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today try to take Divinity away from Him. His sign as Messiah was a prophet's
sign, but He's... In redemption He was God.
The
virgin Mary, a woman, virgin, knowed no man, the Holy Spirit overshadowed her
and created a Blood Cell. That Blood Cell brought forth the Son of God. He
neither was Jew nor Gentile. He was God. We're saved, said by the Bible, by the
Blood of God. The blood comes from the male sex. The hemoglobin comes out of the
male sex.
You
people... Here's springtime out here. I was watching today a little bird up in
the bush making himself a nest. Oh, they'll make them a nest. Well, that old
mother bird can get on that nest and lay a whole nest full of eggs. If she
hasn't been with the mate, they won't hatch. That's right.
She
might set on them and be so loyal, turn them eggs just as loyal, and starve
herself to death, till she's so poor she can't fly off the nest. If she hasn't
been with the mate, they won't hatch. They haven't got no blood cell in them.
The life comes from the blood. Life is in the blood.
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E-36 It's like
churches today. You can--we got the biggest churches we ever had, most members
we ever had, best dressed we ever had, best fed we ever had, more money than we
ever had, more sickness than we ever had, because we got more unbelief than we
ever had.
It's
just--there's only one thing to do. Them eggs will lay right there in that
nest--nest and rot, and so will church members if they hadn't been with the
Mate, Jesus Christ. It's time to clean the nest and get back in there, somebody
that's got faith and been filled with the Holy Ghost, got living faith in a
living God, been with the Mate, Christ Jesus, something that'll hatch, something
that'll bring forth life... Sure.
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E-37 Jesus could
only do He said... And the Scriptures are infallible. He said, "I do
nothing within Myself until I see the Father doing it first." Now, He said
He saw it: "See." "Verily, verily I say unto you, the Son can do
nothing in Himself, but what he sees the Father." Look back to the
"Emphatic Diaglott"; see if the word isn't right: "See" Look
at it. Even to the Douay version. All the versions give it the same way.
"Till I see the Father do it. The Father worketh. What the Father does, He
shows Me, and I just go and act it out for Him."
That's
the way every prophet of the Bible done was to see by a vision what to do. And
that was the sign of the Messiah in that day, and if that's the sign of the
Messiah in that day at the closing of the Jewish dispensation, and He promised
He'd do the same thing in the last days, it's time we see it arise.
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E-38 We're at
the last days. The world's in a nervous prostration. She's ready to be blowed to
pieces. The... Because they have rejected, denied and the Holy Spirit has
wounded their hearts, and God... Like a--a lady in a ten cent store here a few
weeks ago in Louisville, Kentucky. She had a little boy; she's going around
showing him things, saying, "Look, dear. Look, dear. Look, dear," and
the little boy just set and stared. And she... After while, she just fell over
on the counter and begin screaming. And some of the people in the ten cent store
went to her and said, "What's the matter?"
She
said, "It's my little boy." She said, "It can't be so. The doctor
said he was better, but he isn't." Said, "A few months ago, the little
fellow just started staring," and said, "I can't get his attention to
nothing." Said, "Everything that a--a little boy his age ought to look
at," said, "I'll shake it before him, and he will just set and
stare."
You
know the church, the Pentecostal church, has got somewhat the same way. God
shook everything in the Bible before them, and they still just set and stare.
There's something wrong. It's time to arise and wake and call on God.
Remember
God predicted in His Bible that this would be the Laodicean church age when
things would take place this way. Now, let's believe Him.
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E-39 As Andrew
goes on with the story, just for a moment or two longer. Andrew said, "You
know He told the woman. Now, she was a Samaritan."
There's
only... As I said last night, there's only three races of people on earth: Ham,
Shem, and Japheth's people. If we believe the Bible, they all sprung from them
two--them three sons: That's Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan.
You
remember Peter was given the keys to the Kingdom? Where did he open it up? At
Pentecost to the Jews. Went down to Samaria, although as Philip had went down
and preached to them the baptism of the Holy Ghost and was baptizing them, and
they were ready to receive it, but Peter had the keys, come down, laid hands on
them; they received the Holy Ghost.
Then
at the house of Cornelius, the Gentiles, Acts 10:49, we find out that Peter was
sent by a vision up, "and while he yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost
fell on them." From that time on the Holy Ghost was just to whosoever will,
let him come, but he had the keys to the Kingdom.
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E-40 Now, notice
them three races. Now, as I said last evening... I had to hurry, reason I'm
repeating this in another way tonight. I had to hurry. You were nervous,
and--and they were telling there's alert and so forth. Now, that you're calmer
tonight and quiet, notice. The Jews were looking for a Messiah, and the Messiah
was supposed to come and declare Himself by--to be the Messiah.
Now,
do you think Jesus come unscripturally? He wouldn't have been Jesus. He wouldn't
have been the Son of God. He had to come according to the Scripture, but not
according to the thoughts of the churches of that day. He was different from the
thoughts of the church, their doctrine about it, but He come according to the
way the Scriptures was written.
And
that's what I'm trying to bring back to your memory tonight, the same thing. He
comes according to the way He's promised to come.
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E-41 Now,
remember. If God is ever called on the scene to act, and the way He acts first,
He has to act every time afterwards the same way, or He did wrong when He acted
first. So if that was the way of making Himself known in that day to the Jews
and to the Samaritans who were looking for a Messiah...
No
Gentile was looking for a Messiah. We were Romans and Greeks and worshipping
gods of iron, and steel, and marble, and like a lot of them are still doing,
and--and like that, with a club on our back.
But
now after two thousand years of theology and teaching, now the Gentile Church,
the elect Church, is looking for the Messiah. Now, He will have to act when He's
coming this time just like He did that time. He will have to do the same things,
'cause the Word said He would do it.
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E-42 Now, so
that you'll see that our Christ is not dead. He's with us, living in us, right
here with us now. And now, if I can get you to see that, then it's the very easy
thing for you to accept your healing. It isn't about my hands being laid on you.
I'm a man. It's His hands. Find Him.
Now,
notice. When they listened and heard the conversation of this. Now, this is a--a
woman of ill fame now in Samaria. She was a bad woman, so they were listening.
And when they heard, He said, "Go get your husband and come here."
Now, He talked to her long enough to catch her spirit. He said, "Go get
your husband and come here."
She
said, "I don't have any husband."
