up the ghost, where is he?” You knowed he was an old man. He said, “His sons come to mourn over him, and he perceive it not. Oh, that Thou would hide me in the grave and keep me in the secret place, till Thy wrath be passed. Appoint me a time and set me a time. We went…” And going on like that, talking. He was at the end, of his distress, “What would happen? The leaves live, come back in the tree, the flowers come back again, everything else come up, but a man layeth down and giveth up the ghost!” He was in distress. He didn’t know what could happen to him, and him at that age.

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« 100 † When he did, then Jesus came along. God pointed his head towards the sky, and he saw Jesus coming in the last days.
101 That darkest of hour when his wife said, “Curse God and die the death,” yet he said, “Woman, thou speakest like a foolish woman. The Lord gave, and the Lord taken away, blessed be the Name of the Lord.” Even his wife turned him down. His church turned him down. Everybody turned him down.
102 In that dark hour, where he didn’t know where he was going from there, Jesus came along. Then he screamed out, “I know my Redeemer liveth, and at the last days He’ll stand upon the earth. And though after the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God, Whom I shall see for myself.” In his darkest hour, then Jesus come along. Yes, sir.

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« 103 † Moses, for Moses, the darkest hour come for him in Israel. He was right in the line of duty; met God up there in a bush, and said, “I AM THE I AM.” He went down and fought through all kind of impersonations of Jannes and Jambres, trying to impersonate his work. All this, he had stood true to God. He finally got Israel to believe. And here he comes out of Egypt, going up to the–to the promised land, where God said, “You’ll worship Me on this mountain.” That was the Word of God. Moses knowed he had to go to that mountain. Amen. God said so! No Pharaoh can kill him. No Devil can kill him. Nothing can kill him. He is coming to that mountain. Amen! Hallelujah! I feel religious. He is going to that mountain.
104 So are we on our road to Glory! Nothing is going to stop us. No, sir. God is going to vindicate His Word. I don’t care what takes place, He is going to do it, anyhow.

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« 105 † He is on his road, right in the path of duty. Here he is, hemmed in between the mountains. He listens and hears a roar behind him. What is it? Pharaoh’s chariots, by the thousands, coming; armored, and spears and things, to ride them down and trample them down. There is the Red Sea, had him cut off. What did he do? He got in di-… He got in distress. The people all screaming, “Oh, we’re in for it now. Pharaoh will kill us, his swords will be run through us. Our babies will die here in the wilderness.”
Moses cried out, “O God!”
106 And then Jesus came on the scene. He was the Pillar of Fire. That’s right. He come down and He hung between him and the danger. Amen. He is our go-between. He’s the stand-between, amen, a mediator. There He stood, standing there; darkness to the Egyptians, those who were coming to try to do something about it. He was light to them, to walk by. Then in the morning when the wind started blowing real hard, that night, then what did He do? He had come in the form of the Pillar of Fire.

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« 107 † Remember, He is still that Pillar of Fire. Yes, sir. When He was on earth, He said, “I come from God, and I go to God.”
108 And after His death, burial, resurrection, and ascension; Saint Paul, on his road down to Damascus, he was struck down by that Pillar of Fire. Remember, he was a Hebrew. He would have not said this… He said, “Lord, Who are You?” Capital L-o-r-d, Elohim. “Who are You that I persecute?”
He said, “I am Jesus.”
109 Amen! Hallelujah! He’s the First and the Last. He’s everything. “A little while and the world seeth Me no more, yet you will see Me. I’ll be with you, even in you.” The same Pillar of Fire, the same God doing the same thing, with the same promise, amen, making His Word manifested. “I am the Resurrection and Life. I am He that Was, He that Is, and He that Shall come.” Yes, sir. Yeah.
“Our fathers eat manna in the wilderness.”
110 He said, “They’re, every one, dead. But, I AM THAT I AM.” Moses… In the burning bush, that was the I AM. He is still the I AM, not I was; I AM, present tense, all time.

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« 111 † We find out here that Moses is backed out into this corner, and the Christ had come down. Now, and the Bible said that, that, “Moses esteemed the–the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt.” The reproach of Christ! Christ was the anointing, the Logos that went out of God. The Angel, any Bible reader knows that that Angel was Christ. And there He was in the wilderness, and He came on the scene, in the form that He was supposed to be manifested in. Glory to God!
112 He comes today in the form, the same Christ, manifesting Him.
113 He told them He would take them out. He was doing it. There He come to stand by His Word, to vindicate It. Then after He had done come, like He did to Martha, then He called. He said, “Moses, why are you crying to Me? Speak to this people, that ye go forward.” That dark hour, the Red Sea opened up and they went across, on their journey to fulfill the Word of God. Yes, at Moses’ darkest hour, then Jesus come along. We got time now… And He called Moses.

