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July

Day 182

Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me. When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek. Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. (Psalm 27:7-9)

26 That was the sacrificial Lamb. The Blood was in the shape of the cross, on the lintel on the door post and was a sign that death could not come to that house. And when death tries to strike us, that separation from God, then the Blood is applied by the Lord Jesus Christ, and the death angel cannot take it. No sir, for we are free then.

We are in Christ and led by the Spirit of Christ: led. Many men and nearly all men… I’ll say all men, that’s ever amounted to very much in this life has been men and women who have been led to do the gallant things they’ve done by the Spirit of God.

I think tonight one of the greatest generals that America has ever had was Stonewall Jackson. I believe there’s never been a general that’s like him since Joshua. Why was it he done that? He was a gallant man. He was a man of prayer. He—he closed up everything, even made all of his generals, and everything, don’t even eat breakfast, or nothing, and lay on their face and seek God. Yes, sir. General Grant, or, I’m… Stonewall Jackson, I’m thinking of instead of Grant…

27 General Grant was a drunk, alcoholic, but Stonewall Jackson was a Christian gentleman, and he loved the Book of Joshua. And he wanted to be like Joshua, and God give him the desires of his heart. And one day he was asked, “Why is it, Mister Jackson, that you can stand in such opposition, so many men against you, and you take a little handful and stand?”

He was a very timid sort of a fellow, little short fellow, kind of blue-eyed and dark hair. He kicked his boots on the dust, and he said, “I never put a glass of water to my mouth without thanking Almighty God.”

There’s where it comes from. That’s right. There’s where the secret lays: trusting God, being led by the Spirit of God. God speaks to man; man hears His Voice.

56-0723 – “Led By The Spirit Of God”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

Day 183

And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee; Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise. (Deuteronomy 15:16-17)

60 Now, we notice. And, in the Old Testament, they had what they called the jubilee year. That was when all the people, that was slaves, could go free when the jubilee sounded. And then if a man did not go out, if there was some excuse that he could give, that he didn’t want to return to his land, then he had to be marked in the ear, with an awl, by the post in the temple. And then no matter how many jubilees come along, that man was sold out. He could never no more come back as a citizen in Israel, no more. What did he do? He rejected his invitation. He didn’t have to pay nothing. The debt of his slavery was over. His family was free. He could go right back to his homeland and get his own possession. But if he refused to do it, then he wasn’t lotted no more with Israel, and his possession was give to another.

61 Now, the same thing in the natural applies to the spiritual. That, if we, as inheritants of Eternal Life, and we hear the Gospel and know that It’s true, and we reject It, and refuse to do it or to listen to It, we take on the mark of the beast.

62 Now, somebody said, “Now, there’s going to be a—a mark of the beast, it’s going to come some day.” Let me tell you. It’s already come. See? As soon as the Holy Ghost begin to fall, the mark of the beast begin to take place. See?

63 You only have two things. One of them, is, accept It, takes the Seal of God. To reject It, takes the mark of the beast. To reject the Seal of God is to take the mark of the beast. Everybody understand? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] To reject the Seal of God is to take the mark of the beast. For, the Bible said, “All that was not sealed by the Seal of God took the mark of the beast.”

64 When the trumpet sounded, and all wanted to go free could go. Them that didn’t, was marked.

Now, you see, the mark of the beast, if we talk about it in the future, is when it’s going to be made manifest, when you realize it’s what you’ve already done. See? And so is the Holy Spirit, It’s to be manifested. When we see the Lord Jesus coming in glory, and feel that transforming power, and see the dead rising out of the grave, and know that a second longer, we’ll be changed and have a body like His. It’ll be made manifest. Then, to see those who rejected It, will be left down, out.

63-0630e – “Is Your Life Worthy Of The Gospel?”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

Day 184

Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the Lord thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the Lord shall choose to place his name there. (Deuteronomy 16:2)

40 God has not chosen to put His Name in any denomination. I want the Scripture for it, if it is. I know they claim He has, but He hasn’t. He cannot put His Name in many places, because He said He put His Name in one place. And, that one place, each one of our denomination wants to say they are that place, but it’s contrary.

But where did He put His Name?

41 Now, and, He, what is His Name, first? We’ll have to (Name) find what God’s Name is before we can find what it is He is putting in the place.

Now, we find out that He had many titles. He is called the…He was called “Father,” which is a title. And He was called “Son,” which is a title. He was called “Holy Ghost,” which is a title. He was called “Rose of Sharon,” which is a title. “Lily of the Valley,” a title, “Morning Star.” “Jehovah-jireh, Jehovah-rapha,” seven different, compound, redemptive names, and all of them were titles. None of them were names.

But He has a Name.

42 When He met Moses, He had not a Name yet, and He told Moses, “I AM THAT I AM.” And when we see Jesus on earth, speaking in Hebrews the 6th chapter…I beg your pardon, Saint John the 6th chapter. He said, “I AM THAT I AM.”

They said, “Why, You’re a Man not over fifty years old, and say that You ‘seen Abraham’?”

43 He said, “Before Abraham was, I AM.” And “I AM” was the One, the burning bush, the Pillar of Fire that was in the burning bush back in the days of Moses, the “I AM THE I AM.”

44 And now we find out that Jesus said, also, “I came in My Father’s Name, and you received Me not.” Then, the Name of the Father must be Jesus. That’s right. The Name of the Father is Jesus, ’cause Jesus said so. “I carry My Father’s Name. I come in My Father’s Name, and you received Me not.” Then, His Name was Jesus.

And Gabriel called Him Jesus, the prophets called Him Jesus, and He was absolutely Jesus. Before His birth, even the holy prophet called His Name Emmanuel, which is, “God with us.” Then, “God was manifested in the flesh, in order to take away the sin of the world,” and, in doing so, He was given the Name of Jesus. So, Jesus is the Name.

And the Name was placed in a Man; not a church, not a denomination, not a creed, but a Man! He chose to place His Name in Jesus Christ. Now we find out that then He becomes the place of God’s worship, where you worship Him.

45 Ever before He was even born, His Name was called Jesus. It was so important, it was give to His mother by the Angel Gabriel, that His Name would be called “Jesus, Son of God,” what He was.

46 There we have it, then. This is it, alone. It is, for Him alone, God’s chosen place of worship. God’s place, chose. God chose to meet man; was not in a church, not in a denomination, not in a creed, but in Christ. That’s the only place that God will meet a man, and he can worship God, is in Christ. That’s the only place. No matter if you’re Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Protestant, whatever you might be, there is only one place that you can correctly worship God, that’s in Christ.

Romans 8:1, said, “There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, that walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” That’s the Gospel.

65-0220 – “God’s Chosen Place Of Worship”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

Day 185

I will extol thee, O Lord; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me. [2] O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. (Psalm 30:1-3)

4 Now, when you become a Christian, you—you come and confess Jesus to be your Saviour. You believe it. When you go outside, your—your critic friends, they say, “I don’t see no difference in you.” But you believe there is. Then you go acting like there is, then after a while everybody knows there is.

5 See, Jesus [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] is the High Priest of our confession. He can’t do nothing for you, till first you accept it and confess that it’s already done. And He will make your body, your nature, come in subject to His Word. Do you understand now? See? You must act just like it’s already done.

6 I remember when I was so sick, the best doctors I knew of, they said I couldn’t live. I had stomach ulcers that was bursted. And they said that one mouthful of solid food, I would take acute indigestion and would die in a few moments. I was reading the Bible. He said, “When you ask anything, believe you receive it.”

7 I went out telling people that I was healed. When I’d swallow my food, it would try to come back up. I’d say, “Oh, no,” hold my hand over my mouth, swallow it back again. God promised.

8 I’d go down the street. They’d say, “Hello, Brother Branham. How you feel?”

I’d say, “The Lord has healed me. Praise the Lord.”

9 Here come a big mouthful up; I’d swallow it back. I said, “Satan, if you don’t like to hear me testify, you might as well go, for I believe Jesus told the truth. But if you want to stay around, you’ll sure hear me testify of His healing power.”

10 The first thing you know, it was all gone. And when I went to show the doctor, he said, “Well, did you change doctors?”

I said, “Yes, sir.”

He—he said, “Who are you… be… going to now?”

I said, “Doctor Jesus.”

11 He said… He scratched his head; he said, “I don’t believe I ever heard of him,” said, “Where is his office?”

12 I said, “In Glory.” That’s where His office is, but His power is here.

55-0625 – “Show Us The Father”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

Day 186

And the Lord said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. (Deuteronomy 18:17-19)

44 We noticed the disciples, one time, after the…Well, it was the first Easter morning. What a morning! Jesus, up from the dead, walking among the flowers. And two friends, Cleopas and one of his friends, was on the road down to Emmaus. And they were walking along talking, grieved at their heart. And a Man stepped out of the bush, and walked with them the rest of the day, talking to them about Christ. And that evening, they asked Him. He act like He was going to pass them by, but they asked Him to come in. He did.