"And
you remember, brethren," Andrew might've said to the rest of the brethren,
said, "You remember how we all thought, 'Oh, oh, oh, oh. Here's one time
He's caught.' Because He tells her that she has an--that she hasn't got a
husband. Said, 'Go get your husband and come here, rather.' Said, 'Go get your
husband.' He's telling her she's got a husband, and she says she hasn't got a
husband. She's contradicting His Word. Now, what's going to happen?"
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E-43 "You
remember how we all stood with our ears pricked up and--and the chills going
over us. What's the matter? We wondered. Had our Master been caught in a trap?
Now, He tells the woman she's got a husband, and she says, 'I haven't got a
husband.'"
"Remember
how we thought? Then what did He... Just as cool as He could be, said, 'Thou
hast said well, because you've had five and the one you're living with now is
not your husband.' The scene changed right quick."
"And
what did this woman say to Him? 'Sir, I am a Samaritan woman. I may be living in
sin (done a little something like this) but I know the Scriptures. I come out of
a home that taught the Bible. I... You must be a prophet. I know, we're taught,
all Samaritans taught that there's a Messiah coming, Who's name... Who'll be the
Christ (means the Anointed One), and when He comes, He will tell these things.
That'll be the sign of the Messiah. You must be His prophet.'"
"Jesus
said, 'I am He.' There never was a Man that could say that but Him. That's
right. There never will be. 'I am He.'"
"And
she left her water pot and run into the city and said, 'Come, see a Man.' Told
the men in the street. 'Come, see a Man Who told me what I've done. Isn't this
the very Messiah?'"
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E-44 If that was
the sign of the Messiah yesterday, and He's the same yesterday, today, and
forever, it's the same today. It's got to be.
"Yes,
we remembered that. How that the woman said that." And how that the Bible
said that all the city believed Him to be the Messiah, because the woman told
the people in the city that He--they never had met before. In the conversation,
He said, "Go get your husband."
And
she said, "I have none. He said, 'You've got five.' And you men know that
that's the kind of life I've lived, and that convinced me that He was the
Messiah, because He knowed the secret of my heart."
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E-45 Now,
listen. Does not the Bible say that--that 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? Now, to you Bible readers, does not the Book of Hebrews tell us in the
4th chapter that the Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword piercing to
the asunder of the marrow of the bone, and a discerner of the thoughts of the
heart? The Word, and when the living Word, which is Christ, comes into our
midst, is not It--It's still a discerner of the thoughts of the heart? The
living Word, Christ, the living Word. He is the Word, and He's the living Word.
This
is the letter Word, and when the letter Word is brought with the living Word,
It's sharper than a two-edged sword and a discerner of the thoughts of the
heart. Jesus looked upon His audience and perceived their thoughts. Some of them
stood by and said, "He's a fortuneteller. He's Beelzebub, a devil."
Jesus
said, "I forgive you for that, calling the Spirit of God an evil thing, an
evil work. I forgive you for that, but someday the Holy Spirit's coming; and you
speak one word against That, it'll never be forgiven you in this world or the
world to come."
Then
what--what is blaspheming the Holy Ghost? See? Call the Spirit of God an unclean
thing. It's blasphemy. That's what blasphemy is [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.],
calling the Spirit of God an evil spirit. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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E-46 So you see
when the people shouted and spoke in tongues and so forth, and this nation has
constantly called them a bunch of holy-rollers, and heretics, and everything
else. You see why she's ready for judgment.
Now,
the Bible says... Now, you Pentecostal people, the Bible says if you have a gift
of speaking in tongues then when the unlearned comes in, and--and the first
thing you know they all speak with tongues, they'll say, "You're all
mad." But if there be one among you that's a prophet that will reveal the
secrets of the heart, then they'll fall down and say, "Truly, God's with
you."
Well,
if you believe in speaking in tongues, don't you know what the furtherment of it
is? Don't you know what a higher blessing is? Don't you see the Holy Spirit?
What makes you speak with tongues? You do that yourself? No, sir. The Holy Ghost
does it if you're sincere. Is that right? The Holy Ghost does. That's the same
thing that set in the church: first, apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, and
evangelists. It's the Holy Spirit, the living Christ. It's not dead but alive
forevermore.
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E-47 They have
the picture of It down here where it was--been taken. It was taken over here in
California here recently. Taken... George J. Lacy of the FBI, examined It and so
forth. You've seen it and everything: a Pillar of Fire. Same Pillar of Fire was
took in Germany, Switzerland, and all over the world where it's been taken.
Now,
what is It? Is that--how many knows that Jesus Christ was that Pillar of Fire?
Well, when He was... And in Saint John 6, when He was being questioned He said
about--He said Abraham about his days, He said, "Well now," said
"You mean that you seen Abraham, and You're a man not over fifty years
old."
He
said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." Then He was that Pillar of Fire, the
Angel of the Covenant, in other words, the Logos that went out of God. He was
the Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel through the wilderness. And
that Pillar of Fire, the Logos was--was made flesh and dwelt among us. And He
said, "I come from God and go to God. And after His death, burial, and
resurrection, Saul--He met Saul on the road down to Damascus and struck him down
with a Light. None of the rest of them saw It, but Saul saw It.
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E-48 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?...
came out of the wilderness, bringing the children of Israel then come dwelt in a
Man, Fullness of the Godhead bodily and performed these kind of signs as the
Messiah. And if that same Pillar of Fire, that same Jesus, that same Spirit
comes back into His Church universal, won't it do the same thing?
"He
that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also. Here a little while
and the world seeth Me no more," He said, "yet, ye shall see for I, I
will be with you, even in you to the end of the world," Jesus Christ the
same yesterday, today, and forever."
You
see what I'm trying to do, friends, is let you know that the Jesus that made the
promise in the Bible is right here with you, right here now.
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E-49 Now, if
you'd walk up to Him, and He had on this suit that He gave me and He would
say--you'd say, "Jesus, will You heal me?"
You
know what He would say to you? "Well, my child, I did that." He can't
do it again. If you're redeemed out of the pawn shop, how can you be redeemed
the second time? He brought you out. He was wounded for your transgressions and
with His stripes you were healed. See what I mean?
Your
healing's already completed. Your salvation's completed. The only thing you have
to do is just receive it. What does it make any difference who lays hands on
you, what does this, that or the other? Everywhere you're at, just believe it.
