The Family Altar Audio Devotionals
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Day 305
And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came. And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left. And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial: The Lord hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the Lord hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man. Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head. And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the Lord hath said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so? (2 Samuel 16:5-10)
372 He said, another time, one time, to a man, “You’re after My Own heart.” A man after His Own heart, David. You remember that? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] The Spirit of God in David. David, a rejected king. Always the anointed is rejected. David, the rejected king, went up the hill when his own people… I’ll preach this for this next three minutes. When David’s own people should be…His own kind dethroned him, his own son, and run him off the throne.
373 David went down there, and even one of them come out there spitting on him, that anointed king. And this little old guy come along there, crippled up in his doctrine. The Bible said he was crippled, you know. And he went along, spitting on that king. Watch Christ. Spitting on him; that messenger by his side, (an angel, representing), pulled a sword, said, “Should the head of that dog stay on; spit on that king?” An angel said, “I’ll strike him dead.”
374 David said, “Put up your sword. I have to do this.” Went up on top of the hill, of Jerusalem, looked back down, a rejected king, and he wept.
375 Eight hundred years from there, the Son of David, the Spirit that was in David, in a portion, stood on the same hill; a rejected King, being spit on and made fun of. That right? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] I can imagine God said…The Angels walking along there with Him, when He went up Calvary like that. “Shall the head of that dog stay on him?”
“Let him alone.” Oh, my!
376 There’s coming a time. But what about David when he come back? The story changed. David come riding in triumph. This fellow run, scream for mercy. Sure.
377 Let them alone. He’ll come some day, in power. Then they, was laughing, will turn the other way. That’s right. Just let them alone.
62-0318 – “The Spoken Word Is The Original Seed”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 306
When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. (Hosea 11:1)
12 As our Scriptures, this morning, take us back into the Old Testament, to base our thinking for the next few minutes on a historical event. And we know that history repeats itself every so often. And in my study now, I’m studying the Ante-Nicene Fathers, and can see through the Scriptures, how that we are repeating again the age that has passed by.
13 “And all Scripture is given by inspiration.” And our blessed Lord said, that, “The Scriptures cannot be broken. All the Scriptures must be fulfilled.” What a consolation that is, to give to we the people that read those Scriptures, knowing that what we have read cannot be broken. It gives us the most solid foundation to rest our faith on. And every Scripture must be fulfilled.
14 Then we find, that in the fulfilling of the Scriptures, the Word is so great till many times it has dual fulfillings, and most all of It repeats at least once.
15 For instance, in the Bible, in Matthew the 2nd chapter, It—It reads, to where It said, “Out of Egypt I have called my son.” If you’ll read that Scripture, and run the reference, you’ll find it back over, that God called His son, Jacob, out of Israel…out of Egypt. And then it also is fulfilled again when He called His Son, Jesus, out of Egypt.
And It just keeps repeating itself, because It’s inspired.
16 If I wrote you a letter, you would perhaps appreciate that letter. And if you wrote me one, I’m sure I would appreciate it. But my letter would just be to you. Therefore, after you read it once, you know all the meaning, and the letter would be insufficient anymore, anybody else. It was just designated to you; or yours to me.
17 But it’s not so with God’s Eternal Word. It’s inspired. Therefore, it’s to all peoples, in all ages, and to meet all conditions. That’s what makes It keep repeating Itself. As history swings around, It swings with the history. And It never looses Its value, because It is the Eternal Word of the Eternal God. It cannot loose Its value.
58-0309m – “The Handwriting On The Wall”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 307
I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul. I cried unto thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living. (Psalm 142:4-5)
97 He cared for the leper when He was here on earth. There set the leper.
98 Did you ever see a leper? Oh, I’ve seen many of them, hugged them in my arms, them white with leprosy. Looks like a seed wart turned inside out.
99 Sitting where nobody would touch him, down in the slime and dirt and filth of the street, about as low as he could be, where everybody was afraid to get around him. He was a…He was the outcast. He was cast away from the society of the city, from the society of the church, from the society of—of everything there was in the city. No one wanted nothing to do with him. If they done anything, they’d pitch him a piece of bread and let him get it out of the dirt. They wouldn’t get near him.
100 But Jesus cared for Him. He walked right down with him, and sit down. I can just see Him lay His hands upon him, and said, “I will, be thou clean.” Oh, He cared for him. When nothing else could care, He cared.
101 When nothing else will care for you, He still cares!
102 There was an old blind beggar, with his sleeves all torn, whiskers all over his face, and not nothing to eat, sit by a gate side one day, begging. And the Son of God, on His way to Calvary, to be crucified, with the sins of the world on Him; but one screamed, “Thou Son of David, have mercy on me!”
103 Would a man of that caliber, would a man, would a President, would the mayor, the governor of state, one on the police force, stop for such a thing as that? Seldom you’ll find it.
104 But Jesus cared. He cast his cares on Him, and He cared. He said, “What would you that I would do for you?”
Said, “Lord, that I might receive my sight.”
He said, “Thy faith has saved thee.” He cared for him.
105 There was an immoral woman one time, like an alcoholic or a prostitute, so immoral till the women of the city wouldn’t touch her. She was an outcast. She come out to get her water, she had to wait till noontime. She couldn’t come with decent women. Nobody would have anything to do with the woman. She had been married, and had a bunch of husbands, and living common-law then. Nobody cared for her. They were too stiff and starchy. Nobody cared!
106 But He cared for her so much that He told her the secrets of her heart, and forgive every sin. And put Something in her, that she run into the city, saying, “Come, see a Man that has told me the things that I’ve done.”
107 See, that’s what makes Him great to me. He isn’t a stuffed shirt. He was God’s grace to the people. He was God’s love expressed in human flesh. No matter how little or insignificant, He cared; immoral, drunks, alcoholics, whatever it was.
60-0301 – “He Careth For You”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 308
Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer, And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to the church in thy house: Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers, Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints; That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus. For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother. Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, Yet for love’s sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. (Philemon 1:1-9)
357 There was Paul going around, he might have said, “If I get a hold of that bunch, I’ll tear them to pieces, because I’m Doctor Saul. I come up under Gamaliel. I come from the Moody Bible…” or some other one, see. “I, I’m a scholar. I know what I’m talking about. I’ll tear that bunch of holy rollers to pieces. And I tell you, great holy father, you just give me the permission to go down there, and I’ll arrest every one of them noisemakers down there. All this Divine healing stuff, we’ll stop it.”
Put it in his pocket, said, “I’m on my road down.”
358 And that day, my, about eleven o’clock in the day, a—a Light shone in his face, and he fell to the earth.
359 Why? He was a predestinated Seed. God said, “I have chose him. Yeah. And I’m going to show him what great things he’ll suffer for My Name’s sake. I’ll send him to the Gentiles, and disgrace him in every way that they can be—be disgraced, but yet he’ll bear My Name.”
360 Paul went down, then, till he got all of his ecclesiastical stuff cut off of him, down at the backside of the desert, for three years and a half. Down there in Arabia, until he learned the Word, and the Word become he. And he become a prisoner; here he come back in chains of love! “All my seminary experience is gone! I’m a prisoner to Jesus Christ. Amen! Philemon, my brother, I’m a prisoner of Jesus Christ. I only can speak and say what He tells me.”
361 God needs prisoners today that will prison yourself to His will, to His Word.
362 That’s what Paul was. No matter how much intellectual he had learned, he had knowed God by revelation. Yes, sir. The intellectual went all the way out of the business then, when the revelation come; which, upon the rock the Church is built. Yes, sir. Notice, he was a predestinated Seed.
363 The Holy Ghost, alone, shows you Who He is. There is no man; they’ll make you “Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,” and everything else, out of it. See? But the Holy Ghost will reveal Him as the Lord God of Heaven made manifest, that that is, oh, Him!
63-0728 – “Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 309
But to which of the angels said he at any times, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool? Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? (Hebrews 1:13-14)
30 Here not long ago, a man met me; he said, “Brother Branham, I tried to search your ministry, your teaching, but there’s only thing…” and this a full Gospel brother. He said, “There’s only one thing that you make a mistake in.” He said, “That is: talking about an Angel.” Said, “That’s God.”
I said… He said, “There’s no Angels of the New Testament. Angels was of the Old Testament.” Said, “Daniel had Angels, and so forth, that followed him, and the old prophets and so forth. But in the New Testament the Holy Spirit governs and leads the Church.”
I said, “You’re correct. The Holy Spirit does. But still we have Angels which are ministering Spirits sent from God.”
And he said, “Not in the New Testament, Brother Branham.”
And I said, “Yes.” I said, “How about the Angel Gabriel with Mary?”
Said, “That was before Pentecost.”
I said, “Then you mean after Pentecost?”
He said, “Yes.”
I said, “Do you believe that Philip had the Holy Ghost?”
He said, “Sure.”
I said, “Who was It that called him away from that big revival down there and sent him out into the—the desert, Gaza, then? What was it? Was it the Holy Ghost or was It the Angel of the Lord?” It was the Angel of the Lord.
31 I said, “Who would doubt, but what that great Saint Peter had the baptism of the Holy Ghost? You believe that, don’t you? And when he was in jail that night, and they was going to behead him the next morning, and down at John Mark’s house was having a prayer meeting, Who was it come in like a big Pillar of Light and shined in on him, and loosened him up? Was it the Holy Ghost? No, sir. It was the Angel of the Lord.” That’s right.
Who would say that Saint Paul didn’t have the Holy Ghost? And out there on that ship, and it waterlogged, fourteen days and nights no moon or stars, and all hopes they’d ever be saved was gone. And he went down in the gallery to pray, and when he come back out, said, “Be of a good courage, for the Angel of God, Whose servant I am, stood by me last night, saying, ‘Fear not, Paul. Thou must be brought before Caesar, and lo, God has give all these that sail with you to you.’” Said, “Wherefore, be of a good courage. For I believe God, that’ll be just as He told me.” Amen. Paul had the Holy Ghost.
32 And look the whole Book of Revelations was wrote, sent, a Message by an Angel. “I, Jesus, have sent My Angel to signify these things which must shortly come to pass.”
Now, a true angel, you’re going to throw back Joseph Smith and so forth, to me. But, watch. It don’t work with the Scripture. A real true Angel will come and vindicate this Scripture to the dot. Yes, sir.
Notice, that John fell down and wanted to worship that Angel. And He said, “See that you do it not, for I am thy fellow, thy fellow servants, and of the prophets worship God.” A true Angel won’t be worshiped. It’s not worship of Angels; it’s a ministry of Angels that comes from God.
Now, these minor Angels comes, perhaps, it’s Angels with us, or comes to your—your humble servant. And that’s probably a minor Angel. But when Gabriel comes, brother, there’s something really on the road, something major going to happen. May… Gabriel announced the first coming of the Lord Jesus, and Gabriel will announce the second coming of the Lord Jesus. Amen.
55-0612 – “The Presence Of The Lord Jesus”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 310
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted. (Hebrews 2:14-18)
87 Jesus was completely, totally man. He could cry like a man. He could eat like a man. He could be tired like a man. He was completely, totally man, in His physical being. And in His Spirit, He was completely, totally God, so He made His flesh submissive to the Spirit that was in Him. You see, He was tempted in all manners like we are. He was man, not an Angel. He was a man. He had desires and temptations, just like we do. The Bible said He did. He was a man, not an Angel above temptation. Hebrews 1 said, that, “He was…” Hebrews 1:4 said, “He was made lower than the Angels.” He was man, completely man; that God took a complete man, to bring total deliverance, and He filled Him with His Spirit. The Holy Ghost was in Him, without measure. And He was tempted like we were. And He was completely God. He proved it when He raised the dead, when He stopped nature, the roaring seas and the mighty winds. When He spoke to the trees, and so forth, they obeyed Him. He was God, inside. And He could have been man, for He was man, but He totally and completely delivered Himself (as a man) into the hands of God, for the service of God.
88 And He is our example. We are men and women. We’re also Christians. If He’s our example, let us completely deliver ourselves into the hands of the Holy Ghost, that we might be subjects of the Kingdom of God.
