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E-1 Thank you...
...
are possible,
Lord,
I believe.
Shall we bow our heads. Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee tonight that
we can sing that from the depths of our hearts, "Lord, I believe." And
as the father with an epileptic son, years ago, said, "Help Thou my
unbelief."... We hear this question asked one day, "When He returns,
would He find faith?" He never questioned whether He'd find
righteousness, or whether He'd find Christians, but would He find faith
when He returned, knowing that that would be one thing people would let
go on? Hearing also the Holy Spirit speaking in the last days, that how
these times would come: "Men would have a form of godliness, but would
deny the power," lack of faith, and we thank Thee, Lord, tonight,
because that in our hearts we feel that we have just a little faith.
And help us, Lord, that that faith may be increased tonight, until it'd
be so high, so lost in complete surrendered in Christ, until great and
mighty works will be shown tonight.
Forgive us of our shortcomings now, and help us. May the Holy Spirit
just now, the great Officer of God here in the earth, searching out for
a Bride for the Lord Jesus, and may He tonight visit every heart here
in a special way. For we ask it in the Name of the beloved Son of God,
Jesus Christ. Amen.
You can be seated.
E-2 Just, I'm not quite as tall
as Brother Baxter, and that makes me...?... [Brother
Branham has conversation with someone while the microphone is
adjusted--Ed.] As
long as it's not in the healing line, all right. See? It's not
in...?... We're indeed happy for the privilege of being here tonight to
represent our--our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ in the... We trust
that the meeting will be a successful meeting: that is, that the people
may have great faith in God. Otherwise, we--our meeting will not be
successful. We have two more nights left in this service, and we--we
trust that it'll prove to be a great success to you all.
And now, each one of you are conscious of the fact that without faith
it's impossible to please God. For he that cometh to God must believe
that He is, and a Rewarder of those who will diligently seek Him. And
may, tonight, while we're waiting on Him for His blessings, may He just
add grace to grace for us.
E-3 Mr. Baxter, as I was just
coming up, I heard him speaking, and he had a--a very forceful sermon
which I am very thankful for. It's always the preaching of the Word
that brings forth the results of a great meeting. "For faith cometh by
hearing, and hearing of the Word of God."
In the shadows of this evening service, I wish to read some out of--of
God's Word, that it might be that just the reading of the Word will
bring faith. For my words, like all other man's word, can fail, but
God's Word cannot fail, because It is written by God.
E-4 And you who have your Bibles and wish to turn to this portion of Scripture, it's found in the Book, the writing of Saint John the 5th chapter. I wish to read a portion of this chapter for the--just before the evening service. And then we will call the prayer line after a few comments, maybe a testimony of something our Lord has done for us. Which, I understand that Mr. Baxter in the former part of the meetings has the testimonies that goes on during the time of these services. And sometimes I relate to some something that God has did in the times past.
E-5 The reading of the Word
now, please:
After this there was
a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Now there is at
Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew
tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
In these lay...
great multitudes of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting...
the moving of the water.
For an angel went
down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the waters:
whosoever... first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made
whole of whatsoever disease he had. And a certain man was there, which
had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
And Jesus saw him
lie, and knew that he had now been a long time in this case, he said
unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
The impotent man
answered him, Sir I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me
in--in the pool:... (pardon
me)... for while I am coming, another steps down before me.
Jesus said unto him,
Arise, take up thy bed, and walk.
And immediately the
man was made whole... took up his bed, and walked: and on the same...
was the Sabbath.
When you return home tonight, read the continuation of this chapter. I
wish to read the 19th and 20th verse, just to save time, because my
speaking time tonight is just about gone.
Then answered Jesus
and said unto them...
This is when the Jews questioned him.
E-6 Could you imagine in the
Biblical days of the Son of God, passing along the streets of the city,
and how His heart was moved with the sick and the suffering. And when
coming to this notable place, called in the Hebrew tongue, "Bethesda,"
because it had five porches, it was at the sheep market, where they
brought the sheep through this gate. And there was, more or less, a
phenomena of that day, that the people believed that there was an Angel
Who came down out of the heaven at certain seasons and troubled the
water.
Now, living here by this beautiful lake Erie, most of you people would
know what a troubled water was. It's a water that's... The current's
moving one way, and the waves moving another way, which makes a chopped
water, which is a very dangerous water for the boatmen.
E-7 And in this pool where they washed the sheep, was just a round pool, perhaps the size of this building. And in there, at certain seasons, the water become chopped. And it had been said by someone, that there was an Angel which did this chopping of the water, or troubling the water. Of course, to some people it was only a superstition. It was not written in the Scriptures that God was going to do anything like that, so many people would not believe it. But to many people, they believed it was the truth, because it produced a results. For the first person stepping into the water, being with some ailment, with faith, the Angel... The virtue of the water, the phenomena of it, the chopped water, which many people thought was just the wind going around the wall... Which, there was a wall around the pool. And a certain way the current might be flowing from the water that's coming in, and the wind turn it back, making a chopped water. But the strange thing of it was, when the person that had faith stepped into the pool, the chopping ceased, and that person got well of whatsoever disease.
E-8 Now, that was a very
strange thing, but they could see the results of what the pool did. And
they could see the results that come upon the person. So they believed
that God sent an Angel down.
And now, as it's written in the Scripture, we believe that it was an
Angel, we Christian people, because the Bible said it was an Angel. The
Bible to that time... This New Testament wasn't written. They just
walked by steps of faith, like we do today, walking in another age:
steps of faith.
But when our Master came, He was God's provided way for the healing of
the sick bodies. God has seasons, and He had provisions made for that
certain generation.
E-9 When Charles G. Finney, to
my way of thinking (and I'm just one), was one of the greatest
ministers since Saint Paul. He claimed to have won a million souls to
Christ. Dwight Moody in his day... Charles Finney was a--a lawyer, an
educated man, and he was God's message to the world in his day, an
educated man who got many hundreds of lawyers together. And you've read
his biography, I'm sure, most all people who read those things,
religious books. And it's a--it's a masterpiece.
Then along came Dwight Moody, which was a very illiterate, unlearned
man. His grammar was very poor, but he was God's Message for that age.
In each age God has a message.
E-10 And in the days when the children of Israel were journeying through the wilderness, God had a message of a brass serpent on a pole, provided for a compound reason: for forgiveness of sin and healing of their body from a snakebite, which their medical aids would not touch. And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, which were very smart, shrewd, medical men. But his--his remedies did not help this certain snakebite. And we believe that to be true, because the Bible states it. And he lifted up a brass serpent, and the people had nothing to do but to look at that brass serpent and believe that it was God's compound cure for their sins, for refusing God's servant, and for complaining against him, and for the cure of the snakebite.
E-11 Jesus said, "As Moses
was--lifted up the brass serpent, so must the Son of man," the same
reason. And now, that serpent was God's provided way for healing for
many, many years. And after the serpent, the people got to worshipping
the image, the serpent, instead of what it stood for. And that brought
the people under idolatry, so the prophet went in and took the serpent
and destroyed it.
Later, when the people had need of Divine healing, God sent an Angel
down to a pool. Now, the Scripture said that it was an Angel and was on
the pool. And the first one stepping in, that had faith, got healed.
E-12 Now, the quotation of the
Scripture here, claims that there were great multitudes of people who
lay there, was lame, halt, blind, and withered, waiting for the moving
of the waters. And then when the first person got healed, all the
virtue of the Angel that was on the water, His powers, went into the
sick person. The waters ceased, and the Angel never come back for many
days, at another season, perhaps another four, five, or six weeks. But
the people waited patiently for the Angel.
And many of you clergymen setting here, no doubt has taken the history
of it: how that the people would even fight with knives trying to run
over each other to get to the pool to get in first. What a mass of
humanity, suffering, that must have been.
E-13 And when along came the virgin born, Divine Son of God, and He was God's provided lamb, provided Sacrifice, Jehovah-jireh, the provided One... And as He was born and the people of that day, of His day, especially the religious people, did not believe Him, because He never come in a classical way that they expected Him. But He came humble, born in a manger, wrapped in swaddling's cloth. There was no singing at His birth, as there is a king's birth. Mortals, when a king is born, the people sing and have jubilee. But there was no king, no people to sing at this King's birth. But the Angels came down and sang to the shepherds, "in the city of David is born Christ the Saviour."
