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1. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1961-01-12

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• ¶79–¶85 “Brother Branham, was you justified?” “Yes! I remember when I just couldn’t hardly look at you. Brother, I can look you in the face now.” See, here we are. Now, what’s this other? Now I’m going to…This is cleaned and set aside for service, and this is coming into service. Now we all know that the word sanctify is a Greek word, a compound Greek word that means “cleaned, and set aside for service.” The vessels was cleansed and by the altar, and sanctified by the altar and set aside for service. But to be in service is to be filled and put in service. Now, I go over here and now I’m coming into service. Now, it was God that turned me, saying, “Hear Me. Hear Me! Hear Me!” And He said… You get what I mean? See? And here, [Brother Branham illustrates someone speaking in tongues—Ed.]…?…See, here, you’re just so full you…That’s it. There you are, that’s speaking in tongues. And I believe this now: I do not believe that speaking in tongues is any evidence of the Holy Ghost. It isn’t! Because I have seen witches, wizards, snake-handlers, devils, everything else speak in tongues, and it is not an infallible act of God (when you speak in tongues) that you’ve got the Holy Ghost. But, remember, the Holy Ghost does speak in tongues and the devil can impersonate it. The—the evidence that you’ve got the Holy Ghost is the life that you live, see, “By their fruits you shall know them.” And the fruit of the Spirit is not (nowhere in the Scripture found) speaking in tongues. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, faith, longsuffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness, patience. See, now, that is the fruit. That’s what you find on the tree to tell what kind of a tree it is. See?

• ¶242–¶249 Now, the…Now, there’s two different tongues, men and angels. See? And Paul said, “Though I speak with tongues of men and angels,” see, both men and angels, both of those tongues, the one that cannot… Now, that’s where the Pentecostal people, tongues-evidence people that say, told me, he said, “Now, Brother Branham, you’re all mixed up.” Said, I said, “Well, if you get it according to Acts 2:4, then everybody heard you speak in the language that they were born in.” “Oh!” he said. And “No! No!” he said. I said, “Sure. Yes, sir.” Said, “Now, Brother Branham, you’re all mixed up.” Said, “You’re talking about the…” Said, “There’s tongues of ‘angels.’ That’s the Holy Spirit angel that comes down and speaks through you.” Now, it sounds good, see, it sounds like it could be a lot of truth, but it ain’t all the Truth. When Satan told Eve, “surely you’ll not die,” that was a…he told her a lot of truth, but that wasn’t Truth. See? Now, said, “‘Men and angels,’ and the angel he was speaking of was…” Now, let’s look how it won’t jive with Scripture. See? Now, it won’t “cooperate,” I mean to say. Pardon me, I didn’t mean to say “jive” with Scriptures. I mean “cooperate” with Scriptures, or “follow, coordinate” with Scriptures is the best word. “Now, the man speaking with angels’ tongues,” he says, “that’s the tongues of the Holy Ghost that” he said, “now, when you, we, they received the Holy Ghost.” I said, “Did…When, where’d you receive It at?”

• ¶250–¶256 Well, he told me exactly the spot, the minute and the hour. I don’t doubt but what he did. See? I have no…I’m not his judge. See? He said, “That’s where I spoke it.” He knowed exactly the place. Said, “Something happened to me.” I said, “I believe it. See? But still that wasn’t the evidence of the Holy Ghost to you, son.” “Oh, yes!” Said, “That, that was it!” And, “No.” He said, “Now, look, I want to tell you something, brother.” I said, “Did the people in your audience, that church there in Indianapolis where you said you received It, did those people hear you speak in English telling them of the resurrection and the power of God and everything?” He said, “Why, no! I spoke in—in unknown tongues.” I said, “You never got it according to Acts 2:4, ’cause every… wasn’t one word unknown. ‘We hear every man in our own language.” “Oh,” he said, “Brother Branham, I see where you’re confused.” He said, “You see,” he said, “there is tongues that’s tongues of angels, when you receive the Holy Ghost,” said, “then you speak in tongues and nobody has to interpret that, that’s—that’s the Holy Ghost speaking. See? But then you have a gift of tongues, and that’s to be interpretation.” I said, “Then you’ve got the cart before the horse. On the Day of Pentecost they got the cart before the horse. Before they got the Holy Ghost, unknown tongues, they spoke in tongues that was understood.” See? So really it… There is two different tongues. Tongues of angels, that’s the man in private prayer out yonder somewhere speaking to God, speaking to God in angelic tongues. I could just call you a case right now, but I haven’t got time. You remember when the woman come to the auditorium there, in where Doctor Alexander Dowie’s from, Zion. Remember me down there? And Billy come after me down there to get me to go to the meeting, and I said, “Billy, go on back.” And I… He said, “What you crying about? Somebody been here?”

2. BROKEN CISTERNS — 1964-07-26

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• ¶65–¶67 And that’s the way it is with a lot of these parasites today. You can’t live in the fresh water of the Holy Spirit. That’s the reason they’re so firmly against the Word, and say, “It contradicts Itself. There is nothing to It.” Is because they have to have some kind of a stagnated pool to wiggle in. Right. That’s the same way it is with frogs, and with lizards, and with tadpoles, and such as that. They’ve got to get around the swamp or the stagnated pool, to live, for it’s their nature to live there. And you can’t change the animal till you change its nature. And you cannot make a man see the Word of God till his nature has been changed; and when his nature is changed from what he is, to a son of God, and the Holy Spirit comes into him. The Holy Spirit wrote the Word of God! Today I was talking with my good friend, Doctor Lee Vayle, who is present now. And he’s quite a theologian, and so we usually have some—have some pretty good discussions on the Scripture. Very smart. And he asked me one time what I thought about the initial evidence of the Holy Ghost, “Was it speaking in tongues?” It’s been many years ago. I said, “No; can’t see that.” He said, “Neither do I,” said, “though I’ve been taught that.” He said, “What would you think would be an evidence?” I said, “The most perfect evidence I can think of is love.” And so we got to talking on that. And then I thought that sounded pretty good so I just held that, “If a man has got love.” But one day the Lord, in a vision, straightened me out. And He said, that, “The evidence of the Spirit was those who could receive the Word,” neither love, nor speaking in tongues, but it’s receiving the Word.

• ¶68–¶70 And then Doctor Vayle was saying to me, that, “That is Scriptural,” he said, “because, in John 14, Jesus said, ‘When He the Holy Ghost is come upon you, He will reveal these things to you, that I’ve taught you, and will show you things to come.’” So there is the genuine evidence of the Holy Ghost! He has never told me anything wrong yet. That, “It is the evidence of the Holy Ghost, is he who can believe the Word.” You can receive It. Cause, Jesus never said, “When the Holy Ghost is come, you’ll speak with tongues.” He never said, the Holy Ghost come, you’d do any of those things. But He said, “He will take these things of Mine and show them to you, and will show you things that is to come.” So there is the genuine evidence of the Holy Ghost, according to Jesus Himself. So all these sensations and things that people have and still live on, you can see why they do it. See, it becomes a denomination, or a stagnated pool, and there’ll never be a denomination made upon the imp-…the perfect Word of God. It can’t do it, because you can’t nominate or denominate God. No, sir! The reason it is, you get a bunch of man who can believe the Word, let them start an organization. The first thing you know, in a year’s time there’s a bunch of Rickys in there that you couldn’t do nothing with. They got a hold, and you can’t do nothing about it. It’s not God’s system. It isn’t, so we know that that thing is out. It becomes a cistern, and becomes a place where each one will compromise on this, that, or the other, to get members in there, or let people come in.

