Jehovah-Jireh
57-0326, Jehovah-Jireh, Oakland Municipal Auditorium, Oakland, CA, 108 min





And other ministers, and so forth, how their compliments on the messages, I'm so thankful to you my brethren, both Presbyterian, Baptist, and--and Covenant, and I believe there was another one, Missionary Alliance.
And that Missionary Alliance man gave a word to me that, a little testimony I shall never forget. Said it was in Florida not long ago, and three, four years ago... Is this the man setting here? Well, bless your heart, brother. I... And he was real sick and was about ready to give up, and he come into the prayer line, and--and I believe that the Lord told him through me that he had cancer. And in three days he passed the cancer, and it's all over and gone, and he's been years and carrying on charges for the Lord. It... And the man's setting right here before me; I didn't know it.

I want each one of you tonight to have faith and believe. This has been a wonderful stay. And I was talking to the business men that's here, Brother Borden; and I was telling him today, he and his friend... And, by the way, he was telling me that his little boy, or little boy of the other friend, was on the platform last night, and, something another about it. I just forget now what it was. My mind's so tired I can't hardly think.

Of all my travel from east to the west now, and back and forth as we call it, Brother Arganbright, Indiana jogging, place to place, this is the only place that I see that really right now could come a sweeping revival, is right here with you.
The Spirit is here. If you judge me to be God's servant, the Spirit of God is here. That's right. It's here.

And now, I believe that Brother Erickson is coming in pretty soon for a citywide revival. I was told that by Doctor Can--Canada, I believe. And Brother Erickson is a friend of mine. I've met him two or three times, a very fine man. And I just trust that all of you will cooperate a hundred percent, and God will just... If it's in this place, I hope that they'll just have to put the police on the street to keep order for the people coming, and you have a great revival.

Somebody's pointing a finger to him somewhere. Yes, Doctor, God bless your heart. He was the man who sponsored me first here in this city. And the Lord bless you, and I'm so glad to see you, and up and going and still preaching are you? Well, amen. Ha, ha. Wonderful. Oh, yeah.

And this, Doctor Morrison, here and Doctor Canada, I went over to his place, and there he was seventy-six, and been mashed all up in an automobile accident, preaching twice a day on the radio and pastoring a church of fifteen hundred seating capacity.
I said, "I'm not tired; I just thought I was." And here... God bless your gallant souls, brethren.

Yeah, they stood on the corner and played a guitar, and throwed rotten eggs at them, and things like that. Where I come along and get into an auditorium, just running over the highways that they paved. That's right. God knows every little move, and it's-- everything's down. I'm sure there'll be a great reward for you someday.

I believe the Bible said "Insomuch as you have done unto the least of these My little ones," and that would be me. He said, the Lord Jesus said, "you have done it unto Me."
And I pray that God will give you the desire of your heart, every one of you. I thank you from the depths of my soul. [Matthew 25:45]

And the great testimonies that's been wrote in, we're just filing them away right now. Of not only just what someone said, but doctors reports of what's happened. And it's been wonderful. And there's many of those who's never even touched this platform, that's never even been called out there in the audience. The Lord has healed them just setting in the Presence of the Lord while He's here to heal. Isn't that the real way to do it? In the Presence of the Lord was there to heal the sick. So wonderful, the hundreds that's come to Christ, backsliders that's come back. We just thank you.
And I want to mention in that too, Brother Arganbright. I thought he was gone, but guess he come back. So we're thankful that he is here with us, and he, I know that's his expression, too.

Here some time ago in Fort Wayne, Indiana, I was speaking, and there was a man come behind the curtain, after they taken me back there, and I was resting up a little bit before I... just so, so tired... The Anointing is what makes me so tired. Then when It leaves... When I'm here It's all right, but it's when It's going off of you, that's when it gets you.
And then when I was back there and this fellow came to me. He said, "Say, preacher, my," he said, "your grammar is poor."
I said, "I know it." I said, "I only have a seventh grade education."
And he said, "Oh, my," said, "that's no excuse; you're a man."
I said, "Well, we was so poor I couldn't go to school when I was a boy. There was nine of us boys and one girl in the family, and dad wasn't very strong, so I had to work."
He said, "Oh, but now," said, "you're a man."
I said, "Well, since the Lord called me, I'm so busy praying for his children till..."
Said, "Well, look," said, "some of your grammar, and the crowds that you got out there..." He said, "Your grammar's so poor you should be ashamed of yourself."
I said, "I am."
And he said--he said, "Now, for instance," said, "you said 'all you people crossing by this 'polepit.'"
I said, "Wasn't that right?" I didn't know no different. And he said... I said, "Wasn't that all right?"
He said, "No." He said, "You should said 'pulpit', and your congregation would have enjoyed you better."
I said, "Brother, I don't want to hurt your feelings," but I said, "that congregation don't care whether I say 'polepit' or 'pulpit', just so I live the life, preach the Word, and produce Christ, that's the main thing." That's right; Uh-huh. That's right. Thank you.
I might not know the Book too well, but I know the Author real well, and that's the thing that's--that's good. So I believe He will let us know just in the Book as we have need. Now, let us bow our heads and speak to the Author, just before we read His Book.

And I pray that You'll bless the folks here at home, and may they remember, Lord, us in prayer as we go to stand on the battle front for the Lord Jesus.