E-14 And some Magis who seen a--a phenomenal, a star, and they had--they even had many more observatories then than we have today, because each city had it's own observatory. And they kept the time by the stars. The watchman stood on the tower in the observatory and he watched the star. You remember, "What time is it?" he asked the watchman. He said, "The day cometh and night." They watched the stars, and they knew about what time it was. But this, now notice, this magic, as we'd put it, so even children could understand it, mysterious light came over every one of those observatories, across from the Orient. It said, "We have seen His Star in the east." But His Star wasn't in the East to them. They were in the east, looking west towards Palestine, and saw His Star. And none of the observatories, none of the historians or so forth has anything written of it, or no man in that day saw the star, except the Magi, and it led them to the Christ. It was God's provided compass.
E-15 And those men happened to be the lineage of Ham, Shem, and Japheth, the three sons of Noah. And they came and offered gifts to the Son of God. And He said in Matthew 24, "When the gospel has been preached to all the kindreds, tongues, and nations, then the end shall be." When the fathers, who came forth in commemoration of His birth and laid down gold, frankincense, and myrrh to worship Him, then when all their children has heard the message of the Gospel...
E-16 Now, the Gospel, commonly
believed, is the Word of God, and that is true in one sense. But the
Word of God is not Gospel alone. The Word of God is the Seed that
produces the Gospel. Jesus said a sower went forth and sowed seed. And
some fell onto the stony places, and some fell by the wayside, and the
fowls of the air devoured them. Some fell upon thorny thistle ground;
some went over and brought a hundredfold.
Now, the seed, you people here who are a farmers, every seed will
produce if it's in the right kind of a ground. And every Divine promise
of God in the Bible will produce if It's met in the right kind of a
heart. It'll produce the promise. If you have need of salvation,
believe that He saves you and accept His sacrificial death, and you
shall receive what you've asked for. If you're weary and gloomy and
feel like that everyone's against you, "Come unto me all ye that labor
and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." That's a seed. Accept
it. And if you're sick, "He was wounded for our transgressions, with
His stripes we're healed." "Accept it. It's a seed: will produce.
E-17 When you sow a seed, you
don't dig it up every morning to see if it's come to pass. If you do,
your seed will never come up. You got to plant it, commit it to the
earth, and let it alone. It's up to nature, God, to water it and to see
that it produces. Is that true?
So that's the way you do the Word of God. Accept it in a good heart,
already fertilized, and all the creepers, and the rocky places, and the
stony doubts taken away, and in good rich soil of faith, and believe
it, commit it to God, and walk away, testifying that you have received
what God has promised you. And He's the High Priest of your confession,
to make right anything that you confessed that He has done. That's the
Gospel. Now, the Gospel isn't only the Word.
E-18 Could you imagine people
freezing to death, and I would paint them a picture of a fire. I'd say,
"Look at the fire burning. Isn't it warm? Look at the people standing
around, warming." But that's only a picture of something that has been.
You'd freeze just the same, looking at the picture. What it takes is
that fire to be reproduced again for your warmth.
And the Gospel that was in that day, it's written in the Word as a
history, a painted fire of what was. Accept the same seed that they
accept, and it'll be a living reality in you, that'll bring you into
the same experience that they had.
Say, "Rev. Branham, is that the truth?"
According to the writings of the Scripture, the great Saint Paul said,
"The Gospel come to us not by Word only, but through power and
demonstrations of the Holy Ghost."
And when Jesus commissioned the church to go into all the world and
preach the Gospel: Mark 16, "Go into all the world and preach the
Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be
saved, and he that believeth not... And these signs shall follow them
that believe..."
E-19 Now, there's many has a
profession that they believe, and today in my church, as in most all of
our churches, we class a believer as one who is loyal to the church,
and comes to church regular, and takes a--a place, a position in the
church, and helps the church in its financial needs. But that's very
contrary to what Jesus said. Jesus didn't say, "These signs will follow
them: they'll take their place in church, and they'll be loyal
members," and so forth. He never said that.
But here's His last statement to the Church. Listen. "These signs shall
follow them that believe: in My Name they shall cast out devils, speak
with new tongues, or take up serpents, drink deadly things it'll not
harm them. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover."
E-20 And then He ascended up into heaven. And the disciples worshipped Him, and returned to Jerusalem, the Lord working with them, confirming the Word with signs following. Is that the Scripture, quoting It just as He said it. Now, I'm not respon...[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... a man laying there. Does that sound right. No, it isn't. He knew where the man was. He knew that he'd had an infirmity thirty and eight years. Now, he might've had a heart trouble. He might've had arthritis. Or he might've had TB. He might've been anemia. He might've had a stomach trouble. It was an infirmity. He wasn't crippled, nor afflicted, or disable to walk, for he said "When I'm coming down, another steps down ahead of me." But he'd had an infirmity thirty and eight years, and Jesus came by and healed that one man, and turned away and left that great multitude of lame, halt, blind, and withered. Is that right? Now, I am quoting John 5.
E-21 Now, look at that. Could
you imagine the lovely, all-powerful Jesus coming by such a mass of
humanity, of blind, lame, halt, withered, and pass right along among
those people, and heal one man that wasn't withered, neither was he
blind, nor halt, nor crippled? But he had an infirmity thirty-eight
years. And Jesus knew that he'd been this way a long time, and said to
him, "Wilt thou be made whole?"
He said, "I have no one to get me to the water; when I'm coming someone
else steps down ahead of me."
He said, "Take up thy bed and walk." And away he went. And Jesus, with
the heart of God in Him, walked right away and left that rest of that
complete multitude lay there, lame, blind, halt and withered. That is
the Scripture, the Gospel according to the Bible here, of Saint John.
And this is not fanaticism, but all that knows that that's the truth,
and I have read it from the Scripture here, would you say, "Amen." [Congregation
says, "Amen."--Ed.]
E-22 Wonder why that the
immaculate Son of God, infinite in love and grace, would walk by a
multitude of people and leave them laying there like that? Now, I
believe, if He should've said to that cripple, or to this withered, or
to this withered, or this blind man... I believe His heart went out in
sympathy for them. Do you believe that? His heart went out in sympathy.
And I believe if He would've said to one of them, "You get up and
walk," or, "You have received your sight," I believe it would've
happened, don't you?
But now listen as I read the following verses, when He was questioned,
19th verse:
Then answered Jesus
and said unto them, verily, verily I say unto you. The Son can do
nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do. For what things so
ever He doeth, these also doeth the son likewise.
For the Father
loveth the Son and showeth Him all things that Himself doeth, and He
will show Him greater things, works, than these, that ye may marvel.
Do you see what I mean?
E-23 Now, Jesus the Son of God, said, "I the Son of God can do nothing about that, for I can only do what My Father shows Me to do. For, whatsoever the Son seeth (amen,), seeth the Father do, these things also doeth the Son. For the Son... The Father showeth the Son whatsoever things He doeth, and He will show you greater things than this, that ye may marvel." Saint John 14:12, quoting Jesus, "These things that I do, shall you also. And greater things than this shall you do, for I go unto My Father." I quote again the Scripture, "It's expedient for Me that I go away, for if I go not away, the Holy Ghost will not come." Again, "A little while, and the world seeth Me no more, yet you'll see Me for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the age." Quoting again, Hebrews 8:13--13:8, rather, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." "When He the Holy Ghost has come, He will guide you into all truth and light, and will show you things to come." True? Those are quotations from the Scriptures of Jesus' own Words.
E-24 Now, is it strange today, then, that the Words of Jesus would be fulfilled before our very eyes? Would it be strange today if the people that are unbelievers would say it's the devil? No, Jesus, quoting again, "If they have called the Master of the house (which was He, the house of God) Beelzebub (which was a spiritualist)... If they have called the Master of the house, Beelzebub, how much more will they call them of His household?" If they called the main Priest, the High Priest, the Prophet of all prophets, the King of all kings, if they call He, the Power of all powers, doing His works, because He was a Seer, and the Master of all seers that was, and was before, and will come, the Head of all of it, the Producer of all of it; if they called Him Beelzebub, a spiritualist, how much more will they call those minor seers of the household. If they call the Father a devil, how much more will they call the children a devil." You see what I mean?
