^1-1
Lord bless you…?… Let's just remain standing a moment as we bow our
heads. Is there a special request? If you would, let it be known as you
lift your hands to God and say by that, "Lord, You know my need."

^1-2
Heavenly Father, we are indeed a privileged people this morning to be
assembled in the house of God, when we know that there's so many that
would want to be in the house of God this morning and is in hospitals
and on beds of sickness, and Thou has given us this privilege to be out
here today. And we never come, Lord, to be seen of each other, though
we love our fellowship one with another; but we could do that at our
homes; but we have come here to fellowship with He Who has brought us
together as beloved children and brethren.
We thank Thee now. And the only way that we know to correctly
fellowship with Thee is around Thy Word; Thy Word is the Truth. We
gather here for spiritual strength; we need it, Lord. We must have
strength to endure the crosses that we bear. And we pray that You'll
send the great Holy Spirit today, and will strengthen us all. Grant the
requests of Your people as they have assembled and raised their hands
to You that they have need of such things. Answer each one, Lord.

^1-4
We thank Thee for sparing the life of our Sister Ungren last night in
the accident on the road up here. Thou was gracious to them, Lord, and
we thank Thee for that.
And now, we pray, heavenly Father, that You will continue to be with
us, and help us as we journey on, each and every one of us. Give us Thy
undergirding power and the–the faith of knowing that Thy never-failing
Presence will be with us. That hour when we cannot help ourself, we
know the Angels of God are encamped about those who fear Him, and
they'll bear us up lest anytime we dash our foot against a stone. We
pray now that You'll give us of Thy blessings for the Word, and speak
through us and in us, in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen.

^2-1
I am grateful that the sunshine of the outside, the solar sun, is
shining. It was very bad this morning, and I think in this country
especially, we have so much gloomy, weary weather; and to see the sun
shining, coming out, it's very good.
The little family reunion today, I meet my brothers up at my sister's
house and some of our relation around the city and round about… The
big bunch of the Branhams, if they'd all come together from Kentucky
and here, I guess we'd have to rent the city; there's so many of them.
But just a little homecoming… We used to all meet at mama's house and
she was the old tie-post that held us together, kinda. But God taken
the tie-post to heaven, and I hope that we'll all meet there someday.

^2-3
And now I spoke the other day; I said, "You know I believe that I
will–will cut my Sunday messages down to about twenty minutes and–and
thirty, and then pray for the sick." And I thought of that this
morning, and I thought last night when Sister Downing called me and
said that–called Billy and said that she and Sister Ungren on the road
up had slid across the road and had a wreck. And while Billy was still
at the window, along… I don't know what time it was, maybe this
morning sometime; I'd been asleep for quite a little bit. I looked down
at Brother Wood's; the lights was out. And I just knelt to pray, and
when I did something just said to me, "It's all right." So then I told
Billy, "Tell her everything, I thought, would be all right."
I'm so glad to see them in this morning, setting in the house of the
Lord back here after on the road… A people that love you that much to
come for hundreds of miles to hear the Gospel, then I thought, a twenty
minutes message and as slow as I am, they would be no good. So I
thought I would just… that long…
So then here Brother Ungren, her son, this morning was singing, "How
Great Thou Art." He has–He means more to him this morning than it did
yesterday afternoon, because the great God of heaven spared his
precious, darling mother and sister.

^2-6
Now, today we are expecting a great time in the Lord, and I had two or
three different texts here that I was looking at, and did–I couldn't
figure just which one I would talk on this morning. One of them was
cast your cares on Him, for He cares for you. Now, if He cares, why not
you? So then, another one… Billy Paul, or not Billy Paul, my other
son, Joseph, brought me this text a long time ago. He was setting in
the room one day, and he said, looking up toward the picture (Billy–or
Joseph is very fond of boats like little boys: boats and horses, you
know.), and he said to me, "Daddy, has Jesus got a boat?"
And I said, "I don't know."
So then after he got up and went out, I happened to think, "Has He got
a boat?" and I took a text from that, and just marked it down here on
my book: Has Jesus Got a Boat?

^3-1
I happened to think when He was here on earth He had to borrow a womb
to be borned in, a grave to be buried in, a boat to preach from, but
He's the Pilot of the old ship of Zion…?… But in those texts that I
was thinking, think maybe I could get them later, before we leave to go
back…
You know, I like to speak from the Tabernacle here, because it's our
own church. We feel at liberty to say whatever the Holy Spirit says. At
other places, even though the men wants to make you welcome, you feel
kind of a little cramped because that–that you're in somebody else's
church, and you want to be a gentleman enough to respect their–their
thoughts and their doctrine.

^3-3
Had a wonderful time this week down at Brother Burcham's place there. I
went into the factory where they made the cheese. (I see he, and his
wife, and son, and them are present this morning.) And always thought
that a cheese factory would be something like other places I've been
in, oh, kind of sloppy and dirty. My, I can say one thing, you can sure
rest assured that place is not dirty. That was the cleanest place I
ever went into, especially in a factory. And I didn't realize; I
thought, oh, maybe they make a hundred pound of cheese a day, and they
make six tons each day, and three of the factories going. I thought,
"Oh, my, who eats all those cheese." But the Lord has blessed this man.
I've had the privilege of being in his home, a very lovely home, a fine
consecrated wife. And there's no reason why they shouldn't live for
Christ each day as they're doing. Met his son, and they're very fine
children. We're so grateful for this fellowship that we have one with
another.
Found out their former pastor was a man that I know: Brother Gurley, a
very fine man of the United Pentecostal faith that I met years ago,
Jonesboro, Arkansas. And I didn't know that they were–that was his
pastor, though.

^4-2
Now, remember the services this evening, and then the Lord willing,
next Sunday again we hope to speak. And then I think the following
Sunday then I have to go to Chicago; then I'll be gone for a while. I
have to take the family back home back–or back to Arizona so that
they–the children can enroll in school again, and then we quit
pestering the pastor, taking his services up. So we are very grateful
to Brother Neville for his hospitality. You know, of him inviting me,
and he's so… I like Brother–a man like that where there's no guile;
there's no selfishness; it's just genuine Christianity. I like that.

^4-3
Now, we're going to read some of the Scripture and then pass the
comments, and I don't know just what time that we'll get out on these
long messages, but I think… I was talking the other day about
speaking so long, and someone said, "Well now, if you–if you just
spoke a few minutes, and you speak kind of in mysteries anyhow," said,
"we'd–we'd never be able to understand it." Said, "Just keep on
talking, and after while it comes out." He said… So maybe the Lord
wants us to do it that way.

^4-4
Let's just bow again. Lord, Thy Word lays open on the pulpit, and
realizing that someday It'll be closed for Its last time, then the Word
will be flesh. And then we are–we're grateful for this time this
morning. And open to us by Thy Holy Spirit, the contents of this Word
that we shall read. May the Holy Spirit teach us today the things that
we ought to know, and may we then in return listen closely to every
word, weigh it deeply, and then may those who are listening by the way
of tape, may they listen close, and may we be able to catch what the
Holy Spirit's trying to reveal to us; for we realize if You should
anoint us, then the anointing is not in vain; it's for a purpose–that
it might work to the good to the Lord. And may our hearts and
understanding be open, Lord.
May we have freedom to speak, and freedom to hear, and access to faith
to believe what we have heard as it comes from God's Word, that it
might count up to us Eternal Life in the great day that is to come.
Bless us today; condemn us when we're wrong. Let us know the faults
that we have, and bless us in the way that is right, that we might know
which way to go and how to act in this present world, that we might
bring honor in our living here to Jesus Christ, Who died to give us
Life in the great hereafter. We ask this in Jesus' Name. Amen.

^5-2
Now, I want to read just out of two places out of the Scriptures this
morning, and one of them is just found over in the Book of Exodus;
frankly, both of them are out of the Book of Exodus: one, the 13th
chapter and 21st and 22nd verse, and the next one is the 14th chapter,
the 10th, 11th, and 12th verses. Now, I'll read from Exodus 13:21.

Now, in Exodus 14 and the 10th verse,

I'm going to read a couple more verses.

^7-1
The Word of the Lord is so great, so good, there's just no way to stop
reading It. It just becomes Life as we read It. I think in this text
this morning, though it's being taped, I want to say this in beginning:
It finds… I find myself… And the reason that I… Yesterday while
in study–and I come upon this subject, and then I thought, "I'm just
going, if the Lord willing, to speak upon that because it drives me
down." And I hope it drives us all down that we might see, and cause us
to look up, and to study a little bit in comparing the day that was
then the–and to the day that is now.

^7-2
I want to take three words for a text, and that is: "Why Cry? Speak!"
God said to Moses here in the 15th verse, "Why criest thou unto Me?
Speak to the people that they go forward." And, "Why Cry? Speak!"
Now, we've got quite a subject, and I'll try to hurry through as quick
as possible as the Holy Spirit leads. And I want to think of the–of
this text of Moses crying out to God in the time of trouble, and God
rebuking Moses back, right when trouble was in–in session. And it's
just nature, seeming like for a person to cry out, and then what a
rebuke it is for God to turn around and rebuke him for saying it–for
crying out to Him. It looks like it's a very hard thing.

^7-4
Many times when we look at the Scriptures in our own way of looking, it
seems very hard, but if we It study a little while, we find out that
the all-wise God knows just what He's doing. And He knows how to do
these things and how to deal with men. He knows what's in man. He–He
knows him. We don't. We only know from the intellectual side. He knows
what's really in the man.
Moses was born in this world as a gifted boy; He was born to be a
prophet, a deliverer. He was born with the equipment born in him, as
every man that comes into the world is born with this equipment.
As I firmly believe in the–in the foreknowledge of God, the
predestination, not that God is willing that any would perish, but all
might come to repentance; but being God, He had to know, and does know
the end from the beginning. See? If He doesn't, then He isn't infinite;
and if He is not infinite, He isn't God. So He wasn't willing,
certainly, that any should perish, but He–He, knowing who would perish
and who would not perish…

^8-1
That's the reason, the very purpose that Jesus came to the earth was to
save those that God through His foreknowledge seen that wanted to be
saved, because the whole world was condemned. And I don't see how we
could teach it any other way than the foreknowledge of God. And the
Bible plainly says that He knows the end from the beginning and could
tell it. Therefore, when a person tries to be something that they are
not, they're only making it an impersonation; and sooner or later it'll
find you out. Your sins finds you out. You cannot cover them. There's
only one covering for sin; that's the Blood of Jesus Christ, and it
cannot be applied unless God has called you from the foundation of the
world.
That's what that Blood was shed for–not to be tramped upon, and made
fun of, and–and jobbed at, and–and evilly spoke of, and–and so
forth; it was for a direct purpose (That's right.), not to be played
with, not to be impersonated by saying that the sins are covered when
they're not, and no man can have his sins covered 'less his name was
put on the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the world.
Jesus said Himself, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him,
and all that the Father hath (past tense) given Me will come to Me."
That's right. So you can't make the words lie. They are there for Truth
and for a correction.

^8-3
And Moses was born with a gift of faith: great faith Moses had. We see
it after while coming out in him. And he was born in a great family, as
we know how that his father and his mother and come from a family of
Levi, which the story here previously to this in the Book of–of
Exodus, so beautifully gives the life of this great character. And he
was one of the greatest characters of the Bible, for he was strictly a
type of the Lord Jesus.
He was borned in a very odd birth like the Lord Jesus; he was born in a
time of persecution like the Lord Jesus; he was born to be a deliverer
like the Lord Jesus; he was hid of his parents away from the enemy like
the Lord Jesus; and he come to his time of service like the Lord Jesus.
He was a leader like the Lord Jesus; he was a prophet like the Lord
Jesus; and he was a law-giver like the Lord Jesus.
And we find out that he died on the rock, and he must've rose again,
and everything, because eight hundred years later he was standing on
Mount Transfiguration, talking to the Lord Jesus. See? Angels packed
him away. No one knows where he's buried; even the devil didn't know
that. Frankly, I don't believe he ever was buried. I–I believe that
the God packed him away in–and he died on the Rock that he'd followed
all the days of his life. And he was a perfect type of Christ. He was a
king over the people; he was a law-giver; he was a–he was a–a
sustainer to the people; he was everything in–in type that Christ was.

