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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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« 1 † ` Greetings to this fine audience here tonight, Sister Webster and Brother Green, and all the audience, the members of this assembly. It’s always a privilege for me to come to the house of the Lord, and then, tonight, to be back again in one of the Foursquare churches of His.

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« 2 † I remember, years ago, when I first came to Los Angeles. I had heard of Sister McPherson, but she had done climbed the golden stairs before I become in the way. And when I went to Los Angeles the first time, I went up to Forest Lawn. I heard she was buried up there, and I went up and stood by her grave, and bowed my head and gave thanks to God for a noble life. Since then, I have seen the Foursquare sign in nearly every nation I’ve missionaried in. I’ve had the privilege of being in the temple, waiting in her waiting room. Before she would go to the pulpit, she had a room there. And I’ve set there, many night, while speaking at the temple, and think of the hours that she might have meditated before entering the pulpit, the sacredness of opening up the Word of God. To be here, tonight, with some of the followers that’s trying to keep that message alive: God be with you, bless you.

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« 3 † And then to be back with Brother Green, a precious, dear friend, Brother and Sister Green. And when I was out there, a while ago, and met him, I–I told him how much I enjoyed that message in song, the other day, that up there at the businessmen, about, The Name Of Jesus, or something, he called it. They don’t have it recorded yet. I told him, “Let me be the first customer,” it was so, such a beautiful song.
4 And I thought they might sing for me tonight when I got down, and–and my wife and children are back there to listen at it. And I’m sure they enjoyed it too. And his voice is not… It’s really familiar around our place. I’ve got many of his recordings. When I get feeling real bad, I go in, I have one of those record players, and I put on a whole bunch of his records, and just set back and listen to them. I want to say to the wife back there, I just got some more of them. I certainly enjoy them. They’re… They are a haven of rest, just to hear them Gospel songs, to know that they are sang not from some mechanical trained voice, but coming from the heart of a real Christian.
5 He told me he had some out there yet tonight. I want my wife, them, look it over, to see if there’s any he’s got out there, we haven’t got, and be sure to pick them up. I think they have them out in the vestibule. And they’re…

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« 6 † You know, the main thing, as what I think about singing, I like these. I like trained voices, but I don’t like an overtrained voice. Then you just see how long you hold your breath, till you get blue in the face, and you’re not saying nothing anyhow. But I like good old pentecostal singing, where you just open up and sing. I–I like that. And Brother Green has that, he and Sister Green. And so we know that that’s backed up by these choirs, and so forth. And it’s very fine to know that, these things, we can get a hold of them.

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« 7 † Now, Brother–Brother Green and I first met, I believe, that I can think of, I believe it was in Kansas City, when we used to have the conventions out there. How I used to set out… They said, “Well, it ain’t time to come on yet.” But I’d wait out in my car, and I wanted to be sure to hear that singing, when he–he and sister were singing.
8 So I told him out there, I said, “I trust, that, some of these days when I cross over the river…”
9 I love singing, so well! And I–I just can’t sing. That’s all. I’ve always wanted to sing, and I–I just can’t do it. And I used to try to sing a song at the church, “Old-fashioned meeting in an old-fashioned place.” I’d mess it all up. I’d just take my wife’s hand when I got home, I say, “Honey, I’ll never try it again, so help me.” I just get the… everybody else all messed up.

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« 10 † But one of these days I’m going to sing. And I’ve always thought, maybe over on the hillside, where the–the river of Life runs down along by the Throne; when that great choir of all the redeemed, those great voices will be on that hillside, singing. I hope there’s a little shade tree over on the other side. You want to see me, just come around there. I’ll be setting there, listening at them.
11 But then when you get over in your palace, some morning, and walk out on the porch of your palace; and way down somewhere, down there in the woods, there’s a little shack built somewhere. I’ll… Walk out on your porch and hear somebody singing, “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound.” You say, “Oh, Brother Branham made it, ’cause there he is. He–he finally got there.” So I’ll be able to sing then. Until then I just have to make a joyful noise to the Lord.

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« 12 † Aren’t we happy? We haven’t got a thing to worry about, not a thing. We’ve anchored in Christ, setting in Heavenly places, caught up in Rapturing grace right now, setting in His Presence in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Death itself can’t touch us. Anchored away, nothing can bother us, just simply secured and waiting for His Coming. And we’re grateful for this.

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« 13 † Now, I got about a hundred and fifty miles to drive tonight, and after the service. And with a fine crowd like this, and it takes me a long time to get started, and then twice that long to get stopped. And so I’ll try to get right in to say what I plan on saying, as quick as possible. I want to thank the pastor, associates and all, for this opportunity to come here, to give my testimony of His grace tonight, in this fine congregation.
14 I climbed, some time ago, up on South Mountain, looked down over the valley. I thought of about thirty-five years ago when I first entered this valley. How this city has growed, just got just spread out all over the Maricopa Valley here. Just far as you can see, is city. I was setting there with my wife, and I said, “You know, honey, perhaps about three hundred years ago, there wasn’t nothing raced through here but coyotes and javelina hogs, and so forth, around through the country. And then man came in and begin to build. Then civilization begin to spread. Then sin and violence set in.”

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« 15 † I thought, “Wouldn’t this be a wonderful place?” I’ve always thought someday I’d like to live in Phoenix. And then I… looking upon the valley, I could almost, in my heart, feel like weeping, that what a beautiful place it would be if it was here without sin.
16 How they’ve taken just the desert and has converted it into a–a living quarters! Today we were riding up around on the head of the Camelback, lovely homes up there, almost like you’re entering paradise. And then it would be beautiful, but sin is here everywhere: whiskey joints, immorality, just everything that’s wrong, all kind of devices, and traps of the enemy, to trap human souls.
My wife said, “Then why are you here, Billy?”
17 I said, “Honey, it’s black. But, you know, there is, all through that darkness down there, there’s little spots of Light. That’s God’s chosen. And I’m here to put my shoulder with theirs, put my heart with theirs, my voice with theirs, and cry out against the darkness.”

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« 18 † That’s why I’m here in Phoenix again. May God of Heaven help us. And after the night is over, and our little meeting that’s passing through the city, from church to church, amongst all the denominations of the full Gospel. And they ended up with the businessmen’s convention over at the Ramada. I trust that we’ll leave a mark across here, that will mean that in the little Light that’s been scattered, that many souls will find Christ, many sick people of the faith will be healed. We already begin to see, showing results.
19 And I trust, tonight, if there’s any would come in here tonight, under this care of–of the shelter of this place, that something will be said in the song, testimony, or the reading of the Word, or something, that’ll cause you to go out the door a different person than you come in. Help us all to do it.

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« 20 † And now before we approach the Word, let’s approach the Author by the way of prayer. Let us bow our heads just a moment. With our heads and hearts bowed before God, would there be a request among the people tonight, that you have something special that you’d like to ask the Lord to help you in? Just raise your hand. And way down in your heart, say, “Lord, You know what it is.” Thank you. God bless you.

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« 21 † Our Heavenly Father, we are coming now in that all-sufficient Name, the Lord Jesus, knowing this that He promised, “If you ask the Father anything in My Name, it’ll be granted.” We come, first, to confess that we have erred. We have did wrong. And there’s none of us good, not one. And we’re coming to confess our sins, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. We’re asking for pardon.
22 And Thou did see the hands of the people, that was raised up tonight, and You know what was beneath that hand, what they had need of. And I’m offering my prayer with theirs, laying it upon Thy altar, and asking for mercy, that You, Lord, will give mercy, and will answer each and every request.
23 We want to thank You for this church, for its pastors, and for all the laity, and all the deacons and the trustees, and all that comes. Bless them, Lord. And we know that our meetings and coming together would altogether be in vain, if You didn’t meet with us.

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« 24 † So we pray, Heavenly Father, that we have the assurance now that You are with us. Continue, O Lord, to be with us through the night. Help us. If there, by chance, would be those who have come in from the street, or the hedges and byways of the world, that’s been, in their life, indifferent toward You, may this be the night that they’ll say that all-sufficient “yes” to God, and surrender, give themselves over to Jesus Christ.
25 If there be sick among us, Lord, Thou art the great Physician Who has never lost a case.
26 We think of the day that we’re living in, when sickness and gross darkness is covering the earth. But we think again that when You were leading Your people, Moses brought them out of–of Egypt, taking them to the promised land, and all down along the journey for forty years. And when they entered the promised land there wasn’t a feeble one among them.