That's all. Receive it. It's God has to give it to you.
That's
the reason I don't take too much time. The American people are taught the old
Jewish custom of laying on of hands, which is all right, but that wasn't the
Gentile way.
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E-50 Well,
Jairus said, "Come, lay Your hand on my daughter and she will live," a
Jew.
But
the Roman said, "I'm not worthy that You come under my roof. Just speak the
Word." See? He said, "I'm a man under authority. I say to this man,
'Come,' he comes and that one, 'Go,' he goes." He knowed everything under
him... He was a century--century of man, which means a hundred. That hundred men
was under him. What he said they had to do.
What
did he recognize in Jesus Christ? That all sickness and diseases was under Him,
under His control. "Just speak the Word." Amen. There you are. Don't
need hands laid...
And
what did Jesus say? He turned around and said, "I never found faith like
this in Israel." Well, that's the kind of faith we want here in California,
that kind of faith, "Speak the Word."
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E-51 That's all
it needs. Not some man say, "Well, glory to God, Brother So-and-so laid
hands on me. I felt something go through me." You might've felt his hands
laying on you, but you never felt nothing. See? Jesus never did say, "Did
you feel it?" He said, "Did you believe it?" That's it. "If
you believe it..."
It's
a fini--not a feeling up there, it's a believing up there. "He that
believeth," right where you are. I don't say you don't feel something. I
know I've felt some strange feelings, but I never did rest my faith upon a
feeling. I can't build my doctrine upon a sensation. I've got to build it upon
THUS SAITH THE LORD by the Word of God.
And
that's the reason tonight... And then if it's built upon that Word and there's
enough faith in that to make that Word be made manifest... Jesus died and gave
His Life that He might sanctify a Church that He could be universally, around
the world all the time in His Church. This Holy Spirit here...
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E-52 When Jesus
was God made flesh, the Fullness of God was in Him. He had the Spirit without
measure. We have it by measure. Now, what if you go out to here pick up a
spoonful of--of water out of the ocean. Well, that--that what Jesus had, the
whole ocean; but you and I have got a spoonful. That's the difference. You'd
never miss it. He don't have to have us, but we have to have Him. But if you
took that spoonful of water and took it down to the laboratory, the same
chemicals that's in the entire ocean is in that spoonful.
And
when God on the day of Pentecost, when He come down like a rushing wind, did you
notice He was a Pillar of Fire, but did you notice He separated Himself from
that Pillar of Fire, divided Himself amongst His people, and cloven tongues of
fire set upon each of them: God separating Himself to His Church. No wonder He
spoke, "Wherever two or three are gathered in My Name, I'll be in their
midst. If two will agree upon anything, and ask, I'll give it to you." See?
What is that? When the little fire here and a little fire here, each one of you
is a part of God, when we come together, it's the body of Christ uniting. God
separating Himself giving part to me, and part to you, and part to the next
fellow, so we can all live and have Eternal Life.
And
now, that Eternal Life comes from the word, the Greek word, as I said, "Zoe,"
which means "God's own Life."
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E-53 Now,
must've been while they were testifying of this... All at once Andrew must've
set down, and Satan must've looked back over through the dark clouds (I'm
closing now), and he saw them gone off without Jesus. That's just as good as he
wanted.
And
now, my brethren, my sisters, let's just look now right straight in the face.
They had gone off without Jesus. I believe that that's what's happened to the
church to make up this Laodicean church age. The church has gone off without
Jesus. We've gone off on great tantrums. We've gone to a place to where we've
got a big building program, see who could build the biggest church.
We've
gone off on educational programs. We've gone off on denominational programs.
We've gone off on all kinds of programs, and what do we have hatched out? We've
hatched out a bunch of denominational children. That's right.
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E-54 We're
building--we're building our--our--our things upon our--our denomination.
"Don't associate with them over there. Don't have this over here. We're the
denomination. We got all the truth." Remember, brother, the blanket stretch
all the way. See? It goes over the other fellow too. See?
But
we've drawed boundaries and separated ourselves just like the Baptist, and
Methodists, and the rest of them did. You used to talk about the cold, formal
Baptists. Now it's the cold, formal Pentecostals. Baptists are warming up.
Notice
how... Now, it's true. We've hatched out denominational children. We've hatched
out educational children. We've had it form Bible schools, perfectly all right.
But what we went to telling them, give them the Bachelor of Art, and the Ph.D.,
and the L.L.D... And even some of our great denominations, before they send a
missionary--a Pentecostal now--before they send a Pentecostal missionary
overseas, he has to be examined by a psychiatrist to see if his IQ is high
enough.
That
is a stain on the name of Pentecost. Pentecost is not an organization. Pentecost
is an experience. All people can have it: Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterian, or
whatmore.
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E-55 Who is to
decide whether he is a missionary or not, the Holy Ghost or some worldly
psychiatrist? God gives the callings. Peter's education wouldn't have qualified
for that. The Bible said he was both ignorant and unlearned, but the Holy
Ghost... It pleased the Holy Ghost to make him the head of the church. He and
John both ignorant and unlearned...
But
there's where we are. The devil saw us go off on a big tantrum like this, and he
says, "Here's my opportunity." That's the same thing he done then. So
he raised up on the mountains and begin to blow his poison breath. He said,
"There they are, huddled out yonder in the middle of that sea. They're
testifying of what has been; and now, they see they haven't got Him anymore now.
He's not with them no more now."
And
watch the Laodicean church age. Of all the church ages, seven last church ages,
the Laodicean, Jesus was on the outside of His own church knocking trying to get
back in. Now, there's where we've come to.
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E-56 And so
Satan has been blowing his poison breath around, you know saying, "Whew,
whew, days of miracles is past. There's no such a thing as that. Don't you
believe that kind of stuff. It's mental telepathy." That's right. They are
leaving the Word. I--I... You just examine the Word and see if it isn't right.
Then see if God does get in that Word and confirm It. Then it makes it right.
When God says so, that settles it.
Now,
"Days of miracles is past." Got formal, just talk about our churches,
and our--what we're going to do, and our great programs we got. See, he seen
without and the little ship begin to blow and toss, and we find out all hopes
was gone for a revival.
Just
about like that today. God sent a Oral Roberts across the country. He sent a
Tommy Osborn across the country. He--He sent one after the other, wave after
wave, after wave, after wave, and still--we still set without revival. What's
the matter?