45 And, when He did, He did something there the way He done it before His crucifixion and His resurrection. Before He was crucified, they seen Him do it just like He did. They recognized it was Him, though been with Him all day long and never recognized Who He was.

46 It’s possible, today, that good man, fine man, walk with Christ, reading His Word, and still don’t recognize that this is the hour that certain things of this Bible must be fulfilled. It’s the hour that we’re living in, the time is at hand when these things must be done. It’s written, and thus it must be fulfilled because God promised it. Yes, our eyes must be opened to see the Word. Now, you can look at the Word…

47 The Pharisees had that Word drawed out just exactly the way the Messiah was coming. They believed they were right. And here He was born and walked right among them, and they condemned Him; when He told them, “You search the Scriptures, for in Them you think you have Eternal Life, and They are They that testify of Me.”

“Search the Scriptures.”

They said, “We are Moses’ disciples.”

48 He said, “If you would be Moses’ disciples, you would know Me, for Moses wrote of Me.”

49 And He did. Moses said, “The Lord your God shall raise up a Prophet like unto me, a law-giver, and so forth, and a Prophet, and Him the people shall hear.”

50 See, if they’d have knowed Moses’ writing, they would have knowed Him. They thought they knowed Moses’ writing, but, you see, they didn’t know it. See, they were blinded to that very fact.

51 So just a few words from Him, like that, what did they do? Sprung up and said, “This Man has got a devil. Comes to teach us? What school did He come from? We have no record of Him. Wonder whose fellowship card He is packing?” Or, something on that order was the question.

52 But they failed to look and see that the very God that promised the Word was a vindicating it right there through that Person of Jesus Christ, for He was the Light of the hour. He was the Light for the people to walk in. And, only Word of God produces Light. Only God’s Word produces Light.

53 God’s Word produces the sunshine. God’s Word produces the earth. God’s Word produces the air. Everything is the Word of God made manifest, everything that’s got a reality to it.

64-0122 – “Looking Unto Jesus”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

Day 187

Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. (Psalm 32:1-2)

50 And that’s the way with a real Christian. Did you know a real Christian doesn’t have even any sin at all imputed to him? David said, “Blessed is the man who God will not impute sin to.” When you’re washed in the Blood of the Lamb (not by make-belief, but really the—the Blood of the Lamb), God does not impute to you anything that’s done, because you’re under the Blood and He doesn’t see it. There’s a Blood sacrifice; the only thing He can see you in, is the way He saw you before the foundation of the world when He put your name in the Lamb’s Book of Life. That’s all He can look at, because you are redeemed from everything that was ever done, you’re washed in the Blood of the Lamb. Therefore there’s no gall in you, there’s no unclean habit in you, because that the Blood of the Lamb has did this; and God cannot impute sin to you after you’ve got a sin-offering laying there waiting for you.

51 “Well,” you say, “that gives me plenty of room then, Brother Branham, I can do what I want to.” I always do; always. But when a man can really see what Jesus done for him, and turn around and do something contrary to Him, it shows he never received Christ.

52 I got a little wife setting back there. She’s ten years younger than me, and is gray as I am. The reason is because she’s stood between me and the—and the outside world. If I was going overseas, and I’d…Wouldn’t this be some sort of a family to live in, if I’d gather my family around me and I’d say: “Looky here, Mrs. Branham, you want to realize that you’re Mrs. William Branham. Thou shalt not have any other husbands while I’m gone. Don’t you make eyes at any other man,” and all these things. “Don’t you flirt at all. If you do, when I come back I’m going to divorce you.”

53 And she’d turn around and say, “Now, my good man, I want to tell you something also. Thou shalt not take out any other woman while you’re gone. Thou shalt not do this and that. If you do, just consider yourself divorced when you come home.”

54 Now, wouldn’t that be a loving family? See? No! If I really love her…Though I believe if I did make a mistake and slip and do something wrong, I believe she’d forgive me for it because she loves me. And if she did, I believe I’d forgive her for it; certainly, because I love her. But if I love her like that, as long as I love her like that she has no worry. Though she would forgive me, I wouldn’t hurt her for nothing. I—I—I’d feel the guiltiest guy in the world, I couldn’t wait for the minute I’d tell her about what I done, because I love her. Well, that’s…If I love her with phileo love like that, how much greater would my agapao love be to Jesus Christ?

55 Though I might smoke a cigarette, I never in my life; but though I would, He might forgive me for it, I believe He would. If I took a drink, I never in my life, but I believe He’d forgive me for it. And I love Him too much, (God, help me) I don’t want to do anything like that, see, because I love Him. That stuff is gone from me, because when He changed me from a crow to a dove it made a difference, my appetite and things left me; then sin is not imputed to me because I don’t aim to do it, it’s not in me to do it.

65-1128e – “On The Wings Of A Snow-White Dove”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

Day 188

Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright. Praise the Lord with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings. Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise. For the word of the Lord is right; and all his works are done in truth. (Psalm 33:1-4)

2 I just come a little early, tonight, and was sitting back there on one of the—the benches, when I heard that good old fashion singing, and the choir, and the—the music. My, I thought maybe the Millennium was about ready to start. That sounded real good. If anything I like is good singing. And I wished… I always thought I’d like for the Lord to give me voice to sing. I—I just can’t hardly make a joyful noise. So but…

If you want an appointment with me, as soon as life is over, and it’s all finished, there’s a… Where the river of Life comes out from under the Throne, and comes down, this way, and goes around the mountain of—of salvation, and there—where the trees are on either side of the mountain; over on that side, there’s a choir sings. All the great voices sing over there. There’ll be Sankey, and all of them over there singing.

And over on this other side, there’s this little tree; I’ll be setting under that tree listening. So now… That’s where I want to be to hear that great, Angelic choir join in with the mortals. But you know, I was thinking, that the Angels, when Jesus comes… And one singing I want to be at, the great singing, is to hear the time that when we stand upon this earth and sing the songs of redemption.

Angels will stand just out—off the earth with bowed heads, not knowing what we’re singing about. They never had to be redeemed. We are the ones will be rejoicing. We were the ones that were lost, and now we’re found. And we’ll sing the redemption stories, when they won’t even understand it. They’ll just stand with bowed heads, and listen to us sing. Won’t that be a wonderful time? Oh, I long to see that.

3 I love good singing, but it’s one thing I don’t like is an overtrained voice, overtrained, one that holds their breath just so long, till they get blue in the face. You know, they’re not singing to the Lord, they’re just trying to see how long they can hold their breath.

There’s nothing any prettier than old fashion pentecostal singing, with the glory of God in the meeting. That’s real joy to my heart, and I was so glad to refresh myself in the presence of that good singing tonight. The Lord bless you, and keep that up.

58-0512 – “Life”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

Day 189

The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. (Psalm 34:15-19)

26 And if we will just draw from this conclusion this morning. And that’s what we’re here for. We’ve heard the Easter story, over and over, and read it back and forth; and today, on your radio broadcasts, you’ll hear different ministers approaching it. But what I thought, for my little group this morning, the Lord has given me, I would approach it from a different standpoint if I could, coming to a place of: Why do we come to these troubles? What makes these things come? Why should a Christian ever be perplexed? Why would not everything, just run perfect for a Christian? But it doesn’t, and we know it.

27 And sometimes we have more troubles when we become a Christian than we did when we were sinners. Course, It is written, “Many is the afflictions of the righteous, but God delivereth him from them all.” God promised many afflictions, strange feelings, and strange things that would be beyond our understanding, but it’s always done for our good. We just can’t understand it, because, if we did, then it would not be a faith to us; we would go with an understanding. But we do it, and we have it, and we believe by faith, His Word, that it’s going to work some good thing for us. If we could grasp that today, on this—this morning. If we could grasp that all of our troubles…And there is none of us immune from them. And if we could realize that those things are for our good!

28 It is written, in one of the Scriptures in the Bible, that, “Trials are brought upon us, are more precious to us than gold itself, for it is God giving us these trials.” After we become His property, our confession and our baptism, and our promise to walk in life for Him, then every trial that comes upon us is to perfect us for His glory. It’s to bring us to a place where God can make Himself more real to us than He was before the trial come.

29 I want to join in this morning with Job, to say that I’ve lived long enough to know that’s the Truth. I have seen it in my own life, that every time a great situation rises, that I can’t get around it, or under it or over it, God makes a way, and comes out glorious. I just wonder how His grace ever does it, but He does it.

30 And remember, in all these things, Satan tries to make us nervous, and upset us, to get us to think, “Oh, why did this happen? Why couldn’t I have been like this?”

