JOB, SERVITEUR DE DIEU
E-1 Good evening, friends. Very
happy to be here again tonight, to minister in the Name of our blessed
Lord Jesus Christ.
I was just coming in a few moments ago and met a friend of mine, a
friend of yours. Many people know him. I asked him if he'd speak for me
tonight, and he wouldn't do it. So it's Brother Paul Cain. Would you
just come out here, Brother Paul Cain, just for a moment? Brother Paul
Cain, who have many...?... things...?... And we're always happy to have
our visiting brothers with us to--off the field. We could probably
exchange many words about the great harvest that we're in now,
harvesting souls for the Master.
E-2 Had a wonderful meeting
last night, as I was told. Seldom it ever happens like that. But,
people, sometimes in giving out prayer cards and bringing the people,
we only had just... I just come up and say, "Well, bring up so many, a
certain..." We don't get too many in there. But when, sometime the Holy
Spirit coming down, He can do more like that, just from place to place.
They said... I believe they was telling me that a lady bound in a
stretcher was made well, and somebody on crutches, a woman paralyzed,
setting in a wheelchair. Our Lord is God, isn't He? And He's marvelous
and wonderful.
E-3 Now, as we approach upon
the Lord's grounds tonight, for the Gospel's sake, let us first bow our
heads in a word of prayer to the Author of the Book before we try to
open It.
Our beloved Saviour, we come to Thee tonight, on the grounds of Thy
invitation that, "Whosoever will, let him come and take of the waters
of Life freely." That's what we come for tonight, Lord, that Thou would
meet us now, or continue with this great meeting that's already in
progress.
Coming up and hearing the children crying and clapping their hands, and
rejoicing because they have Everlasting Life (Eternal Life cannot
perish.) the promise of being raised up in the last day. And it makes
us happy, Father, in this day, when all hopes of worldly governments,
and so forth, is fading away. The world and its order is passing back.
Civilization, the pinnacle swings backward, but the Kingdom of God is
marching forward with full array, the armor's all gleaning, the
banner's streaming, the Morning Star leading the way, from victory on
to victory, until the final battle. Arms is stacked, last prayer has
been prayed, Bible's laying closed, the smoke of the battle is
settling, sun's gone down. Then Jesus shall come. We'll see Him, the
lovely One.
E-4 We pray tonight, Lord, for
every minister, these on the platform, my brethren. Especially for
Brother Cain now, who is needing Thee, and wanting Your great power to
be upon him. We pray that You'll bless him in a marvelous way.
Bless all the clergy everywhere, naming the Name of the Lord Jesus.
Bless the laity, the strangers in our gates; heal the sick and the
afflicted. Now, Father, open the Word to us, won't You? For we ask it
in Jesus' Name. Amen.
I just kinda love the Word. I just started reading this afternoon, and
I was a little tired from last night. The anointing of the Holy Spirit
didn't leave me too quickly last evening. And--and today I just had a
great feast reading over in Genesis.
And I am hoping someday to cross the nation, God willing, just
preaching the Gospel, just of a--just revivals, not--just going from
church to church, place to place. I like to see a real, old fashion,
sweeping revival, souls born into the Kingdom of God.
E-5 Now, it's kinda hard when
it's mixed up with healing, and so forth, to change around. A few
nights to stay this way; just a few nights you're wore out and gone. So
that way, maybe stay a month at a time, and then you'd really have a
revival.
Now, over in the book of Job, we want to center our thoughts tonight
around Job, the 19th chapter, and about the 25th to the 27th verses, we
wish to read a portion of His Word, just for a little basic thought.
E-6 And before we do that, I
believe this is a fresh box of handkerchiefs here to be prayed over, if
I've--happen to forget them. Just now, shall we bow our heads just a
moment in a word of prayer, while you join with me in prayer.
Our heavenly Father, Thou Who knowest even the death of a sparrow. One
cannot fall unless Your great Spirit, so sensitive to everything, that
even the little, insignificant bird might fall to the street, Father
knows all about it. How much more do You know that we, Your children,
redeemed by the Blood of Thy Son, elected by grace, and is bowing our
heads in humility before Thee, to ask through the bleeding sacrifice of
the Lord Jesus Christ for mercy for our kindred.
In here's little brown trousers, handkerchiefs, little bibs for babies.
They're needy, Lord. Will You be merciful? I pray that You'll heal
every one. These are only tokens, Lord. We realize that the price for
healing has already been paid there at Calvary. You were wounded for
our transgressions, with Your stripes we were healed at Calvary. But
these are little symbols of faith that we love You, and believe You,
and are praying one for another, as You said, "Confess our faults one
to the other, and pray one for another, that we may be healed." At
this, Father, I send these little handkerchiefs, and little articles
here to the needy, praying that You'll heal every one of them in the
Name of Your Son, the Lord Jesus. Amen.
E-7 In those little tokens
we've had so many things done. I've sent out about a thousand a week
from the office or more. And so many things are done through the laying
on of handkerchiefs. The Lord has just blessed it in a marvelous way.
Testimonies, testimonies, of what our Lord has done, through just the
feeble efforts of laying handkerchiefs on the sick.
We realize there's no virtue in the handkerchief, just a little piece
of cloth, no more than old cloth that you're wearing. But it's
the--it's doing something, and following the Scriptures.
E-8 Here sometime ago down in
Louisiana, Brother Moore, here on the platform, and I, we were going
down, way down to some little city, to a little church, and have a
meeting. And his beloved daughter, and wife, and all of them was along.
And I was--had my suitcase that some folks give me many, many years
ago, over in California, and I'd just bought me a new suit. I had it in
the suitcase, and had an old one on. And he had it laying on top of his
car, driving fast down through Louisiana. All at once, when we got down
there, we found out the suitcase wasn't on top; it was gone. I didn't
even have a pocket handkerchief. So he was very much discouraged. I
said, "Oh, the Lord will take care of that."
All my wardrobe, complete, was in it, besides my overalls, at home. So,
he said, "Brother Branham, I'm going out and buy you a new suit."
I said, "No, it's all right."
He said, "You haven't got a chance, Brother Branham," said, "that was
lost way up, along the road there," and said, "just... lot's of colored
people live up through this way." And said, "Now, the first thing,"
said, if some man come along the road and he found the suitcase..."
I said, "My Bible is in there, had my name in it."
He said, "Well, if he found that suitcase, Brother Branham," said, "the
thing he'd do, is sell those suits," and so forth like that.
I said, "Well, maybe he needs it worse that I do. 'Cause the Lord gave
them to me, so maybe he needs them worse; the Lord's giving them to
him."
He said, "Well, and if he found my Bible, and if he knew me," I said,
"he'd bring it back anyhow."
He said, "Oh, no, Brother Branham," said, "if a sinner finds it," said,
"he will sell the clothes." and said, "If a Christian finds it, they'll
cut those suits up, and sent them to one another for prayer clothes."
Said, "You haven't got a chance." So I said, "Well, we'll just trust
the Lord."
E-9 Two days past, and Brother
Brown, over there, he said, "I want in on this too. I want you--I
absolutely want to get you some new suits."
I said, "No, the Lord will bring them back somehow."
So we... Two or three days past; he said, "You see," said, "we met a
police down there, and the police said, 'Sure, I'll--I'll go up the
road looking for it.' (His mother had been healed in my meetings), he
said, 'Certainly.'" One of the state police, and we'd told him we lost
the suitcase up there, way up in the swamps somewhere, oh, maybe a
hu--two hundred miles, three hundred, up and down the road.
So then the next day, we went over, and Brother Jack was just
persistent that I was going to get a suit of clothes anyhow.
Said, "Boy, a thousand miles from home, no clothes at home, and none
here." Said, "My, what are you going to do without even a handkerchief
or a clean shirt?"
Said, "Well, the Lord will take care of that."
E-10 So we went over to Brother Browns, and they--Brother Brown, he was going to come out, and was going to make me go get a suit of clothes. Just about the time Brother Brown come out, the phone rang, it was an old, colored brother called up, and said, "Is--is Brother Branham there?" Said, "I's done found his suitcase, I's on my way." So I... Trust in the Lord. Amen. Whatever it is, all things work together for good. You just can't lose when you become a Christian, just can't lose. Just trust in Him, and whatever the way goes, just keep your sails set to His Spirit. He will guide you into the harbor. It'll all be all right.
E-11 Now, in Job, if you've got
your Bible, you who are keeping down the marks. Just for a few moments,
not knowing exactly what the Holy Spirit will do tonight... Night by
night, we do not understand the way He works. He works in mysterious
ways, His wonders to perform.
Now, in the 25th verse, we read like this:
For I know that my
Redeemer liveth, and that at the last days He shall stand upon the
earth:
And though after the
skin worms has destroyed this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God;
May He add the blessings to the Word.
Job, the oldest book in the Bible, was supposed to even be written
before Moses wrote Genesis. But the oldest book in the Bible was
speaking of redemption, and yet redemption was far be--way before that.
Redemption is one of the oldest things in the Bible. Did you know
redemption was even before--the plan of redemption was laid out before
the world was ever formed? Think of that. God foreseeing, and making a
way of redemption before He even made the world. For the Bible plainly
says that Christ was predestinated, foreordained, and was the Lamb of
God, slain before the foundation of the world. That's right. Way before
the world was made, God had a plan of redemption.
E-12 As soon as Satan... You
know the old--the argument is: why couldn't God have by-passed all
this, and not had any of it? But God putting Satan almost coequal with
Him, Satan taking the things of God and perverted them into the evil
thoughts, and through there began to pervert things into evil instead
of good. And God, as soon as the first thing was done, out of His great
treasure chest of love, He had a plan of redemption, that quick.
Didn't have to sit down, and think it all over, how it would be. He was
God, infinite. He knowed how it would be. He had it in His great heart,
how He would bring all this about. And then if He foreknew the Church,
foreknew Christ, foreknew the plan, and set it all in order, and the
world turning around. And you being dead to yourself, dead in Christ,
and alive, after you're dead to yourself, alive in Christ, God's
working all things together for the good to them that love Him, and how
can you lose? You just can't lose; there's no way of losing.
