IT IS I, BE NOT AFRAID

60 I can hear John say, “I would like to testify first,” because John was a young fellow. He said, “You know, we can never be skeptic any more, we just simply can’t do it, because what we seen today, we know that no matter how many Pharisees, or how many scribes say that this is wrong, we know it’s right. We are not following a false prophet, we are following the Lord’s Christ.”

61 And he said…I might have said something like this: “Years ago, as a little boy, I was raised down close to—to Jericho. And I can remember the days when I’d play out there on the hillside in spring. I can still see that pretty, little, Jewish mother of mine. When Dad would be gone out in the fields to work, she used to rock me to sleep in the afternoon, and she’d set out on the—the porch, and rock me to sleep, and tell me Bible stories.

62 “And she would point down to the ford, just below Jericho, and say, ‘John, don’t forget, remember, there’s where the great, mighty Joshua crossed the sea, or, the…in the month of April, or—or, the Jordan. And Great Jehovah held the waters back, while we come into the promised land. And right down along that road going there, the great prophet Elijah and Elisha walked arm in arm, they crossed Jordan.

63 “‘John, don’t forget when God visited His people in that wilderness there, He kept them for forty years, and every day a miracle happened. John, we are told now that the days of miracles is past, but the great Jehovah made bread and rained it down on the earth to feed about two and a half million of our people, for forty years they seen that miracle.’”

64 And John might have said something like this, as we listen to him: “Brethren, I’ve watched Him along as I have been following Him, but today I seen something. I used to ask Mama, ‘Mama, where…? Does God have a—a night force up there that, and big ovens up in the Heaven that bakes all this bread, the Angels, and then pours it out on the ground for His children?’ “‘Why,’ she said, ‘no, John. You know, our God can create that bread.’ “Now, I’ve always believed that story, and today, when I seen Him take those five loaves and feed five thousand, that settled it.”

65 I can hear him turn around, and say, “Matthew, did you see the looks on his face? Why, he looked like he wasn’t surprised at all, that little boy.”

66 Matthew said, “Yeah, I seen him. Really, he had played truant from school,” (well, we called it “hooky,”) “and had run off. And I asked him…I—I looked around, I seen no one there that had anything to eat, but he had his lunch under his arm. And I asked him if I could have it, and he said, ‘Well, I brought it for my dinner, but if it’s to go to that Man that I’ve heard talk, He can have it.’”

67 I’d just loved to have heard Him, wouldn’t you? just to see how different He was. And you notice, as long as the lunch was in the little boy’s hand, it was just five loaves and two fishes, but when it got into Jesus’ hand, it fed five thousand. So the little things that we have, if we’ll just let Him have it, the little faith that we’ve got, if we’ll just let Him have it, it’ll do great things.

68 John was so elated, he said, “He looked like Jehovah, as He stood there taking those biscuits and breaking them. And I climbed around behind the rock, I wanted to see where it come from. And He held the biscuit up in His hand.” And, I’m saying “biscuit” because we southerners know what a biscuit is, you know. “And so He took this biscuit and broke it, and He, I watched that broke place, and He hand it out, and when He started back, before I could notice, the biscuit had done growed out again.”

69 He said, “In those hands, must have been anointed with them same hands that made that bread up there in the Heavens and sent it down. And I’m, say, I’m giving my testimony to you brethren, out on this lake, tonight, it’s a settled thing with me. That is more than a man, That is He, Who—Who the prophets told us about.”

70 And then I can see Simon, as always, you know, he wants to get his testimony in too. And I don’t blame him, when you got something to testify about, you just got to let off the pressure, that’s all. So Simon must have said, “Now, brethren, it’s my time.” And he said, “Andrew, my brother, setting here to my left, when he went down to hear John preach…Oh, you know, folks, we’ve heard all kinds of things, and I never paid much attention to it. But one night he—he didn’t come home, and I wondered where he stayed at. And the next morning, here he came in, starey-eyed, and saying to me, ‘Come, see Who we found, the Messiah.’”

71 He stayed with Him long enough to be convinced. That’s where many of us fail, we just don’t stay long enough to be convinced, not concerned enough. Be concerned, this is between Life and death to us, between being well or being sick. And we ought to stay and see till we’re convinced, and then nothing is going to stop us then, when you’re convinced. Faith has to have some object to work on, come from.

72 And now, “When he come told me…And I remember the day that I met Him, and I said, ‘Well, I’ll go with you to the meeting. He is going to be down there on the shore this morning, you said.’

73 “And I seen a lot of the poor fishermen, the women turning their washtubs upside down, and going down there to—to listen to Him. And this Fellow was attracting quite a crowd of people, and I—I thought I would go down. And I—I got me a—a piece of driftwood, and thought I’d just set down, listen, I got way back.

74 “And all the time, when He was speaking, it looked like He was looking right at me. And I kept getting more interested all the time, I kept coming closer towards where He was at. And I said, ‘Well, He speaks Scripturally, He seems to know what He is talking about.’ “Then all of a sudden, He looked right in my face, and He said, ‘Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jona.’”

75 He said, “Then I was convinced,” said, “because, Andrew, here will bear me record, my old father, a real Pharisee, and he was a strict religious man…And when we fished on the sea here, and we still have his boat, and he was getting old, and I seen his hair graying, and his face wrinkling, I knew dad was going to leave us pretty soon.

76 “So one day, he set down after we had caught a great bunch of fish, and we could pay off our bills then. And that morning, how we had prayed, and asked God to help us, ’cause we needed those fish so bad! And we got the fish, and Dad come in and set down, he said, ‘Come here, Simon, my son.’

77 “He put his arms around me, said, ‘Simon, I’m getting old, and I thought all my days that I would live to see the Messiah, but I’m getting old, and perhaps I won’t be able to see Him. But He may come in your time, Simon.

78 “‘And I know that before His coming there’ll be all kinds of things taking place, there’ll be false prophets, there’ll be everything going on, all kinds of isms, because it’ll be Satan trying to upset, and perhaps deceive Israel.

79 “‘But, Son, there is only one way we can be sure, and that is: stay with God’s Word, that’s the only way to be sure.’” That would be a good testimony anywhere, that’s right, “Stay with the Word.”

80 “Then he said—he said, ‘Son, over in the Scroll, in Deuteronomy, Moses, the one that give us the law, he said, “There will come the Messiah, One in the last days, or, God will raise up among you,”’” to make the Scripture right, “‘“of our brethren, and He will be a Prophet. Lord, your God, shall raise up a Prophet.” Now, you know, we are commanded by God to obey the prophets, because the Word of God comes to the prophets, they’re the one who has the Word and the interpretation of the Word.

81 “‘Therefore, now our Lord told us if there was one among us that was spiritual, or a prophet, and if he prophesied, and what he said did not come to pass, then don’t listen to him, but if it did come to pass, then listen. Now, and the Messiah is going to be a prophet.’

