Hear Ye Him
57-0105, Hear Ye Him, Arnold Memorial School, Cleveland, TN, 109 min




And a service is always that way. You usually get what you put in the service. We think of expectations. When you're expecting to find the Lord, if you come to a service expecting to find Him, He will be there. If you're come expecting to find something you could criticize, the devil will sure show it to you. So you could... Just whatever you're expecting, that's just what you receive.



And I just look like I could find no place to stop talking, just such a fine bunch of men. We were there till ten minutes till eleven, I believe, after just having a few moments for breakfast. But we had an old fashion love feast among each other. I think that's what brethren ought to do. I think that's good. That molds us together as one.

And now, there's a emergency room. We've been... The brother said if he'd have knew it a little sooner, he could've got it, that's on the side.

If you've got a case that's real bad and you're afraid you can't stay through the service, or your own service is going to go on that night, we don't want to call anyone from their post of duty. We--we want you in your duty at your church when you're having services.
And usually when I have my just own service, just set a meeting and call whosoever, I have my service on the afternoon, so everybody can be free to go at night back to their own church.

So you probably will have to be in the emergency room by six or a quarter after, at the latest.



Jesus never used His power. He used the Father's Word. He said, "It's written, man shall not live by bread alone." Then Satan come around and wanted to debate with Him. So he used the Father's Word too, but he misused It, put It in the wrong place.
And Jesus said, "And it's also written..." And every time Satan would come at Him, He'd speak with the Father's Word and defeated Satan on the Father's Word.
And you can do the same thing. If you'll believe God's Word and stand on God's Word, It'll defeat Satan every time. I know that to be the truth. I've seen sarcomas cancer healed, with nothing but standing on the Word of God. And you know what sarcomas cancer is.
All right. It's because that God's Word is Life. And every Word of God is true. It has no end to it. [Matthew 28:18], [Colossians 2:9]

And years later they kept the--from an autopsy they kept the--the skull of the girl. And many, many, many years later, they could take the stereoscopes and put it on that skull of that girl; they could hear that cancer or that radium still going [Brother Branham illustrates--Ed.]. It has no end. It just keeps going.

And if you need anything from God, the Seed of God will produce it, if you'll just receive it into your heart and believe it with all your heart. [I Peter 1:23], [Matthew 13:19], [Mark 11:23], [Mark 9:23]

We're living in the day when we got the best hospitals we ever had, the best doctors we ever had, the smartest doctors we ever had, the best drugs we ever practiced with; and in the midst of all of it we got more sickness than we ever had. 'Cause we got more unbelief than we ever had. [Psalms 103:3]

But today we got to scientifically prove it, take it back and analyze it, and look through it, and see if it's right. You'll never be able to prove God scientifically. God is not scientifically proven.

He bit off gunpowder, kills his neighbor. He bit off automobile, science, kills more than all the wars put together. He's bit hisself a hydrogen bomb now. I wonder what he's going to do with that.
He destroys himself by knowledge. And God is not known by knowledge. God's known by faith. And faith alone is the only way you'll know God. And His works are acts of faith. [Genesis 2:9]

God would've never spoke to him, if he'd have done that. But Moses just took off his shoes, and set down, and talked to God. He didn't care what was on the leaves, and whether they burned, or whether they didn't burn; it was God in the bush, and Moses recognized it. And he talked to God. And God revealed Himself to Moses. [Exodus 3:2-5]

Divine healing is an act of faith in the finished work of Calvary. That's just as purely the Gospel as I know how to place it. It's a finished work that Christ died for at Calvary. "He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed."
Now, healing is not on the same basis as salvation. When you're borned again, you receive a new spirit, new Life, Immortal, cannot die. But when you're healed, it's just an attribute of the Divine love of God that healed you temporarily for a while. Your body must be borned again just like your soul. [Isaiah 53:5], [John 3:3]

And if there is no freedom from sin, and living above sin, and free from sin, then there is no heaven to go to. This is just the earnest of our salvation that we have now through the works of the Holy Spirit.
So Divine healing has already been purchased for every creature. It's your faith in the finished work of Calvary. [John 11:43-44], [II Corinthians 1:22], [Ephesians 1:13-14], [Isaiah 53:5]

And I was interviewed at Mayo Brothers Clinic on account of that, 'cause Mayo's had turned him down. And the vision told him who he was, where he come from, what was going to happen. And that's just the way it was, and the baby was healed.
And they wrote it up in "Reader's Digest." And when I asked them there, I said, "Don't you believe that God heals?" They said... Took me in an old room there and showed a great, big place where Jimmy Mayo used to have, said, "We do not profess to be healers. We only profess to assist nature. There's one Healer; that is God." And that's our best. [Psalms 103:3], [Isaiah 53:5]

"Well," you say, "Brother Branham, I believe you're wrong, there." No, if it'll heal a knife cut, it'll heal it regardless of where it's at. Water that's wet in here will be wet out there. A gun that'll fire in here will fire out there. If it'll heal a knife cut, it'll heal a knife cut anywhere. [Psalms 103:3], [Isaiah 53:5]

They send tomorrow for your best doctor in Tennessee. Next week they send for the best doctor in the nation. Next week they send for the best doctor in Germany. And they put penicillin, sulfur drugs, sew it up, everything they want to do. In fifty years from now that cut will look just exactly like it did the minute it was cut. [Psalms 103:1-3], [Isaiah 53:5]

