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1. THE GODHEAD EXPLAINED — 1961-04-25

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• ¶122–¶126 So I said, “Brother Ness, not to be different…” Now I’m going to…Is it all right to use this, brother? [The brother says, “Sure.”—Ed.] I said, “I want to say and explain.” And, in this, I might say to you brethren here. Now, don’t mention this amongst your congregations. If you will, and do me a favor, just—just—just let me just be your brother. You see? And I, and if—if I am wrong, then you forgive me. But I want to explain to you, being that there is both groups sitting here this morning, of both the Oneness and the—the Assemblies, also, and the trinitarian belief. Now I want to make this statement. I want to say that I believe that both sides are wrong, as long as they argue one with another, because their motives is wrong. And as long as your motives is wrong, no matter what your objective is, but your motives to that objective is wrong, then it’ll never work. That’s right. Now, some people have said, “Brother Branham, you are a Jesus Only.” I want to say that that is an error. I am not a Jesus Only. Somebody says, “Brother Branham, are you a Trinitarian?” No, sir. I am not a Trinitarian. I’m a Christian. See? I—I—I don’t…The word trinitarian don’t even mention in the Bible, the word “trinity.” And I do not believe that there is three individual Gods. I believe there is one God in three offices: Father, Son, Holy Ghost. That’s exactly why we were commissioned to baptize in the Name of Father, Son, Holy Ghost. I believe that it’s God condescending, coming down.

• ¶153–¶156 Now, now, when it comes to the baptism, now, many people… Now, you’ve got to do that, brethren. Or, it’s like I said to Brother Scism and to Brother Ness, that if you…The—the argument came up. And any, many of you scholars here is more sufficient than I; but I have done a much studying upon the subject. And I’ve read the Pre-Nicene Fathers, the Nicene Council, and all the historians, and so forth. That issue come up at the Nicene Council. Both sides went to seed; when the Catholic church took the extreme trinitarian side, and the other one went to unitarian, and both sides went out. Exactly right, because men had something to do into it. You’ve got to let God do it, no need of us trying to figure it out. Let’s be brothers. Let’s just go on and let God do the thing that He’s going to do. If He is infinite and knows all things, and predicted the end from the beginning, how can we do anything about it? Just keep moving on. That’s the way. Keep in step, as I said last night, with our great Joshua. Now look, if there is three Gods…I just want to show you how ridiculous this is. If there is three Gods, then Jesus was His Own Fa-… Jesus could not have been His Own Father, being one. And, if there’s three, He wasn’t born a virgin birth. Now how many…? I’m going to say this is God the Father; and this is God the Son; and this is God the Holy Ghost.

• ¶157–¶161 Now, to you different brethren here, you watch this just a minute and you see what I’m trying to point at. I pray that God will let you see it. Now, look, you both believe the same thing, but the devil has just got between you and broke you up about it. It’s exactly the same thing, and I’ll prove it to you, by the help of God, and with God’s Bible. If it ain’t the Bible, then don’t receive it. That’s right. But now look. This is (what?) God the Father; this is God the Son; this is God the Holy Ghost. Well, now, let’s stop now just a minute, laying those three out there; God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Oh, I—I ain’t going to have time to do this. I…[The brethren say, “Go ahead! Go ahead!”—Ed.] But, see, well, I’ll hurry just as quick as I can. Forgive me, my brethren, but I—I—I’ve never got to talk to you, and I—I want to do this. And then, look; God the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost. Now, Who was the Father of Jesus Christ? God was the Father of Jesus Christ. We all believe that. Is that right? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] All right. Now, when we take Matthew 28:19, when Jesus said, “Go ye therefore, teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost,” ten days afterwards, Peter said, “Repent, and be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.” There’s a straight contradiction somewhere. Now, let’s don’t…there’s a…

• ¶202–¶208 I thought God was His Father. Now, has He got two fathers, brethren? [“No.”] He can’t have. If He was, He was a bastard child, and what kind of a religion have we got there? You’ve got to admit that God the Father and the Holy Ghost is the same-self Spirit. Sure, It is. Sure, It’s the same-self Spirit. Now, we got done, and see that. And she shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from his sin. …this was all done, that it might be fulfilled… I’m quoting Scripture. You ministers know, as I go. …that it might be fulfilled…spoke the prophet, by the Lord, saying, …a virgin shall conceive, and…bring forth a child, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which is by interpretation,…[Congregation says, “God with us.”—Ed.] “God with us!” Is that right? Then what is the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost? [A brother says, “Jesus Christ.”—Ed.] Well, certainly. That’s the reason Peter baptized them in the Name of “Jesus Christ.” But, I don’t care, if you’re baptized in the name of Rose of Sharon, Lily of the Valley, the Morning Star, that’s titles, too. If your heart is right towards God, He knows your heart. But now, now, I expressed that. Now, now I said…Now Brother Scism said, “Now!” Course, sure, that looked like Oneness, so he was right in for that. Now I said, “Now here I want to say something to you now.” See? I said, “Now I want to prove to you that these, both men, said the same thing.”

• ¶209–¶218 Now, Matthew said, “In the Name of the Father.” Is that right? [The congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] All right. And Peter said, “In the Name of the Lord.” Matthew 28:19 said, “In the Name of the Father,” and Acts 2:38 said, “In the Name of the Lord.” David said, “The LORD said unto my Lord.” Who was It? Father and Lord is the same Name. David said, “The LORD said unto my Lord, ‘Sit Thou on My right hand.’” See, “In the Name of the Father; in the Name of the Lord.” And Matthew said, “In the Name of the Son,” and Peter said, “In the Name of Jesus.” Who is the Son? Jesus. “In the Name of the Holy Ghost,” was Matthew; and Peter said, “In the Name of Christ,” the Logos. Father, Son, Holy Ghost, “Lord Jesus Christ.” Why, it’s just as perfect as it can be. See? Brother Scism said to me, or, Brother Scism, the Oneness brother, he said, “Brother Branham, that’s right, but,” he said, “that is this.” I said, “Then, this is that.” That’s right. See? I said, “If that’s this, this is that. So what are you fussing about?” I said, “Let me recommend to you, brethren. If I ever baptize a person, here is what…” I said, “Now, here is Dr. Ness.” And you…somebody said, a while ago, you brethren, that you knew Dr. Ness. Well, I’ll say, here, Brother Hicks here, he has a…I think you have a Doctor Degree. Is that right? All right. Now I said, “If Dr. Ness, sitting here…” Now I said, “If I wanted…” Now, when I take a person to the water, to baptize them, I recognize it just like he did, I said, “That was titles that went to His Name.”

• ¶219–¶225 I said, “Now, the Assembly brothers are using titles, and the Oneness brother are using Name.” I said, “Now I’m going to prove to you, you’re both wrong, and I’m right.” You know how you’ll have to…You have men under strain that way, you have to have a little sense of humor once in a while, to kind of unwind a little. So I said, “I’m going to prove to you that you’re both wrong, and I’m right.” I said, “Now what if I wanted to regard Brother Ness, I would say…” Or, or Brother Hicks here, see. I’d say, “Hicks!” Now, would that sound nice? No. Well, what if I’d say, “Doctor! Hey, Doc! What about it?” Now, that sounds irreverent, doesn’t it? “When,” I said, “that’s the way you Assemblies do, see. When you Assembly brothers say, ‘In the name of the Father, and of the Son, the Holy Ghost,’ you just say, ‘in the name of the reverend, doctor.’” And I said, “Then, you Oneness brethren, when you baptize, you say, ‘Jesus!’” They don’t use… They, Jesus Only, just use the name “Jesus.” There is just many Jesuses. But, It’s the Lord Jesus Christ, you see. There is many… Baptize in the name of “Jesus,” I certainly don’t go for that; there is no Scripture. You get the original, see if it ain’t “Lord Jesus Christ.” Certainly, He’s the Lord Jesus Christ. There’s many Jesuses, certainly. And the Christ is the “Anointed.” I said, “Now, if I was going to say the same thing to Brother Ness. I’d say, would it sound right for me to say, ‘Hey, Ness!’?” I said, “That’s the way you Oneness would say it. See? Wouldn’t that be a irreverent disregards for that man who has studied, and he’s got a Doctor’s Degree? If he has studied hard for that, he ought to be titled that.”