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E-57 But
remember, He hadn't gone too far. When He seen them go off, He knowed what was
going to happen; and that's the reason He knowed over here to predict the end at
the beginning. He knowed the Laodicean church age was going to push Him out. So
He made preparations to meet it. "Those who I love, I chasten and rebuke. I
stand at the door and knock. If any man will open, and let Me in, I'll come in
and sup with him," if you'll just open up and let Him in.
And
when the winds are blowing, and it's contrary, and we see it's hard to move,
that's the way they were; but He had climbed up the highest hill there was in
Galilee, highest hill in Palestine maybe. He was upon the mountain. Higher you
go, farther you can see; and He climbed up there so He could watch over them.
And
when He seen them in distress, He was high enough till He could see them. And
when He was here on earth, He realized that we was coming to this condition. So
He didn't only climb the mountain of Calvary, but He climbed on a past the moon
and stars, until He set down at the right hand of the Majesty on high. And His
eye is on the sparrow, and I know He's watching this meeting tonight. He hasn't
gone too far. He's watching you.
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little ship's tossed about... This boy here, his little ship--yours, yours, out
here all around, your little ship's tossed about. The doctor says, "I can't
get well. I'm paralyzed. I got cancer. I'm going to die."
He
knows that, but His eye is on the sparrow. He's redeemed you. He paid the price.
He was wounded for your transgressions; with His stripes you were healed. The
preparation's made, and He climbed up to the ramparts of glory and set down at
the right hand of God on high, watching over you, ever living to make
intercession.
The
Bible said He's setting there, a--a High Priest that can be touched by the
feeling of our infirmities, the same High Priest that was here on earth, the
same yesterday, today, and forever. If you'd touch Him, He'd act like He did
when He was on earth. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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E-59 A woman
touched His garment, went out, and got in the crowd, and set down. She didn't
get in the line. The rest of them was in the line. She didn't get in the line,
so she touched His garment, and went, and set down in the audience. So He turned
around and said, "Who touched Me?"
And
the apostles Peter rebuked him and said, "Everybody's touching You. Why do
You say a thing like that?"
He
said, "But I got weak. Virtue gone from Me," a vision. Something
happened. It was a certain kind of touch.
All
these programs today is not touching Him. It takes an individual's heart to
touch Him...?... somebody that'll believe and lay aside your superstitions and
believe Him.
"Somebody
touched Me," He said, "I got weak. Virtue (strength) went out of
Me." And He looked around over the audience until He found the little
woman, told her her blood issue she'd had, her faith has saved you. See?
"Thy faith has saved." "Sozo," saved, same word, physically
or spiritual. See? "Thy faith has saved thee."
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He's the same High Priest, and He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, if
you would touch Him, how would He act? If He's the same, He'd act the same.
I
challenge this audience tonight to believe that story to be true. See if He
isn't still the same High Priest. See if He doesn't act tonight like He did when
He was in Galilee. See if He doesn't do the same thing.
We're
not playing church. Too late in the hours, the sun's setting; it's time to be
realistic. It's time for man and women to throw off their--their--their church
coats; lay aside your denominational rags and look to God and have a Pentecostal
revival in the Pentecostal church.
Touch
Him and see if He's still the High Priest. I challenge that to you. Believe it.
See what happens.
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walking to him on the water, their last hour, all hope's gone. What happened? As
soon as they seen Him, just the same as they did then, they're doing today: the
only thing that could help them, they was afraid of it. They thought it was
spooky. "He's a spirit." And the same thing today.
You
Baptists, you Methodists, you Presbyterian, Catholic, you Pentecostals, Oneness,
Threeness, Fiveness, Assemblies, Four Square, whatever you may be, you're God's
children, but don't be afraid. God promised He would do it. If He could speak
tonight, He'd say as it was then, when they were all scared, "Well,"
said, "we see a spirit. It looks spooky. There's something strange about
it."
Said,
"Do not fear. It is I," the same yesterday, today, and forever.
"Be not afraid. It is I."
Won't
you, church, tonight let Him in your little bark as you're sailing over life's
solemn main? Won't you just open up your heart and say, "Lord Jesus, I
believe You. I'm willing. I know that's Scripture. The man's told me what is the
Scripture. I know that the Bible said You're the same yesterday, today, and
forever. I know these things."
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E-62 We ain't
got time to get all into it tonight. We'll keep on going tomorrow night into it
and on and on. See? Just keep on, showing you and proving it, friends. What you
have believed has been true, but we're living along up the road a little further
now.
That's
what's the trouble with the Christians. You know science don't take what science
says two or three hundred years ago. It was a French scientist said about three
hundred years ago, proved it by revolving a ball around the earth, and he said,
"If any persons could ever go the terrific speed of thirty miles an hour,
scientifically proved that gravitation would take you off the earth. What about
Ricky and his hot rod? They're going around about several thousand miles an
hour. You think they look back and see what that science says? No. They're still
going on. They're moving on.
But
the church... They'll say, "Let's see what Mr. Moody said about it. Let's
see what Mr. Wesley said." Them men lived in their age. That was all right
for that age, but we got not only a scientific tree to climb; we've got untapped
resources of a bountiful blessings of God, which is not limited or unlimited.
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E-63 "Whatsoever
you ask the Father in My Name I'll do it." Every promise in the Book
belongs to you. When you're saved, He gives you a check with His Name wrote at
the bottom of it. Don't be afraid to fill it out, 'cause the Bank of Heaven will
recognize it if it goes through the Pentecostal clearing house. See? That's
right. See, if you got something here on deposit: yourself (See?), if you're
recognized, if you got identification to show that the check belongs to you.
It's only for believers now. If you got that identification, why, God will
recognize your check. That's right. No matter what you ask for, any redemptive
blessings belong to you.
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spoke to you at length, and I know you're limbs are cramping, you elderly people
and young and all standing inside, outside, around the doors. God reward you
richly.
I'm
your brother. There isn't... I haven't got one speck of healing power. Nobody
else has got it. There's not a doctor got any. No medicine's got any. There's
not a medicine in the world that'll heal you. There's not a doctor that's in his
right mind will tell you that.
Mayo
Brothers says they don't have a medicine that'll heal. If I cut my hand with a
knife. They haven't got a medicine in the world that will heal that knife cut.
