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1. CHURCH ORDER — 1963-12-26

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• ¶30–¶32 Now, I believe that time has struck the Branham Tabernacle, to know what…to take the gifts that God gives us, that God can trust us with something even greater than what we have got. But we cannot go along…and you see a man that’s always have to be tell him and everything. And remember, “The spirit of the prophets is subject to the prophet,” says the Scripture. When you see a man that you have to correct, or a woman, and that person gets out of order, and then you’re telling him the Scriptural Truth, then it shows that the spirit that’s on them isn’t of God. Because the Bible said, “The spirit of the prophets,” or, “prophesying,” that’s, testifying, preaching, speaking in tongues, or whatever it is, ’cause tongues interpreted is prophecy. So it’s subject to the prophet, and the Word is the prophet. So we—we see that it’s out of order for a man or a woman to jump up and give a message, no matter how much they want to do it, while the preacher is in the pulpit. Now I suggest this for the Branham Tabernacle, that being that our—our gifts that we find…And we have some very fine gifted people here. Now, each one of those gifts are a ministry of their own. They are gifts, just like preaching is a gift, like healing is a gift, like other things are gifts, these are gifts, they are ministries of their own. And each man is commanded to wait on his own ministry. Therefore let the Branham Tabernacle be operated like this, and in the day, especially this day when we’ve had so much (I don’t want to say this, but), so much make-belief. We don’t want make-belief. No man, no honest person wants to have a make-belief. We…If we don’t…can’t have the real, let’s not have any at all, let’s wait till we do get the real. Now, I believe you—you men would agree with that. We don’t want nothing make-belief. Brethren, we can’t start on make- belief something and leaving this world. We got to have what’s real, and what’s genuine. If we haven’t got it, let’s wait till we do get it, and then say something about it. See?

• ¶45–¶48 But if you say, “Brother Branham, what must I do? I’ve got a decision here I’ve got to make whether I should take this church or go to another church,” or something like that. Or, “Should I do this, that?” Now, that’d have to come from God. See, God has to tell us that. But that would have to come through another ministry, ’cause the Word don’t say, “Let Orman Neville leave Branham Tabernacle and go to the Fort Wayne Gospel Tabernacle.” See, it don’t say that in the Word here, see, so that’s what these gifts are for. Like a person come up here and say, “Do you believe in Divine healing?” We preach that, we believe it, we believe in anointing, the oil. But here’s some man says he “Can’t get through, what’s the matter?” Then it takes God, through tongues, interpretation, through prophecy, or some way to go down in that man’s life and pull out that thing that he’s done, and tell him about it. That’s a ministry that doesn’t belong to the pastor, it belongs to these ministering gifts, but they’re not to be done out there in the audience. See? Now, Paul never one time had to tell those—tell those Ephesian church anything about that, they were in order, the Roman church, or none of those other churches; only the Corinthian church, and they never could get themselves…Now, Paul believed in speaking in tongues. He had speaking in tongues in the Ephesian church, the same as he did in the Corinthian church, see, but he could speak to the Ephesians greater things than what just speaking in tongues, interpreting of tongues.

• ¶142–¶144 Same thing, “Hey, you ain’t got no business telling that child to set down.” Now, the deacon is the—is the custodian at the house of God. See? Now if you…He takes care of the house of God and keeps it in order. That’s what the Scripture says, and if you got anything else that a deacon should do, you come tell me. See, there’s the same thing, but that—that’s your duty to do that, yeah, just back up. And you should ask nobody, that’s—that’s just your duty. Brother Neville don’t ask nobody, the church don’t has to ask…I mean, the— the—the trustees don’t have to go ask Brother Neville if—if he wants the roof put on the tabernacle. See? No, no, that’s not nothing to Brother Neville, not nothing to me, that’s to you. The deacons don’t have to… The same way to the pastor. “What are you going to preach on? I don’t want you to do this.” They ain’t got no business saying that, he’s under God, see, their pastor. And then if—if—if…Brother Neville, he preaches a message that the Lord has give us, and we’re all together in this. And if I tell Brother Neville something wrong, God holds me responsible for it. That’s right. See? So God is the Boss of all of it. See? And we’re just working as His ambassadors, you see, down here in these offices. 232. Please e-… Next question, and then I think we got one more, and then we— we’ll stop. Please explain just how the gifts of tongues are to operate in our church. I have did that. When can the church be put in order as…or just where the gifts are to operate? We’ve just explained that. 233. Just how many c-h-r-i-s-t-m-a…Could you see what that is? [Brother Billy Paul says, “Instruments.”—Ed.] Oh. Instruments. How many instruments are we to have in church besides organ and piano?

2. CHURCH ORDER — 1958-10-07

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• ¶11–¶13 I believe that the Scripture teaches that “gifts and callings are without repentance,” that when we are born in this world, we are sent here by one purpose, that is, of God. And that before we are even become adults, while we’re yet children, the gifts that we have of God is in us then, and only the filling of the Holy Spirit puts these gifts into operation; but we have them in the beginning, such as teachers, and apostles, and—and prophets, and gifts of tongues, and the nine spiritual gifts according to First Corinthians 12. Now, we believe that these gifts are in operation today, and they should be in every local church. Although in such, we have found, throughout the world, that there is much fanaticism hooked along with people who profess to be apostolic believers. Just as they are in other orders, and so forth, we have fanatics. That’s been all along, we’ve had those through the ages. They had it in the apostolic day; and as Paul said there, that how that some had come and “persuaded them away, after other doctrines,” and so forth. But in his own teaching, he said, “If an Angel from Heaven would teach anything else,” than what he had taught, “let him be accursed.” So, we, as the Branham Tabernacle, at Eighth and Penn Street here, try to follow the teachings of the New Testament. For we believe, that, Jesus Christ, being the Son of God, and Paul the apostle was a called and chosen vessel, by election of God, to be sent to the Gentile Church to set it in order.

• ¶18–¶21a Paul said, “When there come a stranger among us, and we’ve all speak with tongues, won’t the man go away and say we were ‘mad’? But if one would prophesy, and make known the secret of the heart, then they would fall down and say, ‘Truly, God is with you.’” Now, we believe that the spiritual gifts, among the believers, is the order of the day. We cannot believe that a man can preach under inspiration and then, or, be an inspired teacher, and then deny the gift of healing, or the gift of prophecy, or speaking with tongues, or interpretation of tongues, or any of these other gifts. So, therefore, here is my belief in God’s Word, the way the Branham Tabernacle, at Eighth and Penn Street here in Jeffersonville, should be operated. I think, the first thing, and believe that these things which I say is essential and must be carried out in this manner, in the Branham Tabernacle, for it to prosper in the Lord. And if at anytime these, this would be questioned, the person who is in question about it may consult me if they cannot get to the pastor, or they can consult the pastor. If I’m home, off of some of the trips, I’ll be glad to—to help either the laity or the pastor at any time. And these things are Scripturally, and I believe it’s the order of the Church. I think, first, that every member, or, every worshipper, of the Branham Tabernacle, should be so much in Divine love with each other until it would…their hearts would long for each other when they have to go away, to leave each other at the service, at night. I am a true believer in “Divine love.” The apostle Paul said that was the evidence of the Holy Spirit. “By this manner, all men will know you are My disciples,” said Jesus, “when you have love one for the other.” And we believe that it’s the love of God that sent Jesus Christ to the earth, to die for us all.