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« 27 † How many physicians tonight would like to look in upon the prescription that Moses had, that kept all those people healthy for forty long years. And, yet, You have not hid it. You’ve made it known to us all, and it’s written here on the pages, so simple. “I’m the Lord that heals all of thy diseases.” May we realize that tonight, Lord, the sick and needy, and know that there’s not a disease but what You are the remedy, the double-cure.
28 Bless the reading of Thy Word. And may our hearts now come down to the seriousness of the meeting. From our hearts being filled with joy over the singing of the Gospel, and testimonies, and so forth, we’re just so grateful. Now may we hear Thy Word. And speak to us, Father, and bless these few notes that’s been prepared for the evening, for we ask it in His Name and for His glory. Amen.

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« 29 † There’s many people who, coming to the service, likes to always mark down what a minister has to say, or read from the Scripture. And if you do that, I want you to turn with me tonight for just a little reading found over in the Book of Saint Matthew’s Gospel, the 15th chapter, the 21st to the 28th verse. I would read this.
Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre of Sidon–Sidon.
And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him,… Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
But he answered and said, I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
But he answered and said, It is not meet for me to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs.
… she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat… the crumbs which fall from the masters’ table.
Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.

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« 30 † If I would call this a text, I would like to speak just a moment, or for a few minutes, rather, upon the subject of: Perseverance.
31 I thought, being that Mrs. McPherson and the church has always stood so gallantly for Divine healing, and we cannot preach the full Gospel without preaching Divine healing, because it is part of the Gospel.

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« 32 † I remember, as a little boy, reading an article in one of the magazines, Life or Look, or some of those magazines. I was just a young lad. Of them making light of Mrs. McPherson, of preaching Divine healing, and they said that she had a–a trick that she did. Said, “Women that had goiters; she put a pin under her finger, and the women put a balloon under her garment. Then Mrs. McPherson would lay hands on the woman, would stick the pin into the–the balloon, and would deflate the balloon.
33 I was a sinner, but I had better sense than that, to think such a thing. If the pin stuck the balloon, it would burst. So I said, “No doubt but what that woman is suffering persecution.” And then, since I have become a worker in the vineyard, I realize what she had to stand. Standing for truths, you’re always hated of the enemy.

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« 34 † The word perseverant means to be, I think, according to Webster, “persistent.” To be perseverant, “persistent in making a goal.” And every person on earth, or that’s ever been on earth, that ever achieved anything, had… that amounted to anything, had to be perseverant. You’ve got to be sure, first, what you got your faith anchored in.
35 Now, faith is just not a thing that so easily floated around, and some kind of a… we would call it, in a street expression, a hocus-pocus. Faith can only have its–its right position when it’s placed upon something that’s steadfast.
36 If I told you to go out and put your hand on that tree and be healed, you could doubt that. So, why? We have no background to anything. You’d only have my word. And if I told you that washing in a certain water out here in the–in the valley would bring healing to you, it would depend on how much confidence you had in me.
37 “And faith cometh by hearing.” Hearing what? “The Word of God.”
38 Therefore, if This be the Word of God, and It is, what It teaches we can rest upon It. God cannot change. God must forever remain God. His Word must be just as true in this age as it ever was in any age.

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« 39 † Now, we are finite. We can say something this year, and maybe even tomorrow have to alter it. Because, we’re not too sure, because we’re finite. We’re just presuming. And presume means “to adventure without authority.”
40 But when God says anything, it’s perfect. He don’t have to alter it. “Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong, giving praise to God, because he knowed that He was able to perform, or to keep, or to do that what He had promised.” Then, if God is ever called on the scene for a decision, and the decision that God makes, first, it has to forever remain the same. It can never change. It cannot be altered, because He’s infinite. And anything that’s infinite never had a beginning or an end. So He cannot take it back next year, and say, “I was wrong.”
41 And then if that was His decision, then every man that makes that same, comes to that same decision that God made for one man upon the basis of his faith, to believe it, He’s got to meet that same thing every time a man believes it. God has got to act, every time, the way He acted the first time, or He acted wrong the first time. And who can accuse God of acting wrong? God has got to ever remain with His decision.

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« 42 † “If thou canst believe!” Now, to achieve anything, you’ve got to set a goal and say, “This I believe,” and tie yourself to it, and keep drawing, moving up closer to it, knowing that you’ve… it’s there, knowing that there is something there that you’re coming to.
43 Like it was said, the little boy with the kite, holding the string in his hand. He said, the man said, “What are you holding, son?”
He said, “My kite.”
He said, “I don’t see nothing but a string.”
He said, “But there’s a kite on the end of it.”
The man looked up, said, “I don’t see the kite.”
The little boy said, “Neither do I.”
He said, “Well, how do you know you got a kite?”
He said, “I can feel it tugging at the end.”
44 Well, that’s the way faith is. “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” As long as you set your faith on it, and then anchor to it, you’re coming to it. No matter if you can’t see it, or not, you know it’s there anyhow. You’re tugging at it, and it’s pulling you. And any man that’s ever done anything worthwhile, has set a goal, and then been persistent, perseverant, to make that: great men.

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« 45 † George Washington, “the father of our nation,” is called, when he come to Valley Forge. After all night in prayer, until he was wet with the snow, up above his hips, kneeling in the snow, the next morning he crossed Delaware, full of ice. Why? He was perseverant. He had the answer. Nothing is going to stand in his way. Although three or four busket… musket bullets went through his coat, but it never hurt him. He try… He wanted to achieve something, and he had prayed through on it, and he was perseverant. Nothing stood in his way.

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« 46 † Could you imagine Noah in his days, how perseverant Noah was? Now, he was just a farmer.
47 And they lived in a greater day of scientific research, perhaps, than we have today, because in those days they built pyramids. And if any of you have had the privilege of being at the big Egyptian pyramid and seeing the Sphinx and so forth, why, it’s amazing to see. How they ever did get those boulders up there in the air, almost a city block high, they weighed thousands of tons! Today we could not reproduce it. We don’t understand. They had something.
48 They had a dye. They had something they could embalm a body with, that would make it look quite natural for thousands of years. We don’t have those arts, colorings, and so forth, that they had; a great scientific age.

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« 49 † But one day, while Noah was out in the–the field, maybe fixing his crop, God appeared to him and told him, “Make ready for the saving of your household, and build an ark. And it’s going to rain.”
50 Now, we all know that, the antediluvian world, it had not rained. And now, that didn’t cope with the scientific thinkers of that day. His message was contrary. No doubt that smart scientists could have come to him and said, “Now, looky here, Mr. Noah. Now we got instruments that we can shoot the moon, and we can do all these scientific researches. And there is no water up there. And how is there going to come any water down from there, when there’s no water up there to come down? You’re foolish. You’re doing something that there’s nothing to. There’s no water up there.”
51 But Noah could say, “God said that it would rain, and that settles it. God said so.” A hundred and twenty years, he was persistent in the face of the scientific world of his day, still claiming his message was right because it come from God. He had a goal to make. He had a message to take care of, and he was persistent in doing so. No matter what the rest of the world said, Noah heard from God. That’s all that mattered to him. He had heard the Voice. He was sure it was God, and he was making ready something that seemed very silly to the world. But, yet, Noah knew that God would keep His Word.

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« 52 † Should that not be a lesson for us today, the hour? As Jesus said, “As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man.” A message that’s silly, to the world. They don’t understand it. But yet those who contacted the Holy Spirit, knows that He will return again.
53 I can see the people as they pitied poor old Noah, about how much fun he was missing, and of the world and the things that’s going on. But Noah, still persistent, held right on.
54 One day God said to Noah, “All right, you’ve done your part now. Now come into the ark, you and your household.” And the… Noticed the–the birds begin to fly in, and–and the animals begin to go in, by two-by-two. Noah and his family went in.