Medicine does not build tissue; God builds tissue. A doctor can set an arm, but he can't heal an arm. He leaves it there for God to heal. A doctor can take a appendix out, but what about the hole he cut it out? He could pull a tooth, but who stops the blood? Who heals the place up where the tooth come out the socket? God, if it's ever healed. Correctly. [Psalms 103:1-3], [Isaiah 53:5]

And when they give you, like penicillin and things for a bad cold, what does it do? It doesn't heal. It's just like rat poison, putting out; it poisons the rats. That's the germs that's in your body. It doesn't heal. God has to build that up where it's been destroyed. See? So God is the Healer on every Word every time. He's the Healer. [Isaiah 40:8], [Psalms 103:1-3], [Isaiah 53:5]

Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee for the Lord Jesus and for the power of His resurrection. And tonight, while we're gathered here in this city, in this lovely little auditorium here at the school, God, we pray that You'll bless those who so--so courteously opened up the doors and let us have it.
We thank Thee for this city, for the mayor, that fine gentleman, and for all the different ones who are donating rooms, and so forth to take care of the comers to the meeting. And we pray that You'll bless the ministers here, every one. Bless these colleges, Lord.

Thou hast said in Thy Word, "Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst." It's a blessing to feel that way, for they shall be fed or filled. And we pray that You'll grant it.
And now, Father, circumcise the lips that will speak and the hearts that will hear. And may the Holy Spirit come take the Word of God and give It to every heart as we have need. For we ask it in the Name of Thy beloved Son, the Lord Jesus. Amen. [Matthew 5:6]

After six days Jesus taken Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart,
And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment as white as the light.
And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.
Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it's good for us to be here: if thou will, let us make thee three tabernacles;... one for Moses,... one for Elias,... one for thee.
While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in who I am well pleased; hear ye him. [Matthew 17:1-5]
And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment as white as the light.
And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.
Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it's good for us to be here: if thou will, let us make thee three tabernacles;... one for Moses,... one for Elias,... one for thee.
While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in who I am well pleased; hear ye him. [Matthew 17:1-5]
And by a way of text I would take those last three verses, or last three words, "Hear Ye Him."

And if we should read it a hundred million years from tonight, it'd still be just as inspiring, because it's God Word. It's a finished product. It can never fail. It's God's Word. [II Timothy 3:16]

And perhaps, maybe, your pastor has taught you this many times, on how that the order of the Scripture, how perfect It is, the second coming of the Lord. First: the Moses and Elijah, and then they looked and saw just Jesus only, all foreshadowing or picturing the coming of the Lord the second time. But tonight we want to approach it from another angle. [Matthew 17:1-5]

No matter what size the circle is or how many people's gathered together, Christ is omnipresent. And He--He's the only Being that there is that's omnipresent. The devil cannot be omnipresent. God is the only One Who's omnipresent; that's everywhere. He fills all the heavens, the earth.
Here some time ago on Mount... Up in California I was looking at that great observatory, where one of the astronomers had been converted in my meeting, and they took me up there. And they got a glass that you can see a hundred and twenty million years of light space.
Light travels, I think, about eight thousand miles per second. Break that down into miles and how many miles would you have of a hundred and twenty million years? How many miles would you have in a minute? how many in a hour? in a day? in a year? in a hundred years? and in a million years? and a hundred and twenty million years? And all beyond that is filled with solar system.

He's so big that He fills all the space, and yet, will become so small that He will come to a poor, lost sinner's heart. That's what makes Him great.
I've had the privilege in my life to meet great men, kings. I've been in four palaces praying for kings, monarchs, potentates. And you find great men, they're little in their own sight. It's men that's nothing, little men that thinks himself big, that tries to make hisself big.
That's what makes God so big. He humbles Himself to come down to save, to heal: makes Him God to me.

So Peter, James, and John... Really, you notice, in the resurrection of Jairus' daughter, three... He's always taken Peter, James, and John; that's faith, hope, charity. [Matthew 18:16], [Luke 8:41-42, 49-56]

What kind of people would--should--should we be then? We should be sober, ready, always looking and waiting for the leading of the Holy Spirit. Christians is the salt of the earth. And salt will save if it contacts. [Matthew 5:13, 37], [Matthew 17:1]

Have you seen Christians... You'd say, "Oh, I'd just love to be like that woman. I'd just love to be like that man. If there ever was a Christian, there he is." That's salty. You just be the salt; God will create the thirst. But you be salty. [Mark 9:49-50]

God always vindicates. He never does nothing before first He sends forth a witness. And here it is. My beloved friends here in this lovely city, this great move that you see moving in the earth today is a warning. Something's fixing to happen. Take it from the Bible. [Matthew 17:1-5]

So remember, the handwriting's on the wall. These things... God doesn't just play around and--and dally around like we do. But when you see the hand of God moving, it's a milestone. It's pointing to something.
And we're at the end of the six thousand years. Everything in history, everything in the Scripture, everything in the heavens, everything on the earth is pointing to a change right now. Prophets, angels, signs, wonders, and the church cold and formal, to be spued from God's mouth just like He said... Take courage and be ready. Something's fixing to happen. [Malachi 4:5-6]

Now, back in the Old Testament... And many of the ministers will know this, and many of you Sunday school teachers and Bible readers. In the Old Testament... And I think here's where our churches has made a great mistake.
And the reason I thought on this, that it might be profitable for tonight... The Old Testament is a shadow of the New. And myself, I have no education; so, I have to be a typologist to know where I'm standing. And if I look at a shadow of something, I can pretty well judge what the positive will be. So in the Old Testament all those things were shadows and types.