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. GOD BEING MISUNDERSTOOD — 1961-07-23

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• ¶131–¶135a Little later on, when you all…Brother Neville, when you all want to now, these people that’s got these spiritual gifts…Now, if you’ll trust my understanding of the Scripture, I will come down with a meeting just with you people alone who has these gifts, just with you all, so we can set together…And if you feel…And you watch, Brother Neville, and see in the church, that it is God and God moving among them, that’s what we want, but we want to put that in order so it can go to blessing the church and doing something. I got it, I know, and know the Scriptures, what to do. And that’s what we want to do. Now, this person here, I know in speaking in tongues, it’s supposed to be, do it by courses, two, or not more than three. That is correct, but if you’ll notice here, if it was… Just like someone give up—up there…Like Brother Sothmann raised up and give a message in prophecy or speaking in tongues. Interpretation of tongues is prophecy, see, spirit of prophecy. Now, if you just speaking in unknown tongues, there be no interpreter, that person’s blessed of the Spirit, but he doesn’t hurt the church. Now, what Paul was trying to get at is this, “You use the whole service just in speaking in tongues, see, and the unlearned said, ‘What— what’s this about, anyhow?’” See, they don’t get it; but there be an interpretation…And let there be…have one, two, or as many as three messages in a meeting. Now, the person here says, “Then in the prayer line?” That must have been that maybe someone in the prayer line…Maybe, Brother Neville, or in some other church or wherever it’s from, that in the prayer line this man…or in Divine healing meetings, might have been in Brother Roberts’ meeting, Brother Allen’s meeting, or some, in my meeting or somebody else, I don’t know. But, whatever it is, what Paul is speaking of is a message to the congregation out there, “Let that just be three,” because the message of God is speaking a message trying to get it over to the congregation. But when the man in the prayer line, he’s prophesying to an individual, not the whole.

• ¶135b–¶139a If that be so, I’ve been out of order all along in my prayer lines, see, when thirty or forty of them in a night? See, if you’re prophesying to an individual. But this man prophesying is to the whole body, let that be two or three messages and then stop it. Though the Holy Spirit may still want to speak, but wait a minute, give the Word a chance to go out. You see? And then, really, that speaking should be either before or after the Word, nothing should interrupt the Word as It’s going out. But, however, we get that in order later on when our spirits and gifts begins to get into perfection. We’re talking now on—on the seriousness of the pentecostal Church, I mean the real pentecostal Church. And we’re glad that God still lives and reigns and speaking to us. Now, but if it’s like, for instance, if the sister here would give us a message in tongues or a prophecy, and the lady next to her would give a message in tongues or prophecy, and then the lady next to her or somebody back there, someone will give a message or a prophecy, or tongues. No doubt but what it’s merely all speaking on the same thing, if God’s urgent, trying to put something over, calling some individual in the church to do something, now, or something that He wants done. Now then, for instance, the prayer line’s called, and Brother Neville or myself or any other minister goes down to this individual, that’s not to the body, that’s to this individual. And the Spirit of God comes upon him to tell this individual something, then tell him, ’cause he’s not speaking to the congregation. He’s speaking to this individual, not to the congregation, so that is all right. 149. All right, Dear Brother Branham, time after time the Lord shows me things in dreams. He has showed me things about my son in the navy, which my son told me were “secrets”. He has showed me of people’s deaths and of the secrets of people’s hearts. Is this a gift from God?

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

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• ¶128–¶130 Now, now, here’s what happened. Then the Holy Spirit broke, ’cause that was just…“Blessed is he who believeth.” Two, three nights straight I tried to lay that in there; and then, the Holy Spirit spoke and said (under inspiration) said, “Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord.” And before I could say anything, I’d done said it over. “Blessed is he who believes the Lord has come in this.” You see? And I’ve just been talking this, the Holy Ghost is God Himself in you. See? And they’d caught it. See? And then the Holy Ghost fell among the people. See how It—It edifies, prophecy? Now, there’s a difference between prophecy and a prophet. Prophecy goes from one to another, but a prophet is born from the cradle a prophet. They have THUS SAITH THE LORD! No judging of them. You don’t see them stand before Isaiah, or Jeremiah, any of them prophets, because they had THUS SAITH THE LORD! But a spirit of prophecy amongst the people; you have to watch that, ’cause Satan will slip in there. See? Now. But it must be judged. Now, we’re—we’re going to have a revival. Now, watch this real close now, you ministers. We’re fixing a revival. All right. Or maybe we’re just having a regular church service. The church is on fire. It should be all the time. Well, maybe we got five or six people that’s gifted people; one speaks with tongues, two or three maybe speaks with tongues, four or five with tongues, got the gift of tongues, speaking in unknown tongues. Two or three of them can interpret. Maybe there’s one—two, or three of them that’s got gifts of wisdom. All right. They all meet, those gifted people…You…Them gifts are given to you not to play with, not to say, “Glory to God, I speak with tongues! Hallelujah!” You’ll—you’re—you’re degrading yourself. They’re, given to you to work with. And your part in the church should come before the main service starts, because the unlearned is going to be among us.

• ¶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?

6. A GREATER THAN SOLOMON IS HERE — 1958-06-25

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• ¶197–¶200 The Lord bless you, I oughtn’t to have got off on that, but anyhow, in our little church, if any man thought he spoke with tongues, somebody thought he did, and somebody had a gift, if them gifts there wasn’t an interpreter, they wasn’t allowed to speak in the congregation. Find out if that’s not the Scripture. They had a place they met, all the gifts, they met together, hours before the church ever come. I was in the study, and when they went in there if one spoke with tongues, wait, another one give interpretation. It couldn’t be repeating Scripture, God said, “Don’t use vain repetitions like heathens do.” He’s already wrote that, it must be a direct message to somebody. Then before it can be received, then two or three witnesses had, at least three, two out of three had to witness it was of God, or it wasn’t received. If they said, “It’s of God,” they wrote it down, they signed their name to it. “THUS SAITH THE LORD: Tomorrow at two o’clock, tell Brother Jones to move away from that railroad track, there’s going to be a wreck out there, his house will be torn up in the wreck.” They wrote it down, they thought it was of God. All right. Then after while, maybe a Spirit of prophecy come among them. That wasn’t in the main auditorium where sinners and things were setting, that was in their own room, the gifts operating. Then the first thing you know, some prophecy hit one. Now, there’s a lot of difference between a gift of prophecy and a prophet. A gift of prophecy may be on one tonight, never again, on another the next night, it’s them nine spiritual gifts that works in the body, but a prophet is borned a prophet, all down through their life it’s THUS SAITH THE LORD. A gift of prophecy has got to be judged, but you never seen anybody stand before Isaiah or Jeremiah to judge them. No. But the Bible said, “If one prophesies, let two or three judge whether it’s right or not.” See, Satan can slip in there.