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« 114 † We want to draw your attention to another little man. His name was Jairus. There is so many of them in the world today. He was a secret believer. He loved Jesus. He had heard about Him. He believed Him. But, you see, he had already joined hisself to an organization. Yeah. He–he–he just… He couldn’t come out and confess it. He believed it, but he couldn’t confess it, so he had done joined up with the unbelievers. But he really believed it.
115 You know, when a man gets in that shape, sometime God brings Him to the showdown. It’s in distress when we really show our colors, what we really are.
116 So there he was, he was already joined up to the unbelievers, and he had done went over and put his name on the book, and so forth. And he was a priest, and so he–he just couldn’t hardly make a confession, ’cause that was his meal ticket. So, but he still believed Jesus.

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« 117 † One day, his little girl got sick. Oh, my. He, no doubt the man, if he… like that, would have called the doctor. The physician come, attended to the child. The fever got worse and worse. After a while she got so hot, and everything, she finally got to the point of death. He was in distress. He had to do something. He, he just didn’t know what to do. Now he thought, “If I could only find Him, wherever He is.” Now he never waited until it got nighttime, like Nicodemus did, to have a private interview. Time was for action, the time had come for action and he must act then.
118 And I think, brother, sister, the same is now. The time has come for action. The time has come to believe or don’t believe. That separating line comes to every man and woman. It comes to every child. Sometimes when you pass that line, there is only one thing left, that’s judgment, when you pass between mercy and judgment, when you pass that line.

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« 119 † Remember, he got in distress. He didn’t know what to do. There stood his priests, all the rabbis standing around him. The fellowship was with him, all down there, watching his little girl die. The doctor standing on the outside, with his hands folded, shaking his hands, “I’ve give every medicine that I knowed, and still…”
120 See, it was Jesus a working all the time. Jesus was doing this for a purpose, to bring the color out of that little fellow. After a while, I can see him go get his little black hat and pulled it on, put his little priest coat on.
“Where you going?”
121 “I heard He’s down at the river. I’m going after Him!” Oh, my! Away he went!

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« 122 † In that hour of distress, he had to make a decision: let his child die, or he knowed that was the manifestation of the Word. He was a priest, and he had read the Word, and he knowed that that was God’s manifestation. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. He knew that, and he was forced to the issue. He had to make a mistake, let his child die, or make his confession. When he got in that distress, it was about that time that Jesus came along. He went to see Him. He said, he said, “I’ll go with You, whatever You say.” And out on the road, here come a runner, the dark thing there. Had made his confession, that he believed Him. He had done excommunicated himself then, and put hisself in public eyes then, that he was a believer on Jesus.

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« 123 † And here come a runner, said, “Don’t bother nobody, ’cause your girl has already died. She died yesterday. She is already dead. Don’t, don’t fool with it no more.”
124 And, oh, his little heart like to a failed. But he looked and seen those eyes of Jesus, said, “Didn’t I say to You? Don’t fear, if you want to see the glory of God. What you scared about? I’ve already told you I would go.”
125 He has already said He would come. He has already said He would do this, and here He is doing it. Amen. He said He would rise on the scene in the last days and do these things as He did, as we’ve read last night and talked. Here He is doing it. What are you scared about?
126 Remember, when He came, and He called her from the dead. He came on the scene and called her from the dead.
Old blind Bartimaeus, one time, hit his darkest hour.

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« 127 † Jesus was down there, organized a Full Gospel Business Men’s breakfast down there in–in Jericho, and He had Zacchaeus down there. He had met him in a tree, down the street. So when He was… Well, He wouldn’t organize anything else, I’m sure. See? So then when He come down there, He–He had him, Zacchaeus had went with Him.
128 Old blind Bartimaeus had been blind since he was a little boy. So he thought Jesus might come out that gate, and he was waiting. After a while he heard a lot of noise, and everybody coming by.
129 And he heard the priest saying, “Hey! Hey, You, You going up the hill there! Did–did–did… We hear that You raise the dead. We got a whole graveyard full of them up here. If You be the Messiah, if You be the Messiah, come up here and raise these dead.”
130 You know, that same devil still lives, see, in the form of religion, the same way. See?
131 “If You be the Messiah, we… You raise the dead; we got a graveyard full of them up here. Come.” And, oh, everybody screaming. One hollering, “Hosanna to the Prophet!” Another one hollering this, that, or the other. Such a confusion!
132 This old blind man thought, “Oh, I missed Him. He come out down there, and I thought He’d come here. I’ve been put in the wrong place.” And he got to screaming. He thought, “If He is the Word, He is God; He has got to be.” So, “O Jesus, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me!” In that hour of distress, he called out.