Mansions in a house? How much bigger is the mansion than a house? Sounds strange. I believe it was Moffatt or one of the other modern translators, who made it more ridiculous than ever, said, "In my father's apartment house is many apartments." Now that doesn't sound like God, you're going up there to rent an apartment from Him.
Now, that's wrong. But if you'll go back to the original, it says, "In My Father's Kingdom is many palaces." Now, the reason King James put it like that, the translators, in the Old Testament and also in the early ages, a man who owned a great portion of country, it was called his house, his household. He had servants over here, and servants over there, and servants down there.
In Africa and many parts of the country, you still find this law. And He was called the Father of over all of this group of servants and grounds, and like Abraham. [John 14:2]

Now, many times we have misjudged that. They think, "Oh, praise God, I'm borned again, so that's all that matters." No, sir. You're wrong. You're just then beginning.

Father would come along once in a while and trot his child on the knee and kiss him. But he was a busy man, and he couldn't take time to educate his own child. He had a--a special, selected, the best that he could find to raise that child, because it was his son. [Galatians 4:1-7]

Why? I was borned a Branham. And that's how you become a Christian, when you're not joined a Christian, but borned a Christian.

How shameful it must be as Ezra, the prophet, blushed before God, that the Holy Spirit must have to blush before the Father of the conduct of His children, how that--how sin has crept into the church. The things that goes on in the church today, that we call ourselves the church of God... I don't want to hurt you now, but I want to help you. [Ezra 9:6]

It was wrong for you to put on a garment that pertained to a man. The Bible says it is. But you just do it anyhow. You let your young girls do it. Then they get insulted by the boys on the street and you want to arrest the boys. You're the one that needs it.
We'd never have juvenile delinquency till we have parent delinquency. You used to love to go to prayer meeting and pray till twelve and one and two o'clock, lay on the little, old cottage floor somewhere under the Spirit of God. You used to love to pray all night long. But since you got your television, you like to stay home and watch some old vulgar picture, "Who Seen Lucy" or "Who Loves Lucy," and stay home from prayer meeting. Something happened. [I Corinthians 11:5-6, 15], [Deuteronomy 22:5]

And when He represented Himself, He represented Himself as a dove. And a dove is all the meekest of all the birds of heaven, that fly the heavens. And only those two people could a--those two species could agree.
And John said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, that take away the sin of the world. And I bear record, seeing the Spirit of God like a dove." When the dove settled down on the lamb, heaven and earth embraced each other and kissed. And sinners and God was reconciled. [John 1:29, 32]

And you wonder what's the matter with the prayer meetings? When you got saved, you was a lamb. But when you started snorting like the wolf, and hating your neighbor, and fussing and fighting, the dove just took her flight and went away from you. And now you wonder what's the matter.
That's what's the matter. If a dove won't stay on a--a goat, it won't stay on a wolf. Fussing, fighting, stewing, ups-and-downs, and arguing, and denominational barriers, the Holy Spirit just took Her flight.
You say, "Brother Branham, how do we get It back?" Just come back to a lamb. She's just setting up there on the roost somewhere. She'll come right back when you take the nature of a lamb. [John 1:29, 32]

"Well, he's just a little, snoopy fellow. I just have to tell you the truth." Now, God tells the truth. The Holy Spirit don't pull no strings or punches for anybody. It brings the truth.
Now, I read a book. It said George Washington never told a lie. I don't know about that. I couldn't say that.
But the Bible don't pull strings for nobody: about Lot living with his daughters, and so forth. And David, a man after God's own heart, but when he took Bathsheba, Uriah's wife, God placed it right in the Word.
And it's either right or wrong. That's the reason I got confidence in the Bible, because it's the truth. Whether it hurts or whether it doesn't, it's the truth. And I have confidence in It, for Its Author is none other but God. [I Samuel 13:14], [Acts 13:22], [Genesis 19:30-38]

But if he was a good son, and he was a smart boy, and he was interested in the father's business, how good the tutor must have felt to go to the father and say, "Oh, my. You got one of the finest boys. Why, he just sees something to be done; he goes and does it. And he--he's smart. He knows how to do it. He seeks wisdom. And oh, he's just you made over." How the father must feel. That was fine. [Galatians 4:1-2]

And then, when he come to the place of coming of age, the father seen the son had progressed, and he was a worthy boy, everything he did was right and he was right up with the father's business, he wanted everything just right for the father, and he had no selfish motives, then the father taken that son out into a public place. (You ministers, the placing of a son...) And the father taken the very son that was born in his family and adopted his own son. That's what Ephesians said. We're adopted, predestinated to the adoptions of sons by the--by Christ. [Ephesians 1:5], [Galatians 4:1-6]