• ¶201–¶205 And then, these discerners with the spirit of discernment, then said, “THUS SAITH THE LORD: Tonight there’ll be a woman coming from a certain place, she’ll have a green scarf over her head, she’ll be brought in, she’s from Ohio, and have Brother Branham to lay hands on her, but first, before doing that, tell him to tell her that when she was a treasurer in a certain church, she stole money, that’s the reason she’s paralyzed, make that right, God will heal her.” Discerner raised up, said, “It was of God.” The other one said, “It’s of God.” All right, they put that message down. When it come to the platform, a little buzzer rang from my study, I walked out, here these prophecies was, I give it to the people, right the way it was wrote here, with the man with discernment on it. Right. No slip ups. There they was. Then, if that night here come the woman in, she was in a wheelchair, cot, whatever it was, she’s brought up there, green scarf, all the congregation was looking for it, there she was. I said, “Lady, you stole money out of the treasury, when you was a—a young…” ‘That’s right, Brother Branham, that’s right. God forgive me, I’ll make it right.” “Stand up on your feet, Jesus Christ makes you makes you well.” There it was. “Brother Jones, move away, tomorrow at two o’clock, it’s going to happen.” All right, he moves away, it happens. Fine, we thank the Lord, go on. But what if it don’t happen? Now there’s a evil spirit among them. They don’t get that no more till they pray that thing away. They…I said, “You don’t want that spirit on you, you don’t want no folly, you don’t want no hoax, you want the real Holy Ghost, or don’t pass any at all. There you are.

7. JEHOVAH-JIREH — 1956-04-29

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• ¶60–¶61a Now, remember if Jesus has raised from the dead, He’s alive. And He’s works through His Church. And He set some in the church what? First missionaries or apostles (both the same, “one sent”), second prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors. Is that what the Bible said? He set five church offices. Missionaries, prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors for the perfecting of the church. Then there’s nine spiritual gifts that operate through the bod—the body. Now, one of them is the gift of knowledge, gift of wisdom, gift of tongues, gift of interpretation, and all those things, gift of prophecy. Now, there’s a vast difference between the gift of prophecy and a prophet. A gift of prophecy goes from one to another. And before the church can even received it, it’s got to be judged before three spiritual judges. And if it don’t come to pass then it’s wrong. You got the wrong spirit among you. Like speaking of tongues and interpretations…There’s where you Pentecostal people’s let down. I’m not your judge, but that’s the Word. That’s right. You went haywire on that. You better watch them things that they absolutely be done decently and in order and when the message goes, hear it. Come down at the tabernacle one time. Watch how we operate it there. Them things has to be every word true. If it doesn’t that person goes to the altar and get that evil spirit off of them. God don’t lie. God tells the truth. See? Then you have the church in order. That’s what we’re going to teach when we get the tent. So we can get the big church and see if God can get to set together. All them gifts goes in the church, but the people just get them and just go anyway with them. Like Paul said, “People say you’re crazy.” That’s what’s hurt the Pentecostal church. Certainly. You’ve had the gifts but you—your pastor has failed to…Excuse me, brethren. I didn’t mean that. I…Well, I…Yes, I did too. I’ll not take it…I don’t mean to hurt your feelings, I mean. See? But look. It’s failed to set that church in the right order. That’s right. That’s what the church needs today.

8. THE RESTORATION OF THE BRIDE TREE — 1962-04-22

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• ¶204–¶208 Now let’s picture a big Tree, of God’s Tree. It’s bearing nine spiritual gifts. They’re healing the sick. They’re speaking in tongues. They’re casting out devils. They’re doing great works, and preaching the unadulterated Word of God. No denomination to tie them down; they’re free, doing a great work. So, in come this little old devil, setting up with his two horns setting out in front, like a grasshopper, you know, and his little old greedy teeth. That’s his first, the palmerworm, he come in to eat off brotherly love. He said, “You know, So-and-so did so-and-so, over at So-and-so’s church. I wouldn’t believe that bunch of people.” See? There he is, first thing. Next, he wanted to eat on the fruit of faith, faith in the Word. “Now look. How do you know that is the Word? It’s been translated so many times!” That little devil is still eating. Right. “That Word has been translated so many times! He’s this, that, or the other. Oh, he’s all this.” See? Now, that’s another fruit he eat off of: joy of salvation. “Shhh! You people make too much noise. Oh, my! My!” “Oh, how can you preach, Brother Branham?” a woman said to me, one time. No, it wasn’t. It was a man. I believe he’s…I hope he’s here. He belongs to another church. But he said to me, said, “I was up to hear you, the other day, and I couldn’t even hear you, for them people crying.” I said, “If they…” Said, “How in the world can you preach?”

9. GABRIEL’S INSTRUCTIONS TO DANIEL — 1961-07-30

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• ¶13b–¶16 So just let…Make out your name and address and lay it up here, and Billy Paul will pick it up and will give it out. Now, it was asked, also, if there will be any more…“Brother Branham, will you have any more healing services in the tabernacle, with discernments?” No. No. The discernments will be given by—by our other board. We have Brother Neville here now who has a gift of prophecy, that prophesies over the sick and makes known to them the things that they have need of knowing. And we have a brother by the name of Higg-…Higginbotham, one the…was a trustee, served faithfully on the board. I don’t see him this morning, but he usually has a gift of speaking in tongues. And a little lady named Arganbright, lovely little sister who has a gift of interpretation of tongues. And these messages are proving out to be of God, because they are actually not coming out of order, they’re just set in order. And soon as these gifts begin to accumulate, we’re going to try to—to get the…to get it set right back into the church, way of doing it. And I’m to see them pretty soon, and so that the—that the—the meetings will be carried on just perfectly in the order of the Lord, as we can get it perfectly. But these dear people, so says my neighbor, Mrs. Wood, who has a microphone hooked up here, and a tape back there, to tape the meeting, just purposely to get those messages, and write them down, and see whether they are right or not. See? That’s how she is checking them.

10. THE MINISTRY EXPLAINED — 1956-10-01

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• ¶14–¶15 Then when you become in the Body of Christ, then there’s nine spiritual gifts that goes in ever local church body. And those are gifts that you’re to pray for, to pray for the gift of speaking with tongues, or the gift of interpretation of tongues, or these other gifts that goes into the church. Pray for the gifts of healing, and pray for the gifts of miracles, and so forth. That’s the ones that you pray for, and the Spirit comes on and works in each local assembly to—in the perfecting of the Church. Now, many times we’ve misjudged that, went over the mark and so forth; and that’s what’s caused it. But we expected…I…If it wasn’t that way, I—I’d think there was something wrong with the program, ’cause it’s Satan trying to upset it. You see? So, look, we believe that. And I believe, to you Methodists and Presbyterians here tonight…I’ve seen many things since I’ve been on the Pentecostal realms that I didn’t agree with. That’s right. I’ve seen plenty of it. But what of it. I think one of the most gallant men that I spoke to in a long time was Lewi Pethrus of Stockholm, Sweden. One day we were riding out in a car, and he said, “Brother Branham, Billy Graham sat and rode in there.” It was when Billy had first started in evangelistic service, and we were talking. And he said, “How long have you been Pentecostal?” I said, “Ever since I received the Holy Ghost.” And he said, “Wasn’t you Baptist first?” I said, “Yes, sir.”

11. 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.

12. THE SARDISEAN CHURCH AGE — 1960-12-09

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• ¶75–¶77 Paul was the one who constrained them to be rebaptized if they hadn’t been baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, “Come and be baptized over again in order to receive the Holy Ghost,” Acts 19:5. He was also the one that laid hands on the people, and gifts, and set the church in order with working of miracles, Divine healing, gifts of tongues, interpretation of tongues. Is that right? First Corinthians 12, see what Paul said. First Corinthians 12, and you’ll find it. He set in the church…God set in the church these great gifts; and Paul set them If you notice this, this is wrote here. The writer knowed. Look, the “seven Spirits.” Watch: capital “S,” Holy Spirit, only one of them. Uh- huh. The same Holy Spirit coming seven times to all seven church ages bearing the same Light. Get it now? Seven church ages, seven times this Holy Spirit would carry this same Message! Which was pronounced a curse to anyone who’d change It. Now see if that bears with the revelation of the whole thing. He said, “Whosoever shall take away or add to, the same will be taken (his part) out of the Book of Life.” That’s the whole thing covered over then. So there’s no room for you to jump or squeeze any place else, see, ’cause that’s It. That’s what God said, that’s what the Spirit said, and that’s what the Churches said. Now, if you try to force in any other kind of a doctrine than what Paul taught, it’s wrong! The Bible is correct. His life…Jesus said, “I’ll take his part out of the Book of Life.”