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« 55 † And there is always borderline believers, I call them; people that’ll come to church, they’ll enjoy a message maybe from the choir or from the singers, from the minister, or a testimony. They’ll enjoy it, but, to come in and be part of it, they just won’t do it. They like to listen, but they won’t be part of it. They do not want to be identified with them. They want to stay off to one side. That’s always been, and no doubt there was in that day.

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« 56 † Then when the ark door was closed, many of those people said, “Well, let’s go up and stand around, now, if it comes to pass that, for instance, the old man was right. We all kind of thought that the old fellow was a little bit off, but I–I–I enjoyed listening at him preach, standing there in the door. And now we know that something closed that door. Now, he’s a good old man. And if it would happen to be, some water come down up there, why, why, he’d take us in.” You see, you don’t want to trust…
57 You don’t want to strain God’s goodness. You want to be sure that you just come in while you got a chance to come in.
58 Then, the first thing you know, the first day. Look how God puts a strain on His people, sometime. I’d imagine, the first day, Noah said to his family, “All right, now we’ll climb up into the upstairs. Now, in the morning, the skies are going to be dark. Never was dark before. We’ve never seen it. Rain is going to fall. Lightning will sweep across the skies.” And the next morning up comes the sun. No sign. All day long, Noah and his family looked. Well, things went on just exactly the way they did.
59 I imagine the borderline believers said, “Aw, the old fellow was wrong.” They went on back downtown, eating, drinking, and being merry.
60 I imagine, his family, what a strain it must have been on the man. But he didn’t give up and start knocking on the door, and saying, “People, pry the door open. I was wrong.” Why? He knew he had the truth, and he held on to it.
61 “If it didn’t rain today, it will tomorrow.” That’s it. All right.

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« 62 † Then the second day come, and we notice the sun came up. It crossed over just like it did every day. No sign of rain. Still he was persistent. On to seven days, Noah was setting right there, said, “If it didn’t rain today, it will tomorrow.” See, he was anchored. He was persistent, perseverant, because he knowed that God said so, and it had to be that way.
63 Now, finally, on the seventh day, when he looked out the window, the skies were blackening. The wind was blowing across the hills. The trees were bending over. People were screaming, not knowing what to do. And after while, great big drops of rain begin to break down for the first time, striking upon the streets. The sewers filled up. All the springs broke up. The water began to rise. People got into their boats, and they sank. The winds were rough. And it got deeper, and deeper, and deeper. After while, it begin come up on the ship. He watched out the window.

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« 64 † Finally, the people screaming, there’s no way for him to reach out and get them. He was way up in the upper story. They had sinned away their day of grace. There was no more left for them. It was too late then. Finally, what a feeling it must have been, to Noah, when he watched out on the street and seen all the little boats, whether they were God-constructed or not.
65 You see, people think that today. “They can construct their own ark. They can make their own salvation.” You can’t do it. God made the salvation for us, and we’ve got to accept it. Just a man-constructed ark will not stand. Anything that man can achieve, that’s contrary to the will and the Word of God, it will not stand.

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« 66 † But how it must have been when Mrs. Noah and her daughter-in-laws, and–and son–sons, and so forth, when they seen this water coming up on the ark, and yet the ark was still setting flat. But after while they felt it cut loose. She was floating. Oh, Noah knew that all of his, what he had tried to achieve, what he had done, his message was paying off then. It was cut loose. He was leaving the earth.
67 Like it is when a man will stay, not come up and shake hands with the pastor, put his name on a book, but when he’ll stay there until he feels something cut loose inside of him, and he begins to float out yonder by faith, knowing that his sins are past, and he’s anchored his soul in Christ, and there is something raising him higher and higher; persistent, perseverant.

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« 68 † Moses was very perseverant, after he had went down in Egypt and killed a man, and with all of his education and his training. And yet he done the thing wrong, he try, ’cause he trusted in what he could achieve by his education and by his own. We’re told that he was a military man. And what he had been trained to do, we find out that it failed. And when it failed, he wasn’t perseverant on that, he run to the wilderness for forty years.
69 But one time he met God in a burning bush, took off his shoes, he saw the glory of God. He seen a dry stick turn into a serpent, and go back to a stick again. He saw a leper hand be healed by the power of God. And he heard the Voice of God speak to him. Nothing is going to stop him then.

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« 70 † I’ve often described him. I hope it’s not a sacrilegious way. An old man, eighty years old, with his wife setting straddled a mule, with a–a young’n on her hip. The next day… And the beard hanging down, the stick in his hand, going, his eyes set up, and–and towards the sky, and a white beard blowing.
And somebody say, “Where you going, Moses?”
71 “I’m going down to Egypt, to take over.” A one-man invasion, it looked kind of ridiculous. But God’s ways, to the carnal mind, is ridiculous. But it’s precious to those who is anchored in it. They know what they’re talking about. They press on. Oh, what a thing that must have been! Noah or…

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« 72 † Moses, rather, going down to Egypt, a nation that had the world scared, about like Russia today. A one-man invasion, an old man, eighty years old, with his wife setting on a mule, and a crooked stick in his hand, going down to take over. The thing, strange about it, to the world, he did do it. He took over.
73 God only has to have one man, one person, somewhere, that’s tied to Him, someone who knows where they’re standing and is perseverant. The persecutions then, difference, doesn’t bother them, at all. Going down to take over, and he did it.

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« 74 † It looked very ridiculous when there stood a man some fourteen-feet tall, or more. I believe, his fingers, fourteen-inches long; with a spear in his hand, like a weaver’s needle, probably half from here to the door out there; standing over, and challenging Israel. There was Saul on the other side, head and shoulders above his army, a trained man, all of them well-trained, and bluffed. That’s right.
75 And the Devil wanted to proposition with them. That’s the way the Devil does when he thinks he’s got the best side. “Come over. Let’s not have no bloodshed. Just two of us. If I whip your man, then we’ll… you’ll serve us. If he kills me, then there’ll only be one of us die instead of armies of us.” What a proposition he can make! Everybody was scared to death.

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« 76 † And it looked ridiculous to see a little, stooped-shouldered kid come up with a little sheepskin wrapped around him, a slingshot tied on his side, with some raisin cakes in his hand, to see his brothers. And that devil made his boast in the front of a man of God, one time, and he called his hand on it. Why? He knowed Who God was. Said, “I’ll… You mean to tell me that you’ll let the armies of the living God let that uncircumcised Philistine defy the armies of the living God? I’ll go fight him.” Oh, my! Why? He was persistent.

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« 77 † His brothers said, “Aw, we know you’re naughty. Go on back home with them sheep dad told you to watch. You just come up here to see the battle.” You can’t out-talk a man of God, when something has done happened to him.
78 So he goes up to Saul. Saul, I imagine, scratched his head and looked down. He said, “I admire your courage, son, but that man is a warrior. That man is a warrior, from his youth. And you’re nothing but a youth, and don’t know nothing about a sling or about a spear, or how to duel.”
79 Oh, but watch him introduce something. “Your servant kept the sheep for his father.” And he said, “One day a bear came in and he took one of my father’s lambs, and I went after him, and I slew him. And then a lion come in and got one and took him out, and I went after him, and I slew him. Now,” he said, “the God that give me the victory over the bear and over the lion, how much more will He give me the victory over that uncircumcised Philistine that’s defying the armies of the living God?”
80 Saul said, “But you’re just a kid.” He said, “You haven’t got nothing on, just a little sheepskin. Wait, I’ll–I’ll put my armor on you.”

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« 81 † So he took him and put his armor on him. Could you imagine? The Bible said he was “ruddy,” a little bitty, maybe a hundred-and-ten-pound man, putting on a great big armor of a man would weigh about two-fifty, about seven-foot-and-something tall. He was all mashed down. Could you imagine that?
82 David looked around. The shoulders about that much too far out. And it looked like a skirt on him, hanging way down like that, his breastplate. He found out that the ecclesiastical vest didn’t fit a man of God. Uh-huh. Said, “Take the thing off of me. I don’t know nothing about it. But let me go with what I know is right.” There you are. He went in the power of the Spirit.

