Le Second Miracle
E-1 Feel real good to hear
something like that of all of you, for the letter that our brother has
read, and for the attitude of our ministering brethren here with us,
and for the audience around, and your applauding, makes us feel double
welcome to come back again. And if the good Lord is willing, and as
soon as we get the opportunity, we'll return to this city to stay
longer, until the thing is over. Until God tells us it's enough, time
to go home. At that... [Audience
claps--Ed.] Thank
you kindly.
I trust that the meeting has been as much blessing to you as it has
to--to us. I say this, where I don't have to say it, but I say it
because it's the truth. I've had larger crowds of course, and bigger
places, and we've had larger crowds here if we'd had the place to take
care of them. But I never met, or was in a nicer meeting, and meet--met
nicer people anywhere in the world, than I have in this place. That's
right. And with the... [Audience
claps--Ed.] thank
you.
E-2 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] of my heart. And I trust
that--that the meeting will never die, that it'll live right on in each
church and among the people until Jesus comes. That's our purpose of
being here to bring these meetings. And everybody's been so kind, and
you've been so nice to set in this hot building, and it very hot like
this, and--and just stand along the sides, and drooping around the
doors, and come in early; and oh, that's so nice of you. And we
appreciate it.
We appreciate this brother, I can't think of his name half the time,
here, Brother Banner, and all the cooperating ministers. We just thank
God for you brethren. And you've been so good to us. We just trust that
God will just pour out His blessings everywhere upon all of you...?...
E-3 And to all you people
there, they just tell me they taken up a love offering for me, a few
moments ago. I appreciate that. I don't deserve it; that's true. I--I
don't deserve it. But Brother Baxter said all the debts were paid and
everything. And then when they do that, then they get a love offering.
And we appreciate it. And I--and to the best of my knowledge, and all
that I know, every penny of it I shall spend for the glory of God, the
best that I know how. There won't be one foolish thing that that money
will go for. Because at that day we want to be found a good and true
faithful steward of His welfare.
And some of you paid, maybe a portion of your living; I--I wish you
wouldn't do that. Just someone, when they're taking up a love offering,
throw in a nickel or something, that I--I could, you know, just
something. I have, got some children, you know how it is. But I wish I
didn't have to do that, but, to take one, but I do once in a while,
because I just, you can't make ends meet. But we thank you for it. And
God bless you, everyone.
E-4 Now I trust that... I
remember in a meeting I used to tell of a little story, being that my
old brother's setting here, I want to shake his hand before I start
into the ministry, or ministering to... of the Word.
One time I was going to take up an offering in my church. I told my
wife, I said, "We just got to have..." I never took an offering myself
in my life. And I said, "We got to have just a little money." I said,
"I'll tell you, I'll take up..." We owed a debt and just had to pay it.
And so that was my former wife, it was... I was... She died years and
years ago, about fourteen years ago. And I was single for about five or
six years. My little boy started in school, and I remarried again. God
gave me back a perfect image of the little girl that He just taken from
me. And so I'm so happy about that.
E-5 And then, I remember one
night, been about eight years ago, I guess, we got to a place where we
just couldn't make the things go. And I said, "I'm going over take up
an offering."
She said, "I'm going to set down and watch you."
And so, I went over, and I told old Brother Wiseheart, "Go get my hat;
I was going to take up an offering."
And he looked at me real strange, and he started... And I looked down
and... I don't know Brother Ryan whether you ever knowed Sister Weber,
remember her or not, Frankie's mother. And she went down under that
little old checkered apron, got out one little pocketbooks, you know,
the little snaps on the top, begin to pull out them nickels. Oh, I
couldn't do that. I said, "I was just teasing you, I didn't mean it."
And so, Brother Wiseheart looked at me real strange and went and hung
my hat up. And you know what? Brother Ryan had rode a bicycle down to
my house and give it to me. Many of you's been to meeting heard me
refer to that. Brother Ryan rode a bicycle down there, and he just left
it there and give it to me. And I painted the bicycle, and sold it, and
got the money to pay the debt off...?... I didn't need it after
all...?...
E-6 My, poor brother, he gave
me the bicycle, and really, I couldn't ride the bicycle, so ha-ha-ha. I
did owe the debt. He done a good deed. Well, bless the Lord. That's
very nice. So I thank you kindly. And it is indeed, with all sincerity,
my trust that I can come back to Toledo just as soon as possible.