E-13 The Church could just really find that out. If you could positionally find your place in Christ, then all these other things would just fade away like a shadow. Every one that cometh to God, that's true, must have the shadows, and temptations, and fears, and so forth, but just don't get all tore up about it. What's a little suffering for a little while, knowing that the glory of God will be revealed in the last days when Jesus comes, when we'll be made like unto Him? He's just working everything together. Did you know, maybe if you were sick, or something happened to you, that God might've had to do that just to bring you a little closer to Him?
E-14 You know, one time it was
told; I don't know whether this is authentic or not, where the
missionary told me in--in Palestine. However, he said he seen a--a
shepherd coming with the sheep. And said, "One sheep, he had to pack
it, and he had a splint on its leg. And he said, "Did the sheep fall,
sir, and hurt its leg?"
He said, "No."
Said, "What happened to its leg?"
Said, "I broke it."
Said, "You broke it?" Said, "You must be a very cruel shepherd to do
that."
He said, "No." He said, "See, this sheep wouldn't mind me, kept going
astray, and I knowed it was going to get killed. So I had to break its
leg in order to bring it up close to me, and give it just a little
special treat, feed it out of my hand. And it would make it love me
more."
So maybe God, sometimes, just has to let a little something happen to
you, that He can just bring you just a little closer to Him, love you a
little extra, and then give you a little special treatment, a healing,
and you'll say, "Yes, Lord, I believe you are." See? That's it. See how
God does that? Isn't He wonderful? We just believe Him.
E-15 Redemption, and God has a
way of redemption. If a man cannot... "Redeem" means "to be brought
back." It's like the old saying. You go down to the... Every time I see
a pawn broker, with those three balls hanging out, you know, in front,
it makes me think... Now, I hope there's not a pawn broker here; if
there is, I don't mean this to you, sir. That's your way of making a
living. I suppose it's legitimate, and you have as much right to do
that as anyone.
But a pawn broker always reminds me... You know, the devil put us in
the pawn shop, but Christ redeemed us. He came in like and redeemed us
out of the devil's pawn shop. See? He put us in the pawn shop, but
Christ came and paid the price, and we're free.
You know, the trouble of it is, that people don't realize, they think
you have to do something to be free. You're already free, only thing
you have to do is know about it. You say, "Well, there's something I
got to do, Brother Branham, I'll have..."
No, you don't have to do one thing. It's by grace you're saved. See,
see? Not nothing that you do, there isn't one thing you could do would
amount to anything. The plan's already made; redemption's already paid
for, the only thing you have to do is accept it.
E-16 One time, they was a
farmer; crows were in his field; they were going south. And the crows
was getting in his field, picking up the corn, and so forth. And he set
a trap, and he caught a crow. So he tied the old fellow by the foot,
tied him up there, said, "I'll just scare the rest of them away."
And the other crows would fly across, and say, "Come on, Johnny crow;
let's go south, quickly. The storms and winter's are coming."
And Johnny crow would try to crawl, and he could not. He's tied. So one
day, there was a kind hearted person passed by. Poor, old crow there,
he's about starved to death, couldn't hardly get up. And he said, "I
feel sorry for that poor bird." So he just goes over, and cuts the
band, and let the crow loose. But you know, he'd been bound so long,
till he still thought he was tied.
The crows would go across, hollering, "Johnny crow, come on, let's go
south. Hurry up; the north winds are blowing."
The old crow would call back, "I can't, because I'm still bound." See,
he was free and didn't know it.
E-17 And that's the way many
people are tonight. Them ladies, or whoever it was setting here last
night in wheelchairs, they heard the good news. Tonight their
wheelchairs are not here. They're probably setting out there in the
audience somewhere. See? They were free; they were free all the time.
Jesus cut them loose at Calvary, when the Blood stream came from His
body to free every person from sickness.
The sinners that accepted Christ last night, was setting bound, last
night under the chain of sin, and tonight is enjoying the freedom of
the Lord Jesus, after they heard of the emancipation of the
proclamation; they are free.
E-18 And during the time of the
slavery, before the Emancipation of the Proclamation was signed, why,
they tell me that the slaves in the south, would climb up the hill.
They's--they's going to be free at sunrise. Some could tr--climb a
little higher than the others. The older ones couldn't get up, the
younger went on to the top of the hill. For as soon as they seen the
sun, they were free. So the ones that got the highest, just as soon as
the sun peeped up, they said, "We are free!" Hollered it to the next
group, the next one hollered, "We are free!" On down the hill passing
the news, "We are free!" And every man that sees the Son is free. You
know what I mean.
You see the Son, see Him in the way of the revelation that God has
revealed Him to you. The only way you'll ever know it, is when God has
revealed Him to you. That's the basis of all the Scriptures.
"Flesh and blood has not revealed it to thee, but My Father which is in
heaven. Upon this rock I'll build My church." Is that right? So it's
spiritual revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ, is where He built His
Church.
E-19 Now, little did the
old-timers back in there maybe realize that it would be in this way. If
they, by faith, saw the complete time of redemption, and they'd see
people who would be absolutely introduced to the infallible proofs of
redemption, and turn around and leave it... That's the sad part, the
fellow that's loose, and don't want to be free.
Now, Adam in the garden of Eden, when he first sinned, God had a way of
redemption for him, right quick, just as soon as he sinned. God made a
way of redemption. And before Adam could ever approach back to
fellowship with the Father, God had to slay an innocent lamb, or sheep,
and make him a cloth to go around him, and throw out the welcome carpet
for Adam to walk back on the carpet of redemption, to come into His
Presence again. God always had a plan of redemption, and that's been
through blood, ever since the very beginning and dawn of time,
perceived in the mind of God, before the world ever come into existence.
E-20 Now, when Adam and Eve, our
first father and mother, started walking out of the garden of Eden,
why, cloudily, the sin hanging over their brows, and the clouds of
darkness hanging around them after they had received their--the word of
their Eternal destination. They walked out, with those bloody
sheepskins around them, they had some little ray of hope, that some
time, there was coming a redeemer. See? They had a ray of hope. It was
cloudy and dark, because tears of regret was falling down their cheeks
from their sins. And they were sorry of their sins, but they were--they
knew that somewhere there'd be a redemption, because He said, "I'll put
enmity between her seed and the serpent's seed."
And they... So many people, in quoting the 23rd Psalm, say, like this,
say, "Yea, though I walk through the dark valleys of the shadows of
death..." It doesn't say dark valley; it said, "Through the valley of
the shadow..." And if it's dark, there'd be no shadow. It takes a
certain amount of light to make shadow.
E-21 So death, after the very
beginning, never had a complete darkness; it was a shadow. So there had
to be a certain percent of light. And when Adam and Eve was walking out
of the garden of Eden, the shadows of redemption was before them.
In the Mosaic laws in the ceremonies in the sacrifices, and so forth,
was also a foreshadow of the coming of the perfect Sacrifice, the
perfect plan of God's redemption. And when they foresaw those things
through the bleeding sacrifice of the animals that they were slaying,
as a--as a go-between or a covering for their sins... In that shadow,
they foresaw the coming of the Lord Jesus. And it was that way, until
finally, at last, the Dayspring from on high sprang forth, and those
who set in the regions of the shadows of death saw a great light. When
God Himself was made manifest here on earth, to take away sin, then
they seen full redemption through God Himself. Till the Dayspring from
on high come forth.
E-22 Now, in the Old Testament
under the shadows, and the laws, and the types, how that God giving
those things back there, foretyping the coming of the Son of God. For
instance, in a Mosaic dispensation, when God told Moses to take a lamb
(first one from the old mother ewe), and to keep it up, take it on the
tenth day, and keep it until the fourteenth day to be tried, purged,
find out if they's any blemish about the lamb...
You know the law of redemption in the Old Testament, how that the
innocent must die for the guilty. For all the way from--all the way
from Eden to the cross, the innocent died for the guilty.
E-23 Under the laws of old
redemption, say for instance, a little mule was born out in the
pasture, and that little mule had both ears broke down, cross-eyed,
knock-kneed, and his tail sticking right straight up, what a horrible
looking critter. If the little fellow could think for himself, he'd
say, "Well, mammy, I suppose when the master of the house comes out, he
will just knock me in the head. I ain't worth nothing. I'll never be
able to make it, because look--look what a horrible looking thing I am."
That's the way people still try to think; they're unworthy. You are;
all of us is unworthy. But if the mother was well instructed in the
laws of redemption, she'd say, "Honey, look, the priest will never see
you. But the man of the house will have to take a lamb without a
blemish, and that lamb will have to be looked over. And the lamb will
have to be killed, so that you can live."
He'd say, "Why is this, mammy?"
He'd say, "Because you're borned under a birthright; you're the first
one."
E-24 That's the way it is today.
We, guilty, unworthy, should die. We're not worthy of living; we're not
worthy to come to Christ; we're not worthy to ask anything; but God
never looks at your unworthiness; He looked at the Lamb. Now, if He
can't find no fault in Christ, then you're free. See? He died in your
stead. Now, if there's any fault with Him, you're not free yet. But God
don't examine you; He examines the Lamb.
You say, "I'm not worthy to walk out of this wheelchair tonight."
That's right, you're not, but God don't examine you; He examined
Christ. And if He's worthy, then you can walk. See? That's right.
Depends on what you think about it.
You say, "Brother Branham, I'm an awful woman; I've lived illegally.
I've done--I've even broke my marriage vows. I've done this..."
"And Mr. Branham, I tell you: I've been a drunkard, I've done this..."
No matter what you done, God never looks at you; He looks at the Lamb.
And He's already accepted the Lamb, so you're free. God can't see you;
He sees the lamb, dies in your stead. That's enough to make a fellow
shout, isn't it? Sure is. When you think that, upon those basis of the
Word.