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« 83 † I believe it was Hudson Taylor once said to a Chinese missionary. This Chinese boy said, “Mr. Taylor, I have felt my call in Christ.” He said, “Shall I go now and study to get my Bachelor of Art, and then for my Ph. D., and all I have to have, my doctor’s degree?”
84 Mr. Taylor said, “Go now, son. Go now. Don’t wait till that time comes. You’ll waste away too much of your life.”
85 I think that’s right. I agree with Mr. Taylor. Go now. I’m not trying to support my ignorance now by trying to say we don’t need education. That might have its place. But education without salvation has no anchor. It’s all sails and no anchor. Go when the candle is lit. Don’t wait till it’s half burnt up. Go when you light it. If you don’t know nothing no more than how it got lit, tell others how it got lit, maybe they’ll get lit too. See? [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.] So just as soon as the candle is lit, go tell everybody how you got your candle lit, and maybe they’ll get lit off of you. See? Notice.
Certainly, David was persistent, because he knew.

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« 86 † Samson was met on the field one day with a thousand Philistines around him. And looked all around the… He wasn’t a trained man that knew how to duel. But when he turned his head he felt that covenant, them locks strike his shoulders. That’s all he had to feel. He got the first thing in his hand, was a jawbone of a mule, and he beat down a thousand Philistines. Why? He was persistent because he knowed that God had made a covenant with him, of those seven locks. Long as they hung in their place, nothing was going to bother him.
87 Oh, brother, sister, how the Church of the living God ought to stand tonight, persistent. As long as we can feel the covenant of the Holy Spirit, the Blood of Jesus Christ cleansing us from all sin, we should never let nothing stand in our way. Persistent, certainly.

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« 88 † John, the great prophet that was spoke of, to raise up; when he was in the wilderness, he was told by God. They was looking for a messiah, of course; four hundred years before they had had a prophet. But, God told him, in the wilderness. He said, “Now, they’ll try to tell you, ‘Dr. So-and-so is the guy ought to be the Messiah, if you’re to announce Him. Why, he’s the best person in our congregation.’ And they’re going to say, ‘Well, the–the high priest’s grandson up here, he’s–he’s the guy should have it,’ and so forth. But, look, John, this is a real job. You’ve got to be sure, so I’m going to give you a sign. Upon Whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and remaining upon, that’ll be the One that’ll baptize with the Holy Ghost and fire.”

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« 89 † John stood there, watched over the congregations as they come. And he… Everybody coming this, that, and the other. But he couldn’t see Him. One day, while standing, debating with the priest, saying, “You mean to tell me the time will come when the daily sacrifice will be taken away?”
He said, “There’ll come a Man.”
90 And he looked. There it was. Said, “Behold, there is the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.”
91 He knew it because God had told him, “Upon Whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending.” He knew it. He was persistent.

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« 92 † Back to this little woman. We just got many things we could say about different ones that was perseverant, persistent, holding on, to achieve.
93 I’ve got a little slogan, that I say it quite a bit. It might be good for you to take it. “A winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.” Just think of it. “A winner never quits, and a quitter can’t win.” You must hold on. And before you even start, be dead sure you’re right. And then be persistent, let nothing move you. Go on. I’ve had quite a bit of experience of that, and you know it. I know this one thing, when you’re dead sure that you’re in the will of God, when you’re dead sure you’re centered in Calvary, nothing is going to move you. You’re there.

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« 94 † This little woman, she was a Greek, and a Syrophenician, and she had heard about the fame of Jesus. Now, how does faith come? By hearing, hearing of the Word. She had heard of Him. And you know, she might have had a lot of things to hinder her, by her being a Greek. “Faith cometh by hearing.” We know that. And she had a–a lot of things to hinder her, but faith finds a source no other knows anything about.
95 Faith finds this source that no one can explain it. It’s something that you know. Others can’t see it, but faith sees it. Faith sees that, where the natural eye doesn’t see it. But the inside eye sees that thing.
Now, she had a need of Jesus. She had.

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« 96 † First thing you have to do, if you’re going to find Christ, you’ve got to know that you’ve got a need of Him. When you think that you just don’t need Him, then you’ll never find Him, ’cause you won’t search Him diligently.
97 Did you notice that Scripture where it says, “Seek and ye shall find, knock and it’ll be opened”? Actually, that’s just not knock, like [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit once–Ed.], and it’ll be opened. He that’s not just say, “Well, I went out, Lord. Here I am. You want me?” No, that’s not it. “He that seeketh, he that knocketh,” continuation. [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit several times.] It has to compare with the rest of the Scriptures.
98 Like the unjust judge and the widow. She constantly knocked on his door. She was persistent. If he turned her away today, tomorrow she was on his hands again.

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« 99 † That’s the way you want to get God. Be on His hands, every morning, every night, every day, all the time, constantly. Just keep seeking, keep asking, keep knocking. Just don’t knock a little while, and get tired and go away. Just keep standing there, “Lord, I’m here, and I’m not going to leave. I’m on Your hands now. I’m going to stay right here. You getting tired listening? I’m having a great time knocking, ’cause I know You’re coming.” Amen. That’s when something happens. He has to get you off of His hand, see, so He comes out to answer you. Now, faith finds this.

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« 100 † His Word is a Sword. The Bible says, in Hebrews 4:12, that, “the Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword.”
101 Now, there’s only one thing can hold this Sword. That’s the hand of faith. The hand of faith is the only thing that can yield this sword of faith, sword of the Word. Now, you might have a weak arm, just enough to pick it up for justification, you’re so weak. Maybe that’s all you can cut through. But this sword of the Word will cut free every promise that God made in it, if they got a good strong arm of faith holding it there. “I believe God for my healing. I believe God for my baptism.” God made the promise, and faith holds this Sword, it’ll cut her out of the Rock yonder. Every promise of God can be cut free, by the Word of God, for it is a Sword.
She had many hindrances, but her faith didn’t have any.

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« 102 † You might have a lot of hindrances. Every person that starts out to meet Christ will find you got a lot of hindrances, but your faith don’t have any. Faith don’t have no hindrance. Faith has hairs on his chest, great big muscles.
Reasons raise up and said, “You know, it’s reasonable.”
103 Faith pulls his muscles back and sticks out his big chest, and said, “Shut up. Set down.” And reason jumps over in a corner and takes his stool. Right. Faith has got muscles, and he–he means what he says.
104 That’s what we need tonight. That’s what the Foursquare church needs. That’s what the Pentecostal group needs. That’s what the whole world needs. That’s what I need. That’s what you need. And we ought to be ashamed to admit it, but we need a faith that will hold God’s Word and say It’s true. Meet the Devil and say, “THUS SAITH THE LORD.”

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« 105 † I was reading the other day where a man said the Devil got before him. And said, “He was just a little bitty old devil, and he said, ‘Boo.'”
106 Said, “I jumped back.” And said, “He said, ‘Boo.’ I jumped back. Every time he’d holler, ‘Boo,’ and I’d jump back, he’d get bigger and I’d get littler.” And said, “He kept saying, ‘Boo.'” Said, “I’d get smaller each time when I jumped back, and he’d get bigger.”
107 Said, “I knowed I had to fight him, after while.” Said, “I looked around, thought, ‘What?’ I found the Word of God.” Said, “I rolled it in my hand. And the Devil said, ‘Boo.’ And I said, ‘Boo,’ back.” And said, “When I said, ‘Boo,’ back, every time I said, ‘Boo,’ he got smaller and I got bigger.” That’s it. You’ve got to fight him, sooner or later.
108 You know, the people don’t believe there’s a Devil. I run into him, all the time, uh-huh, head into him every day. Any other believer does. Yes, you got to fight him, sooner or later, so you might as well start right now. There’s only one thing he’s afraid of, is that Blood and that Word. Faith holds it. It’s strong, marches on.

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« 109 † Now, we find out, this little Greek woman, as I said, she had many hindrances, but her faith didn’t have any. Faith don’t have any hindrances. They might have said to her, “Do you know you’re a Greek? You’re–you’re–you’re a Greek. You know, you don’t belong to His denomination. Don’t go down there to that bunch.”
110 Now, that’s one of the hindrances. See? But if you got faith, you’re going, anyhow. That don’t make any difference, what denomination He’s in, just so He’s there.
111 She had a need. She had a daughter that was dying with epilepsy. And she had to get to Him, ’cause the doctors couldn’t do nothing for her. Can’t do it yet. So she had to get to Jesus. She had heard that He had healed those kind of cases.
112 “Well,” they said, “He, He’s not–He’s not… He never come with His revival to your denominations.” That didn’t hinder her. That little woman had faith. She was persistent. She just passed that group. Her faith pulled her away from it.