Any medicine that'll heal a knife cut my hand would heal it on this desk or in
my coat. You say, "Medicine wasn't made for your desk, or the--the coat. It
was made for your body."
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E-65 Well, what
if I cut my hand, and I fall down dead, and you embalm me and make me look
natural for fifty years. Give me a shot of penicillin every day, and all kinds
of salves, and sew up and everything else. Fifty years from today, the cut will
look just like it was when it was cut. If it heals the human body, why don't it
heal it? Well, you say, "Sure, life's gone out of it."
Well,
tell me what life is, and I'll tell you Who God is. See? That's right. It's God.
Medicine does not build tissue. It takes life to build tissue. That's right. And
your attitude towards God is what does it.
Someone
said to me, "What about penicillin for a bad cold?"
I
said, "It's like having a house full of rats, and you put out rat poison
and kill them. It don't patch up the holes. It only kills the rats." That's
right. And that's... It kills the germs. That's true. Medicine might kill the
germ, but it don't build the cells that the germ tore down. That takes God to do
that, and Him alone. "I'm the Lord Who heals all thy diseases."
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E-66 What if you
broke your arm, and run in, and said, "Doctor, heal my arm, I want to
crank. I'm working on my car out here. I want to finish up." He'd say you
need mental healing, and that'd be right. He might set your arm, but God has to
produce the calcium, and the life matters, and things to heal it together. It
takes God. We have nothing that'll heal. No medicine heals; God heals.
And
your attitude towards God, the One that does the healing... And we can't figure
out yet what the life is. We know the mucous the life comes in, but we don't
know what the germ of life is 'cause its a spirit, and there's no glass can see
a spirit. There you are. So that's the One that does the healing.
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E-67 Will you
believe on Him tonight? If He will come in the audience tonight, just a little
group we'll call somebody up here, I think they give out a bunch of cards last
night: 1 to a 100 I believe in A. We've got a few of them. We had to hurry. But
tonight if we'll just call some people out here and let the Holy Spirit begin to
move here at the plat... If He will. I don't say He will. And then if He will go
out into the audience and begin to move out into the audience and do the every
same thing out there, you without prayer cards, as He does here with prayer
cards, you just touch His garment and see if He isn't, if He isn't the same High
Priest.
How
many would believe it? If you'd see what I've talked about tonight come to pass,
raise up your hands all over the building? Now, bow your head.
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E-68 Our
heavenly Father, this is as far as any man could go would be explain the Word.
Now, faith cometh by hearing and hearing of the Word. Here lays people on cots,
stretchers, wheelchairs. There's some out there that's dying with heart trouble,
cancer. No doubt but there's all kinds of diseases in here.
Father
God, there's maybe unbelievers setting close. There may be unconverted setting
close. If they are, Father, if they see Your Presence move down to prove that
You are--You're the God Who made the promise is in the midst of us... Surely, if
You'll do that much, we'll believe the redemptive story that You did die for our
transgressions, and with Your stripes we were healed.
Grant
it, Lord. I commit myself, this audience, all into your hands. And Father God, I
love You for Your Word. I love this wonderful audience of people who's listened
attentively. They've stood cramping; their legs are stiff and sore. But hear me,
Lord, please.
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crowd leaves this fairgrounds tonight and starts back to their home... Lord, one
day after You had been crucified and buried, they thought it was all over. You
were dead and buried and that was all. There were two men Cleopas and his friend
was on the road down to Emmaus.
Somebody
walked with them all day long, speaking to them about the Word of God. They
didn't recognize Who it was, but when You got them that night, You got them
inside the building and closed the doors. He did something before them just like
He did before He was crucified. They recognized it, 'cause no one else did it
that way. They knew that it was Him, and quickly He vanished out of their sight,
behind the curtain somewhere and was gone. Light footed, light hearted they run
back to tell the rest of the disciples, "Indeed the Lord has risen."
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E-70 Will You
tonight do the same thing, Lord? Will You come in our midst and perform and do
just as You did before You was crucified, that this audience might know, that
You are their God and their Saviour, and You've been the One that's fed them and
blessed them; and may they realize if You'll do something like You did before
Your crucifixion, they know that You're not dead, but You're alive forevermore
as the Scripture says You are, "The same yesterday, today, and
forever."
If
You'll do that, Lord, we'll all return home saying like they did, "Did not
our hearts burn within us as He talked to us along the way?" We ask it in
Jesus' Name. Amen.
Surely,
God will help us tonight with an audience like this standing patiently. [Brother
asks that someone move a car blocking a parking lot--Ed.] Thank you. Yes,
brother. All right. That's fine. If you'd be so kind. I see someone going now.
So I guess the brother will be out all right. Thank you.
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E-71 I've held
you so long tonight, but I'm--I'm only trying to... See, if you just generally
not knowing what you're doing, then what good does it do? See? But you... I--I
want to get you to stop to where you can see that's it's the Scripture. It's the
fulfilling of the Scriptures.
Now,
last night we took the subject where He was--Messiah was to appear in the body
of believers in this last day to perform and do the same thing He did then.
Now,
I believe we--where did... We started with number 1 last night and called a
bunch, didn't we? We called just a few out from number 1. We'll just keep
calling around among them till we get them up here.
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E-72 Let's start
tonight somewhere else. Each time we told you we'd... I told the minister
brothers that we'd start from somewhere each night from them same cards,
somewhere each night.
Let's
start; let's say from 80. That'd be 80 and see if we can... How many should we
stand here? We could stand about fifteen or twenty people perhaps. Who has
prayer card 80, raise up your hand? Prayer card... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
Anyone want Jesus to heal you, raise up your hand, all who don't have a prayer
card.
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E-73 All right.
Now, while they're--the ushers are rounding them up now with my... Just
remember, that prayer card hasn't got one thing to do with it. How many's ever
been in the meeting before and knows that's true, raise your hands? It has not
one thing to do with it, not one thing.
Now,
you set out there and hasn't got a prayer card, you just pray and say,
"Brother Branham, doesn't know me. Lord, he told me awhile ago, that You
were a High Priest that could be touched by with feeling of our infirmities.
Now, I'm going to touch You. I'm forgetting about Brother Branham standing
there, but I'm going to touch You. My faith looks to Thee, Lord. I want to touch
You."
