Adoption (60-0522E)

 

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…?… To our precious friends, we are happy to be back here in the
church tonight. A little warm, and so we'll try to hurry just quick as
possible, get right straight into the message.
First, we have some announcements to make and a–a special p–prayer
request. I got your letters in back there that was given, and for the
sister that feels she has tumor on brain, and there was another in
Louisville, and another minister's brother, his–his father has a heart
attack. And there's many, many sick people in the world today. Many are
calling in, and we sure do pray for them with all of our heart that God
will help us.

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Usually about ninety-five percent of my ministry is always that praying
for the sick (You see?), but I'm–I just kinda got a–kinda got a
little view that… I still pray for the sick now. Remember that. That
goes right on with it, but oh, if we could get the–the church where
positionally set and–and get in order so we can go to work. You see?
Got to get organized (See?) get everything together.
Something else just struck my heart a few moments ago. That's when a
little old veteran man, one of his arms almost shot off, leg almost
shot off… He's not around here to listen at me just now, but a real
prince of a fellow by the name of Roy Roberson, one of our trustees
here at the church and one fine, Christian gentleman… He stepped just
there and said, "Brother Branham, don't forget the president." Said,
"It made me feel so sorry when he stepped…" Saw on a television, him
stepping off of the plane, the tears coming down his cheeks and his
mouth twisting sideways… You know, he was right over there with Roy
and them in that–that battle.

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No matter if you different with him in politics, he's still our
president. Yes, sir. To me, I'm–I'm neither Democrat nor Republican;
I'm a Christian. But I–I tell you; I've certainly had a great
admiration for–for President Dwight Eisenhower. Yes, sir. He sure has
been one great man in my way of thinking. If he was running again, and
I was voting, I'd vote for him again. That's right. I don't care if he
was–if he was a hundred years old, I'd still be voting for him,
because I like him. And let's remember him in our prayers tonight.
J. T., I certainly appreciate that nice meeting you all–you and
Brother Willard had this week. If I'd have walked in from the outside,
you all said, "All right, Brother Branham, now you know so-and-so," but
it's better just stand outside and listen at you. Don't you see? [Brother Branham laughs–Ed.] All right. Very fine.

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I got some offers for some churches if you all want them. If you're
ready to go to pastoring now, if you got your training and, which I
believe you have, and got all settled down, I got one in Oregon, and
some in Washington, California, and Arizona, different places. And if
you ever want to take a church or anything, why, right here's a good
place to start from, right here. And there's souls crying everywhere
even to the Indian reservations and whatever you want to go to. Just
let us know, because I believe that you boys are anchored now. That's
right. I just love to see them do that.
There's Brother Ruddell up there on the road. Going up to have meeting
for him in a few days, going to have a revival, Brother Ruddell is. And
I–I remember I used to push that little fellow around everywhere
trying to make him get out in the harness and preach. He was so
backward. He'd say, "I just can't talk." Ha. You ought to hear him.
See, see? You don't know what you can do till you let Holy Spirit gets
ahold of you. That's right.

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Brother Graham Snelling in Utica and Brother Junior Jackson down there,
we–we consider all them our little sister churches right with us.
We're all together. We don't disagree on our doctrines; our–our hopes,
our aims, our doctrines are one. We stand together just every thing
together. We're just one church, and we'd sure like to have them
scattered throughout. We got some in Africa, some in India, and all
around over the country. We… That's where we want them, scattering
the news.
And I see these young fellows coming on like Brother J. T. Parnell
here, and–and Brother Willard, and them when they're coming on, young
fellows when I'm getting older… If there is a tomorrow, they'll be
that men of tomorrow. I don't want this message to never die. It just
can't. It must live on, and I don't believe we got too much longer to
bring it.
The little baby that they said was going to die, I see you've had in
church all day today, sister. That's very fine. We're thankful to the
Lord for that, that the Lord is gracious, full of mercy. Just keep
believing what was told you right here. See? It'll be all right.

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Now, are you enjoying teaching? You like teaching? Oh, I–I–I really
think it does us good. It gives us a little rest from praying for the
sick, and visions, and Divine healing. 'Course now tonight we, after
the service, we'll pray for the sick again tonight. We always want to
do that. Baptize anybody at any time.
How many remembers when I used to walk the power lines? Well, I've
walked right through the power lines many times. Had to walk thirty
miles a day through the wilderness. I had two hundred and eighty miles
of line to walk. I'd go down through there, skirt in my hands, and oh,
so tired, walking through them jungles and green briars cutting.
Meet some old farmer and set down under a tree and talk to him about
being baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus. He'd say, "Well, I've
always wanted to be baptized."
I said, "It ain't very far to the creek."

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And he'd say… And I've took a many a one right down there and
baptized him in the Name of Jesus. Take right on down the line just as
hard as I could go. That's right. Many time in my old working clothes,
baptize one, come right down off of a pole. Set up there working across
the pole; I was a lineman too, working across the pole, with a man,
talking to him about the Lord. He'd say, "Well, Billy, one of these
days I'm coming up to your church and be baptized."
I'd say, "Why do you want to wait till then for? We're right by the
river, there's plenty of water right there." Catch them right now.
That's right. That's the time. Philip said…

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The eunuch said to Philip, "Here's water, what does hinder us?" That's
right. Nothing, if you're ready, that's the time. Don't let the Devil
get a chance to wedge something in there. Don't put off for tomorrow
the things that you could do today. Tomorrow might not come for you.
I remember one time I did that, learned, taught me a lesson. I put off
something that I should've done one day, and the next day was too late.

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Now, truly, I don't want to keep you all this time, but I just get
so–so wound up and I don't know. I just feeling so good, till I just
get beside myself almost; I just feel so good.
Now, let us bow our heads just a moment before we approach the Word.
Our heavenly Father, Thou art the living God, ever alive. The sun that
just went down, that same sun, Daniel looked at it when it set;
Jeremiah looked at it setting; Adam looked at it setting; Jesus looked
at it setting. And it's the same world that they lived in and walked
in, and You still remain the same God.
Tonight there's many requests: a man with tumor on the brain; a sister
fears the same thing. You're the only hope, Lord, there is for that.
That tumor has become malignant; there's nothing can be stopped. It's
way out of the reach of the hands of the doctor. But tonight we go with
our little slingshot, after that Lamb to bring it back to Father's
fold. In the Name of the Lord Jesus we direct our prayer to slay the
lion, the tumor, the malignancy, safely to bring them to the fold.

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And we, God, do remember tonight, our lovely President, brother–or
Dwight Eisenhower. He has guided the land, Lord; he's tried to keep us
out of war. He promised the Korean War would end if he had any way he
could. He promised those mothers he'd bring those boys back. But he
said, "For me to do it, I can't do it. I can put my efforts, but God
alone will have to do it." And You was with him, Lord, and now it's all
settled up. Why couldn't they have seen that in the first place? God, I
pray that You'll help him. Bless that gallant soul, Lord. And we pray
that You'll choose for us the leader that is to be next. Your
predestinated will be done, Lord.
But the One that we are so interested in tonight, besides of our
national affairs, is that great and glorious One that's coming to set
up a Kingdom that'll have no end, the Lord Jesus Thy Son. Then they'll
stack arms; the taps will sound, and there'll be no more wars. They'll
plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them. They'll build houses,
inhabit them. And there'll never be no more trouble then after that.
Bless us now as we approach the Word. And Father, Thou knowest the
reason that I'm approaching the Word from this very Scripture here.
It's because that I–I feel that You want me to do it this a way, that
it's Your Divine will; it's in Your order; it's in the… It's the
order of the day to let the people positionally find their place and be
ready for the hour of battle. As our brother said in his prayer to You
not long ago, "Oh, You have trained us so long, Lord." Now, Father,
give us our ranks. Put us out there to what were supposed to do, so we
can be about the Father's business. For we ask it in Jesus' Name, Thy
Son. Amen.

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Had rather a wonderful afternoon this afternoon, talking to a famous
doctor in Louisville, his nurse. They heard about the glorious things
of the Lord. And her father is a doctor. And she came over and set in
my room most the afternoon, just come in, dropped in, a wonderful
person: rather a little hard, you know, kind of a staunch, real
Presbyterian to start with, but left with tears running down her
cheeks. Oh, I… God's got them just sticking everywhere in doctors'
offices, and nurses. I don't believe there's a nurse in Norton's
Infirmary Hospital that I didn't testify to about having the Holy
Ghost, and asked her if she was baptized in the Name of Jesus. Not a
doctor that I come in contact with, anywhere, nothing… See?
Tell them about It. You ain't got much time, brother. No matter how
hard it seems here, just wait till you cross that last breath yonder
and see, then you'll wish you had've done it. Yes, sir. Don't wait till
that time; let's do it right now. This is the hour. Oh, they might
disagree, and fume and fuss a little about it, but they don't mean it.
They really don't mean it. They–they–they're all right. They go to
fussing at you, just–just remember, they–they don't really mean it.
They don't mean it. They just maybe been taught something, and they
just hang to that, so you–you can see their idea. Don't fuss with
them; don't fuss with no one, but just love them right into It. Then
pray for them.

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Well, I think we got down to the 9th verse; I'm not sure. I… That's a
long ways from the 3rd chapter, isn't it, men? But oh, it's honey in
the rock to me.
We were speaking now, remember, so we can get a little background
again. And now, Brother Neville, you–you pull me a little bit now if I
fail to see the time getting away, so I can have prayer for the sick.
We want to get every little speck that we can in tonight. I want an
altar call. I… Ending up on this which I may be able just to read the
rest of it.
But the purpose of this, is seeing your position in Christ, seeing that
it's not something that you just stumbled into, or something that might
have, you merited somewhere, but it's what God did for you Himself. Not
that you were so good that you went to a church one night, that some
poor brother led you up to the altar, and it wasn't that. It was God,
before the foundation of the world predestinated you to Eternal Life.
When you get there that day, no wonder the forty–twenty-four elders
laid off their crowns; everybody laid down their crown; everyone fell
on their faces; they didn't have one thing they could say, no preacher,
no elder, no nothing. All praise to the Lamb, God will gather in Him
all things at that day. Oh, if we'd ever know and recognize Who that
was, Who they crucified. Now, on the…

¹⁵ We'll start at the 8th verse, to get a little background.

"The
mysteries of His will…" And remember how we hung on that? How many
was here this morning? Let's see. How we stuck on that, "the mystery of
His will." Now, it is not just a little thing; then it's a mystery.
God's will is a mystery. And each man has to seek out the will of God
for his or herself, God's mystery.
How do we find out? Paul, it was known to him. He said he didn't confer
with any man, no flesh and blood. He went to no school, no seminary. He
had nothing to do with it. But he… It was revealed to him by Jesus
Christ, Who met him on the road to Damascus in a–a Light like a Pillar
of Fire, and It called him. And he went to Arabia, and there dwelt
three years. Oh, don't you imagine that was some time, Brother Egan?
Three years Paul was down there in Arabia, rented him a little building
somewhere, walking up and down the floor with all the old scrolls. They
didn't have the new ones; Paul wrote them, mostly. Right in these old
scrolls, how that God, at the beginning predestinated us unto Eternal
Life, how that He would send Jesus, that through this Sacrifice we'd
all have a right to the Tree of Life. "Those who He foreknew, He
called; those who He called, He has already justified; those who He
justified, He has already glorified."
God, since the beginning of the world, predestinated us to the adoption
of sons. Now, the whole creation groaning, waiting for the
manifestation of the sons of God. Oh, I'd imagine Paul had a wonderful
time. I'd like to have been there with him, wouldn't you?