3. BLASPHEMOUS NAMES — 1962-11-04

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• ¶40–¶42 And we hope to get the church up, so I can get these Church Ages in, before—before the winter sets in, if possible. If I don’t, or when I have to come back from over there, if the Lord Jesus tarries. I was listening yesterday when I was taking, believe it was day before yesterday, of a tape. I thought I heard it playing out here this morning. Some little Southern brother had…His mother had come into the meeting. She had a malignancy on her breast, and she was shadowed to death. And the Holy Spirit, in one of the recent meetings, at the Southern Pines, I believe it was, or somewhere, told her, said about her malignancy, and who she was, and where she come from. And said she had a boy that was a backslider, and he was going to have an accident, and be for manslaughter. And a whole lot of things like that. And this fellow… It all happened just the way. And her malignant cancer, or malignant growth, rather, left her. Which is, malignant growth is a cancer, you know. So then it—it left her. And the boy was up for manslaughter, and everything just the way the Holy Spirit said it. And he was led to Christ, back again. And he made a tape of it, and I—I heard it playing. Did you enjoy that little, old Southern talk? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Said, “Down here in North Carolin’er,” he said. Oh, I just love that, them old Southern people. And he had…The Lord just blessed him on. He said, “I know you say you don’t preach doctrine, Brother Branham; only to your congregation.” Said, “We’re part of your congregation.” So that was right cute in him, to say that.

• ¶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.”

4. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1964-08-23

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• ¶93–¶97a I can hear plenty on the tape saying, “That’s wrong.” But you just try it one time and see if it isn’t. All right. 289. Question for Sunday morning: (Sorry it’s this time, but…) At the instant of receiving the Holy Ghost, or the baptism of the Holy Ghost, is there a difference? Does a person speak with tongues? If not always, what manifestation is known? Well, could you imagine a mother giving birth to a baby and not knowing it? She’d have to be unconscious not to know it. Neither can you receive the Holy Ghost without knowing it. There’s something takes place in you. See? There’s something that changes you. Your whole system, your whole spiritual system is made new again, and you become a new creature in Christ, as the Bible puts it, a new creation in Christ. You know it. Now, you say, “Brother Branham, then you don’t believe that a man should speak with tongues to receive the Holy Ghost.” Not to prove he’s got the Holy Ghost. I would that every member of my church spoke with tongues. I would like for them to do that, and if…I believe if you ask God, God will grant it to you. But let me tell you; I know plenty people that speak in tongues and hasn’t got the Holy Ghost. And there’s not a minister that’s true with himself and with his congregation but what’ll tell his congregation the same. The devil can impersonate that. Paul said, “Though I speak with tongue of men and angels, though I give my body to be burned as a sacrifice, though I understand all the mysteries of the Word, though I give all my goods to the poor, and all these things, and have not charity, I still am nothing. I have faith that I can move mountains and so forth; I’m still nothing.” Then he said, “That which is in part will be done away with when that which is perfect is come,” or, “when that which is perfect is made known.” Now, I’ve got a question on that. I hope I get to it tonight, about what happened when the Seals opened. And I think maybe that’ll get it right to you on this question. 290.

• ¶142b–¶145 Brother Branham, will there be any children born during the Millennium…thousand years Millennium, one thousand years reign of Christ here on earth? Or will there be any sign on earth…any sin (pardon me) on earth during that time; and will there be people on earth in corporal bodies during that time? I’ll try to just run through them right quick. Now, in Genesis the 6th chapter, 12th verse, God said all flesh had corrupted…Yeah, that was marriage, divorce, and everything else. The Bible said, “As it was in the days of Noah, how they married, and give in marriage,” and so forth like that. That is one of the signs of the end time, just one of the signs. Now, if that’s all the world was doing, I couldn’t call it the evidence of the end time, no more than I can call speaking in tongues the evidence of the Holy Ghost. It is true that there’s supposed to come a time when marriage and divorce is just like it was in the days of Noah, but there’s so many other things goes with it; it’s just one of the signs. And speaking in tongues is one of the signs of the Holy Spirit, but not an infallible sign of the Holy Spirit, no more than just women and men marrying and divorcing and marrying again. That wouldn’t be the only sign. If that’s the only one there was, I couldn’t call it that. See? Other things has to go with speaking in tongues or any other gift to make it God.

5. THE UNPARDONABLE SIN — 1954-10-24

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• ¶218–¶221 I want to ask you a question, flat, and right to the point. I don’t say it to put you embarrassed. I’d rather be embarrassed here than embarrassed There. Wouldn’t you rather do that? There is many of you here that’s seeking the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Many of you here has watched me since I was a boy, just a little old kid here, or in my teen age, preaching the Gospel. And I haven’t varied one speck from the Gospel I started with. I still teach the same thing. Because, It wasn’t given to me by some seminary, neither was It taught by man. It come by revelation of the Bible. That’s right. Therefore, I know It come from God, and I’ve stayed with the same Gospel. Many years ago, I preached the water baptism in Jesus Christ’s Name. Many years ago, I preached the cleansing of the human soul by the Blood of Jesus Christ, through sanctification. I preached the baptism of the Holy Ghost as a confirmation, or the sealing of God’s people away, in the Kingdom. You know that’s right. I’ve taught Divine healing. I’ve taught the second Coming. I’ve taught feetwashing. I’ve taught communion. I’ve taught holiness before the Lord. I’ve taught all those things, to begin with. I taught speaking in tongues, “not the evidence of the Holy Ghost.” I’ve taught shouting, “not the evidence of the Holy Ghost.” There is none of those thing you can say is the evidence of the Holy Ghost, or the only evidence. It might be the evidence the Holy Ghost is there. Singing might be the evidence the Holy Ghost is there. Talking might be the evidence the Holy Ghost is there. Any of the signs might be, and yet it’s not an infallible. There is only one Person Who can say the Holy Ghost is there, that’s God Himself. He is the Judge. I’ve seen them sing, I’ve seen them talk, I’ve seen them shout, I’ve seen them speak with tongues, and all those things, and didn’t. Their fruits proved that they didn’t have It.

6. 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.”

7. THE WAY BACK — 1962-11-23

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• ¶238–¶242 See, friends, what happened just a while ago, I—I don’t know, God in Heaven knows I don’t know. See? But whatever it was, it must have been glorious because my heart is beating real fast with joy, it was something. Now, it looks to me like, that a borned again church that claims the new birth, and are…the time of the Coming of Christ at hand… Why, with the evidence, a positive evidence…? If there was a man standing here with a long robe on, and scars in his hand, blood running out of his face, that still wouldn’t be the Christ, any impostor could do that; but the Life that was in Christ be reproduced, then you know It is Christ. I’m preaching one of these nights on: A Paradox, and that was a paradox you just seen, it’s something that can’t be explained. See? It’s a miracle, that how the God of Heaven can produce such. Now, you say, “Could you heal me, Brother Branham?” It is impossible, you are already healed. If He was standing here, wearing my suit that He give me, He couldn’t do no more, that’s all He could do was vindicate that He is Christ, prove that He is here, you have to believe Him, “I can, if you believe.” That is it right now, if you believe it, that is all there is to it. It looks to me like it ought to electrify, it ought to send people to repentance, it ought to send people seeking for the Holy Ghost, it ought to do something more than it’s doing.

8. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON THE HOLY GHOST — 1959-12-19

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• ¶131–¶133 Then you get off into the room, and you set there, you people together, because you’re co-workers in the Gospel. Then you set there. “Lord, is there anything You want us to know tonight? Speak to us, O Heavenly Father,” offering prayer, supplications; sing songs. Directly down comes the Spirit, falls on somebody, speaks in tongues. One rises up and said, “THUS SAITH THE LORD.” What is it? Listen. “Go tell Brother Jones to move away from the place where he’s living, for tomorrow afternoon there’ll be a cyclone sweep that country; and it’s going to take his house. Take his goods and get away!” Now, that—that sounds good. But wait a minute. There has to be three man there that’s got the Spirit of discernment. One of them say, “It was of the Lord.” The other one say, “It was of the Lord.” That’s two against three—two or three witnesses. All right. They write that down on a piece of paper. That’s what the Spirit said. All right. They go back to praying, thanking the Lord. After while, “THUS SAITH THE LORD (a prophet raises up) THUS SAITH THE LORD, tonight, coming from New York City will be a woman; she’s on a stretcher; she’ll come into the building on a stretcher. She has a green scarf around her head. She’s dying with cancer. What’s caused her to be this way, the Lord holds against her: one time she stole money from His Church when she was sixteen years old. Tell Brother Branham to tell her these things. THUS SAITH THE LORD, if she’ll make that right, she shall be healed.” Wait a minute. That sounds awful good, but wait a minute. You going to put your name on this paper, discerner? Are you going to put your name?

9. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS HEBREWS PART II — 1957-10-02

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• ¶373–¶376 Now if we’d say that when you…A lot of times I’ve seen, many times, people accepting “initial evidence of speaking in tongues” as the Holy Ghost. And sometimes shake the people, or beat them and pat them, saying, “Say it. Say it. Say it. Say it.” You know, repeat a word over and over, “Say it. Say it. Say it.” See, it’s something you’re doing yourself. And—and—and it don’t…it doesn’t…it—it’s nothing. You might get a confusion of tongues. You might get a—a lot of things, and sensations. But if anything comes outside of your own personal faith, it has to be a Divine gift of God given to you. See? 12 “And by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body.” That’s correct, see. The Baptism of the Holy Ghost is a different act from the new birth. One is a birth, one is a baptism. One brings you Eternal Life, the other one gives you power. It gives power into Eternal Life, see, to operate. Now you got it? Okay. All right. Now here is another, come second, the best that I had them at that night: 61. Where was Jesus’ Spirit the three days His body was in the tomb? Where was His Spirit? Now, His spirit, if you’ll follow the Scriptures,…well, we could just bring many places. But, I wonder, who’s got a Bible? Brother Stricker, you got a Bible? All right. Brother Neville, you got one? Get me Psalms 16:10. And who else? Sister Wood, you got a Bible there? Well, Brother Stricker, (all right, either one), you get me Acts 2:27, Acts 2:27.

10. TESTIMONY — 1951-05-09

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• ¶53–¶54a And up here at Santa Rosa not long ago, the minister may be standing present now; they was having a Saturday night of a playhouse. We had several people, about like here. And they was trying to put a man out of the prayer line. And he kept saying, “I’m not wanting in the prayer line; I’m wanting to see this minister.” And I said, “Let him alone,” down like this. “What do you want, sir?” And he said, “How do you spell your name?” And I said, “B-R-A-N-H-A-M.” He said, “Mother, that’s it. That’s it.” And a lady came forth. They had an old paper, turned yellow. They were evangelists, belonging to the Assemblies of God. And twenty-two years, that would be about…That’s four years ago, it’d be about twenty-six years now. Twenty-two years before that, one said they had a gift of speaking in tongues, the other one had the gift of interpretation. And when they were…Said they were down praying, twenty-two years before that, and the interpretation come. And this was one of their messages they TESTIMON Y had laying back, said, “THUS SAITH THE LORD, in the last days before the coming of the Lord, I’ll send My servant, William Branham, up the West Coast with…” And there it was wrote on old paper. And then one night, I was coming out of Seattle, and there was a man standing over there. And he had a book under his arm. He kept telling me, “Brother Branham, you’re in the wrong church.” And I didn’t know what he was talking of. And he put the book under my arm. It was called the Mormon Word Of God. I don’t know what it was. It’s a—it’s one of their prophets of The Latter Day Saint, some bunch of them, that they claims they see the neophytes. And—and back there a hundred and…long long…how long ago it was, it… on a certain page there…I have the book in my library.

11. DESPERATIONS — 1963-09-01

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• ¶17–¶19 Then, the Life that was in Christ is the Holy Ghost, not the third Person; but the same Person, in the form of the Holy Spirit, coming upon you, as a Token that your life and your fare is paid, you have been accepted. Until that token comes, you’re not permitted on the highway, you’re not permitted on the…in the—the bus line; you’re not permitted to go in until you can present this token, and that token is your fare. And now It shows that the Blood has been shed and been applied to you, the price has been applied to you, and you have the Token that the Blood is applied to you and you’re accepted. Get it now? Oh, my! Oh! Now—now, just not no certain evidence. See? You say, “Brother Branham,” I feel it in your minds, you see, “why will I know?” Look, what were you, and what are you? There is how you know. See? What was you before this Token was applied? What are you after It’s applied? What was your desires before, and what is your desires after? Then you know whether the Token is applied or not. And these other things just automatically go with That. See? It—it isn’t like talking about it, and say, “Tongues is the evidence.” Now, I’ll bear, buy a pair of shoes, the tongue isn’t the shoe. It just comes with the shoe, you see. It just comes with the shoe. See? Now, the same thing is the Token. The Token is Christ. But speaking in tongues, and casting out devils, and doing those things, and preaching, and whatever, is the evidence It’s there, true, but it’s—it’s not It. See, it’s a gift of It. If I told you that…

12. 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.

13. THE WORLD IS FALLING APART — 1963-04-12

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• ¶70–¶73 Oh, we talk about people coming in and receiving the Holy Ghost, and things like that. And I’ve…Certainly, I appreciate that. I do appreciate it. But looky here what we’ve done, friends. We’ve built our denominations upon some evidence, like we take speaking in tongues. I believe in speaking in tongues, sure, but everything speaks in tongues hasn’t got the Holy Ghost. I’m a missionary. I’ve seen witches speak in tongues and interpret, and give the right interpretation to it, and drink blood out of a human skull, and call on the devil. Right. Get back to the Word of God where you belong. Get away from these things. A life is what tells in human being, the Life of Christ. How can you be of Christ and hold to these forms? Then see where we’ve got to? The Pentecostal church, when it started, fifty years ago, and the Holy Ghost begin to fall and the people received the gift of speaking in tongues, then you begin to take everything into it, denominating this, and that, and the other. And look where you’re at today, till the whole thing is rotten. That’s right. The whole system is corrupt, and she’s just falling apart with the rest of the world. Everything has to do it. “But we receive a Kingdom that cannot be moved.” Now, remember, our politics has gone out after the world. Our churches has gone out after the world. All is polluted, our days, today. When, we used to be, long time ago, when I can just remember, when our old Baptist church down there in the state of Kentucky, when they had them old-fashion women and men setting around there, with those. Preacher, last night, Brother Crow, talking about those ladies with the bonnets on. And—and they used to, what they call, get sanctified. Or, and they’d get out there and shout, and—and the—the hairpins would fall out of their hair when they cried, and—and walked up-and-down those aisles, praising God. Why, brother, them people had enough religion to make the Pentecostal day feel ashamed of itself. And, then, right. That was Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians. Right.

14. HEAR YE HIM — 1957-08-07

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• ¶58–¶59 Now, first thing is preach it out of the Word; then the next thing is working in gifts and signs. Now, He’s raised from the dead, and three is a witness as we preached tonight. If He will take three people from somewhere in this audience and will confirm the same Message that He had when He was here on earth in the same sign of the Messiahship, would you go home tonight on your road saying, “Did not our hearts burn within us?” as—as those who came from Emmaus, Cleopas and his friend? They walked with Him all day. No doubt you’ve done for years, but one time He got them inside, and He done a miracle just like He did it before His crucifixion that proved that He was the living Jesus. If He will do the same thing tonight, we should go home saying, “Our hearts are burning within us; truly He’s raised from the dead; all things are mine through Christ.” Now, be real reverent. Anywhere in the building, no matter where you are, look this a way, and pray, and say, “Lord Jesus, I’m not approaching Brother Branham; I’m approaching You. I’m sick and needy, and if You’ll just have something said to me tonight…” Or if you’re not sick, say, “I know so-and-so down there; they’re sick. Have the…Lord Jesus, you speak through…If we are Your vine, if You’re—we are Your branches, You speak through Brother Branham tonight and confirm it to this person. I’ll believe You; I’ll never doubt no more.” That’s—that’s just putting Him to a test. He said, “Prove Me, saith the Lord.”