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« 133 † Now Jesus, if you’ll mark it here, was at Jericho. Where they said he was setting, he was a hundred and fifty yards from where Jesus was. With thousands of people rushing around Him, He couldn’t have heard that man’s cry. No. But He felt it. He stopped.
134 I want to preach, one of these nights: “And then Jesus stopped.” Oh! “And then Jesus stooped.” Oh!
135 But when Jesus stopped, what was it? He called him. “The Master has come. Don’t be weary,” said the disciples, “He calleth thee. He is calling you.” Called him out from that crowd.
He does the same thing now. Does it soak in? See?
136 “The Master has come and has called for you.” And He is calling from–from blindness to light, from darkness to light. And He called him, passed from death to Life. “The Master has come and He calls for you.” And when He called him, He give him back his sight.

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« 137 † The little woman with the blood issue, one time, up on the hill, had spent all of her money, with the doctors. She no doubt had sold the–the team. They had sold the–the farm, had it mortgaged. They had spent all they could with the physicians, none of them done her any good. She constantly got worse and worse. The blood wouldn’t stop. Constantly, on and on it went, she got deeper and deeper.
138 And one day, while setting there knitting, up on the hill from where she lived, she looked down into the valley, and she seen a boat come in. Everybody begin to run, “Hosanna to the Prophet!”

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« 139 † She had heard about Him. Faith comes by hearing. Now she said, “I’ll go down and get a look at Him.”
140 And when she walked down there, and she first got a sight of the Word of God manifested in flesh, there was something about His talk and His looks, that she knowed that was Him. Yes, sir. “Oh, if I could only attract His attention some way, if I could only touch Him in some manner!” And she slipped through the crowd and she touched His garment.
141 Now remember, it wasn’t her finger that He felt. No, sir, because the Palestinian garment hangs loose. And He…
Then Peter said, “Everybody has touched You.”
142 He said, “But this is a different touch. I perceive that I have gotten weak.”

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« 143 † Jesus had come. Her money was gone, everything was gone; but in that dark hour when the blood wouldn’t stop, and the doctors couldn’t stop it, Jesus come. And what did He do? He called her. Looked around till He found her, and He said, “You had a blood issue, but it stopped.”
144 “He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” “The Master has come and He calls for you. He has come and He called.” He called her back to health.

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« 145 † The little woman at the well, that we spoke of last night, all hopes was gone. Perhaps, maybe her fifth husband had left her, and she just took the sixth one that night, and she–she was in a little doubt about him. Morally, she was gone. She wanted to be a real lady; she, no doubt, she had been reading the Bible.
146 And she was going along there, going up about eleven o’clock. She couldn’t come early in the morning when the righteous women come. And they packed their water up on their head, and the jugs, and went back down. And so she couldn’t come, mix with them. They, they had a segregation of that in that day, the right and wrong didn’t mix together. The immoral stayed in their place, so she couldn’t come with the rest of them. They wouldn’t let her come. So after everybody had got their waters and went back… She come for Better.

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« 147 † And then she come up there with this pot on her head, no doubt she was going along, thinking, “Now, the man that I married, got a hold of last night, I’m doubting him. He’s a man, he acts so funny. I–I just don’t know about him. I haven’t got a chance. I’m ousted from society. And I can’t go to those churches, they don’t… Just look at them! I don’t know what to do. I’m in distress. And I’ve been reading the Bible; surely, someday, that Prophet will come on the scene. Now I know they’ve claimed that there is no such a thing, and, ‘this is so maybe a hundred years off, and a thousand years off. We’ve been looking for it for thousands of years, and it’s never happened yet, so we ain’t looking for it now. Everything is so. Oh, no, we got churches and things. We don’t need nothing like that now.'” So then she was going along there, thinking.
148 You know, when you think about Him, that’s when He appears to you. Like we had last night, when they was on their road to Emmaus.