13. O LORD, JUST ONCE MORE — 1963-06-28

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• ¶103–¶109 Some man come to me, not long ago, and said, “Brother Branham,” a very…one of the best known Pentecostal ministers in the land. He took me up in his room, he said, “I want to pray for you.” I said, “I’m not sick.” He said, “I—I love you.” I said, “That’s mutually felt.” He said, told me, said, “Why don’t you leave off of telling them women about their bobbed hair and all this kind of stuff, and about the church?” Said, “That’s not your business.” I said, “Whose is it then?” He said, “It’ll come to pass that you won’t have nothing but a bunch of posts to preach to.” I said, “I’d rather do that and preach the Truth, than compromise with the devil.” See? See? He said—said—said—said, “Brother Branham, didn’t God call you to pray for the sick?” And I said, “Yes, sir.” He said, “The people believe you to be a prophet.” And I said, “Well, that—that, I never said that.” He said, “But they believe you that way.” And said, “If you’re a prophet, why don’t you spend your time to teaching people how spiritual gifts, and how to heal the sick, and—and how to do these, get these spiritual gifts, and help the church instead of standing constantly, bawling the women out, and bawling the man out, and things like that?” Said, “Well, why don’t you leave them alone?” Said, “Why don’t you teach them something greater than bobbed hair and stuff, and let that alone?” I said, “How can I teach them algebra when they don’t even know their ABC’s? That’s right. Let them learn their ABC’s first.”

14. THE SIGN OF THIS TIME — 1963-11-13

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• ¶33–¶36 It’s just like a little song I used to hear a minister and his wife sing, “Not as mortals forgive one another, Jesus forgives and forgets.” See? We can’t forget it, see, but He can. He is God. He can forget it; it never was. Put it in the Sea of Forgetfulness, and not even remember it. He is God. He can take it from His complete memory. But we can’t do that, see. He can. Now when you believe Him, that He has did this for you, “He healed you when He—when He was wounded for your transgressions, and with His stripes you were healed,” past tense. Now the only thing you have to do is to believe it. Now the Word teaches it. No one can say the Word doesn’t teach it. And It does teach it, now, and we see so much evidence of people being healed everywhere. But there is Divine healing. Now if it would be you or I, if we sent our word, and sovereign like God, well, if people didn’t want to believe it, they wouldn’t have to; after all, it’s them sick. But not God. He also set in the Church, apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, and evangelists, see, all that for the perfecting of the Body. And in this Body, every local body, He gave nine spiritual gifts, and those gifts are— are different kinds; wisdom, knowledge, speaking in tongues, gifts of healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth; nine spiritual gifts, all to show His love towards the Church, see, that He wants you to stay in order, the great Holy Spirit Himself being the Tutor of the Church. It’s too bad we took a bishop instead of the Holy Spirit, to be our tutor, see. But we—we…The Holy Spirit is the Tutor that God gave to the Church, to raise the Church, to bring it up in the admonition of God. So the Holy Spirit freely sets these gifts in the Church, and they perfectly operate, if you just won’t get excited and try to just take what you think yourself.

15. BALM IN GILEAD — 1961-02-18

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• ¶253–¶257a Now let’s change it, saying, “Now I receive.” Put one hand on your heart, the other one up to God. Now…(There is a balm in Gilead, do you receive it?) now I receive, All things are possible, now I receive; Now I receive, now I receive, All things are possible, now I receive. Now, has He done all things well? Has He done all things that He promised to do? That’s right. Now, let’s bow our heads together, and all, He said, “After this manner, you must pray,” all together: Our Father Who art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thine will be done in earth, as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us of our trespasses, as we forgive those that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For Thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. You say, “Why did you do that, Brother Branham?” In the prayer…He said, “After this manner,” everything has been done. What did you say in there? “Deliver us from evil, all unbelief, all sickness, all diseases, all afflictions, all superstitions, everything. Deliver us from evil.” Now, you know I couldn’t go down that line with discernment, I’d— I’d pass completely out before I got halfway down it. Now, tomorrow night we’re going to have discernment line down at the other place; tonight, we’re going to pray for these people. How many of you in that line there are now solemnly, you see that how…? I want to ask, you talk about a miracle, how would a man, a human being like me, know those things? I couldn’t do it. How many of you believe that that’s the very thing that our Lord Jesus did? You do? Well then, that anointing that I’ve told you about, and preached to you the truth, now Jesus has come down and proved that’s true. Is that right? Then, He said, “These signs shall follow them that believe.” Is that right? Now, that makes me a believer. Is that right? Now, what He said was to be a believer? “If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover.” Is that right?

16. ADOPTION 2 — 1960-05-18

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• ¶198–¶199 What is the Body of Christ? Some are apostles, some are prophets, some are teachers, some are evangelists, and some are pastors. Is that right? We’re called to. Others has gifts of tongues, interpretation of tongue, wisdom, knowledge, miracles, working of miracles, all these different gifts. And now what’d they do? They practiced that a little bit. What? Let it run loose just like I don’t know what. One raise up, speak in tongues, and the other one go ahead, talking, “Blrr, blrr, blrr, blrr, blee.” Uh-huh. Preacher will be preaching, make a altar call, and somebody raise up, speaking in tongues, “Hallelujah! Glory to God!” If the—if the preacher happens to go on with his message, being anointed, then the people say, “Old backslider.” See, it’s because they’re not taught. The Bible said the spirit of the prophets is subject to the prophet. God is no author of confusion. When I’m standing here, or a minister here under the anointing of God, no matter how much you want to speak with tongues, you hold your peace till God’s finished here. Then if you speak with tongues, it can’t be just some repeating of Scripture, ’cause God said don’t use vain repetition. But it’s a message directly to somebody. Ask me one time, put your finger on one time that the Holy Spirit ever, under the discernment, told somebody, repeated a Scripture over and over. It told them something that was wrong with them and something that they had done, and something that they must do or something had to happen, or something like that. Is that right?

17. ELISHA THE PROPHET — 1956-10-02

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• ¶205–¶208 God bless you. Now, you feel better, do you? You do feel better. Well, that’s very fine. I believe you are better, right now. And I believe you’re going to be so much better in the next twenty-four hours, your mother is going to come here and tell about it. Don’t you? And you, too…All right, sir. The Lord bless you, now. All right. God bless you. [The sister speaks to Brother Branham—Ed.] God, I pray that in Christ’s Name, You’ll bless this handkerchief for the woman. Amen. God bless you, sister. Now, let me hear. [The sister speaks to Brother Branham again.] Father, grant to this woman her desire. I pray, God, that her heart will be so elated over her daughter, till everything that You have for her will be granted to her, in Jesus’ Name. Amen. God bless you. Now, sister, what you want to be prayed for? Oh, God bless you. Heavenly Father, bless this little woman as she stands here waiting for her turn. I lay hands on her and ask for Your blessings to rest on her, in Jesus’ Name. Amen. God bless you now, sister. You believe now? Amen. All right. Fine. Your trouble, sir? [The brother speaks to Brother Branham—Ed.] Stomach trouble. O Father God, I pray for this man’s stomach trouble and ask that he be healed, and maybe tomorrow he will come in and bring a letter, “My stomach never has bothered me since.” In Jesus’ Name, I ask this. Amen. Let’s hear from you, brother. You believe now? All right. That’s good. What’s your trouble, sister? [The sister speaks to Brother Branham—Ed.] What? Oppression. Come here. That’s the devil, of course.

