Humilie-toi
1 [Brother
Neville introduces Brother Branham--Ed.]...?... Oh, Brother
Branham's taking his job...?... I believe I could make announcement
then; Let him be...?... here of me thinking up something like that. [Brother
Branham and congregation laugh.]
I certainly enjoy being here every time. Our journey is getting close
to the end now, of us staying with you. 'Cause we got another meeting
coming up right away in Chicago, and I've got to have the--the family
back in Arizona pretty soon. And they've never had their summer's
vacation yet, and I'm supposed to take them for a little ride somewhere
in a few days. And then I'll probably be away one, one day, one of the
Sundays, and then the following week I begin in Chicago. Then I got to
come right straight back on a Monday and take them to Arizona.
3 And now, I just hate to
come in of a Sunday morning, take that time where everybody's
refreshed. Sunday night, you're always tired and wore out on Sunday
night, and then turn the Sunday night service over to our pastor,
that's--that's kind of bad. But I hate to do that, and yet on Sunday
night I would, Sunday night, to have a service Sunday night, then I
hold the people so late. Many of them come in here from way down in the
south and--and way north, and they have, oh, sometimes they drive day
and night, just to get here for one service, then go back. And that's
the reason that I try to make it on Sunday morning, when I come, gives
them a chance to go back.
Loyal, faithful pilgrims, how I appreciate them. They drive through
sleet, rain, and everything else to get here, across the country,
hundreds of miles, just for one little service. So it makes me feel
grateful to God, and to these people for their great--for their great
support, and what I'm trying to tell to the people to be the truth.
5 Now, I believe this is the
Truth, I--with all my heart. If there was anything different, that I
thought was better, I--I'd certainly first go... I won't ask anybody to
go anywhere that I don't go first to find out whether it's right or
not. I wouldn't ask any person to--to make a step in God, that I hadn't
already made and know that it's the truth. First, it must be the Word
of the Lord, then I must step and see if it's right. And then if it's
right, then I can say, "Come on up this way." See, its making the way.
And now, I think any minister ought to do that, ought to first go
himself. He's supposed to be a leader, a leader of people, not speak
something that he wouldn't put his hand on himself. We should go and be
leaders of the people.
7 This morning, I had a very
odd, peculiar experience here in the pulpit. And that was, about the
last part of the Message, I wasn't aiming to say it that way. See? But
I guess it's already said, and there's nothing I can do about it now.
But then I got home, got to studying about it.
And had a little family reunion today, of just my brother and them.
Mama's gone. And we used to meet at her house, and now we go up to
Delores. We had a nice time up there this afternoon in talking, and
Teddy was along and we sang some songs, played some hymns and things.
9 Now, I think, maybe next Sunday morning, if the Lord is willing, if Brother Neville don't care, now I'd like to have a healing service just dedicated only to healing. And I--and I think, with the Message this morning, the way the Lord seemed to lead me to bring it, bring it out, ought to kinda encourage us a little (You see?) to--to--to really believe. We're--we play around, and we--we say different things and talk about them. But then when it comes to a showdown, that's something different. As the--the...
10 Someone was telling me, I
believe it was my brother back there, was telling a--a little story
today about a man, a--a minister and his--some of, one of his
congregations. And he said he could walk a log.
He said, "Pastor, sure, the Lord's with you."
He said, "I can pack a log across my back, when I go across."
"Sure, the Lord's with you." And he went and done it.
He said, "I can pack a log, and wheel a wheelbarrow across, at the same
time."
"Sure, pastor, the Lord's with you. Your faith can do anything."
He said, "I can put you in the wheelbarrow and pack the log."
He said, "Now, wait a minute." See?
It's different when you're included in it yourself. See? Now, that,
it's mighty good for us to say here, "Amen." It's mighty good for us to
say, "I believe that's true." But then put it in action...?... that put
it in action.
15 As I brought that statement
this morning, the people was laying in the shadow of Peter, they never
even asked for prayer.
