LES EAUX DE SEPARATION
E-1 Friend, very happy to be
out here again tonight to minister in the Name of our beloved Saviour,
the Lord Jesus Christ. Hearing that old song "Only Believe," all things
are possible, I just think how many times that I've been called to the
pulpit by that, by different languages around the world, all different
types of--of churches, and peoples, the worldwide around.
Now, before we start into the service tonight, knowing that we're have
just a limited time, let us bow our heads and talk to the King of kings
just for a moment.
Our heavenly Father, we come to Thee tonight in the Name of the Lord
Jesus. First, placing that Name, for we been promised that if we would
ask anything in His Name, we would receive it. We have no righteousness
of our own. We come unworthy, pleading for mercy, not for judgment,
mercy. And we ask that You'll be merciful to us tonight. Pardon us of
our sins and trespasses. Not knowing but what this may be the last
night that we shall be upon the earth, tomorrow we may be over at Your
house. We pray, God, if there's any among us who isn't ready at this
time, or any sin among us, take it away just now, that we'll have
freedom in the hour of our death and departing from this life.
Remember, Father, those tonight who are sick and afflicted. May the
Holy Spirit in great mercy, come tonight and heal all the sick and the
afflicted, grant it, Lord. Forgive us, we ask again; get into the Word
we pray and deliver It to the people's heart and build them for faith.
For this we ask in Jesus' Name. Amen.
Now, tomorrow, I suppose, I thought maybe tonight... I haven't seen him
as yet, Brother Moore is supposed to be here to speak for us, and he...
I'm kinda a going into something I seldom do is to try to speak and
then pray for the sick. And the understanding of this, while we're just
a small group of us on this Monday night. I might say this, that it's
a--it's a different type of a--a ministry, especially in the type which
the dear heavenly Father has given me to minister to the people. It's
a--a different type of anointing, the same Spirit just like there's
different gifts but the same Spirit. And one spirit when you're
preaching you're just feel like you're just building yourself up.
And the other type, one vision will do more to you than preaching six
hours on the pulpit as hard as you can preach. It's take something away
from you.
And I am trusting to God that Brother Moore will hurry right along. For
I certainly need him.
E-2 Now, maybe tomorrow night
and Brother Arganbright, one of the, I believe, the chairman of the
Christian Business Men, Full Gospel Internationally, is to be here
tomorrow night and stay with us a few nights. Which immediately after
the service here, we fly to Zurich, Sweden, to begin there. Just one
day after we leave this service. Pretty heavy schedule on for quite
awhile, up into Canada and around.
And I understand Brother Thoms... I haven't got to speak to him, but
his wife is coming tomorrow I believe. Is that right Brother Thoms? All
the way from South Africa to visit him here while he's here. I got
something to speak about, Brother Thoms, a little later as soon as
Brother Jack come so he can take it.
And about his business here in America, and what he does in South
Africa for the people. Brother Thoms was in most African meeting, as we
were over there, and seen the Lord in His great mighty powers.
I understood tonight when they come and got me that--that he's holding
the afternoon instruction service. Brother Thoms is a very
well-instructed man in the--the Scriptures on Divine healing. He set
with my old friend Brother Bosworth, and Tommy Osborn, and many of
those great teachers of the day.
Now, I say this complimentary to Brother Bosworth. I don't know of a
person living on earth today knows anymore of the Scripture of Divine
healing than F. F. Bosworth. How many ever knowed of F. F. Bosworth?
Let's see your hands. Why sure, he's no stranger anywhere, hardly, in
the world. Probably be up this week. I had an invitation to come up to
Boston for a great auditorium that would seat, I believe, twelve
thousand people for a hundred dollars a week just for three weeks.
Could you imagine that? Take up a couple of offerings and that would
settle it.
But I couldn't take it, because I was already scheduled up for quite a
long time ahead. Brother Schoeman from South Africa, I think the
president of the ministerial association is leaving Sweden immediately
after we leave there, and we're to join together six services, go back
into Africa, and up into Tanganyika, and so forth, around over the
different parts of the world.
E-3 Now, tonight we want to
speak just a little while on the Word. For faith cometh by hearing and
hearing of the Word.
Brother Thoms, I just heard him a few moments ago, read a Scripture out
of the Bible, which I certainly do appreciate.
Now, I want to read just a little to go with that, found in Ephesians
the 5th chapter. I like the Book of Ephesians, don't you? I just
think... I know the ministers will appreciate that. Ephesian, if it
wasn't for the Ephesian Book, I don't hardly know how I could just
approach it.
You see, there's two schools of thought. One of them is Calvinistic,
the other one is Arminian. Well, of course, you know I belonged to the
Calvinistic school, so then, being a Baptist. So then, what it did,
both of them run out on limbs. One went to seed this way and other one
went to seed that way. But I think the Book of Ephesians brings them
both right back and puts them in the stump where they belong. So I
really like the Book of Ephesians. It kind of keeps us straightened
out, brethren, in our theology, doesn't it, the--the Book of Ephesians?
And I like it real well.
E-4 Now, tonight I wish to read
from the 5th chapter, a verse or two, and the 25th and 26th verses.
Husbands, love your
wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
That he might
sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of the water by the word,
"The washing of the water by the Word." The subject is "The Waters Of
Separation."
Going back into the Old Testament, where our brother just read the
Scripture lesson tonight to teach a little bit from the Word, the Lord
willing...
Now, so marvelous, the Old Testament, many people just discard that old
Book when it's really the... It's the shadow of the New. The only way
that I can feel like I get half-way lined up is to look back in the Old
Testament and see the shadows, then I know what the New Testament ought
to be like. If the Old Testament was a shadow... If you see the sun a
setting to your back, and your going towards your shadow, you can very
well tell what you are from the looks of your shadow. And all the Old
Testament was a shadow of the New.
That way, in teaching it from the Old Testament views, you'd kind of
have a general conception of what the New Testament will be.
E-5 Now, in this great journey
that the children of Israel was in, at the time of the setting of this
passage we have under consideration now, was when Moses had went down
into Egypt and had brought the children of Israel out, and God in His
mercy was making preparation of how that He could make a way for His
people, when after they had sinned to be reconciled again back to Him.
Wonderful, beautiful picture of the old type.
Now, I want you to see it, as Moses went down to deliver the children
of Israel, how God worked miracles. The people had got into a time just
about like they are now.
By the way, the journey from Egypt to Palestine was a type of the
Church in its journey today. They--they--they were led naturally; we
are led spiritually. I know many teachers of the schools, say that the
promised land was represented heaven, but I think it represents the
Millennium. Because they had wars and troubles still in the--in the
promised land.
They come up, and to my opinion, the church tonight is at the stage of
the old church age at Kadesh-Barnea, where they're wondering about
after refusing to walk in the Light.
E-6 That's why I think America
tonight, that our lovely land here is in the confusion, we can't have a
revival seem like. Why, there's been enough Gospel preached around
America, and God's worked enough signs and wonders to convert a
thousand nations this size. Great men has crossed the country, Billy
Graham and Oral Roberts, and many of the great men in the world today
out preaching the Gospel of deliverance and so forth, and great crowds
and throngs come out, they listen, go back, set down, and go on their
same routine.