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« 113 † Oh, if they could just do that today! Somebody says, “There’s a meeting tonight down at the Foursquare church.”
114 “Well, it don’t belong to your denomination. You better stay away from down there.”
115 Just press right on through. Your faith takes you right on. See? Faith has no hindrance. It goes, anyhow. Nothing is going to stop it. As I said, it’s brawny, big muscles. It’s got the floor; rest of them is scared of it. Yes, sir. They’ll run from It, like smallpox. They just get plumb away. Haven’t got nothing to do with That, when big faith raises up, say, “I know who I believe. I’m persuaded.” That’s it.

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« 116 † There might been another group that come along, say, “The days of miracles is past. There is no such a thing as that. That’s a bunch of holy-rollers down there, them Jews. We are Greeks. We are smart. We’re intelligent group of people. We give the world art, music, and–and religion. And there’s no such a thing as That.”
117 But she was persistent. Days of miracles wasn’t past, for her, because something had done told her, down here, that it wasn’t. And Jesus had what she was looking for, and she was determined to get to Him. Regardless if her denomination sponsored it, or not, she was going, anyhow. She was going to get down there. She was persistent, still persistent. Days of miracles might be past for them, but it wasn’t, for her. That’s the way it is with every believer. Them people say the days of miracles…

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« 118 † A man told me, some time ago, said, “I don’t care what you’d say, Mr. Branham.” Said, “I don’t believe there is such a thing as Divine healing.”
119 I said, “Certainly not, to you. It wasn’t for unbelievers. Just for those who believe. That’s right. Wasn’t sent to unbelievers. It was sent to believers. You can’t enjoy It, because you know nothing about It.”
120 He wanted to tell me, “There was no such a thing as the Holy Ghost.”
121 I said, “You’re just about thirty-three years too late, for that.” I said, “I know better. I’ve done received It.”
“Aw, nonsense!”
122 I said, “Might be, to you, but not to me. It’s real to me. It’s Life, something anchored.” He come too late to tell me that.

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« 123 † They’ve come too late to tell us about Divine healing. We done been healed. We done been filled with the Holy Ghost. We done got Rapturing grace. Amen. It’s too late for any of those things. They might as well shut up. We done got it. Our faith can say, “Set down. I know what I’m talking about.”
“Well, doctors?”
124 I don’t care what Dr. So-and-so is saying. The Bible said it, and I’ve got faith in that Book in my hand. And my faith holds It out there, “Jesus is coming. I believe that I received the Holy Ghost, ’cause I see Him living in my life.” Amen. It’s according to the Word. Nothing… A manifested revelation, a perfect vindication of the Bible being right, and Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Let them laugh that away. They can laugh all they want to. We’ll just be as persistent as they was when Noah was, Moses was, all the rest of the impersonators raising up.

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« 125 † Jannes and Jambres threw their rod down, turned into a snake. There was those men, just as honorable as they could be, did exactly what God told them to do, and there come a bunch of impersonation up, throwed down their rods. The only thing they could do, just stand still and see the glory of God. Amen.
126 God will stand by it. If He sent you, and you’re sure of it, you’re going to achieve the work that God predestinated for you to do. You’ll stand there, and God will take every carnal impersonator away from you. Right. Stand there. You can be persistent, because you know Who you have believed, and what’s right. Examine your revelation with the Word. If it’s contrary to the Word, leave it alone. If it’s with the Word, God is bound, duty bound, to keep His Word now.

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« 127 † Now, there might have been a bunch of ladies stand down on the corner, you know. And they said, “Here she comes. Now she’s got that kid up there, that’s got epilepsy. And–and Dr. So-and-so said that–that there’s no cure for epilepsy. And here she is, going down to that off-brand denomination down there, for that fanatic prophet to come up here and heal that child.” So they said, “We ought to stop Susie.” I hope there’s not a Susie here. “But we ought to stop Susie and tell her, because she’s been a good woman. There’s nothing against her life. But we ought to stop her, and only thing that I know to do. She’s passed by, everybody else, so she won’t break this barrier.
128 “You know what, Susie? Your husband will leave you. Because, he’s a trustee or a deacon on the board, and he’ll leave you, sure as the world, if you go down there.”
129 She was still persistent. She went right on. See? Faith don’t know no hindrance. It must get there.
130 Then she passed another group that say, “You know what? When you return back, defeated, and find out there’s nothing to it, everybody in the neighborhood will laugh at you.”
131 That didn’t even make her ears turn red. She was persistent. She went right on. I like that. I like that persistency.

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« 132 † Then here stood one of the deacons, and said, “If you go down there, you know what they’re going to do? Put you out of your church, ’cause you’ve associated yourself to them holy-roller, or them people.” And said, “You know…” Excuse me. Ought maybe not said it. See? “You’re associating yourself with them. You’ll get put out of your church.”
133 She was still persistent. Faith knows no defeat. She had one thing to achieve, and that was, get to Jesus. She had a need, and He was the only One that had that need.

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« 134 † I’m saying this tonight, brother and sister. I’m fifty-three years old. I’ve been serving Him since I was about twenty. He’s met everything that I had a need of. And when it comes to the hour of my death, I’m sure what I need right then, two wings to reach across the river, He will be there. Don’t you worry. I know He will be there. I’ll just stick the old sword back in the sheath, and take off the helmet, lay it down upon the river, when I… bank, when I hear the dashers. And I’ll scream “Send out the lifeboat. I’m coming home, this morning.” It’ll be there. Yes, sir. The Morning Star will come down and light up the way. Across the river we’ll go. Yes, sir. Amen.

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« 135 † She was persistent. She had an achievement. She knew that she had to be perseverant in order to get to Jesus, so she had to pass by everything.
136 Finally, she arrived. Now, finally, got here. Everything is fine now, and then here come another hindrance. The very Man that she had professed to have confidence in, the Man she tried to get to, Jesus. He said, “I’m not sent to your race.” Oh, my! Would that not made us Pentecostals blowup? Hmm! Hmm! My! “I’m not sent to your race.” Whew! That was a shock.
But you know what? Faith knows no shock.

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« 137 † And then, again, He turns around. After all these things she had passed through, and her faith holding, that she knew that Jesus could give her her desire. And she went through every one of these barriers. And when she got to Him, then turned down, flat, “I’m not even sent to your race.”
138 I can imagine her standing there, and her eyes gleaming. She, she was in front of Him then. That’s all she had to be. And said, “Besides that, your race ain’t nothing but a bunch of dogs.” Oh, my!
139 What if He’d said that to you? You’d said, “I’ll take my papers from this Foursquare and go over to somewhere else. I’ll never go back there again. I’ll take it from So-and-so.” Oh, yes. Yes, sir.
140 But still she held on. Oh! See? Faith knows no defeat. Ain’t nothing going to stop it. Though Jesus said to her, the very One she come to, said, “I’m not sent to your race, and they’re nothing but a bunch of dogs.” Whew! But what? She had a hold of real faith. Faith knows no defeat; I don’t care where it comes from. Knows no defeat, because she had faith. Still she held on. Oh! I love that. She was not a hotbed plant, a hybrid, like some of them today.

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« 141 † These hybrid religions we got today, you know. They ain’t no good. Everything now is hybrid, hybrid. Even they got hybrid churches, hybrid Christians, took in by shaking of hands. Oh, they can dress better, maybe use better English, and so forth, like that. Ain’t got no life in it.
142 You take a big fine ear of corn, hybrid, maybe is twice as pretty as the other one. Plant it, it’ll die. Ain’t got no life in it. That’s right.
143 We don’t want nothing hybrid. We want the genuine thing. You haven’t got it, stay there till it comes. Why accept a substitute when the Pentecostal skies are full of the real? See? Nothing hybrid, it won’t stand.
You have to always spray a hybrid plant, keep the bugs off of it.
144 That’s the way with some of these hybrid Christians. You have to baby them and pet them, and promise them they’ll be deacon or something else, keep some of the worldly bugs from them, of unbelief. “They’d get out of the church.” Kick them out, anyhow. That’s right. They never was in.