^9-3
Now, then, see that he was born with this great gift and quality within
him. Then it only taken something to flash across that to bring that
thing to Life. See, the seed of God is actually placed in us from the
foundation of the world. And when that Light first strikes that seed,
it brings it to Life, but the Light first has to come upon the seed.
Like the–I've taught many times of the little woman at the well, her
in that condition. Though she be an ill-famed person, though her–her
life was degraded, and she was in that condition, because that
traditions had never touched her. But though when that Light first
struck her, quickly she recognized It, 'cause there was something there
to respond to It.
When the deep calls to the deep, there must be a deep somewhere to respond to that call.
And Moses here was born this prophet, but he was raised in an
intellectual school in Pharaoh's palace. The Pharaoh Seti, that he was
raised up under, was a man that still had honor and believed Joseph
being the prophet of the Lord. But there come Rameses after Seti, and
Rameses did not care about Joseph. And so therefore, there's when the
trouble started, now when there raised up a Pharaoh who did not know
Joseph.
But these great qualities, let's speak of them just a little while and
before we get to the main part of the text. I have an odd way of
setting a text and then building to it, and the Lord help us this
morning as we build to it.

^10-2
Moses, being born with this great gift of faith, then he was anointed
and commissioned at the burning bush to deliver God's people. Now, see
what great qualities this man had. He was born for a certain thing. God
had a purpose in it. God's got a purpose of you being here. See? If you
can only be–get to that place, how much trouble you save God and
yourself too.
Moses borned and then he was… Afterwards he was brought to the–the
place where he was anointed. And notice the seed laying there with the
intellectual conception, with all the faith that he was born to deliver
this people, and yet it never come to Life until that Light from the
burning bush flashed across it, until he seen, not something he read
about, but something he'd seen with his eyes, something that spoke to
him, and he spoke back to It. Oh, how that did bring things to Life.

^10-4
I think any man with a–or woman, boy or girl… And I think in the
intellectual conception of what they think the Word is and so forth,
never can have a full foundation stand until they have met that Light
that brings that Word to a reality.
I think no church in its practice, no matter how intellectual and
fundamental it might be, that church cannot thrive until the
supernatural is made known among that people, and they see it,
something that they can talk to that'll talk back to them that
a-vindicates this written Word.
Now, remember, when Moses met this burning bush that Word was
a-vindicated exactly. It was the Word. Moses didn't have to worry,
"What's this voice all about? What is this Being here?" Because God had
already wrote on the Scripture in Genesis that, "Your people will
sojourn in this strange land, but they'll be brought back after four
hundred years–will come back into this country again, for the iniquity
of the–the Amorites is not yet fulfilled."

^10-7
Now, hundreds and hundreds of years before God had said that Israel
would sojourn and be mistreated in a strange country and would stay
there four hundred years, but God, with a mighty hand, would bring them
out. So you see with this burning bush, Moses knowed this
intellectually, and the seed that was born in him was laying in his
heart. And he tried through his intellectual experience with the Word
to try to–to–to bring them out, to deliver them, because he knowed he
was born for that purpose. He knowed that the time the Scriptures all
said that they'd already been there four hundred years…
Just as we know now, as a man asked me a few moments ago about the
coming and the rapture. We know we've lived the time out. The time of
the rapture is at hand. And we're looking for a rapturing faith that
can pull the churches together and give it some supernatural strength
that can change these bodies that we live in. We see a God that can
raise the dead off the floor, or out in the yard, and bring him back to
life again, and present him before us. When we see a God who can take a
cancer that's eat a man to a shadow, and raise him up to a strong
healthy man, that ought to give rapturing faith to the people. That
when that Light flashes from the sky, and the trumpet sounds, the Body
of Christ will be quickly gathered together, and changed in a moment,
and taken into the heavens.
Yes, there's got to be something like that happen, and our schools of
theology can never produce that, yet they intellectually are all right;
but you've got to meet that Light. You've got to find that something.

^11-3
And here Moses basing his great call upon the Word (and it was great),
until one day he met this Light, and the very Word Itself spoke back to
him. Then he got his anointing. That anointed what he had in him, that
on the inside, the intellects that believed it, the faith that was
based upon his belief in God that separated him from his mother. And
now, when he strikes in the presence of this Light, It anointed that
that he believed. See?
What an anointing, and he was commissioned. Now, we know intellectually
he'd heard his mother. He knew what was going to take place, and he
knew he was living in that day. But here he found out that he was a
failure, so he might've–his–his faith might've dropped back a little
bit. But then when he comes to the bush, God said, "I have heard the
cries of My people, and I remember My promise to their fathers,
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I have come down." 'I,' there the–the
personal pronoun, "I have come down to deliver them."

^12-1
And now, and may I just add this if it… God forgive me if it sounds
sacrilegious: "I do not work upon the earth only through man. I–I am
the Vine; ye are the branches, and I only declare Myself when I can
find a man, and I've chose you, and I'm sending you down to take them
out." See? Now, notice, "I'll be with your mouth and I… You take this
rod."
And Moses said, "Can I see an evidence that You'll send me and You've anointed me and You're going to do these things?"
Said, "What you got in your hand?"
He said, "A stick."
Said, "Throw it down." It turned to a serpent; he fled.
He said, "Take it up." It turned back to a stick. Said, "Put your hands
in your bosom," took it out, and it was leprosy; put it back, and it
was healed. Said he saw the glory of God.

^12-3
There was no more question to Moses. Did you ever notice, he never run
to the wilderness again? He knew he was anointed. He knew where all
these things that had been in his heart, these great fine qualities;
and he–they were anointed. Now, he–he's ready. He's ready to go; so
down towards Egypt he goes. God had said, "I'll be with you," so
that–that settles it. If "I'll be with you," that's all Moses had to
know for this great call in his heart. And now, God said, "I'll be with
you."
Now, God also had vindicated his–Moses' claim. Moses claimed, "I met the Lord." And He said, "Tell you I AM sent me." See?
Now, they said, "Here's a man, another Jew, probably some of these
fanatics that's been coming along all the time with all kind of scheme
to take us out of bondage." And you know how people are when they're
slaves or in bondage for something, there's always some kind of a
gimmick coming around, you know, to do it. So Moses… God promised
Moses, "I'll be with you; I'll be in you. My Words will be your word.
You speak My Words, and just say what I say."

^13-1
And now, when Moses went down and give them this call and stood before
Pharaoh and told him the Lord God of the Hebrews said, "Bring the
children out."… And he wouldn't let them go. So he performed a sign
before the elders and before Pharaoh. And the signs that God did…
He said, "Now, tomorrow about this time the sun will go down. It'll be
darkness all over Egypt." And it come to pass just exactly. And then he
said, "There–there's coming flies upon the–upon the land," and he
stretched forth his rod and called for flies, and flies come. And he
prophesied, and everything that he prophesied happened just exactly the
way. It was God. See?

^13-3
God had called him from his birth, put qualities in him of great faith,
and then come down with His Presence and anointed that great something
in him, and sent him down with His Word; and he was properly
a-vindicated of his claims. No matter how many quacks had raised up,
how many these other things had happened; God was speaking at… Moses
was identified. Moses… What Moses said, God honored. I want you to
never to forget that Word. What Moses said, God honored, because God's
Word was in Moses. "I'll be with your mouth. It'll speak the right
things."
Now, what God says–what God says, He speaks it through Moses, and it confirmed and a-vindicated his claim.

^13-4
Also, he was told by his mother of his mysterious birth, and how that
the time of hand come close to the hour that there was to be a
deliverance. Amram and–and Jochebed, the son and daughter of Levi,
begin to pray to God to send a deliverer. And it take… When you see
the time of the promise drawing nigh, it sets people to praying and to
hungering. And no doubt that–that Jochebed had told him many times
(his mother–she was his tutor also as we know the story)–and had told
him how that she'd prayed. "And, Moses, when you were born, son, you
were a proper child. You were different. There was something taken
place at your birth."
"I gave a drama on it for the children not long ago and said while
Amram was in the room praying, he saw an Angel pull his sword and point
it towards the north and said, 'You'll have a child, and he'll take the
children north to the promised land.'" Giving a drama for the little
fellows so they'd understand it… That their intellect hasn't come up
to the place that you adults, and can grasp the thing as the Holy
Spirit reveals it to you.

^14-1
Now, though his mother told him these things and he knowed this, yet he
needed another touch. The–the teaching was fine, but he needed a
personal contact.
That's what the world needs today. That's what the church needs today.
That's what everyone needs, as sons and daughters of God. In order to
be that, you need a personal contact (See?), something. No matter…
You know the Word's true; you know It's right. But then when It
contacts, and then you see the thing done, then you know you're on the
right road. See? And watch, it'll always be Scriptural. It'll stand
right with the Scripture 'cause this did.
Amram's prayer was just exactly with the Scripture. Their prayers is
with the promised Word. God promised at that time to do it. They prayed
for it, and here was a proper child born. And they…

^14-4
Watch. Oh, how I love this. See? In the hour that Pharaoh was putting
to death all the children (See?), putting them to the–to the
sword–the "guardenian sword"; they–they–they stabbed these little
children to death, fed them to the crocodiles, the little bodies, until
the crocodiles were perhaps fat upon the bodies of Hebrew children.
But the Bible said that the parents did not fear Pharaoh's command to
kill the children. They didn't–they wasn't a-scared because they seen
something in this baby to begin with. They saw it, that this was a
answer of prayer.
And now Moses had all this as a background, so Moses knew he was sent
for the very purpose to deliver the children of Israel. See, all the
background just heaps up. When you get anything and can bring the Bible
saying, "This is going to happen," and here it happens, "This is going
to be at that time"; here it happens. "This is going to be at a certain
time," there it happens, then it all accumulates together and draws a
picture for us.

^15-1
Oh, how this Tabernacle this morning, how we people of this hour,
Brother Neville, as we see the gray striking our hair and our shoulders
stooping, when we see the world weaving and rocking as it is, and how
we can look around and see the promise is drawing nigh. It's–it–it…
I think many times if someone could just bounce into it at once and
wouldn't understand it–or would understand it, rather, come into it at
once, it would almost send you to eternity, just with a–such a
rapturing thing and never knowed it. Just, oh, break through the things
that we've seen, and know, and understand, and all bounce in at one
time. The man or the woman, boy or girl will just probably lift up
their hands and say, "Let's go, Lord Jesus." You see? Oh, how the hour
is so close.

^15-2
Moses knowing that he was born for that purpose, and looked out of the
windows and watched them Hebrews as they toiled, looked back here in
the Scripture, and it said, "And they shall sojourn four hundred years
(See?), but I will bring them out with a mighty hand." Then when he
comes back after a commission, anointed, knowed that he was born, and
his faith, look–by faith he saw those people and knowed they were the
children of God 'cause the world–the Word said so. They wasn't of the
world, wasn't like the rest of them. They were different. And they were
cranks and fanatics to the–the high glamour of Egypt, and he was to be
the son of Pharaoh, taking the kingdom over and next, but he…

^15-3
There was something down in him, a real faith that looked not at those
things–the glamour that he was to inherit. He looked at the promise of
God, and he knowed that the time was drawing nigh. And what that man
must've thought of… I want to talk it over with him someday when I
meet him on the other side.
You say, "That's crazy, brother…"
No, it isn't. I'm going to meet him by the grace of God. Yes, sir. I'll
talk to him someday, Moses himself. And how I would like to ask him
just how when he seen his preparation, how the flusteration the devil
saying, "Aw, the people ain't going to believe you. Aw, the–there's
nothing to that," but when that seed come to life up there, something
struck him, and he knew there was something going to take place. He
knew–looked at his clock and seen what time it was. And he knew. And
how he must've thought as he watched.