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Now, he said, "He made known to us the mystery." Get the Holy Spirit on
you sometime, and start running that, and just watch how it goes. This
afternoon I had, oh, about thirty minutes to study, just to look the
lesson over; maybe not, I'll not say half of that, fifteen minutes
between the time. And I got to running, and I thought, "The mystery,
how mysterious." And the Scripture packed me back into the Old
Testament, then back over into the New Testament, tied something
together, see the mystery of His coming, the mystery of His will, the
mystery of us setting together.
Remember, it cannot be taught in any seminary. It's a mystery. You
cannot know it by education, by theology. It's a mystery that's been
hidden since the foundation of the world, waiting for the manifestation
of the sons of God.

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Tell me, my brother, tell me, my sister, when was the time that the
sons of God was ever to be manifested outside of this time now? When
were there ever a time in the history, this that ma–manifest the time
to deliver all nature? Nature, the nature itself is groaning, waiting
for the time of the manifestation. Why, before the atonement was made,
before the Holy Ghost was ever poured out, before all the–all the Old
Testament, on down there, there couldn't have been manifestation. It
had to wait till this time. Now, all things has been brought, coming,
shaping up to a headstone, to the manifestation of sons of God coming
back, and the Spirit of God coming into these men, so perfectly, until
their ministry will be so close like Christ's, till it'll join Him and
His church together.

²⁰ How many ever studied the history of the pyramids? I guess maybe one lady here raised her hand. All right.
God
wrote three Bibles. One of them was the Zodiac in the skies. That's the
first Bible. Man was to look up to realize that God is from above.
Follow the Zodiac; did you ever study it? It even gives every age, even
the cancer age. It gives the beginning, the birth–the birth of Christ.
What is the first figure in the Zodiac? The virgin. What's the last
figure? Leo the lion. The first coming and the second coming of Christ,
all of it is written in there.
Then the next Bible was written, was in stone, called pyramid. God
wrote in the pyramids. If you study them, watch the ancient histories
and wars, how they were built before the antediluvian destruction.

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The third was wrote on paper, the Bible, for the great, smart
intellectual world to come. Now, as God has moved down through the age,
we're at Leo the lion. We're at the capping of the pyramid. We're in
the Book of the Revelations at the last chapter. Science says we're
three minutes before midnight. Oh, think of where we're at.
And notice, let's take the pyramid; it's easy. It runs kind of like in a triangle.
When we were down here beginning at the early age of the church, after
the reformation in Luther's time, just a man to say he was a Christian,
either meant his life or death. They kill him for even saying he was a
Christian. Therefore to go through persecution… Every age, through
every time, there's been persecution. "All that live godly in Christ
Jesus shall suffer persecution."
In the age of Luther, it was horrible to say "a Lutheran." You was
considered a fanatic and could be put to death. Many times they killed
them at stakes, burn them, and everything else, for Lutherans.

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Then the church narrowed, as like the pyramid. It come into another
step of grace, which was sanctification: Wesley's time, when he
protested the Anglican church, taught sanctification. It come into the
minority again, then they were called a bunch of fanatics.
How many in here that was Methodist, or used to be, or was once
connected with Methodist church? Half of you. Did you know the
Methodist church al–almost had the Holy Ghost one time? I've went to
Methodist churches and see them fall on the floor, and throw water in
their face and fan them with a fan, keep the Holy Ghost from coming on
them. That's right. Now, that's the truth, down in the hills of
Kentucky where we had Methodists. You guys are church joiners out here.
We had Methodists back there, and Baptists. We got down at the altar
and beat one another in the back till we got something. We come
through; we lived different after that.
But you just come up, put your name on the book, and say, "I'm a
Methodist." And get the salt shaker and sprinkle a little water on you,
and that's all of it. Go on out and wear shorts, makeup, run the horse
races, bet, gamble, play slot machines and everything else, still good
Methodists. See? That's not Methodists. That's just church joiners.
That's right. Baptists, the same way, Presbyterian, on down the same
way…

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As David duPlessis said, "Grandchildren, God don't have any
grandchildren." God never had a grandchild. He's got sons, but no
grandsons. That's right. You… And people that come into the Methodist
church, or Pentecostal church, or Baptist church, because your mother
or father was Pentecostal or Baptist, then you're a grandson. They were
sons. You're a grandson. See? So God don't have anything like that. The
church has a lot of that, but not–but not the–not the–not the… God
doesn't.

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Now, notice these, on down till it comes down now, as it becomes to the
minority of the church. The Pentecostal age come in. That certainly cut
off a lot of bumps. Then it… What did it do? It just left the
Methodist and Lutheran all behind.
Now, the Holy Spirit's moved right on away from the Pentecostal age.
What did they do? They organized, made themselves, "We are the
Assemblies of God. We are the Oneness. We are the Twoness. We are the
Church of God. We are the this, or that. You don't belong; you can't
get into heaven 'less you got your name on our book." Oh, such
nonsense. I don't care if you're a Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian;
you put your name on the Book of Life when God puts it on there. If you
were predestinated to Eternal Life, God will call you some way,
somehow, some–some way or other. He sure will. "All the Father has
given Me will come to Me."
No matter what church you belong to, that has nothing to do it. But the
denomination will never do one thing to you, but might hinder you a lot
from going on with God, but it'll–it'll never do nothing else:
Congregate you together with a bunch of believers and unbelievers. Of
course, you hit that everywhere you go, and they even had that in
heaven. So it's all right, but you're looking to your denomination.
Look to Jesus; He's the One to look to.

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Now, as we're coming right down to… They had… How many… I believe
this woman here raised her hand that she'd studied the pyramids. You
know, the pyramid never was capped, was it? Never did have a capstone
put on it. They never, couldn't even find it. They don't know what ever
happened to it. Why? Why wasn't the capstone put on it, the headstone,
the top of it? Because He was rejected when He come. He was the
rejected Stone. That's right. But it will be capped. That's right. And
then those stones that fit around that headstone, will have to be
stones that'll be so completely like that stone, that'll fit it joint
and every–everywhere. The pyramid is so perfect you can't run a razor
blade between them, where them stones go together, such beautiful
masonry. Some of them would weigh hundreds of tons up in the air, and
so perfectly set together.

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That's the way God's bringing His church. We're fitly joined together,
one heart and one accord. Now, somebody say, "Well, the Lutherans back
there had nothing." Don't you believe it. The Lutherans will come forth
in the resurrection just the same as the rest will come forth in the
resurrection. Baptist, Presbyterians, and all of God's children will
come forth in that resurrection. And that's the reason today people
say, "Oh, well, there'll be a sweeping revival that'll go out here and
save a hundred million Pentecostals and all get saved, and there'll be
the rapture." You're mistaken. That rapture will be hundreds of
thousands; that's right; but they'll be all made up in six thousand
years of salvation too, six thousand years back. Man walks in the Light
as the Light comes to him; he crosses the bridges when he find–comes
to them. Now, if he refuses It, then he's left in darkness. But if he
keeps moving on…

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Now, notice, then the coming of the Lord Jesus is so close at hand,
until the Spirit from way down in here, just barely justification,
sanctification, baptism of the Holy Spirit, and now right into the time
of the coming of the Headstone… The church has got to be so perfectly
like Christ, until Christ and the church can unite together, the same
Spirit. And if the Spirit of Christ is in you, It makes you live the
life of Christ, act the life of Christ, do the works of Christ. "He
that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also." Jesus said
that. See? Now, we're going to have… We got a ministry coming that's
just exactly like the life of Christ. What does that ministry identify?
The coming of the Lord.
Look at it in the world today, and watch what Khrushchev's saying, all
these other great things, and great worldwide conflicts right at hand
at anytime, could go to powder at any second. That's right. And if
that, we know that that's close. Any sensible person can read in the
newspaper or listen to a radio, will know that that is close. Well,
remember, Christ comes for His church before that happens. So how close
is the coming of the Lord Jesus? Maybe before this meeting ends
tonight. We are at the end time. Certainly true.

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Watch the church as it's come, as it move. Just take it in your own
mind, you historians, that studies history. Look at the Lutheran church
under justification, coming just so freshly from Catholicism; look at
it moving. Then look at Wesley coming a little closer, into
sanctification, weaving into the Scriptures. Look at right in between,
the Wesley. Then the next thing come in was the Pentecostal age, and
the Pentecostal age with the restoration of the gifts, the spiritual
gifts. Now, look at the age coming now right up to the Headstone. See
what I mean? The coming of the Lord, the made known. God and all
creations is waiting for the church to positionally find its place.

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Trouble with today, I, pretty near everyone I met… I was rolled out;
we was taking… I have to have a physical examination, you know, for
going overseas. You missionaries and so forth, know that. When I was
taking examination, they brought me out of the room there, I'd been
drinking that old, looked to me like dough meal or something, and
I–I'd been drinking it. And come out there, set down, and wait for a
half hour, and see whether it went out of my stomach or not. I looked
across there, and there was some little woman, looked like she was just
about to die. She was so–little legs and little arms. And I kept
moving down from this man to that man, this man to that man, getting
closer to her, till I got down to where she was. She looked like poor
little thing was about to die. And I got up close to her; I said,
"Pardon me, madam."
She said, "How do you do?" Oh, she was so sick.
And I said, "What's wrong?"
She said, "I went to Tucson to visit my daughter. I got sick; they can't find what's the matter with me."
And I said, "One thing I want to ask you." I said, "I'm a Gospel
preacher. Are you a Christian? Are you ready to go if that hour shall
come?"
And she said, "I belong to Such-and-such a church."
I said, "That wasn't the question I asked you. Are you a Christian
filled with God's Spirit and ready to go when He calls you?" The woman
didn't even know what I was talking about. See? Oh, what a pitiful
sight the world is in.

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Now, "make known unto us the mysteries of His will," the coming of…
Let me read you something. I was reading over… Let's turn over now to
"the mystery of His will." Let's turn to Hebrews here just a minute,
the 7th chapter of Hebrews, I believe it is. I'd like to read you
something that would just make you feel so good when we think that
we're setting together in heavenly places: Hebrews the 7th chapter.