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« 145 † You can’t join a Church. You might join a lodge. You can join the Methodist lodge, Baptist lodge, or Pentecostal lodge. But if you ever come to Christ, you’ll be born into the Church, that’s right, the mystical Body of Christ. Others are lodges. That’s right. It’s all right, nothing against them. But you’re born into the Church of the living God, by the Spirit of God. You can’t join It, at all. And when you’re born in There, you got a Birth.
146 You’re not a hybrid no more, a hand-joiner or a hitchhiker. Uh-huh. You know, a hitchhiker is always thumbing. That’s the way. “Well, I know, but Dr. So-and-so…” No, no. That’s it. That’s it. That’s exactly.
She was persistent. She wasn’t a hybrid. You didn’t have to spray her over, with perfume, make her right. She stood there.

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« 147 † Part of our crop today, too many of them is hybrids. Just something like David duPlessis, I believe, once said, “God has no grandchildren.”

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« 148 † Trouble with our Pentecostal movement, we’re getting Pentecostal grandchildren. They come in because our fathers and mothers were Pentecostal. We taken them in on the cradle roll, and they come up without the experience. And there they say they’re Pentecostal, too. No, sir. God don’t have grandchildren. He ain’t grandpa; He’s Father. Right. If you ever get to Heaven, you’ll pay the price like your mother did, your daddy did. Amen. That might sound crude, but it’s Truth. It’s crude way of making a point, but you understand that kind of English, I’m sure. It isn’t very good English. It gets the point, what I’m trying to say. You just listen to It. Yes.
149 She wasn’t a hybrid. She didn’t have to be sprayed over, and babied now, “Well, now, sister dear, I–I tell you, well…” Oh, no. No, sir.
150 And no matter what knocked her down, she said, “It’s truth. We’re nothing but a bunch of dogs. It’s true that we’re not worthy of it.” Oh, my! She admitted that He was right.

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« 151 † I’m going to say a great big mouthful. Get ready. Every time, genuine faith will admit the Word is right. And anytime, that if something says that the days of miracles is past, or something against the Bible, it’s not genuine faith. The faith will always admit truth. You must stay with the Word. No matter what anything else says, what anybody else says, it’s the Word is right. “Let every man’s word be a lie, and Mine true. Ever who will add to, or take away from, the same will be taken his part out of the Book of Life.”

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« 152 † God is going to judge the world by a church? Which one? Catholic? Six hundred and sixty-some-odd different denominations? How is He going to do that?
153 God is going to judge the world by Jesus Christ. And Christ, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us.” God and the Word is the same. This is God on print.
154 You got the–you got the Holy Spirit? Plant that Seed in there. It brings it to Life, breaks that Life forth, and manifests and vindicate it. Jesus said, in Saint John 12, “He that believeth on Me…” Saint John 14:12, rather, “The works that I do shall he do also.” So it always admits to the Truth. Oh, my!

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« 155 † But, you know, she said, “That’s true. We ain’t nothing but a bunch of dogs. And we’re not… You really wasn’t sent to us. But, Lord, I’m not looking for all the bread the children had. I’m only searching for crumbs.” Oh, my!
156 Now, did you notice? People, they want to get this, get healed, and get the Holy Spirit the way they think they ought to have it. “Now, I’ll come down, brother, if you’ll bring me up and take me into a room where nobody will see me, and you lay your hands upon me and bless me, and put the Holy Ghost in me. I’ll accept it.” Oh, no.

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« 157 † Naaman wanted to accept his healing like that, one time. But Elijah told him to get out there in the old muddy Jordan and dip seven times. I can just see him get off his chariot. Oh, a great man, hold his nose. Here he comes, out in the water, tiptoeing like a cat in molasses, you know, coming out like this, you know, getting out like that, get down in the water. He said, “Oh, I hate to do this, hod-dod down.” Some people comes to the altar like it was a sickening affair for them. Yeah. “Oh, I don’t want to do that.”
He ducked one time, then, “And I still got leprosy.”
158 “The prophet said, ‘Seven times.'” Right. Until he obeyed the Word, completely! Until you obey It, completely! He had a good man standing on the bank, said, “The prophet said, ‘Seven times,’ father. See? Just keep on dipping.”
159 That’s it. You don’t get it the first night, just dip again the next night. Just keep on till you get–get it.

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« 160 † Now remember. She was like Rahab the harlot, this little woman was. She had never seen a miracle. She had only heard about a miracle. What will she day in the… do in the Day of Judgment to us? She had never seen a miracle. She was a Gentile. She had never seen, but she had heard. And we both seen and heard, and still doubt. Oh, my!
161 She was like Rahab the harlot. When the spies come over, she didn’t have to say, “I’ll tell you. You bring Joshua over and let him hold a service for me, and I’ll see the way he grooms his hair, and the way he talks, and the etiquette he uses at the pulpit. And I’ll see whether I can accept him or not.” She said, “I have heard that the God of Heaven was with you, and the only thing I ask is to be spared.” There you are.
162 That little woman was really persistent. She held right on. “Just spare me. I’ll do anything that you want me to do.” Oh, there you are. That’s it.

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« 163 † This little woman, no matter what the difficult was, she was persistent. Oh! She had the right approach to the gift of God. She had the right approach, humility. She fell down at His feet, and she had humility. She didn’t stand up, say, “Now, You wait just a minute. You know we people are Greeks. You say we were dogs. Just a minute here, Sir. Do You realize that we’re–we’re the masters of art, and we’re the masters of so-and-so and such-and-such?” She never thought of that, at all. She just admitted that He was right, and fell down at His feet, and said, “Help me, Lord. I’ll just eat the crumbs. If my daughter can’t have a whole slice of bread, will You just let her have the crumbs, if she’s a dog?” Oh, my! There you are.
164 Would we be satisfied with just the crumbs, if the Holy Spirit should reveal to somebody tonight, “You’re healed”? Would you be ready just to take the crumbs, or would you want God to walk over and raise you up and give you some kind of a feeling? If He’d just say in your heart, “My sickness is over. You haven’t got it no more. I believe that I’m going to be healed, from tonight on,” would you take the crumbs? Or, would you want everybody come up and lay hands on you, and pour oil, and go through the regular ritual like that, or are you just looking for crumbs? God will honor that.

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« 165 † You know, many of the disciples had seen Him after His resurrection. Thomas said, “No, huh-uh, I won’t believe it. I–I got to put my hands in the prints, of His nails in His hands and in His side. Then I’ll believe it.”
166 He said, “Come here, Thomas.” Said, “Touch Me.” And he did.
He said, “My Lord, and my God.”
167 He said, “Thomas, because you have seen and felt, and everything, you believe.”
“Yes, Lord.”
168 He said, “How much greater is their reward, who has never seen and yet will believe Him!”

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« 169 † Are we ready? Are we Gentiles like that Gentile woman? Was she an example to all of us, “Just give me the crumbs, Lord”? Just let me hear some man, “I’ve never read the Word, but tell me that You heal the sick. That crumb will be enough for me. I believe it. Let me hear somebody say, and read it from the Word, that the Holy Ghost…”
170 Peter said, on the Day of Pentecost, “Repent, every one of you, be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them that’s far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.”

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« 171 † “Lord, I feel that that’s right.” That’s a crumb. Come on. That’s all you have to do. Come.
172 Are we ready to take the crumbs? Are we ready to humble ourselves? She was. She was ready to humble herself. Faith always admits the Word right. Faith is always humble. Faith humbles itself. Now, she was just looking for the crumbs.
173 Watch what Jesus said. “For this saying, for this saying, ‘I’m willing to take the crumbs, Lord.’ For this saying, thy child is whole. You have your request because you believe it.”
174 Faith admits that the Word of God is right. Faith admits all these things.
175 Martha, Mary; down through the Bible we could call many; the Shunammite woman. Many things and cases that we could call. We haven’t got time to. Of this, I got about five pages here, written of people, now, who approached for crumbs. But let’s bypass that just a minute. I feel the Holy Spirit close. I don’t think it’s necessary.