31 A few days ago when I come out of the most prettiest, and most gorgeous place I ever saw in all my life, it was the great building of our brother, Oral Roberts. When I seen that solid marble, and not a window in it nowhere, but how it was fixed! And I’ve been in Hollywood and I’ve been in kings’ palaces, and I’ve been in everywhere that could be, hardly, around the world, and all the swanky, lovely places and home, but I never seen anything, any place, to compare, with it, nowhere at all. How the little aluminum wires weave the—the inside together, and, oh, I have never seen anything so gorgeous in all my life. When I walked through there, and took my hands and rubbed those pole pilasters, and—and the great granite; all in the form of a trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the—the carvings of it. All those things! I had just come from Brother Tommy Osborn’s, and seen his great, mighty work there for the Lord.

32 I stood on the outside, looked back at that building, and I thought, “God, surely I have become a hypocrite, surely I have become an outcast, somewhere; for, these men’s ministries come off of mine.” And I thought, “What? Maybe I am so untrusted, Lord, that You couldn’t trust me with anything like that. Even the little, few dollars that You let me pay for the campaigns and things, now they’re trying to send me to the penitentiary for it. And why am I such a hypocrite, or why am I such an untrusted person?”

I was on the ash heap, as Job was of old.

33 When I stood outside there, with just couldn’t hardly get my breath, from such majesty; that a poor boy born in a dugout, a Pentecostal, could do and bring that into that great mammoth building. And I thought, “O God, maybe I am not worthy.”

34 Just then a little Voice came down through those corridors, and said, “But I am your portion.”

35 Then I thought, “O Lord God, oh, just let that stay that way, then, Lord. I…because I wouldn’t have the intelligence to carry on a great work like that for You. And I am an—an illiterate person. But, as long as You are my portion, I am Yours, and You will lead me. I could not lead myself. But, O Lord, lead me!”

36 It’s those crucial hours that press us on to those sacred sands. It was in the Bible. And remember, no matter how great the distress is, Satan cannot take your life until God has finished with you. There is nothing can happen to you unless God permits it. There is no evil can come unless God permits it. And it’s for your good He is working that. Let’s think.

60-0417s – “I Know”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

Day 190

And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples, He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John’s baptism. Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus. When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. (Acts 19:1-5)

136 But the Bible said you did. Now I want some theologian to disagree with that. See? See? It’s got to be. You say, “Well, baptism don’t make any difference.” Well, then, why was it written? Why did it make a difference to Paul? Why did it make a difference to all the rest of them? You’re either baptized…

The Bible said, “You have a name that you live, and you’re dead,” ’cause there’s not another name given under Heaven.

Why will you preach in It, pray in It, everything else, but, when you come to the pool, you reject It? Uh-huh. See?

I said to a man the other day, I said, “What if a man…”

He said, “Don’t make any difference.”

137 I said, “If a man come to you, and then said he was baptized in the name of ‘the Rose of Sharon, the Lily of the Valley, and the Morning Star,’ would you say he’s all right?”

He said, “No, sir.”

I said, “Would you rebaptize him?”

“Yes.”

I say, “How would you baptize?”

Said, “In the name of ‘the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.’”

138 I said, “All right, now you did exactly, you placed…If you call those ‘names,’ you did the same thing he did when he said, ‘Rose of Sharon, Lily of the Valley, and Morning Star,’ because that’s a title, and ‘Father, Son, and Holy Ghost’ is a title. See?”

He said, “But Jesus said baptize, ‘the Name.’”

139 I said, “That’s exactly what He meant do. But what in, not—not…He didn’t say, ‘call these words.’ ‘Baptize them in the Name,’ Name! Oh, my!” I said, “‘Father, Son, and Holy Ghost’ is titles. ‘The Name of the Father, Son…The Name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost.’ See?” I said, “What did Peter say It was? What did the rest of them say It was? See? What is It? Uh-huh. The ‘Lord Jesus Christ’ is the Name of the ‘Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.’” He’s got about thirty thousand natives he’ll have to rebaptize again now. See? All right. But that’s right. Paul said, “If an Angel from Heaven…”

140 Paul told those people that wasn’t baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, Acts 19:5, that, in order to receive the Holy Ghost, they had to come. Though they were shouting and praising God, and doing great things, he said they had to come back and be rebaptized, again, in the Name of Jesus Christ. After John the Baptist had baptized them, had to come back and be rebaptized.

And he said, in Galatians 1:8, “If a Angel from Heaven teaches any other thing than I’ve taught you, let him be accursed.” Yes, sir. So we have to stay right with that Word, every Word of It. See?

141 Notice. Oh, don’t have no flaws; be absolutely sure. If there’s anything doubting in your mind, you better straighten it up now. Don’t wait till then, it’s too late. Don’t wait till you take the mark so deep you’ll never see It any more, you’ll be blind.

He blinded Israel, that He might manifest His Word. He’s doing the same thing to the Gentiles, ’cause here—here they are walking right into it just the same as they did then.

63-1124m – “What Shall I Do With Jesus Called Christ?”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

Day 191

When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee. But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee. That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the Lord thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth. (Deuteronomy 23:21-23)

6 I read a little story some time ago about blind Bartimaeus. He’d said that… I don’t know, it perhaps was fiction. But it said that he begged at the gate of Jericho. And he was a married man, and he had a little girl of about twelve years old. And he had never been able to see this little girl. And when he… If you set by the gate and had nothing for an enchantment to attract the attention of the—the people who passed by, it was much harder to get a coin.

As we see today, they’ll play a instrument or do something. Recently in India, oh, they have a—a cobra snake that they want to blow a little whistle to charm him, or—or a little monkey to beat them with a stick like they’re getting a whipping or something, something to attract the attention.

7 Blind Bartimaeus, they said, had two little turtledoves that turned little tumbles over each other. And that would attract the attention of the passer-by.

And also in this day, we find that a blind person is led by a dog that’s trained to take them across the street. I just forget what they call that. (What? Seeing eye.) In those days, instead of having a trained dog, they had a trained sheep that led them.

And said that one night, Bartimaeus’ wife took real sick. And he went along the side of the house and knelt down after the doctor had left and said that he didn’t know what to do for her. And he prayed to God, and he said, “Lord, if You’ll just let my dear precious wife get well, I promise You that I will take these two turtledoves and offer them to You for a sacrifice.” And his wife got well.

8 Some time later, that his little daughter got sick, very seriously ill with a fever. And he went out the side of his house again and prayed, and said, “Lord, I don’t have nothing left but my lamb. And if You’ll just let my baby live, I promise You that I’ll take my lamb and give it as a sacrifice upon the altar.” And as the little story goes, that his daughter got well.

On his road up to the church to offer the sacrifice, he met the priest. And he said, “Where goest thou, blind Bartimaeus?”

He said, “Priest, I go to the temple of the Lord to give my lamb for a sacrifice.”

And the priest said, “Bartimaeus, thou cannot give this lamb. I’ll… This lamb is your eyes. I’ll give you the money to buy you a lamb. You go to the stalls and—and buy a lamb and offer it, because this lamb is your eyes.”

Blind Bartimaeus said, “I am grateful to thee for this kindness that you’re willing to show to me. But, you see, I never offered God a lamb, I offered Him this lamb.”

“Well,” he said, “you can’t do that, because this lamb is your eyes.”

He said, “Oh, servant of the Lord, if I will only keep my promise to God, God will provide a lamb for my eyes.”

And how true that is. If we’ll just keep our promise to God, our vows, and go to our leadings.

59-0408 – “Blind Bartimaeus”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

Day 192

And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight. And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together. And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead. And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him. When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed. And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted. (Acts 20:7-12)

226 If the pastor preaches over twenty minutes, the trustee board calls him over into the room and say, “Looky here, pastor. We—we didn’t bring you here to do something like that. We have twenty-minutes program. When that’s over, let her go.”

227 What he needs to do is kick that bunch of trustees out the door, and take the Bible and preach all night, like Paul did, and see the resurrection of the dead. Exactly. They put him out of the building; the street corner is all right. “God is able of these stones…”

228 Television, uncensored picture shows, dirt, filth, and makes an example. Look at our young kids today. Look at our girls. See little bitty fellows coming from school, not over six years old, seven, eight, lighting up cigarettes. Why is it? Their mammy before them probably done it. If they didn’t do it, then some of the kids they’re associating with. Watch who your kids play with. Right. Here the other…

229 Some time ago, wife knows it, we was setting at the table. And my little Joseph let out a word that would make a drunken sailor ashamed of himself. I turned around. I said, “What’s that?” And mother like to fainted. The little fellow looked innocent.

230 He said, “What’s the matter, daddy?” And big tears in his eyes.

231 I said, “Don’t you never say a thing like that.” He didn’t know what it was all about. Come to find out, the kids at school was using that dirty word. I said, “Honey, that’s of the devil.”