89 He was totally man; He was totally God. But He surrendered His natural parts to His…and His physical parts, and His own thinking, and His own doing, and His own cares, and, “I do only that which pleases the Father.” There you are. Totally delivered from human beings. The priests come to Him, the great men, and said, “Rabbi, so-and-so,” and tried to bribe Him into their affiliations and denominations. But He was totally delivered because He trusted in God.
90 Did not the Psalmist say, “Thou will deliver Him, for He has completely trusted in Me”? See? “I will deliver My Darling from the dogs, because He has trusted in Me.”
91 Some hour when we come to the end of life’s journey, I want it for mine. I know you want it for yours. I want Him to say, “I’ll deliver him out of the jaws of death, for he’s trusted in Me. I will deliver him from the grave, on the resurrection morning, totally deliver him, both soul, body, and Spirit, because he has trusted in Me.”
59-0712 – “A Total Deliverance”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 311
Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God: Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever: (Psalm 146:5-6)
28 Do you know, that body that you’re living in this morning, was here ten thousand years before one speck of life ever laid on the earth. When God had this old missile hanging out yonder, turning it around the sun and revolving it around this a way, and was creating in there calcium, potash, and petroleums, and so forth, He had in His great mind then that you’d set at this table this morning. Oh, hallelujah, He’s the infinite God.
When a carpenter goes to build a house, how does he do? Lay out all of his lumber first. He’s got in his mind just what he’s going to build. God had, before the world was ever had a speck of life on it, He had your body laying right there. If it didn’t, where did it come from? That’s the reason He was twisting it, and rolling it, and turning it. He would have it to the sun this way and it’d make potash, and He’d turn it back this way, and it’d make calcium. He’d turn it back this way, it would make petroleum. Oh, blessed, be His holy Name.
29 What we got to fear about? We should be the freest and happiest people there is anywhere. And we don’t have to guess about it; God’s in our midst and proves it. That’s right. And it’s according to His Word and His Spirit.
Now let’s take it. Our bodies, before there was even the earth was finished being formed, our bodies that we’re living in right now, was laying on the earth: potash, calcium, petroleum, so forth. Now, let’s take a little picture so we won’t miss it.
And after the earth had been shaped and all of it laying there just a—a bleached desert, never had life on it, never was nothing called life, but all the material was laying there to make our bodies. And I can hear God say to the great Holy Spirit, “Go forth now and brood over the earth.” Now, we know the word “brood” is “to—to mother, like the hen her brood, or—or to coo like a dove calling to its mate.” “Go brood over the earth.”
30 Now, we’ll have to use a imagination here as to make a drama. Then the great Holy Spirit went forth, and spread forth His wings over the earth, and begin to brood for a purpose. And that was to bring forth something to project what God was. As I said the other night, “Which was first, a sinner or a Saviour?” What’s all this about anyhow? Which was first a—a Healer or sickness?
Why, certainly a Healer, cer… Well, why did—why did we ever become sinners then? It had to be that way. If God is a Saviour, He had to have something to save. So there’s nothing wrong; it’s just all working His way. Now, I don’t—couldn’t say this to sinners; I’m saying it to ministers (See?) and children of God. It’s all working all right, no matter what we do, or do not do; it’s going to come out all right. ’Cause what God foreknew He ordained.
Now notice, then as It’s a moving around, as—as—as it is. It’s coming out all right, there’s no need of us worrying, because it’s going to be okay.
58-0619b – “Ye Must Be Born Again”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 312
For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. (Hebrews 4:3-4)
217 But the Holy Spirit will bring you back to pentecost, every time. They did in the Scripture, to everybody, and it will in this day, to everybody. It’ll bring you back to that reality. It will bring you back to a baptism of Power of the Spirit, that will lead you and will never take one Word off the Bible. It’ll stay right in the Bible. Where It says this, It’ll follow right on through It. The Holy Spirit will. It brings a reality.
218 What did He do? He had to get these ignorant fishermen, didn’t even have clothes; just something wrapped around them, fish-aprons, and so forth, no clothes. So ignorant, they couldn’t sign their name; unlearned, no education. But He found somebody. He had to get somebody. But He found men in that kind of a state, that was willing to surrender, that was willing. They had nothing else to hold. They didn’t have any churches, any denominations and anything. They were just ignorant fishermen, sheep herders; didn’t know how to write, didn’t know how to read, nor nothing. But they had nothing to lose, and He got to them and they surrendered it. They said, “Whatever You say, Lord, we’ll do it. We’ll follow You.”
219 But when they completely surrendered and gave their selves over to God, God gave them a pentecostal reality. He led them up to Pentecost, and give them the Holy Ghost. There, where they were, there, under the Spirit of God, making all kinds of foolish signs to the people, stammering and stammering, and carrying on, and trying to…The Bible said. What was they on? They was on the highway.
220 The Bible said, “With stammering lips and other tongues will I speak to this people, and this is the Rest, of the soul. This is the thing that will come.” Isaiah 28:18, read it. “With stammering lips and other tongues will I speak to this people. This is the Rest.” Not Sunday; ain’t the Rest day. The Holy Spirit is the Rest day. You Advent brethren; not the seventh-day sabbath is the Rest. The Holy Spirit is the Rest! “With stammering lips and other tongues will I speak to this people. And this is the Sabbath. This is!” Sabbath means “Rest.” This is the Rest, to the soul, you have Eternal Rest.
221 Like God, when He made the world. The seventh day, He rested after that. He rested, He went on resting.
222 When we enter into God, we rest all the time; not from one Sunday to another. We rest, Eternal. We got Eternal Life. The Holy Spirit gives you Rest.
223 Now, they had a pentecostal experience, a reality of God. They had found something.
60-0626 – “The Unfailing Realities Of The Living God”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 313
And David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem. And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate! And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the Lord. And he said, Be it far from me, O Lord, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men. (2 Samuel 23:14-17)
134 O sons, warriors, as I close. I don’t want to keep you here too long. I’m going to close right now, the Lord willing. Five minutes till eleven, or six minutes, rather. Notice, O warrior sons, you man here that claim to be son! Did you know what David represented? David represented Christ, He was, Christ was the Son of David. Now listen, in closing. Those Gentile warriors, many of them, notice they come from everywhere, but they knowed that that fugitive was anointed. They knew David was rejected by his own people, but they knowed the anointing was on him. They could see it. So they stood right by his side, die or live! They were gallant man, no matter how much the outside world didn’t believe it.
135 His own people kicked him out. They didn’t want nothing to do with him. Saul run him out, the head of the denomination kicked him out, and have nothing to do with it, the council kicked him out, and he become a fugitive. They had to go to wherever he could. There he was up in the mountains, but there was a little group of men, of Gentiles and so forth, made up, that they looked at that man and they knowed he was coming king.
136 So is it today with real gallant soldiers of faith of that Word, who knows that Word promises that Jesus Christ will return. We ain’t interested in millions of dollars of this and millions of dollars of that. I’m interested in the return of Christ Jesus. O warrior sons of God, what’s the matter with you, how do you stand today? When we see that the Bible predicts that He’s a fugitive today, turned out of His church, turned out of the organizations. And you know it. No need of hiding around about it, it’s the truth. The Bible said it would be that way. Come out from them marks of the beast!
137 Look at these men! They pulled their swords. What was it? His desire was a drink of cool water. David! What a type of today, our David, Christ, we know He’s called a holy roller, He’s cast off to one side, a fanatic in everything, rejected by the churches. They’ve got their creeds and things drawed up in this Christmas like they did at the first one. We know that, but we know that this Word ever remains true, and It’s got to be fulfilled. And the desire of Christ is for men, warriors, to stand! Amen!
63-1214 – “Why Little Bethlehem”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 314
Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, (Hebrews 6:1)
67 Watch this. Let’s get this word “perfection.” Do you know there’s only one way you’ll stand in the Presence of God? That’s, perfect. God cannot tolerate unholy things.
68 And you legalists: how could you ever perfect yourself, when you have not one thing to perfect yourself with? You were born in sin. Your very conception was in sin. The very desire of you being here was sin. “Born in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies.” Now where are you going to stand at?
69 Where you, sinner, that—that said, “I’ll quit smoking. I’ll go to Heaven”? Where are you, lukewarm, mossback, so-called Christian, that goes around here with a long face and saying, that, “Well, I belong to the church”? You sinner. That’s right. Unless you are born of the Spirit of God, you’re lost. That’s true.
70 How you going to Heaven? You say, “I never lied in my life.” “Oh, the darling. It—it was just an Angel, to begin with.” That’s a lie. I don’t care how good you are; you’re a sinner. And you don’t have one thing; there’s no priest, no bishop, no cardinal, no pope, nor nothing else can save you, ’cause he’s just the same boat that you’re in. We’re getting into it in a few minutes. Just in the same shape. He was…the pope of Rome was born in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies, born by the sexual desire of a man and a woman. Where you going to get righteous out of that?
71 “Well, his papa and mama were born the same way, and they were born the same way, and his grandma and grandpa and on back.” It’s sin, to begin with!
72 So who can say that this is holy and that is holy? There is only one thing holy, that’s Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, Who has been made Perfect. And our requirement is to be perfect. Now, how we going to be it? Try it, yourself. I’d hate to try to get to Heaven on the merits of, “I was born five minutes ago, and going out of the world right now.” I’d be lost. If I never had an evil thought in my life, if I never spoke a bad word in my life, if I never looked at anything evil, never thought anything evil, or nothing, I’m just as rank and black as the smutty walls of hell. I’m a sinner.
73 I could come through life and stay locked up in a room, and like some of the Carmelite sisters or something, and never see the world, stay in there and pray all my life, do good, born a multimillionaire and give to the poor everything I got, and I’m still a sinner and will go to hell. Yes, sir.
74 I might join the Lutheran church, Baptist, Pentecostal, Presbyterian, when I’m on the cradle roll, and live faithful to that church until a hundred years, and my life is took, and no man could point their finger at me and say “He ever even as had as much as a bad thought,” I’ll go to hell just as sure as I’m standing.
75 I’m a sinner. That’s correct. I have nothing. There’s no way, at all, I could find any—any price to be paid. God required death. And if I give my own life, if I give my life, then how can I repent? Cause, you…The debt has got to be paid, first. And God was the only One who could lay His life down and take It up again. So He could become sin, and lay His Life down and pick It up, and call it “justice,” and the debt is paid. There you are.
76 Now let’s turn to Matthew, about the 8th chapter, I believe it is, 7th or 8th chapter. We’ll see what Jesus says over here. All right. It’s Matthew, the 5th chapter. And the…Jesus, preach, preaching in the beatitudes, the 47th verse.
And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more than others? do not even the publicans…? (Watch.)
But be ye therefore perfect,…(What?)
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
That was Jesus’ commandment, “Be ye so.”
77 They say, “Nobody can be perfect, the Bible said, ‘There is none perfect.’ There’s your contradiction.” Is it? All right.
78 You cannot be perfect in yourself. If you’re trusting in what you done, you’re lost. “So be ye perfect, even just as perfect as God is perfect.” Now:
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father…in heaven is perfect.
79 “Therefore…” Now the 5th chapter, 6th chapter of Hebrews.
Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on to perfection;…
80 Now, you, Branham Tabernacle. Oh, I know, “We have healings.” That’s wonderful. “We have visions.” Oh, that’s—that’s fine. And you have spiritual dreams, and sometimes they’re not spiritual dreams. And—and sometimes you… “We, we try to help the poor. We do what we can.” Oh, that’s all right, but that’s not what we’re talking about now. We’re entering into another phase.
…leaving…the doctrine…
81 “Oh, yes, we got the doctrine of Christ. We believe He was the Son of God, is virgin-born. We believe that, with all these things.” That is just wonderful.
82 But, “Leaving that, let’s go on to perfection.” Oh, my! Wish I had the voice of an archangel now, to bring this to a place where you could see it. Now he says, “Leaving all the doctrine of Christ,” all the—the theologians, and all the theology that we know, all about the Deity of Christ, how He was God made flesh, all these other things.