Now, when I leave Africa, come home, the Lord willing, I'm going out to
seek His face to find out which move next. I believe you all appreciate
that more, if you know just exactly where to go. If He sends me to
Toledo, we're going to stay to Toledo until He says, "You go somewhere
else." And just stay there until it's over.
Right now, the meeting's just in condition now to where we could really
have a real revival, just right now. You see? All the--the spooky
feelings that people saying, "Well, it might be this, it might be
that." But that's all gone now; it's just a great big welcome feeling
everywhere. You see? Now, that's just the way to have a revival, to
really start it. Now, what do you think about four to six weeks of this
would do? Oh, my, we'd have a glorious time. I tell you, I--I believe
every thing in the, around would be healed if we could just one by
one...
E-7 Now, the Lord has blessed us this week. The lame has walked; the cripples has been healed; and the deaf has heard, and diseases, you know, healed, the Lord... And now, I want you to remember this, especially to the pastors, there'll be weeks after this that you'll hear people in your churches say, "Well, I--that--that stomach trouble I had left me; I don't know." And women and so forth with different troubles that you have, there's--there's been at least, I would say this, not trying to--to say anything wrong, because I--I don't want to do that, God hold me responsible. But there's been at least five hundred people, I'd say, lowly estimating, that's set in the audience that's never said a word about it, that's healed right now. Now, that's right.
E-8 The other night when... The
last two nights I have never felt such a pull on me in all my life.
Now, the way that feels... Come here just a minute, brother. When
people are being healed... Now, I just want to take this moment to
explain this. If--if when I'm talking to a person, I turn and get their
attention. Like out in the audience, I'll look at somebody and see,
maybe it looks kindly, well, I'll go to talking to that person. And
when I go to talking, then I get in contact with their spirit. And then
it seems like there's something starts pulling, just like this. And
then when it lets up I get real weak. That person's healed. Now, that's
all. Thank you, brother. And that--that person is healed. They may not
recognize it right then, but they will later on, they'll recognize it.
They'll recognize that it's been done.
Now, may the good Lord bless every one of you. And just fill you with
His goodness and mercy. And all you setting along here, and here I see
these three or four crippled chairs setting here, and people with
different ailments, that's suffering and everything. Now, you just be
of a good courage, and believe with all your heart, and God's going to
make you every one well.
E-9 I don't know whether
there's any laying back yonder there so far that, it's just right down
here. Sometimes I miss seeing these people looking over the top of them
watching out there. Now, well, I don't know what else to say, but to
tell you I'm--I'm so happy to be with you, and I trust that maybe if
you get a chance sometime when your own church hasn't got service, next
week just slip up to Erie with us, we'd be happy to have you. And write
me sometime. Write me down home. I'd be glad to hear from you.
And sometimes in sending out these anointed cloths and so forth... How
many believes in sending those out, those...? Oh, that's wonderful.
Well, I'll tell you, if you'd just go into my office and see the
thousands of healings takes place just by sending those cloths, just
thousands...
E-10 Here recently I sent one to
Germany to a woman that had arthritis for years. And it was translated
on the back of her German wri--writing. She got a hold of that cloth,
and she pinned it on her and followed the instructions, and she said,
"Now, devil, you get out." She got up and walked across the floor; she
was... See? "Now, devil, you get out." Now, she just believed it.
And a little something I--I hope if I told this testimony just a moment
before the audience, you forgive me for it, 'cause I sometimes telling
around different places, I don't know people that's been in the
meetings.
E-11 An outstanding one was one
night when I was in a little church meeting at Corning, Arkansas, just
starting. And I used to take and send, give the people handkerchiefs,
and in the meetings; like here, here's a box of them. I don't get a
chance to minister to those, just like this, because I'm always, when
the meetings going on, in deep prayer.
Then when I go home, Brother Baxter was with me the other day, I've got
a cave way back in the hills where I go to. I showed him where I met
the Angel on the path. I was going back there all torn up, and I met
Him on the path. And He told me, said, "You return back to your car,
for I called you to be with Ern Baxter." And I went to him, as we been
together.