E-25 You believe in shouting? I heard you doing it awhile ago. You know, I'm not very emotional, myself, I believe it. Of course I get a little religious sometimes, you know, and get kindy carrying on a little. But you know, it reminds me, by that, so many people criticize shouting, happiness in the Christian heart. We should be happy. We got a lot to be happy about. If there's anybody in the world ought to be happy, we should.
E-26 Puts me in mind of a
farmer, one time, who--who went and he wasn't very much of a farmer. He
had a lot of great, big, nice barns, and tractors, and--but the fellow
was just too lazy to work. That's all. He wouldn't make no hay. And
puts me in mind of some of these big churches, and theologians that
won't dig down, and really take the Word of God. They got big churches,
and a lot of music, and a lot of refinery, but that don't mean it all.
So, they--he wouldn't work.
And over... His neighbor had a little old barn over there, and he
didn't have very much of a stall to keep his cattle in, and things, but
he sure was an industrious man; he really worked, raised great, big
crops of alfalfa, and put it up in what barn he had, the man in the
mission you know.
E-27 So you know, it come
wintertime, and there's a little calf born in each one of the st--the
barn. The next spring, when the spring winds begin to blow, they turned
the little calves out. Well, this one little calf they turned out of
the great, big cathedral, you know, he was so poor, he couldn't stand
nothing. The wind nearly blowed him down. He walked out there, and
little fellow didn't have nothing to eat all through the winter. So
he's fed weeds, and he didn't have very much strength to stand on. No
wonder they can't believe in Divine healing, need some vitamins.
Well, the first thing you know, they let the other little calf out,
over in the other barn, and brother, he was all fat, and round. He'd
had good alfalfa, plenty of vitamins, and he was fat and round. That
wind begin to hit him, that mighty, rushing wind, you know, coming
down. My, he just kicked up, and jumped, and bucked, and run all around
in the corral just as hard as he could.
And that little, bitty, skinny calf, out of the great, big, fine barn,
stuck his head through the crack in the fence, said, "Tsk, tsk, tsk,
such fanaticism." Just... Why? Underfed.
E-28 That's what it is today
with the Church, undernourished. Christ died for sinners, that you
could be free. Yes, sir. He died to heal the sick. It's not fanaticism.
Let the Holy Spirit strike you one time, and you feel like a little
cutting up too. Yes, sir. Sure. Get some good, rich vitamins first,
from the Word of God. That's the best Vitamin I know of, is the Word of
God.
E-29 Now, Moses looked over the
lamb, said, "Take a lamb, every one of you, for the house, and it must
be first put up, and tried."
Listen, you new converts, now. We thank God for many every night. And
look, first thing comes along is a trial. As soon as you come to
Christ, something's going to happen. Every son that cometh to God must
first be tried, scourged, whipped a little, but if you... Things
happen, to really try you out.
Child training, that's what it is. You believe in Scriptural
trial--child training? The Bible speaks of training a child with
tutors, and so forth, bringing him up, straightening him out, giving
him what he belongs.
E-30 That's what's the matter
tonight, preachers has let the congregation get by with any thing. They
need a little child training. That's right. That's what's the matter
with the world today, the reason they got so much in the natural,
juvenile delinquency; we need some child training. I think it's a lot
of parent delinquency.
My daddy, he really believed in that child training. He had a switch
laying up over the door, and a razor strap hanging on the wall. We know
what it meant. It's too bad we ever got away from it, isn't it? Yes.
Child training... We need preachers that'll preach the Word, tell us
the truth about it, tell us we must be borned again, and bring us on
the basis of the shed Blood to Jesus Christ, the Son of God, introduced
all the good things that God's got for us. That's a fact, sir. There it
is. That's the kind you get the vitamins from. Might be in a barn, or
mission, but just so you're getting fed is the main thing.
E-31 Notice. But now, it must be
tried first, and then killed in the evening before the--the elders. And
you notice, the Bible speaking of the lamb of redemption there, it
spoke of it as in singular: kill the lamb. But in the other terms,
every family killed a lamb. But all represented one Lamb. And in the
spiritual meaning of it, that each one of those families, the father
being the priest of the own house, they was to kill the lamb for each
house that they could eat the meat. And but it all represented one
Lamb. And that means that, in reality, there's many missions, or many
churches, bodies of believers, all together representing one Lamb.
We're all feeding off the same Lamb. See what I mean?
Here is one church over here, another one down here, and one in Africa,
one in Asia, but it's all from the same Lamb. The redemption comes from
the same Lamb. And we're fed the body of the Lord Jesus, which is the
Word. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us."
E-32 We receive Him in the form
of the Word. And a correct shepherd will feed his congregation on the
Word, the Lamb. Take it, without water, not sodden, just eat it
raw--roasted with bitter herbs. Sometimes it kindy hard, you have to
maybe break up a few things, but don't worry, it's all right. Eat it
any how. You're getting ready for the journey. You see it?
Now, then the blood with the hyssop was put over the lintel of the
door. And now, the Israelites were inside. There wasn't one more thing
they had to do, but come under the blood. That was God's plan of
redemption, under the blood, once under the blood, safe.
E-33 Oh, my, wish I could drill
that right now. Once under the blood, safe: Hebrews 10: "For by one
Sacrifice he has perfected for ever those that are sanctified." God
said that. That's His Word. Through the offering of His Blood, washed...
A man in the Old Testament, when he'd done something wrong, he took the
lamb, laid it on the altar, put his hands upon its head, confessed his
sins, throat cut. And when the little fellow dying, shaking, bleeding,
the sinner realized that that should be him, and the lamb's taking his
place. But he went back out with the same desire. If he was caught
committing adultery, stealing, lying, whatever he was doing, he went
with the same desire, because that inside that blood cell was nothing
but a animal life. It was born by sex, had not the strength to take
away, only through a shadow.
But Christ died once, and through the breaking of His Blood cells, not
sex, God Himself. Putting your hand one time upon the head of Him, and
confessing your sins, and feeling the things of Calvary, when He died a
sinners in your stead, you'll have no more conscience of sins after
that. The worshiper once purged by the Blood of Jesus has no more
desire to sin. Don't say you won't sin, but you have no desire to do
it. No more desire to sin. All goes out through the washing of the
Blood of Jesus Christ, cleanses us from all unrighteousness.
E-34 See the plan, how God wants
to redeem us? When we left Eden, it was a beautiful pair there in the
garden of Eden, that lovely, little sweetheart, and the husband. And
then by falling, God just brings us right back again through
redemption, to redeem us right back to our origin again.
We're not--taking us back to the Angels. And you all go in these
restaurants and hear that old, squeaky juice boxes, or ever-what you
call it, squeaking "A Bright Angel Waits For Me." Nonsense. If your
beloved wife was gone or somebody, she waits for you there as a human
being, immortal. God made--He made Angels, but He made us men. He made
us humans. He ain't redeemed us back to Angels; He's redeemed us back
to where we was in the first place: Human beings, eating, drinking,
somebody. You see it? Oh, what a... Just the way of the cross leads
back home.
E-35 Then the Israelites, once
settled there, what if they get to studying, "Well, I'm not worthy.
What else do I have to do?"
You don't have to do nothing. The only thing is, is to come under the
shed Blood. That settles it. Once under Blood, you're safe.
What if the death angel with his sword in his hands, sweeping the land,
you didn't have to wonder. And to be scared was an insult to Jehovah.
If a man once under the Blood feels afraid that God won't keep His
Word, it's an insult to Him. Say, "Jehovah, perhaps this is Your Word,
but I don't know whether It's right or not."
Oh, shame on you. Why, once under the blood... He said, "I'm the Lord
that healeth thee." I believe it. That's all. Don't insult Him.
He said, "He that cometh unto Me I will in no wise cast out." I believe
it. Once coming under the Blood, take His Word for any thing He says.
E-36 And every believer... Here
it is, get it. Every man or woman that has once been brought under the
Blood of Christ, all fear and condemnation is gone out. Then he will
believe every Word that God writes in the Bible to be the truth. He
will not say, "This is not inspired, and that's not inspired," but he
will believe every Word of It. Amen.
Coming to the Fountain filled with Blood, drawn from Emmanuel's veins.
Oh, what a wonderful Saviour we have. What a plan of redemption Jehovah
alone 'lotted out for us, laid out the carpet for us to come home on.
Notice.
E-37 Job, back there, I like to
think of him; he lived back even before this was ever ordered... only
in Eden. And I like Job. I just love to listen to him, as he's talking.
He's a great man, a prince of the east. He'd go up to the east, and all
the young princes would bow down to him, and he was a great man. He
loved the Lord; he feared the Lord.
One day satan come up before God, before the sons of God and said--God
said, "Have you considered My servant Job, a just man, perfect, none
like him in the earth?"
Said, "Oh, sure. You're giving him every thing he wants, got him all
hedged up, and everything," said, "no wonder." Said, "Sure, he can
serve you, making plenty of money, got plenty of cattle, got everything
in life." said, "Sure, he--any body can serve You like that." Said, "If
You'll let me have him, I will make him curse You to Your face."
God said, "I don't believe it."
Amen. I'll... Could He have that confidence in you and I tonight? See?
E-38 "I don't believe it." Said,
"He's in your hands, but don't you take his life."
So he come down, Satan in a whirlwind, and he destroyed all the barns,
and he burnt up the cattle and the horses, and everything. And Job,
when he, being a good man, believing in God, the only way that he had
to come was through the burnt offering, through the shedding of the
blood of the lamb.
So now, he had several sons and daughters. And when he was--seen that
his sons and daughters... He didn't know now, him being a man that
could afford to buy them things, such as young folks would want, he
didn't know whether they'd sinned or not, but he said, "Peradventure
they might have sinned. I'm going to offer a sacrifice for them, 'cause
that's the only thing I know to do, is to present before God, the shed
blood of the lamb."