If you only knew friend, that's spiritual. You have to realize that
every person has a spirit in them. And if the person could only see
what kind of a spirit dominated your life, you that act indifferent
towards Christ, you'd be ashamed of yourself.
No matter how you're dressed, and how well, how popular you are with
put the peoples, yet in your heart if God could only turn the looking
glass to your heart...
E-7 Many times in dealing with
spiritual things, you see them when they move out. Someone was just
asking me here not long ago. I was at Calgary, Canada, and a boy come
in; they had him in a straight jacket. And they come in the back of the
room, and he was cursing and carrying on, and--and I never heard such
in my life. And the father was trying to hold him, and when he got on
the inside, he looked over to me and said, "William Branham, you ain't
got nothing to do with me."
Oh, that father looked up, said, "He don't even know his own name.
How'd he know your name?"
I was standing off a great distance from him. Oh, how he was cursing me
and carrying on. And he said, "You ain't got nothing to do with me."
And I asked the audience if they'd just be reverent. The ushers come to
take him out, just then I seen the Holy Spirit move out, the Angel of
the Lord. I said, "Now, bring him here just a minute." When they went
to bring him, he started kicking, and frothing, and biting. He was in
a--a straight jacket, and they brought him up close to... And then when
the vision come and told just what it was, a sin that had been
committed by his father that caused the child to be in that condition,
the father fell down and repented. And when that evil spirit went from
that boy, thousands times thousands of people in the stampede grounds
there that night, looked, and like a great big spider in a black shadow
floating around... Oh, my. It was really quite. And it went around out
of the place, out through the building and went away.
E-8 Many times you see them in
different forms. Here recently I seen one coming from a woman, that
looked like a bat with great big hairs hanging under its legs, and so
forth, its wings come right out, right straight up. They're evil
spirits. And many times it's someone looking ever so beautiful on the
outside, could only look on the inside and see what that is. We're
dominated by spirit.
Now, we see that the children of Israel, after God promising Abraham
that his Seed would sojourn four hundred years, and He'd bring him out
under a hand of deliverance, there was a man born by the name of Moses,
a very peculiar child.
Of course, I believe that gifts and callings are without repentance.
You can't make yourself something that you're not. You're--you're
not--you're not... I--I different a little bit with you, some of you
Latter Rain brethren on that, of laying on of hands and giving gifts. I
differ with you Scripturally.
I believe that you're born from God. God has set in the church certain
things; God did it. And no matter how much you want to be something
else, I couldn't make myself have brown eyes if I wanted them; they're
blue.
E-9 Who taking thought can add
one cubit to his statue? We must do what we can with what we have to do
with. What God has ordained us to do, if you'll stay right in your
calling and abide there, God will use you. If you try to step over and
do something else, you'll find yourself wrecked up somewhere. It's
always that way. And that's the human race though; you find it doing
that.
When Moses went out, odd child, born peculiar, God was with him. And
when he was the age of forty he thought surely the children of Israel
would understand that he was to deliver them, but they did not. So they
had to stay in bondage forty years longer.
But when he came out and begin to perform miracles down in Egypt, God
was with him. Then when he took the children of God out, then It said,
"A mixed multitude went with them."
See, the supernatural had been done, and when the supernatural's done,
it'll really call all classes and all types together. Everybody wants
to look a past the curtain, no matter where you are, who you are.
E-10 Here sometime ago, I was
setting in California. Very well knowed man in amongst the Full Gospel
people, has a great church there, and the man come out; he dresses very
nice. And they was a--a Presbyterian minister setting by my side. Now,
he... No one knew me, I just slipped in the side, with my coat down
like this. The man is a very personal dear friend of mine.
And the man was talking, 'course, he's got a predominating way. And so
this man said to me, setting there, said, "Do you think that looks like
a servant of Christ?"
And I said, "Well, I'm not his judge." I said, "To me, looks all right
to me."
And he said, "Well, listen," he said, "all this fanaticism about Divine
healing..." He said, "You know what?" Said, "There come a bunch of
people through here not long ago." Said, "One time the Presbyterian
church had the whole west coast sewed up." He said, "We had churches,
big churches everywhere, great congregations, the leading church on the
west coast." He said, "Then this Christian Science comes along," and
said, "then when they come along, they started like they were going to
a mental condition to mind over matter." And said, "You know it tore
the Presbyterian church up." He said, "Now, here comes along this
here," and says, "then it starts in."
I said, "Look, fellow, I don't know who you are."
He said, "Well, I'm a Presbyterian minister."
"Well," I said, "I'm a Baptist preacher." So I said, "Let me tell you
something. If you Presbyterian people would've stayed in the will of
God, and taught the Word of God, there'd never had any excuse to have
any fanaticism come." I said, "The reason that they raised up these
things is because you let down the bars, because you've failed to give
hungry children the Bread of Life. The hour is here. And if they can't
eat from the true Word, they'll eat from a garbage can or anything else
they can eat from, 'cause their hungry."
E-11 What it is tonight the
children of God need to be fed with the true Word of God, of THUS SAITH
THE LORD.
Divine healing's right. The souls are hungering for it. If it isn't
coming one way, the Devil will disguise and bring it another way. So
they're hungry for it. And they know that it's true. As men step up
with God, they find that.
Well, when you find the supernatural, every man is trying to look a
past the curtain. No matter who he is, he wants to see where he come
from, where he's going, all about it. There's only one Book can tell
you that; this is It. It tells you who you are, where you come from,
and where you're going. And It's the only Book there is, and that's the
Bible, that'll tell you who you are, where you come from, and where you
are going.
E-12 Now, I want you to notice.
They went up a mixed multitude, and that caused trouble among them as
they got up there. But God in His sovereign mercy, not willing that any
should perish, but that all might come to repentance, always makes a
preparation of a way of escape for those who desire to come by the way
of escape.
He did it in the antediluvian world. He did it in the days of the
calling out of Noah, or Moses, rather, calling out of Israel. He did it
in the days of the Lord Jesus, and He's doing it yet today just before
the judgments are to strike the world.
God is calling out a people, those who are willing to walk and take
God's preparation, how to escape the wrath that's coming upon the
earth. And I trust that none that's in Divine Presence tonight, or will
be, will ever have to stay here and suffer through the great wrath of
God that's soon to come on the earth. There's no way of all of escaping
it.
E-13 Listen, if... Listen to
this; mark it down. If God doesn't do something and send judgment to
these nations right away, He will have to resurrect Sodom and Gomorrah
and apologize to them. That's right. We're at the end of the road. And
He's just, and He can't let us get by with the things they're getting
by with now, and be just. He'd have to apologize to those who He did
destroy in the days gone by. So we're at the end of the road.