Now,
don't get hysterically about it. Nothing will happen. Just calmly, just come in
faith. Just say, Lord, "Let me touch You." And say then, "How
would I know that You--that I touched You? You have Brother Branham turn around
and tell me just like You did when a woman touched You through Your Son, Jesus.
Brother Branham and that minister there are Your adopted sons (See?), but
they're taking the Son's place while He's up there making intercession as the
High Priest." He's our elder Brother. Did you know that? Sure. And
we're--we're God's children too by adoption by Him.
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E-74 Now, if
everyone just won't move for a few minutes now... Just be real quiet for a few
minutes. Believe with all your heart.
All
right. Now, how many in the building is strangers to me, and you know that I
don't know a thing about you, raise up your hands? Entire audience... There's
not one person that I can see in this building that I know, except my--I--I seen
my friend, Welch Evans, here awhile ago from Georgia setting back up here, way
back here; that's it. He and his wife and Brother Fred Sothmann, and as one of
the trustees of my church from Jeffersonville is setting right back out here
somewhere, and Brother and Sister Simpson setting by them. That's the only
people in this building I know outside of Brother Borders, Brother Gene Goad,
right here, and... Well, my son was here but he isn't here now. But that's all I
know. See?
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if I do not know you, I have to ask you this questions now. We're taking our
time, 'cause if you ever want to get in here something's going to happen.
Now,
if Jesus was the--is the same yesterday, today, and forever, does the Bible say
that? Say," Amen." All right. Now, how many knows that He has already
redeemed you from sickness and--and death? Say, "Amen."
Well,
He couldn't repeat it again, could He? Now, if He was standing Himself, He
couldn't do one more thing about it than He could dwelling through you and I.
"He that receives Me, receives Him that sent Me. He that receives you,
receives Me. (Is that right?) He that receives me, receives He that sent
Me."
Now,
if you'll just receive the Holy Spirit, the Message of It. Now, I've quoted you
the Bible. See? Just telling you what He did and what He promised in a little
drama, so the little children will... I think this little thing setting here and
many other there, and little thumb-sucker babies setting there and watching, my
heart going for them and everything I...
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E-76 Now, now,
if--if this God Who made the Bible, Who wrote the Bible... You believe God
inspired--the Bible is inspired, God's Word? You believe it? Do you believe it
with all your heart? All right. It's God's inspired Word. Then if it's God's
inspired Word, then if the inspiration of God is here with us to make this Word
live to prove that He's here, surely you can receive Him. Is that right?
Now,
now, I want to know, here in this prayer line, everyone of you that is strangers
to me, and I don't know nothing about you, raise up your hand? See? Now, it's
all strange. Everybody's strange.
Now,
remember, I am not a healer and no other man is a healer. God is the Healer.
That's right. Now, if Jesus was standing here now tonight as I said, with this
suit on that He gave me, and if He wanted to declare Himself, how would you know
Him if it was Him?
He'd
act the same way He did when He was here on earth. Is that right? He'd do the
same thing. Then you would know then if He was the Messiah. Now, I'm not the
Messiah. No other man's the Messiah. He is the Messiah, but His Spirit dwells in
us. See? It's not us, 'cause I--for myself--here's a woman. Is this the woman to
be prayed for? All right.
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don't know the woman, never seen her in my life. She raised her hand a few
minutes ago that neither one of us knows each other. Here's my hand, Bible
laying open here, I don't know her. I never seen her. You don't know me. Here we
are a stranger.
Now,
now, here's a very beautiful picture of Saint John 4. Here's a panoramic like
the well there, out at the public well of Samaria. Now, every person in here be
ready to receive it now (See?), and this--this would settle it right here. You
be ready. You be ready. You, you, all around here, just be ready. See? 'Cause if
you can see Him come in and do exactly like... That shows that's He's not dead.
He's alive here watching His Word. And your little bark's all tossed around.
See? Then believe Him. Just accept It. Don't be afraid. He said, "It's I.
Be not afraid."
Now,
remember that. "Be not afraid. It's I." Don't be afraid to take Him at
His Word. Say, "I believe you, Lord. I'll get well." Just do that.
"Be not afraid. It's I."
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listen. If this woman and I are perfect strangers and have never seen one
another, if I am anointed with the Holy Spirit and could tell her something in
her life, like Jesus did the woman at the well, whatever it might be that's in
her life... We've never seen one another. It has to come through some spiritual
power. Is that right? We know that. It would be a miracle. How many knows that?
A
miracle is something that can't be solved out. All right. Then if it would take
place, how many of you would believe it was the Christ, the Holy Ghost, the same
as what...? All right. Then just receive it.
But
her and I together never seen one another in our lives. Now, for the glory of
God, in the Name of Jesus Christ, I take every spirit in here under my control
for the glory of God.
Now,
be reverent. Be in prayer...?... Now, lady, I want to speak to you just as Jesus
did to the woman. Now, you might be here for sickness. You might be here for
somebody else. You might... I don't know. See? It might financial. I--I...
You're just a woman standing here. That's the same way that the woman met our
Lord.
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E-79 Now, and He
talked to her a little while. Now, you have to take my word for this. I couldn't
prove this by the Scripture, but He had need go by Samaria, and He said He did
nothing till the Father showed Him, so it must have been this a way. He--the
Father sent Him up to Samaria. All right. Only thing He knowed to do was go up
to Samaria. He thought He'd get alone, so He just sent the disciples away. He
waited. A woman come up, so that might be the one.
So
He set there and begin to talk to her. What was he doing? Contacting her spirit.
Now, if He'd have went down there and said, "I am the Messiah, I--I am the
Messiah," it'd be better for her to tell Him. See? Let Him declare Himself
to this woman. See? God works in mysterious ways. See? And He told that woman
something was in her life.
Well,
she said, "You must be a prophet. I know when the Messiah cometh He will
tell us this." She said, "He will do these things."
Jesus
said, "I'm He." Now, He promised the same works, especially in this
age.
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you were sick and I've just--I have a gift of Divine healing. A gift of Divine
healing is nothing but faith in Divine healing. That's all it is: have faith.
Everybody have faith in Divine healing has a gift of Divine healing, 'cause
that's all it is.