And then that son was an heir of what the father had. And we are, what God has, we're joint heirs with Christ, if we are sons of God, positionally placed in the Kingdom, holding our places.
Now, God has many places He could place you. Some are apostles, some prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors, so forth. God positionally places this son. [Galatians 4:1-6], [Ephesians 4:1-11]

That's that royal robe, that the father in the Old Testament, placed on his son, and stood before the crowd, and adopted, or placed his son positionally over everything he had.
And God took His Son, with witnesses of heaven, and witnesses of earth, and on Mount Transfiguration, placed Him and overshadowed Him. And He said, "This is My beloved Son. Hear ye Him."
Peter got all excited, like we do lots of times. He said, "Lord, You know, this is a good religious ground that we're standing on. You know what we ought to do? We ought to build a tabernacle here for Moses. All them that wants to keep the law, they can belong to that denomination. And we ought to build a tabernacle for Elijah. And all that wants that can--that denomination can go to it. And then, we'll build one for You. And all that wants to go to You..."
God said, "Away with such stuff. This is My beloved Son. Hear ye Him." [Matthew 17:5]

Someone said, "I just sought God and sought God." Brother, you didn't. No man ever sought God at any time. God seeks man, not man seeking God.
In the garden of Eden, it should been Adam going up and down the garden, saying, "Father, where art Thou?"
It was God saying, "Adam, where art thou?" That's His nature. [I Peter 1:2], [Ephesians 1:4], [Ephesians 2:5, 8], [Genesis 3:9]

No man is saved, not what you do, but what He done. Notice. No man is saved by the law. And I'm glad that He dismissed Moses. Moses represent the law, the Sabbath keeping, non-meat eating and all those laws and shadows. He said, "Away with it." [John 6:44]

So we're without hope trying to stand on the justice of God. Elijah stood on the mountain, and they sent a captain of fifty. He raised up, that prophet, and went to meet them, said, "If I be a man of God, let fire fall from heaven and consume you." And fifty was burnt up.
King said, "We'll send some more. Send another captain and fifty."
Elijah walked out there and said, "If I am a man of God, let fire come from heaven. You're trespassing on God's ground. I'm God's justice. Let fire fall from heaven and consume you." And fifty was burnt up. God's justice: he was the line of God's justice.
So I don't plead to law. I don't plead for God's justice. What a... I'm so glad. Let us turn our head and look this a way. [Psalms 51:5], [Psalms 58:3], [II Kings 1:10]

"This is My beloved Son." Let the rest of it pass away. "Hear ye Him." Why do you want to hear Him? He's the only One that has Eternal Life in His hands. He's the only One Who can save you. The law can't save you; your judgments can't save you; your justice can't save you. Your own selfish, righteous rags can't save you. Your religion can't save you. Your church can't save you. He alone can save you. That's the reason you ought to "Hear ye Him." [Matthew 17:5]

All your...?... and jollies, and your Elvis Presleys, and rolling booking, woogie, and rock-and-roll, and all your nonsense only brings you down to sorrow. There's only One can give you joy; it settles and there's you peace, "Hear ye Him.
All your social prestige and whatever you might put your heart into, your social standing, and your gatherings and so forth, can never give you the peace that passes all understanding. He has it alone. "Hear ye Him."
All your church joining, denominational fusses, and your stews, and difference, and arguing, it'll only take Him away from you. Forget it and, "Hear ye Him."
That clock just keeps moving and I know I got to quit. [Matthew 17:4-5]

No matter what the world calls for, it's death. God, grant the day that when Christians will be Christians. And if you're not a Christian, quit dodging behind your church, trying to make people believe you're a Christian. God knows you're not. [Matthew 17:4-5]

I don't condemn the sinner. If he drinks, let him drink. That's all the pleasure he knows. If he smokes, let him smoke. If he listens to rock-and-roll and all these other devil inspired things, let him listen. That's all he knows. But you who knows better and then turn to such things as that, you're not worthy to bear the name of Christianity. That's right. You're the one. You who know better ought to be putting an example to them and living an example. Now, that's right.

There never was a man like Jesus Christ. And the Bible said there was no beauty we should desire Him, but a character like it has never been molded. That's right. "Hear ye Him." [Isaiah 53:2]

And up in the hills of Switzerland, around Jungfraujoch and Eiger and Monch and through those famous hills of Switzerland, there was a character of many years ago that we had in our book named Arnold Von Winkelried. Many of you has read the story of Arnold Von Winkelried.

And the Swiss army had gathered in a field to defend their home. And the great army come marching on. And finally, when they seen the army appear, they were outnumbered by the hundreds. And there was that well-trained army like a brick wall moving on to the Swiss.
And the poor little Swiss stood with pieces of sticks in their hands, and anything they could pick up to fight with, rocks, and with old sickle blades: only thing they had to defend their land. They stood helpless against such a massive army, as they marched on and closing in on them.

He stepped out amongst the Swiss army, and he said, "Brethren, this day I'll give my life for Switzerland." He said, "Across the mountain yonder is a lovely little white home, my wife and three children. They're looking for me to come back, but I'll never see them again in this world. I must give my life for Switzerland this day."
And the man says, "What will you do, Arnold Von Winkelried?"
He said, "You just follow me and do the best you can with what you have to do with."

