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E-41 Oh, my. And
"Blessed is he who is not offended in Me." Now, don't be offended. I
believe there's more people offended in Jesus than any other person that ever
lived on earth. They get offended too quick. Jesus now in this misplaced
beatitude, slipped over there so we could get it tonight.
Why,
He said, "Blessed is he who's not offended in Me. Don't be offended in Me.
No matter what takes place, I'm... Everything's working right on schedule. So
you just--just go ahead and believe it; that's all. Everything's all right. Just
go ahead and believe it."
You
know, there Jesus didn't rebuke John for that. He didn't say, "Well, I'm
ashamed of My apostle. I'm ashamed of My prophet." No, He never said that.
He didn't say, "What's the world going to say about this when you've come
preaching, oh, such a great Messiah, and such a great Messiah, and then you send
out to ask if I'm the Messiah." He never rebuked him.
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E-42 But when
John said the worst thing that he could say to Jesus, Jesus said the best thing
that John ever had said about him. Yes. Jesus... John said, "Go, see if He
is that One." And after they left, Jesus said, to them... He said after the
disciples of John left, said, "What did you go out in the wilderness to
see? Did you go out to see a man dressed up in fine..." No. He was too far
from Hollywood for that.
So
he said, "Did you go to see a man in fine raiment?" Said,
"They're of king's palaces." He said, "What did you go to see, a
reed that just any denomination could blow any way it wanted to?" Oh, no.
Certainly didn't. "So what did you go to see? A prophet?" Said,
"Yes. You went to see a prophet. And a greater... He's more than a
prophet." Said, "This is that Elias. This is that One that is said by
the prophet, 'I send My messenger before My face.'" Said, "Verily, I
say unto you there's never been a man borned of a woman as great as John the
Baptist."
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E-43 He never
condemned him. He knowed that he was anointed with the spirit of Elijah. And
that spirit was on him. That's what did it. He knowed everything was running all
right, everything was running according to schedule. John... Why, was he a
greater than--than all the prophets?
Now,
if you're spiritual, you'll catch something. Why was he the greatest? All the
other prophets had spoke of the Messiah. But John introduced Him. He was the one
that presented Him.
So
will it be in the end time. Everything's running according to schedule. Don't be
offended. Just believe. Today the churches are offended in Him. The churches are
offended. The people are offended. They're all flusterated. They don't know what
to think. "Mental telepathy." Something else and all... No, don't be
offended.
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E-44 Our message
last Sunday was trying to show you what God did to Abraham and to his Seed after
him. And we found out that every junction He taken Abraham, He took His Seed.
Through justification, through sanctification, through the baptism of the Holy
Ghost, through the placing of a Son, and then God came in human flesh, turned
His back to Sarah's tent, and told what she was thinking in her heart.
Don't
get scared. He's right on schedule. He's here. Don't be offended in Him.
"Blessed are they who's not offended in Me." If He was here to speak
tonight, He'd say the same thing. He's right on schedule. The prophet said
there'll be a time that would be not day nor night, but in the evening time, it
shall be light. He's right on schedule.
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E-45 He's done
come through justification, Luther Age, Sanctification, Wesley Age, Pentecostal
Age, done placed His gifts into the church, and now, appeared to us in our flesh
as Jesus said He would. Don't be offended at Him. He's right on time. "John
get out of that jail." Get out of that organization that don't believe in
it. Pull the fetters back off your eyes. You're a free man if you believe it.
He's right on time. "It shall be light in the evening time." Amen.
The
evening lights are shining. What is He? The same Jesus. The same sun that rises
in the east is the same sun that sets in the west. The Son of God rose on the
eastern people. What did He do to prove to the Samaritans and the Jews that He
was Messiah? By showing a sign to them, that He was the Prophet that Moses spoke
of.
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E-46 The
Samaritan woman witnessed the same thing, saying, "We know that when
Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things. But Who are You?"
He
said, "I am He."
She
run into the city and said, "Isn't this the very Messiah? The Man told me
what it--was wrong with me, what I'm doing. Isn't that the Messiah?" And
the people believed it. He did that to the Samaritans and to the Jews, but not
to the Gentiles.
'Fore
the Gospel went to the Gentiles He was already glorified and in glory. "But
it shall be light in the evening time." What did the church do? Went off
into Catholicism, organized a church. Then Luther pulled out for justification,
for the seed. Then Wesley come from Luther's, sanctification. Then the
Pentecostals, and they organized, and on and on and on in their systems. And on
down now we get to the last days. What is it?