I've went into many homes, watching this. Pray before I go, and just go
in there with the anointing, and don't even pray for the people, and
walk out and they're healed. See, see? That's right. I've--now, I've
seen it done so many times. See? You've got to have somewhere to place
your faith. See? You've got to believe it. And I believe that the hour
is approaching, and now is that...
And I realize that this is not a tape service. They might make a little
one for themself, but this is not a tape that goes out across the
country. The...
18 This what I was speaking of
this morning has brought us right up to a--to a climax, and that's the
reason that I'm going to take next Sunday for a--a--a healing service.
Because that since I've been home, I've told you about the visions and
what happened, and everything, and brought it right up, why I've done
all these things. And then this morning, bringing it right up now to
that last Pull.
Now, it's my time for consecration to God, God's time to speak to me.
See, I... And I--and I must just have a little change in my own life
that... Not as I think that I'm wicked, but I--I want to feel a little
more closer to people. See?
20 The people that I have
tried to tell the--this Gospel truth to, and they turn their back on
it, and walk away and laugh at It... Now, to me, that seems like it's
an insult. I don't care, to me; but to the things that I've been saying
It's the truth trying to help them... Like shoving out a boat, and say,
"Here, here it is, cross over. Here, get out of that swelling stream;
you're going to die. You, you're going to perish there." And they just
laugh at you, and walk away. Well, to me it feels like if they walk
away, there's nothing more I can do about it (See?), that I can do.
But I want to run down the bank now and persuade them, "Come on back."
See, I've got to have that feeling (See?), 'cause I know there's
somebody out there that hasn't come in yet. And I'm--I'm going to fish
till... He said...?... the last fish is caught. And I--I want to do
that.
Now. And now, in order to do this, I'm expecting something to happen in
a prayer meeting, something... And many of you remember the vision of
the--of the last Pull, that Third Pull, rather. You remember, there was
something happened just before that: I seen that Light come and go down
into that place, and said, "I'll meet you there." Now, I--I'm looking
for something to happen.
23 Here years ago it used to
be that the services and that discernment would make me so weak I'd
stagger. Many of you remember that. Just get to a spot that I'd stand
and I had Jack Moore on one arm and Brother Brown on the other one, and
walk me up-and-down the street for an hour after service. And I just,
happened, was trying to think of where--where I was at and what was
taking place. Then, all night lay there and think of it, and sob and
everything else, and wonder why they didn't accept our Lord Jesus.
Then He told me a vision, "One time you'll meet a lady that will come
to you, wearing a brown suit, and she'll be packing a little baby in a
blanket, and from that time on, you'll have strength to endure
stronger." Well, I told you all that. And in Chicago it happened that
night when the little Presbyterian lady, when her own pastor sent her
down there with the baby.
25 And I believe it was his
brother, or one of them, was a--a doctor. He said, "There's not a hope
for the baby unless Almighty God touches him." He went...
She went and told her pastor. Her pastor said, "I--I am--I am not
qualified," he said, "to--to act upon this Divine healing, because I
don't--just don't have it within me, the faith that it takes to do it."
Now, that--now, that--that's being honest about it. See? He said, "I
don't just have it in me." He said, "But I was at one of Brother
Branham's meetings, and I'd advise you take the baby to--to Brother
Branham." And the doctor had give it up, and it was going to die.
27 And the little lady walked
in there where I was having a--some sort of a--a service for them
little Catholic children that had got burnt up in that school up there,
you know. You remember when it was. We was having that service, and
coming right down the platform comes that little lady with the brown
suit on. My wife and them was setting there, and I said--turned and
looked, and looked all around, and see if they was standing there. And
happened to be, that just before I come up, I believe Billy Paul and
them had been talking, or the wife or some of them to the lady with the
little baby. And the lady walked up to the platform; the Holy Spirit
revealed the whole thing, and healed the baby there.