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What's the mystery now? Here's the mystery, watch this. Who is this
Fellow making, knowing, the mystery of His will, this Melchisedec? I'm
waiting for everybody here, the Bibles still turning. Hebrews, 7th
chapter, Paul speaking, same man of Galatians…

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Who was this Man? Who was He? He never had a father; He never had a
mother; He never had when He begin, or He never did have a time He'd
ever die. He met Abraham coming from the slaughter of the kings. What
was he doing? He went out to get Lot, his lost brother, to bring him
back. And he slaughtered the kings; which, them kings had slaughtered;
I believe ten or fifteen kings, and their kingdoms. But Abraham armed
his servants and went after him, separated himself by night. See when
he caught him? In the nighttime. Oh, brother, we're working in darkness
now; the only Light we have is the Gospel Light. But he separated
himself, and caught him, and brought him back. And on his road back,
after the battle was over…
Let's go to Genesis 14, just a minute, to get the story more plainer.
Let's go over here in Genesis, the four… I believe it's the 14th,
Genesis 14. Yes, let's take Genesis 14:18, begin. Let's start just a
little before that. Let's start, yeah, the 18th verse, Genesis 14:18,
"And Melchisedec…" Now, that's Abraham returning now from the
slaughter of the kings. Came back, on his road back, bringing back Lot,
all the people that they had taken away…

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All like David, who went and got the… What did David do? Took the
little slingshot, went out, and grabbed this little lamb out of the
lion's mouth. Think of a slingshot, going after a lamb. Who in the
world would do that? Tell me what man in here would do it, rise up your
hand. I'll tell you right quick you're wrong. You didn't see me put
mine up. No, I wouldn't go after him with a .30-06, hardly. But he went
after him with a slingshot, a little piece of leather like, with two
strings on it, winding around. Because, and when it come time for
Goliath to make his boast, he went after Goliath, and he said, "The God
of heaven has let me deliver a lamb out of the mouth of the lion, out
of the mouth of a bear." He knew it wasn't a slingshot. It was the
power of God that went with him. He was the One that brought that lamb
back.

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And that's what we say today. God's got Davids sticking around (Yes,
sir.), that's feeding Father's sheep. And once in a while a tumor will
come, or a cancer will come, or something, and jump plumb out of the
hands of the doctor. That won't stop that David; he'll go right on out
there after that fellow, with a little slingshot of: "Ask anything in
My Name; it shall be given." I don't care; doctors can laugh; and
everybody else can make fun of him; he'll go after him anyhow, bringing
that sheep back to the fold. Yes, sir. "It's God's child, take your
hand off of him."
Knock this lion down, then the lion rose up; he grabbed him by the
beard and killed him: a little bitty ruddy boy, probably weigh eighty
or ninety pounds.

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Now, watch. Melchisedec, the King of Salem, which is King of Peace,
which actually Salem lays across the hill. It's the King of Jerusalem,
Who it was. That's exactly Who it was, King of Jerusalem, which
Jerusalem was first called Salem, which was peace; that was Jerusalem
first, before it was called Jerusalem. He was the King of Jerusalem. He
was the King of righteousness, the King of peace, the King of Salem. He
had no father; He had no mother; He had no beginning of days; He had no
ending of life; He had no descent. Ha, ho, ho, ho, ho. Who is this
Fellow? Watch Him.
After the battle was over, after the victory was won, watch what He
said. "And Melchisedec…" 18th verse, the 14th chapter, Genesis.

Let's read a little farther.

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Notice, this Melchisedec, as soon as He met Abraham coming from the
slaughter of the kings… The mystery of God now being made known, Who
was He? Nobody… They can't find any history of Him, because He didn't
have any father; He didn't have any mother; He never had any time He
began; He never had any time He'd ever die; so ever Who He was is still
alive. He never did have a beginning, so He couldn't have been nobody
else but El, Elah, Elohim; self-existent, self-abiding, Almighty God.
Jesus had a Father; Jesus had a Mother; Jesus had a beginning of days;
Jesus had an ending of earthly life. But this Man had neither father
nor mother (Amen.), no father nor mother. Jesus had both Father and
Mother. This Man had neither father nor mother. Amen. And what did He
do? After the battle was over, after Abraham had took his position…
After the church takes its position, we're called to the adoption of
sons by the Holy Spirit. And when each man takes his position, what God
has called him to do, and stand to the end of the road, going after the
lost…

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First, Paul takes all the scare out of it. So now, if you're called, if
you're not just worked up in your mind by some kind of theology; if
you're really borned of the Spirit, then God predestinated you before
the foundation of the world, put your name on the Lamb's Book of Life;
and now we come together to set in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: "A
holy people, a holy nation, a peculiar people, royal priesthood,
offering spiritual sacrifices unto God, that is, the fruits of our lips
giving praise to His Name."
People come in and say, "Them people are crazy." Sure they are; the
wisdom of God is foolish to man, and the wisdom of man is foolish to
God. They're contrary, one to the other.

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But a real Spirit-filled church, full of power of God, setting together
in heavenly places, offering spiritual sacrifices, praises of God, the
Holy Spirit moving among them, discerning sin, and calling out the
things that's among them that's wrong, straightened out and making it
flat and level… Because why? Always in the Presence of God is that
bloody Sacrifice.
Now, remember, we went through it this morning. You wasn't saved by the
Blood; you're kept saved by the Blood. But you were saved by grace,
through faith, believing it. God knocked at your heart, because He
predestinated you. You looked up, and believed it, accepted it. Now,
the Blood makes an atonement for your sins.
Remember, I said, "God does not condemn a sinner for sinning." He's a
sinner to begin with. He condemns a Christian for sinning. And then
because He has condemned him, Christ took our condemnation. So there's
no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, that walk not after
the flesh, but after the Spirit. And if you do anything wrong, it isn't
willfully. You don't sin willfully. A man that sins willfully, goes out
and willfully sins, never come into that Body yet. But a man that's
once in there, he's dead, and his life is hid in God through Christ,
sealed by the Holy Ghost, and the devil can't even find him; he's so
far back in there. He would have to come out of there before the devil
can ever get in, for you are dead.

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Tell a dead man he's a hypocrite and see what happens. Kick him on the
side and say, "You old hypocrite, you…" He'll not say a word. And
that's right; he'll just lay there. And a man that's dead in Christ,
you can call him hypocrite, call him anything you want to; he'll never
rise up about it. If anything, he'll slip off somewhere and pray for
you. That's right.
But, oh, some of them's very much alive. That's what I think about;
we're supposed to bury dead people. Them that's dead in Christ, we bury
them in water. Sometimes we bury too many people that's alive: too much
malice and strife, and there's too much in the church. But we can't
separate that, but God does. He knows His people. He knows His sheep.
He knows every voice. He knows His children. He knows who He can call
out; He knows who He's predestinated. He knows who He's given these
things to, what He's making Hisself known through. How He… God can
put confidence in His children on what to do, knowing that they will do
exactly. You believe God does that?

⁵⁸ Why, Satan said to–to Job one day–or said to God one day, "Yeah, You got a servant."
God said, "There's none in the earth like him. He's a perfect man," had confidence in him.
Satan said, "Oh, yes, he's got everything easy. Let me have him a little while; I'll make him cuss You to Your face."
He said, "He's at your hands, but don't you take his life." See? And he done everything but take his life.
But,
oh, Job, instead of… What did he do? Did he cuss God when God took
his children, when he done all these evil things to him, and
everything? Job didn't question. He fell on his face and worshipped
(Hallelujah.), said, "The Lord gave, and the Lord taken away; blessed
be the Name of the Lord." There you are.
God knowed His trust in Job. God knows how much He can trust you. He
knows how much He can trust me. But what we're speaking of now is
placing this child.

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Now, when the Bible–when the battle is all over, when everything is
finished, then what is the next thing we do? What is the thing we do
after the battle's over? Did you know what we do? We meet Melchisedec.
Let's turn, Matthew 16:16, right quick, see if that's right or not.
Saint Matthew, 16th chapter and 16th verse, I'm pretty sure that's
right, Matthew 16:16. Matthew 6… No, that's wrong, couldn't be that
close, 26:26. 'Cause 16 here, He's talking to Simon Peter. Pardon me, I
didn't mean to say that. 26:26, 'cause just the last supper, that's
what I'm trying to get to. Matthew the 26th chapter and the 26th verse,
now we got her; here we are, at the last supper.

All right, but–but listen, 29th verse…

What? The same thing Melchisedec did after Abraham had got his
position, set his men in order, and won the battle, and had come home,
and Melchisedec come out with bread and wine. After the battle's over,
then we'll eat the wedding supper with the Lord Jesus in the new world.
Oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord. All right.

⁶⁷

And remember that, we just passed over it: Ephesians, 1st chapter, 10th verse.

Now,
we learned that the fullness of time is waiting for what? The fullness
of all time, the time that when sin will cease, the time when death
will cease, the time when sickness will cease, the time when sin will
cease, the time when all of the perversions and perverted things that
the Devil has perverted will cease, when time itself shall cease. Watch.

"Gather all things through Christ…" As I said this morning, all the
little nuggets that we find, these great little things, you can polish
them in Genesis; you can polish them in Exodus; you can polish them in
Leviticus, and bring them through; and in Revelations they'll end up
being Jesus. You take Joseph; you take Abraham; you take Isaac; you
take Jacob; you take David; you take any of those nuggets, those men of
God, and see if you don't see Jesus Christ displayed in each one of
them. "That He might gather all things into One, Christ Jesus."

⁷¹ Now, a little farther now, now that 11th verse…

Oh,
"an inheritance…" Somebody has to leave you something to inherit it.
Is that right? An inheritance, what inheritance do we have? What
inheritance did I have? I didn't have any. But God left me an
inheritance when He put my name on the Lamb's Book of Life before the
foundation of the world.
Oh, you say, "Now, wait a minute, brother, Jesus did that when He died
for you." No, He never. Jesus come to purchase that inheritance for me.
Read the very next ver, or very next line.

⁷⁴
God, before the foundation of the world, as we've took it down through
the lesson, you people: How we seen God was self-existence, how that in
Him was love. In Him was to be God; there was nothing to worship Him.
In Him was to be a Father; there was… He was by Himself. In Him was
to be a Saviour: nothing lost. In Him was to be a Healer. That's the
attributes of Him. There was nothing there. So His Ownself, His own
good counsel produced these things, that He might through this one Man,
Christ Jesus, gather it all together again. Oh, eye has not seen ears
not… No wonder it's a mysterious thing.

⁷⁵
Look, "has predestinated us unto this inheritance…" If I'm a right
inheritance of something, if God is knocking at my heart and saying,
"William Branham, I called you a long time ago before the foundation of
the world to preach the Gospel," I have an inheritance, an inheritance
of Eternal Life. Now, God sent Jesus to make that inheritance real to
me, because there was nothing I could do to–to inherit it. It was
blank; it was valid; there's nothing I can do. But in the fullness of
time God sent, in His Own good time, Jesus the Lamb, slain from the
foundation of the world. His Blood was shed, that I might go to my
inheritance. To be what, what inheritance? To sonship, to be a son of
God.