83 Paul goes on to explain it all here, just in a few minutes. Let’s just read it, just a little bit, before we get to it.
…laying again the foundations of repentance from dead works…
Now, we believe that.
…and faith towards God,
We believe that.
And of the doctrine of baptisms,…
Just how you must be baptized, we believe that.
…and of laying on of hands,…
We believe in laying on of hands. Don’t we? See, all that, sure.
…and of the resurrection of the dead,…
84 We believe that. Now watch. You see here, “Judgment,” is used, “Eternal.” That’s forever. When judgment is spoke of God, it’s forever. Then, there can be no more reconciliation after judgment has been past. Now you can understand why God had to take His Own—His Own, as we’d call it, His Own medicine. When He condemned man for sinning, the only way He could reconcile, was to take the man’s place Himself. That’s the only way he can be reconciled, or could reconcile us, was take our place and become a sinner. God, Jehovah, became a sinner, and He gave His life.
85 Now, you could give your life, as a sinner, to die for the cause. Paul said, “Though I give my body to be burnt as a sacrifice, I’m still nothing,” ’cause it won’t work. See, when you die, you’re gone. You die as a sinner, you’re lost.
86 “But God came down in flesh, and condemned sin in the flesh, being made sinful flesh.” Because, He was the Eternal God, and raised His Own body up, so He’s the Justifier.
87 Now, all these things, “Let’s go on to perfection,” said Paul. Now what?
…of eternal judgment.
…this we’ll do,…God permit. (3rd verse.)
88 Now, “Go on to perfection.” Jesus said, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in Heaven is perfect.”
And we’re, every one, condemned. No matter what we ever do, we’re condemned. We were born, condemned. Your mama and papa was born, condemned. Your, all your ancestors was born in sin, shaped in iniquity. So how you ever going to get it? How you going to be perfect? If you never done a thing, never stole, never lied, never done anything in your life, you’re still condemned. You was condemned before you breathed your first breath. You were condemned. That’s correct. And you were judged of God before you breathed your first breath. For you were judged, by the sexual desire of your father and mother who, through their act, brought you here on the earth. And God condemned it, in the beginning. You’re condemned, to start with. So where you…And every other person on earth was condemned with you. Now where you going to get perfection?
89 Watch. Let’s turn just a moment to Hebrews, the 10th chapter. Listen close. I want to read a little bit out of the 9th chapter, first, the 11th verse.
But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, His Own tabernacle, His flesh,…
90 See, the old tabernacle…Did you notice? The old tabernacle had a veil in it, that hid the ark where God lived. How many knows that? Sure. Well, that old man-made tabernacle here, the curtains out of dyed goatskins, and so forth, were made a tabernacle to hide the Presence of God. How many knows that only one man could go in there once a year? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Certainly. That was Aaron, go in once a year. And he must be anointed. And—and, oh, the requirement! And he must have fire in his hand; and if he went without that, he died as soon as he moved that veil back. He would drop dead. He must go in there and light these candlesticks, and sprinkle the mercy seat which called out, the blood of the death, the substitutionary has, till Christ was come to fulfill it.
91 Now, but, God then became in another type of a tabernacle. And that tabernacle was Who? Jesus. And God was inside of Jesus, and He was hid, but He was reconciling the world to Himself, by His expressions. Christ revealed God. He said, “It’s not Me that doeth the works. It’s My Father that dwelleth in Me. I do nothing in Myself but what I see the Father doing. The Father in Me, showing Me these visions, and then I go do just what the Father told Me to do.” You get it? God was inside of a human body, not behind goatskins dyed, but was living, moving. God had hands; God had feet; God had tongue; God had eyes; and it was Christ. There He was.
92 Now, He went away, and the Spirit come in that, that through His death He might perfect the Church and bring the Church submissive. And then the same Spirit that was in Christ is in the Church, doing the same things Christ did. “A little while and the world won’t see Me no more; yet ye shall see Me, for I’ll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world.”
93 Now listen to this.
But Christ becoming a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
He wasn’t made of hands. How was He born? Virgin birth.
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, was this body ever sacrificed or sanctified, but by his own blood…
94 You know that the blood comes from the male sex. And then somebody said, “Oh, Jesus was a Jew.” He was not a Jew. “Oh, we’re saved by Jewish blood.” No, we’re not. If we were saved by Jewish blood, we’re still lost.
Jesus was not Jew, neither was He Gentile. He was God: God the Father, the Spirit, the unseen One. “No man has seen God at any time, but the only begotten of the Father has declared Him.” He manifested God, what God was.
95 Now His Church is supposed to manifest God, to show what God is. See?
What do we do? Organize ourselves, and, “I’m nothing to do with them. They’re Methodist. They’re Presbyterian. I don’t want nothing to do with them. I’m Baptist. I’m Pentecostal.” Huh! You’re lost, with them kind of a motives. Right.
96 Who can brag? Who can say anything? Look at the disgrace the Presbyterians has brought. Look at the disgrace, the Baptists. Look at the disgrace, the Catholic. Look at the disgrace, the Pentecostals, Nazarenes, Pilgrim Holiness. Look at the rest of them.
But, I challenge you to point one hand, in disgrace, at That. Yeah. Point one finger, when God Almighty said, “This is my beloved Son in whom I’m pleased to dwell in. Hear ye Him.” There He is. That’s the perfect One.
97 Now, let’s read just a little farther here now.
Neither by the blood of goats…calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption…(Do you get it?)…eternal redemption for us.
98 Not to be redeemed today, and then, next week when the revival starts, be redeemed again, and then, oh, we backslide and be redeemed again. You’re redeemed once, forever. That’s right. No more redeem, redeem, redeem. “Eternal redemption!” “He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Eternal Life, and shall never come into the judgment, but hath,” past tense, “passed from death unto Life.” Because he has shook? Because he was baptized a certain way? Because he had blood in his hand? “Because he has believed on the only begotten Son of God.” That’s how we have Eternal redemption.
99 Listen now.
For…the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of heifers sprinkled the—the…sprinkle the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purged our conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
100 “Passed from death unto Life.” What do you care what the world thinks? What do you care what your neighbor thinks? Our conscience has died, and we’re regenerated and born again by the Spirit of God, to serve the true and the living God. There you are.
101 Now drop over to the 10th verse, 10th chapter, rather, right across the page.
…the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices that they offered year by year continue make the comer unto p-e-r-f-e-c-t-e-d.
P-e-r-f-e-c-t, it is there, “Perfect.”
…leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on to perfection;…
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father…in heaven is perfect.
102 “The law having a shadow of good things to come,” all the ordinances and the baptisms and the…all the other things they had, “could never make the worshipper perfect.” And, yet, God requires “perfect.”
103 You join the Nazarene church, will never make you perfect. You join the Baptist church, Pentecostal, whatever it is, it’ll never make you perfect. You being a good, loyal man, will never make you perfect. You can’t merit one thing. There’s nothing about you, to merit. You are lost. You say, “Well, I kept the law. I keep the sabbath. I keep this, all the ordinances of God. I do this.”
104 Paul said, “Let us lay aside all those things now.”
105 “That’s all right, but we’ll do this. We’ll baptize the people, and we’ll lay hands on them for their healing and so forth.”
106 We could take it, verse by verse, each one of those things. Baptism, we believe it. “There’s one hope, one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism.” We believe that there’s a baptism. We believe in the resurrection of the dead. Absolutely. We believe Jesus died and rose again. We believe that. “Laying on the hands, for the sick,” that’s what it said. “These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover.” We believe that.
But what is that? Paul said, “It’s all dead works.” It’s something that you do.
107 “Now let’s go on to perfection.” Oh, my! We’re coming into the Tabernacle, not the foundation; the Tabernacle, the Tabernacle Itself. That’s the foundation: the law, and the righteousness, and—and—and—and joining church, and being baptized, and—and laying on of hands. Them is all orders of the church.
“But now let’s go into perfection.” And there’s only One that is perfected, that’s Jesus.
108 How do we get into Him? “Through the Methodists?” No. “Pentecostal?” No. “Baptist?” No. “Through any church?” No. “Roman Catholic?” No.
109 How do we get into It? Romans 8:1.
There is therefore now no condemnation to those that are in Christ…that walk not after the things of this world, the flesh, but after the things of the Spirit, that pay no attention to what the world has got to say.
110 Even if you’re sick, the doctor says, “You’re going to die,” you pay no attention to it, don’t bother you a bit.
111 If they tell you, “You have to become a Catholic before you’re saved, or a Presbyterian, or have to do this,” you pay no attention to it.
“Therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, the things that they see.” Everything that you see with your eyes is earthly.
112 But it’s the things you see in your spirit, through the Word! The Word is God’s looking glass that reflects what He is and what you are. Hallelujah! Oh, my! It tells you. This is the only Book in the world that tells you where you come from, who you are, and where you’re going. Show me any page of literature, anywhere, with all the science or anything else, every good book that’s been written, none of it can tell you that. This is God’s looking glass, that shows what He is and what you are. Then, in between there is the Blood-line, that shows what you can be if you want to make the choice. There you are.
113 “By one Spirit,” now, First Corinthians 12. How do we get into that Body?
“By shaking hands?” No, sir. “By joining the church?” No, sir. “By being baptized backward, forward? In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost? The Name of Jesus Christ? The name of Rose of Sharon, Lily of the Valley, Morning Star? Anything that you want?”
That has nothing to do with it. “Just an answer of a good conscience towards God.” And yet we fuss, and stew, and argue, and split, and make differences. That’s right. “But all those are dead works.” We’re going to perfection.
114 That’s things that I done. A minister baptized you. Whether he baptized you face forward, backward, or three times, four times, or one time, or how he did it, that has nothing to do with It. You’re just baptized into the fellowship of that church, anyhow, proving to that church: you believe the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. Laying on of hands, to heal the sick, that’s wonderful, but, it’s all natural, and that body will die again just as certain as you’re living. It’ll die again. “Now let’s lay aside all those things, and go on to perfection.”
115 How do we get to perfection? That’s what we want to know.
…Christ has perfected…
“God laid upon Him the iniquity of us all. He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement of our peace upon Him, with His stripes we were healed.” That’s the Body we want to get to. That’s the Body. Why? If you’re in that Body, you’ll never see judgment, you’ll never taste of death. You’re free from all of death, judgment, sin, and everything else, when you’re in that Body.
116 “How do you get into It, preacher? By joining this tabernacle?” You’re lost, yet. Couldn’t join, anyhow; we don’t have any book. “How do we get into It? By joining some church?” No, sir. “How do you get into It?” You’re born in It.
117 First Corinthians 12.
For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body,…
118 By the Holy Spirit baptism, we are baptized into that Body, and are free from sin. God don’t see you no more; He only sees Christ. And when you’re in that Body, God can’t judge that Body. He’s already judged It. He took our judgments and invited us in. And by faith, through grace, we walk and accept our pardoning. And the Holy Spirit brings us into this fellowship with Him. “And we walk no more after the things of the world, but we walk in the Spirit.”
Quickened, the Word came to us. He died in my stead. I’m made alive. Here I am, who was once dead in sin and trespasses, been made alive. All my desires is to serve Him. All my love is to Him. All my walks want to be in His Name, that wherever I go, whatever I do, I glorify Him. If I’m hunting, if I’m fishing, if I’m playing ball, if—if I’m…whatever I’m doing, I must be, “Christ in me,” in such a life, that will make men long to be that way; not tattling, backbiting, and fussing about your churches. You get it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.]
“By one Spirit we are baptized into that Body.” “And when I see the Blood, I’ll pass over you.”
57-0908m – “Hebrews, Chapter Five And Six #1”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 315
Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. (Psalm 150:1-6)
19 They went on back down, and the Spirit departed from Saul. He’d backslid and went so far away from God until the Spirit had left him, and a evil spirit took His place, come on Saul. And Saul was all moody and in a bad humor, and—and kicking things around, all out of sorts like some people gets on Monday morning. So they—he was out of sorts all the time. Did you know that’s a evil spirit? That’s exactly.