We pray that You'll bless the words that we're to speak tonight. And meet with us, Lord, and give us one of the greatest nights that we've had yet. People are waiting with great anticipation. And, Lord, while this great anticipation is on, may men and women look from this earthbound condition that we're setting, to a heavenly Father, that's ready to pour out His blessings and power upon us.
Grant it, Father. We ask it in Christ's Name as we fellowship around His Word. Amen.

And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for the burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
The 14th verse:
And Abraham called the name of the place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen. [Genesis 22:7-8, 14]
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for the burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
The 14th verse:
And Abraham called the name of the place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen. [Genesis 22:7-8, 14]
Now, may the Lord add His blessings to His Word.
I want to ask you one more favor. When I'm overseas, and the challenge of the witch doctors, the winds are hot, can I remember, will you pray for me? Do that. Pray for me.

See, we mustn't get in our minds that God just works with one individual; He works with us as a body. We're all one. One's just as important as the other one. We got to be together to make the body of Christ.

Now, "Jehovah-jireh" means "the Lord's provided sacrifice." Now, God appeared in the Old Testament in seven compound, redemptive Names: Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord will provide a sacrifice", Jehovah-rapha, "the Lord that healeth all thy diseases." Jehovah-manasseh, Jehovah the Armor, the Buckler, the Shield, and so forth, seven compound, redemptive Names. Those redemptive names are inseparable. You can't--you can't separate them, because they each one apply to an attitude of Jehovah. [Genesis 22:14], [Exodus 15:26], [Exodus 17:15], [Judges 6:24], [Psalms 23:1], [Jeremiah 23:6], [Ezekiel 48:35], [Acts 2:36], [Hebrews 13:8], [Isaiah 53:5]

And if He wasn't Jehovah-jireh, He wasn't the Lord's provided Sacrifice. If He was Jehovah-jireh, He had to be Jehovah-rapha, the same yesterday, today, and forever. So that settled it. So you can't--can't separate those names.
And they are applied each one to Jesus. And that's Jehovah's attitude always to His people: the Provided Sacrifice, the Healer, and the Buckler, and the Shield, and whatmore. Jehovah was then; Jehovah is today. [Genesis 22:14], [Exodus 15:26], [Exodus 17:15], [Judges 6:24], [Psalms 23:1], [Jeremiah 23:6], [Ezekiel 48:35], [Acts 2:36], [Hebrews 13:8], [Isaiah 53:5]

And I've took subjects out of the Bible in meetings. One time I took Job in the Bible, and I got over there to where he was on the ash heap. And I stayed right there; I'd been on Job for almost a year. And then I got him to the ash heap, and there's about three weeks I just kept on. And a lady, nice, she wrote and said, "Brother Branham, when you ever going to get Job off the ash heap?" She was nice--nice about it, but you know, I was making a point right there, and when finally the Holy Spirit broke through, people just streamed to the altar.
Oh, God takes little Scriptures, and how He can just drive them home if we'll just wait on Him a little bit. He works in His Word. [Job 2:8]

Now, Abraham was just an ordinary man. He wasn't any different from any of us, just the same. People today, when they see God put a gift in the church, some people tries to stand that person up as some great big outstanding something. Well, that's wrong. You got your mind on the person then instead of on the Christ. We're all just the same. The Bible said that Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are. He just had the same ups-and-downs that we have. [James 5:17]

Notice, but Abraham was just an ordinary man, came down from Babylon. And he dwelt there in the land of Shinar. And perhaps his diet was, go in of a morning and pick some berries from the bushes, and go back out and kill an animal and have his noonday meal, and some more berries for supper, and so forth. And he had married his half sister; her name was Sarah.
And while Abraham, being just an ordinary man, God chose Abraham by election. Not because he was different from any other man, but it was cause that God's election has to stand sure.
Now, may we take our time and not be in no hurry. We want to comb this just a moment. [Genesis 11:1-2]

Now, God made a covenant with Adam. Adam broke the covenant. Every time man makes a covenant with God, he breaks it. So God made the covenant with Abraham unconditionally. God was determined to save man.

That's his nature; he's a fallen being. And Adam well expressed the nature of man in the garden of Eden when he realized he was wrong. Instead of going through the garden screaming, "Oh, Father, where are you?" it was God going through the garden screaming, "Adam, where art thou?" And instead of Adam coming out and confessing his wrong, he was hiding in the bushes. That's the very nature of man to begin with. [John 6:44], [Genesis 3:9]

So we cannot say that we did this to deserve this. We prayed all night to get this. It isn't whether you do this or that; it's God. It's not him that willeth or him that runneth; it's God that showeth mercy: lays in the hands of God. [Romans 9:16]

Now, you say, "Brother Branham, if I was Abraham, I would feel very good then." Listen, that covenant was not only made with Abraham; it was made with Abraham and his seed after him. So we are the seed of Abraham. If we be dead in Christ, we take on Abraham's seed and are heir according to the promise.
And the way you become Abraham's seed is when you have the faith that Abraham had in the coming of Christ, and you accept it, and you are filled with the Holy Spirit; then you are Abraham's seed and are joint heirs with Christ with him in the Kingdom. Oh, brother. If the people could only realize that. [Romans 8:10-11]