They caught him with the spears running through him. And such a display of heroism routed that alien army, and those Swiss men followed with little sticks and stones and beat that alien army plumb out of their country, because one man was willing to step out and take the place and make the sacrifice that was needed.
That display of heroism has seldom ever been compared with, and never exceeded. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
Hundreds of years have passed, but Switzerland still remembers them; they've never had a war from then since. That was heroism. That was a man who met the challenge of his day and a challenge of the time.

And there was One stepped out of heaven. And He said, "This day I'm going to earth."
The Angels said, "What will You do?"
He said, "I must give My Life for Adam's race." He didn't have to do it. But He was willing to do it, because there was no other hope left. No one else could do it.

And then He sent back on the day of Pentecost to Adam's fallen race the baptism of the Holy Ghost, saying, "Take up this and do the best you can to fight away ignorance and superstitions, sin and sickness." Men who claim to have kissed the rim of the cup of blessings of God, how can we hold our peace in such a time when God has give us the most powerful weapon that man ever placed in the--ever placed in man's hands to fight against sin, and sicknesses, and ignorance, and superstitions and isms. It's a real sky full of the genuine baptism of the Holy Spirit. And we stand in the corner like a bunch of cowards. God wants men and women who are gallant, who will stand out and take the place. God wants a hero. Could you be one?

A lot of times I'll go with a brother and I'll take a position and go hunting, and I'll tell him I'm going to a certain place. I'm not going to hunt. I go up there and set my gun against a tree and kneel down on top of the mountain. There I see Jehovah.

And I was searching around the mountain top, for the elk hadn't come down. They had no storms. And in that time of year there'll be a--a storm; it'll rain awhile, and then snow awhile, and then the sun will come out and melt it all off, and so forth.
And it come up a storm. And I stood behind a tree. And after the storm was over, I got out from behind the tree, and I looked and the sun was setting through the crevice of the rocks in the west. And a rainbow came out because the evergreen was froze high. And a rainbow come across the valley. And I thought, "O Jehovah God, there's Your promise." The rainbow is a covenant. The covenant was with Christ.

My mother's mother come off the reservations up here. My conversion didn't take that out of me. I love the wild, nature.
And when the wolf got to hollering and its mate got to answering, I started crying. The storm had run the big elk herd apart, and I could hear the males bugling one to another. It was like heaven.

I felt like Peter. "It's good to be here." But just below the hill, of course, there's sickness waiting.

And he was just a chatter, chatter, chatter. And I thought, "Little fellow, what you so excited about?" And he'd cock his little eyes sideways and look down. And I thought, "Surely, you're not scared of me. Only I know you're the blue coat policeman of the woods. But why are you making so much noise?"

And he'd been forced down. And the big eagle jumped up. His great big, gray eyes, and he looked at me and he looked at that squirrel. And I thought, "God, why did You stop me from shouting? I see You in the rainbow and all around, but where are You in this scene?"
And I watched the big bird. And I thought, "Well, maybe He's in the bird. Well," I thought, "there's one thing, that bird don't seem to be a scared. He's the hero."
God don't want cowards. He wants somebody who will stand. He don't want somebody that's ashamed to testify to their boss. He don't want somebody that's afraid to tell the doctor that God healed you. He wants a hero.

I thought, "There it is." God had given him a provided way that he trusted in. And he knew, by his own wings, that I couldn't get that rifle as fast as he could get through them bushes and be out of my way. And he trusted in his God-given power. And I thought, "That's right, Lord. The eagle will trust in his God-given power, but how about a man with the baptism of the Holy Ghost afraid to trust God with that God-given power?" He's a coward, not a hero.

And after while, he got tired of hearing that little old chatter, chatter. He just made one big jump, flopped his wings about twice; he was out of the timber. And something happened that set me to screaming. He never kept flopping his wings from one church to another, from one denomination to another, flop, flop here and flop, flop there.
You know what he done? He had a knowledge that these wings was give to him for a purpose. So he just set his wings. And when the air waves come in, he rode up on them. And he went higher, high--not flopping his wings, just knowing how to set his wings and riding on the air waves. And he went on, on till he become a little speck.
And I got to weeping and shouting again. I said, "That's it, Lord. Oh, if we only knew how to set our wings of faith and ride the current of the Holy Ghost and get away from this little old chatter, chatter here, 'Days of miracles is past. There's no such a thing as Divine healing.' Just ride on out of sight of it." Get tired of it and ride away on the God-given wings that He's give you.

He used to shoot little fawns just to be mean. Now, the law provided, if you want a fawn, why, you could have it, one a year. But Burt would take about ten or fifteen a year just to be mean. I used to be a game warden, as you know, for years. And I love game. I'm a conservationist. I like to take care of it. But I was in another state, New Hampshire.
And one year when I went up there, Burt had made him a little whistle. And that little whistle, he could make it go just like a little baby fawn crying.
And I said, "Burt, you're not going to use that."
He said, "Oh, you chicken-hearted preachers." Just to be mean, cruel, you've seen man like that. You think you're big, but you're little.