E-39 Oh, if we had more fathers
and mothers tonight so interested in their children, that would offer
the shed Blood of the Lamb for their child every night at the throne of
grace, we wouldn't have so much carrying on as we have amongst young
folks. So he said, "Peradventure they might've sinned. I don't know
they have, but to make sure..."
Mothers, you know, it's a shame today, and fathers, to how uninterested
we are in children, and the little juveniles. You let the kids go out,
and just do as they please, run out all night long, and everything, and
come in, and seem to be so unconcerned about it. Let your girls go out
with boys that smoke and drink, and go to gambling devices, and dance
all night, and come in. Then you say you're Christians and permit such
stuff as that? That's not right. We should take them to the Lord.
E-40 Be waiting up for her to
come in, put your arms around her, and say, "Now, sweetheart, come
here, let's kneel down and pray. Mother don't know just where you've
been, trusting that you've been a good girl tonight, but peradventure
that you haven't, let's offer the sacrifice of praise to God, and give
Him thanks."
I tell you: You'd have different children today, if they did that, we
had more fathers like Job. See? The trouble of it is, mothers today go
with daughters out in such places. And some of them belong to churches
too. That's just a little bit hard, but you know that's what does you
good. When it gets a little strong and stingy like, you know, it--it's
good for you.
E-41 Now, so then Job said,
"Now, to make sure of this, I'm going to offer the sacrifice of the
burnt lamb, for each of my children, whether, if they have sinned...
That's the only way I can present them, is upon the basis of the shed
blood. That's God's only plan of redemption, through the lamb, so I'm
offering it."
And did you notice when the fires come down and burnt up all he had,
his children was all killed... I imagine Job thought, "Oh, I'm so
happy, because I offered the sacrifice for them, 'cause I presented
them before God, through the shed blood of the lamb, through God's
provided way of redemption for my children."
E-42 Notice what happened then.
Then he broke out in boils and set out on the ash heap, out there,
scraping himself with a crock, or something. His wife come to the door;
all of his friends was gone. Three church members come down, turned
their backs to him for seven days, wouldn't even speak to him, accused
him of being a secret sinner (Not much consolation from the Church
then, was there?), secret sinner.
But Job... Listen, Job knew in his heart that he wasn't a secret
sinner. He'd confessed his sins upon the basis of the shed blood, and
he knowed that God was under obligation to meet him on those basis.
Amen. The only propitiation for sin, was the shed blood of the lamb,
which God promised redemption as a shadow, to last until Christ come.
And Job had met God on those basis. He wasn't a secret sinner; he had
no sin, because he'd offered the sacrifice that God had required.
E-43 So, his wife, kindly
indifferent, come out and said, "Job," said, "you look so miserable,
why don't you just curse God and die the death?"
He said, "Now, thou speakest like a foolish woman." Said, "The Lord
gave, the Lord taken away, blessed be the Name of the Lord. We brought
nothing into this world, and certain we take nothing out. "The Lord
gave: the Lord taken away, blessed be the Name of the Lord."
Set right on the ash heap, a man sincere that's got faith in the Word
of God, and the Word of God had introduced to him the way back home,
through the shed Blood of the Lamb, the carpet, the welcome mat at the
door is the shed Blood. Amen. There you are sinners. The welcome back
home again, to Immortal Life is through the shed Blood of the innocent
Son of God, laying at the door. And Christ...
E-44 Job knowed that he had done
all that he could do. Now, perhaps they maybe they tried (some of the
theologians), tried to say, "Now, Job, what strength is there in that
blood of the lamb that you're offering?"
Job said, "It's according to the Word. He requires that." And he knew
that he was innocent. So down from the east come a little prince by the
name of Elihu, in other words God's manifestation of the
pre-foreknowledge of the Lord Jesus, God Himself: El, meaning God,
Eli-hu.
And He begin to straighten Job up. He said, "Look, Job," He said, "I'm
not accusing you of being a secret sinner, but you have accused God
wrong."
And now, Job said, "Now, look, I've noticed these trees; if they die,
they live again. If a flower seed drops in the ground, it lives again,
but man layeth down; yea, he giveth up the ghost; his sons come to
mourn; he perceive it not. He don't raise up no more. He lays there.
Oh, that You can hide me in the grave..." In distress, honest man,
getting just a little bit of child-training.
E-45 Maybe that's what's the
matter tonight, with some of us. I know it's done me a lot of good. It
does all of us good to get a little training like that.
He said, "I know I haven't sinned. I've offered myself; I put the
sacrifice out there just according to God's Word. And I believe that
God has accepted it. I'm not a sinner."
He said, "That's right, Job." Said, "You're watching those flowers, how
they die, go into the ground, springtime they come back up again. But
man lays down, he doesn't rise no more." Said, "Job," (In this way so
the children will get it), said, "the flower never sinned. But man
sinned, and now, you're only operating under a shadow. But the time's a
coming, when there'll be One come, a worthy One Who can stand in the
breach and put His hand on a sinful man and a Holy God, and bridge the
way together."
E-46 Then Job seen what the lamb
meant. He shook himself, stood up, being a prophet, the Spirit come on
him, and he said, "I know my Redeemer liveth." Oh, there you are.
Through eyes of faith, four thousands years ahead, he said, "I see what
you mean, that just One back there, Who was promised in Eden. I know my
Redeemer liveth, and at the last days He will stand on the earth:
though the skin worms take me back, like it did that flower, yet in my
flesh shall I see God." Amen. Why? "I've come on the basis of
redemption. I've come offering the shed blood, that represents His
Blood. This is the type; this is the lamb."
But way back yonder, the Holy Spirit had revealed to him, before the
world ever started, that God selected His blameless, spotless Lamb to
take away the sin of the world. And in His preknowledge of it, seen Him
slain before the foundation of the world was ever laid. Job got a
vision of that. Don't make any difference what you say now, he believed
it. And when he did, the lightnings flashed, the thunders roared. What
is it? The man of God getting back into the spirit, there's got to be a
little anointing somewhere. That's right. He got back into the harmony
with God. He said, "My, oh, there it is."
E-47 And notice, God restored
all back to him again, restored his health back to him. Why? You
Christians here tonight, that's sick. You may be sick; that may be all
right. God may be trying you for something. But remember, look to the
way of redemption. Christ is your Redeemer from sickness. Just keep
holding to His unchanging hand.
Look what He did night before last. Look what He did the night before
that. Look what He did last night. What's He going to do tonight? God
only knows. It's all left up--upon you, how you approach it. If you
come saying, "I'll try and see if it'll help me a little bit." You're
wrong. You've got to come first, sanely, soundly, in God's provided way
of approach to Him. That's through the shed Blood of the Lord Jesus
Christ, knowing that It is redemption. God made a way of redemption,
not your thoughts, what you heart says, not what your mind says.
E-48 Notice. Oh, this really
sounds good to me. When Job got in the Spirit, and the lightnings begin
to flash, and God restored to him... If he'd had five thousand sheep,
God give him back ten thousand sheep. If he had twenty-thousand goats,
He give him back forty-thousand goats. And if he had ten thousand
camels, He give him back twenty-thousand camels. But now notice, here's
a beautiful picture, and God restored these seven children back to Job.
Never give him twice as many; He just give him the same amount, his
seven sons and daughters, I think it was, restored his seven sons and
daughters back to him. Never doubled them, never give him some more,
but he restored them to him.
Did you ever think about where they was at? They was in glory, waiting
for him. You see it? Because he was a father who believed in God, and
offered the prayer and so forth, and upon the basis of the shed blood,
and God had saved them. They'd been saved, because they had a faithful
father, and was waiting for him across the shadows, over yonder. That's
what we need. Waiting on the other side, 'cause they come through the
shed blood, the--the walkway, the welcome mar--mat, back home again,
come to God.
E-49 The laws of redemption, a
beautiful type, said, and about Ruth, Naomi. The book of Ruth, some
people just think... Maybe we'll approach it just a moment. Ruth, or
Naomi, she was--lived in Bethlehem of Judaea. Elimelech was her
husband. She had two sons. And a drought come on, so she left and went
over into the land of Moab, because she heard there was corn over
there. A very beautiful picture here, let's unfold it just a minute and
look into it, before we close.
And her going away, perhaps not knowing then, a righteous woman,
righteous man, going away, not knowing what they were doing. You know,
many times we have to walk the way we feel led to walk, regardless of
what the outcome of it will be. That's right.
E-50 Did you ever notice when
the cattle was bringing the ark down the road, the calves back behind,
bawling for their mother, but the cows went down the road, lowing, not
bawling. Lowing isn't bawling; lowing's singing. Them old cows pulling
that, though going to the rock to be crucified, going down the road,
singing, "I am coming, Lord, coming now to Thee," lowing as they're
going. That's the way you come. If it's crucifixion, whatever it is,
self-denial, go anyhow. The Spirit of God's pulling them down... There
it is.
So Naomi went over in the other country, in Moab, and there her sons
were married to two Moabite women. and after while she lost Elimelech,
her husband, the two boys was--died, and Naomi was left alone with her
two daughter-in-laws. So she taken them out, and she kissed them, and
said, "I'm returning back to the homelands now," for she heard that God
had brought corn again in her own land. So she was returning back after
ten years. She'd lost all of her estate, and everything. But she lost
her husband, lost her two sons, but she was returning back. So she
kissed her daughter-in-laws. And one of them's name was Orpah, and the
other one was named Ruth. And said, "Now, you all return to your
mother's house, and may God give you peace in your mother's house,"
said, "in respects of the dead."
E-51 So Orpah kissed her
mother-in-law and returned. And now Ruth, the Moabite woman was a
beautiful type of the Gentile Bride. This may hurt, a little theology,
but, Naomi, being a type of the Jewish church, the orthodox, Jewish
church, losing her estate, and Ruth being a type the--the Gentile
woman, being a type of Christ, taking the Gentile Church.