E-25 So take your stand tonight,
my beloved friend, on the side that Christ is on, on the side that He's
vitally proving Himself to be.
"And now, this is not done," quoting from my heart, "these things are
not done in secret. They are done openly, that all may see." They're
not in one part of the world. It's confirmed around the world, and He
shall confirm it again. These things are done that it might be
fulfilled, which is already prophesied in the Bible to come to pass in
these days.
E-26 Here I feel the Spirit of God. Listen close. Here it comes. This is a glorious thing. This is the day of the Lord. This is the day that we should be happy. For in our eyes today, and our ears is fulfilled the Word of God to this day, that the Lord has said. Praise be the Name of the Lord. This is it, the Holy Spirit here in confirmation of His Word. The prophecy that's been already foretold and predicted, is being fulfilled now before your eyes in Erie, Pennsylvania, this night. And the Holy Spirit, Who wrote these Words, is here at this armory building tonight, to vindicate the Truth of God, according to the Word, the seed, and the fulfilling of the Word. He's here. Then let us rejoice in our hearts, and be encouraged. Let us set up, and take heed to what we have heard, 'less we should let it slip at any time. Let us believe on Him with one heart and one accord. We are limited, and I am limited, to whatever the Father would show me, that I can do; without that, I can do nothing; for I only fulfill the Words that was spoken by the Lord Jesus.
E-27 Jesus, when He came, He
said He came to fulfill the Word of God, what the prophets has said.
Amen. He came to fulfill the prophecy of the Old Testament. Do you
believe it? [Congregation
says, "Amen."--Ed.] Now,
the Holy Spirit is here to fulfill the prophecy of the New Testament.
Do you believe it? Then let us be glad, for today is the great day of
our Lord.
Do not be weary, you who are sick and afflicted. Do not be weary, you
who are down hearted. And you beloved ones who are setting here in
chairs and on stretchers and cots. According to medical science, you
probably never get well. And the dear doctors has maybe done all they
know how to do to help you, but they're men like I am. And God knows,
if I had one bit of authority or power, I'd come right down out of this
platform; there wouldn't be a sick person left in here in a few
minutes. I would do it. And so would've my Master, when He passed by
Bethesda, and look at that great mass of ten thousand people laying
there, crippled, afflicted, and blind. But He said, "I can only do what
My Father shows Me to do."
E-28 And so is every mortal
limited to the powers of God. For no flesh, even the Son of God glories
not before the Father, for He said, "It's not Me that doeth the work;
it's My Father that dwelleth in Me; He doeth the works. He shows the
Son what Himself doeth, and the Son does likewise." The same Gospel, by
the same God, is here tonight.
Soon we're to go to Africa in a few days. One way, I kinda hate to go.
Hate to say good-bye to my wife and babies, and all. A lady, in a
restaurant, the other morning, said, "Are you going to leave your
little wife and those babies to go to Africa?"
Said, "Yes, ma'am."
She said, "What are you going to Africa for."
I said, "To carry the Gospel, of Jesus Christ." And I said, "He said,
'Whosoever will not forsake his wife, his children, all, and cleave to
Me, shall not be worthy to be called My disciple.'" And I said, "It's
such a little thing for me to forsake my lovely little wife and babies
and things, to go to the foreign fields, when He come from glory down,
and died for me." She went around to get my breakfast, in a few moments
she come back. She said, "Sir, there's so few people think that today."
This world is hungering, friends. Give them the Gospel in its trueness,
in its power. A green light, to flash to Africa...
E-29 I was in Houston the night the picture was taken back there, of the Angel of the Lord. Two days before the picture was taken, Dr. Bosworth came in, said, "Looky here, Brother Branham." He had a picture of the late... granddaughter of the late Florence Nightingale, the noted nurse of England. Her great-great-granddaughter, I believe it was. She was in South Africa, and had a malignant growth over the...?... of the stomach. They had her holding up there, when she wasn't nothing but bones, just eat her up. They stood her up like this, she's almost six foot tall; tall, thin, blond-haired woman. She's standing like that, and her arms about that big around; I believe she weighed forty pounds, or thirty-five pounds, or something. And through her body, here, she had a small clout around her. And when he showed me that... And she was begging. She'd sent a airplane ticket, for me to fly to Africa from there, right quick.
E-30 Sometimes when I go home,
there'd be eight or ten tickets laying there from different places. And
I'd just get down and pray, and ask the Lord which one to go to. The
others, I return. There where the Lord leads me, I try to go. And
it's--it's hard, in one way, but it's so sweet. At nighttime, when you
lay your head on the pillow, to know you've done your level best to do
something for somebody, no matter how much scorn there is to bear and
how much cross there is. I think,
Must
Jesus bear the cross alone,
All
the world go free?
There's
a cross for every one,
And
there's a cross for me.
All this isn't a flowery bed of ease, friend. At nighttime, the
struggles. And sometimes when demons has been ordered from people, and
them fighting, and that person believing, then they'll haunt right back
at you at night like that. Better know what you're doing. All right.
E-31 They give me the picture,
and Brother Bosworth said, "Brother Branham, I... Here it is, all I can
hand it to you." And I--I just had to weep like a baby. I just knelt
down the floor and laid the telegram--the papers down there, rather,
and the picture. And wife, and my little girl got down over the
picture, and we prayed. I said, "Heavenly Father, You know I can't
leave here, humanly speaking now, when thousands of people are
waiting." I said, "But if You will just touch that poor, dear, dying
woman there in Africa and heal her, it'll be a "go" light, for me to go
down there, if you'll just touch her and heal her." I said, "I can't do
no more about it. Now, I'm willing to leave the meeting, anything you
want me to do, Father."
God sometimes does that. You remember Philip? And I committed it to
Him, and handed the picture back to Doctor Bosworth. And then I just
went on.
E-32 And then King George of
England, you all know of him cablegraming me twice to come pray for
him. When a man over here at Ft. Wayne was healed with multiple
sclerosis, was a friend to his private secretary--been a bed patient
ten years. I couldn't go at that time, but I know I'd be in England
soon, so I just had prayer for the King.
In the day that we had landed, Brother Baxter and I, the others of
the--to the campaign that furnished us to go there by American money.
And we landed in E--England, I'll never forget, I said to Brother
Baxter, "Brother Baxter," just now maybe I will have a little bit of
rest before going into this great strain." 'Cause, we knowed there'd be
multiplied thousands waiting in Finland.
E-33 So tomorrow night, if the
Lord willing, I will tell you what happened in Finland. But now our
time is getting by.
And as I started walking, I heard someone page me at the international
airport, just out of London, about twenty miles. Brother Baxter said,
"Let me take it, Brother Branham." And he went ahead.
There was ministers there, paging me. They said, "Come out here. That
Miss Florence Nightingale from Africa, just come in a plane ahead of
you. She's dying, and wants you to come to her." Oh, how could I get to
her there in all that mass?
I told him, I said, "You take her on to your home. I want to go down
there to Buckingham Palace. And then you call me, and I will be at the
Piccadilly Hotel." Brother Baxter and I fixed it up with him. We went
on to the hotel.
E-34 And on the second day, after we'd went to the palace, and up to John Wesley's place, and so forth, we came back down the Westminster Abbey. Then we went into the hotel. And this minister, English minister, called, with his little cab. And we went down to his house, and it's kindly foggy that morning. We went up... had a lovely place, and his big church. We went upstairs. And there were many of them to welcome us.
E-35 And, oh, brother, sister, you reading that little book of mine, seeing there about little Georgie Carter, she only weighed thirty-something pounds. Nine years and a half, she'd never moved. I thought that was the poorest person I ever seen, when she'd never raised off of her back, for nine years and eight months. She's my piano player at the Milltown Baptist Church tonight where I'm pastor. But... And the people in the neighborhood, said, "Let her get healed, and we'll all believe." But it never made one believer. So they thought she was bewitched or hypnotized. That's been years ago, and she's still bewitched then, and hypnotized. She's gained some nearly a hundred pounds since then.