It behooves you to check your spiritual conditions every hour of the
day and be ready, for you don't know what time it's coming. God has
made a way. He's sending everything, the preaching of the Word, signs,
wonders. He gives one the message of preaching, another the sign
message, another, everything, not willing that any should perish,
setting His gifts in order in the Church, and so forth; and still
people continually wade right on through and just like they didn't even
pay any attention to it.
If they only realized, that in their soul was a spirit of the Devil
that was dominating their life, then it can't be nothing else.
E-14 One night before I leave, I
want to speak on demonology, and my personal acquaintance with it, that
you'd understand what it-- what it is.
Now, notice. When they got up there into the wilderness and got into
troubles and so forth, our lovely heavenly Father, not willing that any
should perish, as I said, making all the types before the end time, or
before this time, He said to Moses and Aaron, "Go, take a red heifer
without a spot, whereon never come a yoke, and she must be killed
before the high priest, and how that she is to be caught up, and then
burned, and the ashes made water of separation.
Let's go through that process just in a few moments. The first place,
being a heifer, it was a sacrificial animal that spoke of the Lord, the
burden-bearer, the--the work ox, that goes forth and works. The next
thing it spoke that she must be a red, a solid red, not a spot or a
blemish of nothing else but red.
Now, red to us speaks of danger. Red's not a good color to us, in the
way of speaking worldly. "Red" sometimes means "the--the danger sign."
But red, also in the Scriptures speak of redemption. Red has been God's
sign of redemption, punishment.
Did you notice all the way down through the Scripture from the days of
Adam, all the way down through until this day it's been one scarlet
streak of red, blood. I often wonder how people can shun the Blood of
the Lord Jesus the way they do after they see in His suffering.
E-15 Here sometime ago a
gangster was shot in Chicago there, and where their fellow man's blood
was spilled out onto the ground they'd walk way around it to keep from
touching the blood when they shot the criminal on the street.
Then I thought, "Isn't that strange? They're very careful how they
won't step in their fellow man's blood, but every day walk right
through the Blood of Jesus Christ as if it wasn't nothing, counting it
an unholy thing, just walking on, unconcerned. Preach the Blood, they
laugh right in your face, and preaching of the Blood.
E-16 Notice, how it ought to be
appreciated. Over in Illinois in a certain museum, here sometime ago I
was passing through looking around. I like to look at different things
of sights, and scenes, and arts. I like to see God in everything that I
look at.
And I happened to notice, an old colored man, in there with just a
little rim of hair around the back of his head. He had his hat over his
chest like this, walking around, looking. And he looked over into a
little glass cage like. And all at once he stepped back, jumped. And I
notice him with his eyes closed, and he was saying a little prayer or
something there.
I stood and looked at him for a few moments, amazed at the old darkie.
He raised up his head; he said, "Thank You, Lord." He looked back down
again; the tears just run off his cheek.
I thought, "Wonder what the old fellow's looking at." I walked over
there to where he was. And I said, "Good evening, Uncle."
He said, "How do you do, sir."
And I said, "I want to ask you a question." I said, "I'm a minister.
What made you jump back and say that prayer that you were praying?"
He said, "Just--just look down there."
And I looked down there; I said, "I don't see nothing but a dress."
He said,"You see that stain on there?"
I said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "There's a mark of a slave belt around me." He said, "That's
the blood of Abraham Lincoln. And the blood of that man laying there
took a slave belt off of me." Said, "Wouldn't it make you a little
excited too?"
I raised my hand; I said, "God, how I thank You. If a colored man could
jump at the thoughts of Abraham Lincoln's blood from taking a slave
belt from him, what ought a Christian do to the Blood of Jesus Christ,
Who taken him out of bondage and give him freedom? What it ought to be.
Oh, my, when I think of it.
E-17 Then, God making a way,
always a way of an escape... Then I see back there that the red heifer
was red, and here's the scientific of red.
You take, red means sin to us. Red, "though your sins be like crimson,"
red. But you take red and look through red to red; it makes white. Did
you ever know that? Look through red, at red, it turns white.
And that's what God did in Jesus Christ. He, the Blood of Jesus was
shed, that God looking through His Blood at our red sins turns white as
snow. Red, "Though your sins be like scarlet, yet they shall be white
like snow."
Oh, when we think of it, that beautiful illustration how God, so that
He could not, would not, see the sin of the people, made a preparation.
E-18 Here sometime ago I was
standing in a--up here in Ohio, where I was having a meeting. We was
having a wonderful meeting, a great arena. There was so many people
till I couldn't stay in the city. I--I have to pray all day. If were
going to have these meetings, I got to stay away from people, even the
manager and all of them.
So I stay away in prayer. And I'd been away out praying, and, the first
thing you know, when we... When I would eat, we come up to a little
restaurant there, a little Dunkard restaurant, and a little ladies in
there were such neat nice looking, clean looking people, and they'd
walk around very nice, lady-like, acting.
And after while, this come Sunday, and they closed up and went to
church. They were all very religious. And they closed up and went to
church.
So I got hungry; I wasn't going to have a healing service that
afternoon, so I was going to preach. And I thought, "I'd better go get
me a sandwich, 'cause I haven't eaten since a couple days before.
I went over; the little restaurant was closed, so I just walked across
the road to a common little drive-in place, ever what they call it. And
as I walked in the door, there stood a policeman about my age, a man of
about forty years old, with his arm around a woman playing a slot
machine. And gambling is illegal in Ohio. They're the law.
I thought, "What is this world coming to?" Brethren, everybody's afraid
of communism. Everybody's afraid that Russia is going to come over,
Germany's going to come over. Don't be afraid of any nation whipping
us. They're not going to whip us; we're whipping ourself. Our own
morals is what's polluting us. It isn't the robin that pecks on the
apple that hurts it; it's the worm at the core that rots the apple. Our
own morals among us, is what is killing us. Rejecting of Christ, living
in--the life the way we do, that's what's killing us.
E-19 There was a policeman to
uphold the law, standing there, perhaps, a married man with a bunch of
children at home, playing a slot machine. I thought, "Oh, mercy."
I looked back at the back, a young waitress standing back there, very
vulgarly dressed, and some boys half drunk with there arms around her,
and doing things they ought not to do. I thought, "Oh, my. Let me get
out of here." And I happened to look to my right, and there set an old
lady, old enough to be my grandmother, probably sixty five or better.
She had on those foul clothes, little short clothes, and with the
purple-looking stuff on her face, and her toenails painted the same
way. Poor old thing, her skin was wrinkled and hanging, hair real
close, and blue-looking color, where it had been gray, and all wrinkled
up.
And I thought, "Isn't that terrible?" And setting with two old men, and
them drunk, one of them in summertime with an big army overcoat on. And
I said, "Oh, my. I said, "God, how can You stand it?" I said, "Why
don't You wipe it off the face of the earth?"
Then I was setting there thinking that, and all of a sudden something
struck me, and the Lord said for me set down. And I went over in a
corner behind the door and started praying. I thought, "Lord, it looks
like that You'd just simply tear the whole... Will my little Rebekah
and Sarah, my two little girls, have to be raised up here in the world
under such as that?" I thought, "How can You stand it, when it makes a
sinner like me shiver to think of such a thing?"