So they didn’t… The doctors couldn’t do him any good. They had a lot of doctors around there, but they couldn’t help that, because it was a spiritual condition. So one of the men had passed around and seen a few places, they said, “Well, we know where there’s a Divine healer at.”
“Why, who would that be?”
Said, “Jesse’s got a son back out there, he…” Yeah, he’s a Divine healer. Sure he was. He healed by music. Amen. That’s what he did. He had a gift of casting out evil spirits. The Holy Ghost hadn’t come in those days, so he cast them out by music, playing the words of the Lord. “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside still waters.” And it disturbed the evil spirits so much that they left Saul.
20 Shame on you people don’t believe in string music. No wonder, evil spirits never like it. They have to get away. David cast out devils by playing on his string instrument. That’s what the Scripture says. That’s right. And when David would begin to play, the evil spirit would leave Saul. Is that right? So this little boy was borned in the world for a purpose. You believe that?
And he knowed God was with him. Sure he did. Because he’d able to… He was a crack shot; he was a woodsman. And he had a little slingshot out there. And an old lion got a… And bear one day, run in and grabbed a little sheep and started out with it, and David took his sling, and knocked the lion down, and took the sheep out of his mouth. And when the lion rose up, come to himself and rose up, David just caught him by the beard and give his hunting knife to him, and that ended it. So he knowed God was with him. He killed the bear also. And he knew God was with him.
And now, the next thing he did, played and cast out devils. If that ain’t a Spirit filled man, I never seen one. He might be little and ruddy, but he was a Spirit filled man. God was with him.
55-0118 – “This Great Warrior, David”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 316
Can two walk together, except they be agreed? (Amos 3:3)
21 Watch. Then, when they went out and Jehoshaphat what a slip-up on him, to make an alliance with such a person as that fellow, an unbeliever. He got in the same trouble we did when we made alliance with Russia and sent them over all of our planes and things during the other war. Now, they’re going to fly them back and shoot them at us. See? “How can two walk unless they be agreed?” We wouldn’t accept the cross of Christ that was preached, and now we got a double-cross. It’s exactly right. Same thing taken place there. And there Jehoshaphat went out with the—the King Jeroboam, the King of Jerusalem, and they went out to make war with the—with the kings or the Philistines, or Moabites, rather. And they went seven days… Now look, all tied up in business, didn’t stop to consult God.
When you come to the meeting tonight, if you’re sick, did you come say, “Now, Father, I’m going down there. I ask You to be merciful to me, and let my faith be raised up tonight to a place where I can believe Your Son and be healed.” Did you think to pray when you heard the meeting was going to be up here at Connersville? Did you pray, go around and get the neighbors and have little prayer meetings. We forget those things and that’s why we get in trouble.
22 They went seven days out into the wilderness. Never fetched no compass. And come to find out, they got in trouble; they went without consulting God. And all the water supply was cut off. That’s what’s the matter with the church tonight. The water supply is cut off, trying to carry the church on without the supernatural. Trying to try to carry the church on just in its natural. Trying to pattern after the other churches of the world, and that’s the reason we’re not having the blessings we use to have.
Someone said, “I’d walk fifty miles on cobblestones, barefooted to get to a good old fashion Holy Ghost revival again. What’s the matter? God’s still God. You haven’t consulted Him lately. Pray. That’s the only way to find.
We used to sing a little song:
Pray, pray, the only way to reach higher ground,
Pray, pray, the prayer of faith will bring God’s blessings down.
That’s the only way to do it.
53-0609e – “Make The Valley Full Of Ditches”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 317
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? (Hebrews 9:13-14)
129 “Do Christians sin?” Absolutely no! There is no Scripture where a Christian sins. He cannot sin. I know there’s a resentment to that. Well, we’ll just go to First John 3 and see what the Scripture says. A Christian does not sin.
130 Did you ever see a black, white bird or a white, black bird? Did you ever see a drunk, sober man? No! You never did see a sinner, saint either. There’s no such a thing.
131 Now, if this gets just a little touchy, you just put a lot of balm in, you know, and it’ll—it’ll cure up just in a little bit now.
132 Now, the Scriptures is our absolutely, infallible proofs of what we are speaking of. First John 3rd chapter and the 9th verse. All right, listen to this!
He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was made manifest, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
Listen, are you ready? Got your jackets on, the armor all buckled up? Listen close, ’cause this is shocking.
Whosever is borned of God does not commit sin;… (How’s that?)…for his seed…(His seed, God’s.)… remaineth in him:…(The man!)…and he cannot sin, because he’s borned of God.
In this the children of God are made manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever does not righteousness is not of God, neither…that loveth not his brother.
How can you have denominations and draw barriers and things like that, and say you’re borned of God? No such a thing. It’s a mock of the—Satan. That’s right. But a man that’s borned of God cannot sin; it’s impossible for him to sin.
133 Watch! Just let me take this crucifix just a minute if it’ll come off of there. Who was the sin offering? Jesus Christ. How do we get in Christ? Who died for us? Christ. What did He die for? Our sins. He took my punishment. Is that right? And then how do I get into Him? By one Spirit we are all baptized into one Body. And when in this Body, we’re covered by the Blood and free from the judgments. He cannot sin, because there’s a Blood sacrifice laying for him day and night. Hallelujah! He can’t sin. He has no desire to sin. If he does it—if he does do something wrong, he don’t mean to do it. The Bible said in Hebrews the 10th chapter, “For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the Truth (and He is the Truth), there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin. He that despised Moses’ law died under two or three witness, how much more sorer punishment suppose, though worthy, who’s trod the Blood of Jesus Christ under his feet and counted the Blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified with an unholy thing, and done despite to the works of grace.”
134 For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one Body and are free from sin, and we cannot sin. There is an atonement waiting for us. And if there’s still desire in your heart to sin, you have never been baptized into that Body, because you are dead and your life is hid in Christ through God and sealed by the Holy Ghost. Christians don’t sin. They make mistakes, but they don’t sin. Amen! That’s the reason they don’t, for he cannot sin.
135 How can I have a…If I go down through the city here, and the mayor of the city says, “Mr. Branham, I know that you make sick calls. There’s speed limits. The highest speed limit in the city is about thirty miles an hour. But I’m giving you permission to run ninety if you want to, ’cause I have faith in you that you wouldn’t do it unless you had emergency call or somebody dying yonder in a wreck. And I’ll give you permission, as the mayor of this city, that you can run any red light, do whatever you want to, just go right on.” How could a little two-bit officer ever arrest me out here making forty miles an hour in a thirty mile zone? He can’t. I cannot break any speed laws in this city, because why? I’m above the speed laws. Amen! I hope you see it.
136 And when we are dead, and God has recognized our repentance, He’s recognized our baptism, He’s recognized the Blood of His own Son, which by faith has been applied, He recognizes His foreordination, and knowed that I’d do it, and has recognized me in Christ, dead…And Christ died in my place when He was slain before the foundation of the world. My name was put on His Book as a Christian. Hallelujah! Christ died my death. Christ is my Sacrifice. And God could not impute to me sin anymore. He’s give me the Seal of the Holy Ghost as a witness that I’ve passed from death unto Life. Whew! That does it.
137 Then they that are borned of God does not commit sin, for he cannot sin. In the Old Testament each year there was a remembered of sin. But Christ, by one sacrifice He has perfected forever the worshipper. “The—the worshipper once purged (Hebrews 10)—the worshipper once purged has no more conscience of sin.” So you take these people that run in the church and jump up and down, and shout, and speak with tongues, and act just exactly like a Christian, and run out, and the next year they got to come back again, next week. They’ve never come anywhere to begin with. They’re only impersonating, for the Bible said that the Holy Spirit seals us into Christ until the day of our redemption. Hallelujah! That’s what makes me rest assured, ’cause God promised it.
138 No more sin. The sin question’s settled. That’s the reason sin looks so dirty to a Christian. That’s why women out here with these shorts on look so dirty to a Christian. That’s why vulgarity, that’s why dirty things, that’s why smoking, drinking, gambling, all these uncensored programs on television, all that stuff seems filth. Why? You’re of a different Kingdom. You’re borned into the Kingdom of God and sealed by the Holy Ghost until the day of your redemption.
139 He that’s borned of God commits no sin, for he can’t sin. The seed of God is in him, and he cannot sin. As long as that Holy Ghost is in there It takes every desire of sin away from you. Amen! You can’t sin; there’s no more desire.
We could take a long time on that, but let’s hurry. We ain’t going to get through them, I’m afraid.
59-0628e – “Questions And Answers”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 318
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. (Hebrews 10:1-4)
47 And how can you have fellowship with God when you can’t have fellowship with one another? When churches are different, when fussing, and quarreling, and arguing just with churches, how can we expect to love God when we can’t love each other? I think it’s a time that the all the barriers should be broke down, and we should all be one together, one great unit.
Notice, when Israel come in to the shed blood. The animal was taken up to the altar, was washed at the laver. The sinner placed his hands upon the lamb, his throat was cut. Where the lamb… The blood was sprinkled, and the man went out reconciled through the shedding of the blood. But every time he sinned, he had to come offer a new lamb. And there was a sin offering once a year. He that trespassed that died without mercy.
48 Now, if he’d have—sin had been committed twice in a year, no matter if he was a mayor of the city, if he was a king, whoever he was, he was stoned without mercy.
Now, in the case of Christ, the Lamb. If we once put our hands upon His head and confess our sins as wrong, and He accept us, what a sorer punishment it would be to do despite to the works of grace, and to count the covenant of the Blood wherewith we was sanctified an unholy thing.
But in that day, he went back with the same kind of a feeling he had when he come in. Now, this may pinch just a little bit to some of the brethren. Listen. The reason the man went out after offering the lamb’s blood… Maybe he went out and murdered. He went out with the same murdering spirit in his heart, though he was reconciled for he was offered the blood.
But he went out with the same spirit in his heart. Maybe he committed adultery; he went out with the same spirit in his heart, because the blood of this animal… The life was in the blood. But the animal life trying to answer for a human life, it would never do it.
49 But when a man correctly one time comes in and lays his hands upon the head, by faith of the Lord Jesus Christ, and confesses his sins, then the Blood of Jesus Christ… The Life that was in that was God Himself. And that man, the life that returns to that man after he has confessed his sins and accepted Christ, he’s brought into a relationship with Christ by the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and there’s no more desire in his heart to sin. Amen.
That’s the reason Hebrews 10 said, “For the worshipper once purged has no more conscience of sin.” There you have fellowship. The things of the world is dead. You don’t recognize it no more. You reckon yourself dead, and your life is hid in God through Christ, sealed by the Holy Spirit. And then you’re looking to the heavenly things.
Used to be, you couldn’t hardly set in church ten minutes. But when you really got the Holy Spirit, you can set in church day and night, for there’s something in you feeding. The trouble today people has worldly spirits. They go to church.
55-0605 – “Fellowship Through The Reconciliation Of The Blood”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 319
In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee. And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in. And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude. Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people? (1 Kings 3:5-9)
16 Then we notice again, that through the—every age, God has somebody some place that He can lay His hands on and work through that person. He’s never been without a witness since the world began. In every age, He’s had witnesses.
And back in the time that we’re now facing in the great, golden age of Israel, God had gifted a man by the name of Solomon. He’s knowed all through the world where the Bible is read as a man of wisdom. He prayed God to give him wisdom to lead the people.
And when a gift is given to the church, and the church refuses to hear that gift, then the gift becomes of none effect. But when the gift is given to the church, and the church receives it, then it’s a golden age for that church.
Israel was living in its golden age under Solomon. All Israel glorified God because of this marvelous gift. It was perfectly operating. And they could see the results, that it wasn’t something that was just a put-on. It was a real gift from God.
17 And then the news when the pass-bys, coming through the country, would hear of this great gift of God, they would go tell others. That’s the way the good news gets scattered: one tells the other.