E-36 Then, this woman, when we
went in there... When Brother Baxter looked at her, he--he just turned
his face. He could hardly stand to look at the poor woman. And myself,
when I seen her, I--I thought that my heart would swell out. She
couldn't speak loud enough for me to hear her. So I got down real low,
and one of the nurses translated what she said--or said to me. She
said, "Brother Branham, I want to touch your hand." And oh, friends,
we--we all going to leave one day, unless Jesus comes for His Church.
And we got to go back to the dust of the earth, for that's ordained of
God that we should do so.
When I taken a hold of that hand, I do not believe (just speaking from
my heart), that a skeleton's hand would have been any more: just as
cold, and just the bones. And I took a hold of her hand. And her arm
was just the arm bones.
E-37 And she wanted me to see her body. Now, I wish to make this statement; I'm... have a mixed audience here. But I want you to understand me, as your brother. And over her--her body, when they taken the--the sheet off of her, she wasn't, didn't look like a human; it looked like a skeleton. As a lady, how they're built in the bosom, everything was sunk through and there was just the ribs there. And her body was so poor, until in her hips, where the ring was, the ring in the hip, the skin had growed together through the ring like that. And her limbs was just about that big around, up here around where they jointed into the socket. How the woman was living, only our heavenly Father knows. And she was crying, the tears was running off the side of her face. And where there was enough moisture to the--for the tears, I do not know. Her legs where real blue, the bone, like on her, where they fed her glucose and stuff, for she'd never been able to swallow for several months.
E-38 And the nurse got down to
see what she was saying. She said, "Have Brother Branham to ask God to
let me die. I can't die." She couldn't eat. They couldn't find no more
veins. And there she was just laying there wasting away. Brother
Baxter, and Brother Lindsay, Brother Moore, myself, and two or three
ministers, and the nurses, and the loved ones of the home; I said, "Let
us bow for prayer." And when I started to pray...
My Bible is open before me. And our heavenly Father is near to listen
to what I have to say, and what you...
Just as I started to pray, I said, "Our Father Who art in heaven," a
little dove flew at the window. And he started going, "coo, coo,"
walking back and forth, "coo, coo." And all the time I was praying, he
cooed. And when I raised up, the ministers started to say, "Did you
detect the dove?" And as I raised up, the dove flew away. And as I
started to say that I heard the dove... As you see here it here in the
night, I had no control of what I was going to say, and said, "THUS
SAITH THE LORD, you'll live and not die."
E-39 We have a letter from her
now. She weighs a hundred and thirty five pounds, in perfect, normal
health. My secretary's wife sets here; she sends a picture of a
different-looking person; you wouldn't even know her, from them bones,
from all the medical doctors that could be gathered together.
What was it? Was it my prayer? No, it was her faith in what Jesus did
for her nineteen hundred years ago. Just as you was saved, nineteen
hundred years ago, and from sin and shame, you were brought to
fellowship with God, not because Jesus saved you, last night or last
year, but because at that time you accepted what He had already done
for you. "And He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes
we were healed."
E-40 Now, if you will accept now
what He done for you then... Now, He is the... Hebrews 3:1. He's the
High Priest of our confession. Now, anyone who knows the Scripture,
knows that that word is written "profession," but the same word's
translated "confession." In other words, He cannot save you by the
merits of your prayer. He cannot save you by the merits of your
enthusiasm or your good works. He saves you by the merits of your faith
and your confession. "For if you will confess Me before men, him will I
confess before My Father and the holy Angels." And whatever of any
re... Listen close. Any redemptive blessing that's written in the
Word...
Now, there's no need of you arguing of it, whether it's in the
atonement. If it's in the Word, God is sovereign and has to fulfill His
Word. "For heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word will not pass
away." If God said so...
E-41 God is worth no more than His Word. And if His Word is no good, than He is no good. If your word... If I can't put no confidence in what you say, you're no good. But you're just as good as your word is. And God is just as good as His Word is. And I, as a Christian believer, I believe that this Bible is inspired, and It is written by the Holy Spirit, and It is the infallible Word of God. And God is under obligation to His Word, to the believer that will accept His Word. And any Word is a seed. If you accept it in your heart by faith, and believe it, and confess it, God will bring it to pass.
E-42 Now, may I say this again, as many time newspapers, magazines, across the world has said, called me a Divine healer. Remember, that is an error. I'm very thankful for the reports that I've had in the magazines and papers. I've had about two or three out of all that was hostile. Most all of them were very kind. "Post Dispatch," and "Chicago Tribune," and all those there, you read it in the book there. And the time where you can send right back to the papers and get them, where, the people come in and were even healed themselves, reporters, and so forth. Where they went and examined the cases, to see, taking time; instead of just--just shutting off their vision, and saying, "Well, he don't belong to my church."...
E-43 Dear brother, sister,
there's only one Church, and that's the body of believers out of every
church, that are truly believers in our Lord Jesus Christ. That's the
only Church there is. We do not come into the Church--into the Church
of God. We become into this fellowship; the Baptist fellowship, the
Methodist fellowship, the Catholic fellowship, the Presbyterian
fellowship. We become in there by a working agreement, like the unions
have in the churches. But in the Church of the living God, we do not
come in by letter, by--by handshake, by water baptism. But the
Scripture says, "By one Spirit we are all baptized into one Body." A
Christian, regardless of what fellowship we're connected with, we are
borned a Christian by the Spirit of God, and we become believers on His
Name.
Oh, how I love Him. And how I know that you love Him. And how my desire
is tonight that He shall heal each one of you.
E-44 And now clearly understand, before we call this line. That there is no power in any man on earth to heal you in the way of Divine healing. A doctor might move a place; he might set an arm. He might remove appendix, but who is going to heal that place up that he cut the appendix out of? He might pull a tooth, but who's going to heal that socket? He might set an arm, but who's going to knit that bone together. It takes the supernatural. And all healings in the hospital, on the sick beds, in the doctor's office, all healings is God's healing. No matter what aid you use, they're only remedies; He is the cure. Remedies are aids; God is the cure. Do you understand? Now, the doctor will do all he can to help you, to aid nature, but God is the cure.
E-45 Psalms 103:3 said, "I'm the
Lord Who forgives all of thine iniquity (Do you believe that?), Who
heals all of thy diseases." Now, you might come and confess your sins
to me, and ask me to pray for you, but I cannot forgive you. If you
sinned against me, I can forgive you. But if you sinned against God, He
is the only one that can forgive. And He has forgiven every person in
the world, and ever will be in the world. They're already forgiven, but
it will never help them until they accept it by faith and then confess
it.
And He's healed all the sick people, but it will never help them, until
they confess it by faith, and believe it, and act upon their
confession. "For as the body is dead without the Spirit," says James,
"so is faith without works." You've got to believe it and act like it.
When you accept Him as your Saviour, you've got to believe it and act
like Him.
E-46 Now, this... I was born into the world, not by the will of man, or not by man, but by the will of God, by Divine foreordination of God; not by my holiness, I have none. Not by my family's holiness; my family, back in the generation before, were immigrants from Ireland. They were Catholic. All the people down through were Catholic to the last generation. They went to no church at all, separated, my father and mother both are Irish: Branham and Harvey; they had no religion at all. Came on down to this... My, I wasn't in church until I was twenty-four years old. Away from church, but the...
E-47 When I was born in a little
mountain cabin in Kentucky, that Light that you see on the picture,
that the scientific research of the world has claimed it to be a
supernatural Being, came in the room. It's been with me since I was a
little boy. And It spoke to me, and is the One that sent me this, and
said He was sent from the Presence of God, and would give me these
things to do before the people, and not to tell them to join the
Methodist, Baptist, or Presbyterian church; but to believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ, and they will be made well or saved from their sins.
So, I tell the Truth. And if I spoke and said it was me, myself, I
would be a liar, for it is not I. But It's... I speak of Him and He is
Truth. And He will testify it being true. If you people will pray and
be sincere tonight, while the service is in session, if God will show
me what's happened to you, I shall pronounce it. If he doesn't show me,
I cannot pronounce it.
E-48 And I, as His servant,
challenge each of you sick people tonight... There's a great many cards
out here. We can only call a few to the platform, because under that
anointing I only last so long. The managers and my son takes me away,
because I have another meeting tomorrow night.