• ¶238–¶244 “See, that’s what I’m calling, see, what He is; both Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ‘the Lord Jesus Christ.’” See? And I said, “If I ever baptize one out in your all’s churches, that’s the way I’ll baptize them.” I said, “Would you receive him, Brother Ness?” He said, “Certainly. He’s been baptized in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.” I said, “Would you receive him, Brother Scism?” He said, “Certainly, he’s baptized in Jesus’ Name.” I said, “Then what’s the matter with you, brethren? Why don’t you accept that, and break down these walls where these poor human beings are…? The Oneness wants to, really, the congregations, they want to worship with the Assemblies. And the Assemblies, congregation, want to worship with the Oneness. And brethren are that way. They are that way. But as long as the devil can make them fight…” Now you see what I mean, brethren? I’m driving towards that one thing, Jesus Christ, and the uniting of the Body of Jesus Christ. That’s what my purpose is. Now, I don’t say nothing about, “Hey, you ain’t baptized in Jesus’ Name; you’re going to hell.” Now, that’s nonsense. I’ll tell you what happened the other day. I was down in Texas. ’Fore leaving…And the—the brethren here are witnesses to this. The Oneness church, seventy-two churches, sponsored my meeting. And I put Brother Petty, the Assembly of God brother, up on the platform that night. Now, you know that’s true. He’s a precious brother, Brother Petty, if any of you know him, from Beaumont, Texas. He’s one of the finest man I ever met. His wife is a converted Catholic, a real sainted woman. He’s a real man of God.

• ¶260–¶263 And I believe all this. As Joseph said, “Brethren, don’t be angry with yourself, because God has did this,” you see. For—for the thing that’s…So that it could wait till this time, that’s all, because our Gentile age is just about over. Now, I believe that with all of our heart. So do you see, my brethren? I’m trying to drive at something, that, this group of people, of men who has the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Aimee McPherson’s group, what did she do? She was first a Oneness, I believe; then come out and become Assembly; then pulled out and organized herself different; here not long ago, put in a little group, a little thing. I was sitting in O. L. Jaggers’ meeting. Now, we all know O. L. Jaggers. His—his father helped found the General Council of the Assemblies of God. Now, O. L. is a great man. He’s a great preacher. I told him, not long ago, I said, “Brother Jaggers, if I could preach like you do it, I’d never even have a healing service.” But he had got all that blood and wine, and stuff, when he first started over there. Excuse me, if I’m hurting your feelings, brethren, on that. I—I… That’s all right. God can make blood come, wine come, or oil come, whatever He wants to, but that don’t remit sins. No, sir. No, sir. No, indeedy. “The Blood of Jesus Christ shall never lose Its power, till all the ransomed Church of God be saved, to sin no more.”

2. THE WATER BAPTISM — 1961-01-20

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• ¶75–¶78 Now, now, if there’s anywhere that you don’t understand…I’m waiting for Sister Sewell there to find it. You got it there? Matthew 28:19, 19th verse. Now, Sister Sewell, I believe you was the one was questioning it the strongest. Now, does that say, “In the names of the Father, the Son…”? Says, “In the name of the Father, in the name of the Son…”? No. “In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” Not in the name, putting a name before each one, but just in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and Holy Ghost. Now, now we realize, then, there has to be one Name there, ’cause it said one Name. Well, I want to ask you, which one of them names should we baptize in, then? Now, is “father” a name? No, so we couldn’t baptize “in the name of the Father,” ’cause “father” isn’t a name, is it? Well, “in the name of the Son,” then, we’d say. Is “son” a name? I’m a son, you’re a son, he’s son, right? “Son” is not a name, is it? Well, “Holy Ghost” then; “in the name of the Holy Ghost.” Well, here…Well, the…Let’s say, “the Ho-…in the name of the Holy Ghost.” The “Holy Ghost,” is it a name? No; that’s what It is. We’re all human. That’s what It is; It is the Holy Ghost. But the “Holy Ghost” is not a name; that’s what It is. We’re all human, but that’s not our names. See? No. It’s it…there’s three titles, then, isn’t it?

• ¶110b–¶113 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of God our Father. [A sister says, “No: ‘conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.’”—Ed.] Oh! Um-hum. Now, now, then which One of these is His Father? Now, if the Holy Ghost is His Father, and Jesus said God was His Father, now, is He a bastard child? Could He be? Could both of these gods make one child? If it is, He was a bastard child. Illegitimate, now, is—is a better word, but the very word means, “a bastard child.” Well, then if He is a bastard-born child, then where are—where are we at in salvation? If God the Father was His Father, and the Bible says the Holy Ghost is His Father, then where…something’s wrong again, is that right? See? You—you…There is something wrong somewhere. Now, what—what we going to do? Are we worshipping a illegitimate-born child, by two different Gods? The one God was, said, was His Father, and then the—the Bible said here, or, Word of God says that the Holy Ghost was His Father. And Jesus said God was His Father, and other places in the Bible said God was His Father, and calling Him the Son of God, and God the Father, and now, God the Holy Ghost. Oh, poor, blinded Trinitarian people! Why, the—the word trinity don’t even appear in the Bible, not from Genesis to Revelation. There’s no such a thing. It’s not three Gods; it’s three offices of one God. God the Father in a Pillar of Fire, God the Son made manifest in flesh to take away sin, and God the Holy Ghost in us now, here. Sure. Sure. “Be with you, even in you.” See? It’s not three Gods; it’s one God.

• ¶169–¶172 He said, “John only baptized unto repentance, saying they was to believe on Him that was to come, that is, on Jesus Christ.” And when they heard this, they were rebaptized in the Name of Jesus Christ. That brings this group over this group. And they laid their hands upon them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied. Now, I’ll tell you, that every Scripture in the Bible, every person in the Bible, was baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ. I take any man, any historian, to this task: if you can show me one speck of Scripture where anybody was ever baptized, in the Bible (the new church, course, they wasn’t baptized in the Old Testament, but in the New Testament), where any persons was ever baptized in the name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost, one place that that was ever called over them, “Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,” then I’ll compromise. And if you…and I’ll show you…If you can show me one text of Scripture where anybody was ever baptized in the name of Father, Son, Holy Ghost, or one speck of history where anyone was ever baptized, unto the ordaining or the setting in order the Catholic church in A.D. six hundred…325 it is, A.D. 325, three hundred and twenty-five years after the apostles, everybody continued baptizing in the name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost, or, in the Name of Jesus Christ until 325. And then, they made the organization. And in the organization, which the Catholic Church is the mother of all organizations, God never did organize a church, but in there they substituted the name of Father, Son, Holy Ghost, because the Trinitarians. And then they had a great group that went rank in Trinitarian, and a great group that went rank in Unitarian, which both groups is wrong. See? But no… And any person that’s baptized using those titles of Father, Son, Holy Ghost, ignorantly, are admitting that they are Catholics and denying what the Bible says.

• ¶176–¶179 Like Isaiah said, Isaiah 35 said, “There shall be a highway.” And you Nazarene brothers, and so forth, you say, “The grand old highway of holiness.” I beg your pardon; It doesn’t say, “The highway of holiness.” Said, “There shall be a highway and…” (and is a conjunction) “…and a way, and it shall be called, ‘The way of holiness.’” Not the highway of holiness. The way is in the middle of the road. Each side is where the off-fall is flying. That’s where you Oneness brethren went to on one side, Trinitarian went on the other side, but the true Message lays in the center of the road. Now, watch here. If you’ll understand now, I’m laying three things out. Now, I’m taking this to be what Matthew said, and to show you that both men said the same thing. But one, the Trinitarian people, through, I hate to say this, and don’t want to say it, but I don’t want to say “through ignorance,” as the Bible said, but I mean, that, through misinterpretation, you can’t make it run right, brethren. You’ll never make it run right. It can’t till you come back to the revelation, and then the whole Scripture runs right. Now, looky here, my sisters, and you brethren who are—are present: Matthew said, “Father, Son, Holy Ghost.” Now, if you’ll go get the Emphatic Diaglott of the Greek interpretation (original Greek interpretation from the Vatican; happens to be that I have one; it’s out—it’s out of print now, I think), or any Greek translation, the right translation to Acts 2:38: Peter said, “Repent every one of you and be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.” The King James Version just said, “in the Name of Jesus Christ”; but in the Emphatic Diaglott it says, “In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.”

• ¶180–¶184 Now, when you Oneness brethren just baptize in the Name of Jesus, there’s just many Jesuses; but there’s only…He was born Christ, the Son of God. He…That’s His Name, that’s what He is. Christ means “the anointed one,” Messiah, Christ. Now, “Jesus,” eight days later He was given the Name, “Jesus,” when He was circumcised. And He is our Lord. So He is our Lord Jesus Christ. That’s what He is. Now, show, that you’ll see that Peter had the revelation I’m trying to tell you, now look at these—these boxes on this side: Father, Son, Holy Ghost. That’s what Matthew said. Ten days later Peter said, “Lord Jesus Christ.” Now, see if these three titles isn’t three names, or—or, the one Name of the three titles. Now, look. Matthew said, “Father.” Is that right? The…Peter said, “Lord.” Now, David said, “The Lord said unto My Lord.” Now, they both said the same thing there, didn’t they? All right, “Thy Lord…Lord thy God is one God” is true. All right, now, Peter said, “In the Name of the Lord,” and Matthew said a title to that Lord, which was “Father.” Lord is what He is, all right. Matthew said, “Son.” Who is the Son? “Jesus,” said Peter. That right? All right, now, and Matthew said, “Holy Ghost.” Peter said, “Christ,” which is the Holy Ghost, the Logos that went out of God. See? Father, Son, Holy Ghost, is the Lord Jesus Christ, the whole thing, exactly, the Lord Jesus Christ. So them are titles and not… There you are. Now, I wish we had longer, go into it, but it’s getting late. Can we bow, pray just a moment?

3. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1959-06-28

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• ¶140–¶143 Now, that’s a ticklish thing. Now, I know that I’m speaking to people that’ll different with this, but as a Christian I must say it. There is no Scriptural authority in the Bible for water baptism in the name of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. There never was one person ever baptized in the Bible in the name of Father, Son, Holy Ghost. That is a Catholic tradition taught in the sixth century. Sprinkling never was in the Bible, for people to be sprinkled or poured, but immersed. If you want to know that, I’ve got both Greek and Hebrew here on it. And on the Day of Pentecost, Peter required that man must repent and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of their sins. And Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is no name. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost…Matthew 28:19 said “Go ye therefore, teach all nations, baptizing them into the Name,” not into the names, in the Name, singular of…Not in the name of the Father, name of the Son, name of the Holy Ghost, but in the Name of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Father’s not a name; Son’s not a name; Holy Ghost is not a name. They’re titles that belong to a Name. Now, ten days later Peter said, “Repent, every one of you and be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.” Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, see how the extreme trinitarian idea…See, they try to make three gods out of that. There’s no three gods. I’d like to read that to you out of the original Greek here. The only way they were baptized in Jesus’ Name was, and the Bible said in the original Greek, was to make them recognize that He was God.

• ¶195–¶197 May His grace be with you. May He heal you of your sickness. May He give to you the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And I say this now without any slightness, without…If I brought any offence by anything that I said about the seed of the serpent, the baptism in Jesus’ Name, which those things… Now somebody says, “Brother Branham is a oneness.” No, sir, I am not a oneness. I do not believe that Jesus could be His own father. I believe that Jesus had a Father, and that was God. But God dwelled and tabernacled in this body called Jesus, and He was Immanuel, God with us. And there’s no other God besides this God. He is Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. And the Name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost: Father, the Lord; Son, Jesus; Holy Ghost, Logos, Spirit of God. Father, Son, Holy Ghost: Lord Jesus Christ; that’s Him. And in Him dwelled the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And I do believe without one shadow of doubt, loving you, and no matter if you remain baptized in the Name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost, sprinkled, poured, whatever you will, I pray God with my whole soul and body that you and I will meet in the Kingdom of God, and God will, if I’m wrong, will overlook mine, if you’re wrong overlook yours. But in—by my own convictions of the Scripture to try to make the target hit to be from Genesis to Revelation, I command you to be baptized over again in the Name of Jesus Christ if you haven’t done it.

4. IS THE ORIGINAL SEED 1 — 1962-03-18

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• ¶398–¶400 And, Father, if there is any here this morning, that has been baptized otherwise than Christian baptism, that Your great servant Paul…And he said, that he had the Word of God within him. And he said, “If a man or an angel, even an Angel come down from Heaven,” like Satan was in the form of an Angel, “come down and said anything different than that what he said, let him be accursed.” Father, we know that that’s written in the Scriptures. And I pray, Father, that, that it will—it will sink into their hearts, that Paul was the very one that made the people, that had not been baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of their sins, he was the one who commissioned to be baptized over again. May it go to the people, Father. May they realize that, this baptismal service moving up. May they realize that that’s the Truth, knowing that they can’t produce one Word in the Scripture, to support their trinitarian three- God idea. Father, we, course, we believe You’re a trinity of offices, of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Most surely we believe that, Lord, but not making You three Gods. Making You one God that served three offices, both Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and the Name of that God was called Jesus Christ. Now, that is the Name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost. Father, may the people see it and be obedient to water baptism, for the remission of their sins. And may these few words, for baptism, fall deeply now in the heart of everyone, for we don’t know how much longer we have, Father. It’s getting very close.

• ¶405b–¶411 Brother Branham tells it, ‘They all got to building little walls of partition between one another, and they can’t have a revival.’ That’s right. He’s right about that.”—Ed.] That’s just it. Brother Ed, that’s what it did. Oh, isn’t that wonderful? I like that little testimony, brother. Now the car radio is hooked up, is what they say in here, this part here. Everybody feeling good now? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Well, now, we’ll start right in now until midnight, then we’ll… [“Amen.”] We are so happy that the Lord has helped us and blessed us. Now, before we start again, let’s just have a little word of prayer to the One Who we’re talking to now. Gracious Heavenly Father, You hear the testimony of this godly, saintly, old man. Down through the age, him and his little wife, working together, and how that she had to hold onto You, and beg You to make a preacher out of her husband, and here he is. And then when he was laying there, dying, the best doctors in the country saying, that, “He’s gone. He can’t live but a few hours. It’s done. His body is eat up with cancer. He could never walk another step. The infection in his ankles, and so forth, has done took him away.” Here he is, years later, still Now we pray, Father, that You’ll let us lay out the Words this afternoon, from Thy Word. It is Thy Word, and we want to lay It out just the way It is. And then You water It, Lord, with the Spirit. We ask, as we commit ourselves, with the Message, to You, that You use us, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

5. SHOW US THE FATHER AND IT WILL SATISFY US — 1960-07-31

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• ¶180–¶181 He was up in the balcony, and he said, “You know, when I heard you preach, I was sure you was a Nazarene,” and he said, “because you preach holiness,” and he said, “then I hear somebody tell me you was a Baptist, nearly all these people are Pentecostals,” Said, “I don’t understand that.” I said, “Oh, dad, that’s easy,” I said, “I’m a Pentecostal, Nazarene, Baptist.” That—that’s it. We are representatives of Jesus Christ, that’s the thing, not your denomination, your God. Now, this woman belonged to a Christian Science church, very fine lady, and she said, course, they do not believe in the, Jesus being Divine, she said, “Mr. Branham, I enjoy your teaching, but,” said, “the only thing that makes my blood shiver is you trying to make Jesus Divine.” Said, “You brag too much on him.” I said, “I can’t brag enough on Him.” She said, “Well, you’re always bragging about him, bragging about him.” I said, “He…I, if I had ten thousand tongues, I couldn’t brag about Him enough,” I said, “what He’s done for me.” She said, “But you make him Divine.” I said, “He was Divine. If He wasn’t Divine, the whole world is lost.” That’s exactly right. She said, “If I…You said, you was a fundamentalist, you just stayed with the Bible.” I said, “That’s right.” She said, “If I’ll prove to you by the Bible he wasn’t Divine, will you accept it?” I said, “If the Bible said He wasn’t, I would.” I said, “But the Bible doesn’t say it.” She said, “Oh, yes it does, too!” I said, “Where’s it at?”

6. THE MESSAGE OF GRACE — 1961-08-27

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• ¶35–¶37 And at exactly ten o’clock, on the exact dot, ten o’clock with my watch, I shot the Indiana limit, the fifth squirrel. I want you to notice there was three rainbows, and there was three things said, three squirrels gotten. There was three things: three squirrels by ten o’clock, no mosquitos, the sun would shine in thirty minutes. And there were three to give witness of it: Brother Banks Wood, my son Billy Paul, and his son David, to give witness to it. When I seen them rainbows, about as wide across as that halo is, that Angel of the Lord, but there were three of them running into One. Oh, how it helped my heart, to know that God, Jesus is not just a man as people think He is, just a prophet, as this modern idea today thinks that Jesus is just a prophet, He’s Jehovah of the Old Testament made flesh and dwelt among us. And, there, that sure did comfort me. Then, thinking on that subject, that God had sought so many people. Now, there is a group of people, call themselves the “Oneness” or the “Jesus Only.” I don’t agree with them upon their theory. Neither do I agree—agree with that trinitarian group that says that there are three different Gods, the extreme of the trinitarian. But I believe that the three, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, is One, that they are three offices of one God. He lived in the Fatherhood, in the Pillar of Fire; He lived in the Sonship, in Jesus Christ; and He lives now in the Holy Ghost, in His Church. The same Lord Jesus that was made flesh and dwelt among us, is with us this day, among us, in the form of the Holy Spirit.