And then, way down in the utmost parts of the known world, there was a little queen, perhaps, a little heathen queen called the queen of Sheba. And in her great domain, people would come by and say, that had passed through Israel, and say, “You should see that great gift that God has given to Israel.”
18 You know, faith cometh by hearing, talking about it. We don’t do enough talking about the good things of God. Tonight, the church of the living God is took up too much on talking about television programs, and some kind of a ball game, or something on that order. You should be testifying to the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and let your whole life be wrapped in that.
57-0614 – “The Queen Of The South”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 320
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. (Hebrews 11:1-3)
53 God gave those senses, but they’re given to you as a gift. And it depends on how you, what you yield these senses to, will be the way that your life is controlled, the way you yield those five senses. You’re…What you see, what you hear, what you taste, smell, or feel. Whatever those senses are yielded to, they will dominate you.
54 And we are grateful to God that we have the five senses. But by no means was these five senses given, to you, to guide you. They were given to you for earthly contact. But there was given you the sixth sense, and, that sixth sense, is belongs only to the Christian. And you cannot have this sixth sense until you become a Christian; is the only way that you can ever have any more than the five natural senses for the natural person. But, sixth sense is better known, to the Christian, as faith. It’s the one that governs and guides you, and it is superior to all the other senses. It’s a superior to all of the senses, the other, five senses.
55 Now, I would not say that because that we receive the sixth sense that the five senses are no good no more. Yes, they are. Those five senses were given to you by God, and they are to be used. But when the five senses act contrary to the Word of God, then they are lying.
56 Now, the sixth sense cannot lie. It’s a super sense. And that’s what I want to speak about. This morning I spoke on: A Super Sign. And tonight on: A Super Sense.
57 And the super sense is the Holy Spirit, the faith of God that dwells in you. And if you’ll let the five senses be yielded to the sixth sense, it’ll guide you and bring all the other five senses under control of that super sense. For it’s so far above the natural sense, as the spiritual man is above the natural. It’s as far, as high as the heavens is, above the natural man and his five senses. It makes you believe things that you cannot see. It makes you act where you do not think the five senses would ever think about it. The devil can get into these five senses and lie to you, but he cannot touch that super sense. That’s far beyond his reach. That come from God. It’s called faith. Faith is that great thing.
58 And the five senses does not control the sixth sense, but the sixth sense controls the five senses. The super sense controls the natural senses. And the—the five senses is see, taste, feel, smell, hear. And the super sense is something that’ll make you believe God’s Word, for that’s the only thing it’ll speak about. It’ll make you believe for things that you can’t see, taste, feel, smell, or hear, ’cause it’ll take God’s Word. And it will deliver that Word to you, and make you walk contrary to any other thing there is but God’s Word, by faith. Faith does it.
59 Now, in giving this illustration, of the senses, the natural man is born with these senses, so they are nature-given senses. And that’s really only thing he’ll ever know about it, in his intellectual thinking. He can only think as a man. He can see as a man. He can understand as a man. He can hear as a man. But when he becomes governed, or regenerated, or we would call it “born again,” then that sixth, super sense takes a hold of him. In doing so, that super sense raises him up into a spot to where he has faith to believe things that he could not hear, things that he could not see, understandings that he could not understand. He believes it, anyhow, because he’s governed by that sixth sense, that super sense. Oh, how marvelous it is to know it, and to think how simple it is to believe it!
60 Now, you cannot believe it until you are regenerated. The Bible said that, “No man can call Jesus the Christ, only by the Holy Ghost.” We went through that, this last week. And it’s been such a stumbling block, especially to the Pentecostal believing people, when they hear me say that. Jesus said, in Saint John 5:24, “He that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Eternal Life.” Eternal Life comes from God, alone. “And no man can say Jesus is the Christ, only by the Holy Ghost.”
61 You’re only taking what somebody else said, what you learned by intellectual, what you learned by the natural, five senses. But when the sixth sense comes in, the Holy Spirit, It takes away all the reasonings of these six senses and…five senses. And lifts you up into that sixth sense, to make you believe things that you can’t see, taste, feel, smell, or hear. Does something to you! Then you can say Jesus is the Christ, because you have witnessed it. Not what intellectual teaching has taught you, but what you’ve experienced!
62 “What is the sixth sense to do then, Brother Branham? Why do the sixth sense come?”
63 The sixth sense come for this reason. Now, sixth sense is the faith, the super sense. Now if…The sixth sense come for this reason only, that was, to make the five senses in you deny anything that’s contrary to God’s Word. That’s what the sixth sense is for. The Scripture speaks of “casting down reasonings.”
64 The—the five senses will, you can reason, “Well, now, why should this man…He, why should…?”
65 But the sixth sense doesn’t see that at all. It’s so far beyond it! It’s so much higher than it is, until it don’t even have any reasonings, at all, with it. “We believe it.” It’s far beyond anything that the five senses would have to say about it. Now get ready for a healing service. See? “We believe it.” You walk by that sixth sense. You talk by that sixth sense. You live by that sixth sense. You die by that sixth sense, and rise by that sixth sense. That super sense, something that’s in you, that’s different from what the natural man is.
66 The natural man only has these, and they’re all right if they can be brought in submission to the sixth sense. If the natural mind says, reads the Word of God, and says, “That is the Word of God,” it’s speaking the Truth. But if it reads, and say, “It’s not all the Word of God.” Or—or, “It was something. It was, one time, but It isn’t now.” Then that sixth sense comes in, and says, “He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever.” See, that’s the difference.
67 That’s why that so many people fail to be healed. They’re trying to come with an intellectual conception. They say, “Oh, I—I do this, or I believe this, and so forth.”
68 But if that sixth sense is saying that, then there’s nothing will ever shake them from that sixth sense. The sixth sense is come, upon the human being, to make them deny anything that’s contrary to the Word of God. Any symptom, any symptom that’s contrary to God’s promise, the sixth sense says it isn’t there, if the Christian that’s born again.
69 And the first thing you know, some infidel, unbeliever, gets around to the Christian, and said, “Now look at here, there is no such a thing as that Holy Ghost. You’re just mistaken, in that. You’re crazy, if you believe such stuff as That. There is no such a thing as It.”
That sixth sense goes right straight to work.
70 “Let me show you, in the Bible, where you can’t receive the Holy Ghost. You see, I can show here where the disciples got It, but—but I…”
71 “Well,” you say, “look,” and the sixth sense will point you over, say, “but He said, ‘The promise is unto you, to your children.’”
72 “Well, that meant their children there. That didn’t mean for you. It isn’t for you.”
73 But that sixth sense knows better. Why? It’s already in you. They’ve said it too late. You’ve already received It.
74 People who talked, that, “There is no such a thing as the Holy Spirit,” don’t know what they’re talking about.
75 Like a boy, once, peeling an apple. And was asked by an infidel, debating, a meeting. He said, “What do you want? What do you want up here?”
76 He said, “I want to ask you a question,” while he was eating the apple and enjoying it. A very simple, sort of looked like a delinquent person, with the hair hanging in his face, and one tooth out, in front, and an old dirty overall jacket on. He said, “Just one question I want to ask you.”
77 The infidel had just said, “There is no such a thing as God. It’s all emotion. There’s nonsense to it, is all it is.”
78 And the boy said, “I want to ask you a question, mister. Is this apple sweet or sour?”
He said, “How do I know? I’m not eating it.”
He said, “That’s just what I thought,” walked right back.
79 How do you know, when you haven’t tasted the Lord? How do you know, when you’ve never received the Holy Ghost, whether He’s real or whether He is not? How do you know where there’s faith and power? How do you know there’s not “joy unspeakable and full of glory,” when you’ve never tasted, to see it? The sixth sense leads you to That. The sixth sense declares That to you.
80 There’s no intellectual powers, at all, will ever bring That to you. The intellectual powers will reason, and say, “Why, it’s psychology. It’s something this way. And it’s emotion, with the people.”
81 But when the sixth sense comes in, it denies all of those things, and moves a person straight into the bosoms of God. “He that cometh to God must believe that He is, and a rewarder of those that diligently seek Him.” By faith! By faith, Abraham! By faith, Isaac! By faith, Jacob! All by faith! It’s the sixth sense that does it. Sixth sense denies all symptom, all symptoms, anything contrary to God’s Word, any feeling, emotion.
82 Somebody say, “Oh, well, I was prayed for, but I just don’t feel any better.”
83 Sixth sense would never stand still for that. Sixth sense would say, “It’s a lie. I feel better. I’m getting well. God said so, that settles it. Amen. God said so.” Sixth sense only feeds on the Word of God.
84 That super sense, it’s super, above the senses. It’s a greater sense. It’s a faith. It’s a power that stirs and drives. Amen. It’s something that makes you do things that you never thought you would do. It’s the sixth sense, the super sense.
85 You get prayed for. Let’s say you got—got a crippled hand and you get prayed for, your hand, you come up there and you believe that God is going to heal you. The pastor prays for you, you go back. The old natural man will say this, “You don’t feel any different in that hand. You’re no better than what you ever was.” But the sixth sense comes along, and said, “That’s a lie. You’ve been prayed for. That settles it.” Amen.
86 Like a woman that come to our meeting one time. And she come to our meeting, two of them. They crossed the platform. They had seen the discernments. Them women were just—just swallowed up. They were both real Christians. One come up, and the Spirit came and said, “You are suffering with a stomach trouble.”
And her face lit up. She said, “That’s true.”
87 And the Holy Spirit said through me, said, “And it’s an ulcer. It’s caused from a nervous condition. You’ve been examined by a certain doctor. And he said that you could not…Have to, oh, you had to have an operation, have it cut out.”
She said, “Every word of that is the true.”
88 And then, seeing she was such a great believer, then It said, “Your name is Miss So-and-so. You come from so-and-so, and such-and-such a place.”
She said, “That is the truth.”
89 What was it? The sixth sense catching it. The sixth sense and the Holy Spirit was standing side by side. The Holy Spirit was speaking, the sixth sense was saying “amen.” There it is. Something has to happen.
90 When Martha run out to find Jesus, and when she said, “Lord!” Watch the sixth sense. “If Thou would have been here, my brother would not have died, but even now, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You.” There is the sixth sense.
91 Jesus pulled Himself together, said, “I am the resurrection and Life. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believest thou this?”
92 What are you going to say, reasoning? There’s a man laying down there, dead, and the worms is crawling through him.
93 But He’s just got through saying He was the resurrection and the Life. That’s God’s Word. That sixth sense, beyond the doctor’s care, beyond the thoughts of scientific research. Defy all. Defy all reasonings, and cast them down. Why? It’s witnessing to God’s Word. “I AM. I’m not ‘I will be, I was.’ I AM now. I’m the resurrection and Life,” a Man. “He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet he shall live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believest thou this?”
94 She said, “Yea, Lord,” sixth sense, “I believe that You are the Son of God that should come into the world.”
“Thy brother shall rise again.” Oh, my!
95 To the grave they went. Them two, together, something had to happen. That was the super sense, with God standing present, something had to take place. The sense was super sense, was God. There was Something telling Martha that. She had seen Him. She knowed Him. She recognized Him to be the very Messiah. And she knowed, if she could only get to Him, if she could only get close to Him and present the case, just hear one promise come from Him. That’s all she wanted. When He said, “I am the resurrection and Life! He that believeth in Me, though he were dead,” that’s all Martha wanted to hear, all she wanted. Because, the sixth sense, the super sense, her faith, was moving her to confess Him, believe Him.
96 This woman, when she left the platform, it was THUS SAITH THE LORD. “Go home and eat. Jesus Christ makes you well.” She went home.
97 That night, a friend of hers, living in the neighborhood, was third or fourth behind her. And she had a big knot on her neck. And here she come, all thrilled about this, her neighbor was going to be healed of that ulcer that had bothered her so much. This was one of the hundreds of cases, thousands of them. And this big knot sticking out on her neck, and she come up. I said, “No one would have to discern that, but you are happy about something. You been thrilled, because that woman sitting over yonder is a neighbor of yours.” Holy Spirit!
