Episode 354: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 320

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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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