But now as long as you're trying to push it along... turn it around. Don't say, "If I do this, and if I do that..." look, say, "It's already done; Christ did it for me. Praise be to God," and accept it.
It's already a finished work. God called you, by grace are you saved through faith (See?), not works, but through faith, by grace of God. [Ephesians 2:8]

And when you will love God, and believe God, grace will project the object that you ask God. Do you see it? See, you're Abraham's seed, then you love God. And when you love God, so love Him that you believe His Word and accept His Word, then sovereign grace will come down and project what you ask God, 'cause He can't keep from it. That's the basis that it's on. It's love. And love will project grace, and grace will project the object that you're asking for.
You can't get it by emotions; you can't get it by scholarship. You never get it by education. You never get it by sensations. You get it by love. You believe Him and take His Word for it. And when you take His Word, that makes Him love you. And you get what you've ask for. [John 3:16]


Now, mentally speaking, that was impossible. It could not have happened, 'cause Abraham was seventy-five, and Sarah sixty-five, about fifteen or twenty years a past menopause. She was gone. Her... The womb within her was dead. She was sixty-five years old. Menopause hits from thirty-eight to about forty. And she's out of it before she's fifty, or by fifty. And here she is sixty-five. [Genesis 17:19], [Genesis 12:4]

Oh, my brother, there's the Gospel. Watch it now, how it moves up, begins to come into existence, come into motion. [Genesis 17:19], [Romans 4:17-20]

Why they would've... Doctor'd say, "The old fellow is just a little bit off at his head."
And people who really take God at His Word are considered that way (That's right.), considered a little crazy. It's always been, and it always will be, as long as you have the world here who doesn't know any different.

I can see him going down the street, smiling, say, "I tell you, fellows, this is going to be wonderful."
And some of them say, "Poor old Abraham, he sure has slipped. I knowed the old fellow's reading the Bible too much; that's what's the matter. There's just something has happened to him. Now, that old fellow there at sixty-five years old, his wife, and him seventy-five and say they're going to have a baby, and shopping for baby clothes? And he's lived with her for all these years, and she's barren, and now the poor old fellow is just slipped a little bit."

Now, if we be Abraham's seed, we take God's Word just at the same face value that Abraham did. Amen. I'm not "amening" myself, but "amen" means "so be it."
Now, God told Abraham what was going to happen. He didn't say when it was going to happen. He just said it was going to happen. [Galatians 3:29]

Some of you setting there, eat up with cancer. Maybe this crippled man may live an ordinary long life. He may live a lifetime like that. But you, eat up with cancer, or maybe with a heart trouble, with a blood clot right near to take you now, unless something happens, you're going to die right away.
The doctor said there's no hopes for you. That's what the doctor says; that's his knowledge tells him that. But you see, we don't look to the knowledge of man. God said, "I'm the Lord Who heals all your diseases. If thou canst believe, all things are possible." Now, it depends on how much faith you can appropriate, how much you believe that. [Psalms 103:3], [Mark 9:23]

You know, the world today is wanting mixers. You know, I heard them voting one time at a church. And there was a good old pastor standing there that I knowed. He was a real man of God. And he was to be voted, to see if they'd take him to the church. And you know that bunch of deacons and deaconess, they said, "We don't want him. We want a man that's sociable, and is a little mixer, that won't always be harping about drinking and smoking and these things there." They wanted somebody who would take a little sociable drink, go with them on their parties, and tell them little dirty jokes, little smutty things. [Genesis 13:9, 14]


Well, it's just the same today, just doesn't change. Men are to separate yourself and to walk with a different people. You young men that come to Christ, when you used to go down to the pool room, you stay away from that territory, and go with those boys who's goes to church and to prayer meeting. [Genesis 13:9], [Genesis 12:10]

And in your church where you used to boil up some old tough rooster and sell him for fifty cents a plate so you could pay the pastor off. You quit that: the church that gets right with God, God's got a program how to take care of the preacher, if you'll just take care of that. That's right. You don't have to have soup suppers and all these other things. God just takes care of it if you just follow His program. We are to separate ourselves from all these things. [Acts 2:40], [II Corinthians 6:17]

And that's the reason today... Church, may I say this with the heart of a minister of Christ; that's what's the matter with our church today, at our churches. We've got to absolutely separate ourselves from the things of the world. And as long as we're still hanging on to little old things of the world, God will never pour out His blessings and bless us the way He wants to, 'cause He can't do it. That's right. [Genesis 13:9]

What we need is an example. We need men and women who separate themselves from the things of the world, accept God's Word and build on that sound Gospel of the Bible. That's what the world needs today. Then you'll see great gifts poured out. You'll see great things happening, when the church gets united, and all the "isms" out of them, and start moving on. [Acts 2:40]

I'd rather have the Presence of God with me and be called a "holy-roller" than be a archbishop in some other church that couldn't believe the powers of God. That's right. If I had to worship in a mission or a brush harbor, I'd like to be where the Spirit of God is. That's exactly right. [Genesis 13:9-11]

That's what's the matter with the church today. When a man is borned again of the Spirit of God, every Divine blessing in this Bible belongs to you. [Genesis 13:14-15]

And when I got saved, brother, I took this old treasure Book of God and looked through It to see what I possessed. I find out that every blessing that's in that Bible belongs to me, and it belongs to every believer. Yes, sir.
If some of them seems to be a little out of my reach, I'll pray till I get to it. That's right. Every promise in the Book is yours.
This great arcade of God's economy belongs to every believer. And by one Spirit we're all baptized into this big arcade. And every thing in there belongs to us. And we're heir of all things, and every promise of God. Amen. [I Corinthians 12:13]

"No different."
Said, "Well, hallelujah, we're going to have it anyhow." That's right.
Those out on the street said, "What about it Abraham? It's been twenty-eight days since then, how's things down at your house?"
"Doesn't make any difference how they are down there, it's all right up there." Depends on what you're looking at. What about these...?...