⁷⁶
And now, this may just choke you to death. But did you know that men
that are sons of God are amateur gods? How many ever knowed that? How
many knows that Jesus said so? The Bible, Jesus said, "Did not your law
say itself that you are gods? And if you call them gods…" Which, God
said in Genesis 2 that they were gods, because they were–had full
domain over the dominion of the world. He give him dominion over all
things. And he lost his godship; he lost his sonship; he lost his
domain; and Satan took it over. But, brother, we are waiting for the
manifestations of the sons of God, who'll come back and take it over
again. Waiting for the fullness of time, when the pyramid gets up to
the top, when the full sons of God will be manifested, when the power
of God will walk out (Hallelujah.) and will take every power that
Satan's got away from him. Yes, sir, it belongs to him.

⁷⁷
He's the Logos that went out of God; that is true; that was the Son of
God. Then He made man that little god. And He said, "If they call those
who the Word of God came to, the prophets, if they call them gods who
the Word of God came to…" And God said so Himself that they were
gods. He told Moses, "I made you a god, and made Aaron your prophet."
Amen. Whew. I–I may act like a religious crank, but I'm not. Oh, when
your eyes can come open and see those things…
All right. He made man a god, a god in his domain. And His domain goes
from sea to sea, from shore to shore. He has the control of it.
And when Jesus came, being the one God without sin, He proved it. When
the winds blowed, He said, "Peace, be still." Amen. And when the tree,
He said, "No man eat from thee."
"Verily, I say unto you, you, that's little gods, if you'll say to this
mountain, 'be moved,' and don't doubt in your heart, but believe that
what you've said will come to pass, you can have what you've said."

⁸⁰
Go right back to Genesis, to the original; what is it? Now, the world
and nature is groaning, crying; everything's a moving what? For the
manifestation of the sons of God, when true sons, born sons, filled
sons speak and their word is backed. I believe we're on the border of
it right now. Yes, sir. Say to this mountain, let it be so.
"Brother, I–I desire so-and-so, a certain thing done. I'm a believer in Jesus Christ."
"I give it to you in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ." Amen. There's a manifestation.
"Oh, brother, my crops are burning up out yonder. I haven't had any rain."
"I'll send you a rain in the Name of the Lord God…?… bless your
crop." Oh, waiting, groaning, all nature, waiting for the
manifestations of the sons of God. God ordained it at the beginning. He
gave man the domain.

⁸⁵
He gave Jesus Christ, and Jesus gave it in His Name, with this
assurance, "Ask the Father anything in My Name, and I'll do it." Oh,
Brother Palmer. Waiting for the manifestations of the sons of God, the
position, the church…
As I said, the Book of Ephesians is the Book of Joshua, and Joshua
placing the people where they belong. Now, if they wouldn't stand
still, and he put Ephraim here, and said he run over on Manasseh's
land. And this one would come back a fussing and stewing, how they ever
going to get along? When one said, "I'm a Baptist; I'm a Methodist; I'm
a Pentecostal; I'm oneness; I'm twoness; I'm So-and-so." how you going
to do it? Stand still.
God's wanting to place His church, sons and daughters of God. God, let
me live to see it, is my prayer, so close till I can just feel it with
my hands almost, look like; it's right there. That's what I've longed
to see, waiting for the time when walk down the street; there lays a
cripple laying there from his mother's womb, "Silver and gold have I
none…?…" Oh, waiting for the manifestations of the sons of God
(Hallelujah.), when God will make Hisself known, when they'll stop
sickness, they'll stop cancer, they'll stop diseases.

⁸⁸
You think cancer's something? The Bible said there's coming a time when
men will rot right in their flesh, and the buzzards will eat off of
carcasses before they even die. Cancer's a toothache to what's a
coming. But, remember, that horrible thing was forbidden in that day to
touch those who had the Seal of God. That's what we're striving for
now, to get in and be positionally placed into the Kingdom of God
before these horrible plagues strike. Oh, how good. The dispensation of
time, fullness of time, the i–inheritance…

⁸⁹
How was our inheritance given to us, through what? Predestination.
Predestination is foreknowledge. How did God know He could trust you to
be a preacher? His foreknowledge. "Not he that willeth or he that
runneth, or he… It's God that showeth mercy." That's right.
Predestination, He knew what was in you. He knowed what was in you
before you even come on the earth. He knowed what was in you before
there was ever a earth for you to come on. That's–that's Him. That's
the infinite God, the infinite. We're finite; we can only think finite.

⁹⁰
It's been so much to me since that what happened to me, I don't know.
When I think there, when I stood there for those few joyful moments,
and thought, "There's no tomorrow." There was no yesterday; there's no
sickness; there's no sorrow. There's no little bit of happiness, then a
whole lot of happiness; it's all happiness. Oh, my. Oh, when I stood
there, and I said, "What is this?"
That Voice said, "This is perfect love, and everything that you ever
loved and everything that ever loved you is here with you now."
"And you'll present us to the Lord Jesus when He comes, as trophies of your ministry."
I seen those beautiful women standing there, all grabbing me and screaming, "My precious, darling brother."
Seen those man with that shaggy hair around their neck here, running, grabbing me, and saying, "Our darling brother."
And I thought, "What does this mean?"
He said, "They're your people."
I said, "My people? There couldn't be that many Branhams; there's millions…"
He said, "They're your converts." Hallelujah. "They are your converts.
They're the ones that…" Said, "You see that one standing there?" The
most beautiful woman I ever seen… Said, "She was a past ninety years
old when you led her to God. No wonder she's crying, 'My darling
brother.'" Said, "She'll never be old no more. She's passed from that.
She's in the splendor of youth. She's standing here. She can't drink a
cold drink of water; she don't need it. She can't lay down and sleep,
'cause she don't get tired. There's no tomorrow, no yesterday, nor
nothing. We're in eternity now. But some glorious day the Son of God
shall come, and you will be judged according to the Word that you
preached to them."
Oh, brother, I said, "Will Paul have to bring his group?"
"Yes, sir."
I said, "I preached It just exactly like Paul said It. I never divvied;
I never took into any church creeds or anything else. I stayed the
same."
And all of them screamed with one accord, "We know that. We're resting
with assurance." Said, "You will present us to Him, and then we'll all
go back to earth again to live forever." Oh, my.

⁹⁷
Just then I started coming to. I looked, laying there on the bed, and I
seen my old carcass here, getting old and wrinkled, and drawed up,
and–and diseased up, and afflicted, and I seen my hands behind my
head, and I thought, "Oh, will I have to go back in that thing again?"
And I kept hearing that Voice, "Keep pressing on. Keep pressing on."
I said, "Lord, I've always believed Divine healing; I'll keep believing
it. But I'll press for them souls, so help me. I'll have so many there
I'll… Let me live Lord, and I'll put another million in there, if
You'll just let me live."

¹⁰⁰
I don't care what color, what creed, what nationality, what they are;
they're all one when they get there. Them old boundary lines has passed
away. Oh, I can see those women, so pretty, never seen… with lo–long
hair way down their back, long skirts way down. They was barefooted.
See them men with shaggy hair around their neck, redheads, blackheads,
and all different colors. And they were throwing their arms around me.
I could feeled them. I felt their hands. Jud–God is my Judge, and this
sacred Book open, I could feel them just the same as I feel my hands on
my face.
And they was throwing their arms around me, no sensation of women like
would be now. I don't care how holy you are, who you are, what kind of
a preacher you are, priest, or whatever you might be; there's no man
can let a woman throw his arms around her, without having a human
sensations. That's exactly the truth. But, brother, when you pass
between here and yonder, it ain't that way there. Oh, my. It's so, oh,
there's… It's impossible. It's all love. Everything is real brother
and everything's real sister. There's no death, no sorrow, no jealousy,
no nothing, nothing can enter there. It's just perfection. That's what
I'm striving for. That's what I'm placing for.

¹⁰¹
I said, "O Lord, that's what I'm here at the church for, trying to set
the church in order," telling you, brother and sister, there's only one
thing that can enter that; that's perfect love. Not because you're
loyal to the Branham Tabernacle, or the Methodist church, or Baptist
church, them's all right; you should be. But, oh, friends, you've
got… Not because you spoke with tongues, danced in the Spirit,
because you cast out devils, or moved mountains with faith. That all's
all right, for that's all right, but still unless that real perfect
love is in there. That was where perfect… [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.]

¹⁰²

Does everybody understand that? Did you call on God? No, God called on
you. No man never sought God. It's God seeking man. Jesus said, "No man
can come to Me except My Father draws him first." See, it's the nature
of man to run from God. And you say now…
That–that's what bothers me though, to preach to you people; don't
remain on in the same condition you've been going in; change now. Hear
me as I say it, THUS SAITH THE LORD. I've never called myself this; I'm
not. But you called me your prophet, or a prophet. The world believes
that, the world around, millions and millions and millions of people.
I've spoke directly and indirectly to ten or–ten or twelve million
people, or more, directly speaking. I've seen tens of thousands of
visions, and signs and wonders, and not one of them have ever failed.
And that's right. He's foretold me things that's never failed to happen
just exactly. I'll bring any man to trial for that. That's right. I
don't claim to be a prophet, but you listen to me.

¹⁰⁴
THUS SAITH THE LORD, it'll take perfect love to put you in that place,
for that's all there was there. No matter how many, how much religious
demonstrations, how many good deeds you done, or whatever you done,
that won't count nothing on that day. It'll take perfect love. So
whatever you do, you lay aside everything else, until you are just so
filled with the love of God, till you can love those who hate you.
I'm just, as I said this morning, I was made… My whole makeup is
grace. A lot of people say, "Now, you scratch my back, and I'll scratch
yours. Yeah, you do something for me, and I'll do something for you."
That's not grace. Grace is, if your back is itching, I'll scratch it
anyhow, whether you scratch mine or not; you slap me on the face, and
say, "my back needs itching, needs scratching," I'll scratch it. See?
That's it; do something. I don't believe in works; I believe that works
is love. Works is–works is the manifestation that grace has taken
place.
I don't live true to my wife because I believe she'd divorce me if I didn't; I live true to her because I love her.

¹⁰⁶
I don't preach the Gospel, 'cause I think I'd go to hell if I didn't; I
preach the Gospel because I love Him. Certainly. You think I'd cross
those stormy seas, and them planes diving back and forth, and lightning
flashing around, and–and everything else, and most any minute… and
everybody screaming, and "Hail Mary's" a going on through the plane,
and everything… Them people a-swinging in them safety belts, and the
pilot saying, "Enough gas to last fifteen minutes longer, don't know
where we're at." Do you think I'd do that just–just for the fun of
doing it? Huh. You think I'd get back out there in the jungles where
German soldiers had to put their arms around me like this each night
and take me in and out of the meeting, until the Holy Spirit begin to
perform miracles, communists setting with night scopes, to shoot me a
mile away. You think I'd do that just for the fun of it? Because
something in me, love. They're humans that Christ died for. Paul said,
"I'm not only willing to go up to Jerusalem, but I'm going up there to
be crucified. I'm going up to die. I'm going up there to die for the
cause of the Lord." It's something, love that constrains you, that
makes you. That's exactly right.