And all of a sudden, across the way, a beautiful, big doe (that's the mother deer), she raised up and she looked. And her great big ears, and her big beautiful brown eyes (and her statue that only a lover of nature could admire), she walks out into the open, those ears up and them eyes searching. A baby was in trouble and she was a mother. And she looked.
I seen Burt pull the bolt action on his rifle to put the shell in. I thought, "Oh, surely, you're not going to do that, Burt. Surely, you couldn't do that. That's a mother. She would certainly come to the cry of that baby."

"And, oh," I thought, "that display of heroism. And Burt," I thought, "are you going to do it, Burt?" And I turned my head and I said to my heart, "Dear God, don't let him do that. How can he do it, knowing that there's something in the--the mother deer that makes her reach for the baby? No matter what the price is, the baby's in trouble."


He said, "Billy, I can't stand it no more. I'm whipped. I just can't stand it no more." And there on a little patch of snow, I led him to the Lord Jesus because a mother deer showed the display of what she was.

I wonder tonight, with every head bowed and every eye closed, if there would be someone here would say by an uplifted hand, "Jesus of Nazareth, I want to become a true servant of Yours. And tonight I want to show how much I love You. And I'm going to raise my hand to You that I want You to forgive me of my past life. And I want to accept You tonight as my personal Saviour"?
God bless you, up there. God bless you, sir. God bless you, lady. God bless you. Someone down in the lower floor, here; around the... God bless you, sir. God bless you, sir. God bless you, sir. Someone else? God bless you, lady. God bless you, sir. That's right. Be in prayer. God bless you, sir.

Is there a backslider would say, "I'm ashamed of myself, Brother Branham. God, You know I'm ashamed of myself. Right now, Your Spirit's condemning me. I've seen lot of times where I ought to have stood for Christ and I didn't do it. From this night on, by Your help, I will stand. I'm going to raise my hand for help too, Lord." Will you, backslider? God bless you, lady, up there in the balcony. God bless you, little lady. God bless you, sir.


And, Father God, I'm quoting Your own Son's Words. He said, "He that heareth My words and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath (past tense) passed from death unto Life and shall not come into the judgment, but's passed from death to Life." God, that's Your Word. You seen every hand went up. According to Your Word, they have passed from death unto Life. They believe. They've raised their hands as a witness, a token. And I pray, God, that You receive them into the Kingdom of Thy own beloved Son this night. [John 6:44], [John 10:28-29], [John 5:24], [Romans 10:17]

But the Father... And it's a gift of the Father to the Son. And the Son promised to keep them through His own Blood. God, keep these who raised their hand. And if I have found grace in Your sight, hear the prayer of Your unprofitable servant. I ask this blessing in Jesus' Name. Amen. [Jude 1:4], [John 6:37]


I would take just a moment of time then. Now, friends, there's five offices in the church: prophets, or--or evangelists, pastors, teachers, and apostles or missionaries, either one you want to call it, both the same word. God set this in the church for the perfecting of the church. [Matthew 18:20], [Ephesians 4:11-12]


But Jesus is the only One Who has an empty tomb. He's alive. And He's with us. He promised, when He was here on earth... Now, listen close. Did He say that the things that He did that we would do also? Did He promise that? Did He say, "A little while and the world (that's the world order, church members and so forth), won't see Me no more."? Did He say that? "Yet, ye shall see Me (That's the church, the body. Is that right?), for I will be with you," and He said, "even in you to the end of the world." Is that right? [John 14:17-19]



And Jesus was questioned. And here's what He said in Saint John 5:19, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can't do nothing in Himself." Did He say that? Saint John... How many ever read that? Let's see your hands. Saint John 5:19.
He had passed through a lot of crippled and lame people and didn't heal them. And He healed a man just laying on a pallet. And He was questioned for the man packing his bed, and 'course I guess not healing all of them and so forth. But He passed through and just healed this one and went away. And they wondered why He did it. And He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing (Is that right?), that doeth the Son likewise." [John 14:10], [John 15:19]


And he was standing in the audience or on, over in a prayer line, or wherever it was. And Jesus looked at him for the first time in life, physically like that, and said, "Behold, an Israelite, in whom there's no guile."
He looked at Him. He said, "How did You know who I was, Rabbi? How'd You know I was an honest man?" He could've been a crook. He could've an unbeliever. He could've been a Greek. They all looked alike about, them long beards and dressed alike. "How did You know me that I was honest and straight and so forth?"
He said, "Why, before Philip called you (thirty miles around the mountain), when you were under the tree, I saw you." What eyes, see through the mountain, thirty miles away, and see him under the tree when Philip come up.
He said, "Rabbi, You're the Son of God. You're the King of Israel." [John 1:47-48]

What did the Jews say, the--the believers, now was supposed to be believers, the great ethics, teachers of that day, the great priests, and high priests, and scholars, and seminary students that knowed the Bible from A to Z? What did they say it was? They said, "It's the devil. It's Beelzebub."
And Jesus said, "You speak that against Me, the Son of man, I'll forgive you. But when the Holy Ghost is come and does the same thing, if you speak a word against That, it'll never be forgiven you in this world or the world to come." [Matthew 12:24, 31-32]

Fellow said not long ago, "I don't care what happens; I don't believe it."
I said, "It's not for unbelievers, it's for believers." That's all. It's not for unbelievers. It wasn't intended for them.