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E-47 But in the
evening time, before the body was changed of Sarah and Abraham to receive the
promised son, He came, set with them, talked with them, and done a sign before
them. And Jesus referred to it. We're not behind. Don't look back to what Luther
said, what Wesley said. Look what Jesus said, and look at the sign where we're
at.
Don't
look back what somebody else said; look what He said. He was the One said it.
And the same sun that rises in the east, sets in the west. There's been a dismal
day. It certainly has been, enough light to see how to join churches and make
organizations and so forth. But that real power and manifestations of the
Presence of God has not been seen for years and years and years. We've felt It,
and we knowed It was here. And we seen gifts work with It. But when we see Him
come visible among us, with power in His church to reach up on the hem of the
garment of that Master and touch it, bring back down His power here and speak
through His people here and reveal, making Him God, "God with us." Oh,
yes.
John,
God open the prison doors tonight and let you out. "Blessed is he who's not
offended in Me," not a mind reading, or a telepathy, but a power of a risen
Christ Who's soon coming.
Let
us pray.
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E-48 Dear God,
as the evening lights are shining, it puts the eyes of many out. But others are
using it to walk in. I pray, God, that tonight, that You will give the evening
lights again in to the--this evening people. And may they see the power of Your
resurrection, for You said Yourself that, "The works that I do shall you
also." And we wonder what works that You did. Then we find in John the 5th
chapter and the 19th verse, that You said, "I do nothing until I see the
Father doing it first." Then You promised that. We know it's true.
Now,
for once more, Lord, and then it's complete. And may many of the Johns that's
shut up today in prison, fine men and women, that know You as their Saviour, and
they've been wondering, O God, may they see that You're right on schedule.
You're right on time. Grant it, we ask in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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E-49 Now, just
before we have our altar call, I was just a little late tonight, and I thought
last night I preached... I'm going to tell Billy I sure made it tonight. He told
me I couldn't preach less than an hour and a half. But I sure got it out that
time, by the help of the Lord.
Now,
I believe we give out prayer cards yesterday or... Did he give out any today?
Or... What was them ones? One to a hundred, I believe he give out yesterday,
wasn't it? What was that? A's? A's. All right. Where'd we start? We went... We
started from one yesterday, didn't we? One? Well, let's start from the back of
them. Let's take... Let's start, get about, just a few up here, 'cause our
time's... Let's start from eighty...
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How many's never been in one of the meetings before? Raise your hands. Just
looky there, half the meeting. If Jesus Christ... How many knows that Jesus
Christ has already healed the sick, already saved the lost?
Now,
He couldn't save you or heal you. He'd just tell you, He's already done it and
you'd have to believe it. But He promised that the works that He did, would we
do also, and especially in this evening time. How many knows that, believes
that's the truth?
Does
it say, "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever?" He certainly
is the same yesterday, today and forever. All right. If He is, then may He act
that way.
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E-51 Now, all
you in the prayer line, standing there, that's a strange to me, that you know
that I don't know nothing about you, raise up your hands, all that know. Every
one of them.
All
right, all out there, you people that hasn't got a prayer card, and you want to
be healed, and you know I know nothing about you, raise up your hands, all the
people. Every person in the building that knows that I know nothing about you,
raise up your hands, everywhere.
I
don't think there's a person that I can see that I know... If I'm not mistaken,
this is a preacher from Arkansas, setting right here I believe. These lights,
you see, I--I can't see him too well, but I think that's a preacher from
Arkansas.
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E-52 How many
knows that one time there was a woman come in the prayer line? There was a lady
come into... She said in her heart, "If I can only touch the border of that
Man's garment, I'll be made well." She had a blood issue. You remember
that? And she slipped through the crowd, and she touched, about like that. Now,
you'd never felt that. And you know, Brother Tommy, the underneath garment of
the Palestinian the big long robe, they wrote--wore underneath garment on kind
of the dust, the road picking it up.
Now,
if she touched the border of that garment, went back out in the audience, and
Jesus said, "Who touched Me?" Now, that was the Son of God. "Who
touched Me?"
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E-53 And Peter
rebuked Him, said, "Well, all... What be... Why, the people think there's
something wrong with You. They'll... Why, they're... Everybody's touching You.
You know, 'Hello there. How are You, Reverend?' and so forth, you know,
'Rabbi.'"