E-20 Well, I got back there and
I saw a vision that changed my picture my altogether. I seen a world a
turning. And I noticed around it was a streak, like red, all around.
And I wondered what it was. And as I drew close I seen myself as a boy.
And when I would sin, well, then I seen Jesus standing in front,
between me and God, and His Blood act as a bumper. Every time I'd do
anything wrong, it would hit Him. And He'd say, "Father, forgive him;
he don't know what he's doing." And I'd--I'd do something else, and
then it was just like the bumper on a car to keep me. God can't stand
sin. The day you sin you're gone. That's all. But the Blood of Jesus
was protecting me, the wrath of God from me, and my sin would catch it.
And He'd say, "Father, forgive him; he don't know what he's doing."
And I looked, and I said, "Lord, is--is my sins treating You like
that?" And the Blood running down His face... I looked, crawled up a
little closer. And I seen a Book there, and my name was at the top, all
kinds of sin wrote on it. I said, "Will You forgive me?" He touched His
side and wrote "Pardoned," throwed it over in the back, behind Him in
the Sea of Forgetfulness. And I said, "Oh, how I appreciate You, Lord."
He said, "Now, I was willing to forgive you of your sins, but you want
to condemn her for hers"
E-21 That made a different
question to me then. When I come out of the vision, I walked over to
her. The men had got up and went out. I said, "How do you do?" She
looked around hiccupping, and smoking a cigarette (which I think is the
lowest thing a woman can do). And so she was smoking a cigarette. She
said, "Oh, hello."
I said, "Could I speak to you just a moment?"
She said, "I have company."
I said, "Not in that way... I'd just like to speak with you a minute."
She said, "Set down."
I said, "I'm a Gospel preacher, lady." She threw her cigarette down.
And I said, "My name is Brother Branham."
She said, "You're not the man down here?"
I said, "Yes, ma'am." She said, "I'm sorry I'm in this shape."
E-22 And I told her just exactly
the vision I'd had. I said, "The Blood of Jesus, sister, still atones
for you. As long as you're mortal like this, you still have a chance to
be saved." But I said, "When you go beyond that Blood, you're already
judged." I said, "Won't you..."
She told me her story, and it was enough to grind the heart of a stone
man, how that she once was raised in a Christian home, an old fashion
Methodist parent who went to church and did what was right.
She married a husband; he started drinking. She had daughters, and they
were even members of the church themselves. And how she'd took the road
that was wrong. She said, "I've sinned away my day of grace."
I said, "Look, do you still have respect for the Lord Jesus?"
She said, "I do, sir."
I said, "Then He hasn't left you." I said, "No, He's still got mercy
for you."
Said, "You think He'd receive me right like this?"
I said, "Yes, ma'am." I took her by the hand, knelt down there, that
place, and brother, we broke that place up into a prayer meeting, when
we led her to the Lord Jesus. Yes.
E-23 That's it. We're looking to
see the people and how the Blood that crimson Blood, still around the
world to protect whosoever will. You can get by now, because God can't
see you; you're still under the Blood.
But whenever you try to leave... You don't know tonight you may have to
take your journey away from this world. Then you go in the Presence of
God, and you're already judged. 'Cause you're judged by the way you
judged Him.
Now, the red, when God looks down through red, He doesn't see red, He
sees white. "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white like
snow."
E-24 And then, I noticed the red
heifer how He said she must be, not never have a yoke upon her; if you
notice how it represented Jesus. When He come He never yoked himself up
with any worldly order. He never taken Pharisee or Sadducee side; He
stayed free from both. He declared God to both sides.
And another way, that she must be killed in the presence of the high
priest. The priest must see the heifer killed. And so was Jesus, when
Caiaphas even sentenced Him and so forth. There He was killed in the
presence of the high priest, right upon Golgotha where he could look
from the temple and see Him dying in the presence of the high priest.
What a picture, how it speaks of the Lord Jesus. And then when they
must take his fingers, and pick up the blood, and make seven stripes
across the door of the--right in the door of the congregation, that no
one could come into the door except recognizing that something died to
go before them. It was a public testimony of the Lord Jesus.
Oh, friend, I want you to see that so bad: a public testimony, seven
stripes representing the seven church ages; which by Israel, the seven
church ages, we're in the last, the Laodicean. And to every church age,
He was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Then it was to be burnt. All the body was to be burnt, and was to be
made a waters of separation, mixed with water, and kept in a clean
place outside the court.
Notice, that represented the waters of separation, represented the Word
of God now: Wash us by the water by the Word. The Word is the waters of
separation. Christ was the sacrificial beast. And He died in order...
You sick people listen to this. Christ died in order that He might be
able to fulfill every Word. He was 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, and died making the waters of
separation, and this is the Word.
This is Christ, every Word in Here is God Itself wrote in print.
Receive It into your heart and watch what happens after you receive It.
Just take any Divine promise. Listen to this, and you can make this
statement, its on recordings, everything. But I say this, and challenge
anybody. The right mental attitude towards any Divine promise of this
Word will bring it to pass, regardless of what it is. If God said so,
you take the right mental attitude towards that Word, and see what
happens. God's obligated to His Word. He swore by It. We're going to
get in that in a few nights.
E-25 How that the Word come to
us as the waters of separation... Now remember, It was to be kept. Now
listen close. It was to be kept in a clean place (You get it?), not in
dirty, foul place: playing cards, having bunco games, playing a little
lottery in the basement, having social parties, and dancing. The Word
of God should be kept in a clean place, holy, consecrated real Church
of the living God. Kept in a clean place, for it's the waters of
separation.
I know that kind of burns a little bit, brethren. But it's good for
you. Amen. Kept in a clean place, outside the courts, for it's to
separate the sinner from his sin before he comes into fellowship.
Notice. Then when a man sinned, the first thing he done, was to come to
the waters of separation. A believer in his journey, on his road, and
he done something wrong, like we in our journey... And this heifer that
was to be burned for waters of separation, had cedar, scarlet, and
hyssop burnt with it. We pick that up in a few nights, the Lord
willing, see what it is.
Cedar wood... Many people said Christ died on a dogwood cross. Wish we
had time to go into it. Oh, and the hyssop, where it always sprinkle
the blood, was a live root they pulled up, a sagebrush pulled up root
and all and was put with it. All of it speaking of the offices of God:
Cedar, scarlet, and hyssop; just like Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the
offices of the Godhead. How that the same God lived in the Fatherhood,
in the Sonship, and in the Holy Spirit dispensation, all the same
Father, same God. And how that each one of those woods represented the
same thing, the same God.
Notice. It was also represented Divine healing. When Moses, back in the
commandments, when he give orders for healing of leprosy, how the doves
was to be killed, and over this scarlet, hyssop, also and the cedar
wood, a separation from their sickness, the same as separation from
their sin. God has always had a preparation for healing in all ages,
all time.