But if that old mother was well instructed, she'd say, "Wait a minute, sonny, looky here. You have a birthright. Don't make any difference what you look at, what you look like, rather, but when the priest comes and finds out, when the owner finds out that you're born, no matter what condition you're in, the priest will never see you, but a lamb without a blemish will have to die in your stead."
Oh brother, stop looking at your self and look at your sacrifice. If you can find any fault in that, all right. But if you find no fault in that, then you're perfect. Amen. 'Cause it's not you that God's accepted; He accepted Christ, and Christ accepted you. And you are dead, and your life is hid in God through Christ, sealed by the Holy Ghost and all the devils in hell can't turn you out of there (Amen.), for you are God's property. God never looks at you; He looks at Christ. [Colossians 3:3]

"No different."
"Glory to God, we're going to have it anyhow."
"How do you know? God said so. That settles it."
Ten years passed. Now, she's seventy-five; he's eighty-five. "What about it, Abraham?"
"How do you feel, Sarah?"
"No different."
"Glory, we're going to have it anyhow. Praise God, oh hallelujah," he said. The Bible said instead of getting weak, he got stronger all the time. [Romans 4:20]

He said, "It's got to happen, God said so." And when Abraham was ninety and nine years old, right at a hundred years old, he still was believing that God was going to do it. And Sarah was ninety. [Romans 4:20]

And the word "Almighty" there comes from the Hebrew word "El Shaddai" which means "the bosom." "I am the Breasted God. I am the Nurse. I am the Nurser, the Breasted, not breast, breasted like the woman. For He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed: the Breasted God, not just one, but two: Wounded for our transgressions, with His stripe we were healed. [Genesis 17:1], [Isaiah 53:5]

And a little baby, when its mammy... It's--it's got sick, and it's fretting, and it's weak, the little baby holds right on to the mother and nurses the mother's strength through the breast until the baby is well.
And that's what Abraham was doing, was holding on to God's breast of promise and nursing from God the eternal strength that taken to make him back a young man again. Amen.

And tonight He's the same Breasted God that He was then. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. If you have need of salvation, lay onto God's promise and nurse from Him. [Hebrews 13:8]

Believe it! Just see if he don't give you a little hypo once in a while in the good old fashion Holy Ghost meeting, just Spiriting you right up. And if you're sick, hold on to His Word, God promised it. He promised it; He's got to do it. He's El Shaddai, the bosomed, the All-sufficient One, the strength Giver. He's just the same yesterday, today, and forever. [Hebrews 13:8]


And Abraham went to sleep. And when he did, the first thing he saw was a smoking furnace, where every--or a great darkness, which every man has to do, is die. After that, a smoking furnace: hell, where every sinner deserves to go. But then beyond that went a little white Light. And It went between these sacrifices, cut these pieces together, It went back and forth making a covenant. [Genesis 15:12, 17]


"Yes" shake hands, that's west.
Let's go down into Japan. How do they make a covenant? They make a promise then they get a little cruse of salt and throw salt on each other. That's a covenant in Japan.

What was God showing? What was He doing to Abraham? God was showing what He was going to do by Christ Jesus, was making the covenant. And God taking His own Son to Calvary, and there He tore Him apart. And He took one part and set it on His right hand above, which was His Body, and sent His Spirit back to the earth. [Genesis 9:15-16]

And now the Holy Spirit... Are you ready? Have you got your shock proof vest on? Look, when the Holy Spirit that was in Jesus Christ was tore out of Him at Calvary, when God made the covenant with mankind, He took His flesh, His body, and set it on His right hand of the Majesty, and sent back the Holy Spirit to live in the church to prove Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. [Hebrews 13:8]

He tore him apart and sent the Holy Ghost down, which lives in us, the Spirit of Christ, working in us, doing the same works that Christ did, living the same life, doing the same things, and the outside world stands and makes fun of It. Others say there's nothing to It. Some try to mock It. Others receive it. Brother, that's the only way that God ever makes you a seed of Abraham. When the Spirit of Christ comes into you, then you become the seed of Abraham. That's right. And the Gentile is included in the covenant.