232 See, there you are, your kids. It’s just got into a place, brother, till it’s just dog-eat-dog, such a conglomeration of sin. Oh, my! Television programs, sin-lovers, pleasure-lovers! Oh, my!

233 “Twenty minutes is long enough. I’ve got to see the late show.” See? “Hurry up and get this out of here. I got to do it.” See? They’ve done their religion. They went down there, and that’s enough.

234 But, I tell you, a real man or woman that’s born of the Spirit of God will set hour after hour, drinking in the Word of God. Not only that, but when it hits there, it anchors and changes the life. Amen. Yes.

63-0119 – “The Way Of A True Prophet”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

Day 193

And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house, Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there: Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God. (Acts 20:20-24)

102 But, you know, I don’t say this sacrilegiously. I say it for truth. I feel like that way Paul did, when He said, in Acts 20:24, “None of these things move me.” “I am determined to know nothing among you; but Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.” I’m not bothered about these absolutes, whether it’s the pope, bishop, or a general overseer, or a counselor, or a system, or whatever it is, none of these things move me. I don’t care if they say, “Well, we—we won’t co-…” That don’t make a bit of difference. I’m determined to know nothing but Jesus Christ, His Word made manifest among us. I’m tied to That. That’s my anchor. I’ve anchored in That.

103 “Since I…” Paul said, “Since I met Him, on the road, I’ve turned around. I’ve…He straightened me out.”

104 My, how He straightened me out! What a straightening He had to do on me. But since He straightened me out, I got tied to It. I seen the Word was Truth, everything contrary to It was wrong.

105 You know what? He had a purpose in saving me. He had a purpose in saving you. And I am determined, by His will, to do His will. The reason He done it, I don’t know why He done it.

106 “Not add to It or take from It!” As I said, Revelation 22:19 said don’t do it. If He’s our absolute, it cannot be otherwise. There is no way for it to be otherwise. He’s got to be the absolute, the last Word.

107 You know, there were millions in sin when I got saved. He had a purpose in saving me. I’m the oddball amongst the brethren, many time; believes in predestination, seed of the serpent, baptism in the Name of Jesus Christ, and all these other things that seems to be…and the visions, and the power of Christ returned back, and condemning organizations and things. I’m the oddball, but He had a reason to save me, a purpose for doing it. He saved me when there was millions of others in sin, but He saved me for some reason. There were educated man, there were smart man, there were theologians, there were bishops and doctors, and so forth, in the field, when He saved me, but He saved me for some reason.

108 And I see the Word is the absolute, and I’m tied to It, and determined I’ll know nothing else but Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. He had a reason for it, and I’m determined to hold that reason. No matter what anybody else says, I don’t disfellowship them or discredit them, but I know what I’m tied to. He wanted me like this. He had me like this. I was made like that for a purpose. I had to be made up of all these qualities, and so forth, and all these no-accounts, so He could dig it out of me; put something in there, that was His Word. And I’m determined I’ll know nothing else but Christ.

63-1201m – “An Absolute”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

Day 194

And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire. Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man. And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings. And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass. And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings. Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward. As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle. Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies. And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went. (Ezekiel 1:4-12)

56 Here, a French scientist said, less than three hundred years ago, “If a man would ever make the terrific speed of thirty miles an hour, gravitation would take him from the earth. Thirty miles an hour!” Well, do you think that science would refer back to that today? Far be it! No, sir. They got him going about nine or ten hundred miles an hour. Yeah, or sometimes in a rocket, and then it’s sixteen hundred miles an hour. And still taking him forward!

57 Science has taken man forward, more forward, greater things with his mind than what…And that’s the only thing he has, is the tree of knowledge. Farther than the ministers has taken him with His Spirit, which is unlimited. But here is what it is. The science ain’t looking back to what science said a few years ago; science is taking what they got now and moving forward for something else.

58 But you ask the preacher; “Well, we’ll see what Moody said about It, we’ll see what Wesley said about It.” I don’t care what they said about It. I know what God said about It now. This is It, and I’m still looking for greater! That’s it. That’s the reason…

59 The Bible said, “Three unclean spirits come out of the mouth of the beast.” Do you know what? A “unclean spirits,” said, “like frogs.” Did you ever notice how a frog looks? A frog is always looking backwards, he never looks forward; looking back, always back, look back.

60 But the four beasts that had the four different heads, in Ezekiel, was looking forward and they couldn’t go backward. They were moving forward all the time. Everywhere they went, they was going straight forward. See the difference?

54-0515 – “Questions And Answers”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

Day 195

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. (Psalm 39:4-5)

93 Now, natural life, if we have natural life, in order to be active in this natural life, in natural things, we have to have a natural birth. They don’t just jerk you off of a tree somewhere, see, stick you out some way. They tried it, but it didn’t work. It’s got to be an actual birth, natural birth, to make you active so you can have the five senses, walk, talk, see, taste, feel, smell, hear, move around, so forth, because you’re then a human being, and you’re—you’re subject to all these things because they go into the natural life.

94 And, in such a birth, sometimes we become very wise in worldly wisdom or the affairs of the world, become Presidents and—and great scholars, and master mechanics and scientists, and so forth. And you always know, from the very beginning, it was Cain’s children that had that kind of wisdom; not Seth’s, they were humble sheepman. But Seth’s children were godly people. But Cain’s children was always smart, high, science, doctors and great man. That’s right. The Bible said so, you know, That teaches that. And very religious, but perished at the end. We become wise by going to school, taking scholarship, and so forth, we become very wise, smart, and can do things and say things, and sometimes outtalk a man that’s Spirit-filled. Didn’t Jesus say, “The children of this world is wiser than the children of the Kingdom”? Sure, ’cause they, by their intellects that they can—can talk and outsmart and outtalk, and take the Scriptures and twist It to make It say things that It doesn’t.

95 “Oh, It doesn’t exactly mean that.” When a man says that, get away from him. God watches over His Word, you know, the Bible said. It’s wrote just the way It should be. See? Now, It’s put in such a way to deceive, or to make the wise stumble over It. It’s so simple, that’s the reason they stumble over It. See? All right.

96 All this wisdom and things that they can accumulate, yet, but it is from…that birth is from beneath, this earth. It’s from the earth, and it is against the Spirit of God. The first birth, to make us active here, makes us mortal man, because of the sin act at the garden, made man come into the world by a woman. And a man that is born of a woman is of a few days, but a man that is born of Christ is Eternal. Job said, “A man that’s born of woman is few days and full of trouble.” Notice, but a man that’s born of Christ, has to be born from Above. Now, but a man that’s born of the earth, become wise and can almost outsmart.

62-1111e – “Why I’m Against Organized Religion”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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Day 196

I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. (Psalm 40:1-2)

149 So when the little eagles learns to fly, I was noticing, I hooked, put my horse reins around a limb, and went over. I had some binoculars just watching. I seen that old mother eagle way up there; she was doing something, flopping around in the air. I got my glasses on her and watched her, ’cause we was bringing cattle down. And I looked up in there, and I seen her, how she was getting them little ones out. And she kept rooting them little ol’ eagles around and around up there.

150 And after a while, she got them all on her wings; and she just picked them up out of that old stinky nest, and went down into the valley, and she set her big wings down like that, and when she did, all those little eagles got off and begin to walk around there. First time they’d ever had their feet on grass, my, if they wasn’t having a big time. I said, “Lord, if that ain’t an old-fashion Holy Ghost revival, I never seen one in my life.” That’s right. I said, “Look at them!”

151 Out of that old stinky nest up there, you know, where the old stink and stickers and things, that’s the way God does. He lifts you up on the wings of an eagle, and packs you out of the old stinky things of the world into this place where all things are possible, free as you can be. Amen.

152 Then I notice them run around, grab a little mouthful of grass here, and run over, grab a little mouthful here, and playing, just having a big time, no condemnation at all. I thought, “Well now, what that old mother going to do?”

153 After she seen her little ones begin to play real good and have a good time, she set her wings again, and she went plumb way up to the highest rock that she could get. She set up there and perched herself, begin to look around. Oh, my. I thought, “That’s right. When the Lord Jesus took me out of the miry clay and set me on the Rock, Christ Jesus, He climbed the ramparts of Glory, setting on high, watching down. His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.” No harm, no danger, no nothing else can take place, as long as we’re in His Divine Presence. Amen. Let come, let go what may; even death itself has lost its sting. Cause He’s standing yonder in Glory tonight; His eyes is watching this meeting to see just exactly what will take place, while His little ones are rallying together around the throne of God, rejoicing in the Word of God, shouting in the Presence of God, oh, my, carefree.

154 Them little fellows didn’t look for nothing. Boy, you let a coyote start towards one of them, he’d get the awfulest flogging he ever had in his life. Amen. Oh, my.