When Moses took the children of Israel, and they begin to chide or fuss
with Moses. Said, "Korah is just as good a man as Moses is. And there's
more holy besides him," and all this. And they begin to go on the way
they did, murmuring against God and against His servant, there come
serpents in and bit them, and Moses intercede for them; and God told
him to make a serpent out of brass. It was for a compound reason: to
forgive them of their chiding, and to heal them of their sicknesses of
the snakebite.
Jesus come along later, and He said, "Just as Moses lifted up the brass
serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up."
E-26 How can you, brother, teach
the Gospel without including Divine healing? Can't be done. It's
inseparable. He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we
were healed: same Christ, same day, same blood. Sickness is a penalty
of sin. All sickness come from sin, may not directly from your sin, but
inherited. Before we had any sickness we had no sin. When sickness
came... When sin came, sickness is an attribute or a result of sin. And
you cannot deal with sin in any manner, 'less you deal with sickness.
And you can't deal with sickness, 'less you deal with sin. They both
run side by side.
If a great animal had me here tonight, and his paws was in me, just a
cutting me, but his mouth wasn't bothering me... But if he was--his paw
was in me, there's not need of me trying to cut off his toe, or cut off
his paw, or what he's sticking me with. Knock him in the head, kills
the whole thing. That's right. And when you hit sin in the head, you
kill sickness with it. It's all got to be killed at the same time. You
can't separate them. Amen. I'm not "amening" myself, but "amen" means
"so be it." All right. I believe it.
There might be many promises in the Bible that I haven't faith enough
to perform. But that's still... It's the same anyhow. I believe it.
E-27 Here not long ago, all the
things that I was ever taught in astronomy in the--in the--the solar
systems in the school, I had to take it every bit back. Science will
raise up and they'll declare one thing to be perfectly, that's
scientifically proved. A few years they scientifically prove that was
wrong.
Why, a hundred and fifty years ago, one of the greatest science we had
in France, said, "If a man ever went the terrific speed of thirty miles
an hour, proved that gravitation would take him right off the earth."
Brother, they don't pay any attention today. They're going sixteen
hundred miles an hour and still trying to get faster. But the trouble
of it is, with science, they're moving on, and we preachers are setting
still. That's it. They move on up till they can split an atom. But we
name Divine healing or something another, "We'll see what Moody said
about it, what Dr. So-and-so said." They were all right in their age;
we're moving on. Science can only climb so far and it falls back. We
got the unsearchable promises of God, untapped resources, yonder. But
the thing of it, they have to look back and see if their school
thoughts taught it.
E-28 I don't care what the
school said. The Bible said it, and that's God's science Book. It never
can fail. Though heavens and earth passes, if God's Word said so, it's
the truth. Amen. That's true.
Notice. How here sometime ago, they told me... I was preaching. There
was a man come up and said, "Hey, preacher, I want to tell you
something. You keep saying man thinks in his heart."
I said, "The Bible said so."
Said, "Well, them men wrote the Bible, they were just ignorant. See?"
Said, "They... There's no such... There's no mental faculties in your
heart to think with." Said, "You think with your head, your--your--your
brain. You're mind's what thinks." Said, "That's where you think from.
There's no mental faculties in your heart."
I said, "I don't know where it's at, but God said it was in the heart,
and I believe it. That's all I know."
E-29 And about six weeks ago, I
was in Chicago, and a great line on the front page, where science has
found that in the human heart, in the center of the human heart, is a
little compartment where even a corpuscle or blood cell never touches.
The animal life hasn't got it, but the human has got. And science says,
"It's the occupation of the soul." Hallelujah. Then God's right after
all. He's always right. Yes, sir.
So that's what's the matter with people today. You come to the church,
the water of separation (That's all right.), hear the Word (That's very
good.); you get separated from your sin; but you go out with an
intellectual faith. That's the reason you can't believe. That's the
reason you go back out and sin the way you do, the reason you can't
hold up from one revival to another. If you'd let that intellectual
faith move down through your brains into your heart, then it becomes a
reality with a new birth. Then it'll stay there, anchored forever. God
sealed you in by the Holy Spirit, and it settles it forever.
E-30 Get away... Intellectual faith's all right; that's as far as the nominal Christian goes. He hears the Word. He believes It. He has a mental conception of It. That's fine. We believe that. But notice, when the man come to the waters of separation, which was Word, "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word." We believe that. God wants us to believe it. That's part of It. But that's as far as he ever gets. He never gets into the fellowship yonder. He just comes through the water of separation. And when he comes to that part, he finds a mental conception. "Yes, I believe it," thinks it in his mind, raises up his hand, accepts it, and twenty days from there, he's back in the same rut he was in the first place. Because it's never went any farther than his head. Right.
E-31 Some fine, great minister,
from down here in the south, took a plane and flew up and met me, some
time ago. He said, "Brother Branham, I was reading one of your sermons
in a paper." He said, "There's just one thing I want to settle with
you."
And I said, "All right."
He said, "How can you do anything else but believe?" He said, "Abraham
was the father of the promise, and when he got... He believed God, and
it was imputed unto him for righteousness. What more could Abraham do
but believe?"
I said, "That's correct, sir. That's all he could do. But God give him
the seal of circumcision, as a confirmation of his faith." And I said,
"Ephesians 4:30, says, 'Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby
you're sealed until the day of your redemption.' If you raise up and
confess Christ, and say that you believe Him with intellectual faith,
and God's never give you the Holy Ghost yet, He's never confirmed your
faith yet." Amen.
E-32 That's the confirmation, is
the Holy Spirit. You believe; God confirms it with the Holy Ghost. Then
you believe it with your head; God puts it in your heart by a birth.
Amen. That's kinda a little old fashion, but, brother, it's kept me all
these years, and I've stared death in the face. I'm ready to trust it
on. And if it was good enough for me, it was good enough for Paul, it
was good enough was Silas, it was good enough for the Hebrew children,
it'll take you through too, if you'll just believe it.
All right. Waters of separation: come hear the Word. Just like usually
people come... I know, I passed through the city, and seen these big
homes. I appreciate that. But there's none of you but lives in a three
room house. That's all you can live in. You just live in a three room
house. When God was here, He lived in a three room house. That's all
you could live in. The first is your kitchen. The next is your dining
room, or living room. And the next is your bedroom. You may have three
or four bedrooms, or a couple of dining rooms, or something, but
really, that's just extra rooms.
E-33 You come first to the
kitchen. The kitchen's where you eat. After you come and eat, like the
church, you set on the bench and hear the Word. "Faith cometh by
hearing, hearing of the Word." Then after you have eaten the Word, then
you come into the living room, which is into fellowship with the rest
of the church. Then after that, the secret place is the bedroom, where
you go in and kneel down, where you a bunch of you mammys used to, a
long time ago, go in there and pray for your children when they was out
at night. That's what's the matter with the world today, instead of
them old fashion mammys back yonder a long time ago, that prayed for
their kiddies and things, they're out with their kiddies tonight
smoking, drinking, carrying on like they are. That's the reason we got
juvenile delinquency. They talk that we're more civilized than they
were. I doubt it. Uh-huh. Then we sure don't act like it. That's one
thing true. I like that old fashion type.