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

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• ¶154–¶157 What did Balaam do? After knowing the will of God, and yet he was persistent, he was going to do it, anyhow. And what did it do? Notice. He never changed His mind. He knowed what was in his heart. You know, Thomas, one time he just couldn’t believe it. No, he—he said, “Naw, I can’t believe that. If I could take my hand and stick it in His side, put it in the nails of His hand, well, then, then I’ll—I’ll believe it then.” He said, “Come here, Thomas. See? Now put your hands in here.” Now, oh, Thomas said now, “It’s my Lord and my God.” Said, “Yes, you’ve seen, and now you believe it. How much greater is their reward, has never seen and yet believe!” People sometimes won’t receive the Holy Ghost unless they speak with tongues. I believe in speaking in tongues, certainly. He’s a good God; He’ll give you the desire of your heart. But no matter how much you speak in tongues, and deny this Word, you’re wrong anyhow. See? See, you don’t go in by speaking in tongues. You go in by keeping every Word. That’s the evidence of the Holy Ghost, when you believe the Word of God. See? I believe in speaking in tongues. I believe you can be quickened, like I said this morning, till you’ll speak with a new tongue. I have, myself, and I know it’s the Truth. I know it’s true. But that’s not the sign, you, that you’re God’s selected child. See? No, indeedy. He never said… “Many will come to Me and say, ‘Lord, haven’t I prophesied and done all these great things in Your Name?’ He’ll say, ‘Depart from Me, you that work iniquity, I never knew you.’”

16. THE CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD — 1951-07-27

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• ¶74–¶75 Now, you’ve come to me, as a stranger. I don’t know you. And the Holy Spirit here, when I touched your hand, told you what your trouble was and where it was located. Is that right? That’s true. And I have no way at all of knowing that, except through God. Is that right? That’s one witness. Is that right? A second witness, that you see it on my hand, a physical reaction. Is that right? I want my boy, which has never seen this, to come forward. My son has never seen this happen. I want you to watch, sonny. I’m going to put my hand here. You see my hand here now? Let me have your hand, Paul. I will put Rev. Baxter’s hand on here. See? Now, watch when I put the lady’s hand on here, watch what takes place. See what I mean? Now, you remember that night in Vandalia, Illinois, when you were laying, sleeping on the bed, and the Angel of the Lord was standing over me there? And I throwed a pillow over, and woke you up, and said, “Look.” And you come, screaming, running over to me. That’s the same Angel of God that’s testifying here. It’s the same Angel of God. That is the first time Billy ever seen it. All right, now lay your hand back. I want to hold your hand there just a moment. And I want you to see, sister, it’s not positionally. See? Now, see it? I want you to watch it just a moment. Now, there they come in a wave. You see, see here? Little white, like little white warts. You can see it from the audience. Watch them. Now, here they come; there they come. See them running over there? Now watch, there they go away. Here they come again. There they are. Now, what is that? That’s the life of that cancer, excited, the spirit of it.

17. EARNESTLY CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH — 1954-04-04

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• ¶66b–¶67a But the best of my knowledge, I have spoke by the inspiration and by Your Word, Lord, to confirm it and back it up and say it’s the truth. Now, may the people receive it and go and be blessed by it. I ask through Jesus’ Name. With our heads bowed, and if the organist will, just for a moment…I wonder while you’re standing here, or setting here, friends, don’t take the style of my preaching, take the message, not the messenger. If a man come in that door just now, he might be dressed in rags. He might be, oh, anything. But if he had a telegram for you, that you’d received a million dollars, fell heir to it, you wouldn’t notice the messenger, you’d notice the message. And my grammar’s poor and different from your pastor; if the way the Lord deals with me is different from it is in your church, don’t notice that; but notice what I said. Jesus Christ is raised from the dead. He’s living among the churches today, bringing forth that same results, restoring back the faith that was once delivered to the saints. The same signs and wonders are proving and accompanying the ministry of this type. Won’t you, today, say to God, while every head bowed and every eye closed…I feel led of the Holy Spirit; though late, I feel led of the Holy Spirit to do this. I want to know. Maybe you’ll never meet it again this side of eternity. I don’t know, I may never see you again this side of eternity. I may never be in the Church of the Open Door again, but from the depths of your heart, in the Name of Jesus Christ, I ask it, if you really feel your need of God, while you with your heads bowed now and your eyes closed (let God and I look), raise up your hand. Say, “I really, Brother Branham, I’m convinced that I need more than what I’ve got.” God bless you. God bless you, you, you, and you. All right. God bless you. If there’s three hundred people in here this morning, there’s two hundred and fifty hands up, showing what it means.

18. THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — 1958-09-28

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• ¶163–¶165 Now, I’ve talked to some of their best men, their best theologians, and they say, “Brother Branham, you’re right. But what can we do now? If we’d raise up against that, we’d be kicked out. And what would our church think about us? When, we’ve taught them for years, we’ve taught them for years, that, ‘The evidence of the Holy Ghost is speaking in tongues.’ What if we change it now?” That’s the curse of denomination. Bless the Lord! We have no denomination. Just as the Spirit leads, we take It. The baptism of the Holy Ghost is a personal experience. I’ve seen people speak with tongues. I’ve seen witches and wizards. Any missionary knows the same, that’s ever dealt in witchcraft and devils. I’ve seen them stand and speak in tongues, and throw dirt over the back of their heads, and cut themselves with a lance, and speak in tongues and interpret it. And you say that’s the Holy Ghost? Certainly, it isn’t. It’s a devil. Jesus never said, “By their tongues you shall know them,” but, “By their fruit you shall know them.” And Ephesians 5:1 said, that, “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, gentleness, patience, meekness, faith, temperance.” Is that right? There you are. Now, if you’re a Methodist, those kind of fruits follow you, that you’re not quick-tempered, thus fight a buzz saw; if you got patience, since you got love, and you’re consideration to everybody; if your first love is Christ, your second is your fellow man, let you be third, down like that; if you’re moving on, got longsuffering, gentle, patience, faith. “My,” you say, “the Spirit of the Lord is upon me. And there is Divine healing. The Holy Ghost is the same today.”

19. JEHOVAH-JIREH 3 — 1964-04-04

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• ¶288–¶295 “Why,” you say, “Brother Branham, you’re judging me.” No, I’m not. I’m judging this Feeling that’s in me, see. There is Something in here, says, “Oh, there is more. There is many more.” See? Now you say, “Well, I, I’ve joined church, Brother Branham. I’m Pentecostal. I—I—I don’t…” I’m not saying that, friend. I’m not asking that, at all. I am asking, “Have you got the Life of Christ?” And you say, “Brother Branham, I’ve spoke in tongues.” That’s good. But that ain’t still what I’m asking about. You say, “Brother Branham, I never harmed anybody.” That’s not still what I’m asking about. “Is the Life of Christ in you?” Don’t take no chance, friend. Don’t, don’t, don’t do that. It’s going to be when you…When death strikes you, it’s too late then. Don’t do it. Please don’t. Now we got so many here right now, I’ll have to give a little room for some more. I’m going to pray for these, and then so we can go in, get in a room there so we come lay hands on them, receive the Holy Ghost. And then we’re going to pray right now for these. You bow your heads just a moment. Our Heavenly Father, here are those bowed here, that are men and women, they are Eternity-bound people. They, they must go, we know that. And we see earthquakes, that, and the world in the position it’s in now. And see the Christ come to us and do the things that He is doing, and see the Message, the Word go right out, and then see Him come right behind It and vindicate It to be Truth, knowing every secret of the heart. And these people now have come forward to make a stand. They couldn’t have done this by themselves. They come because they were led to come.