82 “And, as you brethren know, that my dad has been gone for a long time, but when He looked out there, and told me who I was, and not only that but He knowed that godly ol’ daddy of mine, I knew That was Him.” A very good, striking, testimony.

83 And before Simon could get through with his testimony, Philip had his hands laying on his shoulder, trying to stop him a little. You know everybody just tries to get in, and get a little ahead of the other, you know. You’re just so full of it, you just want to say something. Yeah. When you hear somebody else talk, you just want to put in something there, that’s just the nature among us. And so, you know, Philip, it come his time to testify, and he said, “Oh, how I remember that! I was standing there, and you know, it thrilled me so much, till…Nathanael, you don’t mind if I tell it?” “No, that’s all right.”

84 “You know, I knowed Nathanael was a real, orthodox believer. He kept all the laws, and he was a good man, he had served his time as an elder, and he had done all different things, and he was a good man. He studied in the Scriptures day and night, I know he was well taught, and he was a good friend of mine. So I took around the hill just as hard as I could to find Nathanael. Well, you know, brethren, it takes me about a day from where He was preaching there, around the hill. And I—and I found…First I knocked on the door, and Brother Nathanael, the wife come to the door and said, ‘He just went out through his grove.’ And I went out there, and I heard somebody praying.

85 “And—and Nathanael was on his knees praying for God to send the Deliverer, like He sent Moses. And when he got finished, I knowed that he was in that kind of a mood, looking for Him, so I said, ‘Come, see Who we found. We…Your prayers has been answered. The Thing you been looking for is already here. Yes, Sir. We found It, It is glorious! You should come, and see.’ “And Nathanael said, ‘What’s that you’re saying?’” And he said, “‘We have found Him, That Moses and the law said was coming, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph.’

86 “And now, Nathanael, you know, was staunched, orthodox, he said, ‘Now, just a minute, Philip, I know you to be a—a good scholar of the Bible, you must have went off on the deep end somewhere. Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?’

87 “You know, I never wasted my words, because there’s no need of arguing with anybody, so I just told him, ‘Come, see.’ And on the road around, he said, ‘Why are you so convinced?’

88 “And I—and I said to Nathanael, as I put my arm around him, ‘Now, Brother Nathanael, you know how many times we’ve set in the boat, and we have, we have discussed the Scrolls day and night, how we kept up late hours, and we’ve studied the Scriptures,’” oh, that’s wonderful, “‘how we have studied the Scriptures together, and—and here is what convinced me: Do you know that…?’ Peter, will you forgive me if I say it?” “Sure, go ahead.” “‘You know that illiterate fisherman that was always in trouble, and he bought some fish down there?’ “‘Oh, yes. Jonas’ son, Simon?’

89 “‘Yes, that’s him. And you know, you bought some fish from him one day and wanted a receipt, and he couldn’t even sign his name to it, didn’t know that much.’ “‘Yes, I remember him. Yeah, he’s got a brother they call, “Andrew.”’

90 “‘Yes, that’s him. Um-hum. Yes. Well, Andrew believed this Prophet to be the Messiah, and he come, got Peter, or, Simon, and brought him around to Jesus, and when Jesus looked him in the face, He said, “Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jona.” Didn’t know nothing about him.’

91 “‘Now, Nathanael, let me bring this to your memory: Did not the law say, ‘If a prophet prophesies…’? And four hundred years since we’ve had a prophet, and here It is right before us. You know, why, it wouldn’t surprise me, Philip, that if He didn’t tell you who you were, or, Nathanael, when you got there.’

92 “‘Well, I’ll not go critical,’ said Nathanael. ‘I’ll just go up, and listen for myself and draw my own conclusions. And if He is Scriptural, I know what the Bible says about them, and if it sounds Scriptural, why, I’ve got to see it done first, I, if I can see it done, then I’ll believe it.’

93 All right. That’s pretty good. You know, they all don’t live in Missouri. You heard the old saying, “I’m from Missouri, show me.”

94 So, he said, “He come along, and that day, when we got there, there was a prayer line, and there was people standing in the prayer line, and Jesus was praying for the—the sick. And when I walked up with Nathanael, we noticed a bunch of rabbis standing out there, and great, renowned clergymen.

95 “And when we passed by, we heard their conversation, and one of them said, ‘Well, you know we’ve got to answer our congregation. And if they all get running after that, what are we going to do? Well, we see what he done a while ago. How did he know those things? So we’re going to have to hold a council now, and find out what we’ll have to answer to our congregation next Sunday, when they ask about this. And, you know, we can’t believe on him.’

96 “So they said, ‘We’ll just say that he is Beelzebub, the prince of the devils, he’s a fortuneteller, that’s the best way we can do it.’” See, instead of setting down, and looking through the Scriptures, they just draw up their own opinion, what they think.

97 “While they were doing that Jesus turned around and perceived their thoughts, and He said…” Do you remember? The Bible said they didn’t speak it out loud, they thought it in their heart, and Jesus caught it. Right. “And when He told them that He would forgive them for it, but there would come another day, sometime, that when the Holy Ghost would come…

98 “Now, we don’t yet understand that, brethren in this ship, tonight, you know, what about that Holy Ghost He is talking about coming. But He said when It come and would do the same thing, that to speak a word against It, would never be forgiven. Then, brethren, there must be something ahead that He is fixing to do to make that so tight, must be something greatly.

99 “Now, and while Brother Nathanael was standing there, Jesus turned and looked at him and said, ‘Behold an Israelite, in whom is no guile!’ And do you remember, Nathanael? It just took you off your feet.

100 “And you turned, and you looked over sideways, and there stood your bishop, or, your rabbi, standing over there in that council, and he looked down and saw you, ‘Ahem!’ cleared his throat, because you played a big part in the church.

101 “But then, it was to choose between what the rabbi had said, or what God had said, so you turned and addressed Jesus as, ‘Rabbi, Teacher, how did You know me? I’ve never seen You and You have never seen me. So how would You know that I was a—a staunch, orthodox believer?’ “And you remember, Nathanael, what He said?” Nathanael said, “Can I say it?” “Yeah.”

102 “He said, ‘Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree I saw you.’” Nathanael said, “I don’t want to stop your testimony, but that settled it for me. Let me tell the brethren what I said, I don’t care if the, all of the celebrity was standing around, I run right up to Him and said, ‘Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God; Thou art the King of Israel.’” Because it was Scriptural, he knew it. “Thou art the King of Israel.”

103 Poor ol’, patient Andrew, he had waited so long for his testimony. And, but Nathanael…And then everybody knowed the moon was coming up. And so, the testimony meeting, you know, when a good testimony meeting gets started, why, they—they just, you just don’t know when time runs out, you just keep on going. So, oh, they were so interested, each one listening to the other one’s testimony.

104 And then Andrew said, “Brethren, let us all think of this, being that we are talking about His ministry, if it is with the Word of God or not, we all know that. Let me call your attention: You remember that day He said, ‘I am going to take you all to Jericho’? We’re all aware of that.” And Andrew must have stood up, rocked the boat a little bit maybe, quietened in a minute.