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« 149 † When she thought on those things, she heard a Man say, “Bring Me a drink.”
150 What about it? In her darkest of hours, when her morals was gone. Maybe a pretty little lady, been turned on the street to live that. Sometimes it’s not the little girl’s fault, it’s her parents’ fault, to let her get out like that. And there she was, maybe her little curls all hanging down; she was depleted, going along, weary, and nobody had anything to do with her, the child, and may be a big story behind it.
151 Anyhow, I know one thing, she had read the Bible, and she believed the Bible. And there was a little seed laying down in her heart, says, “If it ever happens, I’ll know it.” She was predestinated to that.

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« 152 † Look at that old Judas standing there and acting like what he did. It was black down in the bottom of his heart. The Light was shining up here in his works, but down in his heart he didn’t believe It. And here she was… See, the Light couldn’t get down to that. But here she was, believe, she believed It, but her life was blacked out; when the Light struck, It took the blackness out. But when the Light struck up here, It blacked it all over. That’s the difference.
153 See, she was born for that purpose. She, she said, when He told her how many husbands she had, she… What happened? She got all at once excited like. She got in distress. She said, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. I know that when the Messiah cometh, He’ll do these things.”
154 Then He called her. Then He called her. “I am He, He that speaks with you.” She recognized it by the Word of God. He called her from her sins, to a Life. And her name is in the Bible, and she has got immortal Life today.
155 He can call you the same way, because He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. The…
156 Yeah, her morals was gone, but still she knew that He had that discernment. She knowed that that had to be the Messiah. Then when Jesus said, “I am He, I am He,” she knowed that was.

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« 157 † One time the disciples was out on the boat, all hopes was gone. The storms, they had went away without Jesus, and the storms was just–just like it was at Lazarus’ house. All hopes was gone. The little old boat had waterlogged. And they was screaming and crying, and maybe praying and going on, and the lightning a flashing, and the boat filled up with water, the mast poles dropped down, the oars broke, and they were holding one another, crying.
158 And in that real darkest of hour, then Jesus come walking along. But He looked like a shadow to them. He looked scary, like a spirit, and they cried out with fear.
159 That’s what’s the matter today. Jesus comes in the hour of your dark hour, and you’re afraid of It. You don’t know what It is.
160 They didn’t know what He was. They said, “Oh, it’s a spirit!” They was screaming.

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« 161 † And then He called them, said, “Fear not, it is I.” In the darkest of hour, Jesus come along, their help. That’s the way He always does, comes in the darkest of hour. Then Jesus came and manifested Himself, and come to them.
Peter said, “If it be You, bid me come on water.”
Jesus said, “Come on.”
162 You know what, friends? Soon He will come for those in this last days. Now, isn’t it strange that the church has got in this dark hour again?

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« 163 † Now, I’m going to say something here. It’s not a doctrine. I’m just prophesying. You know what’s happened? It’s going to come to a place, soon, mark my word, that all denominations are going to have to join the Ecumenical Council. If they don’t, they can’t have the support of the Council. Therefore, there’ll be a boycott, and nobody can go to these churches, or go to any churches; unless you have a mark from your own church, you cannot buy or sell. You see it just as it was, so is it going to be again, a mark unto the beast. And the church, they’re realizing that, spiritual people.
164 And you Pentecostal people, anyhow, are recognizing it. You’ve begin to feel it. When your churches, many of the organizations of the Pentecostal; and I don’t have to call your names, but you know right now they are, they are coming into it. They’ve done witnessed that they were. And when you do that, what are you going to have to do? You’re going to have to forfeit your Evangelical teaching of the baptism of the Holy Ghost. You’re going to have to forfeit your doctrine of the Bible.
165 And the members is not going to stand for it. Real born-again Christians will die, first. They are born by the Word. They know this thing is coming. Yes, sir.

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« 166 † And isn’t it strange? And right in this darkest of hour, then Jesus comes along and calls us, said, “Don’t get scared. It’s Me. I’m still with you. I’m here to manifest My Word.” As He was then, so is He now. He said He would do that. Oh, my! The Master has come and has called for us.
167 Many sick people here, no doubt, that they’re sitting here, and the doctor has told you there is no–no hope for you. You may be in your darkest of hour, but, remember, the Master has come and called for you.