20. POSSESSING ALL THINGS — 1962-05-06

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• ¶92–¶93a Just like Joshua and Caleb brought back the evidence of an unseen land that had been given to the people by a promise. Joshua and Caleb brought back an evidence that there was such a land. Now, down here they had the promise of it. God gave them the promise, and they come right up to the land, but they had never seen it, and Joshua and Caleb went over into the promised land and brought back the evidence that the land was there and it was a good place, flowing with milk and honey. Amen! What was it? They was going to possess that land. They had the promise. They was on their road over there, and they were almost to the Jordan, and Joshua crossed over and brought back the evidence that it was a good land. Just what Joshua did for the children of Israel (Joshua means “Saviour,” the word Joshua), and that’s the same thing Jesus done for the Church when they killed Him. He conquered death. He conquered hell. He conquered the grave. And He rose up again with the evidence, the baptism of the Holy Ghost, that there is a Land beyond the river, that they call the sweet forever. Amen. He come back and brought us an evidence. What does It do, Brother Branham? It makes you stop lying, stealing, drinking, cursing, immorals, everything. It makes a new creature out of you. I who were once dead in sin and trespasses, nevertheless I live, not me but Christ lives in me. I’m a new creature in Christ Jesus, amen, heir to the promise. Hallelujah! Yes, sir. That land belongs to us. How do you know it? Joshua rose from the dead, brought back the evidence, the Holy Ghost. I got It. Amen. Whew! Glory! I’m an heir. Oh, a child of the King, a child of the King, heir to all things! The Bible said so. The same God—the same God that give Israel a promise of that promised land (it was an unseen thing to them), that same Bible, that same God gave us a promise of Eternal Life, and the Holy Ghost bears record of it. Christ is alive, not dead.

21. 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.”

22. PARADOX — 1964-02-06

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• ¶210–¶214 He had to become that, to die, to satisfy His Own laws of righteousness. He predicted, and said, “The day you eat thereof, that day you die.” And He had to fulfill, there was nobody else could do it but Himself. If—if He… Today, in this day, I like to bring this, of the—the Deity of Jesus Christ, because that man try to make Him a prophet. Now if there happens to be a Christian Science sitting here, I’m not hurting your feelings; I hope I’m not. But we express so much upon evidences. We Pentecostals put our evidence upon speaking in tongues, and how bad we’ve been fooled in that. And how many of them says, “The fruit of the Spirit is the evidence,” how badly you are fooled by that. No, sir. If you talk about speaking in tongues being the evidence of the Holy Ghost…Which, I do believe the Holy Ghost speaks in tongues. Don’t get me wrong. Yeah, but you say, “A man speaks with tongues, got the Holy Ghost.” We believed that for a while, but we found out it was wrong. Luther said, “Those that said they believe.” We found out that was wrong. Wesley said, “Those that got sanctified and shouted.” We found out that was wrong. Pentecost said, “Those that spoke with tongues.” We found out that was wrong. The Christian Science said, “The fruit of the Spirit is the evidence.” We find out that that’s wrong. I’ve seen witches and wizards drink blood out of a human skull, and speak in tongues; and lay a pencil on the table and write in unknown tongues, and interpret it. See? Now, don’t tell me about that; my mother is a half Indian, see, and I—and I know. I’ve seen it and dealt with it.

23. TESTIMONY (RAISING DEAD BOY) — 1953-12-03

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• ¶83–¶84a Now, that, my Christian friends, is Bible order of Holy Spirit speaking in churches. The Scripture says, “If one speaks with tongues, let them all hold their peace the interpretation…” And God Himself through other voices has uttered these things. Now, this man’s a Baptist. I don’t know what the woman was that spoke, but (See?) it’s for all. Now, all churches are coming to this (See?), every one. You all heard Charles Fuller a few Sundays ago. How many’s heard Fuller’s broadcast? You all know that’s right. They had the same thing in the Long Beach Auditorium: speaking in tongues, interpretation of tongues—Charles Fuller. See? And they have accepted healing also. See? So it’s all coming to the…See, the churches coming together. These apostolic gifts are being restored again to the Church. God is here. I was going to call a prayer line. I don’t believe I’ll do it. I want you to look this a way. I want you to look and believe. I want you to have faith in God, after He spoke in that way. He’s here, that second gift of confirmation. His Presence is here. And now, how many of you…Did you give out prayer cards? How many of you haven’t got prayer cards? I want people that haven’t got prayer cards, raise your hands. I want you to have faith. I want to believe. Look here. God is standing here. His Spirit is here. How many seen that picture of the Angel of the Lord back there? You’ve seen it, haven’t you? Uh-huh. Now, that’s what’s right here now. That’s the Pillar of Fire. It seems strange that how the world will reject it. I want you to look this a way. I want you to believe with all your heart, that God Almighty, the powerful Jehovah God is present to make well. He will do it. He will do it if you’ll just believe. Now, look this way, and just be praying, and say, “Lord, I believe that—that Brother Branham has told us the Truth.” You know that was truth what He just spoke there through the Spirit. Say, “I believe that’s the truth.” I want you to do it. I want you to believe it with all your heart.

24. THE GODHEAD EXPLAINED — 1961-04-25

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• ¶291–¶294 Now, Paul said, in First Corinthians 13, “Though I have knowledge, see, and understand all the mysteries of God, see; under all, stand; and have not charity, I’m nothing. And though I speak with tongue of men and of angels,” that’s those who you speak to God, and always the ones cannot be interpreted. “Though I speak with tongues, genuine tongues of men and angels, and have not charity, love, it profits me nothing.” So if I know all the mysteries of God, and can unroll them and—and make them all hit together, and I don’t have love, what good does it do? And when I… Jesus said, “This will all men know that you’re My disciples, when you have…” when the Assemblies has love for the Oneness, and Oneness has love for the Assemblies, “when you have love, one for another,” be right or wrong. And as long as the objective is wrong, the motive is wrong, rather, then you’re wrong to begin with. Isn’t that right? See, “Though I speak with tongue of men and angels, and have not charity, I’m not nothing yet.” Because, God is love. We know that. And I believe in speaking in tongues. Now, somebody said, “Brother Branham don’t believe in the initial evidence.” I’d like to clear that up with you now. See? I’d like to tell you. I believe that when a man receives Christ, he receives a portion of the Holy Spirit. Cause, Jesus said, in Matthew the—the 12th chapter, of the 5th chapter and twenty-…the 24th verse, He said. No, I believe it’s Saint John 5:24. He said, “He that heareth My Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Eternal Life.” Now, there’s only one form of Eternal Life. “And not come into the condemnation; but passed from death to Life.”

25. WE WOULD SEE JESUS — 1957-05-16

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• ¶35–¶36a Just a few days ago, there was a man who has been—that lived next door to me, a Jehovah Witness. His little boy had been crippled up. And he brought him to a meeting. And the Holy Spirit called him way in the back of the meeting, twice the distance of this here, and told him who he was and where he come from, told him he was healed, THUS SAITH THE LORD. Watch the Spirit now. We’re taking tape recordings. Watch what the Spirit said. Brother Branham can say most anything, but the Holy Spirit’s always the Truth, and He will stay with the Word. And you put it down and see if it’s right. It’s THUS SAITH THE LORD. See? Now, and the man didn’t know what to do. And finally he said to the little boy, “Stand up, David.” And the little boy stood up perfectly normal and well. Today he…I said, “Which leg was that, David?” He said, “Mama, which one was it I was crippled in?”: infantile paralysis, drawed up. And, oh, the thousands of those things that’s happened. But anyhow, his brother came in the other day. Strictly Jehovah Witness. And if there be Jehovah Witness here, I’m not speaking against you, not at all. But he had been told that was of the devil. And then when his brother came down, I just happened to be in the room, his…The father of David had moved over and bought a little place next door to me. And so he works in the meetings a lots with me now, and selling books. He was a contractor, a very good, noted contractor. But he just quit his work to go in the work of the Lord. And he just travels around like that. And as soon as we got in front of the brother, the Holy Spirit begin to tell him his evil thing that he was doing. Said, “You’re married to a woman who is a tall, blond- headed woman. You’ve got two children by her; and you broke up a man’s home to get that woman, and now you’re breaking up another man’s home, a red-headed woman. You’re living with her in adultery.” He just almost fainted, took his breath.

26. 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.