And anyone who Scripturally knows the Bible, knows what that is. Look
at the virtue of the Angel, left on one person. Look at Daniel, when he
saw one vision, he said, "I was troubled at my head for many days." Is
that right?
And night after night... Why? For Jesus said, "These things that I do,
shall you also, and more than this shall you do." It's only recorded
just a few times. Where He said to the woman...
When a man came to Him, by the name of Nathanael, and He said, "Behold
an Israelite," in other words, a Christian. Said, "When did you know
me?"
Said, "Before Philip called you, I seen you." Is that true?
He said to a woman that He carried a conversation with, to catch her
spirit, said, "Go, get your husband."
Said, "I have none."
Said, "You said well; you have five."
In a few times in the Scripture... But He promised "greater," which
was, "more than this shall you do, for I go to My Father." Now, this is
fulfilling the Word.
E-49 May the Lord Jesus bless
each of you, while we bow our heads for prayer.
Our heavenly Father, we are thankful tonight for the power of the
Gospel; that hungry hearts will set in hot buildings, and many a times
as many as forty thousand at a time sit in the hot suns of Jamaica, and
in the seas, the islands of the seas, rather, to listen to the Gospel
of Christ, spoke in Its simplicity yet in Its power. And to see the
Holy Spirit come down in the miraculous form, and to heal the needy, we
thank Thee, Father.
E-50 We thank Thee for this
great state of Pennsylvania, for its Governor, for all the officials,
and for the city of Erie. The people, the churches, every one of them,
Lord, standing, their great spires pointing up to heaven, and of a
morning when the bells ring, the people rush to the church to find
soothing consolation for their souls, to know that this is just the
shadow, the negative. Someday death shall develop the picture, and then
we'll see face to face, and know as we're known.
Many are sick and unprivileged of going, many of their days are
shortened from the three score and ten. Satan has did this evil thing.
E-51 And, Father, Your humble
servant tonight, I pray not that these people hear me, but I am
speaking to Thee, O God. May the Angel that has guided me, sent from
You, and fed me the days of my life, may He stand by me tonight to
confirm the words that I have said, that the people might believe on
Thee, and be saved and healed.
And may, after the going of this meeting, when the people wake up to
the consciousness of what's just happened, may there be a revival in
every church in the city. May this city, oh, be altogether on a stir
for the Lord Jesus. May every clergyman of the city be inspired, Lord,
when he sees his church filling up, and the people coming, making their
confession, and wanting to join church and to live for Christ. When he
sees the sick that was once sick, then healed and giving testimony on
thousands of others, Lord, believing... Grant it, Lord, tonight that
something may happen that will stir them.
E-52 Now, I have confessed
before this audience, and Thee, O Lord, that there is no man which is
the Divine healer or Saviour. Only Thy beloved Son has done this for
us. And we humbly bow to give Him all the praise and glory for what He
has done. And we humbly ask Thee tonight, Lord, to increase our faith
in His finished work of Calvary, when the great vicarious suffering
there paid the double cure price, that, "He was wounded for our
transgressions and with His stripes we are healed." May that double
cure come to every one here tonight. And as blind Fanny Crosby, in the
days gone by, writing, the poet:
Pass
me not, O gentle Saviour,
Hear
my humble cry.
While
on others Thou art calling,
Do not
pass me by.
Thou
the stream of all my comfort,
More
than life to me,
Whom
have I on earth beside Thee,
Or
whom in heaven but Thee.
E-53 And tonight, to see these
people setting here with cancer, heart trouble, just a few more days to
live, then they must answer yonder at the judgment. O God, pass them
not, O gentle Saviour. But may something be done that'll stir their
faith, to look up yonder beyond the doctor's care, beyond the fog and
the veil: to look There and see a bloody Sacrifice hanging before
Jehovah God, tonight, Who said, "This is My beloved Son, here ye Him."
And we hear His voice roaring from Palestine tonight, saying,
"Whatsoever things you desire when you pray, believe you receive them,
and you shall have them." Grant it, Lord, that these things will be so
tonight.
And now, I ask Thee humbly, as Your servant, that You will hide me
behind the veil just now. Take, Lord, not because that I would be
worthy, I am unworthy but because that Thy people here and Thy worthy
Son died for this worthy cause... If You were looking for Holy hands
tonight, where would You find them? We've all sinned and come short of
the glory of God. But O Father, Thy Word is determined, and It must be
fulfilled. Grant, today and tonight, that the words that I have spoke
concerning the Angel of the Lord in these nights past, that it may be
confirmed tonight. May many of Your people believe and be healed.
E-54 And now, Lord, I know
nothing of these people here. Thou knowest all about them. And may
there hearts be set to Calvary tonight to believe. And as they believe,
will You show Your humble prophet, Lord, tonight, and may I be able, by
the power of the Holy Spirit to see these people, and may they be
healed. For I humbly ask it as Your servant in the Name of Your beloved
Son, Jesus Christ, Who stretched forth His arms to heal. Amen.
Every believing child of God on praying grounds? All the believers
stand together now. And as we do know... I don't mean stand up. I mean
stand together in heart. Thank you. Thank you. Stand with me in prayer
as a unity.
Do you know where there's disunity, the Spirit of the God is not
welcome?
E-55 Did you know when Jesus
went in to rise, raise up Jairus' daughter, and the people said why
she... He said, "She's not dead; she sleepeth." And they laughed at
Him. Is that right? And He put them all out of the building. Is that
right? He taken the believers.
And when Peter went in to raise up Dorcas, the lovely, charitable
widow, and the people were crying and lamenting, why, He put them all
out of the house.
Jesus taken a man by the hand, and led him outside the city (where the
unbelieving priests and them were); led him outside the city, and
healed him of deafness. Is that right?
And I'm sure that you Christian believers recognize my position
tonight. And now, let this be known to you, throughout the building: I
am not responsible for anything that might happen to unbelieving or
skeptic-minded people. For, be it assured unto you that sicknesses are
absolutely demons.
E-56 For instance, the deafness
or dumbness... Now, the doctor said the nerves went dead in the ear.
Well, what made it go dead? Why didn't it go dead all over him? Because
there's a supernatural power cuts it off, and it can't function no
more. Like a transparent band around my hand, if you can't see it, or
feel it, that's the only sense that will declare it. And if the natural
senses won't declare it, it's a supernatural being.
Now, is that true?
E-57 Listen what Jesus said,
when the deaf spirit went out of the man. He could hear. Is that right?
When the deaf spirit, when the dumb spirit went out of the child, it
could speak: Spirit. And when they come out of one... Demons are
helpless unless they are embodied. Look at the demoniac that met Jesus,
from Gadara. They said, "Suffer us to go into those swines," without a
body.
And Jesus said, "Go." And the swines went into the fits that was in the
maniac, and down into the sea they went and drowned in fits, just like
the man had.
E-58 Look at two boys in the
Bible, or some vagabonds, a minister, priest's sons who went down to
cast out a devil, an epileptic spell out of a man: Acts 19. And they
seen Paul casting out devils; and they seen Jesus, so they said to this
devil that was in the man, "We adjure you by Jesus, who Paul preaches,
come out." The devil said, "Jesus I know and Paul I know but who are
you?" And the devil overcome the men, and stripped their clothes off of
them, and they run through the street, naked. Is that right? Now, them
devils tonight are still devils, but they call them epilepsy, deafness,
dumbness, cancer, cataract. It's devils. And when they come out, they
go to others. For many, many, many, across the nation tonight, are
setting afflicted because of that.
So let it be known, that I am not responsible for critics, only for
believers. It will not come near anyone who believes what I said to be
the Truth. All right.
E-59 Now, let us... Let's see,
where's my boy? Well what's... How many cards you give out? G-50 to a
100. Last night we started at the first of them, then--the night before
last, then we started at the middle. Let's start at the last, the last
fifteen; 85, 90, 95, a 100. Let's start in the G's.
Now, that's just... Whoever you are, look around, examine the cards.
Look around. Here's a man who... Yours there, sir? 70, G-70. Look
around there; somebody might be deaf or something and can't hear. Look,
examine their cards. G-85, 90, 85, or 85, 90, 95, 100. Start along in
there and get them, the last 15 of them. And now, line up according to
your number over here, if you will. 85 and--and 90--90... 85, 86, 87,
88, 89, 90, and on to a 100. All right.