I walked away, and since then I just don't get tired. See, it don't
bother me, and now, I just go right on and on.
29 Now, I'm looking for
something to happen, to start that Third Pull into march (See?), and
may be the next Sunday morning healing service maybe produce that. I
don't know.
I think, for us to do, would be tell your people, get the sick people.
Now, for a healing service, we got to consecrate on sick people. Get
your sick people, and get them here early next Sunday morning, say
about eight or eight-thirty, and we'll let them give them a prayer card
as they come in the door, however they do it. And then we'll have a
prayer line and pray for the sick, and just see what the Holy Spirit
will do.
I believe He'll do wonders if we'll just believe Him. See? But we got
to believe Him for that now, with all of our heart. And I think that
the great hour has arrived that when God, in so much as we was speaking
this morning, has showed us so much, and brought us to a certain--just
up to a spot. Just to push over that little hill, and that's all you
need then, then away it goes (See?) a--a going just like it was, the
same thing, with the discernment, same thing by the prophetic, to
watch...
32 I was standing at
Calgary... I beg your pardon; it was the queen city, down in Regina,
Regina. And Ern Baxter was standing there, and a bunch of us. And the
Lord had told me right here in the platform, "It'll come to pass,
you'll know the very secret of their heart." And that's right. And I
never thought of that in that manner. I walked up to the platform that
night with Ern and just started praying for the sick. And here come a
man along, just laid out his entire life; first time it ever happened
just like that in a moment, in a healing service. And then I looked out
over the audience, and here It begin to come down over the audience and
things. Oh, when we reach the other side... The half has never yet been
told, of the things, to watch out and see things in people's life. I
don't say nothing about it, just let it alone (See?), unless I'm really
compelled to say something.
And now, I look for this next to start like that (See?), God, in His
own way, His own sovereign time to begin it. And it'll--it'll be
another thing that'll be--be a way beyond any of these other people.
See? And I'm--I'm looking for that to happen.
34 And maybe, oh, I thought,
if I had a little healing service maybe next Sunday and then the
following Sunday I'll probably be away with the kids and them, 'cause
they got to go back and go to school. And then the next Sunday, I,
'course, I'm up in Chicago, at the meeting up there. And then come back
the following Monday to leave on Tuesday for--for Arizona, for the kids
to get back in school.
Well, what did you find, pastor? [Brother
Neville says, "Well, I've discovered something very strange."--Ed.] Good, that's very fine, now
we want to hear about it.
So now, the--the Lord bless you all, real, real good. And I--I hope to
see you here next Sunday. And Wednesday night...
37 And listen. Don't forget
these little churches, like Brother Ruddell's, Brother Jackson's,
Brother Parnell, and all those little brethren who are struggling hard
out there. See? And they feel like that we are their--their--their
sister church here. You see? We're kind of like a little mother group
to them. That's where they were born out of here, pastors and so forth.
And this little fellow back here, Brother, I met him the other night
over there, Allen, little Brother Allen. I hope Brother Collins here
will get with Brother Allen, if he doesn't know him. They're both
Methodist ministers and has--has seen truth of Word.
39 Which, the--the organization of the Methodist church, which is a fine bunch of people in that Methodist church... Don't you never think they're not. They are. They're a fine bunch of people in that Catholic church. They're a fine bunch in the Presbyterian church. And all those places there, it's men and women that are waiting to see that Light flash over their path. You just keep flashing the Light in humility, sweetness. Let's all grow closer to God by humbling ourself. See?
40 Don't forget, this
Tabernacle will lose its strength. Remember that this is the target
where Satan's got every gun in hell trained on it. He'll cause one
person to do something that's contrary to what the other one thinks.
He's doing that. He's up to it. That's his business, if he can get
somebody to say something, somebody to talk about another, say, "Well,
listen, did you know so-and-so did?" Don't you listen to it. Don't you
listen to it at all. That's the devil. See, it's Satan. Don't you
believe it.