27. I WILL RESTORE, SAITH THE LORD — 1954-08-29

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• ¶99–¶103 I said, “My brother, what Billy Graham told you is the truth. And what the Free Methodist told you is the truth. And what Oral Roberts told you is the truth. But receiving Christ is not whether you shout, whether you hold up your hand, it’s receiving the Person, Christ Jesus, in your heart. And these things are attributes that follow it.” That’s right. You’ve got to first get the Tree (I can take the apple, but I haven’t got the tree.), Christ, the new birth, then these attributes follow the Tree. The Tree produces that. See what I mean? Receiving Christ is receiving the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ in the human heart. Amen. Notice. Oh, Methodists thought they had it when they shouted. They found out they was wrong. The Pentecostal thought as long as they spoke with tongues, they had it. They found out they were wrong. They spoke with tongues, and lived any kind of a life. But when you receive the Person, Lord Jesus, in your heart, it makes a new creature out of you, a new being. Then you can shout, and speak with tongues, as you have received Him, the Person of the Lord Jesus. Cain was a worshipper. He paid his vows. He worshipped God, come up and laid his sacrifice down, knelt down on his knees, raised up his hands and said, “Jehovah,” and worshipped God, truly, in a form of worship; just as religious and just as sincere, perhaps, as what this man was. But the only, made, difference made, this man had a spiritual revelation of God’s requirement.

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

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• ¶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.

29. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (LAW HAVING A SHADOW) — 1954-05-16

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• ¶43b–¶45 And then when we’re growing old here, and we been born again of the Spirit here, begotten in the wombs of the earth here, when we leave this earth: “This robe of flesh, I’ll drop and rise, and seize the everlasting prize; and shout while passing through the air.” As long as in this earth here, there’s a born-again Christian, a spirit in here groaning and waiting: “If this earthly tabernacle’s dissolved, we have one already waiting.” When this—when this natural was conceived and being brought forth, when it was born, there’s a spiritual body to receive it. And now, as this natural body’s dwindling away, there’s a spiritual body to receive it, when it goes away. See. When it’s begotten of the…We are begotten of the Father, through the Word by the washing of the water of the Word and made new creatures in Christ Jesus. So, it’s all one work of grace. But now look. In the age, Luther, Wesley and all down through the Pentecostal age…Now as I said, “I’m not Pentecostal.” I believe in Pentecostal doctrine, many things. There’s some things that I disagree in, as I told you last night, some things. I—I disagree preeminently in the initial evidence, what they call, “you have to speak with tongues to prove that you’ve got the Holy Ghost.” That cannot be Scripturally proven. Now that is just…Let your pastor come to me. See. That’s right. And I’ve even, from the highest, of Doctor Pope, and all those others, we’ve come together, even the head of the Assemblies of God, one of the greatest in speaking in tongues for evidence. And Doctor Pope reached across the table, him and Ern and them, and took hold of my hand, said, “Brother Branham, that is the truth. But what are we going to do about it now? If we fail to do that, then the people will go off, just like Pilgrim Holiness and so forth.” I said, “No, they won’t. You just lay it out there like the Bible said. They’ll…”

30. IDENTIFIED WITH CHRIST — 1959-12-20

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• ¶46–¶47a What it is, if—if the Nazarene comes up to me. You’d say, “Brother Branham, now, there’s a Nazarene and the Methodist. They say they received the Holy Ghost when they shouted. They said they received the Holy Ghost.” I’m not saying they didn’t. But here’s one thing that I watch, “By their fruit.” When Truth is revealed, some of them turn against It, bitterly, “That’s the devil.” Then, the fruit shows where it come from. See? It shows they didn’t get It. But those who are willing to walk in Light, receive Word. Here some time ago, I was preaching down in Kentucky. And outside the meeting, there was a man who belonged to a church that believes the days of miracles is past. He was holding a lantern in his hand. And he said, “I just waited for you, preacher.” An old uncle and I, that’s gone on now. And I said, “Yes, sir.” He said, “I’m so-and-so.” And I shook his hand. I said, “I’m sure glad to meet you, my brother.” And he said, “I just want to tell you that I believe that you’re absolutely wrong.” I said, “Well, you got a right to do that, because you’re an American.” And he said…Well, you see, and we got…I said, “Wrong on what? Would you mean on the healing?” I said, “What about that little barefooted girl that just walked up there yesterday, last night, had a little baby?” She wasn’t over about fourteen years old, herself, barefooted. Little old…What you call that? Gingham, calico, or some kind of a dress. I don’t know about goods. And—and she had a little baby in her hand, and she walked up to me. And people sticking in the win-…And this was the Methodist church, the White Hill Methodist church, just out of Burkesville, Kentucky, where I was born. And she had this little baby. And I said, “Sister…” I had asked, “Anybody sick?” And she walked up through there, little, bashful thing, her little head down. And she said, “Yes, sir, my baby.” And the little thing was going like that.

31. THE UNCERTAIN SOUND — 1961-04-15

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• ¶37–¶42 [A sister speaks in tongues, a brother interprets, “Yea, would I send My prophet weeping? Yea, would I send him seeking, lest it was for thee? Yea, I say unto thee, tonight, my people, it is I, God, that standeth before thee. Yea, would you not follow Me? Yea, was I not the—the One that loved thee? Yea, was I not He that bore thine iniquities? Yea, was I not He that suffered? Yea, wilt thou let Me cry? Yea, wilt thou let Me weep for thee? Yea, I say unto thee, tonight, fear not, for I am standing, yea, I am standing ready to receive. Wilt thou come? Saith the Lord.”—Ed.] Praise the Lord! Listen to that. Just a moment. “How long will you halt between two opinions?” You know what I did? Now, watch the story as it goes on. I walked out to the woman, standing out there. I said, “Father, forgive me.” I walked out to her, I said, “Could I set down?” She said, “Oh, hello.” She said, “I—I got company.” I said, “Lady, I didn’t mean it in that way.” I said, “I would just like to set here just a moment, until your friends return.” I seen she was drinking. And she said, “Very well.” And I told her the story that was told me by the vision. She said, “I know who you are,” she said, “You’re that Mr. Branham that’s down here in that armory building.” I said, “Yes, ma’am, I am.” She said, “I passed by your meeting the other night, I couldn’t get in.” She said, “Mr. Branham, I’m beyond hopes.” She said, “My father was a Methodist preacher, I got two daughters that’s Methodist Sunday school teachers.” I said, “What happened?” She told me the story. She said, “There’s not a hope for me.”

32. THEN JESUS CAME AND CALLED — 1964-02-13

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• ¶18–¶22 “What did this young fellow, called Jesus? Where did he come from? Said he was born, a virgin birth. Whoever heard of such a nonsense thing? We know his mother had him before her and Joseph was born, or, her and Joseph was married, he was born. Now we find out that he’s a—he’s a bad name, to begin with. “What membership card does he have? If he was a godly man, what group did he join with? When your priest studied, studied, studied, studied, to know that Word; here he comes around, tearing down what he has built up. Would you call that ‘God’? Certainly not. “Now, the other day, when your priest had made that place up there, the…and for where you could buy the sacrifice, what did this young fellow do? Kindness? He beat, put some ropes together, some flax and leathers, and looked out upon the people, with anger; kicked over those tables, and beat them out of there. And you call that fruits of the Spirit, looking upon them, with anger? And, look, depriving the man of his opportunity to worship Jehovah! The businessman wants to worship Him; he don’t raise lambs, and he went there to buy it. And He turned it over, and kicked them, and run them out.” Who has the fruit of the Spirit there? Um-hum. See? There you are. See, not fruit of the Spirit, not speaking in tongues, not shouting. You say, “Then, Brother Branham, what is the evidence? What is the evidence?” The vindication of the Word in the hour.

33. THIRSTING FOR LIFE — 1957-06-30

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• ¶5–¶5 I said, “You might have had it and maybe you had a—a faith and was healed.” “Oh,” he said, “That’s what it is, is it,” turned around. And just then I looked and there was a vision. I said, “Why has the devil put in your heart to do that?” I said, “You are…” Now, if this is a person of that is in this building, I’m not speaking against your church. I said, “You’re a Church of Christ minister.” They love to fuss. I said, “You’re a Church of Christ preacher. Last night you set with a man with a gray suit and a red tie. And you set at a table had a little green cloth hanging over it; there was a blond-headed woman setting next to you, and you said it was telepathy. And you come to this meeting today and wrote that on there, thinking you could pass it through and make a telepathy out of it to up trip God’s Spirit.” I said, “You’re the one exposed.” And just then the man setting up there; he said, “Mr. Branham, I’m the guy that was with him.” Said, “That’s my wife setting right here, was with him.” And I said, “The things that you put on your card, you have. Both cancer and TB.” And he fell down on the platform. But the last time I heard him, I never heard no more, just a letter from some of the people, that he was in a serious condition. So we’re not playing church.