He
said, "But I perceive that I got weak." How many know that virtue is
strength? Certainly. "Strength went out of Me. Somebody touched Me."
And He turned around, and kept looking over the audience, until He found where
it was at.
And
He said--told her about her blood issue had stopped because of her faith had
saved her. Is that the truth? Well now, is He tonight (you minister brethren,
that we eat with this morning)...
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E-54 This
brother here, I believe is a brother they talk about all the degrees he got
in--in--in--in a Baptist school, Doctor and Ph.D. and I don't know what all. He
was telling us about it. But he had to forget it all like Paul to know Christ.
So...
Then...
But... The Scripture teaches us over in Hebrews that He's a High Priest now,
that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmity. That's right. How many
knows that to be so? Well, then if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever,
how would He act if you touched Him? See? He'd act the same, wouldn't He?
"A
little while and the world sees Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me, for I'll be
with you, even in you, to the end of the world. The works that I do shall you
also." Is that right? And He promised this would come to the Gentile
people, not down through the Lutheran Age, Wesleyan Age, but at the end time it
would happen.
Now,
don't you see? He's right on time. Right on... And remember, this has done went
around the world. So we're at the end. There's no doubt, no doubt. But you touch
His garment.
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E-55 Now,
"What is it, Brother Branham?" It's not me. And it wouldn't do a thing
to me if you didn't do it. It's--it's you just as much into it as I am. It's got
to be your faith that does His--touches Him, so that He will speak through me.
It's just a gift to yield myself to Him, just give Him my eyes, my mind, my
tongue, my being. I--I don't know none of you. But it's--it's Him speaking
through there. See? It's Him doing that. So it isn't me.
So
what caused it to do it? I don't know you. You say, "About me, Brother
Branham?" I don't know. "About me?" I don't know. But He does
know, so you touch Him, then He just uses me back. So see, it's you and I
together, as His servants. And He makes Hisself known to His people, that He's
right on time. He's right with the schedule, just exactly, just before the end
time, when the evening lights would shine.
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E-56 Now, If He
will do that, how many will love Him and believe Him and accept Him? God bless
you.
Now,
heavenly Father, the rest is in Your hands. I commit myself and this audience to
You. Just one case will prove it, Father. In the Name of Jesus Christ, let it
happen. Amen.
Now,
be real reverent. Don't get up no more; set still. Be real reverent just a few
moments.
Now,
one Word from Him will mean more than I could say in fifty--a hundred lifetimes:
just one Word from Him.
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E-57 Now, you
out there now that don't have no prayer card or wherever you are. Whatever your
condition is, you just say, "O great High Priest, let me touch You. And
Brother Branham don't know me. And then You turn him around to me, and let him
tell me, what I'm praying about. Let him tell me what's wrong with me. He don't
know me, or something that I'm thinking, or doing, or whatever it is. Let him
tell me. I'll believe You."
'Cause
the Bible said that's just the way He would do. That's the way He did do. That's
the way He will do. And you see, friends, if one time made Jesus feel weak, what
would it do to me a sinner? You'll never know until we meet at the gate up
there, what a--what's--what the price is. But that's... I'm not complaining. I'm
thanking God. You see? Just so that you'll understand.
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E-58 Well, days
we come down, and they give out prayer cards, and then along... I pick up those
prayer cards along down through the week of--of picking out some here and some
over here, and down here, so it won't--everybody won't rally for prayer card
number 1. You see? So they... And then the boy, before he gives them out, he
comes down, and stands before the audience, and mixes these cards up, mixes them
all up. I guess you've seen him do that. All right.
Then
he goes down, if you want one, he will give you one. Then the boy can't say,
"Well now, I gave her number one." He don't know himself. He just
passes it up. See? Mixes up, gives you... He might give you ten and the next one
by the side of you, ninety-five. So then, somewhere along through the week, I
keep... I'll call from 20 to 30, or from 50 to 90, or 90 back to 20, or
somewhere along like that, wherever the Lord lays it upon my heart, 'cause that
way, why then, just wherever the Holy Spirit leads to call.
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E-59 Happens to
be tonight by that leading, this woman, a colored woman, me a white man. I'm a
stranger to you? We do not know one another. This is our first time meeting. See
now?
Now,
if the Holy Spirit still remains the Holy Spirit that was in Christ, is in us
tonight, if that's the same Spirit, then It'll do the same work. If this is
true, the Holy Spirit, then It'll do the work of the Holy Spirit. If... It'll do
the work of Jesus.