^16-1
Now, when he got all this together, all this great thing that he seen:
the Scripture time, the prayer of his mother and his father, and he was
born a peculiar birth, an odd child… And all along there'd been
something way down in him, and now he slips off and tries to think he'd
take his military training from his school and deliver the children,
and that failed. Then he goes up into the wilderness and marries a
lovely Ethiopian girl, and they had a little boy named Gershom.
One day while tending the flock, all at once he seen a burn–bush up on
top of the mountain, burning. And he went up there and not an
intellectual, not an imagination, not a delusion, a optical illusion;
but in him there was the God of Abraham in a Light, a Pillar of Fire
back in a bush, that fire, like waves going out, but it didn't bother
the bush. And the voice of the Scripture, the voice of God spoke
through there and said, "I have chosen you. You are the man. I raised
you up for this purpose. I'm proving to you here by signs; you're going
down to deliver the children because that My Word's got to be
fulfilled."
Oh, His Word of this day's got to be fulfilled. We're living in the
hour. No matter what anyone else says, the Word has to be fulfilled.
Heavens and earth will pass away but not His Word.

^16-4
Now, when Moses got all this together and seen by every direction, it
anointed his faith. Amen. Oh, my, what a thought. This, itself, seen in
the Scripture pointing right straight to what it was, and the speaking
of God, and the evidence of it there, it anointed what faith he had in
him to go to work. What ought it to do to us.
We need a repentance. We need a revival. I'm saying myself. I need a
shaking. I need something. I said I was speaking to myself this
morning, or about myself. I–I–I need a wakening up. And when I think
of that great evidence, everything's so perfectly laid out there. And
it anointed the faith of Moses, and my, he seen there was nothing.

^16-6
Here he run from Egypt with actually he could've start a mutiny or–or
something, and he could've–could've rose up and started a
revolutionary in Egypt and could've took an army and fought, but you
see–and had many thousands on his side. But instead of that he was
a-scared to even do that with armies on his side. But now here he comes
back forty years later, eighty years old with only a stick in his hand.
Why? What was burning down in his heart had become a reality. He was
anointed then, and he knowed he had THUS SAITH THE LORD. There was
nothing going to stop him now. He needed no army; God was with him;
that's all he needed: God with him.
Oh, when you know God has sent you to do a certain something, and you
see it moving up there, there–there just isn't nothing can take its
place. That's all.

^17-2
I remember times when the Lord has told me about certain things was
going to happen, and then I move up and see it laying right there, oh,
what a feeling. The situation's already under control. That's all. See?
Because God said so.
I remember… Many of you remember about the little boy being raised up
in Finland, and then–from the dead, been killed by an automobile. And
I stood there on the side of the road and started to walk away from
that child, and turned, and looked back, and something put its hand on
my shoulder, and I thought it was Brother Moore; and nobody was around
me.
And I looked back, and then I looked up the mountain, I saw… I said,
"Well, I've seen that hill somewhere, but we didn't come up this way.
We come another way. Where is that hill?" And I looked and seen that
car down there wrecked, seen that little boy there with his–laying
there with the crock like haircut (as we call it here); the eyes turned
back like brother Way's was the other day when he fell; and the little
foot run through the sock where his little limbs was broke; and blood
out of his eyes, and nose, and ears; and seen his little short trousers
and tied up by buttons as–here along the side of his little waist, and
his little stockings up, like long stockings like we wore many years
ago. And I looked around, and there it was exactly, exactly the way the
Holy Spirit had told me two years before, when all of you wrote it in
your Bibles across the nation that it would happen.

^17-5
Oh there… Then the situation is in hand. No matter how dead he is, no
matter what anybody else says; it's all over. He's got to come back.
I said, "If this child doesn't raise up from this dead, then I'm a
false prophet; I'm a misrepresentation of God; for in the homeland two
years ago He told me this would happen." And there these ministers and
all; it's wrote on the flyleaf of our Bible, and here it is exactly.
Read it off the flyleaf how it would be in a country lapping rocks, and
so forth, be killed on–be on the right hand side of the road. I said,
"There it is; nothing can stop it." The situation's already under
control.
The faith that was within my heart was anointed. Oh, if I could only
explain that, the faith that God–I had in God that told me, and had
never failed, told me, "The situation is under control now. Here's
exactly what I showed you two years ago, and here it is laying just
exactly in order. The only thing you have to do is speak the Word." And
the little boy rose up from the dead. See?

^18-3
I was thinking and looking back here. Brother Fred Sothmann's setting
there, Brother Banks Wood, and them… The other day up on the Alaskan
Highway, how I stood here at the church and told you all of an animal
that looked like deer horns forty-two inches and a silver tip grizzly
bear. I'd never been there before and how that the–that I was going to
get this, and how it would be, and how many would be with me, and how
they'd be dressed. You know it, everyone of you, weeks and weeks before
it happened.
And there, when I moved in there, not knowing it, there laid that
animal. And I went and–and he… It was impossibility, if a hunter
would know or be listening to this tape, how you can't walk up in the
face of an animal; it'd jump up and run. But he didn't.

^18-5
And there he hangs in my den room. There hangs the silver tip just
exactly the way, and a–and a rule laying there, a tape measure to show
his exact… And a horn will at least shrink two inches or more when
it's green on the animal and when it dries, but this never shrank. It's
still exactly on the nose forty-two inches. See? There lays the silver
tip; it's seven foot long just exactly and everything exactly the way
it was, laying there now.
But when this man said to me, "Now, look Brother Branham, we got this
animal that you talked about, but you told me you'd get a silver tip
grizzly before you got to the bottom of the hill, back over to where
them boys are, that with the green shirt." I said, "It's THUS SAITH THE
LORD. God said so."
"But Brother Branham," He said, "I can see all over everything here for miles; there's nothing. Where's he coming from?"
I said, "That's not for me to question. God said so, and He's
Jehovah-Jireh. He can bring a bear there. He could put one there." And
He did, and there he is.

^19-4
It's a situation under control. And when Moses saw that he was raised
up for this purpose and that he had met face to face this great God Who
had made the call, and had anointed him, and identified him, and said,
"This is your call, Moses. I'm sending you. And I'm going to show you
My glory, and here I am in the bush, burning. Go down there; I'll be
with you." He didn't even need a stick. He had the Word, the vindicated
Word. There he went.
It anointed the faith that was in him. And it anoints us when we see
that we're living in the last days, to find out that all these signs
that we see being taken place that's spoke of in the Scripture would
take place in the last days: all the way from heaven to the political
powers, and the nature of the people, and the demoralization of the
world and among the women, and how they would do in the last days, and
how the men would do, and how the churches would do, how the nations
would do, and how God would do. And we see it all laying right here on
us.
Oh, it anoints our faith. It moves us out in the great cycles. See?
It–it–it separates us from other things of the world. See? No matter
how little we are, how much a minority we are, how much we're laughed
at, made fun of, it don't make a bit of difference. That's all. We see
it. There's something within us. We were predestinated to see this
hour; there's nothing going to stop us from seeing it. Amen. Sure, God
has spoke it. It's–it's already happened. We see it. Oh, how we thank
God for this. Oh. Then it brings out your faith when we see these
things happening here.

^20-1
Now, here again we read that Moses esteemed the reproach of Christ
greater riches than the treasures of Egypt. Now, he esteemed the–the
reproach of Christ. Now, remember: the reproach of Christ. See?
There's a reproach in serving Christ. If you're very popular with the
world, then you cannot serve–you're not serving Christ. No. You
cannot, because (See?), there's a reproach that goes with It. The world
always has reproached.
Way back there thousands of years ago, there was a reproach that went
with it. And Moses, to–be Pharaoh (he was the next coming Pharaoh,
Pharaoh's son), and he was coming the next Pharaoh with favor amongst
the people, and yet he regarded… ("Esteem" means "to–to regard.") He
regarded the reproach of Christ greater things than all that Egypt
could afford to give him. Egypt was in his hand. But yet he knew to
take the way of Christ was a reproach, but he was so happy to know that
there was something within him that made him regard this approach of
Christ–reproach of Christ, rather, greater than all the glamour that
he–he inherited. He had an inheritance inside of him that was far
greater than what the outside inheritance had given him.

^20-4
Oh, if we could be like that today and let the Holy Spirit anoint that
that we have within us, that faith, to a godly life, consecrated to
Christ.
Now, with such faith as this that he had, he noticed and he regarded that reproach a honor.
Today somebody say, "Hey, are you one of those people? Those ah…?"
"Well, ah,…"
You're just a little ashamed of it. But he regarded it a greater
treasure than all the world, because that there was something in him
that he could speak out and say, "Yes, I–I regard this. This is highly
honored. I'm glad to be one of them." See? "I'm glad to number myself
as a Hebrew and not an Egyptian."

^20-6
The Christians today should say the same thing: "I'm glad to regard
myself a Christian, to abstain from the things of the world and the
order of the world" not just as a church member, but as a born again
Christian who lives according to the Scripture. Though I be called even
by the members of the church a fanatic, yet I esteem that a greater,
greater thing than what if I was the most popular person in the city or
in the nation. I'd rather be that than President of the United States
or the king over the earth. (You see?) I–I esteem that so highly,
because God in His mercy before the foundation of the world saw me
and–and placed a little seed in there that my faith would fly above
these things of the world, and now He's called me, and I–I regard my
place, as Paul said he regarded his office with highness. Oh, that God
had called him from being a great teacher like Gamaliel, but Paul had
been called to be a sacrifice for Christ. See?

^21-1
Now, the same thing. Notice, with such faith he never relied on his
sight, what he could see. Now, he seen nothing out there but a bunch of
mud-handling people, slaves, in prison, being killed everyday, beat
with whips, made fun of. Their religious beliefs was fanatic. And there
was a Pharaoh setting on the throne that didn't know or regard anything
about their religion. He knowed nothing about it; he was a heathen, and
so he just…
What a picture of today. And there it is, a different religion and how
that if–if this Moses, yet in the very seat with the President or
the–or the great man Pharaoh, to take his place at his death, and he
was an old man. And yet Moses thought that that call… He looked out
there. And the same window that Pharaoh looked out of, 'cause he was in
his home… And Pharaoh looked out and seen those people that were
lifting up their hands, and they'd take a whip and beat them to death
because they were praying. They'd run a sword through them because they
even failed to disobey at anytime and making them work till their
little old bodies would fall out and give them half enough to eat.
Well, there wasn't nothing but a bunch of fanatics, not hardly human;
and yet Moses, that faith in him looked upon them, and he said,
"They're God's blessed people." Amen. I like that.

^21-3
With such faith… His eyes didn't fall on the glamour of Egypt; it
fell on the promise of God. His eagle eye of faith seen beyond the
glamour of Egypt. He… Remember he's becoming an eagle now; he's a
prophet, and his eagle eye raises above those things. Oh, how I like
that. Oh, my.
How ought today… Today Christians rely on their senses of what they
can see or what they can understand, instead of their faith, to rely on
what you see with your eye and the glamour. Like you women, I'm always
call to you about you must let your hair grow out; you mustn't wear
makeup; you must act like ladies and Christians. You look out upon the
street and see the women today dressed immorally. Well, you think,
"Well, the–she belongs to the church; why can't I do that?" See? "And
she cuts her hair; why–why can't I do that? Well, she seems to be just
as sweet and as much intellectual, and a personality that I haven't
even got. Well, why can't I do that? I ought to do it." When you do
that, you paralyze your faith. See? You don't give your faith a chance
to grow. Start on that.