So she, when she was on her road, Ruth would not turn back. And she
said, "Now, look, I'm old, and if I had sons, you wouldn't wait for it.
Go back home, and--and marry, and settle down."
And she said, "No, I will not go back. I..."
She said, "Return to your gods, and to your country."
She said, "I'll go where you go. I'll let your people be my people. Let
your God be my God. Where you dwell, there I'll dwell. Where you die,
there I'll die. Where you're buried, there I'll be buried." The Gentile
Church first, seeing the promise of God, making this statement to sell
out from everything to follow Jehovah God. Do you see it?
E-52 She turned, seen she's
persistent, on she went, back to the land. And as she came in to
Bethlehem of Judaea, when she came in, the people of Bethlehem said,
"Here comes Naomi."
She said, "Don't call me Naomi (which is pleasant)," said, "call me
Mara (which is bitter), "for the Lord has dealt thus with me."
Now, the beautiful part to look, that when she came back, being the
type of the--of the Jewish church, when she came back she brought Ruth
with her, and came (listen, get it), she came in barley season. Just at
the time of the thrashing of the grain. And that's exactly the way the
Church is going back today, just the begin of barley season. She'd seen
a season before. But this was a new season after a long, stay of
drought. A type of the Gentile or the Jewish church...
E-53 In the beginning when
Pentecost fell, it fell on the Jews. And the Jewish church died out,
and the Gentile Church come in, and then all signs and wonders ceased.
Now, notice, that was the former rain. Then the church, the Jewish
church is returning just in the latter rain, when the Holy Spirit is
just being poured out again, and the Jews now, returning by the
thousands back to Palestine. Oh, I wish we... That's a sermon in
itself. Time won't permit much longer. I've got to hurry. Notice, a
sermon in itself, of the return of the Jews now, bringing with them the
Gentile.
And when they got there, it was barley season; the great thrashing was
on. And they had a near kinsman named Boaz. And Ruth went out to glean
in the field, and was directed to Boaz's field, which was the kinsman.
When she went out to glean, a type of the Gentile Church taking up the
Bible, the Old Testament, to learn of God, being heathen, now, comes to
learn of God.
E-54 And while she was a gleaning in the field, directed by the Holy Spirit, to go into that field to glean, then up come Boaz. Boaz was a representive Christ, for he was the lord of the harvest. He was over all the harvest. And notice, as soon as he looked out in the field and saw that Gentile girl, he fell in love with her. Why? She was gleaning behind the reapers. That's what the Church has had to do: Pick up a little bit here, and a little bit there, gleaning. Reading over there, and seeing what Job done, and what the rest of them done, and how the way of redemption was laid, picking up these little gleanings, behind the Jewish church. See what I mean? That grain that they were reaping represented Life, Immortal Life, Eternal Life to us out of the Word. The Word of God, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."
E-55 And here she was gleaning
behind, picking up these little gleans. And the lord of the harvest
fell in love with her, her being an alien. What a picture. My, I just
love that. And then, he said, "Whose damsel is this?"
And they begin to speak, and said, "It's the Moabite that come in
with--with Naomi."
And he went out to her, and spoke peace to her. And said, "Don't you
leave this field." God be merciful. Stay put. Don't be tossed about
with every wind of doctrine; stay in the Word.
E-56 All these things coming up
like little saucers--flying saucers is going to come to the church, and
little wee men coming through testing the power of God, all this
fanaticism, stay in the word. Said, "Stay right there." Don't you go
from every tossed about here, and there. Stay right with the Word;
believe the Word. All right.
And then he went over and commissioned, and said, "Now, when you're
tired, come over and drink out of the bucket." I like that, don't you?
Then he said--commanded the young men that was going forth with the
sickles, he said, "Now, let her glean anywhere she wants to. And ever
once in a while, drop just a little handful on purpose." I like that.
"Just a little handful on purpose..." A little old fashioned revival
that stirs up the water a little bit. "Drop a little on purpose." Don't
you like to find those little handfuls along the road? My, the promises
of God, just kinda jerks you up a little bit, gives you a little of
that Life that come out of the field of God. The Lord of the harvest
has commanded it.
E-57 And notice. There at the
end of the season, after she'd took her wheat and so forth, at the end
of the season, she went back out, then that night, and here's where a
beautiful type of the Gentile Church coming, I mean the true, Gentile
Church. When she went out there that night, and found Boaz laying on
the heap of wheat... What is it? In Him dwells all the Fulness of God,
and the powers of God. Laying on the whole heap of the harvest. And she
moved up, and absolutely exposed herself by laying down on his feet.
The Gentile Church, the real, true Church of God has exposed herself to
public persecution by taking God at His Word, and saying, "I believe
that Divine healing and the power of the resurrection. I believe that
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever." When all these
old, cold, formal morgues say, "The days of miracles is past," we
expose ourselves and lay it at His feet." Hallelujah!
E-58 Right in the darkest of hour, when midnight time, he woke up and looked around, and he seen Ruth, a virtuous woman, not ashamed of the Gospel, laying at his feet. He reaches up and gets his robe, and spreads it over her. You know what I mean, don't you? The Holy Spirit, throwed the Holy Spirit, as it was, being a type of Christ, over her, and sent her into the place and said, "Now, wait a minute. I've got to do a certain law. There's a law of the land of redemption, and I am thy near kinsman. And I know that you're a virtuous woman." God knows your heart, doesn't He? He said, "Now, in the morning, I will go down, and see if I can do the order of the kinsman."
E-59 Now, here's a great picture. The first: a redeemer, someone who can redeem a lost estate in Israel (you preachers know this), the man must first be a kinsman. He must be close kinfolks, not a way off kinsman, a near kinsman. And how could God ever become a close Kinsman? When God Himself was made flesh and dwelt among us, He become Kinfolks to the human race. That's right. The only way it could be. When God was made flesh here among us, He become Kinfolks, not to Angels, but to human beings. He never come in the form of Angel, but He humiliated Himself, and stripped Himself from all of His heavenly glories, and come down, and was made Kinfolks with man, in order to fulfill the law of kinsman redeemership. Oh, what precious love the Father had for Adam's fallen race. Gave His only Son to suffer and redeem us by His grace. There He is, a near Kinsman, God made flesh and dwelled among us, becoming Kinfolks to the human being, a Kinsman.
E-60 The next he must be, he
must be financially able to do it. And who would be more financial?
What kind of a debt could be paid? When God owns all the universes
there is, and all the spaces, and all the times, and everything else,
He was able financially. Hallelujah! But when He was in the form of
Spirit, He could not do it, because He was Spirit, and man was human.
And the Spirit was made flesh and dwelt among us, to become Kinfolks to
us, in order to redeem us. You see it? Notice...
There's the spread of welcome to you tonight. When God, stripping
Himself, coming out of the ivory palaces, taking upon Himself the form
of sinful flesh, to humiliate Himself to come down, to be Kinfolks to
the poorest beggar there is in the world tonight, to become a Kinfolks
to him, Jehovah Himself, made Kinfolks to a beggar. "The foxes have
dens, and the bird's have nest, but the Son a man don't have a place to
lay His head." Born in a manger, wrapped in swaddling cloth, yet the
very Prince of glory, the Dayspring from on high. Humiliating, bringing
Himself down, condescending, coming down, to be made Kinfolks with a
sinner, think of it people. How can you reject that matchless love?
E-61 What was it? When God
became a sinner, taking our sins. Jesus became me, that I might become
Him. The innocent Lamb of God, He knowed no sin, became a sinner, that
I might be made adopted son of God. Amen. There's the picture of true
redemption: How He came down, worthy, robbed Hisself, no home, no place
to go, humiliated Himself, brought Hisself down in sinful flesh, and
took upon Him, not the nature of Angels, not the nature of God, took
upon Himself the nature of man, that He might walk with man, eat with
man, sleep with man, and die for man. There you are. The whole plan
from the beginning, the spotless Lamb of God, there He is, the Bread of
Life, here on earth.
Now, the next thing had to be done, a kinsman redeemer had to be
kinfolks real close to the person, to redeem it. And the next thing had
to be, that he had to be worthy to redeem it, righteous, a good person.
Just an outlaw couldn't do it. And who'd be any more worthier that
Jehovah Himself becoming flesh?
E-62 The next thing he had to do
was make a public testimony that he had done it. So Boaz, the next
morning, run to the gates and waited. And when the elders begin to
gather in, he said, "Wait a minute, wait a minute." And they gathered
all the elders of the city, outside the gate. O God, have mercy.
Listen. The public testimony could not be made in the city. It had to
be made outside the gate, and had to be witnessed before the elders.
And he called the elders out, and said, "This day I have redeemed
Naomi, and if there's any one, just..." One fellow was there, but he
couldn't redeem it, was a kinsman too, but he couldn't redeem it. So it
all fell to Boaz.
He said, "I have to redeem Naomi, and I'll--our brother's estate, I'll
take it all back."
And no one... They said, "Well, I am a witness this day," (each one),
that you have redeemed it." And he plucked off his shoe and handed it
to his neighbor as an ensign--as an ensign that he had redeemed
everything. Praise God. He'd redeemed everything she lost. And in doing
so, he got Ruth, too, for his bride.
E-63 And when Israel had sinned,
and man had sinned, and got away from God, Christ went--come here as a
bleeding Sacrifice, that every lamb from the foundation of the world,
represented in a shadow. And when the Dayspring from on high come into
existence, the great Jehovah in flesh, went without the city gates, out
there, and was lifted up between the heavens and earth, that His
bleeding body shows that in there "He was wounded for our
transgressions, bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our
peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed."
God showed He had redeemed Adam's fallen race. There's redemption.
That's Who Job seen way back yonder. Said, "I know my Redeemer liveth,"
at the last days He will be here to bleed and die in my place. "Though
the skin worms destroys my body, yet in my flesh I'll see God. I'll see
Him for myself, mine eyes shall behold, and not another."
E-64 That's wonderful, isn't it?