105 And he said, “All of you remember when we went down, was going to Jericho, and the next morning, it was strange, after we got up and put our cloaks on again, and He said, ‘I have need, go by Samaria.’ We thought that was strange, how He would go up around Samaria, instead of going right to Jericho.

106 “And we walked, and you remember, we left without breakfast, and we got hungry. And about eleven o’clock in the day, we come to this city called Sychar, and we—we set down there by the well, and He sent us all away, and we went down into the city. Remember, what a time, when they said, ‘Are you one of them holy roll-…, or, you one of them?’” So, excuse me, I oughtn’t to have said that, maybe. See? But, “‘Are—are you one of them with that Galilean group out there? Are you one of them?’ And so, they wouldn’t even give us nothing to eat. Oh, my, It was bad. And we slipped back out.

107 “And we noticed a strange thing, there was a young, pretty woman coming up towards the well, with a pot for her water setting on her shoulder, her head. And as she walked up, we seen her set the pot down, and put the hooks in it, get ready to let down the windle, and we noticed that our Lord was setting with His head bowed. We noticed His eyes when it raised up, and we noticed that she was marked a prostitute, ill fame. She wouldn’t have been out at the pump at that time of day, the virgins go out early, so then, we knew that she was a woman of ill fame.

108 “And we just thought, you know, each one of us said, ‘Let’s see Him run her away from that well.’ You remember how carnal we were, brethren? We just see Him run her away from that well. So we hid in the bushes. You all remember it?”

“Yeah. Amen. We remember it. Uh-huh.”

109 “And we was going to watch our Master run this woman of ill fame out of His Presence. So she started to let down the—the water kettle, down to get the water, and our Lord said to her, ‘Woman, bring Me a drink.’ My! You remember how we looked at one another? That would be a strange, how that a woman of that type could be asked to do a favor for the Lord.”

110 But you know, God works in—in mysterious ways, He loves the worst of us. If He hadn’t, I—I wouldn’t be here tonight. And I’m sure we all feel that way. Yes.

111 “And when…She was surprised, she looked around, and she said, ‘Sir, You are a Jew, and I’m a woman of Samaria, and we don’t have any dealings with one another. Why would You get fresh with me, ask me a question like that?’

112 “And He said, ‘Woman, if you knew Who you were talking to, you would ask Me for a drink.’ And we wondered, ‘What was He trying to do?’ and ‘Why was He trying to use a woman like this to do something with?’ Said, ‘If you knew Who you were speaking to, you would ask Me for a drink, I would give you waters that you wouldn’t have to come here to draw.’” Oh, my! I wish…Aren’t you glad that you got that same invitation? “And we all wondered, as we was standing hiding in the bushes…Matthew, you remember? You wrote that down.” “Oh, yes, I’ve got it, don’t worry.” I’m reading it tonight, you see. So he said, “You—you wrote that down?” “Yes.” “And we was all hid back there in the bushes.” “Uh-huh.”

113 “And the…they got in the conversation, and, about where people ought to worship.” And you know, they’re still in that conversation, one said, “You have to worship in the Methodist church.” The other one said, “The Baptist church.” The other said, “The Catholic church.” And the other one said, “The Pentecostal church.”

114 “But you know what He said? ‘The true worshippers worship Him in spirit and truth, and the Father seeketh such.’ And we wondered then, what He was trying to do, but now we understand, He was trying to contact her spirit. We realized then why He had need to go up…

115 “You know, one time He told us, when He raised Lazarus up there, He said the Father had sent Him away. And you remember He told that man at the—at the…that day, when He…all of them was trying to touch His garments, and He went through that great multitude there at the—the pool of Bethesda, and He turned around and told them, ‘Verily, verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing’? So we understand now, but then…

116 “And then we noticed that, that the woman was getting…setting, oh, on the well, holding the pot on her hand yet, to get the water in, and He said to her, ‘Woman, go get your husband and come here.’ And you know what you said that time, Bartholomew? ‘How did He know she had a husband?’

117 “And the woman was surprised, and her—her pretty hair fell down around her face, and her big, bright eyes shined, and she said, ‘Sir, I have no husband.’ And we all thought, ‘Oh, my! Something wrong now.’

118 “And to our surprise, He said, ‘You’ve told the truth.’ Then we were surprised, wasn’t we, brethren? We didn’t know. He said, ‘Because you’ve had five, and the one you’re living with now is not your husband.’

119 “Now, we wondered what kind of reaction was coming from this. And she looked straight into His face and said, ‘Sir, I perceive that You are a Prophet.’” [Blank spot on tape—Ed.]

120 And about that time Nathanael said, “Yes, I thought how much different it was from our rabbi, she seemed to know more about God than the rabbi did, because he said He was a devil. Seems like the woman, we knew then, had been reading the Scriptures, we wondered what next she was going to say.”

121 “She said, ‘Sir, I perceive that You are a Prophet.’ And we looked at one another, ‘A woman of that kind of a caliber? She’s surely been studying the Scrolls, and yet, she’s not a Jew.’ Watch what she says now: ‘We know that Messiah, is called Christ, He is coming, and He is going to be a Prophet, because Moses said so, when He comes, He is going to tell us these things. But Who are You? You must be a prophet.’ “Jesus said, ‘I am He that speaks to you.’

122 “And you remember? Upon that she dropped that pot, and took out into the city just as hard as she could go, screaming, ‘Come, see a Man Who has told me the things that I’ve done. Now, you people who believe, to read the Scriptures, doesn’t the Scriptures say that that is the sign of the Messiah?’”

123 Now, let me stop the testimony, come down here just a minute, here to—to Columbia. Did you notice? He never did that before any of the Gentiles, just Jews and Samaritans. That’s right. And there’s only three races of people on the earth, if you believe your Bible, that’s

124 And the Jews was looking for a Messiah, He showed them what the Messiah was, Nathanael, Peter, and them, prove that He was that Prophet that Moses spoke of. And the—the Samaritans was looking for a Messiah, and He showed them right there Who He was. But the Gentiles, we, we were worshipping idols then, we wasn’t looking for no Messiah.

125 I’d like to ask this—ask this question tonight, while we’re… then we’ll—we’ll turn our screen on again, but while we’re here: The Gentiles, now, that was ending up for the Jews, and now the Gentile age is ending up. And if we are looking for a coming Messiah, and we believe that in the form of the Holy Spirit, He is here, and the Bible said He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, Hebrews 13:8, and if that was the identification mark in them days, and that Messiah said in Saint John 14:12, “He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also,” and He said, “As it was in the days of Lot, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man…” Did you notice it?

126 Don’t get them threes out of your mind, like justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost; Father, Son, Holy Ghost, all those perfection numbers; first Coming to redeem His Bride, second Coming to catch His Bride away, third time, coming with His Bride, see, all—all the threes, all through the Bible.