She said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans such. We have no dealings with each other."
He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. And I'd give you water you don't come to draw." [John 4:7-10]

He said, "You... Go, get your husband."
She said, "I don't have any."
He said, "That's right, you got five." [John 4:16-18]

He said, "I'm He."
And she run into the city and said, "Come, see a Man Who told me what I done. Isn't this the very Messiah?" [John 4:19, 25, 29]

On down through the Scripture we can name place after place after place, and every time it was what the Father showed. 'Cause Scriptures don't contradict itself. [John 15:19-20]

And Peter rebuked Him. After all denied, the woman and all, said, "I never touched You." The woman was scared.
But He said, "I got weak." Virtue went out. Virtue's strength. "I got weak. Somebody touched Me." And He looked around till He found the woman. That's discernment. He found the woman. He said...
She'd had a blood issue and she was healed, "Thy faith has saved thee." See that same word, "saved"? Physical saved or spiritual saved, the same word is "Sozo." Is that right in the Greek? Sozo, same place interpret every time: healed or saved, the same Greek word, Sozo, saved. All right. "Thy faith has saved thee. I never done it. I never had nothing to do with it." She used God's gift. God never used His own gift. [John 8:28], [Luke 8:45-48]

They said, "Lord, come heal him. He's sick."
Jesus just went on. After the time was fulfilled, which God had showed Him (which He said He did nothing till the Father showed Him) He said, "Our friend Lazarus sleepeth."
They said, "Oh, he--he's resting good."
He said, "He's dead. And for your sake I'm glad I wasn't there. You'd be asking Me to pray for him when I knowed it wasn't right for Me to pray for him. But I go wake him." And when He stood at the tomb, He said, "Father, I thank Thee Thou has already heard Me. But I just said this for those who stand around. 'Lazarus come forth!'" And it happened. [John 11:1-15, 41-43]

Now, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, can He be touched again? Can He? Does the Bible say He can? The Bible said, "He is a High Priest (in Hebrews) that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities." Is that Scripture? Then you can touch Him tonight. He can speak to you just the same as He did to her. If He is the same. You believe it? [Hebrews 4:15], [Hebrews 13:8]


And many people today that really love Him, don't know He's risen. They think He's dead. It's just a story. They packed His body away. And yet they love Him.
But He walked and talked with them. And they didn't know it. But when He got them to themselves in the little inn (Now watch!), He closed the doors and He did something, just that no one else did it like that. And by doing this, that's the same way He done it when He was here before His crucifixion, and they recognized it was the risen Lord. Is that right? [Luke 24:13-32]

Stay in any church you want to, but love the Lord. We got plenty of denominations, and fine ones, and they all mean good. There's not no Christian denomination here on earth that means bad. Oh, they fuss and stew like a bunch of little juveniles, but, petty like a little bunch of kids. But in all of it, they're God's children.
The devil gets among them and causes temper and everything, but God loves them. So if God can love them, you surely ought to too. So love them anyhow. If that's not in your heart, then you ought to raised your hand (That's right.), and made your down here. So love the people.

I took him by the hand; I said, "Sir, I have more that vindicates to me than Jewish writing, because them writings are made manifest by the resurrection of Jesus Christ." That's right.



Will you do it? Raise your hand to Him if you will. May the Lord add His blessings. Once more for prayer.

And I pray Thee, precious Father, that somehow, that tonight that we together... No matter how much I'd yield myself and Your Spirit would come on me, if these people doesn't believe, nothing could happen. It's their faith. For when the Holy Spirit was on Your Son, Christ Jesus, when He had the Spirit without measure, He went into His own country, and the Bible said that many mighty works He could not do because of their unbelief. I pray, God, that it won't be so here in this city. This lovely place where great people live, a little city, but a great people.
And I pray that You'll shower Your blessings upon them. And confirm Your Word among them tonight that they can see that their hope in Christ Jesus is not mythical. It's not just a story like Santa Claus, but it's a real, resurrected Son of God that lives among us tonight. I pray in Christ's Name. Amen. [Matthew 13:58]

[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] in the prayer line. Because the Bible said, "Go and sin no more or a worse thing will come upon you." And what is sin? Unbelief. "Go and disbelieve no more or a worse thing will come." All right. Bring your patient or ever who... [John 5:14]

It's you. Do you understand now, everybody? It's not me. I just become anointed and it's you that touched Him, and He speaks through me. Do you understand that now? It's not me; it's Him.

If you're--if you was in a pawn--had something in a pawn shop and--and you'd redeemed it, and you had a ticket to show you redeemed it, how can you redeem it the second time? You are already redeemed from every curse the devil put on you. You just have to believe it and accept it.

Now, I don't know what the man's standing... He might be a critic. He might be an infidel. He might be a Christian. He might be wanting financial aid. He might be... domestic trouble. I don't know. I couldn't tell you. I never seen the man before. And the only thing it was, somebody give him a prayer card had a number on it and--and that number happened to be called and here he stands.

So Jesus has no eyes tonight but mine and yours on earth. He has no hands but mine and yours. He has no voice but mine and yours. And He is the Spirit in us, and we are the branches to bear fruit as He energizes us. Is that right? Now, that's the way you'd have to do here.

And I--I just from preaching like that I can't enter into it. So let's just be in prayer for a moment and look to Him and believe. And maybe I'll talk to the man just a moment. And then...