¹⁰⁷
If I'd preach the Gospel for money, if it would've been, I wouldn't
have been twenty thousand dollars tonight in debt. I wouldn't been that
in debt. No, sir. Because I'd have kept some of the–some of the
millions that had been given to me. One man, one man sent an FBI agent
with a million-five-hundred-thousand dollar money draft. And I said,
"Take it back." Not for money, it isn't money. I don't preach the
Gospel for money, not for that.
It's because of the love. The thing I want to do, is, when I cross that
last breath yonder, which may be in five minutes from now; it may be in
two hours from now; it may be fifty years from now. I don't know when
it'll be. But when it does, I do arrive there, I want to see the
splendor of youth running, hollering, "My darling brother, my brother."
That's what's in my heart. That's why.
I don't try to disagree with you to be–be different, but I'm trying to
put you on the road that's right. That's the way in. Not your church,
not your denomination, but your birth in Christ. Oh, my. Whew.

¹⁰⁹

Listen. We're going to close in a few minutes. Listen close now 'fore we close.

Watch this now, closely. Get on your jackets, Gospel jackets. Hold your ears open; listen close. I'm on the 13th verse.

What is Truth? The Word of God. Is that right? John 17:17, you that's
taking down Scriptures, Jesus said, "Sanctify them, Father, through the
Truth; Thy Word is Truth."

¹¹²

What
was the salvation he was trying to tell them? Predestinated before the
foundation of the earth (Is that right?) to adoption of sons,
predestinated to Eternal Life. Now, after you come into Eternal Life,
after you been saved, sanctified, filled with the Holy Spirit, you're
sons. Now, God wanting to place you positionally, oh, so that you can
work for His Kingdom and His glory.
That's the Gospel. Being first, hear the Word, "Repent, be baptized in
the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins." Taking away all
your sins, calling on the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, for the
promised land… The promise is unto every sojourner that's on your
road. If you left your home tonight, a sinner, saying, "I'll walk over
to the Branham Tabernacle," God gives you the opportunity tonight.
There's one thing lays between you and the promised Land. What is the
promised Land? The Holy Ghost. What laid between Joshua and the
promised land was the Jordan. Exactly right.

¹¹⁴
Moses, being a type of Christ, led the children up to the promised
land; then Moses did not take the children in the promised land. Joshua
took the people in and divided up the land. Jesus paid the price, led
them up to the Holy Spirit. God sent the Holy Spirit down, and He
positionally put the church in order, each man, filling him with His
Presence of His Being. You see what I mean? All in Christ Jesus, how
God predestinated this to the calling of this Gospel.
Paul, Galatians 1:8, said, "If an Angel come preach anything else, let
him be accursed." The Truth, the Gospel… Now, listen close as we read
on, finishing the verse.

¹¹⁶
In the last days, the Bible said… Now, watch. In the last days
there's going to be two classes of people. One of them's going to have
the Seal of God, the other one the mark of the beast. Is that right?
How many knows that? Well, if the Seal of God is the Seal of… If the
Seal of God is the Holy Ghost, then without the Holy Ghost is the mark
of the beast. And the Bible said that the two spirits would be so close
together, it would deceive the very Elected if it was possible. It'll
never do it, because they were elected to Eternal Life. See? Church
going just as an ordinary…

¹¹⁷
Ten virgins went out to meet the Lord, all sanctified, all holy, every
one of them sanctified. Five were dilatory and let their lights go out.
Five had oil in their lamps. "And, behold the Bridegroom cometh." And
the five that had oil in their lamps went into the wedding supper. And
the others was left outside , where they were weeping, and wailing, and
gnashing of teeth. Be ready, for you don't know what minute the Lord
comes. Have… What is the Oil represented in the Bible? Holy Spirit.

¹¹⁸
Now, if you today are Seventh-day Adventist brethren who said the
seventh day is God's seal, produce one Scripture to prove it. The Bible
said that the Seal of God is the Holy Ghost. Watch this. Which, watch
the 13th verse now.

Turn to Ephesians 4:30; I believe that's it. See if we don't get 4:30;
see if this isn't the same: Ephesians the 4th chapter and the 30th
verse, yeah, here it is, 4:30.

¹²⁰
How long? When you really, really receive the Holy Ghost, how long is
It to last you? Until the next revival? until Grandma crosses your
path? until the boss bawls you out? Until the day of your redemption.
Hallelujah.
After you have died, after you have passed into that land, that you're
standing there with your loved ones, you are still filled with the Holy
Ghost. Scripture… You're just as you are now, only you've got
a–you've moved into another body. You've just changed houses. This one
got old; you couldn't tack the shingles on it no more; the rafters got
rotten. That's right. So you just turned the old thing away, and let it
rot on down, and moved into a new one. Is that right? "For if this
earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one waiting."

¹²²
You remember the other day, going through that? When the little baby is
being formed in the womb of the mother, and its little muscles are
kicking and jumping and going on… But just as soon as the mother
drops the baby, and the baby's to earth, the first thing, there is a
spiritual body to catch that little natural body. Maybe the doctor give
it a [Brother Branham slaps his hands together–Ed.]
like that, or something to shake it, and "wha, wha, wha." And
immediately right to that mother's breast it'll go, "um, um," moving
its little head up and down on the mother's breast, to make those milk
veins bring milk.
A little calf, as soon as it's dropped from the mother, it'll get up on
its little knees after a few minutes. What will it do? Move right
straight back around, get ahold of that mother, and begin to shake its
little head up-and-down like that, and get its milk, Hallelujah. Yes,
sir.
When this natural body comes into earth, there's a spiritual body
waiting for it. And when this natural body's dropped on the ground
(Hallelujah.), there is one waiting yonder. We just move from one into
another; we change our dwelling places. This mortal must put on
immortality; this spiritual, this corruption put on incorruption. This
old wrinkled up, drawed, stooped over body, but it won't change its
appearance at all; I mean when it gets yonder, you'll still have the
same spirit.

¹²⁶
Let me give you a little something sounds twisting to you, but it's the
Bible. Then I'll give you one that'll untwist it for you. Watch this
one. When old Saul, the–the king, the–the old, big old denominational
preacher down there that time, you know, that got head and shoulders
above them all, and was afraid; he didn't know nothing about the
supernatural. David had to come and deliver the lamb out of the lion's
mouth, kill Goliath. Watch him. He got so far back from God; he got to
hating this holy-roller preacher. Instead of being for him to try to
help him, he turned against him. If that just isn't the picture
exactly, exactly the picture: turned right from him.

¹²⁷
How many was in here when I left on my first trip and preached, "David,
a slaying Goliath," when I left? Many, some, a few of the old timers.
I'm fixing to leave again on this. Remember, we see what just come
around last Sunday? It's moving right into another phase. David's
second campaign, second phase of his ministry. That's exactly right.
Which, then he become king over Israel. Notice the ministry now is
moving out into a greater phase, coming out greater. So did David.
Now, notice this as he come, David, oh, when God had David come out
there and slay the lion, notice, and slay the bear, then slay the
Philistine… Now, there come a time when God gave a evil spirit over
to this old boy. And now, to what? To hate David. And I believe…

¹²⁸
Now, these tapes… Now, listen, brethren, you on these tapes, if you
disagree with me, forgive me. See, I love you. I'm going to meet you
over yonder anyhow (See?), 'cause if you're a man of God, I'm going to
meet you anyhow. But I want to say this: here's the reason. Just
because that Saul saw that David had something that he didn't have…
Then what happened?
A little old ruddy, drawed over… The Bible said he was ruddy. That
wasn't a very fair child, "ruddy" is just a little old drawed up sort
of a fellow. And he went out there, and Saul… When he put Saul's
armor on him, I imagine the shield come plumb down over his feet. And
he said, "Take this stuff off of me." All right. Now, maybe he give him
a doctor's degree, a Ph.D. or LL.D., or something, you know. How he
said, "I don't know nothing about that stuff, because I haven't proved
it. Let me have this what I know what I'm doing with." Yes, sir. He
took the slingshot.

¹³⁰
And they made David mad because the daughters, the churches, the
churches was singing, "Saul, might've killed his thousands, but David
killed his tens of thousands."
Then he got jealous, "That old Jesus' Name stuff, there's nothing to
it." That's right. And what did God do to him? God sent an evil spirit
upon him (See?) to hate David, and he hated David without a cause.
David could've wrung his neck a few times. He could, but he just let it
go. He just never said nothing. He sure could've done it. He went over
and cut the tail of his coat off one night, come back, said, "Looky
here, you see?" Yes, sir, he could've done it, but he just let him
alone. He could've broke his congregation up, and scattered them, and
started an organization of hisself if he wanted to. But he didn't do
it; he just let Saul go on. Let God do the fighting. Yes, sir.

¹³³
So as he went on out, and the campaign finished on, it got on, that
evil spirit got so that Saul couldn't get no answer from God. After
while he… The Spirit of the Lord had departed from him. And old
Samuel, the one that they had turned down, the one that really was the
Voice of God to them, the one that said to them before they even wanted
to act like the world…
Why does the church want to act like the world? Why does Pentecostal,
baptized, Holy Ghost experienced Methodists, and Baptists, and
Presbyterian want to act like the world? Why do they do it? I don't
know. I–I just can't understand it. You say, "Well, it's no fun to
play poker, just a little bit for fun, just a little penny ante," ever
what you call it. It's a sin. You shouldn't have them things in your
house. "Why, it's no harm to take this little bitty glass of beer out
there. Uh, we just got a few. Me and my wife has a few in the
afternoon." And the first thing you know, your children's got a few.
Sure it is.

¹³⁵
And you women, Hmm. Devil's just made a… That's what he did in the
beginning, and he certainly has made a target out of you sisters. He
just does that just to… 'Cause he knows what he can do. He can
deceive a woman a thousand times quicker than a man. I know that hurts
your feelings, but that's the truth. That's exactly. That's what he
done in the garden of Eden. He can make… Now, she was honest; she was
sincere, but she was deceived. "Adam was not deceived," the Bible said.
He wasn't deceived, but she was deceived. So he can deceive her. And
yet pastors will go right out and ordain women preachers, put them out
over flongre–congregations like that, and this Bible condemns it from
Genesis to Revelation. You say, "Well, it's all right. It's all right.
They got… They can preach just the same as any." I know that's right.

¹³⁶
Like somebody started speaking in tongues one time; I just kept on
preaching. And when I got outside, a woman said to my son, said, "I've
got a message to give tomorrow night," said, "when your daddy comes on
the platform." Said, "Why, a message, what do you mean?"
And that night when it got ready, when I was fixing to make the altar
call, she fixed her hair all up, and pulled up her stockings and
everything, got ready, jumped up in the middle of the floor and begin
to jump up-and-down, spoke in tongues, and prophesied. I just kept on
preaching, make my altar call. Well, I never really respect it a bit;
it wasn't right.
So then, well, the Bible said not to, said, "The–the Spirit of the
prophets are subject to the prophet." God's on the… God's speaking at
the platform, let Him speak. Paul said, "If something be revealed to
one, let him hold his peace till the next one finishes." That's right.
Now, then when I got outside, these people said, a big bunch of people, said, "You grieved the Holy Ghost tonight."
I said, "What doing? What'd I do?"
Said, "Well, when that sister gave that message. Hallelujah, said that…"
"Why," I said, "I was preaching. She was out of order."
"Oh," said, "that was fresh right off the throne. That's fresher than what you was preaching." Ha.