127 Now, watch it close, there’s three classes of people, that’s, believers, make-believers, and unbelievers. And at the end, when…There’s three churches that these three people belong to: Abraham represented the Church elect, Lot represented the church formal in the world, but then Sodomites represented the world.

128 And coming to Abraham was three Angels. Two of them went down, and preached the Gospel and tried to call Lot and his people out, trying to find even ten people that were righteous. But One stayed back, and the One that stayed back and talked to Abraham, and the elected Church…I believe the Church is elected, it’s by God’s foreknowledge, it’s predestinated to, because He predestinates by foreknowledge, you see. That Church is going to be there, now, whether I am or not, I don’t know, I have to work out my salvation. But—but I know the Church is going to be there, that’s right, I just hope I’m part of It. And I believe, as long as I’m part of It, I’ll be there with It. That’s where my hope rests, right there.

129 And now, there, Lot had the Gospel preached to him, and his… the sins of the city vexed his righteous soul daily. And when he seen these modern Billy Graham, and so forth, coming, there was something struck him, he knew that that was a little more than a ordinary man. They didn’t perform much miracles, just smote some people blind one night, and—and preaching the Gospel smites the unbeliever blind, that’s right.

130 But this Angel that stayed with the Church elected, Abraham and his group, set with His back turned to the tent. And Sarah, she was a little differen some of our modern sisters today. You know, don’t it make you feel kind of bad when, you know, men start talking, and women come out and butt right in, and, oh, kind of rude? They…

131 You know, when God made a woman, He gave her the feminish spirit to be dainty and sweet, like the real Christian sisters are. But these women with overalls on, a cigarette in their mouth, and stomp right out and cuss, and sing, God Bless America, you see. And that—that, it just don’t seem…it seems rude. It just don’t…There’s something that’s wrong, you see. That’s right, see. And, but little Sarah was a little, Pentecostal sister that stayed back and take care of her business, she was back in there cooking some dinner, see.

132 And so, the Angel setting there was watching Abraham. Now, remember his name was Abram just a day before that, just before it, and Sarah wasn’t Sarah: Sarra, S-a-r-r-a, and it changed to S-a-r-a-h, and A-b-e-r-h-a-m; Abraham, “father of nations,” and Sarah, “princess.” So this was a strange Man, He had dust on His clothes, He was just dressed like an ordinary man, and He stood there, and He said, “Abraham…”

133 Now, He just come up and set down, Abraham went out and invited Him in, He, just an ordinary man, started to pass by, he said, “Come in, set down, I’ll fetch a little water, and wash Your feet. And—and I’ll give You a morsel of bread, then You go on Your way.” Abraham, I believe, kind of thought there was something strange there. See? Oh, there’s just something about it, you can just feel it, when He comes around. You can just tell when you’re talking to Him. See?

134 Said, “Set down.” And he got the fly bush and, how many of you southerners still know what a fly bush is? No? The race is fading out. Why, we never had a screen door till just recently. And had the ol’ fly bush out there, you know, and watching him eat. And he killed a calf, and fed this Man some bread that Sarah had baked, and some veal chops, and He had some milk, He set there and eat, and he shooed the flies away while They was eating.

135 And so He kept looking over towards Sodom, and He said, “Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?” Whew! They call it telepathy today, I mean, the modern name they want to call it. That’s what they said Jesus was, “Beelzebub, a fortuneteller.” What kind of a telepathy would that be?

136 “Abraham,” called him by his national name, or, international, “Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?” Princess! Watch it, how it’s spelled. And now remember, the Scripture said she was in the tent behind the Man. And He said, “Abraham…”

137 Course, Abraham was a hundred years old right then, and Sarah was ninety, so they were both well stricken in age. Sarah a little grandma-like, you know, and—and they’d been promised this baby, and she was waiting on it, and Abraham with beard hanging way down, stooped, you know, on his stick. He said, “Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?” And Abraham said, “She’s in the tent behind You.”

138 He said, “Abraham, I,” I like that. I is a personal pronoun, so… “I am going to visit you, according to the time of life,” that He had promised. Now you see Who That was.

139 And Sarah, in the tent, you know, we call it today, “laughing up your sleeve,” you know, she said, “Me, an old woman, ninety years old, and my lord,” which was her husband, “out there is old, well stricken.” Why, as husband and wife, they probably hadn’t been as husband and wife for ten, twenty years. And to think, “Me, an old woman, and my husband, an old man, and we’re going to have pleasure together like young people?” And she laughed to herself.

140 And the Angel said, or, the Man said, “Why did Sarah laugh in the tent, saying these things can’t be?” She tried to deny it, but He said, “Yes, you did.”

141 Now, let me just drop a little—little note right here, I hope you people catch it, you people that believe in the, God’s grace, right then God would have slew that woman, of her unbelief, He wouldn’t have fooled with her another minute. That, That was God, Himself. Now, you read, and see if It…

142 You say, “It was a man.” Say, “Could God eat meat, and God do this?” Exactly right. Abraham talked to Him and see if It isn’t Elohim. God made Hisself known in a body of flesh and performed the sign.

143 And the reason that God didn’t take the life of Sarah: He couldn’t do it, for she was a part of Abraham, and Abraham had the promise. Oh! You get it? Oh, my! Then He can’t take us, we’re part of Christ. See, He would have had to take Abraham too, ’cause that’s part of Abraham. And when He…We are the Bride of Christ, the Church is, and then, what is in Christ, we are a part of Him. And said that He couldn’t do it.

144 And He said, “Yes, you did.”

145 Now, Jesus said, “As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man.” What was it? God, Jehovah, manifested in human flesh. And now, the Holy Spirit, God, in the last days, just before the destruction of burning the earth with fire, like He was going to burn the earth at Sodom, we got modern evangelists that’s sweeping the earth in church natural, and the Holy Spirit has come into human flesh, the Church, that’s the sign to the Gentiles.

146 Let’s go back on Galilee just a minute. Oh, what a time they were having! I believe they were all hollering, “Amen,” too. And then, we could go to, oh, Bartimaeus, that how Jesus, going up there towards Calvary, coming out of Jericho, and Bartimaeus, that ragged ol’ beggar setting there, and, why, He could have never heard him, naturally.

147 Why, there was thousands of people following Him, hollering, “Hey, you that can raise the dead, we got a graveyard full of them up here, let’s see you come do it.” Throwing overripe fruit at Him, and everything. His face set towards Calvary, He was going.

148 But that ol’ beggar perhaps knowing he might…Some young Christian girl might have come by, and the poor ol’ fellow, they was tramping him down, and he said, “Madam, tell me Who passes by? What’s all the commotion?” It’s strange, where Jesus is, is lot of commotion, noise, one for Him, one against Him.

149 So they—they find out that this young lady said, “Why, Sir, I am a follower of this young Prophet. You are a believer in the Scriptures, aren’t you?” “Oh, sure.” “Well, don’t you know…? Did you ever read the Bible, ’fore you lost your sight?” “Many times.” “Do you know, the Son of David?” “Yes, He is to come.” “There, He has just passed by.”