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« 168 † And someday, someday, the Master is going to come and call for every name that’s wrote on the Lamb’s Book of Life. If yours are not there, get it on there now, for He is going to come and call. Even those that are in the grave shall hear His Voice and come forth to Life. The Master will come and call for you. And while He is calling today, answer and make preparations for that Day, is my advise to you.
169 The promise of this age, He promised He would be here. The things that He did, He would do again, and now again the Master has come and calls for you.

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« 170 † Let us bow our heads. I got about six more pages here, but I–I can’t get to that now. Let’s bow our heads. I promised to let you out early, and it’s already quarter after.
171 Heavenly Father, O Lord, let it happen again. All these things that I have said, “Jesus has come and calls for thee.” What does He do when He comes? He calls. And let it happen again, Lord. Let Thy Holy Spirit come among the people tonight, the Lord Jesus in the form of–of the Spirit. Let Him come tonight and reveal Himself, and then manifest Himself. Like those people, how they believed, we will believe, also, Lord. There is many here, maybe, that’s never had this opportunity. We pray that You’ll grant it to them again tonight. For we ask it for the glory of God, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

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« 172 † That’s it, sister, but just go ahead with that. That’s fine. Go right ahead. Oh, real quiet, everybody.
173 Do you believe He has come? He has. Does He still call when He comes? Now if you’ll just only believe. If you’ll just believe the Word of God, God will grant it.
174 Now look, I haven’t got time to call the prayer line up here. I’m going to call them tonight, out there, if the Lord willing. The Master has come. He has come to fulfill His Word in the last day. And what He was then, He is today. What His manifestation or identification was then, it is today, because He is still the Word of God. Do you believe that? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] And the Word of God is a discerner of the thoughts, intents of the heart. And way He did then, is the way He has always did. He is still the same. If He would do that just now, would you believe Him? Would it make you believe Him?
175 You people out there now, let me look first and see if there is anybody that I know, setting anywhere in here, that I know.

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« 176 † All that’s around, up in here, that don’t know me, raise up your hands; know that I don’t know nothing about you, and you’re sick, raise up your hands. I guess, everybody. All right, now, you believe. You just believe with all your heart. Don’t doubt. Have faith. Believe God.
177 I’m going to ask you to be real quiet, be seated. Don’t stir around now, please don’t. See? See? You are a–a soul, body, and spirit. And your spirit… And the Holy Spirit is real timid.

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« 178 † How many remembers, many years ago, that the Holy Spirit, when I come out here and told you? When I take the people by the hand, He told me this discernment would come, and then go on? You remember it, remember that? But He said, “If you can get the people to believe you.” Remember them days, many years ago? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] You’ve got to believe.
179 I seen a man, I believe it was down here at the other meeting, setting right there. And the Holy Spirit… I been watching him when I was preaching. He was a crippled man. He had crutches under his arms. And just when I started to make the call, Satan come to the man, a black shadow. And I watched it with my own eyes. He got up and walked out. He’ll always be crippled, see. And so, he, where he’d be healed right there if he just–just… See? But, just, I don’t know why. I guess he just listened to the enemy. But if you’d stand and watch those shadows, see those things in forms, the way they are, and watch them how they do. See, it would be.

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« 180 † Now, I cannot heal. The man that tells you he can heal you, he’s wrong. You’re already healed. But, it’s recognizing the Presence of Jesus Christ. Now if Martha knew that if she could see Him again, that she would get her desire, because He was the manifested Word, can’t we believe that much tonight, to believe it? Sure, we ought to. He has come. He has come, He has come in the form of the Holy Ghost. That’s Who He is. Now you just pray.
181 See, up here, if I had somebody standing here, right here by me, just–just praying; seen so many people praying, it’s all over the building. You just have to watch it. You can’t say. “Say, Brother Branham…” No, sir. I–I couldn’t do it, no more than you can dream me a dream. See? You might dream. You, God could have you dream a dream of me, you believe that, but you can’t do it yourself. You can’t say, that, “Brother Branham, I’m going to dream a dream of you now.” No, you can’t do that. Neither can I see a vision. Ever who gives a dream to you, that’s the one has to do it. The same way it is by a vision.