34. IT WASN’T SO FROM THE BEGINNING — 1960-03-06

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• ¶84–¶88 O God, wish I could push that into hearts, I wish I had something another, that I could show the people, that the first branch out of the Vine bore Pentecostal evidence, the second branch will bear Pentecostal evidence. Oh, there you are, back to the beginning, back to where we started from. That’s the reason today, that through traditions, and so forth, we explained away all the supernatural, that the Holy Ghost come, fell upon the people, they begin speaking with tongues, the people made fun of them, called them holy-rollers, and cast them out to one side. They kept growing, growing. What’s it coming to now? Greater things than this. Divine healing services started. Then the Angel of the Lord come in, manifesting the spirits of the gifts, revealing back again the very same Spirit that was in the Church at the beginning, that knowed the secrets of the heart, and could speak it out, which was the sign of the Messiah. The Bible said so, the Bible declares it. And if that was the sign of the Messiah at the beginning, it’s the sign of the Messiah at the end. Oh, if you could see it! “Let him that has ears, hear; he that has eyes, see.” If it was so at the beginning, that Jesus Christ made Hisself known to the last age of the Jews and the Samaritans by a Messianic sign, that same sign will take place at the end of the Gentile, ’cause it’s another branch out of the same Vine. Why, the life in the vine produces grapes, the second branch will produce grapes. Now, you can graft something in there, you can take a graft, and put it in there, it’ll never bear the life of the vine. Right. No, sir. The life of the vine is grapes, it’ll bear grapes, every one it produces, every one it produces will bear grapes. Man can graft anything in there. That’s what’s the matter today, we’ve grafted too much man-made doctrine, we’ve got wild gourds and everything else in it. But when the Vine Itself puts forth a branch, it’ll be a Pentecostal branch full of the Holy Ghost, doing the same signs and wonders that they did at the beginning.

35. FROM THAT TIME — 1960-03-31

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• ¶148–¶153 Now, Father, this meeting, one Word from You would be more than any man could say in a lifetime, just one Word that these people could go from here tonight, and say, “from that time,” let them say this, like blind Bartimaeus, in our lesson last evening, he touched Jesus and stopped Him, the woman with the blood issue touched Him and stopped Him. He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. Lord, let these people touch Him. Send forth Your touching grace, Lord, that they might touch You for their infirmities, that the world might know that You’re true, and You—You are the Son of God, I have told them the truth of Thy Word. Grant it, through Jesus Christ’s Name. Now, just pray, and say, “Lord God, Brother Branham is a man, he doesn’t know me.” [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] And, of course, you all know the great visions that’s went forth, been told, never one time did ever one fail. First vision come, I was eighteen months old. Now, if you’ll be real reverent, the Holy Spirit has begin entering into the room. I’m looking now to my left, from me. I see a man praying, that Light is over him. He’s setting to my left on the end of the row out there. He’s got a rupture, he’s got nose trouble, and arthritis. And he’s praying for deliverance. Do you believe, sir, that your faith has touched His garment now, and you want to be healed? Will you accept it? If you will, just raise up your hand, say, “I accept it.” He’s setting right back here to my left, hands over your face there, praying. All right.

36. ISRAEL AND THE CHURCH 2 — 1953-03-26

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• ¶103–¶108 And the very baptism of the Holy Spirit that’s brought Life to the people, the reason the Pentecostals and the holy-rollers, as you call them, receive me on the subject of Divine healing. Oh, sure, kings and potentates, they hear about it, they say “come over here,” the Lord, being merciful, heals them that’s like that. That’s true. But all the rest of it, when you talk about Eternal Life, they “belong to the Anglican church,” they “belong to this, that, the other,” they “belong to church.” That don’t have nothing to do with it. You belonging to church don’t mean that with God, unless you’re born again! [Brother Branham snapped his fingers—Ed.] There’s only one Church, and that’s them that are born into the Body of Jesus Christ, by the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Hallelujah. Let me tell you, my brother, there’s only one way to get into Christ. That’s not by shaking hands, neither by water baptism, by sprinkling, by stop eating meat, by keeping sabbath days. By quit smoking, chewing, drinking, swearing, all these things, that’s not the way into Christ. Smoking cigarettes, drinking whiskey, running around with the other, with women, unlawfully, and all these things that you do, that’s not sin. There’s nothing…That’s not sin. Cussing, swearing, drinking, that’s not sin, that’s the attributes of sin. You’re a sinner, what makes you do it; but that isn’t sin, that’s the attributes of it. Just like now, this is going to hurt you. But I’m responsible with God’s Word, willing to discuss It, anytime. Here’s where you Pentecostal people has made your mistake, many of you sitting here, of teaching, “The initial evidence of the Holy Ghost, speaking in tongues being the Holy Ghost.” Why, speaking in tongues is all right, but that is an attribute. That isn’t the Holy Ghost; that’s what the Holy Ghost does.

37. JESUS ON THE AUTHORITY OF THE WORD — 1954-02-17

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• ¶31–¶31 And then Mr. Hall had been converted. Which was a very, very foul man. And he was converted in that same meeting. And he’s the pastor down there now. And so… She said, “Mr. Hall has been pronounced with a cancer of the liver.” And said, “He is laying at his sister’s house, and his sister married the judge of the city’s brother, and is down at his house. They brought him up here. He’s dying. He’d been calling for you.” And I said, “Well, let’s go down and see him.” And I went down to see Brother Hall. And he was just as yellow as the color. Cancer in the liver, started off with a liver sclerosis, and it went into cancer. I said, “Who is your doctor, Brother Hall?” He said, “Dr. Dillman.” Dr. Dillman is a bosom friend of mine. I said, “What about it, Brother Hall?” He said, “Well, Brother Branham, I guess it’s just the end of the road for me.” Said, “I guess that’s just about all that can be done, ’less the Lord undertakes for me.” I said, “Well, I’ll pray, Brother Hall.” And we prayed. And the next day, I went back; he was worse. The second day he was still worse. Looked like he was dying. Mrs. Hall come out and said, “Brother Branham, do you know anything?” I said, “Sister Hall, I pleaded with God, just with all my heart.” The Word’s still the Word of God. But it just hadn’t fell right then. See? It hadn’t been given to me. It hadn’t been given to him. But it’s still the Word of God, just hadn’t anchored right.

38. I WILL RESTORE — 1953-11-10

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• ¶73–¶73 Oh, Lord God, give power, and give strength, give unction. I pray tonight, Lord, that You’ll have an old fashion testimony meeting here that’ll glorify God, that the power of the Holy Ghost will fall into this building and the great unction of God will fall and heal every person here, and may there be an old-time conviction and power in Jesus’ Name. Amen. Here’s the man that was paralyzed, laying here, raised up out of the stretcher. Some of you ushers go down here and bring him up the platform. Brethren, say, some of you come over here and help the man. That’s right. Here’s the man laying paralyzed on the stretcher. Bring it. Get the crutches. Pick up the crutches and take them with him. Let’s say, “Praise the Lord.” All right. Everybody want to testify come forward. Come up here now, everybody that wants to testify to give God glory. Here’s a crippled man walked out of here in this aisle, giving God praise. Let’s say, “Hallelujah.” Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. All right, Brother Bosworth, come take over the testimony meeting now. God bless you.