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« 176 † Let me just give you one little experience. The Business Men wrote the little thing up in there, the little article not long ago, in their magazine. And remember, when you make a printed matter, you better be able to back it up. We have it, documented statement from the doctor. I notice, in the church tonight, quite a few Spanish people.
177 I was in Mexico City, and we were having a glorious meeting. I had been there about three nights. And there was a man that I call Mañana. He was supposed to get me at six o’clock, and would get me about nine. And I always, ’cause he was so slow, I said he was “tomorrow.” See? And when we got out to this big ring where I was preaching, they had to take me up on a ladder up here, then let me down on ropes, down on the platform.

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« 178 † The night before, there had been a Mexican man that had come to the meeting. And the old fellow, raining, as it was, and he come to the platform, blind. And he came down. I looked. I had good shoes on, and a good suit. And the poor old man, he was barefooted, his trousers all ragged. And I tell you who my interpreter was, you people know him; Brother Espinosa, up here in Sacramento, California, Pentecostal brother. He was interpreting. We had had about, in the two nights, I think around about thirty or forty thousand converts from Catholicism, to Christianity and the Holy Spirit.

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« 179 † And this old blind man come across the platform. And if you don’t feel for the people you’re praying for, there’s no need of praying for them. You got to feel yourself in their place. And I thought, “If my old daddy would have lived, he’d have been about the age of that old man. Here he is. He’s got no shoes.” And he had no shirt on. An old coat, ragged, dusty; an old hat in his hand, sewed up with cords. Probably the old fellow never had a decent meal in his life. And then how cruel fate had been to him, here he is staggering in blindness. His eyes was white.
180 I looked at the old fellow, and I–I just put my arms around him. And Brother Espinosa wouldn’t interpret the prayer. I–I said, “Heavenly Father, if I could give him my shoes, I’d slip out of them so nobody would see them, give him my coat, send him on the road. But he’s much larger than I. But, God, have mercy on him. Give him back his sight.”
181 He hollered, “Gloria a Dios.” I looked around. He could see as good as I could.
182 The next night there was a rack, or a rick, as far as this building is long, about this high, with nothing but just old shawls and old ragged clothes.
183 The economics of Mexico is poorly balanced. Maybe Pedro gets… he’s a brick mason, he might get sixteen pesos a day. But it’ll take four days’ work to buy him a pair of shoes. But he’ll have to save enough out of that to pay, several pesos, for a grease candle to burn on a million dollar gold altar for his sins. That’s what boils me.

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« 184 † Seeing those precious people, they come there at nine o’clock at morning. No seats, to sit down. They leaned against one another, like sheep in a pasture. Raining! Them women, standing, their hair streaking down, soaking wet, wait all day in the hot sun or rain, just to hear the Word of God. Oh, what will they do when Phoenix rises in the Day of the Judgment with them, when, fine churches everywhere, and you can’t even herd them in?
There she stood, or he stood, rather, with his sight.
185 That night when I got in, it was raining hard. Brother Jack Moore, many of you know him, Brother Espinosa, several of the brethren, was on the platform. And Billy, my son, he usually gives out prayer cards. And he couldn’t speak Spanish to those people, so he had to let Mañana do it. But he just went around to see that Mañana didn’t sell a prayer card. So that’s where we have to watch, you know, on selling a prayer card. So he just watched him. And they’d walk up and watch and see that he just hand the prayer card to So-and-so, and like that. So he said…

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« 186 † Come to me, I got to preaching. Great big pile of–of them clothes laying up there. How they ever knowed which belonged to who, I don’t know. So they were… I was just got to speaking, and Billy tapped me on the shoulder. He said, “Daddy, you’re going to have to do something, that little woman out there.” Said, “I’ve got almost three hundred ushers, and they can’t even hold her.” A little bitty Spanish girl, about so high, beautiful little thing, she had a dead baby in her hands, under a blanket. And he said, “Mañana give out every prayer card.” And said, “She has no prayer card. And there is the line, has been standing, for them there, for the last two hours, waiting for you, come.” And said, “She wants to bring that dead baby up here, and we can’t hold her.”

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« 187 † Oh, well, she’d come right over top of them ushers, run right under their feet, or anything. She was persistent. She wanted to get there. She had seen that blind man healed, the night before. She was persistent.
188 I said, “Brother Moore, she don’t know who I am. She don’t know which is which. You just go down there and pray for the baby. That’ll settle it. She…”
He said, “All right, Brother Branham.”

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« 189 † So Billy got him by the arm, like it’d be me, so went on down across the platform. I turned around. I said, “I am very happy to be here tonight.” And the meetings are not strange to you people here in Phoenix. Right before me I seen a little Mexican baby, no teeth, laughing, in a vision setting out here. I said, “Wait a minute. Wait a minute, Brother Espinosa. Get to the…”
“What’s–what’s the matter?”
190 I said, “Get to the microphone.” I said, “Tell her to come here.”
191 He said, “Daddy,” Billy said, “you can’t bring her over all them prayer cards.”
I said, “Get her here. I just saw a vision.”

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« 192 † So, he called her. And they get back. Here she come, with a quilt in her hand, like this. And a little baby laying in there, been dead since early that morning, died with pneumonia, little bitty fellow about that long. And here she come, the tears running down her cheeks, her little black eyes, her hair hanging down, very charming little lady. She run to the platform and fell on her knees, and begin to cry, “Padre!”
I said, “Stand up, just a minute.”
193 I thought, “Lord, what if it ain’t that? What if that wasn’t that? I don’t know. I just seen a little Mexican baby, little, no teeth, his little gums. It was laughing at me, setting right out there.”

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« 194 † And she was crying. And I put my hand upon the wet blanket, and it raining then. I said, “Heavenly Father, this little woman, no doubt in my mind but what You’re answering her.” I said, “I saw the vision, that You know to be truth, of a little baby. I’m only accepting it by faith that it’s this baby. I don’t know the woman nor the baby. But, something, You work on both ends of the line.” I lay my hands upon it. And when I did, it kicked and screamed just as loud as it could scream. The mother jerked the blanket off of it, and there it was, alive, in her arms.
195 I said, “Brother Espinosa, don’t mark that down, but send some good loyal person.” And she was telling it in Mexican, that the doctor pronounced her baby dead, with pneumonia, that morning about eight or nine o’clock. And here it was after ten, that night. And I said, “Send and get a written, documented statement from the doctor, that pronounced it dead.”
196 And the Mexican doctor wrote a statement and signed it, “I pronounced the baby dead, no respiration or nothing, in my office this morning at nine o’clock.”
197 And here it is, ten o’clock that night. And the next morning, the baby was in the doctor’s office to be examined, “Normally, again.” Why? Because the little woman was persistent.

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« 198 † Faith knows no defeat. If there’s five thousand standing there in the place, nothing takes the place. Her church could turn her out, her neighbors could laugh. But a God that could open the blind eyes of a man, the night before, could raise her baby, because He’s the same God yesterday, today, and forever.
199 And if this group of people here tonight, crumb searchers, if you are; the very God that brought you here, that could lead you to a place like this, the God that saved you, the God that could fill you with the Holy Ghost; that same God can wipe away every bit of the sickness and sorrow, whatever it is, in your hearts tonight, if you believe that. Persistent, perseverant, reach and grab that little crumb of faith now, say, “Lord, thank You for it. Here I come.”
The neighbor will say tomorrow, “You’re not healed.”
200 Say, “Oh, but I am. I am. I found a crumb last night down at the Foursquare church. Something anchored within me. Nothing is going to stop me, anymore. I have it.”
Let us bow our heads just a minute.

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« 201 † Are you needing a crumb tonight? Could you take the crumb and be persistent with it?
202 The little crumb of faith that come to a–a little, Gentile Greek woman, never seen a miracle in her life, a heathen idolater, but she heard that it’d been worked on someone else. She had never seen it, but she believed it. And all the disappointments she had, yet, upon the basis of something in her heart telling her that her child could be healed, you know, when she got home she found her daughter laying upon a bed. The spell had gone from her. Not only for herself, but for her daughter who wasn’t present.
203 Do you need a crumb tonight? If you do, would you just raise up your hand. And say, “Lord, just a crumb is all I ask.”