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« 182 † I see a man sitting right here at the end of the row, with arthritis. If he will believe with all of his heart, God will heal him of the arthritis. Do you believe He’ll do it, sir? Sitting out there, the Mexican man, sitting at the end of the row, will you believe it? All right, sir.
183 The lady sitting next to you, she also has arthritis, too. Do you believe God will heal you, lady? (Has this got a rebound to it? I’m afraid the people don’t hear it.) You will? All right.
184 How about the other little Mexican lady sitting by her? She is suffering with a stomach trouble. Do you believe God will heal your stomach, lady?
185 She got it. When I see that Light go down, that means it happened. Yeah. That’s it. It struck her. There It was, swirling right around… [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.]… that does it. See? When He can find the faith! See, “Many things He could not do because of their unbelief.”

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« 186 † Here is a lady sitting here praying, right here. She is scared. She should be. She has got a cancerous condition, real bad. I don’t know you, but God knows you. Do you believe that God can tell me about this cancer, or something another? Look at me. There is so many there praying, you see, is what I’m saying it for. Look at us. Now, yes, you’re not from here, this is not your home. You’re from a place called Porterville, California. That’s right. Do you believe God can tell me who you are? He knows. Your name is Mrs. Wintham. That’s right. Now believe, and the cancer will leave you. If thou canst believe! That’s all God asks you to do. If thou canst believe!
187 Don’t you believe that with all your heart? Somebody in this section in here, can’t you believe? The Master has come and called for you. He is calling you from death to Life, from sickness to health.

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« 188 † Here is a man setting right back here, head down, praying. He is really not praying for himself, he is praying about somebody else. It’s a–a girl. It’s his daughter. Do you believe, sir? You got trouble with your legs. You got trouble with your knee. That’s right. No need of weeping, that’s Him there by you. Your daughter is in a hospital, isn’t she? Tuberculosis case. You believe. You believe? The Master has come and calls for her. Will you believe that you’ll find her totally well? You will? May He visit her tonight, and you. May it be over.
189 Here is a little boy, little brown-faced boy. He is suffering with a skin disease, and asthma, a little Mexican boy, Mexican boy sitting there. He isn’t from here. He is from San Jose. Do you believe, son? Another thing, your father is here with you. He is a minister. That is right. Do you believe God can tell me what your name is? Would it make you believe real strong? Your name is Reuben. Now believe. All right.
190 The Master has come and He calls for you. Oh, sinner, oh, sick person, don’t you see the Master manifested in a human beings, between believers? He has come to call His believing children to health. He has come to call the sinner to repentance. Backslider, church member, the Master has come and calls for you.

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« 191 † Do you believe it? Do you believe it for your need right now? If you do, raise up your hand, say, “I believe for my need.” Then raise up on your feet now and accept it. The Master is come and calls for thee. And whoever you are, whatever need you have for, the Master has come and He calls for you. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
192 That little women went into the city, and said, “Come, see a Man Who told me what was wrong.” You didn’t go into the city. You come and seen it, yourself, so the Master has come and calls for thee.
193 Raise up your hands and praise Him, and say, “Lord Jesus, I’m a sinner; forgive me. I’m a backslider; take me back, Lord. I need the Holy Ghost; fill me. I’m sick; heal me. I’m crippled; make me well.” The Master has come and calls for thee. Raise up your hands now and give Him praise. Amen.

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« 194 † Give us a little chord here, “I will praise Him, I will praise Him.” You know, “I will praise Him.” You know that, don’t you? Do you believe?
I will praise Him, I will praise Him,
Oh, praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give Him glory, all ye people,
For His Blood has washed away each stain.
195 You love Him? Now don’t you love to sing to Him while He is here? He is a Spirit moving around through the building. He knows your hearts, knows all about you. Let’s sing it to Him, with all of our heart.
I will praise Him, (raise your hands when you do it), I… (now just praise Him)… praise Him,
Oh, praise the Lamb for sinner slain;
Oh, give Him glory, all ye people,
For His Blood has washed away each stain.
196 Oh, lady, you in the wheel chair, if you’ll just believe a little more right there. “I…” Let’s try it once more. I’m waiting on something.
I will praise Him, I will praise Him,
Oh, praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give Him glory, all ye people,
For His Blood has washed away each stain.
197 Now while we sing that again, turn around, get a hold of somebody’s hand, while we sing it, sing, “I’ll praise Him.” Come on, all together now.
I will praise Him, I will praise Him,
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give Him glory, all ye people,
For His Blood has washed away each stain.