If there's anything that somebody's done wrong, pray for them. And
don't pray in a selfish way, say, "I--I know it's my duty, I've got to
pray for that brother." You take it to your heart, really down for that
sister. And just talk and be real sweet, and the first thing you know,
you find them right back in the service again. See? 'Cause after all,
we're headed towards the setting of the sun.
42 The Lord Jesus will be
coming one of these days. And, you know, it--I think it'll be so sudden
and so--so sweet, until there'll be one hundred per--one hundredth of
one hundred percent of the whole world will never know when that
rapture takes place. It'll just go so quietly that nobody would know
nothing about it. See?
And there'll be, 'course the little groups will say, "Well, now,
So-and-so?"
"Oh, they say there's a fanatic bunch over there, said a group left
from over there, and they... That's not so. They've just gone out
somewhere. We've had that fanaticism. See?"
"Well, well, they say that little Tabernacle in a place called
Jeffersonville, there was so-many of them members that's missing."
See, they just play that out. They'll say, "Oh, there's nothing to that
(You see?)," like that, and it'll be past and they won't know it.
47 Across the nation will
come, those who are dead in Christ will rise first. The rapture will
take place; the Church will be taken home. And then the tribulation
will set in, and, oh, my, we don't want to be here during that time. I
don't want to be here in the tribulation. No. God forbid that any of us
would ever be here during that time. Because "He that's filthy is
filthy still; he that's holy is holy still; he that's righteous is
righteous still." There's no... The Lamb had come forth with His Book
of Redemption, and the Bride has been taken out; those who turned it
down has to go through a tribulation period, both Jew and Gentile. What
a time of tribulation! I don't want that.
"Lord, sanctify me now." That's good Nazarene doctrine, ain't it? And
it's truth too. It's true. That's right. "Fill me now with Your Holy
Spirit, Lord. Take all the world out of me now, Lord. Don't...?..."
As--as the old colored brother said, "Sir, I got my ticket in my hand.
It's already punched. And when I come down to the river that morning, I
don't want no trouble."
So that's about right. I--I don't want no trouble. Hold your ticket in
your hand, 'cause we're going over. Just think of it, the great time of
redemption is at hand.
51 And now another thing. Brother, what's his name, up here at Utica? I think Brother Graham and another brother there that's pastoring there, a Brother Shanks, or something like that, or Sink? [Brother Neville says, "Brother Snelling."--Ed.] Brother Snelling's the pastor all together. Brother Snelling's the pastor up at Utica now. I think their prayer meeting is on... ["Thursday night."] Thursday night. Now, you know, it'll be real nice if we would slip up there on Thursday night and show those fellows a little fellowship. See? And then when Brother Jackson, the times that he has his, if we'd just get a little group of us together and go...
52 Just keep praying, keep
digging. Yeah, don't stop. Just like when Elijah told them, said, "Dig
ditches out there." When you get down and hear an old tin can say, I'm
too tired," throw it out of the way and keep digging. See? Just keep
digging, 'cause we've got to dig. We've just got to dig; that's all.
'Cause if you--if you expect to miss the tribulation, you better start
digging.
And now, for myself, I'm preaching to myself there. I'm going to start
digging deeper than I ever dug. Because I feel like, that in the nation
and around the world, that this ministry will again, as it's known now
about everywhere over the world. I--I must go again.
54 Wife said to me... Other
morning, I said, "I want you to go with me when I leave. I'm going to
leave around January, the Lord willing. I want to take a complete world
tour, all the way around; come back and maybe have services in the
United States, something next summer."
And she said, "I'm too old to go."
"Well," I said, "I've went when I... About my last trip overseas was
about eight years ago, and I feel like I'm in better shape now than I
was eight years ago to go. See? I know more about it now."
56 And then we got on the
subject, "If the Lord said, 'I'm going to allot you twenty-five years.