^22-2
As I said… someone said, "Brother Branham, the country–the people
regard you as a prophet. You oughtn't not to be bawling women out like
that and men out for these things. You–you ought to be teaching them
how to–to prophesy and receive gifts."
I said, "How can I teach them algebra, when they don't even know their
abc's?" See? Now, just start from that. Clean yourself up, so that when
you walk out on the street you look like a Christian anyhow. See? And
then go to acting like one. See? And you can't do it within yourself.
It's got to have Christ come within you. And if that seed's laying in
there, and that Light hits it, it's going to come to Life. If it
doesn't come to Life, there's nothing there to come to Life, because it
sure proved it on others. See? It comes to Life immediately as soon as
the Light hits it.

^22-4
That's a rebuke to women, I know, that's listening in to this tape or
will listen in to it. It's a rebuke to you, sister. It should be. It
should be, because it shows… I don't care what you've done. You
might've been religious all your life. You might've lived in the
church. Your father may be a minister, or your husband might be a
minister; but as long as you disobey the–the Word of God, it shows
there's no Light there. When you see the thing brought out and the Life
of the Holy Spirit, watch It when it strikes others. See what they do.
If It brings it on them… no wonder…
Why would a… What a rebuke to those Pharisees that called Jesus, when
He could perceive their thoughts, he called Him Beelzebub, and that
little prostitute said, "Why, this Fellow is the Messiah. The
Scriptures says He'll do this." See? That predestinated seed was laying
there, and when the Light struck it, it come to Life. See?
You can't keep it down, you can't hide Life. You can take a… Pour
concrete upon a bunch of grass and kill it in the wintertime. The next
spring where is your most grass at? Right around the edge of the
concrete, 'cause that germitized seed under that stone, when the sun
begins to shine, you can't hold it. It'll wiggle its way around through
there and come right out at the edge of that and stick its head up to
the glory of God. See, you can't hide life.

^23-2
When sun strikes botany life, it's got to live. And when the Holy
Spirit strikes the Scriptural Life that's in a man, it brings forth its
fruit right there. So regardless of how true and honest you are, how
you say you're not speaking… Saying they were… These women wearing
these–these bad clothes and things out there, just a common striptease
for the street, though you don't believe you are, you can't make you
believe. You can prove that your innocent of an adultery, but in the
Book of God you're committing adultery. Jesus said, "Whosoever looketh
upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her in his
heart already. And you presented yourself in that manner. See? You
can't see it unless that Life is laying there.
You look at somebody else, you look and say, "Well, I know Sister
Jones–Brother Jones is a–he's a minister, his wife does this and does
that." I don't care what that does; this is the Word.
Jesus said, "Let every man's word be a lie, and Mine be true." It's the
Bible, and when that Light really strikes it, it's got to come to Life.
It just has to come to Life.

^23-5
Now, Moses' great eye, his eagle eye looked beyond the glamour of
Egypt. The real Christian believer today, no matter what the church
says, what anybody else says, when that Light strikes it, they see the
very vindication of God, that Pillar of Fire hanging there, and the
signs and wonders that promised, the Scripture being laid in it, it
comes to Life. No matter how little it is and how many in the minority;
God's group has always been the minority. See?
"Fear not little, little flock, it's your Father's good will to give
you the Kingdom." See? They catch it. God is obligated to send them in
from every denomination, every order, everywhere, to see it, if they
are ordained to Life.

^24-2
Look at old Simeon, ordained to Life. When the Messiah come in the
temple in the form of a Baby in His mother's arms, Simeon, back in a
room somewhere reading, the Holy Spirit raised him up, for he was
waiting. That Life was in him. He said, "I'll not die until I see the
Lord's Christ." And there was the Lord's Christ in the temple. The Holy
Spirit led him from his duty out, and walked down through there, and
picked that baby up, and said, "Let the… Let Thy servant depart in
peace, for my eyes see Thy salvation."
There was an old blind woman in the corner by the name of Anna who
served the Lord day and night. She also was predicting and saying, "The
Messiah is coming. I can see Him coming." Yet she was blind, and that
same time when He was there, that little Life that was in her that was
predicted it would be there; it would be there; it would be there. Then
that same Life, the Light, came in the building in the form of a Baby
as an illegitimate child, wrapped in His swaddling clothes, coming up
through the building; and the Holy Spirit struck that old blind woman,
and she come by the Spirit, led to the people, and stood over this
Baby, and blessed the mother and blessed the Baby, and told what would
be the future for it. See? Ordained to Life. See? Look at them. There
wasn't a dozen of them.
There was only eight souls saved in the day of Noah. Hardly very many,
but all that was ordained to Life come in at that time. See how the
Holy Spirit works in each age, drawing the people?

^24-5
Now, we find out that Moses' faith led him to watch what would be, not
what was. Look at tomorrow, instead of today. Look at the promise
instead of the glamour. Look at the people instead of the organization.
See? God did that.
Lot could see the glamour of prosperity down in Egypt–or down in
Sodom. Lot could see the possibilities of a–of a–of a lot of–of
money. Lot could see the possibilities of when he looked over to Sodom
and he could maybe become… Being that he was a Hebrew, he might
become a great man there because he was a great intellectual figure and
the nephew of Abraham. So he chose to go towards Sodom.
Lot's intellects led him to see the glamour of–of prosperity. Lot's
intellects led him to see the blessings of glamour. But his faith was
so paralyzed by it, he didn't see the fire that was going to destroy
that sort of a life. And that's the way people are today. They see the
possibilities of belonging to a great organization. They see the
possibilities of having social standing with the people of the city,
but they don't see the possible… They don't see their faith is
paralyzed.

^25-2
Let me repeat that so it won't be misunderstood. Women today, they, as
I say, they want to–they want to act like the movie stars. The men
today want to act like the television comedians. The preachers today
seem to want to make their churches like some modernistic lodge of some
sort: membership and so forth. They see the possibilities of maybe
becoming a bishop, or a general overseer, or something like that if
they go along with the church, forsaking the Scriptures when it's
laying right before them with thoroughly vindicated by the power of God
and by the Living Word of God, living in the people. Yet they don't
want it. They say, "We don't want to get mixed up with something like
that." It would take their fellowship card. It would take their
denominational order. Yet honest men like Lot, setting down in Sodom,
knowing that that's wrong… See? See, what do they do when they do
that? They paralyze the little faith that they did have. It can't work.

^25-3
Now, Moses give away to that, and he set his faith paralyzed the world.
Either your faith will paralyze glamour, or either the glamour will
paralyze your faith. Now, you have to take one or the other. And you
see the Bible don't change; God don't change. He's the unchangeable God.
And now we find today that people of this day (See?), they look to the
big things, the big organizations. "I belong to the So–and–so," See?
And they go down there and look; there's no difference from the street
people. There's no other things… They have a little intellectual
something he want… When you talk about Divine healing, the Pillar of
Fire, the Light of God; they say, "That's mental."

^25-5
A man picked up that picture of The Angel of The Lord the other day, a
Baptist minister, and laughed at it. See? That's–that's blasphemy.
See? There's no forgiveness for that.
That's what Jesus said. It's blasphemy when you see it doing the very
works that Christ did, and He said when they seen that works in Christ.
He was the Sacrifice, and they called Him Beelzebub, a devil,
for–'cause he was doing it. And now they say… He said, "I forgive
you for that, but when the Holy Ghost comes to do the same thing, you
speak a word against It, it'll never be forgiven you in this world or
the world to come." See?
Just one word's all you have to say against It. See? And then…
Because if that Life… If you've been ordained to Eternal Life, then
that Life would burst forth when you seen It. You'd recognize, just
like the little woman at the well and the different ones; but if it's
not there, it can't come to Life, for there's nothing there to come to
Life with. As my old mother used to say, "You can't get blood from a
turnip," because there's no blood in it. Now, that's the same thing,
and it paralyzes what little faith you have got.

^26-3
Lot could see the glamour, but he didn't have enough faith to see the
fire that would destroy such glamour. I wonder if we have today? I
wonder if us–the women that wants to be popular, that wants to act
like the–the rest of the women in the church, if they see that they
want to act like the rest, they–they can see the possibilities of
being a prettier woman by being painted; they can see a prettier woman
by having a younger appearance by cutting their hair, and–and acting
like some of the others of the movie stars, but I wonder if that hasn't
paralyzed their faith to know that the Bible says that a woman does
that is a unhonorable woman. And a woman that puts on a garment
pertains to a man is an abomination before God: slacks and so forth and
shorts that they're wearing. It just becomes so callused till it
becomes a regular routine of the people doing it. I wonder if they
don't paralyze the very little faith that you had even to go to church.
You see? That's the thing it does.

^26-4
Lot did that and it paralyzed him and it paralyzed his people down
there. They couldn't see it, but Abraham with an a-vindicated faith
(his uncle), he looked not upon the glamour, he wanted nothing to do
with it, though he had to live hard and live to himself and Sarah:
lived out in the wilderness where it was hard goings on the barren
ground, but they seen not the glamour or the possibilities of becoming
popular. Sarah, the most beautiful woman in the land, Bible said so.
She's fair, the fairest of all the women. And now she even stayed and
obeyed her husband to even she called him her lord, who the Bible
refers to plumb over in the New Testament said, "Whose daughter you are
as long as you obey the faith." See? Called her husband her lord…
And the Angel of the Lord visited their temple or their little tent out
there and told them; they didn't even have a house to live in, living
out in the barren lands, and there you are. You see the day patterned
back again just exactly like it was then.

^27-2
Now, Moses with his great faith again could say "No" to the present
things of the present world and make a righteous choice. He chose to
suffer the afflictions with the people of God. He chose to go with it.
Why? His faith. He saw the promise; he saw the end time; he saw over in
tomorrow, and he let his faith loose. And he didn't pay no attention to
what his eyes saw in the possibilities here that he was the Pharaoh and
was going to be the Pharaoh, he looked plumb over in tomorrow.
Oh, if people could only do that. Didn't see the present world. If you
look at the present world, you make a choice with it. Hide your eyes
from that and look at the promise of God, way over in tomorrow. By his
faith he could choose. He did choose to be called the son of Abraham
and refused to be called the son of Pharaoh. How could he, when all the
whole kingdom… Egypt had the world whipped. He was king of the world,
and was a young man of forty years old here ready to take the throne,
but he never looked at his inter…

^27-4
Look at the women would've laid around him day by day, harems of them.
Look at the glamour, set and drink wine and watch the striptease before
him as they danced and fanned him with the–and the women from all over
the world, and the jewels and treasures and his army out there. The
only thing he had to do is set and eat his fine food and say, "Send
an–send army garrison number so-and-so down to so-and-so; take that
nation. I believe I just want it." That's all he had to do: set there,
and them fan him, and hold his mouth open, let the–the lovely,
beautiful stripteases of that day pour wine into his mouth, feed him
his food with their arms around him, all the prettiest women in the
world.
All the glamour that there was, was laying right there by him, but what
did he do? He looked away from that. He knowed fire was ready for that.
He knowed death laid in that line. See? He knowed that it was, and he
looked over to a bunch of despised and rejected people, and by faith he
chose to suffer the reproach of Christ and called himself, "I'm a son
of Abraham; I'm no son of this Pharaoh. Though you make me a bishop, or
a deacon, or an archbishop, or a pope, I'm no son of this thing. I'm a
son of Abraham, and separate myself from the things of the world."
Amen, amen, and amen.

^28-2
By faith, did that. He took the glamour away. He took the possibilities
of being the next bishop; he took the–the possibilities of being the
next archbishop, or the next general overseer at the next election or
whatever it was; he took that away. He refused to look at it.
Now, "If I become the bishop, I'll walk in. The people will say, 'Holy
father' or 'Doctor So-and-so' or–or–or–or 'Elder So-and–so.' How
they'll… All the ministers at the gathering, they'll pat me on the
back and say, 'Say, boy, that guy's got something. I'm telling you.'
Oh! 'Sh-sh-sh, keep still; here comes the bishop.' See? What he says,
that's law. See? 'Here comes the So–and-so.'"
People will fly over the world to be the–see the pope, and kiss the
foot and the rings and so forth. How… What a possibility to the
Catholic, what a possibility to the Protestant to be bishop or general
overseer or something, some great man in an organization.
Looking… Oh, but you see the eye of faith looks over the top of that.
And you see the end of it down there where God says the whole thing
will be destroyed. Faith, that eagle eye lifts you up above that and
you see tomorrow, not today, and choose to be called a son of Abraham.