Why, let me tell you, brother, they talk about the illiteracy of
Kentucky. I preached up in them old mountains there, when they was
standing on the hillside, and those old mammys out there, them big,
old, long bonnets on. And the women around, said, make fun of them,
say, "Look at them. Don't they look like old models or something like
that?"
E-34 Let me tell you something.
You let one of their girls go out and stay all night, come in the next
morning, the way some of yours does, brother, I mean there'd be a
difference in that family. Yes, they sure would. She'd about blister
her all over that hillside with a tobacco stick or something. You know
that's the truth, and then you call her illiterate.
Look. I got two girls too, I don't know what they'll come out.
I see them laying out, stretched out in these yards even around here.
Didn't think the south would ever allow that. I was surprised. Laying
out on the streets, them little old clothes on, getting a sun tanning...
My, kids might do that; I don't say they won't. But, brother, they'll
get a son-tanning, but it'll my father's son, tanning with a barrel
slat, as hard as I can, bringing them in. That'll be the kind of
tanning they'll get. And that's what we need today, some more old
fashion, God-sent Holy Ghost, that can...?... baptizing of the Spirit
of God. Where the Word, preaching under the Blood a Christ-centered
thing that separates. Christ hates sin. The Holy Ghost hates sin. No
wonder people hate sin. No wonder people hates the Holy Ghost, I mean,
is because they can't love Light when they're walking in darkness.
Amen. That's true, and you know it's true.
E-35 When a man comes to the waters of separation, that's all right. But don't stop there. The next thing, the blood went before him and made seven stripes over the door. And every believer, after once coming and hearing the Word, comes to Christ, saying, "Yes, I believe that," that's intellectual. That's fine. Then he walks towards the door, and before he can come into the door, there's an ensign lifted up there to show that something died and went before him to make a way into the door. Christ died for every sinner and every sick person here tonight. He did. The ensign lifted up, which was the...
E-36 In the Old Testament we
find Ruth there and Boaz, a very beautiful type of the Redeemer, how
that he'd redeemed as an ensign lifted up. How that Naomi had left the
lands, went in out in the time of depression, and very hungry she was.
And she lost her husband and so forth. She brought her daughter-in-law
back with her, Ruth. And when they returned back in the season of
barley, beautiful type of Christ here... Some people just look over
that. There's not a word in the Testament but what speaks of Jesus
Christ. Everything in the Bible points straight to the cross,
everywhere.
There, that story of Ruth, just a moment off our lesson for a moment.
Look at her when she returned back, and she'd lost all of her estate;
everything she had had been taken. She was left poor, nothing. And when
she come in, she sent the young Ruth, which forsaken her god (type of
the Gentile Church), had forsaken her gods to come and live with Naomi.
Where she lived, she had lived; where she died, she'd died, her God
would be her God.
E-37 And later, we find out she
went to glean in the field. And when she did, she gleaned in Boaz's
field, which was a near kinsman. And when he seen her it was love at
the first sight. And he found out who she was and wanted to marry her.
In order to do it, he had redeem Ruth, or Naomi, rather. And in doing
so he must first be a kinsman. Now, notice, what a beautiful picture
here of the ensign, while we dwell on it a moment.
Ruth in the field, poor, type of the Church. We come in by the Jewish
church, through a Jew, born under the law. Christ died. I used to think
it was Jewish blood. I had to correct that. He was neither Jew nor
Gentile blood. He was the Blood of God. His mother was a Jew; His
Father was God Himself. The Blood comes from the male sex. It was the a
creative Blood, not sexual at all. It was the Blood of God. He was
neither Jew nor Gentile, but God manifested in flesh. Then when He was
here on earth, look at Him as He walked.
Now, back to Ruth, just a moment, and look at it. When Boaz seen her,
he fell in love with her. And he commanded her not to leave that field
but to stay right there and glean fastly. That's what God does to every
believer that once comes to Christ. Stay with Him. Don't be carried
about with every wind of doctrine; stay right with Christ.
E-38 And he said, "I'll command
the young man." He said, "Now, as you go along, the reapers, the
Angels," he said, "every once in a while, let her glean wherever she
wants to, and then drop a little handful on purpose. I kind of like
those little handfuls, don't you, just a little good old fashion Holy
Ghost revival now and then, you know, get a handful?
She had picked up the handfuls, and she thrashed them out, happy,
taking them back. And that night, she went down to when he was
winnowing wheat that night at the garner, at the barn. Boaz laid down.
And when he laid down, Ruth (notice this.), not ashamed to dispose
herself to this man, as the real true borned again church tonight is
not ashamed to dispose herself to the Holy Ghost call of God. Went
right down into the barn with this man, giving him trust. Every man
that comes to Christ must forsake everything on both sides and put his
full faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. No matter what your mother says,
what your daddy says, what this says, or mama says, or what anybody
says; trust Christ. Don't be afraid.
She walked in. And when he found out she give that trust, he throwed
his robe her. You won't have to tell you what that means: the Holy
Ghost, of course, to cover with his own robe. And he said, "Now, you go
on. When daylight comes, I've got to do the work of a kinsman before I
can receive you."
E-39 And so he went down to the
gates (now look) to do the work of a kinsman. You ministers, this is
not new to you; but for the congregation. Went down to the gate, where
all the elders of Israel come in, and a kinsman now, to redeem, he must
be a near kinsman. He just... He can't be just anybody; he must be a
kinsmen. And look, how God, being back in Spirit, was manifested in
flesh and took on the human form of a man to become kinfolks to the
human race, to know what suffering means, to know what sickness means,
to know what temptation means. God become man to become kinfolks with
man, to redeem man back to Hisself. Oh, how, if you can only see that,
sinner tonight, it ought to melt your heart.
See that God, back yonder... beginning, holy... When He walked with
Moses, as a Pillar of Fire, on top of a mountain, if any man touched
the mountain, he must be killed. God trying to get into man's heart...
The next thing God did was manifest it in the flesh: Christ. God was in
Christ recognizing the world to Himself. He was born a man here, made
kinfolks, in order to pay the price of redemption. Then He was killed
there in order that His Spirit might be set free to come back in the
form of the Holy Spirit. All that God was He emptied into Christ. All
the great eternals of God was emptied into Christ; and all that Christ
was, He emptied into the Church. And men and women are afraid to claim
their God-given privileges, and stand upon the truth of it.
E-40 "A little while and the
world seeth Me no more, yet, you'll see Me, for I will be with you;
I'll be in you even to the end of the world," Christ the same
yesterday, today, and forever, your Kinsman Redeemer, God Himself made
flesh here on earth to take away the sins and clean out the way, that
He might fellowship again with His creature. Amen. God in you the hope
of glory, the Holy Spirit Itself, coming into the human heart to take
away sin and condemnation, to heal you and make you well, and
fellowship with Him. There you are.