150 Then Bartimaeus must have said, “If That is Him, my voice, I’m weak and old, the only thing I can do is say, ‘Jehovah, have mercy.’ O Jesus, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me!”

151 And the faith of that beggar stopped Him, just like the woman with the blood issue stopped Him with the touch of her faith. The faith of that beggar stopped Him, and He stood still. I’d like to preach on that, tomorrow night: And Jesus Stood Still, all right, if the Lord will.

152 Now, notice, and He stood and called him, and said, “What would you that I would do?”

153 I can remember Zacchaeus up in the tree. And he got up there to hide, you know, he said, “Oh, I’m a businessman here in the city, I’d never be mixed up with that bunch of holy-rollers,” hear them coming up, “so I’ll get up this tree, and when He passes by I’ll draw my opinion of Him.”

154 Here He comes walking right under the tree, you know, He stopped, said, “Zacchaeus, come down,” setting up there with leaves pulled all around him, so nobody would see him. But He knows just where you are, you might pull Methodist leaves, and Baptist leaves, and all kind of leaves around you, but He knows right where you are, tonight.

155 While they were…Ooh! While they were out there…We’ll hurry up the testimony and then pray for the sick. Let’s watch just a minute, go back, a little further back, let’s go back now, is, they said, “Oh, praise God!” They were all shouting, and having a great time.

156 And a little breeze blew up. What was it? Satan must have looked up from over that desert, dry hill, and he thought this: “There they are, and they’ve gone off without Him, now is my chance.”

157 That’s what he wants, to get the Church. You know, lately we’ve been so busy anyhow, you know. There’s been a revival across the land, it’s kind of died down now, fires are going out. But we been so busy, making new organizations and new sensations, and I wonder if we don’t run off sometimes without Him. You know, He is the Word, right, the Word. Stay with the Word. God can do anything He wants to, but to me, just, He is the Word, as long as it’s in the Word Here, then I believe it. See?

158 So we been running here and there, and running after everything, but I—I—I…maybe we might have left Him somewhere. So as soon as the devil sees the church without Christ…You know, it’s too bad, I’ve…I almost preached on that, but it’s too many of us fell in love with television programs, instead of Wednesday night prayer meeting, then we just—just, kind of going off without Him. We got a hold of a lot of money, and we got to thinking about dressing, and our sisters all cut their hair off, and going around, we got kind of fashion, looking at the other churches, and I…maybe we go off without Him. See?

159 So the devil said, “Now is my time to get them.” That’s when he takes that dead shot. So they’re going off without Him. So he raised up across the hill, and begin to blast his breath out, “I’ll sink them.”

160 And the poor fellows started pulling, they tried to hoist the sail, and the winds cut the sail down. And they tried to pull with their oars, and they broke. They tried to join one church and then another. First thing you know, their own little bark was waterlogged.

161 That’s what’s the matter today. Hmm, hmm, hmm! Oh, I—I tell you it’s, He is great. And I think a lot of little barks is becoming kind of waterlogged, but you know, they find out that they pulled with all their heart in sincerity, so no matter how much sincerely you pull, you’ve got to have Him. So they pulled, and they pulled, and all hopes was gone, just about ready to die.

162 And that’s about where it’s at now, she’s going right out formal again, the little church that once professed holiness, living for God, going right straight back in the world again, making her inroads right out. And if they won’t have them in this one, they act like this, they’ll go to another one, and act like that. See? Just little inroads, devil will see that you got a way out. That’s right.

163 Now, we find out all this was taking place, and all hopes was gone. But you know what? Here is the good part about the story: He hadn’t left them. He sent them away on a revival, waving, shaking hands with the people, and have a jubilee. But you know what He done? He climbed the highest hill there was around there, so He could watch them. That’s what He has done.

164 He climbed Calvary, they cut Him off of there, they buried Him, and then He started climbing, and, “He climbed till He passed the sun, moon, and stars, Jupiter, Venus, Neptune, and Mars,” just kept going, “He climbed till He passed this ol’ house of clay, and then went running up the Milky White Way.”

165 He climbed so high until He passed Heaven. The Bible said He looks down upon It, you know. He is higher than the Heavens. His Name is above everything that’s called in Heaven. He got way up there, so He could look back and see the whole universe. As the ol’ song used to go, “His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.”

166 And right in the hour when all hopes that the…the Church was waterlogged and was going out on the wrong end, here He come walking right among them, and they were scared of Him. The only Hope they had of saving themself from that waterlogged ship in that storm, they was scared of the only Hope they had, they were afraid of It. If they had just knowed the Scripture! They were afraid of It, and they said, “It is spooky, it is a spirit,” and they cried out for fear. “Don’t have nothing to do with it, it’s telepathy, it’s a fortuneteller.” Jesus spoke, said, “Don’t be afraid, It is I.” He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. You believe that, don’t you?

167 I hate to stop this testimony, but I—I’d like for us…I trust now, as we pray, that He will give us a personal testimony. Don’t be afraid, It is Him, the same One. He is a High Priest, setting at the right hand of His Majesty in Glory, that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. And if He is the same High Priest that He was then, He can be touched by the feeling of your infirmities, and He will act in the same way He acted then, because He is the same High Priest. Let us bow our heads.

168 Great Heavenly Father, Who has the…Those great men that give the testimony to us tonight, the writer, Matthew, and all the dear beloved saints that were authorized to write this Bible…

169 [Blank spot on tape—Ed.]…say that it’s right, but God, I believe that those disciples were authorized to write the Word, for at the end of the Book, It said, “Whosoever shall add anything to It or take anything from It…” I believe It, my hopes is built on nothing else but That, Lord, and the hopes of this little group of people here, tonight. We appreciate their testimony being kept by You, that we could read it. And we read There that You are the same.

170 Now, Father, I pray that You will walk in, tonight, among the people. And the God that was in that mortal flesh that talked to Abraham, the God that was in the mortal flesh of His Son, Christ Jesus, may that same God make Hisself known, tonight, in a Church that He has sanctified with His Own Blood, and has washed It, and cleaned the house out of unbelief, and moved in to abide unto the end of the world as He promised. Through Jesus Christ, our Lord, I ask it. Amen.

171 Now, I come, not to heal the sick, I come to pray for God’s sick children. I to-…God heals the sick, and the sick is already healed, anyone knows that. I didn’t come to save the lost, I come to tell the lost that they’re already saved, if they’ll just accept it. I’ve come to tell those who have been saved, and wants this evidence, that they have—they have got the assurance and tasted the Heavenly gifts from across the Jordan, yonder, as Hebrews 6 said they would, “been made partakers of the Holy Ghost and tasted the Heavenly gifts.”

172 If you’d like to taste of it, I recommend you to the Book of Acts, where Peter said at the Day of Pentecost, “Repent, every one of you and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” If you’ve never been baptized yet, and you have repented, there’s going to be a baptismal service here tomorrow, come down, believe it. When you step into the waters, believe that God is going to give you the Holy Ghost, He will do it, it’s what He promised. He can’t lie, He has to keep His Word, and He will do it. You come believing it.