^28-5
Pharaoh, with no faith seen God's children as fanatics. No faith, he
made them slaves because he wasn't scared what he said. He wasn't
afraid of God. He thought he was God. He thought his–his gods that he
served, that he was a bishop, he was the head general overseer; his god
is the one that did it; nothing to this thing here. So he made them
slaves. He laughed at them, made fun of them just as the people did
today, the same thing exactly.
Moses' faith seen them in the promised land, a blessed people. It might
be a hard fight to get them to the promise, but Moses chose to go with
them. (How I could lay on that, but my time's getting away. See?)

^29-2
Notice, it might be a hard thing to turn those people around. You have
to go live with them. You have to be one of them, and they're already
so intellectual that you can't move them. See? But there's got to be
something happen out there. There's got to be the supernatural
demonstrated before them. It's going to be a hard thing. The
organizations will turn you down, and all these things will happen.
It's–it's terrible what you have to do, but yet, make your choice.
"I'm one of them." Yeah, his faith did that. His faith sparked. Yes,
sir. He saw it.
It was a hard thing to get them to that promise, but he took his choice
to go with them anyhow. Regardless of what they did to him, and what
they turned him down, he went anyhow, and was going out with them. I
hope you're reading. All right.
Go with them anyhow. May… Be one of them (That's right.), because
it's your duty. Might be a hard fight and lot to go through, but go
anyhow. But his faith led him to take the choice of the Word and not
the glamour. He took the Word. That's what Moses' faith did.

^29-5
When faith looks on God's worst… Remember, here was the glamour now,
the world, oh, the highest, king of the world. And where was God's
promised? In the mud hole, a mud daubers, but when faith, when faith
looks at God's worst, it esteems it greater and more valuable than the
best the world can show (Yes, sir.), when faith looks at it, when faith
can see it.
When faith in the Word can see the Word made manifest, it's more than
all the glamour and archbishopry and everything else you can speak of.
Faith does it. See? You can see the worst, the despised, the rejected,
the whatever it might be; let it be at its worst, and yet faith will
esteem that a million miles higher than the best the world can produce.
Amen.

^30-1
That's the way we sing that song, "I'll take the way with the Lord's
despised few…" See? Oh, my. For, you see, faith sees what God wants
done.
Oh I hope this goes in. Faith doesn't look at the present time. Faith
doesn't see this here. Faith looks to see what God wants, and works
accordingly. That's what faith does. It sees what God wants, and what
God wants done, and faith operates through that.
Faith is a long range vision. It don't lower its sights. It holds to
the target. Amen. Any good shooter knows that (See?), that it's long
range; it's a–it's a telescope; it's a binocular that you don't look
around here; you don't use binoculars to look to see what time it is.
See? You don't use that, but you use binoculars to look away off, and
faith does that. Faith picks up God's Binoculars, both of them, both
sides, the New and Old Testament and sees every promise that He made,
and faith sees it out yonder. And faith chooses that, regardless of
what the present tense says here.
He looks at the end. He don't drop his sights down to look this way; he
looks out yonder. He keeps the crosshair dead center on the Word.
That's what faith does. That's the faith that's in a man that does
those things.

^30-5
Now, watch. What Pharaoh called–called… What Pharaoh called great,
God called abomination. Pharaoh could said, "Look, Moses, here… Why,
you're next Pharaoh; I hand this scepter to you when I leave here. I
hand this scepter; it's yours." See? Now, this is great. "You're going
to be a great man, Moses. You're going to be the bishop. You're going
to be this, that, or other. Don't leave us. You stay here." But you
see, he called that great, and God said it was an abomination.
Now, you women think a minute, so you men. What the world calls great,
God calls filth. Don't the Bible say it's an abomination for a woman to
wear a garment that pertains to a man? And you think you're smart in
doing it. See? You're just displaying female flesh for the devil;
that's all. So don't do it.
And you men who live after the things of the world and huddle and
cuddle after this, and you men with not enough audacity about you to
make your wives and things quit doing that: Shame on you. Call yourself
sons of God, looks like Sodomites to me. See? Not to hurt your
feelings, but to tell you the truth. Love is corrective. It always is.
A mother won't take care of her child, or correct it, and spank it, and
make it mind, is not much of a mother for it. That's right.

^31-2 Now, watch what takes place now. Moses saw this by his vision and Pharaoh said that, "This is great."
God said, "It's an abomination." So God… Moses chose what God said.
Now,
notice, faith sees what God wants you to see. See? Faith sees what God
sees, and reasoning and senses see what the world wants you to see.
Notice, reasoning. "Why, it's only human sense; it's only–only reason
it's this. This is… Well, ain't this just as good." See? That's just
exactly when you use those senses which is contrary to the Word (See?),
then that's what the world wants you to see. But faith don't look at
that; faith looks what God said. See, see? You don't… You cast down
reasons. Reasons… Reasoning sense sees what the world wants you to
see: big denominations.
"Well, are you a Christian?"
"Oh, I'm–I'm Presbyterian, Methodist, Lutheran, Pentecostal, whatmore.
I'm this, that, or the other. See, that's–that's senses. "I belong to
the First church," (See?) "Oh, I'm Catholic." "I'm–I'm this, that."
See? You say that.

^31-5
Now, that–that's senses. You like to say it because it's a
denomination, something big. "Well, we–we got more members nearly than
any church in the world." See? "We…" But there's only one real
church, and you don't join it; you're born in it. See? And if you're
born in it, the living God works Himself through you, and make Himself
known. See? That's where God dwells: in His church.
God goes to church everyday: just lives in church; He lives in you.
You're His church. You are His church. You're the tabernacle that God
dwells in. You are the church of the living God yourself. And if the
living God lives in His living being, then your action is of God. If it
isn't, then God isn't in there. He wouldn't make you act like that when
He says in the Word here, His blueprint, "Don't do it," and you go do
it. See, that's wrong. When you deny it, that shows the Life isn't even
in you. See? That's right.

^32-1
Faith led Moses to the path of obedience. Notice, Moses make… There's
young Pharaoh; there is young Moses: both of them with the opportunity.
Moses seen the reproach of the people and counted it greater treasures
than all Egypt had, and he led… By faith he followed what his faith
said in the Word and it led him to the path of obedience and finally to
glory, immortal, never to die in the presence of God.
Sight and senses led–and glamour led Pharaoh to his death and the
destruction of Egypt, his nation, and it's never come back since.
There you are. Look at this, you die. Look at that, you live. Now, make your choice.

^32-4
That's the same thing God put before Adam and Eve in the garden of
Eden. See? By faith you must make your choice. Now, notice, sight led
Pharaoh to his death, and to destruction of his city. Moses, with his
faith, never did fear Pharaoh. See? He didn't care what Pharaoh said.
He cared not about Pharaoh no more than his mother and his daddy cared
about the threat. When Moses was confirmed to him that he was that
person that was to deliver the Egypt–to lead Israel out of Egypt, he
never cared what Pharaoh said. He wasn't scared of him. Amen, amen,
amen. You see what I mean?
There's no fear in faith. Faith knows about it. Faith as I've always
said, has got great big muscles and hairs on the chest. Faith said,
"Shut up." And everybody shuts up. That's all. "I know where I'm at."
Rest of them say, "Well, maybe he does." See? But you've got to stand up and show your muscles. That's all; faith does it.

^32-6
Notice, Moses never feared Pharaoh after God a-vindicated his call.
When… Moses believed he was called for that, but when God told him up
there, "It's so," and come down and showed before Pharaoh and all the
rest of them that he was sent to do it, Moses never was scared of
Pharaoh.
Notice, Pharaoh used his wisdom on Moses though. Watch. He said, "I'll
tell you what; I'll make an agreement with you (after the plagues done
eat him up)," he said, "I'll make an agreement with you. You just go
for a little worship for three days. Just go so far, and don't go no
farther." But you know that was Pharaoh's senses told him that. See?
"You just go so far and don't go no farther."
Haven't we got that kind today? "If you'll just join church, that's all right."
But, you know the faith that Moses had didn't believe in a so-far religion.

^33-3
He said, "We're all going. We're going all the way. That's right. We're
going to the promised land. We just don't go out here and make a
denomination and stop; we go on through." Amen. "I'm going on to the
promised land. God promised us."
How many Pharaohs have we got today standing in the pulpit, heads of
organizations? "Now, if you just do this and do that, that's all…
Well, see, just so far."
But Moses said, "Oh, no. No, no, no, no." See?
Pharaoh said, "Well, why not–if you're going to have that kind of
religion, I'll tell you what you do. Just you and the elders go
worship. See? Just you and the elders go worship, 'cause you all can
have that kind of religion, but don't get it among the people."
You know what Moses said? "There won't even be a hoof left behind.
We're going all the way. We're all going. I'm not going 'less they go;
and as long as I'm here, I'm on your hands. Amen. I'm not going unless
they can go too. That's all."

^33-7
Oh, what a gallant servant. Amen, "I want to take them with me. Just
because I've got it, and I set down and say, 'Well, now, this is all
right.' No, sir; we want the people too. Every one of us is going."
Amen. He said, "The land… Don't even leave every sheep or anything
behind. There's not going to be a hoof left back. We're all going to
the promised land (Amen.) every one of us. Whether you're a housewife,
or whether you're a little maid, or whether you're an old woman, or a
young man, or an old man, or whatever you are; we're going anyhow.
There isn't going to be one of us left. Amen. Every one of us is going.
And we ain't going to stop at nothing else." That's right.
My, them religions is really in a debate there, wasn't it? Oh, my. No,
Moses did not believe in this here just so far religion. No, he didn't
believe in that. Yes, sir. Oh, my.
We could stay all day on that but I got to get to my text after while and start preaching.

^34-2
Notice, notice this. How beautiful. Oh, I love this. You know, finally
Pharaoh said, "Get out." God just plagued him with the voice of Moses.
And he struck everything. He done everything there was to be done. He
stopped the… He put the sun down in the middle of the day; He done
everything else. He–he blackened the days; he brought frogs, fleas,
lice, everything else; fire, smoke and death to his families and
everything else. He done everything till finally Pharaoh had to say,
"Get out. Take all you got and go." Oh, my. Praise be to God.
I'm so glad that a man can so completely serve God till he–the devil
don't know what to do with him. Just obey God so completely till the
devil said, "Oh, my. Get away. I–I don't want to hear it no more."
That's right. You can do it–so completely.

^34-4
See now, if–if God wouldn't have backed up Moses, then he'd become a
laughingstock; but God was right there confirming. Everything he said
come to pass.
And Pharaoh had to hold his positions 'cause he was a bishop you know,
so he–he had to stay there. He couldn't…?… He couldn't say "No,"
because it was already happening. See? He couldn't–he couldn't deny it
'cause it was already happening. So finally he said, "Oh, just get out;
I don't want to hear you no more. Get out of here; take all you got and
go." Oh, my.
Now, we find Moses, here, after God had done so much for him and had showed him so many signs and wonders…
Now, for the next fifteen minutes let's lay this down here. Watch real close.

^34-6
Moses come to this spot where he… God had said, "I'm with you. Your
words is My Word. I proved it to you, Moses. You are the one called
flies in the land. It was out of season. And you said, 'Let there come
flies,' and there come flies." That's creation. Who can bring darkness
over the earth but God? "You said, 'Let there be darkness,' and there
was darkness. You said, 'Let there be frogs,' and the frogs even got in
Pharaoh's house, in the beds, and when they piled them up, in–in great
heaps…" Creator… "And I have spoke through you, Moses, and made My
Word create through your lips. I'll made you actually a god before
Pharaoh." Yes, sir. "I've done all this." And here they come to a
place, a little trial come up, and Moses begin to cry, "What shall I
do?"