And
that way, you can be sure then what He was back there; you know what He is now.
So let's take Saint John the 4th chapter. There was a... When He being a Jew,
met a Samaritan woman, and He talked to her a few minutes to catch her spirit.
And then He told her where her trouble was. And she said, "Sir, I perceive
You're a Prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these
things."
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E-60 And she said to Him that. And He said, "I'm
He that speaks to you." And she run into the city and said, "Come, see
a Man Who's told me the things I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?" And
all the people believed. And every one... Jesus never done it to one more
person. But the whole city believed on it. He never healed anybody, just went in
there, declared Himself. The woman and... The Bible said that the whole city
believed on Him because of the testimony of the woman.
Now,
if that was Jesus yesterday, and He can come do the same thing, as an African
girl and an Anglo-Saxon man, standing here... And if He can reveal to me
something that you're here for, something that you have done. or something like
that, you know--you'd know whether it's the truth or not. You certainly would.
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E-61 And then if
He can tell you what has been, certainly He can tell you what will be. You
believe that? To all the colored people here, white too, and whatevermore, you
believe that with all your heart? All right.
Now,
if any of you people don't believe this is the truth, and you believe it's
psychology, I haven't got no Ph.D. You come here and do it yourself. I'm waiting
for you.
Then
if you're afraid to come, accept it, or keep still about it. See? I said that
because I was led to do it. There's something going on that I--I know about it.
You're
aware that something's going on here too. One of your troubles is nervousness,
really extremely nervous.
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E-62 There it
comes, "He guessed it." Ever you get all right? I could say,
"Somebody out there is nervous. Somebody... The Lord said something."
But who is that somebody? This is that somebody. Stand... Just she's a--got a
nice spirit. We see if this is. Nervous? You got trouble with your shoulder too.
That's right. You got heart trouble also. Is that right? You got a burden on
your heart. Is that true? It's about a boy. Uh-huh. He's in an institution:
hospital. You're praying about him. You want me tell you who you are? Miss
Richardson. Go, believe.
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E-63 You'll
never know what that does to me. It just kills the very life... Now, real
reverent, everyone.
How
do you do, sir? We are strangers to each other? We are. But Jesus knows us both
and fed us both. If God will just let me know what you're standing here for. So
I wouldn't have to go in too much detail. See, a whole--I got a whole line
standing there, and others out there praying. See what it does to me.
But
if He'd just tell me something about you, you'd believe? Of course, one of the
things that you're wanting to pray for is your eyes. 'Course, you're wearing
glasses. Anybody can see that. That's not all that's the matter with the man.
There's something else, because he's got a shadow over him to death. His eyes
wouldn't do that. TB, tubercular, you had an operation for it: wasn't
successful. Hasn't done like it should done. Is that right? You believe now,
it's going to be all right?
Just
believe with all your heart. Would you believe that He is the Son of God and
healed you? Will, you would? Then just walk on by saying, "Thank You,
Lord." That ulcer will get all right.
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E-64 I don't
know you. We're strangers to one another. Do you believe Jesus Christ to be the
Son of God? Do you believe He sent me as a messenger to the church in this last
days to produce this Scripture and give a gift... Not because it was me. Not
because He had to get... He had... He probably, usually does get somebody that
don't know nothing, so He can show Hisself. See?
Do
you believe that these things that I speak of is truth by the Scripture? She
seems to be so full of sorrow is the reason I--I was talking to her a minute.
Yes. It is.
The
first thing is for yourself. You've had an--an operation. And that was a female,
lady's trouble a clean out of all the inside of--of--of the female organs was
removed. But it--it backfired. It done something. Now, just a moment. It's...
the doc... It's ruptured. It ruptured and you had to return, had to go back.
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E-65 But
you're--you're... That ain't really your sorrow. Your sorrow is about a child.
It's your child. And it's--it's had some disease or something wrong: TB. And now
it has some kind of a weak spells like, that's right. You got another one that
you're bothered about. And it's got a ear trouble. That's right. Your name is
Mrs. Smith. You go believe the Lord...?... Amen.
Do
you believe? Have faith. Just--just have faith. Believe.
How
do you do, lady? We are strangers to each other. I--I don't know you. As far as
I know, I've never seen you in my life. And we just meet here for the first
time. If I--if I could do something for you and wouldn't do it, then I'd be
a--I'd be a bad person; I'm not--not--I oughtn't to be standing behind the
pulpit here as a minister.