155 And when she set up there, then after a while, I set there about two hours watching her. A little northerner come across, a little green streak, comes up quick, the storm’s coming. And when she let out a scream, when she left that nest up there, she flew right down like that, let out one scream, and all them little eagles all over the—the little meadow there begin to run together. She threw out her wings like that. Every one of them little eagles just run and jumped up on the wing, put their little bill around a feather like that. She raised those great big master wings, and that storm coming down that hill screaming sixty miles an hour. She went just as straight to the rock as she could and took them to shelter.

156 I thought, “Yes, some of these days, there’ll come a scream from above; the Lord Jesus will come and spread forth His great wings, and all of His little ones will spring onto the arms of the old rugged cross, and we will be carried into the safety of His coming day till the storm of life is over.” Oh, what a wonder if you’ll look at God, on His nature.

55-0611 – “What Is That In Thy Hand?”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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Day 197

But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: (Deuteronomy 28:15)

21 Now, we took this text out of Deuteronomy. It’s a Greek word which has a compound meanings, or, it means, “two laws.” The Greek word, Deuteronomy, means “two different laws.”

And that’s just what God has, two different laws. And one of them is a law of death, and the other one is a law of Life. God has two laws. To follow Him, and serve Him and worship Him, is Life; to reject It is death. There is two laws in God.

22 Now, one of those laws was recog-…made recognized to the world, at Mount Sinai. God gave the law to Moses and Israel. Not that the law could help them, but the law only pointed out to them that they were sinners. Until that time, they didn’t know what sin was, till they had a law. There cannot be a law without a penalty. A law is not a law, without penalty. So, therefore, “The transgression of the law is sin, and the wages of sin is death.” So therefore, until God made them a law, there was no transgression reckoned to them.

If there’s no law here that says you can’t run over twenty miles an hour, then you could run over twenty miles an hour. But when there’s a law says you can’t do it, then there’s a law and a penalty behind it.

23 Now, death, the law of death, was the commandments given on Mount Sinai, which told man that he was a sinner. And, to transgress God’s law, he died. But there’s no salvation in the law. The…It was only a policeman that could put you in jail; it had nothing to bring you out with.

But then He gave another law, that was at Mount Calvary, where sin was reckoned in Jesus Christ, and there the penalty was paid. And not with…Without law, “but by grace you are saved,” by the grace of God, through predestination of God’s foreknowledge of your being.

24 Now we see these two laws, Deuteronomy, speaking of two laws. There was two laws. One was the law of death, and the other one the law of Life.

25 There was also two covenants give to the people. We’re going to speak of them in the morning.

One of them was given to Adam on condition, “if you do this and don’t do that,” but that law was broken. Adam, Eve broke that, in the garden of Eden.

Then God made the second covenant, and give that to Abraham, and that law was unconditional. “It isn’t what you’ve done or what you will do;” He said, “I have already done it.” That’s grace. That’s the law of Life. God did that for Abraham and his Seed after him, that’s, all of Abraham’s Seed.

As the Bible said, “All Israel will be saved,” but that don’t mean Jews. As Paul said, “That Israel which is inward, or Israel outward.” “Outward,” as we spoke of the other night, it was Isaac’s children, by sex. But the law of God was through Christ, which was Abraham’s Royal Seed, that, “by grace all Israel is saved.” That’s, “All that’s in Christ is saved,” all, God’s second covenant. But all these things foreshadowed Christ.

65-0220 – “God’s Chosen Place Of Worship”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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Day 198

As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. (Psalm 42:1)

43 David also wrote in, I believe the 47th Psalm, being a woodsman, he said, “As the hart thirsts for the water brook, my soul thirsts after Thee, O God.” As the hart, the deer, panteth for the water brook, my soul thirst after Thee.

Now, being acquainted with the outdoors, and in Africa, and in the jungles, and the eastern countries where this Book the Bible was written, they have over there great herds of wild dogs, wolves. And David was acquainted with these animals.

And a little deer, when these wild, savage dogs run into a herd of deer… They have long fangs, and they… One of their choice spots is to grab the deer is just behind the ear, sink those fangs in, and then swing his weight. When he does it, he rips the deer’s neck. That’s all of it. The deer goes right down.

44 And if the deer, he cannot catch him in the jugular vein here, as we call it, he’s got another choice place. He grabs him right in the flank. And he will grab it with his teeth like that, and when he swings his weight, he throws the deer off his feet. And the dogs cover that deer and rip him to pieces just in a moment.

Now, many times the deer, when the dog grabs him in the side or up here, if he gets too tight a hold, well, he will—sometimes the swinging of the deer will make the chunk of meat pull out. Then the animal has the meat in its mouth, and if there’s no other dogs standing to cut it off, it can sometime escape. But it’s bleeding. The blood’s a pouring from the little fellow.

Now, if any hunter here knows anything about hunting, if a deer can get to water he can live. If that deer can’t get to water, he’s dead. And David knew that. And he said, “As the hart panteth for the water brook, my soul thirst after Thee.”

45 Could you imagine, the hounds has just grabbed and pulled a big chunk out of his side, his blood’s life is running out. The little deer stands sniffing for water, the hounds are just behind him. He—he’s got to find water or he will die.

David said, “That’s the way my soul thirsts for Thee. Oh, I must have You, Lord, or I’ll perish.” If you only knew, sinner friend, that the hounds of hell is right behind you, crippled and wounded by sin, and you’ve got to find Christ or perish. When that sort of a desire gets into a man’s heart, he will find Christ, when you get in that shape.

46 “As the hart panteth for the water brook. I must have it. I’m wounded. If I don’t have it, I’m gone.” And when you get to a place that you want Christ so bad, you must have Him or perish, you can’t sleep at night; you can’t eat; you’ve just got to find Him; blessed are you when you hunger and thirst after righteousness, you’ll find Eternal Life.

May God help you this afternoon to have that thirst for that Life, for there’s only one Life that’ll last forever; that’s Eternal Life, and given only by knowing Jesus Christ in the forgiveness of your sin. “He that heareth My Word and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath passed from death unto Life, and shall never come to the judgment.” You’ve done passed from death to Life. What it means…

57-0811a – “The Greatest Gift In The Bible”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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Day 199

But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets: (Acts 24:14)

37 And the Church, tonight, is called “crazy” because the people doesn’t have the discernment. If a man is born again, and you tell me that you have been born again, and you do not believe that Divine healing is a promise of God, and you do not believe that the baptism of the Holy Ghost is for the people today, then I’ll have to say that your birth was of the wrong spirit.

38 Cause, the Holy Ghost said, that, “This promise is unto you and your children, and to them that’s far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.”

39 You are accepting it by an intellectual conception. People are taking somebody else’s word for it, and not got the discernment. They cannot discern between right and wrong.

40 I’m thinking, today, that, many of we intellectual giants; not we, but many intellectual giants. God’s people has never been great intellectuals. The Bible said, that, “The children of darkness is wiser in this world than the children of the Light.”

41 God likened His people unto sheep. They’re not smart and intelligent. He keeps them the way they are so He can lead them. If you try to use your own intellectual thinking, you can, you right then bar-out God. “Sons of God are led by the Spirit of God.”

But it’s a great intellectual day that we live in.

42 Here, a few months ago, you read it in the newspaper. Up in New York, they had a—a trial. And two little preachers that felt led of the Lord, sometime ago; little fellows about like myself, that hardly knowed their ABC. And the Lord led them to the Bowery. And they bought a certain building, and there they was preaching the Gospel to their fallen brethren. Some great firm come to buy that. And all of them sold out, but these little preachers. They had a revelation that the Lord wanted them to stay there, so they held their property.

43 And the authorities brought them into court. And they sent and got one of the great intellectual giants, Attorney Greenwall, and he made those little fellows feel ashamed of theirselves. He placed his words so correctly and so educational-like, and in such a way that those little fellows didn’t know how to answer him. For, he was an intellectual giant, one of the best attorneys there is in the…in New York. And they had the little fellows so confused, they didn’t know what to say. Finally, he rapped and said, “What do you say for yourselves?”

44 And one of the little preachers got up, and held the other one’s hands, and he said, “Sir, the only thing that we know, that the Lord told us to take the building.”

45 And Attorney Greenwall said, “Here, stop that. We don’t want no Lord in on this case.”

46 About two weeks later, an airplane tried to go under the bridge, and it dove into the icy waters. And there Attorney Greenwall, laying in the water, struggling and dying. I wonder if he wanted God on that scene.

59-0812 – “Discerning The Body Of The Lord”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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Day 200

For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us. In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah. (Psalm 44:6-8)

169 A woman said to me, some time ago. I might have re-…said that here some time. It’ll bear repeating. She was a Christian Science. And she said, “Brother Branham, I—I appreciate your remarks that you say of the Scripture. But,” said, “there’s just one fault you have.”