7. THE MARK OF THE BEAST — 1956-07-15

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• ¶209–¶211 And now, upon the sovereign grace of God, upon the witness of the Holy Ghost, and upon the vindication of a worldwide ministry that You have granted to Your unprofitable servant, as an unworthy person, and one who is unable, but a believer, I now challenge this mute spirit in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. And with a sincere heart, I say, come out of the man. For I adjure thee, by the living God, that you depart from him that he’ll be well. In Christ’s Name, I challenge thee to come out of the man, through the Blood of the Lord Jesus. Every eye closed, every head bowed. [Brother Branham claps his hands—Ed.] Hear me? Hear me? You hear me? He’s hearing. Now just keep your head bowed. Say, “Praise God.” [The brother says, “Praise God.”—Ed.] Say, “I love Jesus.” [“I love Jesus.”] “Praise God.” [“Praise God.”] Now, you can raise your head. [The brother says, “Raise head.”—Ed.] Raise your head now. “Praise the Lord.” [The brother says, “Praise the Lord.”—Ed.] “I love Jesus.” [“I love Jesus.”] “Hallelujah!” [“Hallelujah!”] Let us say, “Praise the Lord.” [Congregation says, “Praise the Lord.”—Ed.] Let’s give God praise. Let’s stand up to our feet just a minute. Almighty God, Author of Everlasting Life, Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon this children. I pray that You’ll anoint them. Give them the desire of their hearts by filling them with the Holy Ghost. Great signs and wonders might be done for the glory of God, through Jesus’ Name. Amen. Now, you be seated. He—he says, through the microphone, he can hear me a little through the microphone.

8. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS HEBREWS PART I — 1957-09-25

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• ¶145–¶149 Now, the oneness teaching of the Oneness church, I certainly disagree with that, thinking that Jesus is one like your finger is one. He had to have a father. If He didn’t, how could He be His Own father? And if His Father was a man like the Trinitarian says, then He was born a illegitimate birth with two fathers. So, you see, you’re both wrong by arguing. See? But the Truth of it is, that both Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, is one Personality. [Blank spot on tape—Ed.]…of dwelling in a tabernacle of HEBREWS PART I 23 flesh, to take sin from the world. That exactly right, “God with us.” Now, therefore, when Matthew 28:19… Now, you search the Scriptures, and when you can find where one person in the Bible…(Now think of it, now don’t let this pass over you.)…where one person in the Bible was ever baptized in the name of the “Father,” and the “Son,” and the “Holy Ghost,” come back to me and tell me that I’m a hypocrite, and I’ll put a sign on my back and walk through the city. It’s not in the Scriptures, from Genesis to Revelation. But every person in the Bible was baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ! You say, “Wait a minute, preacher. What about John? He didn’t baptize in any name at all!” All right, we find out what happened; let’s turn over to—to the— the Acts, the 19th chapter. There’s where we find John’s disciples. Every person was all baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, on up now till we find this group over here. Acts, the 19th chapter. And let’s begin the reading now, and we find John’s disciples: And it came to pass,…while Apollos (which was a lawyer, converted) was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts of…Ephesus: he finds certain disciples, (they were followers of Jesus)

9. THIRSTING FOR LIFE — 1957-07-28

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• ¶47–¶48a Someone else would say, “Remember me, Brother Branham, in prayer. God, I’m a—I want to accept You just now, accept Your Son as my personal Saviour.” Would you put up your hand, someone else on the bottom floor? God bless you back there, my brother. Somebody… God bless you over here, my brother. God bless you down here, brother. God bless you back there, brother. That’s good. Back over to my right, the Lord bless you, back here. Somebody else now would raise your hand and say, “Brother Branham, remember me in prayer just now”? As we’re just about to close the service, say, “Remember me, I want to here accept Christ as my personal Saviour.” Would you raise your hand, saying, “Remember me, Brother Branham”? That’s right. God bless you, sister. God bless you, sister. I know there’s plenty of them in here. Would you just put up your hand? You can do that much. On the bottom floor now, will you do it before we go to the balconies? Been about fifteen. God bless you back there. I see your hand. God bless you. God bless you, my brother back there. That’s good. “Oh, Brother Branham, I know I go to church, but I—I…” God bless you, sister here. God bless you here, lady. “I go to church, but I—I know—I know I’m not right. And I want to be right. God knows I want to be right.” Will you put up your hand? The balconies to my right, someone up there say, “Brother Branham, remember me”? God bless you, young man. God bless you, lady. Someone else say…God—God bless you, lady. That’s good. “Remember me, Brother Branham, just now in prayer, as you go to prayer. I believe in you.” God bless you, brother. I now want to raise my hand and say, “I believe in Jesus Christ, and, Brother Branham, remember me in prayer. Just before you leave this building tonight, won’t you do it?” Put up your hand, and I’ll certainly do it, that God will see you. Won’t you do it? Up here’s the balcony to the right. Just one more time across. God bless you, sir, right here. I see your hand.

10. ONENESS — 1962-02-11

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• ¶228–¶231 Have I ever, as—as the prophet said to Israel before they got them a man-made king, he said, “Have I ever told you anything…? Have I ever took your money? Have I ever come down and begged you for money and—and ride around and live in great big palaces and build great big things and take your money from you? Have I ever asked you for a penny?” “Never.” Have I ever told you anything in the Name of the Lord but what God brought it to pass? Have I ever spoke in His Name but what it was so? Have I ever told you a vision over the audience but what was exactly the person raised up, stranger or whatever he might be, but what he said “That’s the truth”? Have I ever told you anything wrong? [Congregation says, “No.”—Ed.] Then let me tell you now, THUS SAITH THE LORD, receive the Holy Ghost, the Spirit that will take the Word of God in them hands of faith, move out yonder. The whole Kingdom belongs to you. It’s yours, children. Why do you come from Georgia, from across the country, from Ohio, from Kansas, everywhere, for a little meeting? I think the tape’s off now, so, I can say this. See? Why you coming like this? What makes you do it? What is it? I see people here from Arkansas, from hundreds of miles away. Last night, coming plumb in from Kansas City, a little Polish brother standing back there, come, led, said, “Brother Branham, since I first heard of you back yonder in Canada many years ago, the things that you’ve seen and done, I’ve checked them right through, right back and forth, up and down,” and said, “not one of them has ever been wrong.” He’s probably a Polish Catholic, and here he comes, taking the tapes, going out and playing them, meeting opposition. Ministers who ought to be with me and helping us, but denying the Power thereof, denying the Truth of the Word, and claiming to have the Holy Ghost.

11. THE KINSMAN REDEEMER — 1960-10-02

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• ¶1–¶2 Thank you, Brother Neville. The Lord bless you. So good to be back again, this morning, back in the house of the Lord. I believe it was said, one time, “I was happy when they said unto me, ‘Let us go into the house of the Lord.’” Charlie, come out behind that post, and come up here and get you a chair. Come on up here. Sister, is there a chair back in there, somewhere, we could squeeze in? Here’s a place right up here, lady. Come right up here. Here, Charlie, come here and sit down by Banks up here, so you won’t have to stand up. Every time that boy comes from way down in Kentucky, gets up here, he stands up every morning. And we’ll get him right up here. Here’s a place here, on the end of the seat here, for someone else. [Brother Neville says, “There’s a lady back here, too.”—Ed.] There’s a lady standing up in the back, back there. Come right up here. Here’s a seat right here, sister, right up close. Come right ahead. And I suppose somebody is in the wheel chair there. Are they? [A sister says, “Brother Branham?”] Yes. [“There’s a seat right here.”] There’s another seat right over here. If someone wants one, back there in the back, right here is a seat right here. [A brother says, “And here is one, Brother Branham.”] Here’s one right up here, also, just suit yourself. [“Another one, over here.”] Yes. You can have one right here. Now, come right on, take your seats. And just feel real…

12. CONDEMNATION BY REPRESENTATION — 1960-11-13

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• ¶164–¶168 Like, say, “Oh, I wouldn’t drink out of the same glass that somebody else drank out of, unless it was scalded.” Oh, my! My brother and sister is my brother and sister. Amen. God is my protection if something is wrong. I trust Him. Let’s go back to the Word. I don’t care, his color, whatever he is, or what church he belongs to. If he’s my brother, he’s my brother. I’ll carry out the commandments of God. That’s the reason, friends, when it comes to water baptism in the Name of Jesus Christ, I must remain there. Oh, that keeps me from many great…saving souls out there. It sure does, on that one issue, because of the extreme trinitarian belief. Sure, I believe in Father, Son, Holy Ghost, as offices of God; not of three gods, but three offices of the same God. He is Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, but that’s titles of His office. He is God, the Father, sure He was, in the beginning. He is God, the Son, that was made flesh, on earth. He is God, the Holy Ghost, which is in me. But it’s the same God, all along, three offices. He once couldn’t be touched or nothing. Then He come down, was made flesh, and took on my sins, and bore my sins. Then while He sanctified me with His Own Blood, then the Holy Ghost could come in. And He and I can fellowship, like we did in Eden. We—we—we love one another. He is my Father; I’m His son. Not three gods. The same God that created me, and loved me, gave Hisself for me, is the God that’s in me. His Name was Jesus Christ when He was on earth. “There’s not another Name under Heaven given among men whereby you must be saved.”