Boaz had to become a... Went and he was a close kinsman. And then, to
make a public testimony, it had to be a public testimony that he had
redeemed Naomi and all that she had lost. Amen. I know I act a little
funny. But I just can't help it, when my heart bubbles, when I think of
that great picture, how he had to redeem Naomi in order to get Ruth.
When he had to redeem her, he had to redeem everything she lost.
E-41 And when Christ came to
become Man here on earth, and be a Kinsman Redeemer, He redeemed man to
everything he lost in the fall; Christ restored it to him in the
Kinsman Redeemership. When He died at Calvary, your health, your
Eternal Life, everything that you lost in the fall, Christ redeems you
to it, for He's your Kinsmen Redeemer. Your health, your strength, and
everything that you lost, belongs back to you tonight through the Lord
Jesus. He became kinfolks to take away sin and sickness.
He redeemed her back everything she had. He plucked off his shoe and
made a public ensign, that all that come in and out, might know that he
had redeemed everything that Naomi lost, and he was in full possession.
What a beautiful picture.
Christ, the old rugged cross hanging on Golgotha, paid the sin penalty.
He was wounded there for our transgressions; He was bruised for our
iniquity; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His
stripes we were healed. Everything the human race lost in Adam, was
redeemed when Christ, God, Himself, become kinsfolk with the human race
and redeemed it back to His Maker. All that was lost, He redeemed back
again. What a marvelous picture. Can you see it, sick folks?
Then He's here tonight in His great holy Being, His great august
Presence, moving among the people, wanting you to believe that. That's
all you have to do, just believe that, nothing else but just believe
it, and watch Him reconcile us.
E-42 Notice. Every man then
coming to--after coming through the waters of separation, hearing the
Word, then he must come to the public ensign, the testimony, the public
testimony, that before he could enter into there, something died in his
place, and he went under the blood then into the third room of
fellowship. Then we have fellowship one with another, while the Blood
of Jesus Christ, God's Son lifted up for an ensign, cleanses us from
all unrighteousness, all filthy habits of the flesh. There's a Blood
stream over the whole world tonight that, "Whosoever will may come and
take of the waters of Life freely."
God sends ministers, anoint them, and preach the Word. He sends some
with great gifts. And He sets some in the church, first, prophets... or
first, apostles, and teachers, and evangelists, and prophets, and so
forth, all those things for the perfecting of the Church. Sent His
Word; they preach It. It's the water of separation. Here comes the
others along, performing their offices.
E-43 Why do we set and linger,
knowing that someday we've got to stand in His Presence. This very
night our heart may make its last beat and our soul take its journey.
Then we don't have to be judged; we're already judged. When God said in
the garden of Eden, "The day you eat thereof that day you die."...
That's God's Word. Christ died in your stead, was made a--a waters of
separation for you, was made a Blood of cleansing for you, was made a
Seal to seal you by the Holy Spirit, that you be recognized in the
Presence of God. Then you walk right over the top of it, and fail to
refuse it--fail refused, rather, to receive it. Then you've judged
yourself. Sinner, friend, tonight how is it with you?
I was told today, that I'm holding a little too long, and I've done
went past time now. I didn't aim to stay. Maybe tomorrow night Brother
Moore will be here, and he can do the preaching, and come right in and
start praying for the sick.
E-44 I wonder tonight if you
tonight will only took yonder and see what a price that Christ had to
pay for your soul. What if I had a bunch of little capsules here
tonight that I'd guarantee you through the ages has been proved, if
you'd take this little capsule you'd live five hundred years. Why,
you'd be rushing to this platform to get them. If they cost a thousands
of dollars, you'd pawn everything you had, and sell out right now to
get them, to assure you of a hundred years of life.
But I'm telling you tonight, not a little capsule, but a look towards
Calvary, not only five hundred years, but forever you'll live in the
Presence of Him with an immortal body. And you don't have to pay one
thing; every price is already paid. The only thing you have to do is
raise your hand, say, "Lord Jesus, I believe it with all my heart and
accept it now."
E-45 Shall we bow our heads a moment? While you got your heads bowed, around the arena, I want you to think of it just now: Waters of separation, preaching of the Word, lifting up of the Lord Jesus as a ensign. Won't you come now to Him humbly and sweetly and bow at His feet and say, "Lord Jesus, in my heart I've been all confused for a long time; but tonight I believe I understand a little better now. I believe the Holy Spirit has talked to me, so I want to receive You just now as my own personal Saviour. And God, in returns, will You give me the Holy Spirit of promise, and seal me into Your Kingdom? Take this--this intellectual faith that I have now and make it a reality by putting it in my heart by the Holy Spirit."
E-46 Our heavenly Father, as we draw nigh unto Thee, knowing that the great Redeemer, the Friend indeed and in need, stands near now. I looked around this arena, I'm thinking of in Rome, where I stood there and seen the old cross raised up, where the Christians had died. Tonight, Christianity, to every unbeliever, is on trial. God, grant that many tonight will receive Thee, seeing what He's had done for them. He's the waters of separation through His Word here to everyone that'll hear. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... believe He's Eternal Life to those who will receive Him. Grant tonight, Father, as You've done so many things across the world, showing great signs and wonders of Your infallible proof that You're here with us... May every person that's tossed about, shook around on shifting sands of man's ideas. May they just lay it all aside tonight and say, "Lord Jesus, I may have come many times, but tonight I'm coming with all my heart. I come now, Lord."
E-47 And while we have our heads bowed, I'm going to ask you something, serious question; be in prayer. I wonder just tonight, just at this time, how many around, anywhere now, just... You don't get saved by lifting up your hands, but you want God to know that You really in your heart, feel like you're just a--want to get just a little closer to Him, and want Him to save you. Will you raise your hand up God, not to me? Don't no one look, but just let me and the Holy Spirit. God bless you. God bless you. You, you, you...?...[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
E-48 ... yesterday, today, and forever. See? And it's not me. I just represented with the group; He's here. It's with you too. It's with everybody. See? He's here tonight. And then some of them was sent for preachers. Some of those ministers could take the text that I took tonight, and my, make a real sermon out it. But and--and... Because they were called to be preachers. See?
E-49 Now, to me, I was called,
given a gift to see visions. It's not me. The preacher wouldn't want
just him preach the Word; it's the Holy Spirit in him preaching the
Word. And it isn't me seeing the visions; it's God seeing the vision.
It's using your eyes, using your tongue, using your lips. Now, that's
right. And if Christ will come tonight here to this platform... And as
I call a line, up across this platform, if I can get order and so
forth, without him going out there and giving out cards, I'd just like
to ask you... If I--if I can bring the people up here at the platform,
and you'll see the Lord Jesus Christ come into this audience of people
and perform the very same things that He did back there, will you be
willing to accept it, and just thank God for it, and have your faith
put right in it? Sure you will. Then if you do that, let's just ask Him
this.