^35-1
I want you to notice. This is a great lesson here now. I love this.
See? See, Moses, if we read here right, that when the children begin to
get scared, they seen Pharaoh coming after them in the line of duty…
God had performed everything perfectly; now He started them on their
journey. He got the church together. They'd been called out; they come
from every denomination; they all got together. Moses had went back
there and said, "Lord, what must I do?"
He'd say, "Well, go do this." All right, go ahead. "Now, Moses, you know I've called you to do this."
"Yes, Lord."
"All right, you go speak this; it'll be." Here come the flies. "Speak
for this." Here it come. "Do this." Here it come. Everything was THUS
SAITH THE LORD, THUS SAITH THE LORD, THUS SAITH THE LORD.

^35-4
Now, he gets into a trouble, and God said, "Now, I've got them started
on the journey; they're all done called out. The church is together, so
I've got them on their journey. Now, Moses, take them on over. I told
you. See, I'm going and set down and rest awhile."
Moses said, "Oh, Lord, look coming here. Here comes Pharaoh. The people
are all… What must I do? What must I do?" See there, isn't that just
human being. Yes, sir. Begin to cry, "What must I do?"
Here we see Moses expressingly fully human nature–always wants God to
get behind you and push you into something. Now, that's us today. You
want God after we seen all we seen, yet you want God to push you to do
something. See? Moses had just laxed around, said, "God, I'm going to
ask You, and see what You say."
"Yeah, yeah," you say, "Well, all right. I'll say it too." See?
But here God had ordained him for the job, proved that He was with him;
and here he is the circumstance comes up, and then he begins to cry,
"What can I do? Lord, what can I do?"

^36-2
Now, remember, he'd already prophesied here, for he said, "These
Egyptians that you see today, you'll see no more," and then immediately
begin to cry out, "God, what can we do?" See, after he'd done done a
pretty good job in prophesying there. See, he had done told them what
would happen. If the Word of God was in him, It was in him. And when he
was telling that, it actually come to pass; what he said was already
going to come to pass, and here he was crying out, "What am I going to
do?"
Oh, if that isn't human beings. If that isn't me… If that isn't me…
See? He'd already proved, "What you say will happen. I'm with you. And
here a circumstance rose in a moment. "What must I do? What must I do,
Lord? Hey, Lord, where are You at? Hey, do You hear me? What must I
do?" And He'd already ordained him, and a-vindicated him, and proved
and worked everything through him, and here, "God…" Oh, my, fully
express it.

^36-4
Man wants to rest and let God do the pushing. And yet he knew that God
had anointed him for this job, to do this, and God had clearly
a-vindicated his claims. It was time for the people to be delivered.
God through his miracles and wonders had drawed them all together in
one group (You follow me?), drawed them all together in one group,
vindicated his claims. Scripture said so. Here was a sign; here was the
evidence. Here everything that he said… Then he come among them as a
prophet. Well, whatever he said, God honored it, even to create and
bring up flies and put things in existence. And everything that He'd
promised him, here He done it. But he wanted to wait on THUS SAITH THE
LORD. See?
He should've known that the very vindication of his call was THUS SAITH
THE LORD. His job that he was ordained to was THUS SAITH THE LORD. Can
you get it? Why did he wait on THUS SAITH THE LORD?

^36-6
He wanted, "Lord, what can I do? Here I've brought these children out
here this far. Here's the circumstance: Pharaoh's coming; they're all
going to die. What must I do? What must I do?"
He had already predicted what they was going to do. He'd already told
just exactly what to do. He predicted the end of the very nation he was
brought up in. I hope you understand. See? Moses had already said,
"You'll not see them anymore. God's going to destroy them. They made
fun of you long enough. God will destroy them." He'd already predicted
what would happen to them, then, "Lord, what must I do?" See the human
nature there? See? "What must I do? I'm going to wait for THUS SAITH
THE LORD." Yes, sir. "I'll see what the Lord says, and then I'll do
it." Remember, there was a Pharaoh had raised up that didn't know
Joseph, you know, in that time, right at that time. See, see? And Moses
stood right up and predicted the end of the nation. And here he was
right to the place where it was to be happening, and then he cries out,
"What must I do, Lord? What must I do?" See?

^37-2
Isn't that human beings? Isn't that just human nature? "What shall I
do?" He was–already prophesied. God had honored everything he said,
and he was called for the job, so why did he have to say, "What must I
do?" There was a need; it was just up to him to speak for it. God
wanted Moses to put that gift of faith that He had given him to work.
God had vindicated it. It was the Truth, and God wanted Moses–wanted
the people to see that He was with Moses. And he, back there he waited,
say "Now, Lord, I'm just a baby. Let You tell me now. Yeah, I'll go do
this. I got THUS SAITH THE LORD."
"Brother, is that THUS SAITH THE LORD?"
"Yes, yes, Brother Moses, that's THUS SAITH THE LORD."
"Yeah, okay. We got it now, THUS SAITH THE LORD," and it happened, never failed one time, never did fail.
And here it is under circumstances, comes up again. Now, He's got them
on the journey. The church is already called out. Got them on the
journey, and they're moving up. And Moses started crying out, "Lord, is
it THUS SAITH THE LORD? What must I do?"

^37-4
All right, God wanted Moses to have faith that He'd put in that gift
that He'd clearly a-vindicated. God had clearly proved to Moses and the
people that it was Him by the Word and by the things that was said come
to pass. It was clearly identified. There was no need of him worrying
anymore about it. See? There was no more of him to think anything about
it 'cause it was already cleared up. He'd already done these things.
He'd already proved by flies and fleas that he spoke things into
creation, that the Word of God was in him. So here he is going to ask
now what to do when the circumstances lays right before him. See? Oh,
my.
I hope this goes way down to us, and we can see where we're at. See?
Don't it make you feel about that big? Thinking about Moses, telling
his faults, and look at ours.

^38-2
Here he was standing there. See? Knowed that the Scriptures said that
that was the hour and day for that to happen, and knowed that God had
met him in a Pillar of Fire. And it went right down before the people
and performed these miracles, and everything he said, it come to pass,
even to bring things into creation, doing the things that only God
could do, showing that his voice was God's voice. And here was the
circumstances with that people that he was raising up, bringing on to
the promised land, and then was standing crying, "What must I do?"
That's a human being just wanting to… As Brother Roy Slaughter (I
believe he's setting outside the door there.) told me one time about
somebody doing something to me, and I said, "Well, I did this and now
that…"
And he said, "Brother Branham, let them lean on your shoulder today, and tomorrow you pack them."
And that's just the way human beings is. Lean on your shoulder today,
and tomorrow you pack them. That's what Moses was doing. God had to
pack him along after He'd ordained him and proved it to do it. And the
people ought to have said, "Moses, say the Word. I seen you do it
there. God honored you there. And you're the same one today." Amen.
See? "Do it." Amen. He ought to have knowed it, but he didn't. All
right.

^38-5
Just as it was then, so is it now. We find out that… So he said…
God must've just got enough of it. God must've got fed up on it. He
said, "What are you crying to Me about? Haven't I already proved My
identification? Haven't I told you that I sent you for the job? Didn't
I tell you to go do this? Didn't I promise that I'd do this, that I'd
be with your mouth, and I'd speak through you, and I'd do this, and
you'd show signs and wonders; didn't I promise to do it? Have not I did
just exactly and destroyed every enemy from around you? And here you
are standing out here now at the Red Sea right in the line of duty,
what I told you to do and then still hollering and crying to Me. Don't
you believe Me? Can't you see that I sent you to do this?"

^39-1
Oh, if that isn't human being, my. So He just must've got pretty well
fed up on it. And He said, "You know you have need of it. You know if
you're going to take these children over there to the promised land…
That's exactly. You're penned up here in a corner. There ain't nothing
else you can do. So there's a need. What are you crying to Me about?
(Amen.) What you looking at Me for? What you calling on Me about?
Haven't I proven it to the people? Haven't I proven it to you? Haven't
I called it? Isn't it Scriptural? Didn't I promise to take this people
to that land? Didn't I call you and tell you I would do it? Didn't I
call and say I sent you to do it, and it wasn't you, it was Me? And I
go down, and I'd be with your lips. Whatever you said, I'd vindicate it
and prove it. Haven't I done it? Then when any little thing comes up,
why do you act like a baby? You ought to be a man. Speak to the people.
(Amen.) Then move forward." Amen. There you are. "Don't cry, speak!"
Amen.
Oh, I like that. "What are you crying to Me about? Just speak to the
people and go forward to your objective." Whatever it is, if it's
sickness, or whatever, whether it's to raise the dead or whatever it
is, speak. I proved it. Speak to the people."

^39-3
What a lesson. What a lesson. Oh, my. At this stage of the journey
where we're standing, look where we're at now (Yes, sir.), at the third
pull. Notice, we're right here at the door of the coming of the Lord.
He was anointed for the job and still waiting for THUS SAITH THE LORD.
God must've just got enough of it. He said, "Don't cry anymore; speak.
I sent you."
Oh, God. What this church ought to be this morning. God's perfect
a-vindication with the Pillar of Fire and the signs and the wonders,
everything just like it was in the days of Sodom. He said it would
return back. Here's the world in its condition; there's the nation in
its condition. There's the women in the condition. There's the men in
the condition. There's the church in the condition, There's everything.
The elements, the signs, flying saucers and everything in the skies and
all kind of mysterious things, and the sea a-roaring, tidal waves,
man's heart failing, fear, perplexed of time, distress between nations,
the church falling away, and the man of sin rising up who upholds
himself above all that's is called god, he that setteth in a temple of
God showing himself. Oh, my. And it has come to this nation.

^40-2
And the church has organized, and all of them gathered together as
harlots to the whore, and everything exactly in the way of whoredom.
Whoredom, what is it? Telling women they can cut their hair, telling
women they can wear shorts, tell men they can do this and they can do
that, and a preacher saying, "Do this," and the social gospel and
things. Don't you see it's committing adultery with the true Word of
God. And God has sent us His true Word undenominational, no strings
tied to It, and give us a Pillar of Fire, the Holy Ghost that's been
with us now for thirty years, and everything that He's predicted and
said come to pass exactly the way He said it.

^40-3
"Speak to the people; and let's go forward." Amen. We got an objective,
that's glory. Let's move to it. We're heading to the promised land. All
things are possible to them that believe."
"Speak to the people. Haven't I proved it? Haven't I even had My
picture made among you and everything else, and done everything that
could be done to prove that I'm with you? Doesn't the magazines just a
few weeks ago pack the article, when you said here at the pulpit what
would take place out here three months beforehand, and there it went
taking place and vindicating; even the science knows about it. And
everything that I've done, and you're still waiting. Speak to the
people and go forward to your objective." Amen.
Didn't Nathan tell David… Nathan, the prophet, one time setting
seeing David the anointed king, he said, "Do all that's in your heart,
for God is with you." Told David, "Do all that's in your heart; God's
with you."

^41-1
Joshua was anointed to take the land for God and for his people. The
day was short; he needed more time for the job that he was anointed and
commissioned to do. Joshua, a man, he was anointed. God told him, "As I
was with Moses, I'll be with you." Amen. "That land, I'm going to give
it to them. I want you to go over there and clean out the Amalekites
and–and the Hitt–all–all the others, the Philistines, and–and
Perizzites, and all the different ones; clean them out. I'm with you.
I'll… No man will stand before you all the days of your life. No man
can bother you. Go on in there."
And Joshua drawed that sword and said, "Follow me." And he got over
there, and here he was fighting. And what was it? He routed the enemy.
They were little bunches here and little bunches there. When nighttime
come they'd all get together and garrison together and come with a big
force against him. And the sun was going down; he needed more light.
The sun was going down; he didn't fall on his knees and say, "Lord God,
what shall I do? What shall I do?" He spoke. He had a need. He said,
"Sun, stand still." And he cried at nothing; he commanded: "Sun, stand
still; I've got a need of this. I'm the servant of the Lord, anointed
for this job, and I got a need. Stand still and don't you shine, and
moon, you hang where you're at," till he fought the battle through and
whipped the whole thing out.