Oh, His Presence's here, the ensign. He died that He make that man
standing right back there, that's just been operated on for his nose,
to get well. God bless you, brother. Do you believe He did that? He
sure did.
He done the same thing for the man setting next to you there with
arthritis, to get well. Amen.
He did the same thing for the lady setting next to her, next to him
there, to be healed of that stomach trouble. That's right. He did that.
All right.
He did, died that He might give... You have a deaf woman here that can
hear me now. All right. He did... Now, you hear me, don't you? Sure, He
died for that purpose.
He died to give anemia, back there, back his conditions. Do you believe
that, sir? God bless you.
That woman setting right back there, thinking about her friend, in
Madison, Indiana, in the insane institution, He gave freedom and death
that He might redeem her back to her right condition.
E-65 What is He? Jehovah God;
He's a Redeemer. Hallelujah. He's here in this building now, confirming
His Word. He lives and reigns. He's God's Redeemer; He's the Kinfolks
to me. He becomes my Brother. He is my God; He is my Saviour; He's my
coming King; He's my Healer. He's My Father; He's my Mother: He's all
that I have in this world, or in the world to come.
How little will the delegates of this association ever remember when
they think of redemption, even to the times from the very beginning,
they'll recognize it. And when we all, that palm-bearing group, that
comes up washed in the Blood of the Lamb with palms in their hands, and
white robes on, and we take our position at the seat of the throne of
the Son of David (Hallelujah!), we'll still sing redemption's songs to
Him...?... Hallelujah! Oh, sure we will.
E-66 Yonder I see Adam and Eve,
that first little sweethearts, there in the garden of Eden. I see Adam
back there, when he put his arms around his little sweetheart to walk
out with her, for God had condemned them. And he started out with his
arms around his darling. Adam was not deceived; he didn't have to walk
out. But he walked out because he loved his wife. He walked out with
both eyes wide open. No matter, if she had to go to torment, he'd go
with her.
When God looked down and seen that love of a human being, it was so
great that He couldn't stand it Himself. That's right. He said, "I'll
come and go too." And said, "I'll put enmity between her seed and the
serpent's seed."
Listen closely. Four thousand years later, yonder in the city of
Jerusalem (let's change our scenes and look), there's--come down the
streets of Jerusalem, bumpity, bumpity, bump. Out the gates of Damascus
yonder, goes towards Golgotha, a little Fellow, with a crown on of
little thorns on His head, and a cross over His shoulder. Look all over
His back, there's little red spots. What are they?
E-67 Look back yonder when Adam
was leaving with his sweetheart, going out under condemnation, was a
shadow--a shadow of redemption somewhere, because there was blood
running over them. Somewhere there was a shadow; he knew it. And I hear
something going [Brother
Branham claps--Ed.]. What is it? It's the old, bloody sheepskin
beating up and down on his legs, speaking of some time. There's a land
beyond the river, that they call the sweet forever, and we only reach
that shore by faith degree... Knowing that someday, they'd get back
into Eden again.
And as I can see him going yonder now, the second Adam going up the
hill, the little spots on His back. They get bigger, bigger, bigger, as
He walks on. What is it? After while they all go into one spot. I hear
something beating again. [Brother
Branham claps--Ed.] What
is it? There goes the second Adam, no more than Jehovah Himself, Who
comes down and was made flesh (To what?), even to go to hell with His
sweetheart, to redeem her back to...?... Christ to redeem His Bride.
Hallelujah! He seen it in Adam yonder. And He come down, was made
flesh, Kinfolks with us, that He might marry the human race to Himself.
There He is, going yonder to Calvary.
E-68 As He's moving up the hill,
and His poor, little shoulder rubbing, the old bee of death humming
around Him, "It ain't going to be long till I'll get Him."
Buzzing all around and around, and after while it had to sting Him.
But, friend, you know, if a bee ever stings anybody deeply, he can't
sting no more. He pulls his stinger out. So he hasn't got no more
stinger. And I tell you, that's the reason God was made flesh, here on
earth, in order to hold the stinger of death. And now the--death has no
more sting. The bee can swarm and buzz, but he can't sting. "O death,
where is thy sting? Grave, where is thy victory?"
But Christ, the kinsman Redeemer has made a way of escape for every
believer on this earth today. The bee might hum; the bee might buzz;
the bee might try to make you afraid. But I can point yonder to
Calvary, where God Himself was made flesh, when He held the stinger of
death, and took my place as a sinner, and paid the price. And He laid
out the welcome mat to me to come home. "Whosoever will, let him come
and drink from the fountains of the waters of Life freely. He that
comes I will in no wise cast out."
E-69 Oh, my, no wonder Paul
could say, when he heard the axes out there, being sharpened... When I
stood in his cell a few days ago, where they chopped his head off, and
they was bringing the axe in, the old bee humming around him. He said,
"Now, I got you."
He said, "Death, where is your sting?" It was left in Calvary, yonder.
"Grave, where is thy victory? But thanks be to God, Who gives us the
victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."
"God so loved the world that He gave," so loved... Adam so loved Eve
that he went out with her. Christ so loved the Church that He went with
her. "God so loved the world..." Adam went with Eve, and her wrong; she
was wrong. He knowed the wrong, he was innocent, but she was guilty.
But Adam said, "I'll go with her."
And Christ looked at the Church, and knowing it was wrong, yet Christ
went with us to take our place yonder as a sinner, to die for us, to
take the sting out of death for us. Sinner, how can you reject such
matchless love?
E-70 No wonder Job said, "I know
my Redeemer liveth, at the last day He's going to stand upon the earth.
And though the skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I
see God. I'll see Him for myself; my eyes shall behold and not another."
Do you believe it tonight? Our time's a swayed from us. Oh, how the
Holy Spirit seem to be moving in my heart. I can't think of nothing,
friends, nothing no greater, than how that Jesus come down here on
earth and made the way of redemption, and fulfilled every plan, plumb
from the garden of Eden, way before that. Before the foundation of the
world, Jehovah spoke, and here come Jesus taking His pl--taking the
p--spot, and went out here, and come, and died, was made sin that you
could be saved. How could you reject such matchless love as that
blessed Redeemer, hanging yonder, the gobs of spit in His face, mockery
and scandalized, and a crown of thorns on His head, an innocent Man,
dying yonder, and the Blood dripping from Emmanuel's veins, where
sinners can plunge beneath the flood, and lose all their guilty stains.
E-71 Shall we bow our heads.
Heavenly Father, O God, with my heart turning around and around it
seems, knowing that You're here. See You move out over this audience in
a form of a big, bright Light, speaking, visions breaking forth,
knowing that the time is at hand, right now. Soon You shall send Jesus
again, and He will come to this earth. "No man knoweth the minute or
hour, not even the Angels, but the Father only." And here He comes to
the earth again, time way past due, like it was in the days of Noah,
the long-suffering, when the ark was being prepared, wherein seven
souls were saved," or "eight."
Now, today His coming's way past due, way overdue, should've been here
a long time ago. But God's not willing that any should perish, but that
all might come to repentance.
E-72 The doormat's laid out, the
welcome mat tonight, God's plan of redemption through the offering up
of the Blood of the Lord Jesus, once for all, to cleanse the guilty,
unworthy sinner, and bring him in to reconciliation with God, and
restore him back into the garden of Eden with his wife and his loved
ones. Never to die no more, never to be sick, never to have a
heartache, never to be no more funerals, no more graves to be dug. O
God, no more weary, nothing, it's all over. Washed in the Blood of the
Lamb with this perfect assurance, that Jesus Christ once come under His
Blood, we're safe from the angel of death; it cannot touch us.
God, if there be some here tonight, Thou knowest the hearts of all men.
While the Holy Spirit's a moving over this audience, God, grant that
they'll receive Thee just now, as their personnel Saviour. Those that's
backslidden, may they come back and be ashamed tonight. May the sick
all be healed tonight, Lord. May the Holy Ghost fall on every hungry
heart and moisten that ground. Get them ready; it ain't long.
The great hours are in sight. Atomic bombs, explosions, and things,
perplexed of time, distress between the nations, man's heart failing,
fear, sea a roaring, great fearful sights appearing on the earth. You
said in that day, the ones that know their God will do exploits. And
here we are seeing all these things happen. God, may the voice of
warning sweep into every heart just now for Jesus' sake, and in His
Name.
E-73 While we have our heads bowed. If there be one in here tonight... Don't no one look; just keep your head down and pray, please, just a few minutes. I'm going to ask you something, knowing that I'm standing now between the living and dead, knowing this may be the last time that you'll ever get an opportunity to do this... You know your heart, the Holy Spirit's speaking to you now; you know where you're standing. If you desire prayer that you might receive Christ as your Saviour, and come God's way of the shed Blood through redemption, and you know you've practiced church; you've played church, but in your heart you know you've never been redeemed, know that there's something there: carnality, envy, strife, temper. Don't--don't just play it any longer, let's come to the Lord Jesus.
E-74 Will you raise your hand to
Him, tonight, say, "God, be merciful to me, I now accept it with all my
heart, will you please come to me at this hour?"
God bless you. Someone else? God bless you. Someone else? God bless
you. God bless you. Up in the balcony? God bless you. God bless you,
you. Over to my right, someone else? God bless you. God bless you, sir,
God bless you. Someone here on the bottom floors? God bless you, sir.
God bless you. God bless you, son. Oh, my, just look. God bless you. I
knew the Holy Spirit was here. God bless you, sir. Someone else?
Say, "God be merciful to me." I see you back there, sir. I see you,
little fellow, over there, or the young boy, God be with you. Every
Christian praying now, that's on praying grounds.
E-75 What is it? The way of
redemption; the way of the Cross. You might belong to church, but that
don't mean nothing. That's all right. I have nothing against it; but
that's not coming through the way of redemption, through the Blood, by
the washing of the water by the Word. That's the way you come to
Christ. "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing of the Word," not joining
of the church, hearing of the Word.