170 I said, “Thank you. Just one? My!” I said, “I’m certainly got grace in your sight.”

171 And she said, “This fault is, that, you brag too much about Jesus.”

172 I said, “Oh, my!” I said, “If that’s the only fault I got, I hope God feels—feels I only got one fault when I get there. And if that’s the only one, I’m sure I’m going in.” I said, “If I had ten thousand tongues, I couldn’t brag on Him enough. No matter what I’d say, I couldn’t brag on Him enough.”

173 She said, “But, Brother Branham, you make Him Divine. You make Him God.”

174 I said, “He was, and He is. And if He wasn’t, He was the greatest deceiver the world ever had.” That’s right.

She said, “Oh! Don’t…”

I said, “Don’t you believe that?”

175 She said, “Oh, Mr. Branham, I believe He was a teacher.” And said, “I believe He was a prophet, but He was just a plain prophet like the rest of them.”

I said, “Oh, my! Oh! You’re so mistaken.”

She said, “I’ll prove it to you.”

I said, “How?”

176 She said, “In the Scriptures, when Lazarus…Saint John, the 11th chapter, when Lazarus died, the Bible said, that, ‘Jesus wept.’” And she said, “How could He be Divine and weep?”

177 I said, “That was the Man part weeping. That was the Man. The immortal part was inside. That was God in Him.”

She said, “Ah, nonsense!”

178 I said, “I want to ask you something. When, that night on the ship, He was a Man laying there, sleeping. That’s true. He was sleep and tired, like a man. But when He could put His foot upon the brail of that boat and say, ‘Peace, be still,’ and the winds and the waves obeyed Him. He might have been a Man, crying, but when He said, ‘Lazarus, come forth,’ and a man had been dead four days come on it. He was a Man when He come down off the mountain, hungering for something to eat, looked on a tree; but when He took five biscuits, and two, fed five thousand, that was the Creator.” That’s right. Sure.

179 In action, God in action! Oh, I love that! Not some idol, not some mythical thought of rubbing a statue, not some totem pole, but a real, living God in action. Amen. Amen. Not something that was. Something that is right now. Sounds silly, to the world. But, oh, how gracious, to the saint who believes it. How wonderful! Certainly. He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever.

63-0117 – “Awakening Jesus”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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Day 201

And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness. For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner. King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest. Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. (Acts 26:24-28)

54 And every man or woman that has an experience with God, has met this same Pillar of Fire upon the sacred grounds of your heart. “There is no theologian, no devil, no nothing,” Paul said, “nothing present, nothing future, death, sickness, sorrow, can separate us from that love of God, that’s in Christ Jesus.” It’s a tie post. You know something happened. No matter how much science raise up and says this, that, or the other, you are tied. You and God become one. He is in you, and you are in Him. “At that day you’ll know that I am in the Father, the Father in Me; I in you, and you in Me.” You are tied to Him.

55 And Paul had a—a Christ-centered life. It was a different life than he once had. He once had an educational conception; but now he has got a Christ-centered life, an absolute. No matter how much Agrippa could say, “You, you’ve gone crazy, Paul. You lost your mind. You, you studied too much.”

He said, “I am not mad.”

56 And then he got onto Agrippa, to such a way till he said, “Thou almost persuadest me to be a Christian.”

57 He said, “I wish you were, only besides…as I am, but these bonds.”

58 It makes you do things, when you get a Christ-centered life like Paul had, ordinarily you wouldn’t do. Now look. Ordinarily, that man trained in all of the—the Scriptures and things, ordinarily he would have followed that line he was trained in. But when he become…and made Christ his absolute, his ultimate, then there was a different life. He did different. He done things crazy, to what he once was trained to do. And it’ll do the same thing.

59 If the church would get away from that Council of Churches, and come back and make God’s Word their ultimate, make God’s Word their tie post, that would do it. But they’re tying to a man-made achievement. And it’s bound to fall. Well, the Bible said they would do it. But there is going to be a Bride that’s been elected since the foundation of the world, that’s going to be tied to that tie post.

63-1201m – “An Absolute”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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Day 202

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah. (Psalm 46:1-3)

178 Here not long ago, Billy and I was going down the road, driving. Some colored boys come down the road, and they were driving fast. And they had sideswiped a car, and turned around, around, around, and throwed boys all over the road. And one little fellow was pinned under the car, with his back laying against the car. The boys jumped out and started to raise it up. He said, “Oh, please don’t! My back is breaking! Don’t! You’ll kill me! You’ll kill me! Don’t do it!”

179 And they said, “Oh, we’ve got to get it off of you. It’s catching afire.”

180 Said, “Let…Don’t move it. You’re mashing me to death! Don’t do it! Don’t do it!”

I hollered under there, “Son, are you a Christian?”

He said, “No, sir.”

I said, “You’d better pray.”

He said, “Yes, sir.”

181 The sixth sense went to work. Walked right around behind the car. And I’ll never know till the Judgment. But, all of a sudden, that car flicked over [Brother Branham snaps his finger once—Ed.], and was off of him. And he jumped up and was all right. What was it? “A present help in the time of trouble.”

182 We were coming down from a…A young colored lady was driving a car in the road, a new Plymouth, about four hundred miles on it. She had been driving a pretty good speed. And I seen the car. It drove its crankshaft all the way into the tree. Billy and I stopped. There’d been a snowy, slick road ahead of us, but it was dry then. The girl…The winds blowing so hard, up in Minnesota, till it blowed the car off. You remember it, Billy. I run down there to her. And, there, she sitting there. She said, “Oh, I’m dying. I’m dying.” They called the ambulance.

183 The ambulance come, and they had a dead man laying in the back of the ambulance. Said, “I can’t take her.”

184 And so the farmer said, “Well, send somebody else, quick. The woman is a dying.”

I walked up there. And I said, “Lady, just a minute.”

185 She said, “Oh, don’t touch me, sir. Don’t touch me. My back!”

186 I said, “Lady, are you a Christian?” She looked at me. And I said, “I’m a minister of the Gospel. If you’re dying, how is it with you and God?”

She said, “Sir, I want to be right, now.”

187 And the sixth sense went to work. The power of God came down. She could walk out of the car, without anybody helping her. The power of God, present, “The very present help in a time of trouble.”

188 We walk by faith. We live by faith. “The just shall live by faith.” We must live that way. How many would like to have more of the sixth, super sense? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.]

Let us bow our heads then, while we pray.

59-1227e – “A Super Sense”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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Day 203

But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss. And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man’s life among you, but of the ship. For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee. Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me. (Acts 27:21-26)

20 Faith is just as positive as your eyesight or my feelings to know this desk is here. You don’t have to be educated. Frankly, it’d be good if you’re just a little more simple about it than what you really are. That’s right. Just you… You… It’s just something that you know it’s going to be. That’s all. It just the positive… Why, there couldn’t nothing move it out of your way. You know it’s going to happen. You just…

Nothing can take it out. If the doctors stand, say you’re going to die the next hour, and you knew that you was going to get well… He might tell you had for—covered all over with cancer and leprosy eaten through you. That wouldn’t scare you one bit. No, sir. Now, that’s faith.

21 Look at when Paul was shipwrecked out there. Why, he’d lost hopes too. All hopes they could be saved, Paul said, was gone. The little old ship was water-logged, and fourteen days and nights no moon, stars, or nothing, the little boat tossed about in the waters and everything, and Paul said, “Well, I guess all hopes gone.” So he didn’t know.

But standing down in the gallery that night, praying, a vision come before him. And he saw the Angel of the Lord come, said, “Don’t fear, Paul, for you’re going to be brought before Caesar.” That’s right. “And lo, God give… All these that sail with you, is given to you. So therefore, you be of a good courage. And you go on out and have a good courage.”

22 And little old Paul, right in the middle of the storm, run on the outside, shaking his hands and screaming top of his voice, saying, “Be of a good courage, brother, for there stood the Angel of God before me last night, saying not to be scared. We was going to come right on in before Caesar.” Said, “Now, I tell you there’s not one of you going to die. Not one hair of your head is going to perish, but we’re going… The ship’s going to be wrecked somewhere. In the vision I seen it setting on the shore wrecked somewhere, but there’s nothing going to harm us.” Said, “Let’s take something and eat.”

And they… Oh, they was afraid to do it. And Paul went and got the sandwich, and made it, and started eating. Why, he wasn’t scared. Why? God done said so. Anchored in Paul’s heart…

I don’t care; the ship was a pitching just as hard as it could. No stars, no moon, days passed on by, didn’t worry Paul a bit. I imagine one sandwich after the other one, walking up and down the deck saying, “Glory to God, we’re not far from land, brothers.”

23 There you are, no matter how dark it got. The whale might’ve come up to turn the ship over, the sharks following them by the hundreds, that wouldn’t faze Paul. No, sir. He knew what God had said. He believed what God had said. Said, “Wherefore, brethren, be of a good courage, for I believe God, that it’ll be just as He showed it to me.” There’s faith.