• ¶306–¶310 And the shouts and praises will raise up, from all over the city, around different places where these people will go. “You know, I once had stomach trouble, but it’s gone. I once had so-and-so, certain diseases, but it’s gone. I just heard that Message that morning, ‘Breeding back to the Word,’ and I come back to the Word. And I believe the Word, and now I’m well.” Grant it, Father. I commit them to You, in Jesus Christ’s Name. Now with our heads bowed. I want the elder to go forward. Let the… Teddy, if you will. Some of you sing Only Believe, just as you can now. And let the ones, has passed, right to their seat, as we anoint and pray for them!…?… In the Name of Jesus Christ, I now…?… Father in Heaven, as I lay my hands upon this woman, with anointing oil still on her…

13. PALMERWORM, LOCUST, CANKERWORM, CATERPILLAR — 1959-08-23

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• ¶208–¶213 If you amount to anything, you’ll stand for God, you’ll stand alone. It’s you! It’s not the world, it’s not your church, it’s not your denomination. It’s you, between you and God. I don’t care what the… The Branham Tabernacle can do what they want to. I want them to believe God; I want them to come along. But if they don’t, I’m not going to compromise with them in their little petty thing. I’ll stand for God. “The Methodist. What will you do, Brother Branham? The—the trinitarian Pentecostal?” I proved I love them. I’ve went to them, and sent into the Assemblies of God and the church of God. “And if the Oneness, you disagree with the Oneness because of their ‘one’ standing, like that.” Yes, sir. Jesus had a Father. He was God. They baptize in the Name of “Jesus.” I baptize in the Name of “the Lord Jesus Christ.” There’s many Jesuses, but there’s only one Lord Jesus Christ. See? Not in “Jesus” Name. But in the Name of “the Lord Jesus Christ,” that’s Father, Son, Holy Ghost. Lord, “Lord said unto My Lord, ‘Sit on the right hand.’” Son, Jesus. Christ, Logos that went out of God, in the beginning. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. There you are. Oh, I’m so happy for it! My heart just rejoices! And to know that His Spirit, the Spirit that wrote the Word, agrees with the Word, proves the Life line. It comes in, manifests Itself. God be with you. It’s Jesus Christ the Son of God. I’ve told the Truth about His Word. Now you, you tabernacle people, I pray for you at other times. We’re late. I was over a little bit, run over a little bit. I was expecting a bunch to be baptized.

14. FAITH COMETH BY HEARING — 1954-03-20

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• ¶13–¶13 When a certain, well known, internationally known man, lovely brother from the West Coast, spoke to me one day at the beginning of my services on the West Coast. I was to be in the same auditorium where he was. He said, “Brother Branham, they won’t go for that fanaticism out here: Divine healing.” I said, “Oh?” He said, “Why don’t you to preach the Gospel while you’re on the West Coast?” I said, “That’s what I’m doing.” I said, “If I didn’t preach Divine healing, I wouldn’t be preaching the Gospel. ‘The Gospel come not in Word only, but through power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost.’” See? And I said, “I’m not to argue with you, brother.” I said, “You know more about it than I do, but I…what I do know, I know real well.” See? I said, “I know that part real well.” He said, “Well, the people on the West Coast won’t receive you.” Said… I said, “Well, brother, dear,” I said, “that’ll be all right.” Said, “You’re renting that auditorium; going to cost four hundred dollars a day?” I said, “Yes, sir.” He said, “There won’t be anybody there.” He said, “The first thing this Angelus Temple, McPherson bunch, they got their signs out, ‘Divine healer.’” Said, that, “All the Pentecostals, that radical bunch, they got their signs out, ‘Divine healer.’” I said, “Yes, sir. That may be all right, but I’m—I’m not responsible for nothing but what God told me to do, and that’s what I’m doing.” See? And so… He said, “Well, come on down, kick your hat in.” I said, “I’ll see you.”

15. FAITH IS THE SUBSTANCE — 1951-05-08

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• ¶86–¶86 Now, my Christian friends, do you believe my brethren? Do you believe what the Spirit of God is in our midst? Gather in around here then? Everybody in the audience, with your heads bowed, let’s pray now as these people pass through the line, now as they go by. All right. Everybody bow your heads and pray. Sing “Only Believe” out there, you, as they pass through. Ministers lay your hands upon the sick now, as they pass through. Everybody in prayer now, as we sing. Only Believe, Now, as you come through, believe. [As Brother Branham continues to pray for the people, he cannot be heard clearly—Ed.]

16. JESUS CHRIST THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND FOREVER — 1955-11-13

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• ¶34–¶34 He said, “Oh, well,” said, “you see,” said, “the better scholars know that Mark 16, from the 9th verse, where It said, ‘These signs shall follow them that believe,’” said, “We better scholars learned that that’s not inspired.” He said, “It isn’t?” Said, “What kind of Book are you reading?” He said, “All the Koran’s inspired.” There you are. He said, “Brother Branham, you come on my mind.” He said, “I kinda hit my foot on the desk and changed the subject. I had to.” Said, “Brother Branham, is there anything to the baptism of the Holy Ghost?” I said, “Yes, sir.” He said, “When do you get It?” I said, “When you want It.” He said, “I’m wanting it.” And he got It right there. That’s where It was. So that was what It was. See? That’s it. And this friend of Hyman Appleman said, “Can I receive It too?” I said, “Yes, sir. If you’re hungering and thirsting, you sure can receive It if you’ll believe It.” And right there…and…he…They both received the baptism of the Holy Spirit.” Now, that is the defeat of Christianity, because that we’re trying to worm away, or bypass for our traditions the true Word of the living God. Now, if Jesus has risen from the dead, then He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. And He’s the same in principle. He’s the same in power. He’s just exactly the same that He was when He walked in Galilee. He has to be the same in this tent this afternoon or the Bible’s wrong.

17. EXPECTATION — 1954-12-06

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• ¶19–¶19 Now, here not long ago, just give you a little case…(Am I taking up too much of the time on these testimonies?)…?…A little case, there was a little woman. A Methodist preacher, down in New Albany, Indiana, which is a very dear friend of mine. I had the Baptist tabernacle in Jeffersonville, and we were brothers, if there ever was. And he’d—he’d always…If—if I got a hold of somebody that didn’t believe in immersing and wanted to be sprinkled, I’d send him down. I said, “You go down to this church, Brother…?…’cause he…You’d make a better member down there, because,” I’d say, “he’s a real man. And he’s a man of God. But he believes in sprinkling, and I’m a Baptist.” And so he…I’d take him down. If he found somebody, I’d say, “Now, it’s awful dry down there. You see?” So if he’d find somebody that wanted to be immersed instead of being sprinkled, he’d say, “Go up and see Brother Billy,” said, “now he will drown you; he’s a Baptist, but…So we just had friendship like that with each other. Well, he was a good man. And he said—he said, after I come in here about, has been about two years ago, a little over. He said, “Billy, all the way around the world you go, and then leave your poor brother set down here.” Said, “Why, don’t you come down and hold a meeting for me?” And I said, “Well, brother, I…When I come home, I’m—I’m trying to rest my mind and things from the prayer of the sick. And he said, “Well, Brother Branham,” he said, “But I won’t ask you to pray for one person, if you just come down and preach for us one night.” Well, he had a radio program, and he announced it on the radio that morning, and that night, church about like this, and they were everywhere, and out on the streets and nearly…

18. THE UNCERTAIN SOUND — 1960-12-18

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• ¶483–¶486 How many has ever seen the discernment, raise your hand. All right, all of you. That’s right, so you know what it is. Now do you believe, this morning, that you’ve heard the Voice of God? Now I’m going to ask for Brother Wood, Brother Fred Sothmann, and some of the trustees, to come here just a moment. Some of you trustee brothers, or deacons, or whatever, come here just a moment. Now it’s going to be rather congested here, and I want you to help. Now to you, you people on this, my right side, that’s going to be prayed for, I want you to come on this side here. And brother, Brother Collins, stand right down in there, if you will. And come right down here, so they can come by and be prayed for. I’m going to ask you little children on this side of the altar, if you’ll go over on this side just for a few minutes, for Brother Branham; not for me, but for the Lord Jesus. Now you brethren stand here so that the people can come right through, and then—then we’ll take all on this other side. Now from this first row right here…Brother Charlie, I wonder if you brethren, David and you, if you want to come up here, or move kind of back towards the back? All right. Now the first ones here in this row, just raise up like that; just start from that side, over and against the wall, as we pray, now, when we get ready to start. Now, not yet. Then when this side over here, we’ll have you all to go back to this side; and then, and then come on out to that side, and then come down. Now the trustees and them will get you in the right position.