E-60 How many here... Thank you,
sir. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. How many here does not have prayer
cards, let's see your hands now. Do you believe with all your heart? Do
you believe that the Lord Jesus is here to make you well? All right.
Now, remember, my Christian friend, I am challenging every believer in
here to ask Almighty God, the Father of our Lord Jesus, to heal you.
Now, these people just have a card, and on the card's got a number. And
on the... The reason we do that, if I'd say here. "All that wants to be
prayed for, come up." Just look what a mass we would have. And if I'd
say, "All the so-and-so," like that, you'd have no one to start. We
just give these cards out, and then just start somewhere along, and let
them be called. No one knowing where they're to start, we decide that
after we get here.
E-61 And now here lays people in
cots, and stretchers, and so forth. Someone, can you look at your card
there, lady, looks like your hands are twisted like. Can you hold your
card? See what number she's got. Oh, my. All right, lady, you watch
this a way, and you ask our heavenly Father to heal you tonight. What
about yours? Is your card? And your card wasn't in?
Now you ladies on stretchers, you look and believe with all your heart.
You're strangers. I know you not. But look and believe with all your
heart that Jesus Christ will be here to make you well. Do you believe
it? You believe that He will?
How many of you out there, that's sick now let's see again that hasn't
got prayer cards, wants to be healed? That's... Well, that's just about
solid, all the way across everywhere.
E-62 Now, be in prayer, and our
heavenly Father will reveal to me. Do you believe He will? All right,
then you pray and ask Him to heal you. Have faith now. And may the
eternal God bless each one of you.
Now, all you in the line, do you believe with all your heart? Each one
of you believe? All right, have faith then in God. Do I know I don't
know none of you, I don't believe. No, none of you. All right, have
faith now and you bring your first patient.
E-63 How do you do, lady? Now, I suppose that we are strangers. I don't believe I ever seen you in my life. But we are--we're strangers of life, and you have come to me for help. And I perceive, immediately, that you're a Christian, a believer, because the Holy Spirit will not embrace sin. You've noticed that in the meetings, if you've been here before. When sin is at the platform, or out there in the audience, It'll call it right out. Because He can't tolerate sin; God can't. He's holy, and He can't tolerate sin. And I ask you to believe me as His servant, and you do.
E-64 Now, you just received a
prayer card, and on there was a number and a letter. And it was called,
and you come to me as a stranger. Now, reason I'm talking to you, is
your my first patient. And I--and I must carry a conversation, in
order...
Like Jesus said to the woman at the well, "Bring Me a drink."
She said, "It's not customary for the Jews to ask the Samaritans
anything."
He said, "But if you knew who you were speaking to, you would ask Me
for a drink." And the conversation went on; then He went right straight
and told her what was wrong with her. Isn't that right? You see, the...
He promised that the things that He did, that He would grant it also,
and there'd be a former and a latter rain, and in this last days that
these things would come to pass.
E-65 Now, you're aware that
something is going on, aren't you? You--you know it just now when I
begin to speak to you. Now, something happened just then, didn't it?
Now, that wasn't... That's nothing to hurt you now. That's to heal you.
Did you see the picture of It back there last evening? You wasn't here.
I want you to pass by the desk and see the picture; you'll see what
that is, the looks of it, when the best research in America, and it
hangs in a religious hall of art today: a supernatural Being.
Now, that the audience might know. Just since we been talking, a real,
I'd say, a lovely sweet kind feeling comes over you. Is that right? If
it is, raise your hand. Now, what that is, that's the Angel of the
Lord, contacting. There's something wrong with you. And if... and I am
His servant.
Just as that wire in that light is a servant to the light, it isn't the
wire; it's the electricity going through it, that makes the light, the
wire cannot make no light.
Neither can I know what was wrong with you, or have any Light to you.
It's the--this Spirit that you now feel, that brings the Light.
E-66 Yes, ma'am, you suffer,
don't you, sister? You're an extremely nervous person. You have much
trouble. And you--you are bothered with... Don't you have a lot of
night--getting up at night, or something another. Isn't that right?
Yes, ma'am. I see you going through the night, always with... Is that
true? [Sister
says, "That's true, very true."--Ed.] Then, you--you've had... I
see a doctor standing near you. No, you've had several operations,
haven't you? That's right. And you're real... Your main trouble lays
within your back. Isn't that right? It's in your back, and that's
what's caused you to have a stomach... and so forth. Isn't that true?
Are those things true, lady? [Sister
says, "Those are very true, very true."--Ed.] Now, no one at all... only
God would have to reveal that.
Now, that wasn't me speaking just then. It was my voice, but I was at
several different places and seen what took place. Was it true? [Sister
says, "That's very true, two operations at one time, and five at
another."--Ed.]
Now, who... I spoke that, did I, while I was speaking? All right, then
who would know that except God, or somebody was in that place, to see
those things take place. Is that right? Sometimes it--I don't realize
just what's went on. But now, you... That feeling's not like it was is
it? You see, it's gone. That was when the blessing of God was upon.
E-67 Is that the same Spirit
that said to our Lord Jesus Christ, when He told Nathanael where He
seen him under a tree, praying, before he come to Him, and told him he
was a Christian, or a believer, otherwise? Is that the same Spirit? The
same Spirit. That It came back to you again, wasn't it? You are
blessed, my sister. Your prayers are answered. Your suffering is over.
Christ has healed you. You are well. You can go and be well in the Name
of the Lord Jesus.
Thanks be to our Lord Jesus Christ, Who brought again the Spirit of God
and the resurrected Christ, Who is present tonight to heal all that is
in need. He is here, friends. I have no way of bringing Him to you.
Only your faith brings Him present. And watch the patient's expression
change as they come to the platform.
E-68 Now, a few moments, if the
anointing keeps coming upon me, I will be not knowing where I am. Now,
be sure for the meeting tomorrow night. And God bless you now. Be in
prayer out there. And you bring your next patient.
How do you do, lady? Our--our wonderful Saviour is marvelous, isn't He?
Yes, ma'am. Yes ma'am. Well, He's just as sweet and kind to us tonight,
as He every was. Yes, ma'am. Well, believing that, makes you a
Christian, when the love of God is in your heart. Well, that's, we feel
that way. That's just humanly, and blessed are they that hunger and
thirst for righteousness. It's even blessed to even feel that way.
Now of course, see you standing there you're wearing glasses which
would know... Any of the audience would know that it was it something
was wrong with your eyes. And now, they look good and clear, but I
believe your trouble is in your left eye, mainly. Isn't that right? ["That's
right."] Yes,
ma'am. And both of them are just as clear, but you're going blind in
your left eye. ["That's
right, brother."] Not
only that, but your left ear is awful bad. ["Oh,
praise the Lord, that's right."] Isn't it? Yes, ma'am. Oh, I
see it's your entire left side... ["Praise
the Lord, that's right."]
E-69 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...
and to this poor, suffering woman, I lay my hands upon her, and ask, in
the Name of Jesus Christ, that she will get well, Lord. I bless her, as
Your servant for her healing. Amen.
God bless you, God bless you sister. Go, thanking... Go, now just
testifying that you're going to be well. Stand right by your testimony.
Amen.
Let's say, "Thank You, dear Jesus. Thank You, dear Jesus." All right,
bring the next patient. Now everyone, just reverent and have faith now.
And if you'll believe, God will make you well. He will make you well.
E-70 Now, come just a moment,
sister, dear. I just want to... There's many people out there,
believing, and it makes it very hard. There's many people setting out
there now that's already healed. And it--it makes me real nervous or
weak. And now, you are a stranger to me, I do not know you, and to save
my energy, I want to just talk to you a moment if I can, to keep from
seeing. The vision is what hurts me. Now, you and I are strangers; we
know not one another. I've never seen you in my life. You've never seen
me in your life as... have you? We are just strangers.
Now, I want you to give me your right hand. And now, I want you to
believe me with all your heart. Yes, ma'am. You have cancer. Is that
true? You have cancer, and that's on the breast, isn't it? It's on the
right breast. Is that right? How would I, you think, I would know that?