173 And now, if you’re sick tonight, I say to you, that One that I’m talking about, when He died at Calvary, right there, the stripes across His back, in the sight of God, purchased your healing, you are already healed.

174 Now, they have orders of laying on hands. I think, maybe, recently we had our Pentecostal brethren, a group of them, to go off, I better not say that. I—I’m no judge of no one, because that, you know, I think of laying on hands, and giving gifts, see, gifts and callings are without repentance, see, they’re ordained before the foundation of the world to be in them things, you see.

175 We might recognize them, and lay our hands on them, as Paul did Timothy there, to sanction it. And knowing that he, the gift was in him, they seen it work, and they just give him the right hand of fellowship, like, to bring him into the service of God. And that’s the only thing we do, by laying our hands on the sick when they’re sick, because, Jesus said, “These signs shall follow them that believe.” Not that the people here…The people that believed would lay their hands on the sick, as a sanction that they believed it.

176 Now, but I believe that Jesus Christ is here, I believe He is here in every strength, and everything that He ever was on the earth, only thing different is the corporal Body that sets on the Throne of God. And that’s there as a peace offering for you, it’s there of your assurance that everything that He died for, you have it, if you’ll accept it and believe it. Believe it.

177 Now, I believe my son said that he gave out some prayer cards. Usually, the first few nights up there, we had no prayer cards, and usually do not, but he said the people were asking for prayer cards, and he gave out prayer cards. Has the people in here got prayer cards? Let’s see. He—he mixes them up together, and gives anybody a prayer card that wants them.

178 Anyone that’s been in the meetings before, know that there is many more gets healed out in the audience then there is on the platform. You don’t have to have a prayer card, it’s just getting someone up here to pray for them, that’s all. Now, I will come pray, you believe.

179 Now, where is Billy? Did he come in? What prayer cards did he give out? I don’t know. What was it? Has anybody got prayer card one? Let’s see if there’s a one like that here. Prayer card number one. Has anybody got it? Hold up your hand. Prayer card number one. Well, maybe it never…Maybe he started somewhere else then. Prayer card number one. Nobody has got prayer card one? Two. Who has prayer card two? Well, then he started there then. All right, Sir.

180 Prayer card one, two, three, stand up. Now, it might…Look around at somebody’s card, it may be somebody deaf and can’t hear, see. They got prayer card one, two, and three. Now, I only see one person standing up. One, two, three. I see this one. What’s yours? Three. Here is two. Where is number one? Well, if they don’t come in…What say? All right. Come. Yes, Sir. Yeah. That’s all right. All right, Sir.

181 Number one, two, three. Now, you come up this way, if you will, you all with the prayer cards come right here, one, two, three, four, five, six, stand up. Four, five, six, all right, take your place right over here. Seven, eight, nine, nine. Oh, all right. Seven, eight, nine. I don’t think we’re going to have too much room there, to stand too many. Seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven. Way back in the back. Eleven, twelve, thirteen, thirteen. Prayer card number thirteen.

182 I don’t want to miss anyone, ’cause we want to pray for everybody that’s got a prayer card, see, and they come and get a prayer card. But don’t take—don’t take your card, go off, and don’t come back, see, somebody ought to have it.

183 Prayer card thirteen. We’ll wait just a moment, maybe it’s a mother with a baby, or something, or had to step out, or something, may be back in a minute.

184 We’ll start right here then, and start at this many, and pray for them, until we…How many you’re missing? All of them there, up to thirteen? What say? Number thirteen missing. Well, we’ll hold right there now, till they come in. All right, Sir. Let…Brother Bigby, if you’ll…Now, receive their prayer cards down there, Brother Bigby, if you will. All right. Now, come up this way, Sir. Just stand right there, just a moment.

185 Now, I believe the man is a stranger to me. We are, don’t know each other, but, as far as I know. He’s a stranger to me. And we do not know each other, but the Lord knows both of us, doesn’t He? Yeah.

186 And how many out there, that doesn’t have prayer cards, and yet you believe Jesus will make you well, you want Him to heal you? Raise up your hands. It’s just solid. Now, you don’t have to have a prayer card. I’ll say this: You do like the woman did at the…that had the blood issue. You know, she didn’t have, we’d call it, say, a prayer card, but she just pressed her way until she got to touch His garment. You remember that? And it stopped Him.

187 Now, He didn’t feel it physically, because the Palestinian garment is loose. And everybody with their…Why, Peter even rebuked Him, said, “Lord, why would You say a thing like that? Why, everybody is touching You.”

188 He said, “But I perceive that I have gotten weak.” The King James says, “virtue has gone,” which, virtue is “strength.” And, “I have gotten weak,” and He looked around over the audience until He found the woman that’s touched His garment, and He told her that her faith had saved her, her blood issue had stopped. Is that right?

189 Now, listen just a moment now, it’ll do real good for you. Now, does the Scripture say that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and forever? I presume this is ministers. Now, does the Scriptures say, in the Book of Hebrews, that He is a High Priest now? He ever lives to make intercession, see, and He can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities? Well, then if He is the same High Priest, and if you can touch Him…

190 You say, “Brother Branham, I’ll walk up and touch Brother Bigby.” Well, that would be nice to show your fellowship, or your love to Brother Bigby. “Brother Branham, I’ll come touch you.” Well, that would be nice, but there is no virtue in us, we’re men, any of these ministers here, we’re men, so it wouldn’t do no good to come here. But why don’t you just remember that you’re risen with Him? And you’re setting with Him, the council of God, Christ, you’re setting with Christ now, all authority is right with you. So why don’t you by faith just touch His garment?

191 “Lord, I have a need, I’m sick, and, Father God, let me touch You tonight, I believe You. And Brother Branham has been telling us a little drama, but it was the truth, the drama was, and he throwed in a few Scriptures there that shows that You are the same, and You have to be the same. So he says that You are here in Spirit form to work today, as You promised before the coming again, that You would be so…”

192 You know, there’s a difference between the appearing of Christ and the Coming of Christ, that’s two different words altogether. He is appearing now in His Church, we see Him, we know It is Him. It is the Holy Spirit, see, we know It is. 193 Now, we believe that the Holy Spirit is God, all of us know that. Fa-…like Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, we don’t believe there is three Gods, we believe there is three offices of the same God. The Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit is three offices that the same God has worked in. That’s the reason Jesus said, “Baptize, using the Name,” title, “Father, Son, Holy Ghost,” see, which they are not saying, “three Gods,” but they are meaning, “one God in three offices,” the same God, three Gods would be heathen, see, but It is—It is the one God, It is in three offices.

194 The Fatherhood, not even a—a animal could touch the mountain, he must be stoned, or cut through with a—a spear. That great Pillar of Fire, then that Pillar of Fire was made flesh and dwelled among us. What is it? God, condescending; we felt God, touched God, God was manifested in flesh among us. Jesus said, “It is not Me that doeth the works, It is My Father, He dwells in Me.”