Do you believe that the Gospel I have preached about Him being raised from the dead, you believe that to be the so? You do. Do you believe me to be His servant? You believe what I've told you, the truth? Did you ever read that book of mine which said, the angel said, "If you get the people to believe you..." See? Well, that's what He told me. "Get the people to believe you," not believe me as Him but believe that He sent me. See?
That's the way it has to come. It's a gift. And your attitude towards the gift is what... You... If He--if He does it, then you'll know it has to come from a supernatural Being. So it's your attitude towards it.

Now, you could talk to Him more, more would happen. See? I tell you what you do. If you believe with all your heart now, it's going to be up to you. I want you just to throw all the faith you got on Jesus Christ and believe right now. You do?

That is true, isn't it? You know, sir, I didn't know about that. No way I... Something's here, is that right? Something's here with your brother that knows you. That's true, isn't it?
Then Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." Did He say it? You count me a believer? Then come here just a moment. Let me have your hand.
Heavenly Father, I bless this man in the Name of Jesus Christ, that You'll give to him whatever it was that he desired. I ask it with all my heart in Christ's Name. Amen.
God bless you, sir. Go, believe, and receive what you've asked for. [Mark 16:17-18]


You have a fine spirit. You're a Christian. That's right. But you're not standing here for yourself. You're standing here for somebody else: an elderly man. That's your daddy. And he's shadowed with death with a cancer. That's right.
And here's another thing. There's some way you're associated at a pulpit. You're a preacher. That's right. Do you believe now that you're in the Presence of your Maker? Let us pray.
Our heavenly Father, I pray for this man and his desire. That he will now realize that he's, perhaps, in the closest contact that he ever was with Thy beloved Son, the Lord Jesus. And I pray that You'll give him the desire of his heart through Jesus' Name. Amen.
God bless you, sir. Have faith in God. Don't doubt, but believe with all your heart. You shall see the glory of the Lord.



But you are a believer. You're a Christian. And you're not here for yourself. You're here for a--a woman, a younger woman. And she's some relation to you. It's your daughter-in-law. And she has a bad case of arthritis. And if you believe me to be God's prophet, you have just come up from a sickness yourself. And that sickness was pneumonia. That's right. THUS SAITH THE LORD. Do you believe? Then come.
Our heavenly Father, I bless this woman in the Name of the Lord Jesus, that Your Holy Spirit may be upon her and that she may receive those things which she has asked for. For I ask them in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. God bless you, lady. And receive what you ask for.

If you believe me, God is testifying that what I have preached is the truth. You can say what you want to. If God doesn't testify, you have the right to doubt it. But if God testifies that's what's been said is the truth, then the doubt makes you a sinner. I don't care where you go or how much religion you claim to have, you're an unbeliever. Caiaphas was an unbeliever, religious.


The lady was praying. And she was asking in her prayer for God to have me to call her. She's suffering with a lady's trouble, a female trouble. That's right, isn't it, lady? If what I said is the truth, wave your hands back and forth.
You got a drainage to that, haven't you? That happens at the bathroom where only you and God know. You got a abscess on the ovary. If that's right, wave your hand back and forth. But you're healed now. You have touched the High Priest. Go and God's peace be with you.
Do you understand? The woman with no prayer card, nothing, not on the platform. She touched... This night that Scripture's fulfilled in your eyes. How can you doubt?

I see you trying to get into something. You're--you're in a spiritual whirl. You are desiring me to pray for you for a spiritual lift. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD.
I don't know your heart, sir. But God does know your heart. You know that. I see something else: a great seashore or something. Water's a moving. And there is a person that you're praying for or that's far away, a sister of yours.
And she's somewhere where there's a west--it's a west--it's California. And she's a--a great long time worker in the Lord's work, and she's going blind. And you want me to pray for her. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD.
Do you now believe? Our heavenly Father, in the Name of Thy beloved Son, the Lord Jesus, I pray that You'll help this man to receive that which he's asked for in Christ's Name, I ask it. Amen. Don't doubt, sir. Go, believing and as you have believed so shall you receive. Amen.

How do you do? We are strangers to each other, I suppose. But God knows us both, sir. And you and I have to answer to Him. And He's permitting this if He shall do it. I don't say that He will. He may. I don't say that He will.
But if He will let me know what's in your heart and what you want from God, do you believe God in return would be willing to give it to you? If He'd let me know, when you know I don't know you, you believe it would be the will of God then, that He would... Do you believe the same thing in the audience?
It's God's mercy and goodness trying to get the people to believe Him and accept Him. Can't you believe that?


Can anyone see it in the audience? Then let us talk to him again. That's something you could see. Some unbeliever might say, "Sure, anybody can see that." Let me talk to the man. May the Lord God reveal something else, maybe, that they can't see.
That's the--that--the miracle is--is what you don't see or they can't see. When Peter came to the Lord, He knew who he was. He knew who his Daddy was. He said, "Thou art Simon, the son of Jonas."

Our heavenly Father, Jesus the Son of God, resurrected from the dead; I pray that You will help this man and give him the desire of his heart, seeing that he has come humbly and asked for mercy. We pray in Jesus' Name. Amen. God bless you, sir. Don't doubt now. Go, believing with all your heart.
All right, come sir.