E-71 I want you to notice something just a moment. While you have your hands laying here on mine, I want you to look at my hand here. See those little white things running over my hand? That's what I would determine... I don't know what it is. I just call it vibrations. It's a live growth in you, that's got a life. It was a germ just like you was. And you begin in the mother's womb to develop cells and become a human being. And that was a germ that wasn't in you then; it's a germ of death. And it came into you and begin to build a little house, begin to develop cells, and it's become a growth. And it's developing cells, and just as much body as yours is; only it has no form, and it's not a free moral agent like you are. It has one master; that's the devil: one determination, take your life.
E-72 Now watch here. I want you
to move... The Bible said, "In the mouth of two or more witnesses, let
every word be established." Is that right? That's true. Now, take your
hand off of mine; look at my hand now: just normal as any other man's
hand. Isn't it?
Now, lay your handkerchief right here. Take this hand over here, this
one, and lay this hand up on there. There's no difference at all, in my
hand. Is there? Just like any other man's hand. Well, I wonder why it's
from this hand, and not from this hand?
Now I want you to see, it isn't positionally. You see, my hand is just
normal. Now I'm going to take my hand off, and put my hand upon it. Now
there's nothing.
E-73 Come here, Rev. Baxter. I
know... I examined Rev. Baxter many times, and I know there's nothing
wrong, less it started last few days. Now, I'm going to lay his hand,
his right hand upon mine. Still nothing, is there? Just as normal as it
can be. Now, take your hand off, Rev. Baxter. I will lay my hand on;
just still normal isn't it. Now, lay this hand on there, this hand back
again. Now look what happens. See? See what I mean?
Now, why would it be this hand, instead of this hand? When He spoke to
me, and give me two signs to do before the people, like God told Moses,
He said, "You take the person by the hand, the right hand." And that
goes to my heart, by the left hand. And you see there's something
happens there. And now, the Bible said, "In the mouth of two or more
witnesses, let every word be established." Is that right?
E-74 Now, you've come to me, as
a stranger. I don't know you. And the Holy Spirit here, when I touched
your hand, told you what your trouble was and where it was located. Is
that right? That's true. And I have no way at all of knowing that,
except through God. Is that right? That's one witness. Is that right?
A second witness, that you see it on my hand, a physical reaction. Is
that right?
I want my boy, which has never seen this, to come forward. My son has
never seen this happen. I want you to watch, sonny. I'm going to put my
hand here. You see my hand here now? Let me have your hand, Paul. I
will put Rev. Baxter's hand on here. See?
E-75 Now, watch when I put the
lady's hand on here, watch what takes place. See what I mean?
Now, you remember that night in Vandalia, Illinois, when you were
laying, sleeping on the bed, and the Angel of the Lord was standing
over me there? And I throwed a pillow over, and woke you up, and said,
"Look." And you come, screaming, running over to me. That's the same
Angel of God that's testifying here. It's the same Angel of God. That
is the first time Billy ever seen it.
All right, now lay your hand back. I want to hold your hand there just
a moment. And I want you to see, sister, it's not positionally. See?
Now, see it? I want you to watch it just a moment. Now, there they come
in a wave. You see, see here? Little white, like little white warts.
You can see it from the audience. Watch them. Now, here they come;
there they come. See them running over there? Now watch, there they go
away. Here they come again. There they are. Now, what is that? That's
the life of that cancer, excited, the spirit of it.
E-76 If I can only get you to
believe, it's going to leave you. If I can't, it can hold you. Now, it
lays in your faith in the finished work at Calvary. Do you believe that
God sent Jesus and He died for your healing? All right, sister, your
faith has saved you now. It stopped, audience. Come here, Billy. All
right, you can go off the platform, be made well, sister, in the Name
of the Lord Jesus. Your faith has made you whole.
Let's say, "Thanks be to our Lord Jesus Christ." Now, not my prayer
saved her; her faith. Now, she was standing there; there is three
witness: the first, let's see, was... It was told her what was, she
done, or something, told her something supernatural. Then the next
thing happened, It spoke to her concerning what was wrong and what
happened. The next thing, she saw the physical results. The next thing,
while her faith was there, the same place, the same hand, looking right
at it, the swelling went down, the--the disturbance on the hand left.
The life of that malignant tumor in her breast left her.
If she'll keep believing... She knows it now. Ask her, some of you
question her, if a real cool feeling didn't sweep through her breast,
and she was healed.
E-77 I think we ought to just
bow our heads in reverence to thank our Lord.
Our Father Who art
in heaven, Hallowed by Thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thine will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our
daily bread.
And forgive us of
our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into
temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the
power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Almighty God, Author of Life, Giver of every spiritual gift, send Thy
blessings upon this people, increase their faith that they might know
this hour, that Thou has visit them, and sent back to this earth, in
the form of the Holy Ghost, the risen Christ. And may we tonight, as
the apostles of old on the road from Emmaus, said, "Did not our hearts
burn within us," when they recognized that the Christ of God had rose
from the dead and was alive among men. And tonight, we are very
conscious that He has rose from the dead, nineteen hundred years ago,
and liveth forevermore, dwelling in His Church, making intercessions
for believers, who confess upon His works and His vicarious suffering
at Calvary. Almighty God, receive our thanksgiving for Him. In Jesus
Christ's Name, we beg. Amen.
E-78 All right, bring the man. Good evening, sir. I trust that the blessing of God will be upon you, my friend, that God will do something tonight in your case to cause you to believe more on the Lord. Of course, you're wearing glasses, any one would know that--that your eyes were bad. And... But there maybe something more wrong. And now do you believe that what I have said is the truth? You believe what I said about God is true? What I said about Christ is true? And about the Holy Spirit is true? Then the Angel that has come down, that God has sent down in this last days to bless His people, after the preaching of His Word... And that those things that faith has been built by ministers through the age, and then, to think, His loving kindness to come down in the last days and do something else for us, to send a prophetic gift that would magnify Him before the people, and get the people to see that He is just the same today. He still liveth forevermore, setting, making intercessions.
E-79 And Angels are sent from
His Presence, ministering spirits, sent from the Presence of God. Do
you understand, brother, that God never takes His Spirit from the
earth? God takes His man, but never His Spirit.
God taken Elijah, but the spirit of Elijah come upon Elisha. And then
several hundred years later, it come out on John the Baptist, the same
spirit, made him act the same way. And then it's prophesied, that it'll
be here again in the last days. See? God takes His man, but His Spirit
remains. He taken His Son, but His Spirit stayed on earth, the Holy
Spirit. He sent It back to the earth to live among mankind. Are you
conscious of that? You are. [A
man says, "Yes, I am. I believe that."--Ed.] You believe that? ["I
believe that."--Ed.]
E-80 And then the Scripture has
said that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And
He said, and then let's see, if that's true, then He said, "A little
while and the world seeth Me no more." That's the world order, the day
of the way it is now. "They'll see Me no more," because His physical
Being had been given and made a Sacrifice as a bleeding Lamb, an
innocent for we guilty. "And the world seeth Me no more, yet, ye shall
see Me." Now, who is "ye"? The believer. "For I will be with you, even
in you to the end of the world."
Now, did that mean to Peter, James and John, and those standing there?
They're not living tonight. They're living but in glory. But the
believer would know Him unto the end of the world. Is that right?
E-81 Sir, you're a very deep
thinker aren't you? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. You--you're always studying
things. All, if I'd say this, that you might know you cross bridges
many time before you get to them. Now, that's--that's hereditary. You
just... That's your makeup. That is true isn't it? And you're--you're
suffering tonight, with a stomach trouble. Isn't that right? Because
you can't eat certain things. It's an ulcerated stomach. It's been
caused from a condition that come a long time ago. And you're nervous,
your eyes are stigmatized, and you've been practically nervous for a
long time, a inward nervous. Is that right? At your work, sometime, I
notice you. And sitting down, your strength becomes so depleted at
times, till you have to sit down, rest. Is that true? I'm not reading
your mind, my brother. I'm telling you, as the same Spirit that was
speaking by our Lord Jesus, has revealed to you what was in your life.