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E-66 And I--I
could not help you. And if He was standing here Himself, and wearing these
clothes that He give me, He could only prove that He was Messiah that had did
for you. But you'd have to have faith that He did it for you or you--you
wouldn't work anyhow. Isn't that right?
But
if He would stand here and tell you something, what's your trouble is, or what
you've done, what you ought not have done, or something about it. Then you'd
have faith to believe it, wouldn't you? All right. Would that raise the faith of
the audience now? You're dimming out to me.
Well,
you've had an accident. It's a bothering the head. And then you're having
trouble in your left side. That's right. Complications, so many things wrong...
That is true. Yes, ma'am. If God would tell me who you are, would it help you?
Miss Terry. Do you believe with all your heart now?
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heart trouble, doesn't He? You believe He does? Just go right ahead saying,
"Thank You, dear God."
You
believe He heals arthritis and makes people well? All right. Just come on.
Believe it with all your heart. God bless you.
A
lady's trouble and heart trouble. You believe He will make you well? All right.
Go right on your road rejoicing, saying...?...
You're
young to have anemic condition, but do you believe He transfuses blood? Go, say,
"Thank You, Lord." Go, believing.
Sinus
and it... Oh. You believe He heals it? Just go say, "Thank You, Lord
Jesus."
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to have an operation for that tumor, but you believe God will heal you with it?
All right. All right, go right on your road rejoicing, saying--saying,
"Thank You, Lord."
Come,
come, lady. You believe He heals nervousness? All right, go on your road
rejoicing, saying, "Thank You, Lord." And...
What
if I didn't say nothing to you? Would you believe me anyhow? Come here. In the
Name of Jesus may she be healed. Go, believing.
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E-69 Come. Just
a moment. Just a moment. Something happened somewhere. Did those people going by
there was in the prayer line, going back there? Oh, yes. That might've been
what...
Mister,
setting right back here in the row, setting right here looking at me, you're
suffering with a prostate trouble. Yes, sir. Setting there, yes, sir. Yeah. Have
you a prayer card? You don't have a prayer card, do you? You don't need it. Your
faith healed you.
This
second woman from there, is your wife. That's right. I see you in a home
together. And she suffers with trouble with her liver. That's right. If it's
right, raise up your hand. Go home; Jesus Christ makes you well.
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setting there next to you, has something wrong with her tongue. You believe,
lady? If that's true, raise up your hand. All right. Go home.
You
setting on the end out there, what about you? There It is over you now: got
bladder trouble. That's right. All right. You believe? All right, go home and be
well.
Amen.
Do you accept it? What did they touch? Here--here set a man started crying,
setting right back here, this man. It's that young fellow. Now, that man, I
never seen him in my life. But listen, son, you got stomach trouble. That's
right. But you was praying, the Spirit come upon you, a real wonderful feeling.
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E-71 If I'm a
stranger to you, wave your hand like this. I don't know you. Is that what's
trouble with you? Wave your hand. All right, you're healed. Jesus Christ makes
you well.
This
lady setting right back there is suffering with epilepsy. Do you believe that
God will make you well, heal you? Do you believe it? If you'll accept your
healing, them spells will leave you and you won't have it anymore. Believe it.
The
little lady setting here looking at me on the side with her hand up like this,
something wrong with her ankle. You believe that God will make you well? All
right, you can have your healing.
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E-72 This lady
standing here with your hand up. You're ready for an operation on that old
tumor. But God will take it out and make you well. You believe it? Go, believe
it.
This
kind woman, with a white band around her head here, colored lady: gallbladder
trouble. You believe God will heal you?
What
about you in the wheelchair? You believe me to be His prophet? You'll die
setting there. You have one chance to live. Like the lepers was that sat at the
gate of Samaria. I cannot heal you, sister. I'm no healer. But those Samaritans,
they said, "If we set here, we'll die. If we go in the city, we'll die. So
the only chance we got is go to the camp of the enemy. If they kill us, we're
going to die anyhow. But if they save us, we'll be alive."
They
had one chance out of millions. You ain't got that kind of a chance. You're
invited tonight to the home of a real loving God. Stand up on your feet now.
Walk...?...
Let's
rise and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Rise up. If you'll believe Him, stand
up on your feet, in the Name of Jesus Christ, and accept your healing. Amen.
Take the altar call.