Got out on the isle out there, and he picked up a bunch of sticks to throw on the fire, and the heat got in the sticks, and a big, old snake, that when it bit you, you only live just a couple of seconds after it hits you. Must’ve been a—like the African mamba. I think you live about two or three minutes after one bites you. It’s about as long you can live, serum or no serum. And it grabbed him on the hand. Paul looked at it and said, “The Lord said I must be brought before Caesar. Why, you couldn’t hurt me.” Shook him off in the fire, and went over and got some more sticks, and turned around and got warm, as if nothing had ever happened. See what I mean?

God told Paul, “You’re going to be brought before Caesar.” And Paul hadn’t yet been brought before Caesar, so nothing fazed Paul. He knew he was going on. Now, that’s faith. You got your course set. You know exactly where you’re standing. Now, when an individual can pray till you strike that place, brother, there isn’t enough doctors in Chicago to tell you was going to remain sick. That’s right.

54-0719a – “God’s Provided Way Of Healing”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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Day 204

And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita. And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold. And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live. And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm. Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god. (Acts 28:1-6)

54-0719a – “God’s Provided Way Of Healing”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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Day 205

And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer’s inkhorn by his side; And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. (Ezekiel 9:3-4)

69 Now what? Let me just give you a little twister here just a minute. I’d say, “How many has the Holy Ghost?” All of you raise up your hand. I’d say, “All right, I’ll see if you have.” The Bible said that they that had the Holy Ghost sighed and cried day and night for the abominations done in the city. Now, how many hand would go up? How many of you can’t rest at night, so full of joy, the power of God, and so sad for the people that’s lost, that day and night you weep and cry for the abominations? You won’t…See? Who would be that in the city? How many is, that’s in the church? That’s what the Bible said the Holy Spirit evidence was.

70 He told the sealing Angel (Ezekiel 9, that’s right), He said, “Take…Go through the city and set a mark upon those who sigh and cry for the abominations did in the city. The rest of them, let the destroying Angel destroy them.” No matter how much members they was and how many of the things they done, said, “Put a…” And a man with a ink horn writer, dressed in white (which represented the Holy Spirit) came forth and put a mark upon all them that sighed and cried for the abominations done in the city. Now, you say…And watch what He said in there also. “Slay utterly, little children, old women, babies, kill them all!” Little children? Yes!

71 When Joshua entered the land of Canaan, he, said, “Don’t you let one of them live. If it’s a cute little baby, a little Amalekite, or a Amorite, kill it! You remember, he’ll grow up to be an Amalekite; he’ll pollute the camp.” And when those little things come back like that disagreeing with the Word of God, get rid of that thing. I don’t care what denomination it belongs to.

72 You say, “Well, they’re good…” I don’t care how good a people they are! If they’re contrary to that Word, get the thing out of you. It’s a growing little Amalekite. Looks cute, looks innocent; it looks like it’s all right, but don’t you have anything to do with. You stay away from it.

73 “Well, Brother Branham, I—I go down here, because… Well, I don’t…” You just remember, any Amalekite, anything that denies the Word, stay away from it; have nothing to do with it at all! How many believes that’s the Truth? Sure it is. See? Stay away from it!

74 Who sigh and cry for the abominations that’s did in the city…Where do you see that? I can show you ten thousand speaking in tongues to one that’s really burdened for sin… that can’t even pray a hour. But did you know the Bible said that…mark only those who sighed and cried for the abominations in the city? How many ever read it? Sure! That was the Holy Spirit come forth to mark the people, and said to the destroying Angel, “Go forth and destroy everything that doesn’t have that mark upon them.” And the mark of God is the Holy Ghost, is the Seal of God.

64-0830m – “Questions And Answers #3”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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Day 206

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. (Romans 1:16-17)

15 A little story, I perhaps have told you. But in the early days of the slaves in the South there was… They’d go by and buy those people and make slaves out of them. And they were sad, because they’re away from their home, and they just simply couldn’t feel good no more. They’d never go back home. And they were whipped around and beat around, till the people were all down in spirit. And one day a slave buyer came by, and he was buying some slaves at a plantation.

16 Oh, he noticed one of those men, a young fellow standing straight, his chin up, and they never had to whip him. He was right on the job. So the slave buyer said, “Let me have the—that slave. I’ll give you your price for him.”

And the owner said, “But he’s not for sale.”

He said, “What makes him so much different from the other slaves? Is he a boss?”

Said, “No, he’s just a slave.”

Said, “Do you feed him different from the other slaves?”

Said, “No, he eats in the galley with the rest of the slaves.”

Said, “Then maybe perhaps that he’s treated a little better.”

“No, he’s just treated like the rest of the slaves.”

Said, “What makes him so much different, then, than the other slaves?”

He said, “I wondered for a long time myself. But I found out one day, that over in the homelands his father is a king of the tribe. And yet, him being an alien away from home, he still knows that he’s a king’s son, and he conducts himself like one.”

17 Oh, we Christians, though alienated from the world, and we are heaven-bound subjects of the Lord Jesus, we should conduct ourselves as sons and daughters of God.

Pride keeps us from doing it. We’re afraid somebody will say something against us. When the spirit blesses, many are ashamed to say “Amen.” There is many who in their office work, the Lord Jesus could have healed them of diseases, and they’re afraid to testify to the glory of God because of pride. Many are afraid to stand and say, “I have received Christ as my personal Saviour and been filled with the Holy Spirit.”: ashamed.

Oh, I love that little old song we used to sing years ago, down in the ridge country. “I’ll take the way with the Lord’s despised few. I’ve started in with Jesus and I’m going through, not ashamed of the Gospel. Paul said, “It’s the power of God.”

Pride, oh, what a great thing that is.

58-0112e – “The Door To The Heart”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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Day 207

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. (Psalm 51:10-12)

11 Now, God is not going to hold a man responsible for, because he’s a sinner, ’cause he was born a sinner. But what God is going to hold a man responsible for, is because that he remains a sinner. He don’t have to remain a sinner, for there is a provision made for his justification through Jesus Christ. So we are trusting, tonight, if there be some inside or out, who has not yet accepted Christ, that this will be the night that something will be said or done, that will wake you up, to the place that you know you need Christ.

12 And then if you just accepted Him as your personal Saviour, and have not yet received the Holy Ghost, I trust that tonight you will receive It.

13 I see some of the tabernacle folks here. I’m going to say this about the big sister. See? One thing that the tabernacle needs up there at our church, at the tabernacle at Jeff, is a rededication and a refilling of the Holy Ghost. Right. Everyone to get down to the altar and pray until they get a renewing of the Holy Ghost, the whole church be filled with the Power of God, that’s what we need. Not only the tabernacle there, but the Body of Christ, universal, it needs a refilling. I like…

14 David said one day, “Restore to me the joy of my salvation.” Now he had not lost his salvation, but the joy of it. And when it comes to a place that I can’t enjoy my religion, my salvation, there’s something wrong somewhere, because, “It is joy unspeakable and full of glory.” One of them said, “Taste and see, the Lord is good. It tastes like honey in the rock.” Oh, I’m so glad that I have tasted That. The Lord is good. And I love honey, but I never tasted any like That. That’s the best that I know.

59-1004e – “Why Cry? Speak!”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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Day 208

Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence. And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh: That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. (Ezekiel 11:17-20)

301 One time I was a sinner. One time I’d a never stood behind this pulpit. One time you’d a-never heard me raise my voice and say “amen”; I’d a-been ashamed to. There would be one time I wouldn’t have had a teardrop in my eyes; I’d a-been ashamed to. I was “big bad Bill.”

302 But, one day, Jesus Christ met me in the Power of His resurrection. He crushed that stony heart and took it out of me. He put a new mind. He put a new nature. He put a new Person in here. And today, because He lives, I live also.

303 And some of these days, friends, when I come to the end of the road, just as you and the rest of us, and our armors are pretty well beaten up, from the battle! Oh, my! Look at the old shield, see how many fiery darts it’s had to knock off of me. I’m down there and feel the waves coming in on my soul, I know I’m at the end of the road then. Just like my mother there, and like all the Branham’s, when they get down real old, they begin to shake with a palsy.

304 I want to stand there, hallelujah, leaning on the staff, the end of the road. I want to take off my helmet, and lay it down by the seashore; kneel down on the shore, and stick the old Sword back in the sheaf of Eternity, and raise up my hands and scream. And I know, as I go through the valley of the shadow of death, the Morning Star will come out to light the way. The Holy Ghost will spread His glossy wings across that terrible muddy Jordan, and bear our weary souls to a better land. Yes, sir.