They walked up to him and Abraham said, "My Lord, come, sit down under the tree. Let me fetch a little water and wash Your feet, and let me bring a morsel of bread; and refresh Yourself, and then be on Your journey. For this cause You came by to see me." [Genesis 18:2-5]

And They stood and eat the meat of the calf, drank the milk from the cow, and the butter and eat corn bread. And One of Them was Almighty God. [Genesis 18:6-8]

I said, "The Bible said it was."
He said, "How could you imagine God coming down with dirt on His clothes and so forth, and stand there and eat that meat?"
I said, "You just don't know God."
God is a Creator. Yes, sir. He had His back turned to the tent like that. And when He told Abraham what He was going to do, why, Sarah laughed. He said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" [Genesis 18:9-10, 13]

He said, "Oh, yes, you did laugh too." Certainly He did. Walked right out and disappeared. You know what it was? Here's my opinion of it. God came down, and He was going down to see the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah. The only thing He done was get Him a little handful of calcium, potash, petroleum, cosmic light, said, "Phew. [Brother Branham illustrates.--Ed.] Come here, Gabriel; step in this." (That's right.), walked over and got Him another handful and put Michael on the other side, and just got a handful and stepped in it Himself, and was hungry because He had a body to hunger in, and then turned right around and vanished it right back, to come down to bring His Message. I'm so glad that my God is that kind of a God.
What does it make any difference what happens to this old body, someday He will speak and it'll come from the dust of the earth. Sure. Showing what He could do... He's God. And when He just spoke it, and there was a body, absolutely. Someday He will call and I'll rise from the dust of the earth. [Genesis 18:15]

He said, "I can't."
"Look up and count the stars."
He said, "I can't."
From dust to stars: the resurrection, the seed of Abraham. From the dust of the earth to the stars in glory (Hallelujah.), Christ be the Morning Star, brightest, the Fairest of ten thousand, there He is, the Lily of the valley, the bright and morning Star. [Genesis 22:17], [Song of Solomon 2:1], [Revelation 22:6]

Now, look, you might disagree with this. But I want to ask you something, brother, before you criticize it. Now, we know that Sarah was ninety years old and Abraham was a hundred. They'd lived together all these years, and she was barren. Now, we know if God was going to give birth to a child through Sarah, He would have to make her fertile again. Is that right? All right.

Now, I want to ask you; I'm your brother. You listen to a doctor. This is flat before a mixed audience, but I--I want you to understand as your brother. How could that woman go in labor with a heart that old? Couldn't do it, so He had to put a new heart in her. Know what He done? He never did that. He made a new woman out of her to show what He was going to do. I can see as He prove it by the Bible. The Bible's writ--so you have to read between the lines now.

Why, he said, "Sarah, your eyes are beginning to look lovely, like the dove again."
And you know what God did, He turned them both back to a young man and a woman.

Now, they took a journey from where they was (Mark it on your map.) down to the Philistine land, to Gerar, which is about three hundred miles. Quite a trip for an old grandma hundred years old. And the strange thing when she got there, Abimelech the--the king was hunting him a sweetheart.
And all those pretty Philistine girls around there, when he saw this old, hundred year old grandma come, he said, "That's the one I've waited for." Little grandma with a shawl over her shoulder, little dust cap, and all them pretty girls there, and here she comes down. And Abimelech said, "That's the one I've waited for. I want her." [Genesis 12:13]

There God turned her back to a young woman, and made her well, and a beautiful young woman, when they said she was the most beautiful woman in the land. That's what He's going to do for every woman and man that's here, that's a seed of Abraham, that's been borned again. Someday this old body will be changed. Certainly. You'll go back again. God was showing what He was going to do.


One day, God said, "Abraham, there's going to be some meetings down in about 1956 and '57. I want to prove to the people what I'm going to do. Now, I told you I was going to make you a father of nation. When you was an old man I give you this child. Now, I want you to take this thy only..." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

Gets right up close to the mountain, and he stops the little mule. And I can hear him as he begins to take the wood off of the mule, fix his little fire in his hand, lays the wood up on Isaac's back. And he said to the servant; he said, "You stay here, while the lad and I go yonder to worship. The lad and I will return." Oh, my. How's he going to do it? It's not his question to ask. It's what it is, is to believe God made the promise. He said, "I received him as one from the dead; God's able to raise him up from the dead." There you are. Oh, I love that, "The lad and I will return," Genesis 22. [Genesis 22:5]

He said, "Yes, my son? Here I am."
He said, "We got the wood, and we got the fire, but where is the lamb that you're going to offer?"
Could you imagine that father with his only son as he walked up the hill with him, without a quiver in his voice he said, "My son, God will provide for Himself a lamb for the sacrifice."
There you are. See, he was still believing. He knowed Who God was, and He was able to keep His Word.
Do you believe that, tonight? Can God keep His Word? If He doesn't, He's not God. If He does, then it's worth everything to turn loose and take God at His Word. [Genesis 22:6-8]

Brother if you ever amount to anything, you've got to love God better than your wife, your husband, your children, your pastor, yeah, everything that there is; you've got to love God first. God gets first place. We give Him about tenth place. But He deserves the best we got and the first we got, and all we got.



Think of it. I want to ask you something, brothers. Where did that ram come from?
Now, look. He's at least seventy-five to a hundred miles from civilization, in a country where hyenas and wolves and lions... Seventy-five miles from civilization, and besides that, he's way up on top of a mountain, where there's no water or nothing for the ram to be up there. Where did that ram come from? [Genesis 22:12-13]


He's tonight, Jehovah-jireh, the same yesterday, today, and forever. His Son was here on earth and lived. He was killed at Calvary. God took His Body up to the right hand of His Majesty, sent the Holy Ghost down to do the same things that Christ did here on earth. [Hebrews 13:8]


The balconies to my left, up there, would you raise your hands, say, "By this, God, I want to receive You." God bless you.
The balconies beneath the left there, would you raise your hand, along through there. "I now put up my hands." God bless you back there. That's right.
Balconies to the right, raise your hands if you desire Christ tonight, saying, "I want Him to be my Sacrifice. Oh I've tried to give Joneses, the poor people over there some of my hand-me-down clothes. I've bought the widow some coal one time. I give to the charity societies, and--and I--I'm a member of the Kiwanis, and I do good things." That hasn't got one thing to do with salvation. That's not one thing to do with it. [John 14:16]



May teachers rise, Lord, not teaching perverse things, but back to the old Bible, back to the old plan of salvation: Jesus Christ, God's provided Lamb. May they come back to that simple faith once again. Grant it, Lord, before the coming of the Just One.