98 She thought, “How in the world could that man know that? It has to be Something to reveal it to him.”
99 So when that was said, It said, “You’re thinking about your neck.”
“Yes.”
“Do you believe it’ll leave?”
“I believe it,” she said, “with all my heart.”
100 I said, “THUS SAITH THE LORD. Go home and you will receive your healing.”
101 The natural man looked around and couldn’t see no sign. The woman with the ulcer went home and tried to eat, and, my, she liked to died. Oh, the natural man, the natural sense of feeling still declared the ulcer there.
102 So after about a week or two had passed, she went through the neighborhood, to all of her people in the church, testifying, “The Lord has healed me.”
And they said, “Are you eating now?”
103 “No, not exactly everything I want. But,” she said, “I’m already healed, for by His stripes I am healed.” No matter what it was, she was healed, anyhow.
104 And one morning, the children had gone to school, and she got real hungry. She was standing, washing the dishes, by the window. She came to the meeting, another meeting about a year later. And she was washing the dishes, and when she, first thing, she felt a real funny feeling go over her. And she thought, “What was that? Felt like I wanted to scream.”
105 And her husband had told her, said, “Honey, you quit talking about that healing,” said, “because,” although he was a Christian, said, “you’re bringing a reproach upon the Cause.”
106 How can you bring a reproach when you’re testifying to His Word? You’ll bring a reproach if you don’t testify to It.
Said, “If you were healed, you were healed.”
107 She said, “That man stood and looked me in the eye, and told me my conditions and the things that I had done, and who I was, and where I come from.” She said, “I hadn’t been in the building fifteen minutes, when he come to the platform. How in the world could this man know that? I never saw him in my life. And he told me, ‘THUS SAITH THE LORD. You’re healed.’” And she said, “I’ll believe it until I’m dead.” She said, “I’ll believe it, anyhow.” So, her, and her sister below her, a friend, had covenant to God, that they would hold that faith.
108 That morning, she felt real funny. And, a few minutes, she got hungry. So the children had left some oats in a plate, a little dish; and said oats always just burnt her up. If anybody ever had an ulcer, you know what it is. So she reached down and took a couple bites of those oats. “Oh, my,” she said, “I’ll have to pay for it, I suppose, but one of these days I’ll be all right.” But she noticed she was still hungry, so she just finished up the dish. She waited a few minutes, see what happened. Nothing happened; felt good, still hungry. She fried her a couple eggs, and poured her a cup of coffee, and got some toast, and had her a real jubilee. She just eat all she could eat. She went ahead, washing the dishes. And about a half hour later, she was hungry again. No ill effects.
109 She put on her little bonnet, and down the street she went, into this neighbor’s house. And when she got there, she heard, she thought there had been a death maybe in the family. They were screaming, and shouting, and walking around. The woman had slept late that morning, and got up, looking for the growth that was on her neck, and it had disappeared during the night. What was it? God at work.
110 Up here at Cadle Tabernacle, when we had that meeting. That crippled boy that come in there, was prayed for. Many of you was there to see him. They brought him back in that emergency room. Billy led me to him. They had him on the platform for three or four nights, or on the…in the building. He didn’t get a prayer card, so they put him in the emergency room. I went in there and prayed for him. Looked at him. He said, “Mr. Branham, can you tell me some consolation?”
I said, “Yes, sir, son. Polio got you this way.”
He said, “That’s right.”
111 I said, “Your name is such-and-such. You come from a certain place.”
“That’s right,” he said. He said, “What about my healing?”
I said, “By His stripes you were healed.”
112 He went home, testifying, giving God praise. And he brought such a reproach, they claim, in the neighborhood, until one Sunday a group of ministers come in and sit down by him, and said, “You must stop doing that. You are bringing a reproach upon the Cause.”
113 And the young man sitting there, said, “Mister, if you were sitting where I am, if you were in the chair that I am sitting in, you wouldn’t try to rob me of the last hope I got, in Christ.” Said, “By His stripes I am healed.” And he no more than said that…Sitting there, paralyzed feet, hands, body, back. And no more than he said that, and out of the chair he went, glorifying God.
114 What? His natural senses said he’ll sit there; the doctor said he’ll be there forever, or as long as he lives. But the sixth sense says, “By His stripes I am healed.” And he wouldn’t have nothing to do…It’s casting away everything contrary to what God said. That’s what the sixth sense is for.
59-1227e – “A Super Sense”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 321
By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure. By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff. By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. (Hebrews 11:4, 17-22)
29 But, look, the church natural, it’s just the church carnal. They’re never able to get above that little thing of “I joined church. If I go to church, if I do the best I can, that’s all God requires.” Now, that’s the same thing Cain done. He went and made a altar. He made a sacrifice, brought the fruits of the land. And he said, “Here it is, God. That’s the best I got. Take it or leave it.” That’s the way the carnal believer believes today. “Lord, I’ll go to church. I’ll join the best group that I can find. I’ll pay in my dues to the church. I’ll do what’s right. Now, here’s the best I can do. I’ll help buy some coal for the widow. Or, I’ll give the children some clothing.” Them’s all right, nothing to say against it. “But that’s it, that’s all. If You want it, take it; if You don’t, You don’t have to take it.” Now, that’s the attitude of the church carnal today.
30 But the church spiritual! Abel, by revelation, by grace, he seen beyond that, and by faith he offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. And it testified of his righteousness, God.
31 The same thing took place in Ishmael and Isaac. One was of the flesh, and the other one was of the Spirit. One, of the bondswoman; one, of the freewoman.
32 It happened the same thing in Israel and Moab, two great churches coming together. And when Israel was wanting to go to their promised place, church spiritual, Jacob’s people, Israel on the road; Esau’s people met them, Moab, church powerful. And the great leader of the church, Balaam, came down to curse his brother, but he found that he could not curse his brother. He failed, with the blindness of his eyes, to see the predestinated plan, that, and to see the Word of God.
33 First, “Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word of God.” Then the believer hears It, recognizes It, and acts on It. The carnal man will hear It, the sound of It, but never…Hear means to “understand” It. Look at, is looking at something; but to see it, is to “understand” it. “Except a man be born again, he cannot see or understand the Kingdom of God.”
60-0221 – “Hearing, Recognizing, Acting On The Word Of God”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 322
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it. (Amos 8:11-12)
11 The churches are cooling off. We just might as well face that. The churches are getting worse and worse all the time. More preaching is being done than ever in the world, and less practice than we ever did in all the world.
Just looks like it just keeps cooling off. Great revivals strike the country: Men come in anointed of the Holy Spirit; they preach with everything that’s within them; and the people walk right away as if nothing had ever happened, just unconcerned. Now, there’s got to be a reason for that. And if you’ll study This, This tells what the reason is.
Do you know the Scripture says there will be a time in the last days, when there’ll be a famine strike the land, not for bread and water, but for hearing of the Word of God? And that men would go from east, west, north and south, seeking to hear the Word of God, and fail to find It? Just think of the times we’re living in. And we’re living in that time. I believe when the prophet spoke that, he foresaw the United States of America. ’Cause it’s the only place that I know of, would meet that description in this day.
12 Other parts of the country starving to death, practically all over the world. We’re practically helping feed the world. We got plenty to eat, everything in here; everybody’s well fed, plenty of clothes, no more depression, plenty of money flowing everywhere. And the people are seeking to hear the Word of God and failing to get It. Because every fellow’s built him a fig tree, and got his own organization, his own cult, or his own ideas, and no one else will listen. And he’s right, and nobody else is right; and they won’t have fellowship one with the other. And that’s why the poor American people’s mind are so disturbed; they don’t know what is right.
One man will say, “It’s this way.” Another one say, “It’s this way.” One’s got a teaching; one’s got a doctrine; one’s got a song; one’s got a tongue. And the American people are the worst confused of any nation I know of in the world. That’s awfully hard to say. And now, but it’s the truth. We got to face facts.
55-0311 – “The Seal Of The Antichrist”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 323
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. (Hebrews 13:8)
76 Now, there is people today who firmly is against everything that’s called God; no religion. And they’re mostly in the majority, in our country. World over, they are far in the majority, millions and millions that’s never heard the Name of Jesus Christ. They are in the majority.
77 Then there are those who are professors of religion. And they love to put on their ceremonies. They love to be dignitaries. They like to dress, and to go to the church and to have some kind of a hymns, and a—a little message of some sort, talk of a God that was, and then place Him so far back in history, that He can’t move, that He was something that was. They want to claim, that, “Jesus is right. He was a good fellow. He was a great Man. He was like Washington, never told a lie; or like Napoleon.” That’s their attitude about Jesus. They think that He was just a good man. Many of them today don’t claim Him to be Divine. They just claim that He was a good man, that His teaching was right. Some of them believe Him just to be a prophet.
78 But there is those who go beyond that boundary. I believe Him to be God, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.” That, He wasn’t just a prophet, that He wasn’t just a man, that He wasn’t just a teacher, or a good man. He was the Divine Jehovah God living in a body of flesh. You’d ask me, “Who is This?” That’s what my opinion of Him is. He’s God, manifested in the flesh, to take away the sins of the world. “Who is This?” Not just a man, not just a prophet, but the Emmanuel, God with us. Then, not only with us, but in us, through us, God in the midst of us.
79 Then, if that is true, a supernatural God cannot change His nature to fit people’s nature. People has to change their nature to fit God’s supernatural plans. That’s why people cry, “Who is This?” It’s God in the midst of His people. They don’t understand it. God will never come to your level. You’ll have to come to His. God will not come to your requirement. You have to come to God’s. And then when that requirement is met, upon a promise that God made, to redeem the people. If that requirement has met, your entire being changes. Your thinking changes. Your habits change. Everything about you changes. Your desires change. Your living changes. Your habits change. You change. Everything about you changes, ’cause there’s a new Life in you.
59-1004m – “Who Is This?”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 324
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. (James 1:2-4)
70 Just like putting a little baby’s arm in a sleeve hole, you see. He’s just up, down, over, and everything else. See? He can’t do it. “Put on your coat, honey.” He can’t do it. Little arm is up, down, around. It takes your steady hand.
Oh, how glad I am, I can just yield my hand to Father, say, “Lord Jesus, I can’t get in There. You help me. Put the coat on me.” I quit trying. Just let Him do it. See?
71 If the little baby keeps trying, “Oh, I can do it. I can do it.” And he’s just everywhere. He can’t do it.
Neither can you, neither can I, but if we’ll just hold still and let Him do it. Just yield to Him, “Here, Lord, here I am. Just—just let me be nothing. I—I yield. You put my hand in the right place.” That’s the victory. That’s overcoming.
72 The thing you have to overcome is yourself, your idea, your thing, and surrender yourself to Him. He overcome for you. He knows the way; we don’t.
73 But in Noah’s time there was eight overcomers, and that’s what went in. They were caught inside.
Now look, friends. I believe they’re taping this. And if it’s on television, or not tel-…pardon me, a tape. Whatever you do, who is listening now, or who will listen hereafter, the hour is very late, and you do have good intention, but be caught inside. Now, don’t struggle. “Not him that willeth, or him that runneth, but God.” Just let God. Just yield yourself to Him and walk on, with a perfect, satisfied faith, that, “What God has promised He is able to perform.” Not joining one denomination, another denomination, running this, that, or the other, trying this. Just yield yourself to God, and walk with Him, peaceful, quiet, not interrupted. Just keep on walking with Him. That’s right.
74 That’s what I told our brother that just had the—the breakdown. See? “Just yield to Him. He’s here, He Who knowed what you have done, and what caused your being and doing this way, and all that. He knows all about you, and now He’s just told you back just what to do. Now,” I said, “only thing you have to do is just go do it. That is, forget all about the past, walk, live for the future, in the Glory and Presence of God.”
Eight overcomers.