You're not going to get feeble. You'll be able to go, and I'm going to
allot you twenty-five years on earth,' would you take from--from birth
to twenty-five, or from twenty-five to fifty, fifty to seventy-five, or
seventy-five to a hundred?"
Now, any man that's allotted any time on earth, would certainly do a
most rashal thing if he don't spend that time in service of God. I
don't care what he does.
Now, if you're going to be a heartbreak for the women, or so forth, you
better take that young age, that first twenty-five. See? If you're
going to be a carpenter, a mechanic, or something, you better take the
second twenty-five. See?
60 Then I was thinking about,
"What about me, where would I take?" I'd take the seventy-five to a
hundred. I'd be smarter, wiser. I'd be more settled. I'd know more
about what I'm doing. I'm ten, eight or ten years older than the last
time I was overseas. I don't jump in like I'm killing snakes. I know
more about it. See? I know how.
It's just like a coon dog fighting a coon (See?); you know about how to
take ahold of him. Don't jump in there; he scratch you up. See? Know
his tricks and watch him what he does. And we learn more about the
enemy. So we've got to find out all of his techniques, and how he
approaches, and what he does, learn his punches, then you're trained to
go in on him. You see?
"So I believe now," I told the wife, "I believe I'm in better shape now
than I was when I was forty years old and went over." See? And I'm
fifty-four. And I believe, if I live and can still get around as good
as I can now, when I'm a hundred, if I... If Jesus would tarry that
long, I'd be in better shape then than I am now to go. See? Because you
know more about it; you know more about what to do, and how to handle
it, how to handle the situation.
63 Take a lot of people now,
if they're going to get operated on... "They say a new doctor just
graduated the other day, and just come out of medical school. He's
never had an operation yet. Let him do it."
"Oh, no" you'd say, "nothing doing, not that guy. No, sir. Yet, no,
indeedy. I don't want him putting no knife on me. Well, I'd rather go
down here and get So-and-so. I hear he's had a lot of operations. He
knows how to do it." That's it. See? That's the idea.
You think about this, but what about that soul? I want somebody who
knows where they're at and knows the road, who's traveled it. Yes,
indeed.
66 The Lord bless you. All
right, Brother Neville, get up here now. And God bless Brother Neville.
Don't forget now, next Sunday.
[Brother
Neville speaks about Brother Branham and Brother Vayle for one minute,
then says, "And I delight to welcome the ministers of God, especially
who are cooperating together with This, and in It together with us. I
delight to hear from them."--Ed.] Amen. ["So
I asked Doctor Lee Vayle; I said, 'Would you minister if Brother
Branham doesn't?' And Brother Branham didn't. He might've known this."] No, I didn't, or I wouldn't
even have talked that long.
[Brother
Neville says, "So I asked Brother Vayle tonight, if he would minister
for us in case that Brother Branham didn't. Because he associated with
him in the meetings, and he knows about the Way, this Way. And we're
glad to have Brother Vayle. I appreciate him and respect him as well as
I do any of the other ministers, and like I do all the others. And so
if he will come tonight and speak for us, I'd be delighted to have him
to do it."--Ed.] Amen. ["God
bless, and let's pray for Brother Vayle. Some of you have never heard
him, and I trust that you'll pray for him."] Yes. I shouldn't have took
all his time. I apologize to the audience. I didn't know, setting
there, that he--this was fixed up. God bless you, Brother Vayle.
70 [Brother
Lee Vayle says, "It wasn't fixed up. He said, if you didn't talk. And
you came." Brother Branham and congregation laugh--Ed.] Good. That's fine. I get to
hear him, myself. Brother Vayle has spoke a many time ahead of me in
the meetings, and--and so forth. He had managed the meetings for a long
time, and a fine brother, done a swell job. And I'm sure this audience
is always glad to hear Brother Vayle when he speaks. The Lord bless
Brother Vayle.
[Brother
Vayle speaks for seventy minutes on Mark 16:15-20 and other Scriptures,
entitled: Why Has Mark 16 Not Worked? And How, According To The
Scripture, To Make It Work--Ed.]