Hear the prayer of Your servant, Lord, as I commit them to Thee in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. [Isaiah 53:5]

God's provided Sacrifice, what is it now? Let me go through it real closely, quietly, before we pray for the sick.
What was it now? Let's go back. We... The promise was made to Abraham and Abraham's seed alone. No promise was made to anyone else but to Abraham and his seed. What was he to be? The father of nations, nations: Jew, Gentile, Samaritan, whatever, the father of nations. [Genesis 17:5]

At Calvary He made the covenant with, not with the Jews, but with the whole world. He raised up His Son, tore Him apart, took His body up to set up there on the right hand of the Majesty, sent back down the Holy Spirit to produce the same Life of Christ here in the church.
Jesus said, before He left, "A little while and the world won't see Me no more; yet you'll see Me, for I'll be with you, in you to the end of the world. The things that I do, shall you also." [John 14:12, 19], [Matthew 28:20]

When Doctor Reedhead came to my house... Just a moment. When he came to my house, he came there with Don Wells, one of the biggest Baptist churches in the south. They said, "Brother Branham, we want to ask you something. Now, you've been with the Pentecostal people for about seven or eight years."
I said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "Is there anything to that Holy Ghost they're talking about?"
I said, "Absolutely."
He said, "Well, we seen them tear up the furniture and this..."
I said, "Just lay that aside." I said, "They're children."
And he said, "Look, Brother Branham," Doctor Reedhead said, "When I was seven years old..." You probably heard his story, how he was called of God. And he said, "I worked and I thought, 'Oh, if I ever be able to be ordained as a minister, won't it be wonderful?'" Said, "I'll find Christ right there."

I said, "I don't want to say that. I don't want to say that they're wrong. They're right in what they teach, but they're not right... They go far but they don't go far enough." I said, "Christ doesn't lay in a Bachelor of Art. Neither does He lay in a credential. Neither does He lay in a church or a denomination." That's right.

"And he said to me, 'Kind sir, what could Moham--what could Christ do for me any more than Mohammed could do?' Said, 'You got a book called the Bible; Christ wrote it, you believe, and you believe it.' Said, 'We got a book called the Koran, Mohammed wrote it, and we believe it. Both of them promised life after death. I believe mine and you believe yours.' Said, 'Now, what good would it do me to change from Mohammed to Christ?'"

The Mohammed looked around, and he wasn't no boy from overnight. He said, "Did He raise from the grave?" Said, "I'd like for you to prove it to me."
He said, "Oh, we know He raised from the dead."
He said, "How do you know He raised from the dead?"
Said, "Well, we got an empty tomb."
Said, "We got hundreds of them in India." And they have: claim resurrections, virgins births, and everything else. Even a little girl of nine years old giving birth to a child, so forth. Virgin born, so forth, sure, they got all that. You just got--get ready to see anything when you go to India.

The devil can do almost anything but heal; he can't heal. The Bible said he can't heal. But he can perform like Jambres and Jannes, the two-headed god of Egypt, can almost deceive the very elect, the Bible said. [Matthew 24:24]

Said, "Prove it to me." Said, "You've had two thousand years to do it. And not only--not even one third of the world's ever heard about it." Said, "You let Mohammed raise from the dead, and the whole world will know it in twenty-four hours. That's right. Now, let's look at the thing sensible. That's right."
"Oh," he said, "we know He's raised from the dead."
Said, "How do you know He's raised from the dead?"
Said, "Well, we got the joy and the power in our heart."
He said, "Now, wait just a moment. " He said, "Mr. Reedhead, Mohammedan religion can produce just as much psychology as Christianity can." And that's exactly right.

Take fingernails, set there and go, "Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah," till they work themselves into a frantic, take splinters, run it up under their fingers, and just sit there and laugh, don't even feel it. Walk through fire with their bare feet like that, lay on spikes, oh, do everything that can be done... See, all them kind of things.

"Well," he said, "now wait just a minute, I--what are you referring to, what are you referring to?"
He said, "Your Bible. That Jesus said that the things that He did, that you teachers would do also. We're waiting to see that." Said, "Now, you pass out billions of tracts and you do all these things there, but we want to see the evidence of the resurrection." Said, "We believe Mohammed's in the grave, and that's where he says he was, and someday he's coming back and ride all the earth down." He said, "Your Jesus is just as dead as he is."
"Oh, no," he said.
He said, "Well I want you to produce it then and show me that He's raised."
Said, "Where are you referring to, in the Scriptures? Mark 16?"
He said, "That's one of them, yes, sir. That's one."
He said, "Now look, you've been around--you've looked around where there's some holy-rollers or something. See?" Said, "Now, that healing and stuff like that," said, "now we better scholars know that Mark 16 from the 9th verse on is not inspired."
He said, "It isn't?" He said, "What kind of a Bible are you reading? All the Koran's inspired." [John 14:12]

Brother Reedhead said, "I shook my foot on the ground and changed the subject."
What's the matter with Christianity? This is the Truth or it isn't the Truth. I've held the Bible in one hand and the Koran in the other hand before tens of thousands of Mohammedans and challenged them to it.