^41-3
And the sun obeyed him. No crying out, he spoke to the sun; said, "You
stand still. Sun, hang there, and moon, you stay where you're at." He
didn't cry out, "Lord, now what can I do? Give me some more sunlight."
He had need of sunlight, so he commanded it, and the sun obeyed him.
Oh, my. He commanded the sun to stand still.
Samson, anointed, raised up, ordained of God, given a gift of power,
was ordained to destroy the nation of the Philistines: ordained, born
on the earth, anointed of God to destroy the Philistines. One day they
caught him out in the field without his sword, without a spear, and a
thousand of those armored Philistines run upon him at one time. Did he
get down and say, "Oh, Lord, I'm waiting for a vision? Oh, Lord, what
must I do? Direct me now what to do." He knowed he had a need. He found
nothing but an old jawbone of a mule, and he beat down a thousand
Philistines. Amen. He never cried to God. He used his anointed gift. He
knowed that he was sent for the job. He knowed he was born for that. He
knowed he was anointed with a gift, and he beat down a thousand
Philistines. He didn't cry to God. God ordained him and vindicated that
he was by other things that he had done, and he was a vindicated,
anointed servant of God to destroy the Philistines, and he did it. No
matter what the circumstances was, he did it. He never asked nothing.
That was his job. That… God was dealing through… He picked up that
mule bone and go to beating Philistines.

^42-1
How the… Why, one lick with that thing across one of them inch and a
half brass skulls like that would've shattered that bone into a million
pieces, and he beat a thousand of them down and killed them, and still
stood with it in his hand. Didn't ask no questions. He didn't cry out;
he spoke. He routed them.
Oh, my. Take the Philistines. "Can I take the Philistines, Lord? I–I
know You sent me to do it, Lord. Yes, Lord, I know You sent me to
destroy this nation of the Philistines. Now, here a thousand of them
around me. I ain't got nothing. What–what am I going to do now, Lord."
Oh, my. Nothing going to bother him. He's anointed for the work.
There's nothing can harm you. No, not one thing. Hallelujah. He just
took what he had and beat into them. That's right.

^42-3
When the enemy fenced him in and said, "Now, we got him in the walls;
we got him now. We got him on the inside here with this woman. Now, we
got this good door shut all around everywhere, and he can't get out. We
got him."
Samson didn't cry, "Oh, Lord, they got me all fenced in with this
denomination. What am I going to do? I've joined up with them. What am
I going to do?" He never did that. He just walked out, and pulled down
the gates, put it on his shoulder, and walked away with it. Amen.
He was anointed for the job. He was called of God: didn't fence him in.
No, indeedy. He took the gates with him. He didn't pray about it. He
didn't ask God whether to do it or not. It's right in the line of duty.
Amen and amen, amen. Right in the line of duty…

^43-1
"Why cry to Me? Speak, and go on." Amen. "Don't cry, speak." He done
quit whining and whimpering now: ought to be old enough to speak.
That's right. He knew his anointed gift of power could destroy any
Philistine that stood before him. Amen. But we don't know that. You
see? We're still little babies with the bottle in our mouth and–and…
He know it. He knowed that God raised him up for that purpose, and
there was nothing going to stand before him all the days of his life.
Nothing could destroy him. He was raised for that purpose like Moses
was: nothing going to stop him. No Amalekites or nothing else can stop
him. He's on the road to the promised land. Samson knowed he was on the
road.
Joshua know he was taking the land. He was a-vindicated. God's Word
promised it, and the Holy Ghost was there vindicating it. He was on his
road, so there's nothing going to stand in his way. No, sir.

^43-2
Right in the line of duty with God, there was nothing going to stand in
his way, so he just picked up the gates, and put them on his shoulders
(weighed about four or five tons), and walked up on top of the hill and
set down on them: nothing going to stand in his way. He had an anointed
gift from God.
He didn't have to cry out, "Lord, what must I do now." He's already
anointed to do it. That was THUS SAITH THE LORD, "Get rid of them."
Hallelujah. "Get rid of them. I've raised you up for that purpose."
Amen.
"What must I do, Lord? Oh…?… What am I going to do here at the Red Sea?"
"Didn't I tell you that I gave you a mountain for a sign right here?
You're coming back to that mountain, and you're going to take these
children into the land. Didn't I call you for that purpose? What are
you worried about anything else standing in the way. Speak and start
moving." Amen and amen. "I–I called you for this purpose."

^43-5
David, he knowed he was anointed, and was a-vindicated to be a good
shot. He knowed that they knowed he was a good shot. David was
anointed; he know it. And when he stood before Goliath, he never cried,
"Oh, God, what must I do now? But what–what must I… I–I know what
You did in times past; You–You let me kill a bear, and You let me kill
a lion, but what about this Goliath out here?" He never did that; he
just spoke. What did he say? "You'll be like they were."…?… He
spoke and went forward.
He never prayed a prayer; he never offered nothing. He knowed he was
anointed. Amen. He was anointed, and that slingshot had proved the
right kind of a thing. He had faith in his anointing. He had faith that
God could direct that rock right straight in the middle of that helmet
there where the only place to be hit. He was standing there. He knowed
he was a good shot. Amen. He knowed God made him that. Amen. He knowed
he'd killed a lion. He knowed he'd killed a bear, but that was with his
earthly father's possession. Here's his heavenly Father's possession.
Amen.

^44-2
He didn't get down, "Look, what must I do now, Lord?" He spoke and
said, "You'll be like the lion and the bear, and here I come." Glory to
God. Yes, sir.
He spoke and went forward to meet this Goliath (Oh, my.) regardless of
his size. He was a little ruddy looking fellow, you know. He wasn't
very big, wasn't very handsome to look at, little bitty drawed-up sort
of a fellow. The Bible said he was ruddy. Now, regardless of his size
and his so-called ability to do so…
You know, the Bishop told him, said, "Now, look here, son, that man's a
theologian. See? He is a fighter. He was borned a fighter and he's
a–he's been a fighter from his youth; and you're no match for him."
And his brothers said, "Oh, you naughty thing, come out here to do such
a thing as that; get on back home." That didn't bother him. Why? He
knew he was anointed.
"The God that delivered me from that lion, the God that delivered me
from the paws of that bear, He'll more than that deliver me from that
Philistine. Here I come. I meet you in the Name of the Lord God of
Israel." Amen.
Didn't pray through; he was already prayed through; God prayed him
through before the foundation of the world. He was anointed for the
job. He had to speak and go forward. That's all there was to do about
it. Just speak and go forward.

^44-8
Oh, that's all there was to it. He didn't… About his denominational
brothers, them scoffers standing there too, you know… Oh, yes. They
was standing there saying, scoffing, and making fun, and saying (his
brothers you know) and tell… "Aw, you–you–you're just naughty."
That didn't move him a bit. "You want to be different from somebody
else; you just want to show off."
If that'd been showing off, it'd been so. But they only looked at the
intellectual side. David knowed the anointing oil was on him. Amen.
Didn't make any difference to him. He said, "That Philistine will be
like the bear and lion, so here I come." He predicted it before it
happened. What did he do? He killed the bear; he killed the lion. He
knocked the lion down. What with? With the–with a slingshot, and took
a knife, and then the bear–lion, he killed the lion with the knife.
That's the same thing he done to Goliath. He knocked him down with a
rock, and pulled up his sword, and cut his own head off right there
before… What did he predict before it happened? "And you will be as
they are." Why? He spoke the word that it would be, and then went
forward to make it be fulfilled. Amen. Oh, brother. He spake and took
over the situation that day.

^45-2
If there ever was a time that man should speak, it's now. (Closing just
the next few minutes if you can just bear just a few minutes longer. I
got some more things wrote down here, some Scriptures I want to get to.)
Peter never cried when he found a man that had faith enough to be
healed, laying at the gate called Beautiful. He never got down and had
an all night's prayer, and or all day's prayer, or a big long prayer,
and said, "Lord, I pray, You now, that You'll help this poor lame man.
I see that he's got faith. I know he's a believer, and I've asked him,
and he–he–I–I–I… He said he had faith; he'd believe what I told
him. I told him about the–what You did, and I just think now, Lord,
that–that it… You… Can You give me a THUS SAITH THE LORD for him?"
No, he knew that he was anointed apostle. He knowed that Jesus Christ
commissioned him: "Heal the sick; raise the dead; cleanse the lepers;
cast out devils; freely as you receive, freely give." He said, "Peter,
go do that." He didn't have to pray through; he was commissioned.

^45-5
What did he say? He said, "In the Name of Jesus Christ…" He spoke the
Name of Jesus Christ, and the man just laid there. He picked him up by
the hand and said, "Stand up on your feet." He held him there till his
ankle bones got strength, and he started to walking.
Why? He never had an all night's prayer meeting. He never cried out to
God. He knew positive from the lips of Jesus Christ he was anointed for
this work. And he spake and raised him up for he knowed he was anointed
apostle for the purpose.
The people that laid in his shadow never said, "Oh, come, Apostle
Peter, and cry over us and pray the prayer of faith for us to God." No,
no, they never said that. They knew he was anointed and a-vindicated
apostle of God. So they said, "Just let us lay in his shadow. You don't
have to say a word. We know it; we believe it." Life was in them… The
apostle couldn't get to them all and they themselves, they are a part
of it.

^46-3
Moses said, "It's just not me going; we're all going. We all got
something to do. We've all got to be anointed." And they seen that
apostle stand there, and seen him heal the sick man, and do the things
he did, they knowed he couldn't get to them, so they never said,
"Peter, come and–and offer prayer and wait now until you got THUS
SAITH THE LORD and come tell me (See?), what the Lord said." They said,
"If we can only lay in his shadow, because the very God that was in
Jesus Christ is in him, and we see the same thing doing." So they
touched the border of Jesus' garment and laid in his shadow, and Jesus
was in this man. If that shadow can reflect upon them, they'd be
healed. And the Bible said every one of them was healed. No all night
prayer meetings. Said, "Lord, if I go lay in the shadows of this
apostle…" Oh, no, they knew it. The Light had struck them. Their
hearts was full; their faith was let loose. Amen. They believed it;
they seen it. Paul's hankies, the same way. (Now, in closing.)

^46-4
Jesus never cried when they brought the maniac boy to Him that had
epilepsy, falling into the fire. He never said, "Father, I'm Your Son,
and now You sent Me here to do so-and-so and-so; can I heal this boy?"
He never said… He said, "Come out of him, Satan." He spoke and the
boy was made well.
When He met Legion with two thousand devils in him, it wasn't Jesus
a-crying; it was the devils a-crying. "If you're going to cast us out
(Oh, my.), suffer us to go in that herd of swine."
Jesus never said, "Now, Father, am I able to do this?" He said, "Come
out of him," and the devils took their flight. Sure, He knowed He was
Messiah.

^47-2 At the grave of Lazarus (he'd been dead four days). They said, "If You would've been here, Lord, he would've not have died."
He
said, "I am the Resurrection and Life," not where, when, or how. "He
that believeth in Me though he were dead, yet shall he live." Amen. He
knowed Who He was. He knowed what He was. He knowed that He was
Emmanuel. He knowed He was the Resurrection. He knowed He was Life. He
knowed that in Him dwelt the Fullness of the Godhead bodily. He seen
them little people there, and He seen that what God had told Him, said
to do and there He was; He went down there.
He never said, "Now, wait, I will kneel down here and all of you kneel
down, pray." He said, "You believe that I'm able to do this?" Amen. He
asked for it. It wasn't Him; it was them.
"Yea, Lord, I believe that You're the Son of God that was to come in
the world." Oh, my. There He is identified. Something's got to happen.
"Lazarus, come forth." He spoke, and a dead man come forth. Not, can I?
He just spoke. When the faith was met, the thing happened.