¹⁴¹
Now, that just shows the… That shows either this… And I say it to
your respects, either insanity, or either disrespects, or illiterate
teaching that don't know no more about God than a rabbit knows about
snowshoes. Now, that, I don't say that to be a-a silly remark, because
this no place to joke. But that's–that's exactly the truth. A person
that would know that God's not a author of confusion. He's of peace.
The Bible they don't know. All they knowed how to do is jump
up-and-down, speak in tongues, say, "I got the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah."
I've stood and seen, in Africa, witch doctors and things speak, by the
five thousands of them at a time, jumping up-and-down, blood all over
their faces, speaking in tongues, and drink blood out of a human skull,
call on the Devil, and speak in tongues.

¹⁴³
And yet speaking in tongues is a gift of God, but that's not the
infallible proof of the Holy Ghost. Let me tell you that now. I do
believe that all inspired saints speak with tongues. I believe a man
some time when you get so inspired with God till you will speak with
tongues. I believe that. But I don't believe that's any sign you got
the Holy Ghost. Yes, sir. I believe there's times when you have faith,
a person, you can walk right up and lay hands on a little kid that's
got a cancer, when fifty preachers had prayed for it, and it'd be
healed; because that mother has faith for that child. God's give it to
her; she's a member of the Body of Christ. Yes, sir. I believe that. I
seen that done, and I know that's true. But what it is, is get the
church in order, set in order so we can work.

¹⁴⁴ Now, let's finish the rest of this verse here 'fore we go.

Seal,
what is the seal? What is a seal? A seal is, first thing it shows is a
work that has been completed, a completed work. The next thing it shows
is ownership. And the next thing it shows is security, keeping it.
Say, for instance, I used to work for the Pennsylvania Railroad; I used
to work with my father on the railroad. We would load cars. And we'd
put in down here at this packing company; we'd put in tin cans. And
we'd set some up here, and some down here, and some up this a way. But
before that car was ever sealed, the inspector come through there, and
he pushed on it, shoved on this one, shook that one. "Aw. Condemn it.
They'll break all to pieces 'fore they get there. Condemn it. Take them
out. Do it over." The inspector condemned the car.

¹⁴⁷
The Holy Ghost is the Inspector. He shake you a little bit, and you
rattle. Do you believe all the Word of God? "I don't believe that old
Jesus' Name stuff." Condemn it. You rattle. See? "I don't believe in
Divine healing or no such a thing." Still rattles, take them out. You
believe Jesus Christ is the same yesterday… "Well, in some way." You
rattle. Kick it out; it ain't ready yet. Yes, sir.
Brother, when it's ready to say "amen…" Have you received the Holy
Ghost? "Amen." Has everything been completed? "Amen." Then what does
the Inspector do? Everything's packed in good and tight, full of the
Gospel. Oh, every Word of God is good. Everything is perfect. "I
believe every Word. Amen. Amen. Amen." Do you believe that God still
heals? "Amen." Do you believe Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and
forever? "Amen." You believe the Holy Ghost is just as real as It ever
was? "Amen." You believe the same Spirit fell on Paul falls on us?
"Amen." You believe It does the same things on us it did on them?
"Amen." Uh, oh, she getting tight now. See, getting tight now; we're
ready to close the door. All right.

¹⁴⁹
Then the inspector closes the door. What does he do? He puts a seal on
it. Then he gets down here and gets ahold of these little pliers of a
thing, reaches over there on this little thing and seals that. You'd
better not break it. If them, that car, its destination is Boston, it
cannot be broken. It would be an–a penitentiary offense to break that
seal until it gets to Boston. And a man that has the authority can open
that seal, and him only. That's right. It's owned by the
certain-certain railroad company. It's their seal. It's their assurance
that this car has been packed; this car is ready. It belongs to them.
They couldn't put the "B & O" on the Pennsylvania. You've got to be
sealed, and when it's sealed…

¹⁵⁰
And when the Christian is packed with the Gospel, filled with the
goodness of God, all the good things of God laying in him, with an open
heart, ready to work, willing to be positionally placed, do anything
that the Holy Spirit tells him to do, passed from death unto Life,
sanctified from all the things of the world, walking in the Light as
the Light comes to him, moving on; he's ready. Then God shuts the door
of the world behind him, and kicks it together like that, and seals him
with the Holy Ghost of promise. Hallelujah. How long? Until the
destination. Don't get him out here on the railroad track, and break it
open, and see if everything's all right again. It's all right; just
leave it alone. The Inspector has done inspected it. How long are you
sealed? Until the day of your redemption. That's how long you're sealed.
"Well, when you die, then, Brother Branham, what about after you die,
you said you still have It?" You have It forever. Where does Life
begin? At the altar. Right there you see a little bit of shadow. That's
the shadow, the Seal of the Holy Spirit. Then it's a shadow of the
shadows of the shadows, as I said the other day. But when you die, you
keep on going through those shadows until you come to moisture, from
moisture to a little trickling spring, from a spring to a creek, from a
creek to a river, from a river to an ocean (See?) of the love of God.
You're just the same person.

¹⁵²
Looky here. Old Saul, the old backslider, he could not get through to
God, yet he wasn't lost. He certainly wasn't. He was a prophet, but he
just got outside of God. That's the reason, brethren, I said, "You're
not lost." So then you remember, he just got out of the will of God; so
then the first thing you know, he–he wouldn't agree. Now, maybe I
shouldn't have said that. All right, I'm just going on 'fore a happy
congregation tonight. So then, you know, and the first thing you know,
oh, my, then he went to the–the Urim Thummim.
You know what the Urim of Thummim was, it was the breastplate, the
ephod that–that Aaron wore. And it was always, God always has been a
supernatural God answering in supernatural ways. And when a prophet
prophesied, and them mystic lights didn't come across that Urim
Thummim, he was wrong. When a dreamer told a dream, and it didn't flash
on that Urim Thummim, I don't care how good it sounded; it was wrong.
That's right.

¹⁵⁴
And I don't care just exactly how many doctor's degrees you got and how
big your organization is, when you prophesy or preach, it ain't
according to this Word, you're wrong, brother. You're… This is God's
Urim Thummim. When you say you wasn't predestinated before the
foundation of the world, she won't flash; because the Bible said you
was. When you say that you ought to be baptized in the name of Father,
Son, Holy Ghost, it doesn't flash; because nobody in the Bible was ever
baptized that way, only in the Name of the Lord Jesus. It won't flash,
so there's something wrong somewhere.

¹⁵⁷
So the Urim Thummim wouldn't answer old Saul, and he couldn't even have
a dream. He was so far gone, till he couldn't even have a dream. So you
know what he done? He went down to the witch, and this old witch, the
old devil doctor down there, witch doctor. And he said, "Can you
divine?"
She said, "Yes, but Saul said he'd kill everybody divining."
He said, "I'll protect you," dressed like a footman. He said, "Divine
for me and bring me up from the world of the dead that's passed on
beyond here." Now, listen to this. "Bring me up the spirit of Samuel
the prophet."
And she went in to–to divine. And when she did, she fell on her face;
she said, "I see gods coming up." See, she was a heathen, "gods," two
or three of them, like Father, Son, Holy Ghost, or something like that,
you know. She said; she said, "I see gods coming up."
Said, "Describe him. How does he look? What does he look like?"
Said, "He's thin, and he's got a mantle over his shoulders." He hadn't changed a bit.
He said, "It's Samuel. Bring him in this room; bring him here before me."
And watch when Samuel come before Saul, he said, "Why did you call me,
seeing you've become an enemy to God?" And watch. Not only was he still
Samuel; he still maintained the spirit of prophecy. Say it's wrong; let
anyone say it's wrong. It's the truth. He was still a prophet. For he
said, he prophesied and said, "The battle's going against you tomorrow,
and you and your sons will fall in battle tomorrow, and by this time
tomorrow night you'll be with me." Is that right? He was still a
prophet.
Now, you say, "Oh, but that was a witch did that."

¹⁶³
All right, I'll tell you One that wasn't a witch. Jesus took Peter,
James, and John, and went up to Mount Transfiguration one time, and was
standing up on top of the mountain. And Jesus, God was placing His Son
like I'm trying to–had the other night, placing son. And when they
did, they looked around and found out that there stood Moses and
Elijah. They were talking, communing, not little white flags floating
around, or little white clouds, rather, floating around. But they were
men, talking. Moses had been buried in an unmarked grave for eight
hundred years. And Elijah had went home in a chariot five hundred
years. And here they both was, still just as much alive as they ever
was alive, standing there talking to Him before He went to Calvary.
Hallelujah. "Sealed until the day of our redemption…"

¹⁶⁴
I'll hurry, and then we'll close, 'cause it's late, and we'll pray for
the sick, about five more minutes. 14th verse…?… when you read the
13th over it, get it background.

Now, remember, what salvation they had? These were–these were Ephesian
Christians. They… Now, look, did you notice the Corinthians? He
always had to tell them, "When I come among you, one has a tongue, one
has a tongue, one has a psalm, one has a prophecy, one has…" See, he
couldn't teach them nothing, 'cause they was always desiring this,
that, or the other. These people had the same thing, but they had it in
order. He never taught the Corinthians nothing like this; he couldn't.
The church wasn't in order to teach it. Now, he could teach these
people the real thing.

¹⁶⁶
What is the Holy Ghost? Now, then I'll read the rest of it real fast if
you'll bear with me this much. Where was we at the other night, Brother
Mike? Where they were all happy, oh, everything was peace; that was
perfect love. Now, every time you come this way, you drop down a
little, drop. Every time you make a step, you come inches closer. When
it gets down to the earth, you got a shadow of the shadow of the shadow
of shadows. Now, that's how much Holy Spirit you got in you. That's
love. But oh, you thirst for something.
Oh, would not people like old, old people… How would I like to go
back and be fifteen again, twenty. Oh, I'd give anything. What good
would it do me? I might be fifteen and die yet tonight. It's uncertain.
What if you was fifteen tonight, how do you know whether mother would
be living when you got home or not? How you know you're going to get
home? How do you know you're going to be living tomorrow if you're
twelve years old, perfect health? You may be killed in a accident, drop
dead, anything might happen to you. Uncertain (See?), there's nothing
here certain. But you long for that. What is it? It's that up there
making you long for it.

¹⁶⁸ Now, you walk into this, then you have Eternal Life. Now, what does it happen? It is the "earnest."
What is the earnest money on anything? If I come to you to buy a car, I'd say, "How much is that car?"
You say, "This car, Brother Branham, costs you three thousand dollars."
"What's the down payment?"
"Well, I'll let you have it for five hundred dollars."
"All
right, here's the five hundred dollars. I'll–I'll bring the rest of it
to you sometime, soon as I can. You hold the car." I give you five
hundred dollars; that's the earnest. Is that right?
Now, hold that, it's the earnest; it's the down payment.