After while come a man through was blind. The Holy Spirit told him who he was (he was a beggar), told him what his name was. I explained that's the very things that Christ did. He looked at it for a little while. I looked back again. I saw a vision of him looking around, walking around. He's a little gray around the temple. I thought, "This is the time." And I said, "Here is a man, and I know what you're thinking. You're thinking this is telepathy." I said, "Here is a man that's a sun worshipper."


And there was a little doctor, who was coming over--come over with me to go to some Methodist college up here to take some of the kind of--some degree of something. And so he was standing there; he looked at the man. Just as white as my shirt is there over his eyes, totally blind: looked at the sun, worshipped the sun, and went blind.

I said, "You Mohammedans, the greatest, most religious of all the world." Mohammedans is the greatest, and then comes the Buddhas, and I think Christianity is third or fourth.
I said, "I challenge any Mohammedan priest to come here and give him back his sight, and he will become a Mohammedan, or any Buddha to give him his sight." I said, "Now, come forth and do it." It was a quiet bunch. And it sure was, not a breath anywhere. Listen at them.
I said, "Why don't you come do it? You told me today how great your gods was. Surely if the man was ignorant and worshipped the creation in the stead of the Creator, surely He will have mercy on him, if he wants to come back to the Creator."

I said, "No, why don't you come? Is because you're afraid to come. You can't give him his sight and neither can I give him his sight." But I said, "The God of heaven has raised up His Son Christ Jesus, Who showed me right now in a vision that the man's going to see his sight, have his sight; and if he doesn't, I'm a false prophet."

And the man let out a scream and jumped way up in the air, run over... (And the mayor of--of Bombay was there, got his ticket here in my pocket.) And he run over there and begin to kiss him, all over the platform, and it was like a... I... Why, they even tore the pockets off of my coat, pulled my shoes off. The--the militia couldn't get me out of the crowd. And that man's testified all over India; even to the president of India, he's testified before. And God willing, this coming summer, they've got a place set up there at New Delhi, where I can seat a million in a amphitheater and have a meeting. They want Jesus Christ.

What's the matter? We've taught theology; we've taught denomination; we've taught intellectual; we've caught--taught everything else but what Christ told us to do. Preach the Gospel. Demonstrate the power of the Holy Ghost, that power that was in Christ is in him.
The reason what we've done. Here's what we've done. We've organized organizations. Christ never did make an organization. I ain't got nothing against it; that's all right. We've had schools, educate the people. He never did say educate the people, though that's all right. And we've taught all these other things. He never did say do that. But He said, "Preach the Gospel." And the Gospel is the power of the resurrection of Christ. These signs shall follow them that believe. That's what it is. "Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world." Jesus Christ has raised from the dead, and He's here tonight just as real as He was when He walked on the banks of Galilee.
God doesn't prove it, then I'm a false prophet. Now, let's pray. [Mark 16:15-17], [Matthew 28:20]


Now, how many knows that I have said back and forth that there's no man, myself or no other man on earth is a healer? God alone can heal. How many knows that? No hospitals heal; no doctors heal; they don't claim to. They move obstructions and set bones, but God does the healing. "I'm the Lord that healeth thee, heal all thy diseases." God is a Healer. [Psalms 103:3]

"The things that I do shall you also." After the resurrection, He, if He was supposed to do, that Spirit that was sent back that was in Christ to come on the church, was to do the same works that Jesus did when He was here on earth to make the covenant of people exactly the same with the body. This is the physical Body of Christ now. And when it is resurrected, it goes to meet its Mate, Christ Jesus, as Husband and Wife or as King and Queen. It's the same material that was in that Body is in this body of believers. The same Spirit that was in Christ is in us, doing the same works if Christ keeps His Word. [Mark 11:24], [John 14:12]

How many's been in the meetings before, let's see your hands and know. How many's never been in the meetings, let's see your hands. Just a... See, there's where I miss my--my manager (You see?), to have those instructions before I come. All right.

Now, He's either alive or He isn't alive. Now, don't forget that, children. Don't forget that. Christ is alive. Now, just lay away all the superstitions and all the little "isms," and just look to Jesus tonight and live. [John 5:19]

We had a guy one time was selling prayer cards in the meeting. And the man could put the people on the platform. So we stopped that; I got rid of it, put my brother... And then when my brother got married, I got out my son. Now, he's married; I don't know what I'll do now, but anyhow, I want somebody to be honest and wouldn't sell prayer cards.

Then come to find out Mommy's putting their little boys up there and little girls to count where Mommy's card started. See? We still got human beings. So to make it sovereign, I'll just leave it, "God, wherever You reveal to me."


I trust that someday when life is all over in the world that is to come, I can walk up to that brother and call this night to his memory for trying to help these poor people that's in need. The Lord bless, is my sincere prayer. God, be merciful.