19. ADOPTION 2 — 1960-05-18

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• ¶195–¶197 But now to “place,” how are you? You are first born into the Kingdom by the Holy Ghost. How many knows that? All right. The next, you are predestinated unto the what? Adoption. What is that? You are predestinated unto the placing. Oh, Sister Scott, I believe it is, setting here. Aren’t you the one that was up home today? A teaching going around somewhere in the world, around different parts of the country, I’ve heard of it, lots, that Jesus is here on earth, walking around in a body, He comes in and does this. That’s a lie! His Holy Spirit’s here, and He is trying to place His Church, to get His Church in order, place It in the promised Land, so they can enter…so that all the enemies can be drove out. Manasses can’t take his land. I can’t have a healing service when half of the…when the…I go out there and preach the baptism in the Name of Jesus Christ, and the—and the trinitarian brethren saying, “Oh, he’s old Jesus Only.” And I can’t go over here and have Divine healing when half of them says, “Divine healing’s all right,” and a lot of them enjoy the miracles of the Lord and say, “Well, I believe Brother Branham’s a prophet, but let me tell you something. As long as the Spirit is on him, and he’s discerning, he’s the Lord’s servant. But his Teaching is rotten, It’s no good.” Who ever heard of such tommyrot? It’s either of God or it isn’t of God. That’s right. It’s either all God or none God. That’s the way it is. But how you going to have? Manasses won’t keep his ground, Ephraim won’t keep his ground, Gad won’t keep his ground, Benjamin won’t keep his ground, they’re all running out here with the Philistines, and all mixed up. How we going to get placed? But we have been born by the Holy Ghost, all of us. Is that right? What are we be born to? Predestinated…Then after being born, we are predestinated unto the adoption, to be placed in the Body of Christ. You see what I mean?

20. THE JUNCTION TIME — 1956-01-22

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• ¶16–¶19 Well, one time I was preaching in—in the Roberts Auditorium in Little Rock, Arkansas, there was a dear old brother there, who had been on crutches for years, he sold pencils on the corner. And that night, while having the healing service, his faith got stirred up, and the Lord called him, and he picked his crutches up and started running through the building. The next day, here he was running all around over the city with his crutches and a sign on them: “These old buddies, I don’t need no more!” Oh, he was having him a big time. So, I got to preaching, there was around four or five thousand people setting there then, and he said—and he said, “Just a minute, Brother Branham,” he was just so happy, he said, “I don’t understand this.” I said, “What’s that, brother?” And he said, “Well, I—I heard you preach, I thought sure you was a Nazarene,” ’cause he was a Nazarene, see, he said, “I thought sure you was a Nazarene, the way you preached.” And said, “I looked around, and nearly all of them here is Pentecostal, so I thought maybe you were Pentecost. And now somebody tells me you’re a Baptist.” Said, “I don’t get this.” I said, “Oh, that’s easy,” I said, “I’m a Pentecostal-Nazarene- Baptist.” So that’s just—that’s just it. “By one Spirit we are all baptized into one Body.” That’s right. Whether you’re Pentecostal, Nazarene, or Baptist, or whatever you are, by one Spirit, the Holy Spirit, God by sovereign grace brings us in to one Body, that is the Body of believers, Christ Jesus. And I’m so thankful for that today, to know that I have the privilege of being in this Body, and being your brother, and to come here to have this little time of fellowship with you.

21. PRESENT STAGE OF MY MINISTRY — 1962-09-08

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• ¶37b–¶39 And I want my friends, both here and out into the lands where the tapes will go, the reason that I have took the stand that I have for the Word, is this very reason: “Preach the Word.” That’s the reason I would not tally-ate with any of the creeds, any the denominations, because I have been commissioned of God to stay with the Word. Now if anybody else wants to do anything else, that’s up to them. And if you notice, in the vision that I had of tho-…my ministry, it was I’ve never crossed those trees. I have never proselyted. I have never said, “All you trinitarians be oneness” or “all you oneness be trinitarians.” I have planted in their own vessels. Just exactly. I went to the trinitarian, I went to the oneness, I went to everybody, and stayed between and never joined any of them; but stayed between, being a brother, just exactly what that vision said do. And I’ve eat the fruit from both sides, salvation on both sides. And now, did you notice, there’s many trinitarian people sitting here, there’s many oneness, and there’s many different ones. But how little you would be to fuss about it, because if that part of the vision was true, the other part’s true, too. Both fruits was found in the cross. See? Both of them was in the cross, all clustered together, and both plums and pear, or peach, plums and apples rained down on me there. Both of them. All found in the cross, because they all believed in God and are filled with the Holy Ghost, and have the Christian works and signs following.

22. JEHOVAH-JIREH — 1957-03-26

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• ¶87–¶88 When he was ordained, said, “It wasn’t there.” He said, “If I ever get my B.A.,” the Bachelor of Arts, said, “I’ll find Him there.” Said, “I got my B.A. and He wasn’t there.” Said, “I thought when I got my D.D. and my other degree,” said, “Brother Branham, I could almost plaster your wall with degrees.” And he said, “Where’s Christ in all of it?” He said, “Has the teachers been wrong?” I said, “I don’t want to say that. I don’t want to say that they’re wrong. They’re right in what they teach, but they’re not right…They go far but they don’t go far enough.” I said, “Christ doesn’t lay in a Bachelor of Art. Neither does He lay in a credential. Neither does He lay in a church or a denomination.” That’s right. He said, “Now, Brother Branham,” said, “a Indian boy that was converted…” or not converted, I beg your pardon, come over from India here, and studied electronics, I believe it was. Said, “On his road back, he was standing, talking, and I said to him, ‘Young fellow…’ He was a Mohammedan. Said, ‘When you go back overseas, why don’t you just forsake that old dead prophet Mohammed, and accepted the resurrected Lord Jesus?’” And says, “As a Christian, I asked him that.” “And he said to me, ‘Kind sir, what could Moham—what could Christ do for me any more than Mohammed could do?’ Said, ‘You got a book called the Bible; Christ wrote it, you believe, and you believe it.’ Said, ‘We got a book called the Koran, Mohammed wrote it, and we believe it. Both of them promised life after death. I believe mine and you believe yours.’ Said, ‘Now, what good would it do me to change from Mohammed to Christ?’”

23. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1964-08-23

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• ¶308–¶309 Are you hungry? All right. I’m hungry for more of the questions. “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God.” Now, I may be…Some of these questions, I may not have them right; I just done the best that I can. Tonight, I’ll try to begin just at seven o’clock. Well, church will open at six-thirty. And you that can stay…You that can’t, we understand; that’s all right. But I’ll try to get every one of these I possibly can tonight. God bless you till we meet. Now, let’s us stand on your feet and sing this good ol’ song, our dismissing song, Take the Name of Jesus With You. All right. Take the Name of Jesus with you, Child of sorrow and of woe; [Brother Billy Paul speaks to Brother Branham—Ed.] (…?…they took the offering…?…this morning…?…) …Name, O how sweet! Hope of earth and joy of Heaven. I want to make this announcement. Billy just said they took a love offering this morning (see?), and said they had a nice love offering. I have him to go at the back of the building and stand back there. To the people here that never come prepared, don’t have the money for your dinner, Billy will give you the money for your dinner and for to pay your hotel bill or motel bill, whatever it is. You take and pay that now. If you’re…If you can stay…Billy will meet you back there and take your name and where you’re at, and we’ll pay for your dinner and your motel bill out of the love offering that’s taken for me this morning. Till we meet! till we meet!

24. BLASPHEMOUS NAMES — 1962-11-04

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• ¶298–¶302 Directly, I noticed the people begin to get like they was physically hungry. And so they had enough spiritual, so they started walking away. And some of them [Brother Branham yawns—Ed.] started walking away. I thought, “What’s the matter with everybody?” And—and I looked, and here some young couples going along, to my side. I thought…I said, “Just a minute, friend! Just a minute! You’ll be back again when the evening shadows fall.” See? I said, “You’ll be back again. But let me give you this first climax. Where does all these things come from, that I’ve showed you? Where are they from?” I said, “Here they are. They are in the Word of God. They are THUS SAITH THE LORD, His promise. Cause,” I said, “all of you bear me record, witness this, that my commission is, ‘Stay with the Word.’” I said, “What’s the matter with all of you? Can’t you understand the Word? You must understand It.” And some of them said, “Man, I’d like to have some biscuits,” and so like that. Well, I just thought, “Well, glory to God! If they want biscuits, let them go get them.” So I—I turned around. I thought, “Oh, but, you know what? The shadows is going to fall, after while, right away.” I said, “Then, tonight, when that congregation gathers in again, I’ll put the climax to them, and told them that the things that they have seen me do is found in the Word of God, not in some mythical book or some organization. It’s found in the Word. See? Every bit of it, in the Word, ’cause I’m commissioned to That.”