39. SHALOM — 1964-01-19

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• ¶142–¶145 Now you call that fruit of the Spirit? Certainly not. Then where is your fruit of the Spirit landing up at? No more than you think of compassions, and Him going through a multitude of people there, multitudes laying, blind, crippled, afflicted, withered, halt, lame, and never healed any of them; full of compassion. People with a carnal mind will never know It. Seminaries don’t teach It. It’s a revelation. Certainly. Fruit of the Spirit drops off there, doesn’t it? Them priests had ten times the fruit of the Spirit. How would you know what’s right? The manifestation of the spoken Word of God being made manifest, Light of the hour. Certainly. There is what the evidence of the Holy Spirit is, believing the Word of God when It’s manifested. He was the Word, manifested. And some of them denied It, laughed at It, made fun of Him and called Him a—a fortuneteller, some evil spirit; there is evidence, speaking in tongues, there is evidence of the fruits. The only evidence there is, is when man believe the written Word. When It’s vindicated, walk in the Light of It. Jesus was the Light of the hour because He was the promised Word of the hour, and tried to tell them so, but they were too—too much in darkness to understand It. So is it, today, now. Now creatures of time, we are. Commit your ways to Him, and He will bring the future out right, because we just see Him as He is in the Word. You’ve seen Him vindicate the Word promised of today. You see it in the signs in the moon. You see it in the churches. Remember.

40. 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.]

41. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1959-12-23

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• ¶163–¶166 Now, if you say, “Well now, wait a minute. I believe that they might have got the Holy Ghost like that in them days, but I don’t believe it’s so.” “But, brother, the Bible said, ‘The promise is to you and your children.’” “I know, but…” You’re sinning. You’re sinning right there. You’re disbelieving what God said. “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.” “Well, nah, we’re taught that…” I don’t care what you’re taught. The Bible said—He said, “Let every man’s word be a lie and Mine true.” All right. You say, “Well, He—principally He’s the same, but I don’t…You mean He’s the same?” “Yeah, in the Church doing the same things He did when He was here.” “Oh, I can’t believe that.” You’re sinning. You’re sinning. And he that’s borned of God, of the Holy Ghost, don’t say those things. And if he says he’s got the Holy Ghost and says those things, that’s the evidence he hasn’t got It. I don’t care what he done. If he don’t believe in Divine healing, don’t believe in the Power of the resurrection, don’t believe in the Holy Ghost being poured out upon us just exactly like It did to in the first age, just the same God yesterday, today, and forever, the same things the apostles done happening right now, speaking in tongues, and rejoicing, and all these other things; if they don’t believe that, he’s not borned of God. For whosoever is borned of God does not commit those kind of things. That’s how to tell whether they are borned of God.

42. EXPECTATION — 1951-09-30

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• ¶39b–¶40 The doctors give him all kinds of shots and nothing will stop it.” Said, “It’s done into the marrow of the bone and,” said, “nothing will drive it out.” Said, “He’s been unconscious for two days,” but said, “him a backslider.” Said, “Oh,” said, “I prayed all day and night, ‘Lord, please send somebody.’” And said, “The Lord this morning about four o’clock, told me to go out and see a man with a brown suit on. A small man with dark hair would come down the street, that would be the parson.” And she said, “I’ve been standing here ever since that time. I seen that brown suit come around that corner,” said, “I knowed that was the parson.” Oh, hallelujah. What am I speaking of? The same Holy Ghost that led Simeon is the same Holy Ghost leading the Church today. See? I said, “Auntie, my name is Branham; did you ever hear of me?” She said, “No, sir, Parson Branham, I never heard of you.” She said, “Will you come in and see my boy?” Said, “I don’t want him to die a backslider,” said, “I want him to be saved, parson.” And I said, “Yes, ma’am.” I said, “Auntie, I pray for the sick, did you ever hear my meeting?” She said, “No, sir, Parson Branham.” She said, “The only thing I know, the Lord told me you’d be a small man with dark hair and you’d have on a brown suit, you’d be coming this a way.” Oh, that same Holy Spirit that lived in Simeon’s day is the same Holy Ghost today. He’s ready to come when the deep calls to the deep.

43. I PERCEIVE THAT THOU ART A PROPHET — 1953-06-14

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• ¶46–¶47 I said, “Now, you keep your lids closed over your eyes.” I said, “Now, you raise your head just about to where you think my voice is coming. And I’ll tell you what to do. She said, “Yes, suh.” Said, “Something cold went over me.” I said, “Just raise your head.” I said, “Now, open your eyes for THUS SAITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, you’ve received your sight.” And she opened her eyes. And she said, “Is that lights?” And I said, “Yes.” She said, “Is them black dots there, is that people?” And it begin coming plainer. “O,” she says, “O Lord, I who was once blind can now see.” She let out a big scream. And then…they’d been…some people had been standing there watching it. And here they come. My! You talk about… And I happened to look. And there was an old man standing there with a cane, an old club in his hand. His leg was twisted sideways. He said, “Brother Branham, I know you.” He said, “I been standing in this rain for eight or ten days here.” Said, “You wouldn’t pass me, would you, Brother Branham?” Said, “I got a bunch of kiddies at home.” Said, “They need me.” Said, “A wagon run over me and I’m…twisted my leg like this.” I said, “Do you believe?” “With all my heart.” I said, “Then in the Name of the Lord Jesus, give me your cane.” And God, Who is my sovereign Judge, when the man in an act of faith handed the cane, his leg come straight, and he jumped into the air and screamed to the top of his voice.

44. LETTING OFF THE PRESSURE — 1962-05-13

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• ¶118–¶122 He was a Man that died and went to the Land, and returned back with the evidence that a man can live after death. What’s death got to do with us? Amen. Let off the pressure. Now, not only that, but He give us the promise. What was it? He give us the earnest of our inheritance. He said, “Now to prove this to every believer. Now you’re walking down here in unbelief. You don’t believe the Word. You’re walking in sin and the things of the world. But He that believeth on Me has Eternal Life, a Life that can’t die.” Notice now, when we receive His Spirit, we who were once dead in sin and trespasses, He gives us new Birth, new Life. What does He do? He…We die and are buried in Jesus. We raise in the Spirit, from the worldly things, unto the Heavenly things. And tonight, “We are setting together in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” How many Christians in here still love the world? If you do, you’re not a Christian. You are a professor of Christianity, and not a possessor. For when a man once tastes of Christ, he’s dead to the things of the world, and by no means he has any desire to go back into that. What does it do? “The life,” Paul said, “that I once lived, I live no more. Yet I live, not me, but Christ in me.” Why? He raised him from this low level of worldly sin, up to a place that we ourselves can look back and see where we come from. Glory! Look back and see where we once lived. Now we live different. What is it? It’s the assurance that we are dead, and our lives are hid in Christ, through God, and are sealed by the Holy Ghost, and raised above those things. Then we are alive, with the same evidence that He come back with, to prove to us.

45. WE WOULD SEE JESUS — 1958-05-23

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• ¶165–¶169 You say, “You might have guessed that, Brother Branham.” Oh, no. It isn’t a guess, my friend. Here, let’s talk to the man just a little longer. It come from somewhere out there, I couldn’t catch where it was. I don’t know you, do I, sir? We’re strangers, but what I said was the truth. Then that wasn’t my voice, it was Somebody else’s Voice. You believe it was the Voice of Christ speaking like He said He would speak? [The brother says, “I know it was.”—Ed.] You…That’s right, sir. All right. If you believe like that, then you’ll see greater things. You believe that? [“I do.”] All right, sir. Then you’ve got a wife here, and she’s— she’s suffering with headaches and a nervous trouble. That’s right, isn’t it? Yes, sir. And your name is Mr. Green, isn’t it? All right, go on your road, you’re healed. You’ll see greater things than this. God bless you, on your road. “If thou canst believe!” Do you believe? All things are possible. Now just real reverent. The little lady setting back there, right next to the gentlemen setting next to the end back there, suffering with arthritis, do you believe the Lord Jesus will make you well, lady? Setting right back here, setting right here, next on this middle row, section right back. Say, do you see that Light above the woman? Now, if she’ll just feel it and accept it! There it is. She’s got her head down, she’s praying. Will you believe it, lady? The little, pink-looking dress on.