73 So much was said till
I--I--I couldn't say nothing to make it any better. And I truly believe
that it was the Lord that worked this out for Brother Vayle to bring
this message, after this morning. 'Cause, you see, it has to work that
way. We--we accept that from God. What... There's so many things that
he was saying; I--I--I had twenty sermons wrote down here right off of
what he said.
I was thinking here of one little illustration to back up what he said.
Now, we look at this watch to find out what time it is. Unless that
every instrument in that watch is coordinating one with the other,
we'll never know the correct time. Is that right? And that takes all of
us, all together, if we want to see the Third Pull really do something
for God, and coordination with every one of us together to humble
ourselves before God and confess our wrong, and pray, and believe God
for these things.
75 I truly believe that what
Brother Vayle said is the truth, that God will never put His Spirit in
an unholy, unrighteous, disobedient temple. No, It's got to come in
the--the way of the cleansing of our hearts from all guile and
iniquity, that we might be pure before God, that He might work His pure
Holy Spirit through us to bring these things to pass. I--I think that,
when you go home tonight, if you would read that little Book of Jude,
you'd just learn a whole lot now of what Brother Vayle has said. And he
said that, "I earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered
to the saints." They'd got away from it. How men of corrupt mind, and
so forth, had come in and beguiled them away from the--from the real
things of God.
And God can only operate as we let Him operate. And there's so many
wonderful things about saying the...
77 You know, people are--want
power, and really they don't know what power is. See? They--they don't
really know what--what--what goes with it. The--the way up is down
always. If you want power, see how humble you can get. Just get away
from all your worldly thinking, and humble yourself before God, and
then you've got more power than the man that runs all over the building
and makes a big lot of noise (See?); because you have been able to
conquer yourself and commit yourself to Christ (You see?) to humble
yourself before Him. That's really power.
You show me a church that's humble, real humble, not a--a arrogant
church, just a sweet, humble church, I'll show you a church that has
the favor and power of God in it. That's right. That's the thing it
takes, humility, humbling ourselves before God, and letting God just
work through us. Don't have to make a lot of noise. You...
79 Sometimes, as the farmer
said, he went out to the field with his wagon, and every time it hit a
bump, it just rattled and went on. But when he come back, he hit the
same bump and didn't make no noise at all, because it was loaded with
good things.
So I think that's just about right (See?), that we get filled up with
the good things of God, that the fruit of the Spirit might be known
through us. As he referred so much to I Corinthians 13 there, and how,
that, "Though I give my body to be burnt, and have all these things,
and have not charity; it's nothing, profits me nothing." You see? We
want to do that.
81 Above all things, it's our
individual souls that we're responsible before God. See, it--it's you
going to heaven. It isn't whether I go, or he goes. It's you going
(See?), and you first. And you've got to look this out and come sweet
before the Lord.
And I've always found out that the man that humbles himself is the man
that God exalts. When you take a person with his chest out, knows
everything, and you can't tell him nothing, and he is arrogant,
and--and, well, that--that's the person that never gets anywhere. But
you take that person that humbles themselves and walks sweetly.
83 I was talking to a man the other day, that's they just organizing a church up at the... Pulled out of an organization that there'd been a... And, well, it's Brother Boze, and them church where they'd--they'd had that great church there for so long, and the Lord was blessing. Then the people got to a place that they want to polish up like the rest of them, and wanted to throw it into an organization. And when they did, it just--those humble Christians in there did not want that. All their life, they'd had been taught against it, so they walked away from it. Now they've got a group, and the Lord has blessed them until they're coming in, up into a big place now again for a church now that puts up about four or five thousand people, and they're starting over.
84 And they come to me and
said, "Brother Branham," setting right there in the office, the church
office, the other day. And he said, one of the leaders, Brother Carlson
and them, said, "What must we do?"