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« 204 † O Heavenly Father, look at those crumb-seeking Gentiles. Times hasn’t changed yet, Lord. They’ve heard. They’ve heard that You heal the sick. They’ve heard that You fill with the Holy Spirit. You give rest to the weary. O God, grant that these there tonight is crying like that precious little lady of many days ago, “Lord, truly we’re not worthy to receive the blessings like thy people, Israel, but we only seek a crumb that falls from the Master’s table.”
205 And tonight we have showed the great Food that You’ve fed Your Church. And tonight we have not only crumbs, but we’re invited to the table. We don’t really have to take the crumbs, but we’re glad to get them. But we’re invited to the table, tonight. “Jesus has His table spread where all the saints of God are fed. He invites His chosen people to come and dine.” Grant, tonight, Father, that each one who has a need, that need will be met.

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« 206 † And while we have our heads bowed, and our hearts in humility before God, I just wonder how many people in this building, tonight, that is not saved, that if Jesus should come and the world would meet its end tonight. And you’d… You’re willing to take the little crumb of faith that’s been placed in your heart, and come to the table tonight, presenting your little crumb of faith before God, and would like to do so, would you just stand up and come down here, and let us pray for you here at the altar.
207 Would you just come without any delaying? Just walk down. God bless you, my brother. Would someone else come? The Lord be with you, my sister. You just come here. Would there be someone else here that’s wanting a crumb, would just come down to the Lord’s table? Say, “Lord, I’m not worthy to come. I’m–I’m… I am a dog. I’m just… I’m not worthy no more than that woman was, but I’m coming just for a crumb?” Would you come, sinner friend? Come. Might be your last time.

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« 208 † You see how the world is getting today? People don’t want to come anymore. You can’t hardly persuade them. The Gospel, look like, it going to the fields.
209 God bless you, my good brother. God bless you. That’s wonderful. Just stand right here just a moment.
210 Someone else take the–the side place here, and say, “I stand with this man.” Lord bless you, son. God bless you. That’s right. Come right down, say, “I want a crumb, Lord. A crumb is all right for me. Something touched my heart. Now I’m coming down.” God bless you, son. God bless you, my brother. Stand right here.
211 Someone else feel a little crumb in your heart, of faith, that would entice you to come to the table now. Would you come down with these four young men standing here, waiting? I preached about a woman tonight, and it’s men that’s coming. What about it, sister? Won’t you come, too, for the crumb? Have you got that little bit of faith that tells you that you’re wrong?
Say, “Well, I don’t know what a crumb is, Brother Branham.”
212 The crumb is that in your heart now, that tells you you’re wrong. You should repent. Come on, won’t you? Rise up and come sweetly, quickly, to the fountain filled with Blood. Won’t you move out? “I’m wrong, brother. Pray for me.” Come down. God bless you, brother. God bless you.
213 Someone else? “I want just a crumb, Lord. This little crumb in my heart, I’m coming now to present it.” Will you come?

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« 214 † Now is there any here that’s backslidden, gone away, and you’d like to come, will you come now?
215 Some without the Holy Spirit, you have not received the Holy Ghost? Oh, friend, if this Light has been made so real to you, in the last day, won’t you come stand too? This might be the time that that great desire in your heart, something telling you, “I believe the Lord is going to give me the baptism of the Spirit tonight. I want to come, stand.” Come around the altar. Will you do it? Stand with us for prayer, you that feels a little crumb, that, “I need the Holy Ghost.” If a man can come all the way from Ohio, fly down here in a jet plane. God bless you, Brother Grant. A Presbyterian can fly from Ohio, down here, in a jet plane to stand at the altar, what about the people in Phoenix?
216 God bless you, my sister. Stand right here just a moment. Won’t you come?
Drawn from Emmanuel’s veins.

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« 217 † Won’t you come where the Fountain is open tonight, just filled with good things of God? I wonder, while we’ll wait just a moment, surely there’s more than that in here, that’d be willing to take crumbs. Certainly there should be. Won’t you come? Just do as I’m asking you, once. Just take it sincerely in your heart, say, “I’m coming down. This is my time to come. I’m coming, anyhow.” God bless you, sisters. That is very good. We’re waiting now, patiently, for you to come.
218 Let’s bow our heads now while we’re waiting, sing this hymn of the church.
There is a fountain filled with Blood,
Drawn from Emmanuel.
219 Won’t you come now? Won’t you take your crumb and come?
… beneath that flood
If you want the Holy Spirit, won’t you come, come in now?
Lose all their guilty stain,
Lose all their guilty stain;
And sinners plunged be-…
Come, friend.
Lose all…
The dying thief… -joice to see
…?… right here at the altar. And you…?…
Though vile as he,
Wash all her sin.
God bless you, my brother. That’s the way to do it.

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« 220 † I wonder if the ministers here now would come stand up here with us. Ministers in the building, come stand around here with us, a minute now, instructors who–who is interested in lost souls.
May I, though vile as he,
Wash all my sin away.
221 I wonder if there’s ministers here, instructors in the Word, that would like to come. Remember, Eternal destinations is being decided right now. Here is about seven or eight, ten people standing here. And you know what that means? One soul is worth ten thousand worlds. We mustn’t take this lightly.
222 Now, you that’s sick, and wants prayer of faith prayed for you, would you just stand right where you are, that’s sick and needy. That’s good.
223 Now, my minister brothers, just that’s right, lay your hands over on these people.

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« 224 † Now, you sick people, stand kind of close enough together, that you can put your hands on each other. Now, the Bible said, to you sick, “These signs shall follow them that believe.” You have to be a believer, or you wouldn’t be standing. “If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover.” You know that’s right. That’s the Scriptures that can’t fail.
225 And to these penitent ones coming to the altar, my brothers and sisters who comes to the altar tonight, mortal beings that knows that you’ve got to face God sometime. The Bible said some men’s sins go before them, some follow. You’re confessing yours tonight, that your sins will go before you, and be forgiven through the Blood of the Lord Jesus.

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« 226 † And you here seeking the baptism of the Holy Ghost, God made the promise over in Acts 10. We read, “While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on them that heard it.” They were so hungry! Now, you’re hungry. You brought that little crumb up here. Now let’s take a real full meal of God’s blessings. All of it’s for you.
227 Now, you people who believe in prayer, let’s just bow our heads together and pray now and believe. Now, just forget who is around you. Know that there’s nobody around you but Jesus Christ. And each one pray the way you do, the way you’re used to praying. And, brethren, lay your hands on these people, and let’s believe now the Holy Ghost is going to come and perform these things that we’re asking for.

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« 228 † Our Heavenly Father, we do not feel that we’re standing here in vain. We thank Thee for these souls. We know that You’re here now to save them. I pray that You’ll grant it, Lord. May their faith look beyond the shadow. May these seeking the Holy Ghost, that’s got believers’ hands laying on them, the sick and the afflicted, may the power of God move into this building, up-and-down these aisles, and through these people. And save every sinner, fill every believer with the Holy Ghost, and heal every sick person. Grant these things, Lord. I believe that You are here, and You are the same yesterday, today, and forever. Your promises cannot fail.

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« 229 † We believe that You commissioned Your Church, and they went up to the city of Jerusalem. They went to the upper room, and were there, continually, praising and blessing God. “And all of a sudden there came from Heaven a sound of a rushing mighty Wind, and It filled all the house where they were assembled.” Thou art the same, and You’re able to do the same. Let the power, that come down on the day of Pentecost, baptize this group of people tonight, in the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. This prayer I offer in Jesus’ Name, for these people, for the glory of God.

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« 230 † Raise up your hands now. The prayer of faith has been prayed, the prayer of faith of forgiveness. Raise up your hands and say, “Praise the Lord.” Just start praising Him and blessing Him for. Just confess your sins. Con-… Believe with all your heart. Raise your hands up to God, and say, “Thank You, Lord Jesus.” I believe, this minute, You give me the Spirit of the Lord, You baptize me with the Holy Ghost and give me the blessings.
All right, sister, come…?… `

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