"By faith are you saved through grace." God speaking at your heart.
Here not long ago, I told a young lady, "I believe God's calling you
tonight, sister."
She said, "If I want somebody to talk to me, I'd want somebody that's
got more sense about it."
And I said, "Well, sister, I can only say the Holy Spirit's telling me."
She said, "I don't want to hear that no more."
E-76 A year later I passed
through that city, and that girl had become a prostitute; her clothes
hanging low on her, offered me a drink of whiskey. And she said... And
I shamed her. And she said, "You know what, preacher? You remember the
night you told me I ought to be saved?"
I said, "Yes, I do."
She said, "That was the truth," said, "I've crossed the separating line
there. I grieved God from my heart the last time," said... Here's the
remark that girl made, said, "I could see my mother's soul fry in hell
like a pancake, and laugh at it." Hard-hearted...
Oh friend, don't never walk up to that line. When God's long-suffering. [Brother
Branham knocks several times--Ed.] But when He knocks, He...
"My Spirit will not always strive with man."
E-77 Will you raise your hand
now, not to me, to God? And by doing that, saying, "God, be merciful to
me. I don't want to die a sinner. I want to come Your way. I want to
come the way of the Cross. I want you to come into my heart, right now,
and save me."
Someone else raise your hand, anywhere in the building? God bless you,
sister. God bless you, sister. God bless you, brother, God bless you,
you. That's right. That's fine. Up in the balconies, anywhere around,
now, raise your hand. God bless you, young lady, I see your hand. God
bless you, lady, up there way back, I see you; God sees you too.
Right now He's speaking peace. God bless you, lady. God bless you,
little girl. Oh, that's wonderful. Friend, keep your heads bowed.
E-78 I feel led to do something
right now. I feel led to bring those people right here to the altar,
and let me pray for them. I feel that right now is the time. Will you
raise up out of your seat, come here, and let me, just stand here, and
pray with you a little bit, will you do it? Every person that wants to
receive Christ, the Holy Spirit's telling me to do that. Will you just
raise up and come here? That's just a public testimony.
If you love Jesus, you know that He loves you, raise up out of your
seat, will you? Let's stand to our feet, everybody, just a moment.
Stand to your feet.
...
from Emmanuel's veins
And
sinners plunged...
God bless you, sir. That... If God will hear my prayer to heal the
sick, surely He will hear it for your soul. Come here, my brother. Come
here... Will you come, down out of the balconies, everywhere, come
right down, the Holy Spirit's telling me to do this. God bless you, my
dear brother...?... God bless you. Just stand right here, just a
moment. Will you come? God bless you...?... Come here, honey. God bless
you.
When
sinners plunged...
E-79 That's right. Come right on
down...?... Will you come right on, now? Little children, old... Here's
a young lady standing here, a polio victim. I don't believe she'll use
those crutches when she leaves here. No, sir. Here comes an Indian
woman, an Indian man, a bunch coming. O God, be merciful.
[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...
And it looked like just clouds. Pretty near all of them responded to
it. And let's--let's pray just a minute now. And I'm going to ask you,
if you will, be just as reverent as you can, for a few moments.
E-80 Our heavenly Father, into
Thy Divine Presence we present these people. Not only these in the
prayer line, or of these with prayer cards. We present the entire host
tonight to You. Come Father, minister to them in the resurrection power
of the Son of God. May every heart in here, submit themselves to a
faith of God. And may Your humble servant here, unworthy to stand here,
but may the Holy Spirit so take a hold of me, that I'll be used for
Your glory. In the power of the resurrection of the Son of God, just as
mortal man, sinful, unworthy. But, Father, if You was looking for a
holy people tonight, without Christ, where would You find them? They're
not here. But every one in Christ is a newborn babe.
And we're so happy that You've made a way that we can work with our
fellow man, and our brethren. We unrighteous ones, through the shed
Blood of the Lord Jesus, comes now, presenting our faith to Thee for
the healing of the sick. For we ask it in Jesus' Name, and according to
the atonement, that "By His stripes we are healed." Amen.
E-81 Now, how many, anywhere in
the building, no matter where you're at, you'd say by raising up your
hand, "Brother Branham, I do not have a prayer card."
Now, remember, some night, somewhere, sometime, we're going to pray for
every person that receives a prayer card. No matter if it takes a month
to do it, we're going to pray for every person with a prayer card. You
hold your prayer card. If you're not called at one night, you will be
again sometime. We'll see that every prayer card's called, prayed for,
laid hands on, every person.
So now, you don't know what night your... Each day they give out new
ones, because new people comes in. And we just call out, and take a few
here and stand them in the line. And now, so far as I know, there's not
a person in that line that I know of ever seeing. There's Indians,
Mexicans, white people, all mixed up. That's the way it'll be in glory,
isn't it? I don't know none of them. Perhaps I can't--can't speak their
language, but did you know God knows every one of them?
E-82 Now, I've preached the
Word; they've heard that. Now, the audience is waiting to see something
else. Has the really, phenomenal, of the resurrection, positive power
of Christ returned to the church? Jesus said, "The things that I do
shall you also." Is that right? He didn't claim to heal anybody; He
claimed that God showed Him a vision of different things. And what God
showed Him to do, that's the only thing He did. How many knows that in
the church, to be the Gospel truth, that Jesus said He couldn't do
nothing in Himself? Just exactly the only thing He could do, was when
God the Father showed Him what to do; and He said God was in Him. Do
you believe that God's in this church tonight? Well, He's not in the
spheres here; He's in the people. Is that right? So then, if God's in
here, He could do for us just as--like He did Jesus, 'cause Jesus said,
"The same things that I do shall you do also, all the way to the end of
the age."
Is that right? He... Woman touched His garment, He looked around out in
the audience; He said, "Your faith has healed you from that blood
issue."
E-83 A blind man cried after
Him, and when his faith touched Him, and Jesus turned around, said,
"Your faith has healed you." Many things like that. He touched a man's
eyes one day, two of them, said, "Now, according to your faith, be it
unto you."
But the Father showed Him some things to do; He went and done it.
Passed by the sick and afflicted everywhere, and found this person that
the Father had told Him to, went out there and told him, "Rise up; take
your bed, and go on in your house," walked off and left the rest of
them.
They said, "Why?"
Said, "I only do what the Father shows Me to do." And if He's the same
today, as in... He stood on the platforms of the world at that time, in
the different audiences, and perceived their thoughts in the audience.
Is that right? "The same yesterday, today, and forever..."
E-84 Now, I want to ask you, how
many here without a prayer card, that says, "Brother Branham, tonight,
by the help of God, I'm going to yield myself to the Holy Spirit, and
I'm going to pray that God will turn you around to me, and let me know
whether I'm going to get well, or something about me that'll just stir
my faith. I will believe."
Will you do it? Everywhere, now without prayer cards. Just look, you
can't hardly tell; it's just everywhere. All right. Look this a way and
live. The reason I say without prayer cards, the ones with prayer cards
is going to come up here. The ones without prayer cards might not, and
it might be your last time.
Some of you setting there, big and healthy, look like it, might have a
heart beating there, that's going to stop in the next fifteen minutes,
twenty. Something has to be done.
E-85 Here sets a poor lady,
setting here, in a wheelchair. I seen her two nights, I know exactly
what's wrong with her; I know what caused it. I seen her a night or two
ago, and I thought sure (the Angel of the Lord standing right there),
the faith would come. I started to call, and I seen it went over to
another lady. See? I believe she's near the time. That's right. You
look at her, you feel sorry, say, "That's a woman..." But remember,
that woman could live for fifty more years just like that, but maybe
that big, healthy man setting yonder, with a heart trouble, won't live
the rest of the night. God knows all things, doesn't He? He knows all
things. He knows what has to be done.
All right, okay. Here--here she is. Excuse me, I didn't mean that,
sister. I thought that... All right. Now, this lady here, is to begin
the first. Now, I'm going to ask you if you'll do something for me.
Now, if the engineer there, will watch this microphone... They tell me
I don't talk loud enough when the anointing comes down. I don't--I
don't even know where I'm at, half the time. See? That's the reason;
I'm in another world.
E-86 So now, if you'll be just
real reverent, and the... see Brother Brown standing here, Brother
Moore here; they're watching every minute. That's what they're standing
there for. They know just exactly when something happens to me, that
they've got to take me. Then when they take me, the other minister
comes right to the platform, pitch right into the Spirit, begins to
make the altar call, or do whatever it--feels led to do.
I try; when I'm feel them hitting me on the side, I know I'm supposed
to make a committal prayer, and that's about all I can remember until
the next day, they tell me about it.
Now, may He add His blessings now, in Jesus' Name. Now, for the glory
of God, and for the cause of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ,
I take every spirit in here under my control. In the Name of the Lord
Jesus... That is, unruly things (See?) that's what I need it for.
E-87 Now, the lady here, I want
to talk to you, lady. Can you hear me all right. This--this--my voice
is over this here. Now, I suppose us being strangers to each other...
God knows both of us, though, doesn't He? He knows both of us. He
knows... Now, you know, lady, as well as any, I have no way at all of
knowing what you want, just as a man. That would be totally impossible
for me to know it. Of us strangers and just met right here, how in the
world would I know what you want? But Jesus Christ knowed you before
you were born; He knowed me before I was born.
You are a Christian believer; I perceive that, because you're spirit's
feels welcome. As you're a conscious that something is taking place
now. I want the audience to watch the woman; just watch her. She...
Watch any patient that comes here. When the Angel moves near them,
watch what, how they look. They'll get white around the mouth, and
something will happen to them. See? They're standing in His Presence.