25. WHY LITTLE BETHLEHEM — 1963-12-14

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• ¶184–¶188 This is the time to do it, now, Christmas. It was the birth of Christ, let Christ be born in us. What is Christ? Christ is the Word. How many knows that? “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Somebody said the other day, said, “Brother Branham, you, people know that you’re a woman-hater.” I am not. I’m not. I got genuine love for my sisters. Some men will turn around, think you look nice with red eyes and green eyes, and bobbed hair, that man has got a different opinion than what I’d have. Your…I love that soul that’s in you, that’s got to meet God. That’s what I’m…my sister for Eternity, not some little sex thing here on earth will… How many ever read the decline, of the fall of Rome? Sure. Look at there, just the same thing we’re doing, sex appeal. Youth in the condition it is, just exactly the way we got now, racial problems. And youth taking over, and man and sex. Just the way the Roman Empire fell, eighteen hundred years ago, and here it is right back here again amongst Gentiles. See? The confusion amongst the religions and things. Oh, what an hour that we’re living in! [A sister gives a message. Blank spot on tape—Ed.] Amen. The Lord God has spoke. I believe that. Now let us stand. When He speaks, it’s time for us to give reverence. [Someone speaks to Brother Branham—Ed.] (What say?) By God’s grace, and by God’s help, I’m more determined than I ever was, stand by this Word and try my best, by the help of God, to cut a way down to Bethlehem again, where Bethlehem dwellers can drink from that Fountain. How many will join with me, with your hands up, say, “I promise to God I’ll do it”? God bless you.

26. THIRST — 1965-09-19

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• ¶255–¶256 [Brother Branham hums Jesus, the Light of the World—Ed.] Worship God with everything you have. When the saints go marching in, When the saints go marching in, Lord, I want to be in that number When the saints go marching in. Oh, when they crown Him Lord of all, When they crown Him Lord of all, Lord, I want to be in that number When they crown Him Lord of all. Oh, when the sun refuse to shine, When the sun refuse to shine, Lord, I want to be in that number When the sun refuse to shine. Do you love that? Now I wonder if you got your feet converted, you don’t dance anymore, out there for the world? See? Let’s pat our feet, to the Lord, to the Lord. You, is your hands converted, you don’t steal anymore? Your lips are converted, you don’t lie anymore? Just don’t get religion in your head, get it all over you. That’s it. It takes the whole man. That’s right. Now let’s pat our feet. When the saints go marching in, When the saints go marching in, Lord, I want to be in that number When the saints go marching in. Oh, when the saints go marching in, When the saints go marching in, Lord, I want to be in that number When the saints go marching in. Now let’s just raise our hands. When the saints go marching in, When the saints go marching in, O Lord, I want to be in that number When the saints go marching in. When they crown Him Lord of all, When they crown Him Lord of all, Lord, I want to be in that number When they crown Him Lord of all.

27. THE MARK OF THE BEAST — 1954-05-13

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• ¶109–¶112 Then, Martin Luther. Then, after Martin Luther, come John Wesley. Martin Luther come out with catechism, a whole lot of things. He come out with a baptism, he come out giving a triune, trinitarian baptism which was never taught in the Bible, never taught in the Bible. There never was anybody ever baptized in a tritheist baptism, in the Bible. If it’s so, come show me where it’s at. It’s not there. The only way that they were commissioned to be baptized, was, “Go and teach all nations,” He said back there, “and baptize them into the Name,” not in the name, “into the Name; Father, Son, Holy Spirit.” And the disciples turned right around and baptized everybody in the Name of “Jesus Christ,” and, commissioned that if anybody had been baptized any other way, had to come and be rebaptized again before they could get the Holy Ghost. And here come the Catholic church out… Put one place on the Bible where any person was ever baptized in the name of “the Father, Son, Holy Ghost.” That’s pretty blank, isn’t it? Saturday night is the question night, I’ll get it, we’ll get to straighten that out. All right. All right. I want anybody that can show me one place where any person was ever baptized in the name of “the Father, Son, Holy Ghost,” I’ll walk off the pulpit and say I’m a hypocrite. And anybody was baptized any other way, had to come and be rebaptized again in the Name of “Jesus Christ,” to receive the Holy Ghost. That’s exactly. That’s what the Bible said.

28. BEHOLD, A GREATER THAN SOLOMON IS HERE — 1962-06-12

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• ¶22–¶24 I was in a—a Lutheran college, Bethany, where I’d been called on the carpet, oh, my, just digging me up, he’s the one, called me a polished-up soothsayer, and then the Lord kind of got after him about it a little bit, you know, and so he called me up to apologize. We went down into a basement where they set a nice big dinner, and he said to me, he said, “Brother Branham, I just want to ask you some questions. First, I’m sorry I said what I said in that letter.” I said, “That’s all right, I never even thought no more about it.” He said, “I want you to tell me, what in the world…? Are we Lutherans in the race?” I said, “Sure.” He said, “What—what—what have we got?” I said, “You got the Spirit of God.” And I said, “You know…” They, for the students who couldn’t pay their way through, so, they had about a thousand acres there of corn, so they just worked their way through. So they…He said…I said, “A man one time planted a corn crop, and he went out, and the next morning there was two little leaves sticking up, he said, ‘Praise the Lord for my crop of corn!’” I said, “Now, Brother Hegre, did he have a crop of corn?” He said, “Well, not yet.” I said, “Potentially he did, didn’t he?” He said, “Yes.” I said, “That was you Lutherans.” I said, “By and by, them two little blades growed up, and after while it made a tassel, that was the Methodist. They looked back down and said, ‘There’s no more use for you, you’re just a leaf, I’m a tassel.’

29. GOD COMMISSIONING MOSES — 1953-05-08

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• ¶1c–¶1c Webster; at least he thought he did; he said, “Brother Branham,” said, “your grammar’s very poor.” I said, “Yes, sir, I know that.” He said, “Oh, at the—at the mistakes you made tonight.” And I said, “Yes, sir,” I said, “that’s—that’s right.” I said, “I’m sorry.” I said, “I was raised a big family and I didn’t get an education.” And I said, “I…My father died and I had to work—have to take care of ten children.” I said, “It…Didn’t get a chance to get any education.” He said, “Oh, but that’s no excuse now.” And I said, “Well, that’s right,” I said, “but since this ministry’s come on,” I said, “I can’t even get a chance to eat my dinner at home, let alone study grammar.” I said, “I’m just…people…praying for the sick.” He said, “Oh,” but said, “you could take a correspondence; you could do something.” Said, “I noticed one—one mistake that you certainly made that you ought to correct.” And I said, “What?” “You said, ‘The people coming by this ‘polepit.’” He said, “Your congregation would appreciate you more if you said, ‘Pulpit’ and not ‘polepit.’” He just kinda pull me a little hard. I said, “Look, brother, I don’t want to hurt your feelings, but them people out there don’t care whether I say ‘polepit’ or ‘pulpit.’ The only thing they want me to do is to preach the Gospel good and clear in everyday language, and live what I preach. And then if God performs the signs and wonders and takes care of the rest of it…” So that’s right. Isn’t that right? That’s right. So the main thing is produce what you’re talking about. That’s right. If God will back up your word, if the word is “pulpit” or “polepit,” it will be just the same. Tonight, for a few moments, if you will spare the time, I like to read some Scripture out of two places in the Bible, and just talk to you a few moments, and then we will go right in and have prayer for the sick. And I want to read out of Acts, the 1st chapter of Acts, the 8th verse.

30. GOD KEEPS HIS WORD — 1957-01-15

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• ¶24–¶27 So we…This was—this was dinnertime for us. And so we went out there, and they had a great, oh, a beautiful place, hundreds of acres where the students could work their way through and so forth, pay their tuition. And he had seventy-something students setting there. And we, after we had our dinner, he said, “I want to ask you a question, Mr. Branham.” I said, “Yes, sir?” And I thought, “Oh, my, here it comes now, Lutheran dean.” He said, “I’ve been down to the Pentecostals, and see them kick the furniture around, and everything like that.” Said, “I want to ask you, is anything to it?” I said, “Yes, sir, there is.” I said, “It’s like a little kid, when he gets a toy, he just falls.” And I said, “Like Ezekiel said, there’s a valley full of dry bones. He said, ‘Can these live?’ He said, ‘Thou knowest.’ So he said, ‘Prophesy to the dry bones.’ And when the bones come together, there was a rattling and a shaking, lot of noise. But then, when the skin come on them, the meat come on them, there wasn’t much noise. He said, ‘Prophesy to the spirit now.’ See? I think that’s what’s going on. See?” So I said, “They…I see them make a lot of noise.” I said, “I think the bones are coming together.” And so, he said, “We’re hungering and thirsting for God.” I said, “That’s fine.” Said, “And we want you to tell us how to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost.” He said, “Now,” said, “we believe that—that in, we receive the Holy Ghost when we believe.” And I said, “Well, did you ever read Acts 19?” And he said, “Yes.”