I said, "Find a man to be the shepherd that has no reputation in all
denomination, that's just a real good, genuine, sweet, humble brother
that lives the life. God will take care of the rest of it. See?" I
said, "A good pastor that'll just feed the sheep, and be humble and
things, God will do the rest. If you'll... Not some big know-it-all's
coming in, going to put this in order, and this has to be this way, and
cutting things around." I said, "It'll never work. You've just got
to..."
That's it, every piece in the church must work together, and you must
keep up your part of it. So we see what time we're living in. We may be
closer than we think we are.
87 Now, we appreciate Brother
Vayle. Don't we? [Congregation
says, "Amen."--Ed.] The
Lord bless you, Brother Vayle. Thank you. And we thank the Lord for
bringing this great message to us tonight.
And this--I got a note a few minutes ago. One of the sisters has had
something she wanted to tell in a dream. If you'll just write it out to
me, sister, I'll--I'm... He's give her some dreams that has been
absolutely true. We don't accept all dreams. No, no. But when they're
of God, we want to know that it's God talking to us.
Like everything speaks in tongues, we don't believe it; but when
there's an interpretation comes that tells us something that's going to
happen, we see it happen, then we thank the Lord for it. See?
90 We want to keep it running
smoothly, sweetly, and in order of the Lord. So just remember, that
your part may be the mainspring, or it may be the little--some little
hand, or some little part, or the winding stem, whatever it may be, or
it may be the hands on the face of the clock that tells the time. But
whatever it is, it takes us all working together in harmony with the
Gospel of Jesus Christ to bring this to pass.
Just think. If gifts is so great, what we call power; and Paul said,
"Though I have faith that I could move a mountain, and have not
charity, I am nothing."... Think of that.
And though you say, "Well, though I--I understand... I wished I knowed
the Bible."
"Though I understand all the mysteries of God (See?), and still though
I could do it and have not charity, I--I'm nothing. See, I ain't got
nowhere yet." See? The main thing is, love God and humble yourself with
it.
94 Now, surely, after all
these years on the field and around the world, and seeing different
people, I ought to know a little bit about the gate to enter in at. And
if you want to get somewhere with God, never let an arrogant spirit
ever come around you. Don't let no malice come in. No matter what
anybody's done, if they are wrong, don't you never build up a complex
against that person. See? You be sweet and kind. Remember, God loved
you when you were in sin. And if the Spirit of God's in you, you love
the other person when he's in wrong. See? Just pray for them and love
one another.
Above everything, love God and love one another. And be humble with God
and around one another, and God will bless it, and it's hard telling
what He will do. Usually when a church begins to get in numbers and get
to getting a little bigger, or something like that, then they get away
from that real thing, the real thing.
96 You know what brought these things to pass, when I first started and the Lord appeared to me down on the river and told me that? And Brother Vayle saw that, I believe, in a paper in Canada, many years ago, where that Angel of the Lord appeared on the river down there, it was on Associated Press, "Mystic Light over local minister, while baptizing." And--and you know what did that? When we had the tent meeting just across the street, a tent that seated about, oh, twenty-five hundred people, ministers come from everywhere, and said, "Brother, come here a minute." I was just a boy, like, oh, just a kid. And they said, "How do you keep those people in one accord? They love one another till they... I haven't seen people love one another."
97 That's the Lord. That's
what this church was established upon, that godly, brotherly love for
one another. I can't even shake hands with one another, leaving a
place, and cry like babies to leave one another. They love one another
that well. And I could go to their house to visit, and times the Bible
was laying open and stained with tears. Come in, at nighttime, where
fathers and mothers was gathered together, and their little children
around on the floor, kneeling around; and fathers and mothers on their
knees, crying and praying. And I'd stand at the door and wait and wait
and wait. And they didn't stop praying, I'll just set down on the steps
and start praying myself, waiting for them. See? And that--that was.
And they loved one another. They loved one another. We used to stand
and sing that old song:
Blest
be the tie that binds
Our
hearts in Christian love;
The
fellowship of kindred mind
Is
like to that above.