75 In the days of Daniel’s time, there was four overcomers that could stand the test of fire and lion.
Now, we’re expected to be tested. That’s a good lesson for my—my brother back there, also. “He that cometh to God must first be tested.” Tested (what?) with the Word. That’s God’s test. Do you believe it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] “He that cometh to God must be tested.” That only shows a true child, then, see, be tested. And when the test comes on…You can’t overcome ’less there’s a test give to you. And when test is given, it’s to see whether you can overcome or not. And Jesus said, “To him that overcometh,” the test. The test is the greatest thing that ever happened to you. I believe it’s written in the Scripture, Peter said, that, “Our trials are worth more to us than precious gold.” It’s a testing time. It’s one good evidence to us that God is with us, when we’re tested, for all children of God are tested and tried.
63-0825m – “How Can I Overcome?”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 325
Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. (Jonah 1:1-3)
71 Now, we find Nineveh in sin. And the prophet was hesitant because it was a Gentile world, see, it was a Gentile nation, a Gentile people; not his own, it wasn’t Hebrews. They were Gentiles. A great ship, commercial seaport that Nineveh was, great fishing industrial there, the people fished. And—and they—they had…must have had a great sinful country there. Plenty of money; and—and where money is plentiful, and people are in the popular opinion of the day, sin always sets in, and violence.
72 God was tired of it. So He had a prophet in the land, so He said to His prophet, “Go down there to Nineveh and cry out, and say, ‘Within forty days the city is going to be destroyed.’”
73 Now, Jonah thought now, “You know, I might get in a little trouble.” So he wanted to be more sure, so he thought he’d take a little vacation and—and go down to Tarshish. And we found out that the…there was just forty days left. See?
74 So the Message is urgent, the time is at hand. Don’t play around with other things and get a Bachelor of Art degree and find out something. The hour is at hand! That’s what’s the matter with people today, we’re trying to build up big schools and have big things like that. When mercy…My! If we preach the Coming of the Lord, what do we need with schools? We need repentance towards God! See?
63-0724 – “God Doesn’t Call Man To Judgment Without First Warning Him”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 326
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. (Jonah 2:8)
32 Jonah, when he was in the belly of the whale, if anybody would have symptoms, Jonah would’ve had. Well, if he look this a way, it was a whale—whale’s belly. If he looked back this way, it was a whale’s belly. Everywhere he looked, it was whale’s belly. He had seaweeds around his neck, laying in vomit in the whale’s belly. Why, no wonder, he had a good case of symptoms.
He was a lot worse case, than what you could have tonight. There’s no one here in that condition. But you know what Jonah said? He said, “They’re lying vanities. I won’t look at any more whale’s belly, but once more, Lord, will I look towards Your holy temple.” Amen. Why?
He knowed when Solomon dedicated that temple, Solomon prayed a prayer, and he said, “Lord, if Thy people be in trouble anywhere, and will look towards this holy place, and pray, then hear from heaven.” And Jonah, if you want to call him backslid, hands behind him, tied, feet tied, on a stormy sea, in the belly of a whale, plumb down at the bottom of the ocean, he refused to look at anything but that temple, because there was a prayer over that temple.
If Jonah could look to the temple that was made by man, and have that kind of faith, in those conditions, how much more can we tonight, under any circumstance, look to heaven, where Christ sets at the right-hand of God, with His own Blood to make intercession upon our confession. Depends on what you’re looking at.
33 You know what God did? He must’ve put a oxygen tank or something in there. He kept that prophet alive for three days and nights, and took him on a ride, all the way across the ocean to Nineveh.
Nineveh was a large city, many thousands of people. They were idol worshipers, and they worshipped gods, and their great god was the god of the sea, the whale. All of them were fishermen. Here they was out there pulling their nets, sinful as the United States is now, and the first thing you know, in come the whale (He was a god to them.), opened up his mouth, stuck out his tongue, and the prophet walked off like a gang plank. There come the god, spitting the prophet out. No wonder… See, God had to do it that way. God knows what He’s doing. No wonder they repented at the preaching of Noah—or Jonah. Because why? That he was… The whale god spit him out on the bank.
The prophet walked right out of the whale’s mouth and begin to preach. Sure they repented. God does things in supernatural ways, His wonders to perform—certainly.
58-0625 – “A Greater Than Solomon Is Here”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 327
So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey. And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not. (Jonah 3:3-4, 10)
166 If no repentance, then judgment is sure to come! Hezekiah repented. See? Nineveh repented.
167 Ahab never repent. Nebuchadnezzar never repent. The people in Noah’s times never repent, and the judgment swept right on in. See? Now, but He first warns everybody. Everybody gets a warning.
168 Now, seeing the time is at hand, let everyone that feels that there is a warning, repent quickly before the wrath of God strikes.
169 Now let’s bring it down to the Branham Tabernacle. See, we have seen these things and know them to be the Truth. We know that It’s absolutely the Truth. The commission of the Word is, “If you will repent and be baptized into the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is to your children and them that’s far off.” See?
170 Now, a man, Mr. Dauch, asked me here not long ago, he said, “Brother Branham, I’m getting old. I’m getting weak, ninety-one.” He said, “Do you—do you think I’m—I’m ready to die? Do you think I’m ready to go? Do you think I’m saved?”
171 I said, “Mr. Dauch, did you ever go to a—a doctor for a physical checkup?”
He said, “Yes.”
172 “And you tell him…Now, what the doctor does, he’s got a book laying there, and he takes this book and he finds out. ‘Now, the first thing I ought to do to that man, check his heart.’ So he gets a stethoscope and puts them in his ear, checks his heart.” And I said, “Then, the next thing he gets, he finds out his blood pressure, with a—with a pressure on his arm. Then the next thing he does, he takes a urine specimen, and whatever more, and some blood out of him, and all these different things. He goes through all of it, and if he can’t find nothing…Takes an X-ray. If he can’t find nothing, he’d say, ‘Mr. Dauch, you’re—you’re physically all right.’
173 “What’s he basing that upon? On the conditions out of his medical book, that if there’s anything wrong according to the head scientist it’ll show up here, it’ll do this here, it’ll do that there. Therefore, as far as he can know anything about it, you’re all right, see, physically.
174 “Now,” I said, “in this case, I—I’m giving it a soul examination. See? And God, for the soul, only has one Instrument, that’s right, that’s His Word. That’s His Word. And Jesus said, in Saint John 5:24, ‘He that heareth My Word.’ Now, that hear doesn’t mean just to listen at a noise. That hear means ‘to receive It.’ ‘Who can receive My Word,’ amen, ‘he that hears It!’ (Don’t stand still, call It nonsense, ‘Them things, there’s nothing to It. I don’t believe That.’) ‘He that hears My Word!’ Uh-huh. That’s the Word of Jesus, which, He is the Word. There you are. ‘If you can hear My Word,’ He said, ‘and believe on Him that sent Me, he has passed from death unto Life; and shall not even come to the Judgment, but has already passed from it.’ Amen!” I said, “How’s your heart beating now?”
He said, “I believe It. I have heard It. I have received It.”
175 I said, “Then according to the Head Specialist, the Chief Operator, the Chief Doctor of Eternal Life says, ‘You’ve passed from death unto Life and shall never come to the condemnation.’”
63-0724 – “God Doesn’t Call Man To Judgment Without First Warning Him”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 328
And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. (Jonah 4:2-3)
35 I was standing not long ago at My Old Kentucky Home. I was born not far from that, and I had my hand laying on the desk like that. The—the inspiration come to Stephen Foster where he wrote Old Kentucky Home. I seen his picture, and the Angel that was supposed to have touched him and give him his inspiration and so forth. And after the guide had went through, I was setting alone, and I thought, “Mr. Foster, you had it in the head not in the heart.” Cause every time he’d write, get inspiration, write a song, he’d go off and get on a drunk afterwards. Then finally, you know how he ended his life after getting up in that inspiration: he come back down, called a servant, took a razor and committed suicide; Stephen Foster’s end.
36 I thought of William Cowper, you’ve heard of him, that wrote that famous hymn:
There is a fountain filled with blood,
Dawn from Emmanuel’s veins,
When sinners plunge beneath the flood,
Lose all their guilty stain.
37 A few… About two to three years ago, I stood by his grave in England; read his history there. And William Cowper after writing that song, when he was up in that inspiration writing; he was considered a neurotic, and when he come out of that inspiration, he got a cab and tried to find the river to commit suicide. Didn’t know where he was at, what he was doing or nothing. See? He’d been up somewhere.
38 Look that’s—that’s poets. Look at prophet: Look at Jonah when he was on his road to Nineveh and taken a boat to Tarshish, and he… God… He disobeyed God, and he was throwed out of the ship and a whale swallowed him, and—and he was brought back to Nineveh, and he gave his prophecy, so much, with a city the size of St. Louis, Missouri, over a million population. Some of them didn’t even know right and left hand. But that prophet walked the streets screaming his prophecy like that until the people repented in such a way they put sackcloth on their animals.
39 And then when the inspiration left him, he set under a little gourd tree and prayed God would take his life. Is that right? See, you don’t understand it. He was up somewhere, and while the inspiration was on him, all right, but when it leaves him then what? See?
40 Look at—look at Elijah, the prophet, who stood on Mount Carmel that day and called Fire out of Heaven, called rain out of heaven at the same day, and then run out into the wilderness after the inspiration left him at the threat of Jezebel. Run out into the wilderness and wandered around out there in the wilderness for forty days and nights, and God found him. He’d crawled back in a cave somewhere. That right? See?
41 No need of trying to explain it. It’s just a life alone. See? When you’re in there, it isn’t bad, when you’re out; but it’s coming between that. See? And you’re just, you don’t know where you’re at and what you’re doing. What does it speak? It speaks one thing. Brother, there’s a Land beyond the river. We reach up into It there somehow. I don’t know. I can’t explain it. But I know some glorious day, when I come to the end of my journey, which I’ve got to some of these days, I suppose, as an old man, I hope to be, if Jesus tarries.
53-1129a – “The Faith That Was Once Delivered To The Saints”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 329
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. (Proverbs 14:34)
5 For instance, tomorrow it’s packing up time. We got to leave. Maybe tonight. Got to leave this world, go somewhere else. And you know that might be just about so too.
I heard one of my associates say today, that not only in this city, but all the cities around over America; one of my associates said that “He seen a car open up and just a teen-age girl started to get out and the beer and whiskey cans and things fell out of the car. The kid just left them lay there and went on in to get something and come back.” He said, “If God doesn’t soon send judgment upon America, He will have to resurrect Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize to them (That’s right.), resurrect Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize for sinking them (That’s right.) if He don’t soon send judgment.”
We’re in for it, friends, that’s all. Sure. But the Church is in for it too: a rapture. Amen. That’s the wonderful part, the rapture, coming for the Church. Be a sad day for the unbeliever then. But it’ll be a most marvelous time that we’ve ever seen or thought for those who are ready at that time when Jesus comes.
6 What if you were taking a trip into the other world that you don’t know where, just stepping off? You’re old and shaky, you’ve served the Lord for years and years, and tomorrow you’re going to go aboard to the ship that’s going to take you away when you get old. And was going to the ship come in over here at the dock. And you went down and got on this ship, the old foghorn blowed. And she started across the sea, and as soon as you got across, she made trips back and forth for the thousands of years.
And when you set your foot on that new land, somewhere they just discovered a new land. And whenever you set your foot down there, then every one of those gray hairs went black again. All those wrinkles and worn down bodies, went back to a young man and woman again, to live forever. Just as soon as your feet touched that land, that’s what happened. Well, that’s just exactly what happens. That’s right.
When the old ship of Zion comes gets its victim, taking him away. Some of these mornings I expect to hear the whistle blow myself, in the room when the fogs a gathering; this mortal life is spent. I hope that everything’s all right then. I believe that it will be. He give me the promise. I believe it with all my heart, that I’ll step across the other side. Now, not only me, but all those the love His appearing, they’ll be there.
So keep your thoughts on that, sinner friend, tonight. And what if come with you, and went out way out here, to a chute somewhere that went down to a dark whirling pit to an Eternity that never ceased in midnight darkness, and screams, and morns, and groans… Might be tonight, you might make your decision to change ships. I hope you do. All without Christ go that way. All with Christ goes this way. Just the difference of whether you believe Him and accept Him or not. So make your choice tonight, and let us pray now, while we bow our heads.