E-12 So, right on that place, I go back there and pray hours after hours over every piece of goods that I send to the people. Now, I don't send handkerchiefs, because they cost about ten cents apiece, and we send out around, oh, anywhere from five, six, seven thousand a week. I don't have the money to do that. But I buy hundreds and hundreds of yards of ribbon and cut it off in little strips like this so the people can pin it on their clothes. I'll be glad to send you one. If you don't need it right now, put it in the Bible on Acts 19, and just keep it there. And if an emergency rises, take it and lay it on your child that's got the croup, or whatever takes place, and believe God. Just as a little token of His love in this meeting. And many things has been done. And it's free of charge, just send, we'd be happy to send it to you.
E-13 Now, I, this lady, I gave
her a handkerchief, she wanted me to, she said, "Bless the
handkerchief." Now, a lot of people anoint them. That's all right.
Anything that God blesses, I'm for it. But if you watch the Scripture,
Paul didn't anoint them, he taken them off of his body (See?), just off
of his body. I believe that's right, isn't it, you brothers? And Paul
knew that...
You know where I think he got that, brother? I think when Elijah taken
the, told, said, "Take my staff and go lay it on the child." You see?
Elijah knew that everything that he touched was blessed. But whether
the woman would believe it or not... And Paul taken from his body,
handkerchiefs and aprons and lay it on the sick, and unclean spirits
went out of them, and diseases were healed.
Now, it wasn't Paul, it was God. That is God, in honoring the people's
faith in His servant. Well now, the same God was there, I'm not the
Saint Paul, none of us are, but He's still the same Jesus. You see? It
wasn't--it wasn't the Saint Paul anyhow, but it was Jesus.
E-14 Now, this woman taken it and put it in her Bible. And a few weeks after that, she was cleaning a lamp chimney, way back there in the cotton country of Arkansas, and the old lamp chimney broken and cut the artery in her arm. Now, this is her story. She got a pillow slip and put over it, and it just got wet with blood. She got a sheet. Closest neighbor was two miles; her husband was in the city. And she was bleeding, getting weaker, she knew she was going to die shortly if something didn't happen. And she thought of the handkerchief; she went got the handkerchief and laid it on there. Now, here's her testimony. When her husband came in that evening... She waded, about two mile or better, through the mud with her boots on, hung a lantern in the tree, caught the Greyhound bus, and come to Little Rock where I was holding the meeting, and walked in with these boots on, holding this handkerchief, praising God. The handkerchief wasn't even stained, just a miracle, just stopped it right like that. The woman was dying; that's the only thing that she could get to like that, that she knew of, and God honored her faith in doing so.
E-15 Now, we, all we, us believe
that. I sent a little thing with it; it tells you how you get to your
pastor and get him to come. And--and confess your faults and get rid of
everything, and then lay it on there. There's nothing in the way; God
will do it. Don't you believe that? Now, God be with you. And thank you
again, from the pastors to the co-workers, the strangers in our gates,
the custodians here at the auditorium, all the ushers, you've all been
wonderful, and may God's richest of blessings be upon you all. Pray for
me while I'm going yonder to pray for someone else.
I want to read just a little bit of Scripture before we start the
meeting. Cause we want to get plenty of time in the prayer line
tonight, just as long as we can. Then immediately after this, I got to
catch a Greyhound bus and... Bump my head all morning, I couldn't get a
reservation. I've got to go home, the wife is going to try to get here,
and she couldn't get here, no one to bring her. So, I have to go in
tonight to get her, to come back tomorrow, and--and be in Erie. So pray
for me now while I read this Scripture found in Saint John 4:46,
beginning:
So Jesus came again
into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a
certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.
And when he heard
that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and
besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at
the point of death.
Then said Jesus unto
him... (Now,
listen close.)... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Except ye see signs and
wonders, ye will not believe.
(But
listen to this gallant man answer our Master.) And the nobleman said unto
him, Sir, come down ere my child die...
Jesus said unto him,
Go thy way; thy son liveth.
Now, the man wanted Jesus to come pray for his son, but Jesus told
him... He didn't go pray for him, He said, Go thy way; thy son liveth.
... And the man
believed the Word that Jesus spoke unto him, and he went his way.
And when he was now
going down, his servant met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth.
Then enquired he (required him) saying... (Beg your pardon.)...