31. DOES GOD EVER CHANGE HIS MIND ABOUT HIS WORD? — 1965-04-18

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• ¶57–¶57 [Someone speaks to Brother Branham—Ed.] Huh? Oh, I don’t know. We’re on a telephone hookup; fifty cents a minute. Was there somebody else here was want… Step up here and call your names, who you are, brethren, just in the microphone right up here. Just tell them. [Each brother says his own name, “Pat Tyler,” “Claude Boggess,” “Dale Potter,” “…?…Henasey,” “James Humes,” “Earl Horner.”—Ed.] Is that them? [Someone says, “Yes.”] My brethren. These men, do you believe this Message to be the Truth from God’s Word? [The brethren say, “Amen.”—Ed.] Do you believe that with all your heart? [“Amen.”] All right. And you are desirous, and think if we lay hands upon you…We want you to know that we are with you, and we’ll do anything that we can do to help you. And now I want you brethren, so that I can lay hands on them too, to step right up here now. And let’s all bow our heads, as we lay hands on them. Dear God, here is a group of man. I lay my hands upon each of them, in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. And may You, Who has called them to be ministers, that may they preach it, Lord, all the days of their life, and…?…preach the Gospel to every creature. We give to them the right hand of fellowship, and pray Your blessings to be with them, Lord, as we bless them, send our blessings. May it go to every crevice of the earth that You’ve called them to go to. May they work and serve You in the capacity that You called them to. May they be gallant and real servants of God. Grant it, Lord. And we ask it in Jesus Christ’s Name.

32. WATER BAPTISM — 1959-03-29

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• ¶71–¶74 Now while we are preparing, I want those who are to be baptized to come forward and stand up here, so we can show to the world that we believe that Jesus: Living, He loved us; dying, He saved us; Buried, He carried our sins far away; Rising, He justified freely forever: Believe someday He’s coming, waiting for that glorious day! And you are coming this morning to confess that that sin that I preached about this morning, the sins of the world, has been condemned and killed, and you no more are a servant to that thing, but it’s dead. And you are coming to be buried in the Name of Him Who died for you, and killed sin for you, and rose for your justification. And you are complete, in Him; not in no church, not in the Branham Tabernacle, not in the association. But you are complete and safe in Jesus Christ! Let us pray. Lord, this sometimes seems to be hard, for I know that I have precious friends here of the Catholic faith, and some of the Wesleyan Methodist, and, no doubt, many of the trinitarian extreme. We believe, Lord, that “Father, Son, and Holy Ghost” is the same God, but three offices that the God of Heaven served in: one time for the Jews, in the Fatherhood; once in flesh, as the Sonship; and now in the Holy Ghost, in the Church. Not three gods, we do not believe, Father; for You cannot deny Your Own Word, when there is no other God except You. You said, “I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt have no other gods.” And we believe, Lord, that this one true God lived in three different dispensations: under the law; under the Christian dispensation when Christ was on earth in a body of flesh that was born of the virgin Mary, died, rose again, and has redeemed us, the Church; and now, in the form of the Holy Ghost, the Witness of the resurrection lives in our lives. Forgive us of our sins.

33. THE TRIAL — 1964-04-19

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• ¶93b–¶96a It’s your faith, your verdict that you passed on the Word of God. God kee-…And if God can keep that part of the Word and prove it to you, then you’re already healed, because by His stripes you were healed. Now, I want all that’s in this section over here, that’s got prayer cards, stand up on that side around the wall. Now, all that’s in this section here, that has prayer cards, stand up in the middle of the aisles and face back that way. And all that’s in this section here, that has prayer cards…Now, on this—this section here, now turn back the other way now, go back this a-way. Turn the other way, ’cause I want a straight line. All that’s in this section, come out this way, face back that way. And all that’s in this section up here, that’s got prayer cards, come out this way and face back that way, and the prayer line will be running. All that’s in the balcony, with prayer cards, wants to be prayed for, come right down and fall right in behind this next section as they come. While they’re coming, I… [Brother Branham speaks with the ministers on the platform—Ed.] You want me to call other ministers? Is it all right to give witness? All, is it all right with you all? What’s your verdict in the trial? [The brother answers, “I know that them things is the Truth.”] All right. The pastors wants to know, wants the fellowship with other ministers. They want any minister in here that believes in God, and believes that laying hands on the sick, if their verdict this afternoon, that it’s the “Truth,” they invite you as their colleagues to come here and stand on the platform with us while we pray. All pastors that’s filled with God’s Spirit, and your verdict now is that you believe that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, you believe that Mark 16 is the Truth, these pastors here wants to invite you up here now as their colleagues to the Gospel. Come up here and stand on the platform with us as we form these prayer lines, to pray. Right here, bring them up this way.

34. GOD’S POWER TO TRANSFORM — 1965-09-11

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• ¶22–¶25 And let us, Lord, as we are thinking of this, remember that we too must go someday. While we’re sitting together here in the Presence of the Lord Jesus, we would ask that You would bring this fresh to our memory. And let us check up, as it was, or take inventory of our own lives, that we be under the Blood and in the Faith. Grant it, Lord. Now as I try under these circumstances to bring a little message to the people, today, I pray that You will help me, Lord. Strengthen me, for I—I—I need it, Lord. And I pray that You will grant it. And may something be said that would just honor You. And if there be any under the sound of our voice this morning, who is not ready to meet the hour that lays before them, may this be the time that when they’ll surrender to Him Who said, “I am the Way, the Life, the Truth,” even our Lord Jesus Christ. For we ask it in His Name. Amen. (You may be seated.) [Someone on the platform speaks to Brother Branham—Ed.] The brother here wants to know if everyone can hear all right. He’s got two mikes on. Is that all right? Can you hear? Raise up your hands if you can. Can you hear? Raise your hands. All right. I’m sorry that we do not have seating room for everyone this morning. And we trust that I won’t stay up here too long, just enough to maybe bring us maybe a reading of the Word; that the Lord God will honor His Word that’s being read, and will give us of His grace, that we might serve Him by it.

35. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1954-05-15

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• ¶307–¶313 And I’m not a Oneness. No, sir. You trinitarian people get that away from you. I am not a Oneness. No, sir. I’m not a Oneness, neither a trinitarian. I believe what the Bible says. That’s correctly. Amen. Whew! I get too much on one. What was that? Did I get it out? Or, let’s see, what was it? Oh, yes, that’s right, about the…how the Father was in Christ. He was a Man, He was a God-Man. No, sir. If he’s a believer, he’ll come in the resurrection, the second resurrection. He’s got the baptism, he’ll go in the first resurrection. Now, you have to almost take my word. If that ain’t satisfying, then you—you ask me, I’ll give you Scripture. Cause, I’m trying to get this two or three more here, then we’re finished. Yes, It does, but I can’t call it right now. I know the soldiers gambled for His garments, and so forth like that, but I can’t say. Get it for me in there, if you will, Brother Neville, First Corinthians 15:29. We’ll get it. Now, and maybe tomorrow I can get that for you again. Like the…That letters, how it’s spelled out, “VICARIVS FILII DEI.” If you desire it, let me know. I think not. I think the next thing we look for is the Rapture of the Church. And then that, “when Gog and Magog comes down,” is the Russian armies who comes in at the… Look, Mr. Bohanon used to be the superintendent here of the Public Service Company, a very fine Christian man. And he talked to me one day, he said, “Billy, I tried to read, and I tried to ask my pastor to explain Revelation.” Said, “We got over there and we got It all mixed up.” Said, “John must have been eating some—something that night and had a dream.” I said, “Mr. Bohanon, shame on you.” I said…

36. IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END, SIR? — 1962-12-30

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• ¶338–¶339 He said, “Gentlemen,” he said, “I introduce to you, next, Brother Branham.” He said, “You all might disagree with him, on his Doctrine, but let me tell you something. Three days ago, we set in a place, and if that man didn’t tell me everything that’s happened this morning, I’m not standing here. He told me that you all were fixing to question him on his Doctrine. And he told me that I’d have to cancel out that other place, and be here. And told me exactly where Dr. Mead and these people would be sitting, just exactly, and here they are.” He said, “You might have disagreed with him, but, I’ll say one thing, he’s fearless with what he thinks about.” He said, “Now, Brother Branham, the floor is yours.” I said, “Before we start…” I read what I did this morning, “‘I was not disobedient to the Heavenly vision.’” I said, “Now let’s settle this. Now, you all speak of being Doctors of Divinity; and I stand here by myself.” I said, “If that’s so, you want to question me, on the baptism in Jesus’ Name. We’ll start with that first. I want one of you men to bring your Bible and stand here by my side, on anything that I’ve taught.” I said, “Stand here by my side, and, with the Word of God, disprove It.” I waited. Nobody said nothing. I said, “I’m asking for some of you men to come stand by my side.” Said, “What’s the matter with you? Then, stay off my back, if you’re afraid to stand here by me.”