55-0301 – “Elijah”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 330
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: (1 Peter 2:9)
53 People come in and say, “Them people are crazy.” Sure they are; the wisdom of God is foolish to man, and the wisdom of man is foolish to God. They’re contrary, one to the other.
54 But a real Spirit-filled church, full of power of God, sitting together in Heavenly places, offering spiritual sacrifices, praises of God, the Holy Spirit moving among them, discerning sin and calling out the things that’s among them that’s wrong, straightened out and making it flat and level. Because why? Always in the Presence of God is that bloody Sacrifice.
55 Now remember, we went through it this morning. You wasn’t saved by the Blood, you’re kept saved by the Blood. But you were saved by grace, through faith, believing It. God knocked at your heart because He predestinated you. You looked up and believed it, accepted it. Now the Blood makes an atonement for your sins. Remember, I said, “God does not condemn a sinner for sinning.” He’s a sinner to begin with. He condemns a Christian for sinning. And then because He has condemned him, Christ took our condemnation. So there’s no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, that walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. And if you do anything wrong, it isn’t wilfully. You don’t sin wilfully. A man that sins wilfully, goes out and wilfully sins, never come into that Body yet. But a man that’s once in there, he’s dead, and his life is hid in God, through Christ, sealed by the Holy Ghost, and the devil can’t even find him, he’s so far back in there. He’ll have to come out of there before the devil can ever get him. “For you are dead!”
56 Tell a dead man he’s a hypocrite and see what happens. Kick him on the side and say, “you old hypocrite, you,” he’ll not say a word. And that’s right, he’ll just lay there.
57 And a man that’s dead in Christ, you can call him hypocrite, call him anything you want to, he’ll never rise up about it. If anything, he’ll slip off somewhere and pray for you. That’s right. But, oh, some of them’s very much alive. That’s what I think about, we’re supposed to bury dead people. Them that’s dead in Christ, we bury them in water. Sometimes we bury too many people that’s alive, too much malice and strife, and there’s too much in the church. But we can’t separate that, but God does. He knows His people. He knows His sheep. He knows every voice. He knows His children. He knows who He can call out, He knows who He’s predestinated. He knows who He’s given these things to, what He’s making Hisself known through. How He…God can put confidence in His children, on what to do, knowing that they will do exactly.
60-0522e – “Adoption #4”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 331
And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place: For so was it charged me by the word of the Lord, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest. So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Bethel. Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father. And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah. And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon, And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am. Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread. And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place: For it was said to me by the word of the Lord, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest. He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the Lord, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him. So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water. (1 Kings 13:8-19)
45 Prayer changes things (Is that right?) from death unto life; prayer changes. There was the prophet that was very much embarrassed, no doubt, to go back as far as the people was concerned, but he had to do what God told him to do.
Now, look. Some of these, this going on around… You always seek the face of God. And I don’t care who tells you anything contrary to what God tells you, don’t you believe it, and you obey God. Will you do it? I don’t care who he is, how righteous he is, how much of a pastor he is, how much of a preacher, whether he’s a prophet. He may be sent of God, a real, true, ordained prophet of God, but if God tells you something contrary to that prophet, don’t you believe the prophet. You believe God. How many believes that’s true?
46 Read First Kings 13. A young prophet went down and prophesied against all Bethel there, and done some miracles and the Lord said, “Don’t you eat nor drink, and come back another way from the way you went in.”
And a real prophet of God went and deceived that prophet. Is that right? Might as well be truthful. He said, “The Angel of the Lord met me and told me to tell you to come to my house. He met me after He met you.” And the prophet, believing that prophet, turned and went back. What happened to him? A lion killed him. Is that right? And the old prophet wept over it. Sure, because he listened to a man instead of God.
No matter who says anything, believe God first. And God is the same God yesterday, today, and forever. He’s the same Healer, yesterday, today, and forever.
52-0816 – “Faith (Africa Trip Report)”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 332
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. (1 Peter 4:8)
31 I don’t know. I might’ve told this, I have told it before, hundreds of little things that’s happened. One day I was mowing my yard. I had to get in the back yard, the front yard was growing up ’fore I get the back, account of people come being prayed for and things, from… See, as Joseph said a while ago, it’s just… Here, this is just—this is just Chicago. At home, it’s all around the world (See?), where people are coming and going from all parts of the world coming in.
And when I was mowing this grass, I run in, forgot about it, there was a hornet’s nest back there. And I hit that fence with this mowing machine, and I was covered over with hornets, them great big fellows; they’ll knock you down when they hit you. At first I was scared, truly. No shirt on… And something or another happened. I—I was sorry I hit those fellows, not because that I was afraid I was going to get stung, but really, it sounds juvenile, but if we could just be more juvenile. If we could be more childlike, it’s the simplicity of God that turns college students around. Be simple in those things. Just like a baby, just rely and believe. Don’t try to push yourself; just relax and believe it. That’s all. Don’t try to work yourself up, “O God, hallelujah, rebuke.” That’s no—no good. No, just believe it and walk on. That’s all.
32 So when that happened, I thought, “Them poor little fellows up there in their nest now, and here I done hit the fence and knocked them out of their nest,” that big old mowing machine I was pushing. And I said, “You’re little creatures of God, I’m sorry that I hit this fence. I’m—I’m sorry I disturbed you. Now, I’m God’s servant, and I’m praying for His sick children. I got to hurry and mow this yard. So now, you rush right back into your nest; I won’t bother you no more, in the Name of the Lord Jesus.”
I started my mower off again and stopped it. I’d pull the string and started off like that and them bees just a humming all around my naked shoulders, and they took a beeline and went right back into their nest, without stinging at all. Love. I can’t produce it; I can’t work it up; God’s got to give it.
33 There’s where it is tonight. God has to give it. Then love produces a fellowship. Now, when God said back there… The day that sin had separated that Divine love, God told Adam and Eve not to eat these certain fruits, and they did, and sin brought separation. And sin by separation brought hatred, malice, strife, envy. Is that right? What happened? They separated from Divine love.
And when you separate from Divine love, then you can’t overlook your brother’s mistakes no more. You got to bawl him out for it. That’s right. You can’t overlook sister’s mistakes no more. Because you’ve got away from that Divine part, that love part. But if you really love the Lord Jesus, if sister or brother, does something to you, “Oh, well, that’s all right, they didn’t mean to do it.” That’s the kind of love that Christ had, “Father, forgive them; they don’t know what they’re doing.”
55-1009 – “The Way To Have Fellowship”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 333
But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. (Micah 5:2)
41 One of my little girls was asking the other day about importancy. I said…Well, talking about some important man. Well, it was the President that was just assassinated, and our hearts was grieved over it. And I said, “Well, he was an important man.” The papers played it up, and the television shot it, billions and billions of dollars it cost the government to broadcast that. Which, that’s all right, that’s their business. But I said…This little Pentecostal preacher up there in Carolina, that a man walked in, a drunk with a shotgun, called for his wife and shot the man plumb out of the pulpit, then shot his wife, and shot himself, a little piece in the back of the paper about that big. Let me tell you, brother, no matter who we are, “You want to know how important you are,” I said to my little girl, “stick your finger in a bucket of water and pull it out, and try to find the hole.” We’re nothing. There’s only One important, that’s God. We must remember, He’s the One.
42 Looked like that if they wanted to…man had been fixing a place for the King to be born, there was more greater religious places and historical places for the King instead of this little Bethlehem. Places, for instance, like Shiloh. Shiloh was where the ark was pitched first, we know, as we come across where…come across the Jordan to this side in Palestine, and where the ark was set up for its first worship place. Or Gilgal; Zion, Zion a great place; Gilgal, also.
43 Or the proud great capitol, of Jerusalem, where the heads of all the organizations gathered at, their headquarters, looked like they’d have fixed a place up there at Jerusalem for the great King to be born, if they wanted a place, a historical place or a grand outstanding place. That’s where the religious headquarters was, of their religion to which the King came to. He came to represent their religion. And He…and when He did, instead of them fixing Him a place at Jerusalem or one of those great historical spots, He was borned in Bethlehem, the smallest of all the cities. “Art thou not least among the princes of Judaea? But out of thee shall come a—a Governor that shall rule My people.” And this great proud Jerusalem and all the other cities was rejected.
44 Or maybe they could took some of the places of refuge, the great place like Hebron, Kadesh, or Ramoth-gilead, one of those great refuge cities, because He was to be our Refuge. If we would try to fix in our own mind, we might have took, say, “Well, now, if this great King’s coming, which will be our Refuge, He should be born in one of these great memorial places of a refuge, like Ramoth-Gilead, or Kadesh, or one of those.” We would have tried to fix it like that in our minds.
45 But, you see, God has other ways of doing things. He knows how to do things right. And now by the mind of God and the help of God, we’ll try to say why that this happened, because everything works just exactly right in God’s great program. And I want you people here at Phoenix, and around, to—to—to try to get This. That remember, that God knows what He’s doing. See? And He takes simple means to do it by. Because, if He does something by some great outstanding something, then…God never does do things like that, He never did in all the history of the Bible. God never did deal, never did in any time, take any group of people to do anything. God takes an individual. You’re the one, you, one person. And God never changes His program. Because, His first program, He must always remain with that program.
63-1214 – “Why Little Bethlehem”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 334
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. (2 Peter 1:3-4)
37 See, “the world,” we’ve escaped that now. He’s addressing this to the Church. That’s why we’re here this morning, is to find out what is the way, what is God’s requirement. There’s not a person in here, that loves God, but wants to—wants to become more like Christ. Now it’s laid out here. Every Christian! I’m an old veteran. Look at Brother and Sister Kidd here, they’re probably the oldest in the building. But if I’d ask them, “What is your heart’s desire?” It’d be, “Closer to God.” When you learn of Christ, there’s something about Him that’s so loving, you just try to get right into Him.
38 Excuse this expression. I told my wife, here not long ago, she… both getting old, and I said to her, I said, “Do you love me like you used to?”
She said, “I certainly do.”
39 And I said, “You know, I love you so much till I would like to take you and pull you inside of me, so we could just be, really, be one, more.”
40 Now, that, multiply that by a hundred million, and then you’ll find out how that the believer, who falls in love with Christ, wants to get into Him, because it’s a love. And here He’s going to show us how that, through these promises, we might be partakers of Christ’s Divine nature. These, mortal body, how that we can be partakers.
41 I might say something here. The reason I believe…Now someone got me all wrong, here not long ago. I got a letter from the ministerial association, that said that I believed that there was… “We were soul-mated. And we must leave our companions if we’re not soul-mated to them, to marry another one that we were soul-mated to.” Oh, my!
42 I said, “I’m not guilty of a heresy like that.” I’ve always been against that. I—I don’t believe in that. Certainly not. I believe that God gives us a mate. That’s true. And then we become part of each other. That’s right. And ’fore a man gets married, he should think these things over, study it.
43 A young man asked me the other day, said, “You think I could, ought to get married, Brother Branham, to such-and-such a girl?”
I said, “How much do you think of her?”
He said, “Oh, my, I just love her.”
I said, “Well, if you’re not going to live without her, you better marry her then. But if you can live without her, you better not. So, but if it’s going to kill you, you better—you better go ahead and get married,” I said. And so what I was trying to get to him, this, that, if you love her so much!
44 Now, right now, before you’re married, everything is just fine and dandy. But after you get married, then the toils and trials of life come in. That’s when you’ve got to be so in love that you understand one another. When you’re disappointed in her, she disappointed in you, you still understand one another.
45 That’s the way it is with Christ. See? We’ve got to be so in love with Him, till when we ask for something, and He doesn’t give it to us, that doesn’t shake us a bit. See? See? Why? And the only way you can do that, is to become partakers of His Divine nature, then you’ll understand the reason He can’t give it to you. “Partakers of His Divine nature.”
62-1014m – “The Stature Of A Perfect Man”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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