Now,
that don't make them a Divine Healer no more than it makes the man that believes
in salvation a--a Divine Saviour. See? It just... He believes in it. I believe
in it too, but I'm not a gifted person like some of the men, like Jack Coe, and
many of them brethren was, just real... I guess they... God deals with them in
their ways, and Brother Roberts in his ways, and me with my way. We just got
ministries. That's all.
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E-81 God set in
the church: apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors. That's all. Then
them nine spiritual gifts in the church. You say, "Brother Branham, what
are you trying to do? I'm trying to contact your spirit.
Jesus
sent me to this city. I was led here. Now, here's a woman. by having a number on
her prayer card way up in the--I forget where I called--50 or 75 or somewhere
around. I forgot where it was. You just happened to be that woman standing here.
All right.
Now,
not knowing one another. Now, what I am trying to do? Contact your spirit. And
if the Lord God... If I said I had a gift of healing, laid my hands on you, and
say, "Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. You're going to get well." That'd
be all right. Go believe it, you'd get well. I believe it. God will honor your
faith.
But
what if He comes and tells you something that you--that you have been, then
tells you what you will be. You know where--whether it--what it has been,
whether it's the truth or not. Something that you have done in your life, way
back there, or whatever He does, or something on that order. Then it would make
the same Messiah. The audience wouldn't accept it. They'd believe it and just
accept it.
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E-82 Now, may He
grant it. Now, if the audience can still my voice. That Pillar of Fire that you
seen on the picture is standing right between me and the woman. I see her. She's
moving away. She looks years younger than what she does in person standing close
to me. She's moved back to... She's had some sort of an operation, and that was
on her throat. It was a goiter. That's right. Is that--if that's right, raise up
your hand? All right, now. You believe with all your heart.
Now,
let's just talk to the woman just a little bit longer (See?), just a little bit
longer. See? So that you... The people thinks you guessed it. See what else He'd
say.
Yes,
I see her now again. It's a surgery on her throat. That's been quite awhile ago,
and the thing's come back again. You got it again. That is right. But see he's
hid from the doctor, but he can't hide from God. God knows right where he's at.
It's a life from multiplication of cells growing, smothering. Just like you was
a little baby in the womb of your mother growing. But this has no form. It's
just spreading out. It's the devil, choking spirit. That's right.
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E-83 That you
might know. There sets a woman setting right there, throat trouble too. That's
right. What did you touch? I don't know you, do I? Never seen you in my life,
but that's what's you're suffering with. See, if that be like one spirit calling
to the other like that for help (See?), like that. It's crossed up. See? If the
Holy Spirit would tell me who you were, would it help you? Would it help the
audience? Mrs. Harrison, you can go home and be well. Your faith saves you.
Is
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever? Now, here was a woman
standing here with a prayer card. That one setting out there in the audience...
See? Now, it's totally impossible for me to do that. You say, "Brother
Branham, tell me." I can't do it. I don't know. You just touch Him and find
out.
That
woman setting there was praying, and that spirit... Now, you start praying and
see what happens. You just believe it. Don't you doubt it. You believe it with
all your heart and just see what happens. Have faith.
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strangers to one another. We were born probably years apart, but if the Lord God
will reveal to me something in your heart that you might know that It is--It's
His Word, that this Message that I have preached tonight, that's His Word. And
if that dwells in my heart, then the Word of God is a discerner of the thoughts
and the intents in the heart. Is that right? Just like it was when It was made
flesh in the Son of God. It's the same thing in our flesh today, the Church.
So
I couldn't do it by myself. It takes you to do too. It takes them out there. It
takes somebody else out there to have this same Anointing. See? Might not...
It'll work, but maybe they might not be able to speak it out, because this is a
gift. See?
When
I was born, gifts and callings is without repentance. I was just a little bitty
baby boy the same thing that happened right along all around through the life,
without repenting.
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E-85 You're sick
because you've been consulting a doctor about something. That's right. And
that's--that's a throat trouble also. Uh-huh. And now, here's the analysis of
it. You be the judge. It's in the voice box. And it's an ulcer inside the voice
box. It was. It isn't now...?... faith... Just have faith.
We
are strangers to one another, lady. I don't know you. If God will reveal to me
what you're here for, you believe me to be His prophet or His servant? You will?
It's a hernia. Had some trouble, hadn't you, but surgeons, operations having an
effect on like cancer. Now, it's come to a hernia. That's true. You believe that
He healed you? Then go on. God will make you well. God bless you. Have faith. Do
you believe?
Out
in the audience there, just be real reverent. I don't care where you are. I--I
ask you as your brother, in the Name of Jesus Christ to believe this to be the
truth. Watch what happens. Just pray. Say, "Lord, let me touch You."
See what happens. I--I believe...
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makes me so weak, just so weak. How many would understand that? Sure. If the Son
of God, just one person touched Him, and He said strength went out of Him, what
about me, a sinner saved by grace?
But
it declares He's here. It declares His Presence. He's here. You believe that too
standing up, all around. You believe it? Just--just have faith and believe it.
Come
here. Now, when I get about three of these, you let me know, so I got other
meetings coming.
I--I'm
a stranger to you. I do not know you, but do you believe me to be His servant?
If you were standing here, and our Lord was here in a physical form... He's here
spiritually, because it's the Holy Spirit that come down on Him like a Dove, and
now It comes on us like a Fire.
You
are a believer. I don't mean a hitchhiker; I mean a believer. That's right. Then
do you believe me to be His servant? If I would be able to tell you by the
Spirit of God what you're here for, you'll believe me? Sinuitis. Oh, that's a
terrific thing. That is right. If that's right, raise up your hand? That's
right. But that's not all is on your heart. You got something else on your heart
you want me to tell you about. He's got an ulcer on the leg. Take that
handkerchief that you're wipe your tears with and put on the ulcer. It'll leave
him. Go believe...?...
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do, sir? We are strangers to one another. I have never seen you before, and we
are strangers to each other. But the God of heaven Who raised up His Son, Jesus
Christ, Who ascended on high and sent gifts back to men... And He set in the
Church: "apostles" which means "missionary,"
"prophets" that means "seers," pastors, evangelists, so
forth. He still remains to be God. If God will reveal to me what your trouble
is, will you receive me as His prophet, or as His servant? Will you do that? All
right, sir. Will the audience do the same thing?
Is
this three yet or... Well, just... We got this one here. There's something
strange about the man. I can't make it out yet, but let the Holy Spirit reveal
it as I speak with him. I hope my voice is loud enough that you can hear.