Then enquired he of them the hour he begin to amend... then said he
unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him... (See, he was just
mending, getting a little better.)
So the father knew
that it was the same hour that Jesus said, Thy son liveth: and himself
believed, and his whole household.
This is again the
second miracle that Jesus did when he came out of Judaea into Galilee.
E-16 Let's bow our heads. Lord,
now the service is almost ready to begin again, a closing night here
among this lovely people. God, how did You ever bless me in such a way
to bring me up and let me be able to stand and talk to such an audience
of people, lovely, borned again Christians. O God, I just love You for
it. And there's no words that I can find to express my thanks, that You
let me meet these ministers and these people out here, lovely people,
Your people, the very cream of the crop, of the earth's harvest.
And not only that, to meet them and to know them, but to have
fellowship with them through Thy Son Christ Jesus. And to know that I'm
a fellow citizen with them, an heir of the same Kingdom of God, we're
journeying through earth, going to heaven, where we'll associate
together throughout ceaseless ages. Through eons of time, we'll be
together forever, not where we'll be sick again, or not where we'll be
in buildings and have to crawl across the country to pray for each
other, but where there'll be no sickness, and there'll be no old age,
or there'll be no cripples, or no blinds, but we'll be young there
forever. And we'll be in His likeness. And what a glorious time that'll
be.
E-17 O Father, I just feel like
just raising my hands up and just screaming as loud as I can, to give
vent to the feeling that's within me, of the appreciations of all that
You've done.
Bless this city Lord, bless the people, bless the--the law makers of
the city. And God, grant that there'll be an old fashion revival to
sweep this city, Lord. And these anointed ones that's setting here in
the presence tonight, these ministers of God represented here on this
platform, and out there in that audience, O God, charge their life with
new vision, with new power. And may there just be abundance of rain
from everywhere, Lord, coming into the churches. Hear the prayer of
Your servant now. And now, keep us ever in Your will; give us a great
service tonight. For we ask it in the Name of Thy Child, Jesus. Amen.
E-18 I believe Billy has stepped out, Brother Baxter, just a moment, just till they come in. Now, have faith, don't doubt. Believe with all your heart. And let's look tonight for--for the climax of all the meeting, will you do that? I believe if God will visit us this third time, like He has the last two nights, I believe it'll settle the question, don't you? Oh, the letters are pouring in so I just... From places, about how they're being healed, and people going home and leaving the meeting going home, and then be there maybe a few hours, and the first thing you know, wake up the next morning maybe blind seeing, and the... Oh, just everything's taking place. How thankful. The thing, the people here, you don't--you don't get to hear a third of it. It's after a day or two.
E-19 Did you notice, Jesus here?
When he said, "Thy son liveth." Well, that was one day, and the next
day he was going down and his son had begin to amend. He said, "This is
the second miracle that Jesus did." Seemingly we wouldn't call that a
miracle. But it was a miracle, because anything that's out of the
ordinary, it's a miracle. Jesus told the man that his son was going to
live, and the man believed what Jesus said. Is that right?
Perhaps there's a hundred prayer cards in here tonight. In a few
moments, I'll call from somewhere in those prayer cards. Well then, you
say, "Brother Branham, then if my prayer card's not called, what about
it?"
E-20 That don't mean that
you're--you can't get healed. You can be healed anywhere that you'll
believe that Jesus Christ heals you (See?), anywhere. Will you always
remember that? Always remember, that healing... Everything that Christ
can do for you is already done. Amen. See? Everything that Christ and
God can do for you, is already done. Now, the next thing lays within
you. If you're sinner, Jesus has already saved you, but you--when He
died to take away the sin of the world, but you have to accept it. If
you'd say, "I paid your way, Brother Branham, home."
Well, it wouldn't do me no good 'less I accepted it. And Christ's death
won't help you until you accept it. Now, "By His stripes you were
healed." He healed you when He made the atonement for you. But now,
it'll never do you no good till you accept it. And when you accept it,
and believe it, then it is yours. Now, see, it's up to you. Now, the
things that He does, He sends signs and wonders to--to prove those
things, that it--that it can be done.
Here... I'd like for you to write to this person, or any of these
testimonies I give you, you--you write to them, if you wish. Is there
anybody here from Jeffersonville? Let's see your hands, around anywhere
from Jeffersonville?...