¹⁷³
What is it? It's the down payment. And brother, Oh, if this is the down
payment, what's it going to be when we get…?… What is it going to
be? If this is the… If this what we enjoy now, and get so happy
till… I've seen men ninety years old just couldn't har…
I seen an old preacher that raised up one night. He come out, he said,
like this, coming out on the platform. I said, "That old man going to
preach?"
He said, "Well, bless the Lord." An old colored fellow, great big old long preacher's coat on.
I said, "Why didn't they let some of them young preachers preach? That old man, how can he ever preach?"
He said, "Well," he said, "brethren," he said, "today I've been hearing
the brothers preach all day long," he said, "about what Jesus done on
earth. I'm going to tell what He done in heaven." He said, "I'll take
my text tonight from Job 7:27," said, "when it was way back yonder
before the foundation of the world," said, "when He said the morning
stars sang together and sons of God shouted for joy." Going like
that… Said, "You know, there's some went–something went on back
there." He said, "You know…" And he begin to bring on what taken
place in heaven. He brought it down the horizontal rainbow in the
second coming.
About that time, the Holy Ghost struck him. Now, they had to lead the
old fellow out; he was around ninety-five years old. He's just like
this, all bent over, and just a little rim of hair, you know, like
this. Got out there and he started preaching, said, "Whoopee.
Hallelujah. Glory." Got to jumping up-and-down like that. Said, "Oh,
you ain't got enough room here for me to preach. Jumping up-and-down
like that, hard as he could go. And that's just the earnest. Oh.

¹⁷⁸
What does the Holy Spirit do? Oh, here's a good place. Let me read the
1st verse of the next chapter. Can I? Is it all right? Say, "amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."–Ed.] All right, the 1st verse of the 2nd chapter, quickly. Listen.

"You has He quickened…" What does "quickened" mean? "Made alive."
Just about gone, but He quickens you just by the earnest money. What
will it be when you–when you really get ahold of the dividends?…?…
Oh. No wonder Paul, caught up into the third heaven said, "Eye has not
seen; ear has not heard; neither has it entered in, entered the heart
of man, what God has for them in store that love Him." What will that
be? You talk about joy unspeakable and full of glory. Whew. Umm. You
who were once dead in sin and trespasses, has He quickened together by
the shadow of the shadow of the shadows. What's it going to be when you
come to the shadow of the shadows into the shadow, the shadow then into
the creek, the creek into the river, the river into the ocean?

¹⁸⁰
And what is it when you're way out there in redemption with a brand new
body, you've turned back to a young man altogether again, or a young
woman; you're never going to die no more. And you look down on earth
and think, "I could enjoy some grapes and some good cold water, but,
you know, I don't need it here." But someday Jesus is coming, and this
angelic body, this theophany that I'm living in, will not come through
the womb of a woman anymore; it'll not come through sexual desire
anymore; but because that He was born without sexual desire, I'll be
resurrected without it. And He will speak someday, and the dead in
Christ shall rise, and that body that I once lived in will resurrect
into a glorified body; and I'll walk; and I'll talk; and I'll live; and
I'll enjoy (Hallelujah) I'll…?… to the…?… ages that is to come,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. There you are, brother; that's the
Gospel.

¹⁸¹
"Wherefore I also…" Paul's just telling now what he is. I'll read the
rest of this, and then we pray for the sick. "Until the possession,
this is the earnest until the possession, unto the praises of His
glory."

¹⁸²
Umm. You know, and the Bible said you were blind and didn't know it.
But here Paul said, "I'm going to pray that your eyes of
understanding…" You understand with your heart. That's what he's
talking about. You look with your eye, but you see with your heart. You
know that. All right. "That the God of glory…" Let's see, that–the
18th verse.

"You who have believed to the working of His mighty power, I just pray that God will just pour out His power upon you." See?

Oh. For… No, I better not. We could sure take the rest the night on that.

¹⁸⁴ What is every–what's every name every name of, every person will bear the Name of what? [Congregation says "Jesus."–Ed.]
The whole heaven's named Jesus. The whole church is named Jesus.
Everything is named Jesus, for it's the only Name that God ever had.
He's called Jehovah, Jehovah-jireh, the Lord's provided Sacrifice;
Jehovah-rapha, the Lord that healeth thee; Jehovah, the Lord's banner,
Manasses; and Jehovah, di–different Jehovahs. He's called the Morning
Star. He's called Father: He's called Son; He's called Holy Ghost. He's
called Alpha; He's called Omega. He's called Beginning; He's called the
Ending. He's called the Branch. Oh, He's called–He's just called all
kinds of titles, but He had one Name.
That's what Matthew was talking about when he said, "Go ye therefore
and teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name (not in names), in
the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost." Father's not a name;
Son's not a name; Holy Ghost is not a name. It's a title to a Name.
It's a name of three attributes that belongs to one God. What was His
Name? The Angel said, "Thou shall call His Name [Congregation says, 'Jesus.']
for He shall save His people from their sin." That's the reason they
all baptized that way in the Bible. That's how Saint Augustine baptized
the King of England, about–about a hundred and fifty, two hundred
years after the death of Christ, in the Name of Jesus Christ. All
right.

¹⁸⁵

Now, if my body has the power over all things, then what my body is, is
what I am. Is that right? That's what I am; that's what you know me as.
Is that right? Well, then, all that God was, He poured into Jesus, for
He was the Fullness of the Godhead bodily. Is that right? And all that
Jesus was, He poured into the church. "These things that I do, shall
you do all things–also. Even greater than this shall you do, for I go
to the Father."

¹⁸⁷
Oh, how I love that. How I love that. I was reading the other day a
book that was wrote about of the trip I went to minis–minister in
Africa. Never did read it before. How many ever read the book, "Prophet
Visits Africa"? In there I was looking at a little Indian boy. How many
seen that picture?
I heard a certain evangelist, been praying for the sick for about
fifteen years or more; he said, "I never seen a miracle performed in my
life." He said, "I've seen people that said they had headaches, got
well. I seen people say they had tummyache, got well, and so forth. But
a miracle, something that created and made something…"
I thought that boy ought to have been standing there and seen that.
That Indian boy's leg was just about this big around, one of them. The
other one was a normal leg, like the human being's leg. And if you
notice his brace, there was his shoe about fourteen inches, or fifteen
inches, higher like this. He had an iron plate on the bottom of it. His
shoe set up on top of two long standards that stood. He walked up to
where I was standing; they brought him up there. He had two crutches.
He took this big iron shoe and chomped it down like that. I looked at
his leg; it was about that big around.

¹⁹⁰
Now, them people are Mohammedan, Mohammedans. Did you remember last
Sunday when I read you what the papers had to write? I've got it right
here myself from Africa, sent to me by return missionary, Brother
Stricker. There's the article how Billy Graham backed up on it. That's
exactly. There's the Mohammedan pushing him right into the sea. What's
the matter? The missionaries are leaving the field. What's the use of
staying any longer; they're just whipped.
I love Billy Graham; I think he's a wonderful man of God. But what
Billy Graham ought to have charged him with, say, "Wait a minute…" If
some of these self-starched Baptists would've let him do it, I believe
he would've done it. I believe Billy Graham's a man of God. But if he'd
said, "Wait a minute. I'm a minister of the Gospel. You believe in the
Old Testament, and you said that Jesus wasn't nothing but a man. I
challenge you on a debate." I don't believe in taking the Devil's
challenges, no, sir. But I'd have challenged him back, and said, "Let's
you and I come together. I'm a Doctor of Divinity." Billy Graham is a
Doctor of Divinity. "Let me challenge you on this, and let me prove to
you that Jesus was the Christ. Now, when it comes to Divine healing, I
don't possess those gifts, but we got some brothers that does. Now, if
you want to bring them people out there, let me just call one of them,
Oral Roberts or somebody, somebody that has a great ministry that would
really get there." Come over there, and then seen what take place, say,
"Christianity is not what you think it is."

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Now, everybody feels let down 'cause he just walked off and left him.
'Course now, I don't believe in the Devil giving you a challenge. I've
spit in his face too like that, and walked away from him. That's right.
But when it comes to a place where… Billy could've–could've made
that Mohammedan feel like a little weed like that. He could've took
that Bible and took Isaiah 9:6, and said, "Who was he talking about,
'Unto us a Child is born, to us a Son is given'? Who was this Man? Who
was these–that he was talking about? Who was this Prophet? Who was
this Messiah that was to come? Show me where he produced Hisself in
Mohammed. 'He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our
iniquity, chastisement of our peace upon Him, with His stripes we were
healed.' Show it to me in Mohammed. How did he cry, 'My God, My God,
why hast Thou forsaken Me? They pierced My hands and My feet,' and so
forth? Show me by your own word, your own testament." Why, he'd have
beat that Mohammedan so bad till he wouldn't knowed where he was at.
That's right.

¹⁹³
But when the paper had to turn around, that's what hurt–what made my
heart jump, when it said there, "Though Billy had to back up and made a
back up, how can the Mohammedans say that it was wrong," said, "when
Reverend William Branham at Durban, South Africa, on undisputed miracle
after miracle, with Divine power, when ten thousand Mohammedans fell on
their face at one time and surrendered their life to Jesus Christ…"
Absolutely, they know about it. Them fundamentals know about it. Don't
you tell me.
One time there's one come to Jesus, said, "Rabbi…" You know he was a
Pharisee. Said, "We know You're a Teacher come from God. We know it. We
know it, 'cause no man could do the things You do except God be with
Him. We understand. We know it. But we just can't confess it (See?),
'cause if we do, well, we'll be put out of our church. See, we'll lose
our prestige." And so Jesus said, begin to tell him he must be born
again.

¹⁹⁵
On that Mohammedan boy, when he was standing there; there's his
picture. The camera won't take a lie. There he's standing there, one
leg that much shorter (about fourteen inches) than the other one,
standing on that iron shoe. Said to him, I said, "You speak English?"
"No, sir." Couldn't speak English.
Interpreter said, "He don't speak English."
"How long you been that way?"
The interpreter asked him. "Since birth."
"Can you move the leg at all?"
"No, sir."
"Do you believe in Jesus Christ?"
Said, "I'm a Mohammedan."
I said, "Will you accept Jesus Christ if He'll make you well?"
"I will accept Jesus Christ as my Saviour if He make me well."
"If He'll make that well, that leg come like the other, you'll accept Him?"
"I will."