Let's ask Him, before we call anyone, or anything else. The boy didn't
give out cards. Let's just, before we line anybody up, let's just ask
Him to show me visions out there to you, before we even line anybody
up. That--that would fair enough, wouldn't it? Now, let's pray.
E-50 Heavenly Father, You know
the crucial moment. I feel that You... Your--Your Spirit is here.
The... I'm not saying that these people could hear me, but I'm saying
it to You. I feel Your anointing right here at the platform. Lord, You
know my heart; You know whether that's truth or not.
And I--I feel that I was going to make the altar call and leave, but
seemingly, that there's something You want. I pray, Father, that You'll
help me in this matter. I don't know what to do, but Something keeps me
from leaving the platform. And I pray at this time, as I've said this,
may You help me, and visit over these people. Whatever You would have
me to say to them, I now commit myself unto Thee, Lord. And if Thou
doest sent Your great Spirit and anoint Your servant, we'll be very
happy and thankful. And the audience could all be healed at one time,
Father. I pray that You'll grant this in Jesus' Name, Thy dear Son, and
for His glory only. Amen.
E-51 Now, I just want you to
look this way. I want you to be real reverent. I just want to talk to
the audience. There's none of you that I know out there. You realize
that. I don't know you; I've never seen you, lest I'd... If I did, I
don't know it. I know the--some of these boys setting right here.
Now, to you way back there, I want you to come right in your
fellowship. This is the same thing. It's a fellowship of the Spirit.
We're all in Christ now. See? We're seated together in heavenly places
in Christ Jesus. Isn't He wonderful?
E-52 Now, I want you to just look as Peter and John said, "Look on us." And they did, expecting something. If I took glory for this, I'd be a liar and a hypocrite. It's nothing I can do. I'm just a man like you are. But there's an audience of people, probably, I don't know how many is sitting out here, a few hundred sitting around the side. But if Christ will, He can. And He can come here at this platform tonight. If I can submit myself to Him, as His servant, He can tell me what to tell you. That's right. You believe it, don't you? And if He will do that, you'll see, friends, that I've told... Would you believe that I've told you the truth? And then what is the truth? That you are already healed, every one of you. You just have to accept it. That's all. And then, if I told you that, and God confirms it to be the truth, surely you--you got faith enough to move on it then, haven't you?
E-53 Now, let just sing a song,
if you will. You know in the disciples time, the time of the Bible,
they sang a hymn. Let's sing: "Only Believe." If you give us a--a chord
on--a chord, you will. This is something new; I never do this. But I
don't know if it'll even be. If it don't, I'm going to have some
ushers, and so forth to get together in a few minutes and form a prayer
line. If it can be, if God will grant it, amen.
While Paul spake these words, he looked upon a man, and fastened his
eye upon him, said, "Sir, I perceive," is that right? See?
Scripturally... Uh-huh. Now, may He add His blessings. Oh, what a time.
I--I...
Someday, I got to meet you, every one. And Almighty God knows that that
Light, that you see on that picture, is standing not two feet from
where I am right now. That's the truth. It's moving into my right side,
right here: His grace, His mercy. I'm asking Him if He will, vindicate
truth.
E-54 Truth, Lord, Thy Word is
Truth. O Eternal God, Who formed the heavens and earth, Who made all
things by Jesus Christ, Who we love and appreciate... O God, this dark
day that we're living in, men, going through the earth, not knowing
You, teachers--"heaping together teachers with itching ears, be turned
from the truth to fables, heady, highminded, having a form of godliness
and denying the power thereof." O God, have mercy tonight. Manifest
Yourself, Lord Jesus. You're here. We love You. We believe You. And I
know You're here. Make Yourself known, Lord, to this audience. Thou
knowest this audience. I know them not. But that they might know that
You're servant has told them truth about Thee, I pray this through
Jesus Christ our Lord.
Have faith in God. Jesus, passing by a tree one day, He didn't see no
fruit on it, and He said... He never had to stomp it or kick it. He
said, "No man eateth from thee from here on." And there was no one eat
from it. It dried up. Said, "Have faith in God; for if Thou would say
to this mountain, be moved, and don't in your heart, but believe that
what you say will come to pass, you can have what you say."
E-55 God, that's the faith we
want, the faith that was once delivered to the saints, the faith that
our Lord Jesus looked out and seen a woman with a blood issue. Her
touching Him with her faith, said, "Be of a good cheer. Thy faith has
saved thee."
I see... Yes, thanks be to God. I see a man setting, looking right at
me; he's in prayer. Between he and I, becomes a Light, streak moving.
The man's a heavy-set man. He's looking right at me. He's suffering
with heart trouble, the man setting right back there. That's right,
sir. You can go home now a well man. Your faith has healed you.
That poor woman setting right next to you there, look this way, to me,
sister. You believe me to be God's prophet, or servant? With all your
heart you believe that? If God will make known to me what you're here
for, if you're--got troubles, if He will tell me what your trouble,
will you believe me as His servant? You will?
Your trouble's in your leg? Isn't that right? Now, isn't that the
truth? You can stand up on your feet then. Jesus Christ makes you well.
Amen.
E-56 What about the lady setting next to you? Do you believe it, lady? You believe me to be God's servant, His prophet? You look like a healthy woman. But do you believe that God could tell me right here, you know, I don't whether--what's wrong with you. Will you believe it then with all your heart? You suffer with a back trouble. That's the truth, isn't it? That kinda shocked the lady sitting next to you. Do you believe that, lady, with all your heart? You... Look at me. Do you believe me to be His prophet? If I'll tell you the truth, will you believe? You'll know it's the truth. Then you'll believe that I'm telling you truth. The Light of God hangs over you. You're suffering with a kidney trouble. That's right. Stand on your feet, 'cause you can go home well.
E-57 You believe? Somebody in
this sections over here believe? Have faith. Somebody way back in the
back of the realms, way back in there, will you have faith? 'Course,
you're going over a bunch of spirit; you realize that. I see a dark
shadow right now moving around; it's a demon power. It's setting
between me and out in here; it's coming in. It's a little lady
sitting... She's been praying; she's got her finger up to her mouth.
The woman is--has got cancer. She's wearing glasses. That's right,
isn't it, lady, setting there with that white dress on? Will you stand
up on your feet then, just a minute? That's right. That's true, isn't
it? All right. You believe that God could heal you?
Say, wants to say something to you. You realize your condition. Your
name is Johnson, Beatrice Johnson. You live at 1920 Jeff Davis Street,
here in Macon, Georgia. That's right, isn't it? You accept the Lord
Jesus now for your Healer? Raise your hand to Him.
Father, in the Name of Thy Son, the Lord Jesus, I condemn the death
spirit hanging over this woman. And may she be healed for Your glory. I
ask every man and every woman here, that believes right now, that Jesus
Christ is here, the Son of God, that you'll stand to your feet now and
accept Him as Your Healer.
Almighty God, the Author of Life, You've manifested Yourself. Heal
every person here. And I condemn every sickness.
Come out, Satan. And I rebuke every evil spirit, in the Name of Jesus
Christ, God's Son.