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« 198 † Oh, sinner friend, won’t you walk up here now? Come up and give Him praise, all ye people. All you people that wants to confess Him as Saviour. In His Presence, while the saints are worshiping in the Spirit, won’t you come here and stand? Say, “I want to testify, tonight. I want to give Him praise. I want to come. I’m not ashamed of Him. I want the world to know that I accept Him as my Saviour, right here while He is present.” Come while we sing it.
I will praise Him, (won’t you come?) I will praise Him,
Oh, praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Oh, give Him glory, all ye people,
For His Blood has washed away each stain.

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« 199 † Oh, that’s it, lady, come right on. Who else will come, in the Presence of Christ? Come right up here, sister, stand here.
200 Some other person that wants Him to be your Saviour, right now, that’s not ashamed. He said, “If you’re ashamed of Me before man, I’ll be ashamed of you before My Father and the holy Angels.” If you’re not ashamed of Him now, and you want Him for your Saviour, while He’s here! You’ve seen Him. It’s so perfect, the Word Himself make It known. Come up while the saints are worshiping now. Won’t you come up?
201 God bless you, sir. Here comes an old lady, coming to a real age. Won’t you come now?
I will… (sing it now)… I will praise…
202 That’s right, young folks, come right on around. Just praise. God bless you, lady, that’s the way to do it. God bless you, young ones.
… sinners slain;
Give Him glory, all ye people,
For His Blood has washed away each stain.
203 While the ministers are going to these people now won’t somebody else come? Backslider, will you come, say, “I’m ashamed of my life”? Here He is. You believe me to be God’s servant? Raise your hands. Why, Jesus Christ is in the midst of us. Won’t you come?
Give Him glory… (Won’t you come, give Him glory?)… people,
For His Blood has washed away…

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« 204 † Martha, are you coming, or are you going to set in the house with Mary? Are you going to stay back in some organization, and say, “Oh, my church don’t believe It this way,” when Christ is made manifest? Are you going to set back and say that, or are you coming out? “Well, I’ll tell you, when I…” No. Today, this is the hour. Death hangs around you, like Jairus’ daughter.
205 Come now! Backslider, come now. Sinner, come now. This is the time. The Master has come and He calls for you. He is calling you. You say, “How do I know?” He is using my voice. If He uses my voice to tell sickness, afflictions and things, don’t you know He is calling also for sin. Come out! Come now, this may be the last opportunity you’ll ever have.

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« 206 † Once more, there is more in here ought to come, friends. I don’t want to embarrass you, to call you out like this. That’s not right. If you’ll sometimes maybe… Them Pharisees thought they were saved, but they wasn’t. You are thinking the same thing. Come now.
207 Be sure! Don’t, don’t just take a halfway chance on it. If there’s a little doubt in your mind, don’t take no chance. Come on now. Now is the time, now while the Fountain is open, while the Holy Spirit is here. The Master has come. That little doubt, is what He is trying to tell you, “You’re doubting.” Give it over. Come on, now. The Master has come and calls for thee. That’s right, just keep coming, keep right on coming.
I will praise Him, I will praise Him, (Won’t you come give Him praise?)
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give Him glory, all ye people,
For His Blood has washed away each stain.
208 Now while the sinners are coming, to claim Him; let the people give Him praise, as we sing it now. Up with your hands, sing, and praise Him, all together.
I will praise Him, I will praise Him,
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain!
209 Just give Him praise! You people around here, pray, ask Him to forgive you. That’s what He’ll do. The Master has come and calls for you. God bless you. `

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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« 127 † And the first thing you know, you… He see it didn’t take with the people. He kept saying something another like that, and they just set and looked at one another. It didn’t go with them kind of people, them Pentecostals. So after a while he seen he was defeated, and he got his stuff up under his arm, walked off the platform, his head down, drooping. An old saint setting over at the wall, said, “If he would have went up the way he come down, he would have come down the way he went up.” And that’s just about the way it is, too.
128 Humble yourself, see how little you can be; not what you know, what you don’t know. Let yourself get humble before God.
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« 129 † Now watch, first, He, in the Presence of God, He was reverent, with His face covered. Secondly, He was humble before God, with His feet covered. And His next two wings, He could fly, put Him in action. Oh, my!
130 What was God doing? He was showing the prophet how His prepared servant should be. The God was showing, “These are My servants. These are Mine. Look how they are prepared; reverent, humble, and in action.” That’s way God’s servants are. Oh, my!
131 That’s the way we should be: reverent to God’s Word, humble, and in action for God.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

–Rev. William Marrion Branham

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

–Rev. William Marrion Branham

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

–Rev William Branham

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

–Rev William Marrion Branham