Is that right? All right, will you be... accept me as His prophet? I
have told you the truth. Is that right by a supernatural Being? Do you
accept it that way? Then believe me as God's prophet. Go home, and eat
anything you want to; the ulcer is healed. You can go. God bless you,
my brother. The Lord Jesus make you well.
All right, everyone real reverent. Come, lady. Now, be reverent. God is
going to bless you all tonight. Have faith in God.
E-82 And howdy do, sister. I see you're--you're a believer. You been disturbed for some time, haven't you? You have something on your mind that has worried you. Of course, the time of life that you're living in is one thing, if you understand what I'm speaking of; it has got you all, very much upset. You know what I speak of, the menopause. It's made you extremely that way. Satan lies to you. He tries to make you think that you're--everything is wrong with you, that you're not going to get well, and make you think that your time is near, make you think, sometimes, you've crossed the line. But that's wrong. And you're suffering with a tumor, also, aren't you? Uh-huh. Was that true? That was all true? Now, whatever I said, it was the truth. I--I don't know you, do I, lady?" I don't know you at all. We're strangers. And that was truth. And what was said, would only be revealed by some supernatural Being. Is that right? Will you believe me as His prophet? Then come here and let me put my hand upon you."
E-83 Father, it is written in
the Word, the last words from our Master's lips; He said, "These signs
shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands upon the sick,
they shall recover." God, bless this one, who I hold her hand tonight.
And thou demon, you tried to hold her. But you're exposed tonight
before this audience. You've hid in her, in a form of a tumor. You
thought you could hide from a doctor. But you can't hide from God. He's
more than a match for you. I come representing Jesus Christ from
Calvary, Who won the victory over you and all your kind. And I take the
authority tonight, by a commission given to me by an Angel of God,
Who's present now to witness it. You can't hold her any longer. Come
out of her, in the Name of Jesus Christ.
God bless you, my sister. I wasn't talking rough to you. You're healed
now. You can go home, be well. Now remember, you're going to feel like
you do now happy, and real good for about seventy hours, maybe,
seventy-two hours, seventy-five. And you're going to get a little sick
spell, severe headache. Don't you worry then. You continue to thank God
for your healing. That may last for awhile. You'll get dizzy,
swimy-headed, upset. You're even have to go to bed. But don't be weary.
Now, if I told you what was; I've told you what will be. If you know
that was true, what was. Is that right? It's true what will be. Go, and
may the Lord bless you, my sister.
Let us say, "Praise the Lord." [Congregation
says, "Praise the Lord."--Ed.]
E-84 Are you believers? Now, you
without prayer cards, just a moment, just hold the line there, just a
minute. Getting extremely weak... Everyone just reverent as you can be.
Let us pray, just a moment.
Master, it seems that my life is dwindling away from me. I don't know
how much longer You'll let me be here on this earth. But I pray for
many years, if You can use me. But when Thou art finished with me, may
I come to You. But I know that I shall be able to stay until I have
completed the work that You've foreordained that should be done.
And tonight, there are those who wasn't here this afternoon to receive
prayer cards. They're laying here, some of them on stretchers, and some
in cots, and some in wheelchairs, some on crutches, some of them dying
with heart troubles, and cancers, and all manner of diseases. I do not
know them, Father, dear. But as Your beloved Son in His grace, we be
made Your sons through the adoption of by the Spirit...
E-85 I pray Thee, Almighty God, that the Scriptures might be fulfilled which says, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever," that Thy humble servant may now be able to see what You have done tonight, as You will let Your servant, the Angel of God, Who has been sent to that little straw tick, laying yonder in the mountains... May You be near tonight to bless Your people, and to help us, dear God, for each one of us, to see Your blessings. And may, that You have confirmed Your Word tonight, through Thy servant, may people, here, believe with all their heart. There are those setting here without cards, who cannot come to the prayer line. Many are still in the line to come. But I ask Thee, Lord, to heal tonight. And may their faith now reach up, and say, "If God is on the platform, working through our little brother, that God is here with me. And God is no respecter of person and can heal me here where I am, as He is up there healing those from the platform. Grant it, Lord.
E-86 And may Thy holy Angel,
which came and said, He was sent from Your Presence, may He now speak
through Thy servant, in the Name of Jesus Christ the Son of God. Amen.
"And looking steadfast upon them and knowing their thoughts..." says
the Scriptures, I wish you all to be reverent and to believe on the
Lord now with all your heart.
Now, you're out there without any contact to anywhere, except with God,
and I'm only in contact with Him as the Holy Spirit will let me be. I
can only speak what I see and what I hear, that can I speak, but no
more. And I want all of you, do you believe, with all your heart, that
I have said that what is truth? [Congregation
says, "Amen."--Ed.]
E-87 What do you believe people,
along through here? Do you believe with all your heart? If God Almighty
will show to me your conditions from this platform, and will speak
comfortable words to you, you surely will believe Him. Will you do it?
All right, have faith in God.
I just see the Light near a woman. Oh, I--I beg your pardon, the woman
has just been healed, I believe. Was you in the prayer line, just
awhile ago, lady, setting right there? Was you in the prayer line? Was
you healed here at the prayer line? Well, that's why It's still holding
over you. I could just see the Light. The whole... It looks like... I
pray God to open your eyes to see, like I'm seeing now.
E-88 Here sets a lady setting right here. No, it ain't; it's this boy setting here. Say, young man, aren't you a...? Stand up just a moment. There's somebody behind you, pulling. Oh, you're a--you're a minister, or you're going to be a minister. No, your father is a minister. Is that right? I see the church, and there's a... Oh, you are very sick, aren't you, young man? You've been examined recently by doctors, or something, is that right? In a--in a great place where there's many doctors look to... Oh, it's your heart. I see a cardiogram. Is that right? Is that true? May the Lord Jesus bless you, my dear brother and make you well. Be... God bless you. Have faith.
E-89 The lady setting right back
there. You're going blind, aren't you, sister? Something wrong with
your eyes, isn't that right? I see you getting it. Will you believe
that Jesus Christ has healed you nineteen hundred years ago? Rise up to
your feet and receive your sight. Yes, madam, in the Name of the Lord
Jesus Christ.
All right. The man setting right next to you there. You have asthma,
don't you, brother? Isn't that right? Asthma? Do you believe Jesus
healed you nineteen hundred years ago? Do you accept me as His prophet?
Then raise up on your feet and accept your healing in the Name of the
Lord Jesus.
The lady setting next to you, you ain't got no prayer card, have you,
lady? Yes. You suffer with a female trouble, isn't that right? The Lord
Jesus make you well, my sister and heal you. Have faith in God.
E-90 Over this way, how many of
you believe God? Just a moment. Reverently, way back, you with your
hands up, who has not prayer cards back there? Have faith. Believe now.
There's so many. You, setting there, looking so strangely at me, with
the tie on. You've been praying, haven't you, sir? Yeah, I see you
knelt in a room. And you prayed, "If you could ever get near me, you'd
be healed." Is that right? You suffer with a kidney trouble, isn't that
true? Jesus Christ makes you whole, my brother. You stand to your feet.
Now, there goes that spirit, a blackness, a darkness leaving that man,
seemingly you could see it, watch it. It's got a sympathizing partner.
Just a moment. There it falls, just a moment. Yes, there it falls over
a man, setting there with a t-shirt on, black-headed man, his hands in
his face. Stand up, young man. You suffer with kidney stones, isn't
that right? Accept Jesus now as your Healer, that healed you nineteen
hundred years ago. Have faith in God. Don't doubt.
E-91 What about you, lady,
sitting there, colored lady? That you suffer with arthritis, don't you?
Well, why don't you raise up and accept Jesus Christ as your Healer?
Throw away your crutch, and go home, be made well. Have faith in God.
Look this a way, you cripples and on you chairs, stretchers. You
believe? Swollen spleen, coming down out of Canada, a secret has been
kept from you, lady. You have cancer, also. Do you believe me as God's
prophet? Do you want to be healed? Do you believe I tell the truth from
God? Then in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, rise up off of your
cot, be made well.
Do you believe, lady? You laying on the stretcher, you're dying. You
realize that? You're dying. But you have cancer too, don't you? Then in
the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, rise up from the
cot, and receive your healing in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Do you believe, every one of you?