18. 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.

19. RESPECTS — 1961-10-15

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• ¶217–¶219 God, help me to be a servant of Yours. Help me to respect my brothers, help me to respect my sisters. And every Spirit of God that comes into the meeting, whether it be speaking with tongues, whether it be interpretation of tongues, whether it be prophecy, whether it be gifts of discernment, whatever it is, I say, “O Lord Jesus, send them. Send them, O Lord. I am thankful to You.” Now, Heavenly Father, we know that Thou art a great and terrible God. We know that Thy wrath is terrible. When once Thou hast Thy temper up, why, it’s—it’s a terrible thing. The wrath of God can destroy the world in a second. But when You look down upon the Blood of the Lord Jesus, then Your wrath is turned away. Oh, hide me over in the Rock of Ages! Lord God, keep my soul covered with the Blood of the Lord Jesus. Not only mine, Lord, but those that are in here, too, tonight. We love You, Lord. And every gift that You has given us, though they may call us anything they want to do, Lord, that still will not…don’t want that to have one thing to do with it, we still respect You, the great One, the great Holy Spirit. We love You, Father. We thank You for a gift of healing among us. We thank You for the gift of prophecy among us. We thank You for the gift of tongues, and the gift of interpretation. And, O God, we pray that You’ll continue to send gifts among us, gifts of the great Holy Spirit. Above all things, Lord, we’re greatest appreciation we have in our heart is for that great, all sufficient Gift, of Jesus Christ. We thank You for His grace and His mercy, Who makes all these other minor things eligible to us by His vicarious suffering and bleeding at Calvary. He sanctifies the common people that hears Him gladly.

20. EXPECTATIONS — 1950-08-10

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• ¶9b–¶11a Said, “…?…be worship, worship God; for I am of thy fellow servants, and the prophets, and those who’s had the testimony of Jesus Christ.” He was an Angel sent from God. John, or those apostles, or any of them, the Holy Spirit is in the church. And the teachers here of the Scriptures will teach you these things. There’s nine spiritual gifts in the church. They operate anywhere in the church. For instance, if this tent here tonight concealed the entire body of Christ. The Holy Spirit leads the body of Christ. And in this body there’s nine spiritual gifts. They are here in the body. Gifts of healing, gifts of prophecy, it might fall upon someone here tonight, this lady setting here, this man, or this man; and he may give a prophecy and it would be true. But it would never work on him maybe again. It might come back at the… See, that doesn’t make him a prophet. That makes…We’re in the body. By one Spirit we’re baptized in the body and subject to these gifts. And when the body’s setting here…Remember what Paul said, “If something be revealed to one setting by, let him hold his peace and so forth,” like that? That’s the apostolic church. That’s where it should be now. And in that… And he might—and here might be one tonight with the prayer of faith, that would pray a prayer of faith that would heal someone. That gift of healing might be on them tonight. It might be upon this lady here tomorrow night, and upon this man over here the next night. It might come back to her. It’s in the church—the body. Now, those are the nine spiritual gifts that’s in the body now. They work through the body. But then there is gifts and callings without repentance. That’s an a vindicated prophet sent from God, from… You don’t receive that. That’s a gift sent from God, that’s born in your birth, come down through, and been set you down through. And that…A prophet, not a gift of prophecy… Who ever stood to judge Isaiah, to see whether his prophecy was right or not? They knowed from his time through that he was a prophet.

21. THE ARK — 1955-05-22

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• ¶166–¶168 And this morning, while preaching here…Was going to have a prayer line; come up, bring the people up for discernment, and talk with them. But Something spoke to me, said, “Tell the people…” That’s the reason I stopped, all at once, it happened. Said, “Call the people up here, and tell them, ‘Come, ask Me.’ If they lack, I’ll tell them.” You wonder how that little girl can get well; how you with the cancer can get well; how you over here, with the throat trouble can get well; how you on this cane can be made well; how you on that crutch can be made well; how the blind can be made to see; how you that’s distressed and in trouble. There is someone here that’s got domestic trouble, family trouble. “How else can I ever get over it, Brother Branham?” He’ll tell you right now. Other troubles, you’re wondering about this, that, or the other. Just what strikes your heart, now follow that and see if it’s not right. Just follow it and see if That isn’t right. Don’t change your mind. Stay right with it. He said He would speak to you. Now while everybody in prayer. Father in Heaven, bless my brother. Give him every desire of his heart, whatever he desires. My sister here, God, bless her. Take the heaviness out of her heart today. Bless my sister, Father. May the Spirit come on her. God, bless my sister. Give her the deep desires of her heart. Likewise, to my sister here, through Jesus’ Name, Father, grant it.

22. THE QUEEN OF SHEBA — 1960-01-10

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• ¶26–¶29 I believe Paul was a fundamentalist. You know where I think he got that in the Scripture? Where Elisha sent, or, Elijah, sent the staff with his servant, Gehazi, and said, “Lay it on the baby.” Elijah knew that everything he touched was blessed. And so he, the staff that he would—he would walk with, he said, “Go lay that on the baby.” But the woman’s faith wasn’t in the staff, it was in the prophet, so she wouldn’t leave him until the prophet laid his own body on the baby, and the baby come to life. It depends on where your faith lays. But in the handkerchiefs, I remember in South Africa at the last trip at Cape Town, and I was there, and I believe it was ten or fourteen sackfuls of handkerchiefs and letters; and they was great, what we call, grass sacks, burlap sacks. And the writer at the paper said, “Brother Branham is superstitious, he was praying over handkerchiefs.” Just not knowing the Scripture, of course. But we’re glad to pray over these, and if you don’t—do not have one up here, and you’re on outside of the building, or anything, if you wish me to pray over one, just write me. I’m not trying to get your address, we have nothing to sell, no radio broadcast, no nothing, nothing at all, it’s absolutely free. Just anything that we can do to help you make life a little better for you, make the way, the rough places, a little more plain, that’s what we’re here for. Just write us: Jeffersonville, Indiana, we’ll send it to you as quick as we possibly can.

23. 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.”