When
we asunder part,
It
give us inward pain;
But we
shall still be joined in heart,
And
hope to meet again.
98 I say this with great joy
in my heart to Christ; many of them are sleeping around in these graves
marked tonight, waiting for that great resurrection where we'll meet
together again.
Let not that Spirit ever depart from this place. If it ever does, then
I don't care how eloquent your pastor might be, how well he might bring
the Word of God, the Spirit of God is grieved away. See? When we can
have all things in fellowship, in common, and love one another, then
God will work with us.
And we're keeping time, that the people will come by and say, "If you
want to see a church that's really humble, a church that really loves
God, drop in up there at that Tabernacle one time and watch it. Look at
the care they have for one another, the respects; and the Gospel's
being preached, how reverent, how everything just in order." That's...
Then they can look and see what time we're living. You'll see the
Spirit of God moving among you; great signs and wonders and things will
be taking place. If the thing's working together, it's telling the
time. But if it isn't working, then time is stopped; it won't tell the
time no more. So if we want to know what time we're living, just start
everybody working together in the Gospel, loving one another, loving
God, and the hands itself will tell the time what we're living in. You
believe that? Surely. Amen. The Lord bless you, real richly.
101 Don't forget now; get
around this week. And if you know any of the sick people that's coming
in, tell them, when they come, say, "Dear, I want to ask you. We're
having prayer for the sick Sunday morning over at the Tabernacle. And
you been sick for a while, now I want..."
"Well, I want to go. I've always wanted to go."
"Now, I just heard a message Sunday night from a brother there, that
how we must confess our faults one to another, and pray one for
another, that we might be healed: James 5:14, 13, 14, 15 (See?), that
we must confess our faults one to another before we even come for
healing. Yeah. Confess our faults one to another, and pray one for the
other." See? See, that's just exactly what he was talking about
tonight, brings back the beatitudes in with Mark 16. Bring that
together, you've got it, then healings take place.
103 Look at Jesus, nothing but
one bundle of love. See? He was God manifested. He, God, expressed
Himself through Him, no wonder miracles and things happened. His humble
life and consecrated life to come from--to--from being God to be a man
here on earth to express God through Himself, that's what made Him what
He was. I've always said, "What made Jesus God to me, was the way He
humbled Himself. He was so great and yet could be so small." See?
That's right.
The Lord bless you real good. Now, let's stand up, and--and for the
dismissing. Let's just try that (You might not know it, sister.), that,
"Blest Be The Tie That Binds." Let's sing that one time, will you? Give
us the chord.
Blest
be the tie that binds
Our
hearts in Christian love;
The
fellowship of kindred minds
Is
like to that above.
105 Now, while we sing this
last verse, let's take ahold of one another's hands, "when we asunder
part," and just say, "God bless you, brother, sister. I'm so glad to be
here with you tonight." See, something like that, then turn back around
then. Now, let's sing it.
When
we asunder... (God
bless you, Brother Neville.)
It
gives us inward pain;
But we
shall still be joined in heart,
And
hope to meet again.
How we love the Lord Jesus. Don't we? How...
Till
we meet!
Till
we meet at Jesus' feet (till
we meet!);
Till
we meet! till we meet!
God be
with you till we meet again!
Let's close our eyes and just sing that in the Spirit now.
Till
we meet! till we meet!
Till
we meet at Jesus' feet;
Till
we meet! till we meet!
God be
with you till we meet again!
107 Now, let us with our heads
bowed... We're just children, God's children. Let's hum it. [Brother
Branham and congregation begin humming, "God Be With You."--Ed.] Oh, how that brings the
Spirit of God to us. Could you imagine the early days when they set on
slabs of rock?
God be
with you till we meet again!
With our heads bowed, I'm going to ask if Brother Allen back there, a
new brother among us, if he'll dismiss us in a word of prayer. Brother
Allen...