I want you to do this. Now, young man, no matter what's wrong with you. I just set and look at you a few minutes, the Lord Jesus would tell me, certainly. That doesn't heal you. It's your faith that heals you. That's just to bring the remembrance that Christ is alive and He's here.
But, and you in the chair there, sir, with--in the wheelchair, and--and the crutches, the lady with them in her hands, and the lady on the cot, and whatever you are, that doesn't have one thing to no more than anything else. You just believe and then say, "God, I now accept it." And watch what takes place (See?); watch what takes place. God will honor that faith.


And this man, astonished him so, "How did You know me?" Said, "Rabbi, when did You know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree I saw you." Is that right?
Now, what did this man say, to recognize His Messiahship? He said, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God, You are the King of Israel." Is that right? That's when a Jew sealed His Messiahship for the Jewish people. [John 1:47-49]

Said, "Bring Me a drink."
She said, "Sir, it's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans such things; we have no cus--no such customs. We have no dealings with one another."
He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink."
And she said, "Why, the well's deep, and You have nothing to draw with." [John 4:7-11]

She said, "I don't have any husband." Now, noth--nothing seems to be any Messiahship sealed yet. See?
"Go, get your husband and come here."
She said, "I don't have any."
He said, "That's right. You've got five. And the one you have now is not your husband. Thou saidest right."
Now, listen to what she said. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a Prophet. Now, we know that when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us things like that." But she didn't know Who He was.
He said, "I'm He that speaks to you."
And she run into the city and told the men, said, "Come, see a man Who told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?" [John 4:16-29]

Now, are you soaking all this in? Then if He is the Messiah, He's raised from the dead, He's here tonight, then you don't have to ask me for anything; you just ask Him for something. Then when you ask Him, then He's obligated to answer you. Is that right? Ask what you will and it'll be given to you. "If ye abide in Me, My Words in you, ask what you will; it'll be given to you.' Do you believe that now? [John 15:7]

Now, real reverent, real quiet. What a--a beautiful picture, that the Lord has given us. I... Are you Spanish, or... Spanish, Mexican? All right.
Now, here is a woman that's a Spanish woman, and I am--I'm of the Anglo-Saxon. Now, this is just exactly the way it was in the time of the Bible. Now, it's marvelous. Right now the Angel of the Lord, the Pillar of Fire that was with the children of Israel, that brought them through the wilderness, that was made flesh and dwelled among us, returned back to the Father, and met Paul on the road to Damascus in another Pillar of Fire, that I--even put Paul's eyes out almost; that same Spirit is right here at this platform, right now.
Now, that's either the Truth or it isn't the Truth. And now, if He will prove that He's here in the same power that He was at the well of Samaria, to disbelieve It would be--mean to be lost. [John 1:14], [Acts 22:6]


Now, but His Spirit's here. And He set in the church, gifts. And now, if the Lord Jesus will come to this woman and reveal to her something about her (I know her not.), and will reveal, and act in the same way that He did when He was at the well of Samaria, it ought to settle it. [Hebrews 3:1], [John 4:4]


But now, she don't know what the future holds; neither do I. And I don't know what her past has been, but God knows both past and future. Is that right? Well, if He can reveal her past, surely He'd know her future then. Is that right? Then you're sure that you're right. You're positive sure.
Now, you out there without prayer cards, you just look this way and believe it with all your heart and receive it. May God grant it is my prayer.

Now, I've spoke a long time. Now, my words is just the words of a man, except what I used of God. Now, I have said out of the Bible and proved it through Abraham, that He is alive tonight. His covenant is with us. He is with us. And He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, Jehovah-jireh, the Lord's provided Sacrifice. [Hebrews 13:8]


Now, if you'll notice, the lady's not looking at me; she's looking down at the platform. I'm not touching, reading her mind, I'm just quieting myself, quieting, just letting the Holy Spirit take over, just yield, yielding. That's the way I have of doing that; it's a gift.

Now, just a moment. Being as this is the last night, I want you to let me stand as long as possible. Let's just talk to the woman a little longer.
Now, you know that was true, ever what it was; it was some condition. But it was the truth. I have no way of knowing that. Is that right? No, no way of knowing. Well now, if you'll believe me to be His servant, may He do something else so you will believe.

Now, you know, that in your heart, lady, something's happened, hasn't it? It has. You've received what you've asked for. Your faith has made you to receive that what you've asked for. Go and get it, in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
Do you love Him? To know Him is life. Now, just believe. Have faith; don't doubt; just believe.

You have an extreme nerve condition. It's a--more like a--a weary, or mental nerve, just you're upset all--all the time. And you got something wrong; you're trying to move sideways out of a chair. I see you getting up, kind of a sideway; it's in your hip, something wrong in the hip; it's arthritis in the hip. That's right. And then there's something else I notice you holding yourself like this. It's in your chest. That's true. Lump. Correct. You're scared, but don't worry, it's going to leave you now. Go and believe Him. Your faith just... God be merciful...?...


Now, she's extremely upset about something. It's her nerves; she's all unnerved about something. And again, you've got trouble with your foot. That's right. And it's what's caused your nervous, is because you had an operation there. And that operation was a cancer on the breast, and ever since then it's made you nervous. It's correct. You believe now it's all gone from you? You feel all right now. You'll stay that way 'cause your faith has healed you. Go on your road, rejoicing and being happy and made well, in Christ's Name. Amen.