24. EXPECTATIONS — 1951-05-07

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• ¶47b–¶49 And even all, for…usually preaching would knock it away from me, but it hasn’t tonight. I feel it, right now. It’s right here in the building. Now—now, I believe that the sick people will be brought… What about it? [A brother says, “He doesn’t need to go through that again tonight, does he? Everyone believes.”—Ed.] Amen. [“Everyone believes, Brother Branham. Just come through the line and believe God, and let him pray for you and God will heal you, I believe it. Amen.”] Amen. You believe it with all your heart? All right. Now, that someone would know, so I can just get something here, at least one patient or something, Brother Hall, so I can…the people… How many strangers in here that’s never seen the discernments of the Lord? Look at the crowd. All right. You have…which cards did you…? just a minute…what say? Just a minute. I’m not—I’m not upset. I’m feeling fine. How many cards you give out? [Brother Billy Paul says, “Fifty.”—Ed.] Fifty? [“Yes, sir.”] Fifty. All right. Now, just a moment. God knows, He Who is my sole Judge knows that this discernment is only given, not for self-praise-all, that’s only given to glorify Jesus Christ, the Son of God. The anointing is here, I know it’s in the building. I don’t know where, but I believe if I set some person before me, it’ll—it’ll come down. Now, I want at least one person so that it could be. I ought to get somebody with a prayer card, I guess, perhaps. All right. You give out…Bring me fifty-three, prayer card fifty-three, or, if that’s here. Is anybody here with prayer card Y, fifty-three or Z, fif-…What is the number, honey? [Brother Billy Paul says, “Y.”—Ed.] Y? Y, fifty-three? All right, bring the person up here. All right. Let’s get someone else now. How many’s got prayer cards so I can see where you’re at? I’ll just call your hand. All right, you’re so scattered.

25. SHOW US THE FATHER — 1961-05-21

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• ¶26–¶31 Well, the Blood, of course, being applied, we apply It by faith. And faith is common, just like hyssop, just common weeds, just believe it and it’s all over. Now, if any of you would desire to have a little prayer cloth and you do not have it up here, if you’ll just write to me any time, I’ll be glad to send it to you. Just: William Branham, Jeffersonville, Indiana, and it’ll come to me. And if you want one just to keep in your Bible on Acts 19, case of something happens, why, just send. There’s no charges to nothing, just, we don’t charge for anything, everything is free. So just send and get it, we’ll be happy to send it to you, most happy. And it’s a little cloth that I have prayed over and asked God to heal you and to help you. Oh, I could spend the afternoon just telling outstanding things that He has did through that, mighty things, but we know the people has to have their building here tonight. And we don’t want to keep you too long, and it’s kind of a little tight in the building, and you’re pretty well packed in. And so now, we want to also thank our ministering brethren, with all of our heart, to all you laity, and to your fine cooperation. And I want to thank the—the city, the policeman and so forth. I’ll have to say this on my southern friend here, Mr. Evans, I ought to have him come up and speak a little bit, so you could hear where… how southerners really talk. You think that I say it bad! You… Come into a filling station, he said, “Could you tell me where there’s a motel?” That Englishman looked at him real strange, he said, “Yes, I’ve got some old tires over here.” Old tires. He went down and said, “I want some ice cream.” The man said, “Sure.” Reached over and got him a box of aspirin and give to him. So we are very grateful.

26. THE LAODICEAN CHURCH AGE — 1960-12-11

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• ¶7–¶9 Now, oh, this is such a…been such a wonderful week. I just don’t know how to express myself to God and to you people for this wonderful week. These have been some of the happiest eight days that I ever preached in my life. That is true. I have—I have learned so much of the Lord and His tender mercy, and all that He’s done for us, and to see His Spirit working back in the church. And I’m so glad to see the gifts begin to operate back in the church again. See? Now, once there, when you’re away, it just seems like somebody will actually enter in, will just—just pollute it, you know, they’ll just start doing anything. And when you dishonor those gifts, God will dishonor you. See? That’s right. You’ve got to make them right. And, way we want it is just when it’s in order, the way they’re speaking with tongues. Not just quoting a Scripture, but telling something that’s fixing to take place. And if you’ll just keep being real reverent with that, it’ll begin… If anyone gets out of order in a church, the Holy Spirit will speak it right out and tell them who it is. And there, they’ll—they’ll feel chastised and go to the altar. That’s what those gifts are for. And to see our pastor here, Brother Neville, he was a bashful, backward sort of a boy. And I tell you, he was…he looked like he was never going to take a hold of it when it come to Pentecost. But to see him stand up and interpret tongues and prophesy, I tell you, he’s come a long way. Right. Let us pray for our pastor.

27. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1961-01-12

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• ¶134–¶137 But I do believe that a Spirit-filled person that lives under the altar of God, no doubt, sooner or later, will have an experience of speaking in tongues, ’cause that’s one of the lowest and least things there is according to Paul’s description. If you’d put them in order, it’s the last thing on the line of gifts, see, is speaking with tongues. But now, first, you’re baptized…Here, each one of you all are gifts. I’m on the outside. Now, “By one Door, one Spirit,” one door enters this room. Is that right? Now, I can’t come in that way, can’t come in this way and back that way. See? How do I get in here? By Brother Roberson? No, sir. By, well, say, Brother Leo? That he’d be a gift of speaking in tongues, see, do I get in by Leo? No, sir. Huh-uh. Well, how do I get in? “By one Door, by one Spirit.” The Spirit just ain’t all tongues. No. See? See, “By one Spirit I am baptized into this Body.” Now, this is Spirit, you all are gifts. You say, “Well, bless God!” I’ll go over and, say, there’s—there’s Brother Wood, he’s miracles. See? “Oh, I had a miracle performed. I know I got the Holy Ghost ’cause I performed a miracle.” Not by one “miracle” are we all baptized into the Body. Go to Brother Junie then, he’s knowledge, “Well, well, I got the knowledge of the Bible! Boy, I tell you, I know I got the Holy Ghost ’cause of that.” No, that still ain’t the way to enter.

28. DISCERNING THE BODY OF THE LORD — 1959-08-12

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• ¶138–¶144 It’s right. “There is not one hair of your head shall perish.” The God of Heaven, [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] Who controls all things, will say, “William Branham,” or so forth, “come forth,” and I’ll come in His likeness. Hallelujah! That same God, by the Holy Ghost, is dwelling among us, tonight, in the Shekinah glory, proving Himself by the same natural signs that He did. If a vine bears grapes today, it’ll bear grapes tomorrow. If it’s a grape vine, it’ll always have grapes. We’ll never get in under intellectual. We’ll have to come in by the Holy Ghost, ’cause that’s the only kind of a Spirit that the Holy Ghost Church bears; the fruits of the Spirit, the Life of Christ in us. That same Angel is here, a witness before Sodom and Gomorrah’s destruction, goes to destruction. Now let’s see. How many has prayer cards? Raise up your hand. There’s forty or fifty. How many don’t have prayer cards? Raise up your hand. Well, there’s three times as many. All right. I feel led to do something. Let’s just take the ones that hasn’t got prayer cards. Let that ones with prayer cards, maybe…Well, they can get in, too. But on this discernment, we want just the ones without prayer cards. Raise your hands again, the ones that’s sick and hasn’t got prayer cards, so I get an idea who you are. All right. Here is a showdown. Do you believe I’ve told you the Truth? Do you believe you have spiritual discernment, to know that It’s the Truth? We don’t have to come up here.

29. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1954-05-15

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• ¶319–¶324 Shepherds, teach your sheep, get them in the Bible here. Get away from that old textbook of some church, and get down here in the Bible where God taught, and you won’t have those troubles. Yes, laying on of hands is how we can receive the Holy Ghost, by some anointed person laying on of hands. Now, let me get to this right quick now, this pertains to the church now. I…Now, to you strangers in our gates, I’ve got to give the church a little spanking now, so you—you just kind of hold off for a minute, see, if you will. Listen, my children! Those gifts are wonderful. Nobody knows how I appreciate you, and I love you with godly love. But those gifts can be a harm to you if you don’t use them in the right place. Look at people today, fine man out on the field, praying for the sick and charging money for it. That’s wrong. If a man’s got faith for healing and praying for the sick, he ought to be gentleman enough to pray for people without money. Thank God! Brother, I want to say that, not for myself, but for the glory of God, not one time have I ever taken money from people, or anything like that; and turned down, literally, a million, five hundred thousand dollars, in one offering. And you know Now you people that speak with tongues and has got gifts of tongues, God bless you. You are needed in this tabernacle. I want you here. But, now, the—the thing is in order, don’t never do it while the preacher’s preaching. If you do, you’re out of order. See? You mustn’t do it. For the Bible said, “The spirit of the prophet is subject to the prophet.” And when a man is preaching, he’s got the floor, he’s got the audience, the Holy Spirit is going to speak through him. When he’s finished, then is the time for the message, you see. So don’t get out of order; if you do, then you interrupt and you’ll—you grieve the Holy Spirit with the message that’s going forth.

30. A GREATER THAN SOLOMON IS HERE — 1962-07-25

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• ¶264–¶267 And if I be God’s servant…Now, if anybody thinks this is false, come up here and do it, let’s see you do it, if it’s false. Pretty quiet. Then it isn’t, it’s of God. It’s God’s Bible. Now, you believe. And just believe now, all… I’m a nervous…This is eleven straight meetings for me, and I’m just wore out. You know it. Night after night, every night, strength, virtue, and through the day, He will send me down on the corner and say, “Stand here, there’ll be a guy come by on a wheelchair.” That’s the big visions, these are the little ones, you’re causing these. That’s the one that God gives, said, “This man comes by, and he did a certain thing at a certain time. He will be pressing around the corner, just speak to him, and raise him up out of the chair, and go on. Let nobody know who does it.” You hear it up here in papers, and things like that. Nobody knows who it is. He sends me down there, says, “Do this.” See? That’s God using His gift. See? Now, you do it. You use God’s gift and say, “Great High Priest of God, let me touch You. And You use Brother Branham to speak to me, and if You will just tell me what’s my trouble, and what…this, or something that, in my heart, I’m praying for, I’ll believe with all my heart.” And then you’ll be able, say, like the mother deer, like…You’ll see something real, like Bert Call saw. Now, here. Here, here It is. Thank You, Lord. Look over this way. How many seen that picture on the paper, tonight? You see it? Did he show it here? All right. You know that Pillar of Fire you saw on the paper? There It is. It’s standing right there. It’s over a little woman, setting way back here, towards the back, a little lady. She’s wearing glasses, she’s kind of thin, she’s suffering with an allergies.

31. LED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD — 1956-07-23

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• ¶21–¶22 But when they’re just misconstrued and throwed out just to any way…Now, I believe they’re gifts, but they don’t know how to use them. And that’s what we need is a teaching on how to use the gifts of God. That’s the reason they begin to dwindle out because the—the people don’t use them rightly, and we must do that. Paul said he set the church in order, telling just how…and how to do it. We try to put our church just as exactly that way. ’Course then…Now, since I’ve left, why it’s been…There’s a Methodist pastor there now with the Baptist just before me…or right after me, rather. Now, a Methodist brother has it, and they don’t teach those things. They just let…go ahead and preach the Gospel, make altar call, and go home. But what the Church needs tonight is know how to control these gifts. See? For evil spirits can come in and speak just the same as good spirits can speak. You know that. And you must have the spirit of discernment to know that. They had it in the Bible times. Why, if they didn’t do it then, why did Paul say let one judge and the people judge and so forth. Those gifts of prophecy, everything is supposed to be correctly put in order. For Satan can imitate every gift that God’s got. Every gift, he can imitate it. And you must know the right and wrong, and by its fruits you know it. Watch whether it comes to pass and whether it’s truth or not. And that’s the way you know the Spirit.

32. RAISING JAIRUS’ DAUGHTER — 1956-07-31

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• ¶83b–¶84 It’s gifts in the Church. It’s a shame it cuts so many of them out, valuable gifts. There’s gifts of speaking in tongues; there’s gifts of interpretation of tongues. It’s been misused greatly, but that don’t take it out of the Church. It’s there anyhow. There’s gifts of prophecy; there’s prophets and gifts of prophecy. Now, there’s gifts of prophecy; that’s just in the Church, but a prophet is born a prophet. Every prophet that was ever in the world was born a prophet. Gifts and callings are without repentance. That’s the five major gifts of the body: apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists. God puts them in the Church Himself. See? We will…Got a lot of make-believe preachers, and a lot of make- believe prophets, but God puts them in, then Himself. And He speaks of His gifts. He testifies of them. Now, looky here. Here’s a bunch of people standing in this line, fifteen or twenty or what was called. There’s people setting out there that I know nothing about, and if the Holy Spirit will come down and anoint me, and if they don’t believe me, it won’t happen anyhow. It’s not me; it’s you. You’re the one that…It wasn’t Jesus that healed the woman. It was the woman got healing herself by believing in Him. See? She touched Him. Now, He’s the High Priest tonight that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. You can touch Him if you’re sick. Say, “Lord, touch me. I’m touching You.” Watch Him turn around and speak to you.

33. 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.

34. BLIND BARTIMAEUS — 1959-11-27

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• ¶213–¶218 I want each of these converts, tonight, to take their place. The ministers will be there in a few minutes to invite you to their churches where you can have a home to live, to serve God the rest of your days on earth. Is there any seeking the Holy Ghost tonight would like to be remembered, raise up your hand, say, “Remember me, Brother Branham, remember me.” All right. Now let us bow our heads while they’re moving back, before we ministers and all go back to be with them just in a little bit. We want to bow our heads for prayer for these handkerchiefs. Let everyone be in prayer. Gracious Lord, on this desk, under my right arm and hand, lays a great group of handkerchiefs and little parcels and cloths that’s going to the sick and the afflicted, and they are represented here by someone who has laid them up here, who has faith in Thee, who has heard tonight that Elisha sent his staff, and it laid upon the child. Perhaps where the great Saint Paul, being very fundamental in his Doctrine, must have found this place, and the people in his day seen the Holy Spirit moving in him, and knowed that he was the servant of the Lord, and the Bible says that they took from his body handkerchiefs and aprons, and they were sent to the sick and the afflicted, and evil spirits went out of the people, and great healings were done. Now, Lord, we realize that we are not the Saint Paul, but You’re still Jesus, the One Who healed the sick, we pray that You’ll honor these people, Lord, and their—their prayers, and in their efforts, and in their faith to do such.

35. THINGS THAT ARE TO BE — 1965-12-05

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• ¶73–¶74 Someone got after me; a great, noted minister, not long ago. Said, “Brother Branham, come. I want to lay hands on you.” Said, “You’re going to ruin your ministry.” I said, “What?” Said, “Bawling them people out like that.” I said, “I’m telling the…” Said, “I believe that.” Said, “I’m a Pentecostal, too. I believe that women shouldn’t wear short hair, shouldn’t wear paints, and these things like that the way they do, paint their faces up.” Said, “They shouldn’t do that. But,” said, “God called you to pray for the sick.” I said, “He called me to preach the Gospel.” Yeah. And he said, “I believe in that. But,” said, “you think that?” I said, “Yeah. Look what you got, all these big programs, televisions, and everything else. I ain’t got nothing but God to answer to.” That’s right. I said, “I don’t have nothing but God to answer to.” He said, “I—I—I…You’re going to ruin your ministry.” I said, “Any ministry that the Word of God will ruin, ought to be ruined.” That’s right. Certainly. That’s exactly. He said, “Well, you’re going to ruin it.” I said, “Who is going to tell It then? See? Somebody has got to say It. Somebody has got to stand for that what’s Truth, no matter what It hurts.” And friends, as Christian, as people that believe we’re going to Heaven, the Holy Spirit Itself will type us in the Word of God. He said, “You know what you ought to do?” Said, “People believe you to be a prophet.” Said, “You ought to be teaching these women how to get gifts of prophecy and things like that, and great, higher things instead of little thing.”