195 Then He said, “I come from God, and I go to God.” Then He—He died, crucified, rose the third day, and after His ascension, Paul was on his road down to Damascus, one day, to arrest some Christians, and that same Pillar of Fire fell before him, even put out his eyes. The rest of them didn’t see It, but It was so real to him It made him blind. And he said, “Lord, Who are You?” And He said, “I am Jesus.”

196 And if that same God, the Holy Spirit, working among us, then He manifests Himself in our flesh, like He did then. “So I believe it, God. Now, I’m speaking to you as a believer. Now, You speak back the way You did through Your Church.” Why, that’s Him Who, when You speak in unknown tongues, and they interpret it, and tell the truth, That’s God, That’s God in you. See?

197 See, all that God was He poured into Christ, all Christ was He poured into the Church, so it’s God above us, God with us, God in us, see. See? Now, you just believe, and look this way, and say, “Lord Jesus, I believe,” and God will send His Spirit down, and see if He don’t do the same way He did back there.

198 Now, just be reverent. Don’t be just…I want you to praise God, but when you’re approaching these things, come real reverent.

199 Now, here is a man, and here is my Bible, I have never in my life seen this man as I know of. He might have been in a meeting somewhere, and perhaps he’s never seen me. If it has been, it’s been somewhere where he’s been in a meeting, or somewhere, and maybe see me, or… Have you ever looked at me before? Never see me in your life. This is our first time meeting.

200 Now, if…The man, he might be sick, he might be standing there for somebody else, he may have domestic troubles, he may have financial troubles, he might be a deceiver. And if he is, watch what happens. See? Just watch, see. I don’t know. But if the Holy Spirit can come here, and tell two strangers, tell him something that has been, or something about him, or what he’s here for, and he will know whether it’s the truth or not, he will—he will verify that. And then, if He can tell him what has been, surely he’d believe, if you’d tell him what would be. Certainly. See? That’s why we have confidence in the Bible. See? See? It is truth.

201 And I wonder how many of you pilgrims, tonight, sojourners here in the city, and around about, would believe, and know that it would be impossible for me, a man, to do that? Why, sure, it would, if you’re mentally right, you’d believe it. See? It’s totally impossible. So there would have to be some kind of a power to do that, you know he would. Well, now, it depends on what power you think it is, where your reward will come from. See?

202 Now, the Pharisees said, when they seen it, “It’s Beelzebub,” but the believers said, “It’s the Son of God.” Now, we know the Scripture has promised it in this last day, hasn’t It? He promised it, we know.

203 Listen at these ministers here saying, “Amen.” See? That’s your shepherds, they know what they’re talking about. See? They know it. And I am their brother, fellow citizen of the Kingdom, working for the Kingdom of God. They’re clergymen, speakers, great forceful preachers, I am not, this is my ministry, this is when I’m doing my preaching, just by a gift. And I love the people real well, and the Lord let me preach to them this way.

204 Now, if the Holy Spirit will say these things, and do that, will it convince you, every one, that Jesus Christ lives today, and He is here again? It would do you, wouldn’t it, Sir? It certainly did Nathanael, he was a believer, because no matter what any of the rest of them said, it sure worked on him, and he knowed.

205 Didn’t make any difference whether the people down in Sychar believed that woman or not, she had experience, she knowed it, He told her what her trouble was.

206 He knows your trouble, it’s your throat. That’s true. This might help you: You want that throat, because you’re a preacher. It’ll be all right. Go ahead. It’ll be all right. Certainly God loves His people.

207 How do you do, Sister? Now, you believe with all your heart? Amen. Here’s a picture again, that I was talking about, there’s a man and a woman meets for the first time, I suppose. We’re strangers to one another. So if the people back in the back might not be able to see you nod your head, would you just raise up your hand, when I said, “We’re strangers to one another”? I don’t know you, and you don’t know me.

208 Now, here is a picture about like the well in Samaria, where our Lord was setting, and a man and a woman meets for their first time in life. I don’t know her, she doesn’t know me. She’s just a woman, come down a while ago. And—and she might have held up her hand, and boy handed her a prayer card, and, over here, and, happened to be that she’s standing here in the line, that’s all there is to it.

209 Now, the next has to be God. But if He is the same God, and He is in you, and He is in me, and our lives are consecrated to Him, and He has given a gift that I just submit myself to Him, and then He shows me a vision, and then I’ll say, just while the vision is going on, what has taken place, and you’ll know whether it’s the truth or not. I think the other one just passed was a man, this is a woman. See? Then you’ll know.

210 The first thing, the lady is suffering with a bad case of nerves, she’s real nervous. She has got, kind of, complications, many things that’s bothering her. Now, that is true, isn’t it? If that is true, raise up your hand, so the people see.

211 I catch that same spirit always, saying, “He guessed it.” I’m not guessing at that, friends, that’s not a guess. Now, you remember, I’m catching your thoughts. See? See? I used to call them out, many of you know it, then it hurts feelings. Um-hum. See? How many has been in the meetings, and see woman with men, pull a man right out of the meeting, and this one here, and prove they was living in adultery? You’ve seen all of that, and everything that’s taken place. See? But you have to watch. I’ve got a little more wisdom since then, see, ’cause Jesus said let the wheat and stuff grow together, see. This is a good woman, she has a good feeling to her spirit. While she’s got that, let’s see if I was guessing.

212 I forgot. He said, oh, yes, I see it now: “nervous, upset, bothered.” Yeah, you’re bothered about something real bad, you’re scared of a cancer. That’s right. And that cancer is on, not in the middle, it’s on your left breast, that’s right. You’re scared of it, isn’t that right?

213 You’re worried about somebody else too. Do you want me to tell you? Is it all right? It’s your daughter. You want me to tell you what’s wrong with her? She has a—a blood condition. She’s been for a long time, a blood issue. That’s right. Do you believe now? You believe you’re, when you go back, you’re going to find her all right? Go believing. Don’t…Have faith…?…That’s right…?…

214 Amen. See? She has a testimony. Now, you don’t guess those things, friend. Just don’t doubt now, don’t doubt.

215 Before I start the prayer line, you know, praying for the people… I think that’s about two, three is a witness, or, confirmation; I think that’s right, isn’t it?

216 Nice lady standing here, we’re strangers to one another, I suppose. [The sister says, “Oh, no, I was in your prayer line, when you was here before.”—Ed.] Oh, you was in a, well, in a prayer line when I was here before. Well, of course, I wouldn’t know that, you know, so many thousands. I have no idea who you are, or what you’re here for, or nothing like that. That is right. I wouldn’t know, but He knows.

217 If He will reveal it to me, will you accept your healing then? Well, if you’ll believe it with all your heart, you’re nervous too, and complications, and upset, but you’ll never have to have that operation for that tumor in your side, it’ll leave you, if you’ll believe it. Will you believe it? Go on your road, say, “Thank You, Lord Jesus.” Believe with all your heart. [The sister asks, “Wait, right now I won’t have to do the operation?”—Ed.] Just believe with all your whole heart, you won’t have to have it, no, if you’ll just believe it. See, that’s your faith now. See? I…Just have faith, don’t doubt. How do you do, Lady? We’re strangers to each other?