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beyond... Now, here it comes to the man. The man's in a terrible condition. He's
at the hour of death almost. He's shadowed for death with a cancer, and the
cancer is in his throat. That is right. You know, smoking cigarettes is hard on
the throat. Will you quit them? Give them up?
Another
thing, you're not a Christian. You're a sinner. Will you accept Him as your
Saviour for your soul? If God by... The apostle Peter came, he was a sinner too.
If God will reveal to me your name, and tell me your name like He did the
apostle Peter, will you believe that It's the Christ, that God loves you and
saves you now from... You will take my word that your sins are forgiven? You
will. Mr. Davidson, then you go home and get well.
Have
faith in God. I keep feeling something come in out there from somewhere. You
think I'm reading their mind. I'm not. Here, just touch my hand, lady. If I will
look this way and tell you what your trouble, you'll know whether it's right or
not. Is that right? Then your cancer will leave, if you'll believe it. Will you
believe it? Raise up your hand if that's so. Then go. Have faith.
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E-89 Come, lady.
Will you believe, lady? If God will reveal to me, looking this a way what your
trouble is, would you believe me to be His prophet or His servant? Do you
believe to be His... Thank you, sis. Then go eat your supper. That stomach
condition has left you.
If
I tell you before lady comes, she had the same thing. Got a nervous stomach.
You've had it for a long time. Go eat. Have faith.
You
believe your back trouble left you, setting there? Well, then go. Praise the
Lord. Don't doubt it.
Come,
lady. Heart trouble, God could heal her heart trouble. Go, believe it with all
your heart.
God
heals arthritis too. Did you know that? Then go believe it.
Come.
do you believe God can heal your asthma and make you well? Go rejoicing...?...
Do you believe God can heal your diabetes and make you well? Go on. Go...?...
If
that other lady was healed of asthma, a young girl like you could be healed with
it, couldn't you? Don't doubt. Have faith. You believing?
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audience is becoming milky like to me.
That
man setting over there on the right that's setting there looking at me. I caught
it a few minutes ago when the lady had believed. Your faith saves you. Go ahead.
Do you believe with all your heart?
Do
you believe that God can heal you of that diabetes? You started to get up awhile
ago. I could've told you then. Don't worry. It's over.
What
about you setting next to him there, that bless you too? The man setting next to
him, you believe God will heal that high blood pressure and make you well? All
right.
The
lady setting next to him has diabetes too. You believe He will make you well?
What
about you setting there at the end, lay hands on you, you believe you'll get
well? Come here. In the Name of the Lord Jesus...?... You're trying to get a
hold of yourself. Everybody's telling you that anyhow, but nervousness is a
terrible thing. You've wanted a place to put your foot so you could start from
right there. Is that right? You're on the spot now. Your nervousness is gone.
Go...?... Do you believe it with all your heart?
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out there pray. Believe. Here, here's a woman setting before me. She's praying,
but she's not praying for herself. She's praying for her mother, a mother in an
insane institution. You wondered whether I was talking at you, wasn't you? You
was wanting that contact. Now, if you was praying for your mother, raise up your
hand? The lady setting here. Sure. I challenge you to believe it. I challenge
you to believe it anyway you want to. Do you believe it?
How
many of you in here--how many in here don't know Jesus as your Saviour and you'd
like to know Him right now as your Saviour, raise up your hand? You want to know
Him as your Saviour, stand up on your feet. You that wants to know Him as
Saviour right now accept Him while--while He's present, stand on your feet,
everywhere in the building. Stand on your feet..
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E-92 You know
He's present, don't you? Now, I'm trying move this altar. Jesus Christ, God's
Son is here to forgive you of every sin. Will you accept Him, not what you feel,
but upon the basis of He died for you, and you know you're in His Presence now;
and you believe that He died for you and you want Him to be your Saviour and
want to accept Him upon those grounds, raise up your hands to Him.
Heavenly
Father, You said in the Word that, "No man can come to Me, except My Father
draws him first." And these people in their spirits know that they are
wrong, and so they've accepted You as their Saviour.
I
pray, Father, that You will grant that to them right now. They've accepted You.
You said, "He that comes to Me, I will in no wise cast out. Come unto Me,
all ye that labor and heavy leaden and I'll give you rest."
You
said in Saint John 5:24. "He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him
that sent Me, has Everlasting Life and shall not come to the judgment, but's
passed from death to Life." They're Yours, Father. They're the tokens of
this meeting.
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E-93 With our
heads bowed. If you believe that God hears my prayer, I want you to walk up
here, and you come right out of the aisles there that raised your hands. Come
right here and stand here just a minute, right around the altar. Move right down
this way just a moment, everyone that wants Christ right now, come right down
here just moment.
But
that Thy blood was shed for me,
And
that Thou bidd'st me come to Thee,
O
Lamb of God, I come! I come!
Every
church member that doesn't know Christ as your Saviour and you want to know Him,
why would you turn Him away right now, when you see it right here present. If
God hears my prayer and opens the eyes of the blind, makes the lame to walk.
He--He will forgive you of sin too.
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your heart and tells you on the platform what's...?... He tells me out there
there's still more ought to come. He's speaking to you. I don't have to call
you, 'cause I'm getting so weak I can't hardly stand here. Come right quick,
will you, so I won't have to wait any longer? Come right now.
Just
as I am, and waiting not
To
rid my soul of one dark blot,
To
Thee, whose blood can cleanse each spot,
O
Lamb of God, (All right now.)... come! I come!
Just
as I am, Thou wilt receive,
Wilt
welcome, pardon, cleanse, receive;
Because
Thy promise I believe,
O
Lamb (Come, my brother. Come, my sister) I come! I come!
Just
as I am, Thou wilt receive,
Wilt
welcome...
Come,
everyone. Come now...?... Don't...?... if you're not too sure, come now. He's
right here at the platform. Before God I tell the truth. That day...?... an
Angel of God Who knows the heart of every man is right here now.
Lamb
of God (You won't never be any closer until you see Him coming.) I...
(If
there's any question in your heart, come now.)
I
am, and waiting not
To
rid my soul from one dark blot
To
Thee, whose blood can cleanse (Will you--would you come pray for us?)
O
Lamb...
Receive,
Wilt welcome (Come on, little lady)...