^47-6
He speaks–He spoke and the blind saw; the lame walked; the deaf heard;
devils screamed and come out; the dead was raised up; everything. Why?
He didn't pray through; He was anointed the Messiah. He was that
Messiah. He knew He was. He knew His position; He knowed what He was
sent to do. He knowed that the Father had identified Him to be the
Messiah to the believer; and when he met that believer with faith, He
just spoke the Word. Devils scattered. Yes, sir. Speak; don't cry,
speak. Amen.
And He knew His God-given rights, but we don't. He knew what He was; we don't.
Moses had forgot. Samson understood. Others understood. Joshua
understood. Moses forgot. God had to call his attention to it. He said,
"Why are you crying to Me? I sent you to do the job; speak, and go on
to your objective. I told you you'd come to this mountain; take them
children and lead them on. Just speak; I don't care what's in your way;
move it out of the way. I give you authority to do it. I spoke; you
spoke flies and fleas, and creation and things like that. Now, what are
you hollering to Me about? Why are you coming to Me, hollering these
things? Just speak and watch it move; that's all." Oh, my. Oh, how I
love it.

^48-1
Here Jesus, everything that He said, He just spoke the Word, and it was
so. God properly had a-vindicated Him to be His Son. "This is My
beloved Son, in whom I'm well pleased. Hear ye Him."
Watch Him. (I like this) How bravely, how majestically He stood before
His critics. Amen. He said, "Destroy this temple, and I'll pray to the
Father, and see what He does about it." " Destroy this temple, and I'll
raise it up again." Not: "I hope to; I'm going to try to–I will do
it." Why? The Scripture said so.
The same Scripture that said He'd raise up His body, give us the
authority, the power. Amen. "In My Name they shall cast out devils;
they'll speak with new tongues; if they take up serpents or drink
deadly things; it won't harm them. If they lay their hands on the sick,
they shall recover."
"Why cry unto Me? Speak and go forward." Oh, bravely, "I… Destroy this temple, I'll raise it up again."

^48-3
Oh, and remember now (we're closing) it was that same He; it was He
that said in John 14:12: "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do,
shall he do also." Is that right? It was He that said so. It was Jesus
in Mark 11:24 that said, "If you say to this mountain (not 'if you pray
to this mountain')–if you say to this mountain 'Be moved,' and don't
doubt in your heart, but believe that what you said will come to pass,
you can have what you've said." Now, you–if you say it just
presumptuously, it won't happen; but if something in you–that's
you're–you're anointed for the job, and will know that it's the will
of God to do it, and will say it, it's got to happen. "If ye…" It was
He that said this: "If ye abide in Me and My Words abide in you, ask
what you will, and it shall be done to you." Oh, my. Oh, my. You see
what I mean?

^49-1
Pardon this, but it's just coming up in me. I've got to say it. It was
He that said that day up there on the side that woods, "You have no
game," and He created three squirrels standing there before us. What is
it? Just speaking the word, say they'll be there, and there, and there,
and there they was. It was He that did that. Charlie, Rodney, it was He
down there in Kentucky. Nellie, Margie, and the rest of you, it was He,
that same God that was back there and spoke to Moses, said, "Why do you
cry to Me? Speak the word." It was He that brought them into existence.
It's He. It's Him. Oh, my.
It was He that give the vision about a year ago that said we would go
over there, and these Seven Seals and how they would be a great thunder
that would start it off, and it'd be in the shape of the pyramid. And
there the "Look" mag–the "Life" magazine's packed it–hanging on the
wall there. It was He that said that.

^49-3
It was He that night when I was going down that road and seen that big
mamba snake about to get my brother. He said, "You've been given the
power to bind him or any of the rest of them."
It was He that said that. To my little gray headed wife setting back
there, it was He that morning that woke me up there in the room and
standing in the corner said, "Don't fear to do anything, or go
anywhere, or say anything, for the never failing Presence of Jesus
Christ is with you wherever you go."
It was He up yonder in Sabino Canyon about three months ago when I was
praying, wondering what was going to happen, and I was standing there
and a sword dropped in my hand, and said, "This is The King's Sword."
It was He.
It was He that said to me, "As I was with Moses, so I'll send you."

^49-6
It was He that said to me thirty years ago down on the river yonder as
a little boy, standing there as a little preacher on the river thirty
years ago, standing there when that Light and same Pillar of Fire come
down from the heavens and stood there and said, "As I sent John the
Baptist to forerun the first coming of Christ, your Message shall
forerun the second coming," to all the world. How could it be when my
own pastor laughed and made fun of it? But it's happened just exactly
that way. It was He that said it. Yes, sir.
Oh, how it was He that said in prophecy to the vision, "It shall come
to pass." It was He that said, "If one among you prophesies or sees a
vision and tells it, and it comes to pass, then remember it's not him;
it's Me. I am with him." Oh, my. What could I go on and say, it's He,
it's He, it's He.

^50-2
It's He that come down… When I told them that there was the Pillar of
Fire that was down there on the river, and they couldn't believe it. It
was He down there amongst, when that Baptist preacher before thirty
thousand people that night in the Sam Houston Coliseum when that Angel
of the Lord had His picture taken standing there. It was He, the same
yesterday, today and forever. It was He that foretold where these
things would be. It was He that said this. It was He that done these
things. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. He's done
everything just exactly like He said He would do it. Amen.
Why should I wait? God's a-vindicated the Word. It's the Truth. Let's
journey. Let's walk. Let's go on the walk of the Lord, laying aside all
doubts, all sins. Clean up the house; scrub it up. As Junior Jackson's
vision said, there wasn't nothing left but lamps–or his dream (if he's
setting here). Nothing left but lamps, and they had gold bands around
them–in the dream that he give me the other night. Oh, my.

^50-4
Brother Collins, don't worry about that fish. It was white; you just
didn't know how to handle it. Lay aside everything else contrary to it.
Remember this is truth regardless of how fanatically it seems, and
everything else sometimes. Move right on.
It's the Holy Spirit, the same God that raised up Jesus Christ from the
dead. The same One that can speak things into existence, the same One
that lived in the days of Moses is the same today. His call in this
last day, He's a-vindicated, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall
it be in the coming of the Son of man." He's done… There's Sodom down
there. There's a Billy Graham and an Oral Roberts out there, and the
church is moving on by the same signs that He promised both places, and
there they are. It's He that said it. Oh, Lord, give me courage, is my
prayer. Help me, oh, Lord God. I have to quit here. It's getting late.

^51-1
"Why cry to Me? Why are you crying to Me when I proved to be with you?
Haven't I healed your sick," He'd say? "Haven't I told you things
that's happened just exactly? Your pastor can't do that; Me. He can't.
He's a man. It's Me, the Lord," that He would say. "I'm the One that
did it. I'm the One that tells him these things to say. It's not him;
It's My Voice. I'm the One that raises up your dead when they drop
down. I'm the One that heals the sick. I'm the One that foretells these
things. I'm the One that does the saving. I'm the One that give the
promise."
God, give me courage to take that Sword of the Word that He put in my
hand about thirty-three years ago and hold it and march forward to the
third pull is my prayer. Let's bow our heads.

^51-3
Heavenly Father, the hour's growing late, but the Word is getting
precious. As we see it, Lord, time after time, never failing Presence
of Christ always meets with us. How I thank You for Your goodness, how
You've spared us and been–and blessed us; how we thank You for it.
As I hold these handkerchiefs in my hand, Lord, it's people that has
faith that believes this. May every devil, every sickness depart from
them people. And I charge every spirit in here that's foul and not of
God, every spirit of sickness, all diseases and afflictions, we're not
laying in the shadow of man, which would be all right, but we're in the
shadow of the Gospel: vindicated Gospel.
As the great Pillar of Fire moves back and forth through this building,
the same One that God looked down through, and the Red Sea give up its
course, and Israel passed through. But now, as He looks, it's sprinkled
with the Blood of His Own Son, when mercy and grace… May we be
obedient; may we today quit saying–crying out. May we realize that
You've called us for this work. This is the hour. I speak it in the
Name of Jesus Christ. Let every sickness depart from this place.

^51-6
May every man and woman that calls on the Name of Jesus Christ
consecrate their life anew today. I consecrate mine, Lord, upon the
altar of prayer. I lay myself down and shame my own self and turn my
head towards the ground from where You took me.
Lord God, I'm ashamed of my weakness and my unbelief. Forgive it, Lord;
give me courage. Give us all courage. I feel like Moses; we're all on
the road out. We don't want to leave one. We want to take everyone,
Lord. They're Yours. I claim them for You.
Bless this people today, Lord; grant it. And bless me with them,
Father, and Thy Name shall be praised; Thy glory shall be Thine. Give
us this eternal faith, Lord, as we consecrate ourselves to Thee now.
Me, over this Bible, over this stand, I give You my life, Lord. I'm
depending on every promise that You give. I know they will be
confirmed. I know they are Truth. Give me courage to speak these words.
Give me courage, Lord. Direct me in what I shall do and say. I give
myself to You with this church along with it, Lord, in the Name of
Jesus Christ. Amen.

^52-1

Now, let's stand real quiet while we hum it. [Brother Branham and congregation hums song–Ed.]

^52-3 [Congregation repeats after Brother Branham this prayer–Ed.]
Now,
together with our hands up: Lord Jesus, I now consecrate myself to
Thee, a life of service, more purely, more faith, I cry, that I might
be a more acceptable servant in my coming life, than I have been in the
life that's passed. Forgive my unbelief and restore to us the faith
that was once delivered to the saints. I give myself to Thee in the
Name of Jesus Christ. As we bow our heads…

^53-1
As we bow our heads now… You feel like that the morning message has
done you good, give you courage? If you would, just raise your hands to
God saying, "God, I thank You." I got both my hands up because up I
just feel so that it's–it's helped me; it's give me courage.
Some things I said, I didn't think I was going to say it, but it's
already said. It's a rebuke to me. I found myself in a–in the way not
that I thought I did, but I found myself guilty of crying out all the
time instead of speaking. God, help me from this hour on that I'll be a
more consecrated servant. Not only me I pray for, I pray for you also,
that together as a Body of Christ, called out from the world, making
ready for the promised land, that God will give me courage to speak the
way–make the way clear that you won't miss the trail. I'll tell you by
the grace of God. I'll follow the bloody footprints of Him Who went on
before us, and…

We give this to Thee, Father, our consecration, in the Name of Jesus Christ, Thy Son. Amen.

^53-3
How we thank the Lord for this; walk a consecrated life. Give yourself
over to sweetness, humility, walk in the Spirit, walk, talk, dress, act
like Christians, humble and sweet; don't let this fail now. The voice
of God speaks through the Word, speaks through gifts. As one gift
comes, another expresses it. Another gift comes and expresses the same
thing. See? That's sure right with the Word and right with the hour.
God is with us. How we thank Him for it.
Now, if our… With our heads bowed, if our sister would give us a chord on…

Just–just do that; speak the Word. Speak His Name. Let's sing now as we–as we being dismissed:

Now, with our heads bowed, let's sing this next verse.

^54-4
With our heads bowed now and our hearts with it, with the realization
that Jesus said, "He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that
sent Me, has Everlasting Life and shall not come up in the judgment,
but has passed from death unto Life…" knowing that we, by the grace
of God possess that within our bosom, with a consecration to Him this
morning that our lives shall change from this day on, that we'll be
more positive in our thinking. We will try to live in such sweetness
and humility, that believing in what we ask God, God will give it to
each other. And we will not speak evil against each other or no man. We
shall pray for our enemies and love them, do good to them that do bad
to us. God is the Judge of who's right and wrong. With the… On the
basis of this, and our heads bowed, I'm going to ask our good friend,
Brother Lee Vayle, if he will dismiss the audience in a word of prayer:
Brother Vayle. [Brother Vayle prays–Ed.]