36. THE FUNDAMENTAL FOUNDATION FOR FAITH — 1955-01-13

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• ¶30–¶33 Now, the thing of it is, since He has restored man back to this place…Man in the fall has lost his conscious of what Father put him here on earth to do. In other words, all of the plumbing, as it was, in our brain, and the outlets of faith, has been clogged up with business affair, with home life, domestic things, it’s all become so clogged up with that, until God can’t operate through those channels that He made a man for. Now, when God made the human body, every little part had his place to play, the teeth, the tongue, the eyes, the nose, God does everything in there to make it perfect in operation to make the man to live. And if God so patterned the man, the body of a man, how much more has He patterned, and set in order the Body of Christ, the Church? If God designed man’s body, He certainly designed the Body of His Son, the Church. And He has designed us to come together in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus, and have these supernatural workings of God, outlets, through gifts of the spirit, such as prophecy, and wisdom, and knowledge, and—and gifts of healing, and all these other different gifts, it’s outlets that God lets out His power, and lets out His revelation to the people. And not as an individual so much, but as a unit we’re all together, one great Body of believers. And how do we get into this Body, the mystic Body of the Lord Jesus? “By one Spirit we’re all baptized into this Body.”

37. 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.

38. DEMONOLOGY — 1953-11-12

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• ¶15–¶16 Now, it’s just like I think the gifts of the Spirit: the gifts of the Spirit is not the Holy Ghost; it’s the attributes of the Holy Ghost. See? Gifts of healing, speaking in tongues, and all those other things are attributes; it’s a fruit that the tree bears. See? The tree’s the main thing: the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit is God, and God is love. And—but the strange thing, about three magazines…I’m not too sure. Three months before this article come out, many of you read that article of Mrs. Piper, that great spiritualist in New York. How many read that, “Mrs. Piper,” in here? It’s come out about three months in the magazine before mine. Well, since nine—1895, the whole world’s tried to stump that woman. How many Christians in here, raise your hand, Christian believers raise your hand? I want…From the depths of your heart, I want you to say, “Brother Branham, I am a believer.” Well, there’s most of you are. All right. Now, I’m speaking directly to Christians so that you could see the pro and con, the negative and positive where there’s anybody asked you, then you can give them a—an answer. Now, of everything that God has, the devil has a counterfeit. You go and whatever you want to do…You find like these old dances; that’s of the devil; but God has a holy dance for the people. The Bible said so. I was one of the greatest critics on that you ever seen, till God told me just what to do. I find out that Miriam danced in the Spirit. David danced when he had victory. And oh, many time—it…All of it was through—was victory. It was dancing, holy dancing.

39. THE MESSAGE OF GRACE — 1961-08-27

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• ¶188–¶190 Now let’s just go through it just a second, for just a few seconds, and listen close. Now, keep your mind on God, ’cause we don’t know what God could do, don’t know what He’ll tell me to do. I know that we have a gift of prophecy in the church. Our Brother Neville, he prophesies over the people, which is grand. We appreciate that. We been referring to that all along. We got some here that speak with tongues. We do not believe people have to speak with tongues to have the Holy Ghost. There’s no such Scripture for a thing like that. But we believe there is a gift of the Holy Ghost that speaks in tongues, we have it in our church. But we make them…We don’t go on carrying- on. We believe It’s the Voice of God. We speak when the Holy Ghost speaks, and we only let that come three times. And it has to…can’t be while I’m preaching or in order, ’cause the spirit of the prophets is subject to the prophet. See? It has to be carried on Bible right. No one can say that there isn’t such a thing as the gift of the Holy Ghost and speak with tongues. We know that. The Bible teaches it, and we believe in that. And thank God we got it in our church here! We got gifts of prophecy, them first must be tested and see if they’re right or not, and then the gift of prophecy. Then there’s a prophet. Now, that, now you come into an office.

40. JUBILEE YEAR — 1954-10-03

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• ¶129–¶133 But what we have been taught, friend, has throwed us off of the line. We’ve been taught, the Methodist people taught, in the beginning, they said, “Brother, when they got to a place they could shout, they had sanctification, they had it all made.” But, you come to find out, it didn’t work very good. That’s right. When the Nazarenes could shout, and raise their hands up, run up and down the aisle, they said, “That’s It.” And many of them shouted and run up and down the aisle, went out and lived any kind of a life, so they knowed that wasn’t It. The Pentecost come along, when God begin to restore back the gifts, to the church, begin to speaking with tongues. They said, “This is It. It’s got It now. We’re all set out.” But they found out they didn’t have It. That’s right. People speak with tongues and live any kind of lives. Brother, what it is, be sure! Now, shouting is all right. I believe in sanctification; yes, sir, not mine, but His. See? That’s right. Not my holiness, but His. When He, the Holy Spirit, puts His holiness in here, it’s His holiness, not mine. I’m a sinner, but He is the Lord. Now, I believe in sanctification, believe in shouting, believe that a man that’s borned again will give some kind of a demonstration. That’s right. I believe in speaking with tongues. I believe in interpretation of tongues. I believe in healing the sick. I believe in prophesying. I believe in working of miracles. But all of those things are something that follows after you have received the Lord Jesus Christ.

41. THE JUNCTION OF TIME — 1956-01-15

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• ¶215–¶227 Father God, we lay hands upon our brother, and ask it in Jesus’ Name, that You will heal this body. And as he passes down this line of ministers, I pray, God, that the Shekinah Glory will…?… I can lay hands upon our dear, beloved brother, and ask, as he passes through here, that he’ll go through that refining Oil, that he’s in prayer for. Father, I lay hands upon sister, and asking, through Jesus Christ’s Name, that You’ll heal her and make her whole. Father God, we lay hands upon our sister…?…as we lay hands upon her, in Jesus’ Name, Thy Son. Amen. Father God, we lay hands upon our brother…?…diseases, Lord. Have faith now, as they passing by. They’re anointed with oil, as the Word taught. In Jesus’ Name…?… Father God, we lay hands on our sister, Lord, as she goes down this line. At…?…her heart desire…?… Father God, we lay hands on our brother, and ask for his healing. [Prayer line continues for three minutes and fifteen seconds, many of Brother Branham’s words are indiscernible—Ed.]…?… Did you happen to notice, strange? I preached this morning, on “the roads of junction.” Look at the junction here…?…this row of men. [Prayer line continues for six minutes many of Brother Branham’s words are indiscernible—Ed.]…?… O God, the Omnipotent! Grant it, Lord, that the Spirit and power will come upon our sister, making her completely well. We pray, in Jesus’ Name, as she passes down these ministers, may she be completely whole tonight. Amen. [Prayer line continues for forty-five seconds, many of Brother Branham’s words are indiscernible—Ed.]…?…