E-88 Between me and the woman right now, I know, just like someone has moved right in here. I don't see it yet. I don't know nothing, but it'll break through, and something will tell her. I don't know what she's here for. It might be that she's--she's sinned. It might be that she's sick. It might be that she has domestic troubles. I--I don't know what she wants, but God does. So He'd have to do it, and in doing so, why you would--you'd believe that it'd have to come from supernatural resource. Will the audience believe the same thing? Has to come... Then if Jesus has raised from the dead now, that's the supernatural; that's a miracle. Is it? It cannot be explained; it's a miracle. Then see...?... that something that come here to ch--know Him, because He told me, "I'll be with you," and I believe it. I believe Him with all my heart.
E-89 And now, 'course now, we
see you wearing glasses. Of course, we know that there's something
wrong with your eyes, or you wouldn't be wearing glasses. But now,
maybe there's something different, I--I couldn't say, but the Lord
Jesus knows. Now, just as we're looking to each other, the Holy
Spirit's moving between us. And, no, it's getting real Light around
you. You're not here for healing, because you've just been healed. You
was healed here Sunday night, was it? Now, how would I know you was
healed Sunday night? Something had to tell me that. Is that right? Now,
do you believe with all your heart, with all your heart? I see someone
else. It's a man standing by your side now, and that's your husband,
and he has arthritis. That's right. And there's two... you're...
There's something else, sister. It's two children; it's grand-children.
And they have TB. And you're come to have prayer for them, THUS SAITH
THE LORD. That's true, isn't it? Absolutely, it's the Name of the Lord.
You believe you will get what you ask for? Come here.
Almighty God, Creator of heavens and earth, I bless this, my sister, in
the Name of Jesus Christ, that she gets the desire of her heart. Don't
fear, sister, you get what you've asked for.
E-90 All right. Just be real
reverent. Do you now believe, every one of you? Now, friends, that's
the way the meeting should be. And everybody right now should just
accept their healing. Just believe on the Lord; that settles it. You
see?
Moses, he had a sign to do, and he done just exactly what God told him.
The elders looked at it, and they followed him, and done just exactly
what he said.
Oh, my, blessed be the Lord. Oh, I'm so thankful for Him. All right, is
this the... You're the lady, the patient? All right, sister, look this
a way now and believe with all your heart. Now, if I--anything I could
do to heal you, or if you're wanting any--anything from the Lord,
you--you're wanting it from Him, not from me. See? Because if there's
anything I could do, as a man, I'd do it if I could, if it's anything
to help you. But I'm so limited on things; they're... I might be able
to scrape up a little bit of money, or something like that, but that's
about all I could do. If you wanted to go somewhere, I might be able to
hire a cab to take you, or something. But now, if it's for anything
beyond my reach, the only thing I can do is pray for you, but it's God
has to give it to you.
E-91 But He is here. And to my
teaching of the Bible that He's already give you what you want, but you
just have to have faith enough to receive it. So then through a Divine
gift, maybe telling you what you want, that let's you know that you're
in His Presence, and then you'll receive what you want. You believe
that? If He will let me know exactly what you're here for, just the one
thing of what you're here for, would you accept it right then? Say, "I
believe it," because you know it was... you believe with every bit of
your heart?
Lady, you're in terrible agony; you're suffering. And I see you at a
doctor, and the doctor shakes his head. You're give up by a doctor for
something; it's cancer. I seen it wrote on your--your slip: Cancer. And
he can't do no more about it. And then you're--you're--you're worried
about a--a child. And that child... I see a light, look like, sometime
ago, the child had leukemia and was healed. And it's got... It's anemia
now, and you want prayer for it. Come here.
Almighty God, in Whom we love and trust, give blessings to this woman
for the glory of God, in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, I
ask it. Amen.
E-92 Now, looky here just a
moment, sister. You believe now you get what you ask for? [Woman
speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] Ma'am? A nurse in the
hospital? County? And you was the nurse? Well God bless you. What was
it you have? TB of the throat. And God healed you? How long ago has it
been, lady? My first meeting here. Oh, yes. Two weeks and a half, and
Brother Outlaw brought me down there, the best I remember now. God
bless you. That's right, and here you are now. Ever what was wrong (I
don't know now), but you'll get well just the same. That's your faith.
Here's another thing you might know while you're standing there. Your
husband needs healing too, doesn't he? He has a tumor on the
brain...?... God bless you. Amen. God bless you, now go back... Let's
say, "Praise the Lord." [Audience
says, "Praise the Lord."--Ed.]
You believe? How can you keep from believing? "Jesus Christ, the same
yesterday, today, and forever." Unfailing mercies, never failed... Now,
be reverent, everywhere.
E-93 How do you do? For the
child? Now, look this a way just a moment, and believe with all your
heart, believe that God's going to heal, or whatever it is to be done.
You believe with all your heart? All right. We're strangers to each
other; I do not know you. God bless you, mother. You've just had a trip
somewhere. You've come from a place. Oh you've been many... Oh, it's
for this child standing here. The child has something wrong in his
throat. And the--the doctor has--has tried... You was at Dallas, Texas,
with that child. I see you leaving a city called Dallas. And the doctor
wants to operate on the child, and you're afraid for the operation,
because you just lost a boy, and a operation killed the boy. And the
boy was operated on the brain, a brain operation for a tumor, and it
killed the boy. And you're afraid to for the child. Just a minute. Come
here just a minute.
Heavenly Father, blessed be the Name of the Lord Jesus. I bless them in
Jesus' Name, that all that they ask for this night, may be granted unto
them: Healing of the body, ever what they have need of, I lay my
unworthy hands in the Name of Jesus Christ, as His servant, which
ordained us that we should go into all the world, "Lay hands on the
sick, and they shall recover." I do this in Jesus Christ's Name, as a
believer. Amen. Don't fear, sister. Go, God go with you.
E-94 That's what hurts
you...?... This is the man? How do you do, sir? We are strangers to
each other, I suppose.
Was that child just at the prayer line, right there? Oh, I see. All
right. I see a Light hanging over the child. No doubt what was the
matter with it, God's going to let it get well now. He will hang there,
the--for the child.
E-95 We are strangers to one
another, brother. I do not know you; I guess I've never seen you in my
life, but God knows both of us. You believe me though, as His servant,
don't you, brother? I--with all your heart, then I can help you to find
faith in the Lord Jesus. One thing, between you and I, I see in the
vision that's breaking, is a blood moving. It's a blood condition that
you have; it's a diabetes. And you--you've just been in the hospital
and been operated on. And around last year, and had the limbs, the legs
moved up, they were operating... It's a prostate condition, and it was
unsuccessfully; it's still bothering you. Those things are true. But
Jesus Christ is here to make you whole. Do you believe it, brother?
Come here.
Father God, in the Name of Jesus Christ, I pray for my brother, that
You'll make him whole, and may he go from here tonight, and be a well
man, as I hold him to my body, as a point of contact, that the Holy
Spirit is here now, Who can tell him, reveal. Let the Angel of the Lord
touch him just now, by the merits of Jesus Christ, through His Name.
Amen.
God bless you, my brother. Go, be happy. Something happened to you; you
know it is, so you... Amen. Don't doubt, have faith now.
E-96 Howdy do, lady. Just a
minute, lady. We're strangers to one another, I suppose? You've seen me
before. But I mean, I don't know you, as far as I know. You believe the
Lord Jesus with all your heart? You believe me to be His servant?
Lady, standing on the steps with the dark glasses on, colored lady, you
believe me to be His servant? You want to accept your healing where
you're standing? Your faith... Something begin to move on you just as I
was talking to the lady. If that's right, wave your hand? It's the Holy
Spirit; the Angel's hanging over you. You're suffering; you're blind in
one eye. And you also have a tumor that's trying to take your life.
Return to your seat and receive your healing in the Name of the Lord
Jesus.
E-97 You believe, with all your
heart? You have a nervous trouble. And you have a bowel trouble. You
got a husband that's an Internal Revenue man. That's right. And he's
somewhere in this building. He's got an usher; he's an usher in this
building. Name is...?... And you live at--at 728 East Montabello,
something like that, I see it on a--on a side of... Isn't that right?
Return, you get what you ask for. Your faith made you...?...
What if I tell you you were healed while you were setting there, would
you believe it, sister, with all your heart? Come here then. Kind,
heavenly Father, move with compassion. Grant to this woman now, that it
will never be that way again, through Jesus' Name. Amen. Have faith,
believe.
E-98 There it is. Audience,
can't you see that a hanging over a man, here in the...? He's kind of
an aged man. I see him suffering; it's a--it's a prostate condition.
The man's got thin hair, wearing glasses. Here sets the man, right
there. It's you. Yes, sir. You have a prostate condition. God bless
you. You was praying, wasn't you, sir? That's the reason that you get
healed.
Say, brother, you was so kind to do that; that man that just accepted
the Lord Jesus awhile ago, setting right next to you there. He has a
stomach trouble, that mexican brother; he wants to be healed. Would you
lay your hands over on him? That's right, sir.
The little lady setting next to you has stomach trouble too. That's
right--that's right, lady. God bless you. You're both healed. God bless
you. You can go home, be made well.
There's an Indian woman setting next to her. Do you understand English,
Indian lady? You have a trouble in your side, don't you? You're healed.
Jesus Christ makes you well. Hallelujah. Believe with all your heart.
Epileptic...?... Here, that spirit moves over here. This little child
setting over here has epilepsy too, setting right back there. Have
faith in God; believe with all your heart. Hallelujah.
E-99 Believe now; don't
disbelieve. Lady peeping over a man's shoulders there, red-headed, yes.
You're praying, sister. You thought, "If I could get around and look at
that man in the face, he will call me." Isn't that what you prayed for,
is that what you said in your heart? Raise up your hand if that's the
truth. Stand upon your feet now. You have asthma. That's right. You
peeped around there, and said in your heart, "If that man will look at
me, I'll be healed." Is that right? If that's right, wave your hand?
That's right. Now, you get what you asked for. Hallelujah.
You believe that stomach trouble left you, sir? Go eat your supper. Are
you believing? You can be healed right now. Stand upon your feet, every
one of you.
Almighty God, in the Name of Your Son, the Lord Jesus, I condemn
every...?...