53-0405s – “Go, Tell My Disciples”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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Day 209

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good. (Psalm 53:1-3)

13 I was speaking at a Kiwanis here not long ago, and there was one fine doctor… Several doctors were present, and they were asking me about mission life and so forth. And one fine doctor, nice man seemingly, but he just couldn’t believe that—of the virgin birth, and he just said he couldn’t believe there was God.

And I said, “I never want you to put a operating knife on me. I’d be afraid to trust you, doctor, if you didn’t believe in God.” And so… Another specialist was standing by my side which was a staunch believer.

And he said, “Well, I think anything that isn’t scientifically proven is not real, Mr. Branham.” He said, “I believe in science.”

I said, “So do I. I believe you can climb up the tree of science until you get to the end of it. Then you step over on the tree of faith and just keep on climbing,” I said, “because it’s a… I believe in climbing up the tree.”

He said, “Well, anything that cannot be scientifically proven isn’t a reality.”

“Oh,” I said, “Doctor, that’s an awful statement for you to make.”

And he said, “Why is that?”

I said, “I’ll take the vice versa. Anything that can be scientifically proven is not a reality.”

“Oh,” he said, “you talk, Brother Branham, like you were disturbed.”

“Well,” I said, “when you say there isn’t any God, you talk like you’re delinquent. So—so ‘The fool said in his heart there’s no God.” So we got to talking real plain to each other, and I said, “Now, look, doctor. Are you a married man?”

He said, “I am.”

I said, “Do you love your wife?”

He said, “If I didn’t, I wouldn’t have married her.”

“Do you have children?”

“Yes.” said, “Then what is the difference of the love that you have for your wife than you would for any other woman?”

“Oh,” he said, “because she’s my wife, and my children—mother of my children.”

I said, “That’s right.” See, I caught him right in his own trick then. I said, “What was that you said? You loved her?”

He said, “Yes.”

I said, “How do you know you love her?”

He said, “Well, of course, I know I love her.”

I said, “All right then, what is love? Scientifically show me. Let’s go down to the drugstore, and you inject me a pound of it inside of my veins. I need it.”

14 Then according to him there is no such a thing as love ’cause you can’t scientifically prove what’s in you that’s love. The whole Christian armor is faith, unseen. See? What is the Christian armor? Love, joy, peace, faith, longsuffering, meekness, gentleness, patience, Holy Spirit, God, Angels. It’s all supernatural. And everything natural come from the earth and will return back to the earth. It’s just the supernatural things that live; it’s eternal.

62-0727 – “We Would See Jesus”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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Day 210

What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. (Romans 4:1-8)

86 Did you ever take your camera and set it on infinite? Why, it just means from thereafter. All right. There’s no way of focusing it in any more.

87 Well, that’s what God is. He is infinite. And if He’s infinite, there could not be a beetle, not a fly, not a flea, not a louse, not a chigger, or nothing that ever was on the earth, or ever will be, but what God knowed it before the world was ever formed. There is some conception of infinite.

88 Well, then, an infinite God Who saves you here, knowing He is going to lose you next week, or next month, or next year, why, He’s defeating the very purpose. He can’t lose you. “He that heareth My Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has everlasting Life and shall never come into the Judgment, but is done passed from death to Life.” Can’t do it. You’d no more…

89 “He that’s born of God does not commit sin; for the seed of God remains in him, and he cannot sin.” How can he sin when there’s a sin-offering for him?

90 How can I be sick when I’m in perfect health? How can I be blind when I can see? Oh, my! How can I be in the building and out of the building at the same time? How can I be drunk and sober at the same time? You can’t do it.

91 And when you’re saved, you’re under the Atonement, and your sins are not reckoned to you. Did not David say, “Blessed is the man who God will not reckon sin, and impute sin to”? God don’t hold the sin against His creature. That’s strong. That isn’t skim milk. But that’s the Bible. God will not reckon sin to the righteous.

92 “God,” by His grace, through predestination, “not willing that any should perish, but all might come to repentance.” But being infinite, and know who would come and who would not come, He could predestinate everything to work to His will. If He didn’t do it, why did He permit sin in the first place? When He was a Saviour…If there had never been a sinner, He would have never been a Saviour; the attribute, what was in Him, could not be pulled out.

58-0928e – “The Serpent’s Seed”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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Day 211

But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against the children of Israel. (Joshua 7:1)

54 There’s where the church is failing today, on that walk. Do you know that even your own behavior can knock somebody else out of getting healed? Your misbehavior, of unconfessed sins of you believers, can cause this church to bitterly fail. And at the Day of the Judgment you’ll be responsible for every bit of it. Oh, you say, “Now, wait a minute, Brother Branham.” Well, that’s the Truth. Think of it!

55 Joshua, after he crossed over into the land, God gave him the promise that…Just think, to fight an entire campaign without losing a man, without even getting a scratch, without having to have a nurse, or a first aid or a band. Amen. God said, “The land’s yours, go fight.” Think, of fighting a campaign, and there’s no Red Cross around at all, there’s nobody going to get hurt!

56 And they slayed the Amorites and the Hittites, but there wasn’t one hurt among any of them until sin come in the camp. And when Achan took that Babylonian garment and that gold wedge, and hid it under his camp, then the next day they lost sixteen man. Joshua said, “Stop! Stop! Wait a minute, there’s something wrong! Something’s wrong here. We’re going to call seven days of fast. God made us a promise, ‘There will be nothing hurt us.’ Our enemies will fall at our feet. And there’s something wrong here. Something went wrong somewhere, ’cause we got sixteen dead man laying here. They’re Israelite brothers, and they’re dead.”

57 Why did they die, innocent man? Because one man stepped out of line. You see reason this needs to be taught? The church lining up, lining up with the Word of God, lining up with God and lining up with each other, walking perfectly upright, soberly, before all man, fearing God. Because one man stole a garment, and done something that he should not done, took the life of sixteen man! I think it was sixteen, maybe more. I believe it was sixteen man that was dead.

58 Joshua called, said, “There’s something wrong! God made the promise, and something’s wrong.”

59 When we bring the sick up before us, and they fail to be healed, we need to call a solemn fast, call an assembly. Something’s wrong somewhere. God made the promise, God’s got to stick to that promise, and He will do it.

60 And he called a fast. And they found out, they cast the lots. And Achan confessed it. And they killed Achan, family and all, and burnt their ashes, and left it there for a memorial. And Joshua went right on through the battles, taking everything, without a scratch or a wound. There you are.

60-0515e – “Adoption #1”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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Day 212

But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:22-23)

34 I cannot mention the man’s name, ’cause I can’t think of his name now, but many of you will remember him. They say there was an island where that the men would go, in ambush, and women would come out, singing. And their songs were so tantalizing, that the sailors passing by, in the ships, would come in. And then the ambush soldiers would—would catch these sailors off of guard, and slay them. And a certain great man wanted to pass by. And he had his sailors to tie him to a mast pole, and—and—and put something in his mouth, so he could not scream; and—and put plugs in his sailors’ ears, so they could not hear, and sail by, to hear it. And the women came out, dancing and—and screaming, and singing, and, oh, it was so great, till he turned the hide on his wrists, screaming to his sailors, “Turn in! Turn in!” But they couldn’t hear him, they had plugs in their ears.

35 And then he sailed to a certain place where they was to un-mast his, or, untie his hands, and he was to take the plugs from their ears. There, when walking on the streets, he heard a musician that was so far supreme to that down there, that when he passed by again, they said, “Oh, great rover, shall we tie you to the mast pole again?”

36 He said, “No, just let me loose. I’ve heard something so much greater, till that will never bother me no more.”

37 That’s the way it is to a borned-again Christian. They found something so much greater than the rock-and-roll’s and the entertainments of this world. They are entertained by the Holy Spirit. It’s so much greater, till the world is dead to them.

38 But when you go to this cheap entertainment, you must remember that you’ve got to take lots of money. A young fellow who takes his girl friend to these parties and these dances, and so forth, is going to pay great lot of his week’s earnings. And the old people who try to find pleasure in going to the beer parlors, to drink away their sorrows of the week, they’re going to have to pay great money. And what do they get from it? They don’t get nothing but heartache.

39 And remember, you got to settle up with God someday for it. “And the wages of sin is death.” You don’t make nothing here on earth, by it. It’s a false mirage. Drinking will only add sorrow. Sin will only add death upon death. Your final check will be separation from God, Eternally, into the Lake of Fire. And you cannot gain anything, but lose.

40 Then God comes and asks the question, “Why do you spend your money for those things that satisfies not? Why do you do it?”

41 What makes man want to do it? They spend all that they’ve got, all that they can earn, to buy drinking, to clothe some woman that they run with, or some kind of a worldly, lustful pleasures.

42 But we are told in the Bible, and are bid to come to God, “And to buy Eternal joy and Eternal Life, without money or without price.”

59-0802 – “Without Money Or Without Price”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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