¹⁹⁹
Thought, "God, what will You do?" This was the next thing. All
questions are answered. Brother Mike, that's the feeling. I'll wait
just a minute to see what He was going to say. I looked over there; I
seen the boy going, walking along, like aside of the walls like that; I
said, "How many of you Mohammedans will accept it? Here's a Mohammedan
boy; look at him; stand him up there." I said, "You doctors, you want
to look at him? There he stands." Oh, you know where you're at then.
See, you know where you're standing. Nobody… Here he was.
I said, "Walk across this way, son." And they got him, here he come.
(Cha-lomp, cha-lomp.) I said, "Look like about twelve, fourteen inches
shorter. About like that."
"Yeah."
I said, "But Jesus Christ the Son of God can make him well. Will you
Mohammedans believe it and accept Him as personal Saviour? There's
thousands of those black hands went up out through like that. "Oh,
Lord, now's the time." I said, "Heavenly Father, if You ever answered,
answer me now; this is for Your glory; this is for You. I pray You make
this boy well." I just prayed over him like that.
I said, "Take off your shoe." He looked at me real funny, the
interpreter. I said, "Take off your shoe." He unlaced it. 'Cause I done
seen that vision, what was going to happen. He took off that thing.
When he took it back and walked over there to me, both legs just as
normal, and both of them walking like this. I said, "You want to walk
back and forth?"
He started crying like that, going back and forth; he didn't know what to do. Walking like that, he said, "O Allah. Allah."
I said, "Jesus. Jesus." Oh, "O Jesus, Jesus," then. "Jesus. Jesus," like that. I said, "Is there any questions, any questions?"

²⁰⁵
Julius Stadsklev, how many knows him? Brother Stadsklev's come here at
the church. Just–just went to Germany. See? Said, "Just a minute,
Brother Branham, just a minute." said, "bring the photographer right
quick and I'll get his picture?"
I said, "Help yourself."
"Walked over here, stand your shoe here." He stood like that, took the
picture of the boy there, with both legs just as normal and straight as
they could be. There stood his old show and brace like that–like that.
I said, "How many of you Mohammedans now reject Mohammed as prophet,
and believe Jesus to be the Son of God, and accept Him as your personal
Saviour?" Ten thousand hands went…?… Hallelujah. They don't want
a…

²⁰⁸
They try to keep it back, because we're "holy-rollers," they call us.
You see? Just the same, God's a moving, placing His church. He's doing
the exceedingly, abundantly above all that we could even do or think.
He's just as much God tonight as He ever was.
So little friends, let me tell you something right now. My darling
precious people, you here in this land, and the others in tape lands
which will be overseas and wherever you are, don't be afraid.
Everything's all right. Father God, before the foundation of the world,
knew everything that would happen. Everything works right along. You
love Him? Keep your heart right.

²¹⁰
And, remember, when this breath passes from this life, to you old
people, or to you young people… And you mothers, when you see your
little babies, that little girl baby that died when she wasn't eight
days old or five days old, she'll be a beautiful young woman when you
see her. That old grandpa was all so stooped over; he couldn't hardly
see where he was going; when you see him, grandmother, he'll be a fine
handsome young man, just as young as about twenty years old, just in
the splendor of youth. And he'll be that way forever. You'll can touch
his hand; you can shake hands with him. You'll throw your arms around
him, but he won't be hubby; he'll be brother. Oh, my. He'll be so much
greater than hubby. You think you loved him? Sure you did. But that was
phileo; wait till you get agapao. Wait till that real Divine love
catches, and then see what is.
This here just is like an old smoldering dump; it's no good; there's
nothing to it. Only thing I advise you to do now, is this, my–my–my
friends.

²¹¹
A little later on I'll… Would you like for me to pick up them other
two chapters sometime? The Lord… I've–I got to rest just a little
before Chatauqua.
Now, I can't preach these things in them meetings. There's too many
un–too many different beliefs. See? This is just church alone. See? I
can't preach… But I got a right to preach in here whatever I want to.
This is my Tabernacle. See? And I'm telling you. Now, I believe them
people are saved. Yes, sir, I truly believe it. But oh, how much more
it is to walk when you know where you're walking. How much, know–it is
to know what you're doing (You see?), instead of staggering, stumbling
along. Let's just stand up in the Light, and walk in the Light, and
know which way you're headed. That's true. The Lord be with you.

²¹²
And if each one of you in here now has not been positionally placed…
You might not be nothing but a housewife. Well, you say, "Brother
Branham, I never done a thing in my life. I'm not a preacher." Well,
maybe God brought you here to raise a family of children; out of that
family of children may come another family of children, that'll be a
preacher that'll send a million souls to Christ. You had to be here.
You're here for a purpose. Did you know that?
Well, you say, "All I ever done was harrow across these old clods. And
I'd take out early a evening, didn't know how to make my kids a living.
I looked at the poor little fellows with no shoes on. I've set and
cried. I got an old buggy, and me and maw went to church." Don't you
worry, brother. You just keep loving Him; He's got a purpose for you.
You just stay right the way you are; just go right on. See? You might
not never preach a sermon, but you might be the great-grandfather of
one that'll do it.

²¹⁴
Did you know that God credited (Let's see now, what was his name?)
Levi, to pay tithe when he was in the loins of Abraham, when
Melchisedec met him? How many knows that? And let's see, Abraham begot
Isaac; Isaac begot Jacob; Jacob begot Levi, which was father,
grandfather, great-grandfather. When he was in the loins, in the seed
of his great-grandfather, the Bible credited him for paying tithes to
Melchisedec. Oh, my, my, my, my brother. Oh, I'm…

²¹⁵
As the little–as the little Englishman got converted over there one
night in England, he said, "I am so hoppy. I am so hoppy." Yes, so
happy to know that that is true. And some glorious day, I don't know
when that day will be, but if that was a vision… I don't say I was
here. Remember, always bear this in mind; may the tape holders do the
same. Whether I was in a vision or carrying away in the Spirit, I do
not know. But it was just as real as I hold my Brother Neville like
that, just as real. And I could look and talk to those people.
And there stood my first wife; she didn't holler, "My husband"; she said, "My darling brother."

²¹⁷
There stood a girl that I used to go with years ago. Perhaps some of
her people's setting here, Alice Lewis from Utica, very fine royal
Christian girl. Got married a little late in life, and had her first
baby, and died in childbirth: Alice Lewis. I walked into the funeral
home to see her. I just got in home; I heard she was dead. I walked
down there, was nobody in the room, I said, "Is there a woman here,
Mrs…" Her name was Emmerke. She married a fine Christian boy, and she
was a fine Christian girl. I've been with that girl everywhere, all
kinds of places, and everything, as just kids, eighteen, nineteen years
old, everywhere. Fine Christian, never knowed nothing about her but
genuine Christianity. And I was a sinner. But I would go with her. I
walked into… And her husband a born again Christian, real man. And I
didn't know; I knowed she was died; I'd seen in the papers. And I went
down; they told me. I went down there to Coot's, and I said, "Have you
got a Mrs. Emmerke?" He said, "Billy, she's right in the room there."
I went in there and stood there by the side of the casket. I thought,
"Alice, I've been in the darkest of dungeons; I've been over dark
roads. You and I have walked together down through the roads and down
across by the–by the river. When they used to have the old showboats,
we'd set down there and listen to that calliope play. Up and down the
lanes, what a lady you were. How I thank God for your life. Rest, my
dear sister, rest in the peace of God."

²¹⁹
And the other night in the vision, there she come running to me. She
said, "My blessed brother," and threw her arms around me. Oh, oh,
brother, sister, it's changed me. I can never be the same no more. It's
so real. It's just–it's just as real as I'm looking at you, just that
real. So there's no fear. I may die before the night's over.
I want to raise my little boy back there, Joseph. I want to see him in
the pulpit, when I can take this Bible… When I get to a place I see
Joseph in the pulpit preaching as a–as a young man filled with the
Holy Ghost, anointed with the Spirit of God upon him… And I believe
he'll be a prophet. The day when I–when I-when I saw him six years
before he was born, you remember me telling you he was coming. Remember
when I caught him right there at the side of the altar, not knowing
what I was saying, dedicating babies, I said, "Joseph, thou art a
prophet."

²²¹ And the other day standing out in the yard, he come in to me, and he said, "Daddy, has Jesus got a hand like yours?"
And I said, "Well, yes, son. Why?"
He
said, "I was setting on my bicycle, watching for Sarah (That's his
little sister.) to come home from school." Setting out there, I won't
let him go out on the road; he was setting back like this. And said, "I
looked up," and said, "when I did, there was a hand like yours, with a
white sleeve holding over me." And said, "It went on up." Said, "Was
that Jesus' hand going up?" I looked at the mother; mother looked at
me. We went down to Mrs. Wood's. Ever where she's at, setting here. We
cross-questioned him, back and forth, and every way we could. It was a
vision. He saw it. When I can see the time of little Joseph standing…
I hope I live to see him married, if Jesus tarries.

²²³
And I'm an old man, the gray whiskers hanging around my neck here. I've
sent… I want to send two or three more million souls to Christ if I
possibly can. It's my determination to preach the Gospel to every
corner of the earth. Yes, sir. So help me, God, I'll do it. So when I
can see that time come, Brother Mike…
I can look at the time mama, Meda, I call her, my darling… See,
she's… We're getting old, see her hair turning gray, and see us going
away, fading away.
Rebekah, I'm so grateful for Rebekah. Her music teacher told me the
other night, said, "My, if she keeps that up, Brother Branham," says,
"it's hard tell what she'll do." See, going on in music. I want her,
and I want… I want Sarah on the organ, Becky on the piano; I want
Joseph in the pulpit.

²²⁶
When I can see that happen, then me and mama can stagger in, me on my
old cane, some night, come down along the road, and I can look in there
and see my boy standing there anointed with the Holy Ghost, preaching
this same Gospel. I want to take this old Book and say, "Son, here It
is; It's yours. You stand with It. Don't you compromise on one Word.
You stay right with It, honey. Don't you, don't care… I don't care
who's against you, who's against; God will be for you. You preach every
Word just the way It's wrote in There; daddy will see you across the
river." I'd like to reach around and take her in my arms, my wife, and
cross over Jordan.
Until that time, God, let me stay on the field, loyal. Let me, I don't
care what the cost is, or how many, what I do, or this, that, or the
other. Let me stay loyal and true to the Word of the living God, that
when that day come, and I cross over there, and I can look across, and
say, "There you are. Oh, my precious friend, my precious brother, my
precious sister."

²²⁸
Young preacher, get into the field; stay into the harness. All you
young preachers and things, don't you set around. Don't you just set
and do nothing. Get out yonder and win a soul. Do something. Get on;
get moving. Don't stop, young preacher over there. God bless your heart.
He reminds me of when I was about that age, I guess, and maybe a little
younger than him. I was only about twenty something years old when I
laid that cornerstone there. I remember, I used to wear a blue coat and
a white pair of pants, and stood there and laid that cornerstone about
thirty-one years ago. See how old I was, I was just a boy. I was
standing there, laying that cornerstone. I haven't compromised on one
Word. I've kept It just exactly the way I laid that cornerstone.
Yonder's my testimony laying yonder, where I wrote it out on the
flyleaf of the Bible, and tore it out, and laid it in that cornerstone,
and she still lays there. And may it be written on the pages of God's
eternal Word in heaven. Let me stand true unto the end.

²³⁰
Let us bow our heads now just a minute for prayer. In the closing of
this night, closing of these, one chapter, which is not justified. You
ought to have the other one, how he goes ahead and places the church in
its place. I'll get it to you sometime, God willing. I've got to get
just a little rest now before I go into the Chatauqua yonder, to
another big meeting, then I cross over from there to Oklahoma…

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