218 Just a moment. That’s a differen woman. Now, just be reverent and pray. Just remember, you got, you can only have two thoughts in your mind. And I’m thankful you’re ninety-nine percent right, you see, you believe it’s God, and it is God. Just a moment. Just think our Lord, the One that we’re going to love, and meet, and go up to meet Him, we are (You know, he come out in the evening time to walk in the fields, and the beautiful Rebekah had never saw him, she just heard of him. She jumped off the camel, and run to meet him.), He has already, maybe, left Glory on His road down, we’re on our road to meet Him now, passing right up to Canaan land. Something happened in the audience, another woman appeared here, not this woman.

219 Yes, I see her now, setting back there praying. Don’t fear, you’re going to be all right. Your legs are troubling you, because you was in an automobile accident. You have on a green dress, and it was a different color green from this one, so there you are. Don’t worry, you’ll get all right.

220 I don’t know the lady, we’re strangers. The Spirit, that Light hanging by the lady, It seemed to cross over to the next lady setting by her. No, it’s not that lady, she’s praying for a child, it’s a little girl that’s got a stomach trouble, that’s up for an operation. That’s her hand up, lay it on the child, there.

221 Heavenly Father, may the power of Almighty God, that’s now, that knows the secret of the heart…Lord, they know I could not heal, because You have already did that, but Your Presence makes them believe, Lord. And if that woman had enough faith that touched Your garment to pull You back into there, surely that baby will be all right. I pronounce it this way, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Just have faith.

222 That man setting across, about even where they are there, that’s got that back trouble, setting there: Sir, if you’ll believe it with all your heart (He’s kind of weeping, watching.), if you’ll believe, your back trouble will leave you, you’ll be all right. God bless you. It’s all over now, you can go home, be well.

What do you think? Isn’t He wonderful? Huh, He sure is. 223 We are strange to each other. There it is again, it—it isn’t this, oh,

it’s, you are standing for somebody that’s got leg trouble, it’s your sister, that’s what it is. Yeah. That’s right. I seen legs, and people that…Yeah, you want her to come to church, bring her, she—she couldn’t even get her shoes and things on. You believe? You go back, and find her the way that you…

224 You believe the infallible Holy Spirit, God, our Father? He is glorious, wonderful, our Lord. But we, we must believe Him with all of our heart, that’s the only way that we can get our blessings from Him, is to accept Him, to believe Him.

225 How do you do? I suppose we’re strangers to each other, God knows both of us. Do you believe that that feeling that you have now…? Now, there could not be a feeling like that come from me. See, I—I can’t explain this, it’s like another dimension, but right around you now, is a Light, the One that you all have here in the picture. That’s what makes her feel that way, standing by a man wouldn’t do that. See? Now, It is moving between me and you.

226 Yes. You are here, and you’re seriously sick, you have a kidney trouble that’s bothering you. And the trouble of it is, that your kidneys has—has failed to function, to throw the poison off, and it’s backing up and bothering you. That’s right. You believe? You’re not from here, you’re from Charleston. You believe with all your heart? Isn’t He wonderful? Listen, Pearl, go on your way. You believe?

227 He heals asthma too, you believe that, don’t you, Sister? Amen. Go believing with all your heart, and you can have what you ask for. Amen. God bless you. Diabetes is nothing for God to heal. He is a real Healer, isn’t He? Amen. “If thou canst believe.” Arthritis cripples a many a one, but if you’ll believe, it won’t cripple you, amen, if you’ll just believe. Just have faith. Are you believing?

228 You didn’t get to hear what was said to the other woman, but arthritis. He can heal you too. You believe that? All right, just go right on, saying, “Thank the Lord Jesus.” Amen. Now, Brother, do you believe? Go eat your supper then. Eat something, that ol’ ulcer will leave you and you can go home, be healed.

229 You believe? Back trouble, kidney. You believe it’ll leave you? Then go on your road, and just start rejoicing, and saying, then, “Thanks be to God,” if you can believe with all your heart, but you must believe.

230 Just a moment. Something somewhere. Younger man than this, must have been in the audience. Here, wait. Yeah, you that jumped just then, impediment of speech. God can give healing to the impediment of speech, if you’ll believe it, if you’ll just have faith.

231 You over there with your hand up, the lady over there on the end with cancer on your left breast, raise your hand. You believe that God can make it well and heal you? All right, Sir. Do you believe He healed you just then? Go on your road, and be happy, and rejoicing, saying, “Thank you.”

232 Let us continue our testimony. Isn’t He wonderful? Can He lie? Certainly not. “Be not afraid, It is I.” Why not invite Him into the little boat tonight? Are you sick? Raise up your hands, children. Raise your hand, you believers. Now, just drop your hands over on somebody near you, you said you was a believer.

233 Now, the One, Who is our God and our King, That is here with us tonight, has give us the assurance that if they lay their hands on the sick they shall recover. You believe that? Are you scared? Are you afraid? Or do you love Him? You believe It is Him? Then invite Him in, say, “Come into me, Lord Jesus. Come into my heart, tonight, I—I want you to take me safely through this journey, and I’m going to be well.”

234 Now, you pray for the person you got your hands laid on. Don’t pray for yourself now, you just pray for the…That man is praying for you, you just pray…I’ll finish up the cards tomorrow night. Lay your hands…Or you might not have to have any tomorrow night. Just lay your hands over on one another, and you’ll go home, be well.

235 Our Heavenly Father, we are bringing to this audience, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Satan has blowed his breath, he’s tried to tell people…Many times, people has took them off on wrong roads. But, tonight, we, sure that this is Your Presence, and You are telling them, “Fear not, It is I, be not afraid.”

236 I’m putting my hands on these handkerchiefs laying here, it’s the sick and the afflicted. O God, may the power of God rebuke every devil that’s bound these people, and in the midst of the people.

237 And Satan, you unbeliever, you can’t hold these people, you can’t make them disbelieve any more. They are aware that the Son of God has been risen from the dead for two thousand years, and that His Presence is here now, in the form of the Holy Ghost. You can’t keep them sick any longer, you can’t keep them like this. Come out of them, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, come out of every one of them that they can be made well.

238 They’ve got their hands on each other, they are believers, Jesus, You said, “These signs shall follow them that believe; if they lay their hands on the sick they shall recover.” It’s Your promise, Lord. Come out, Satan, and let these people go free.

239 All that believe, and accept your healing from Christ, just throw down your prayer card, and stand on your feet, and say, “I’m not afraid, Lord, It is You, and I accept You.” If you’ll do that with faith, you shall receive your healing, if you can believe it. You just believe it. Do you believe it? Then stand up on your feet and accept your healing, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. I give to you…?…

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