Jesus Christ The Same Yesterday, Today, And Forever
58-0323, Jesus Christ The Same Yesterday, Today, And Forever, Middletown High School, Middletown, OH, 97 min






And myself, I was--belonged to the Missionary Baptist church. Dr. Vayle here, my associate, he's the pastor of the First Baptist church here in Ohio, at Spencerville. But we're neither one Baptists. We're Pentecostal Baptists. We're Nazarenes, Pilgrim Holiness. Whatevermore your church represents, all that it represents in Christ, that's what we represent to you: brothers. And we are here to help you to make this a, as Brother E. Howard Cadle used to say, "A community in which it's easier to do right, harder to do wrong." That's why we're here.
It's been said that a Divine healing, or Divine healer... I'm not no Divine healer. I don't believe there is such a thing. I believe the Divine Healer is God. I believe that we're His subjects of His Kingdom. Our faith together brings down His blessings that Jesus Christ His Son died that we might have.

Our foundation is the Bible. We believe the Bible to be the infallible Word of the living God. And we believe that everything that's done must come from the Bible. All teaching must be based on the Bible.
Now, in the Old Testament they had a way of knowing whether a prophet or a dreamer spoke the truth; that was, they had the Urim Thummim. Many of you ministers and you Sunday school teachers know of it. When a dreamer dreamed a dream, or a prophet prophesied, they taken them to the temple, and there was the breastplate that went over Aaron's breast. And in there was the birthstones of each head of the tribe of the twelve tribes of Israel. [Exodus 28:30]

And did you notice it was done by the supernatural. Always God is supernatural. Where God is supernatural things take place. And then if God has always been supernatural, He always will be supernatural. Therefore but the supernatural must be vindicated by God. We know that there's all kinds of mysticism. There's all kinds of different theories, sensations, and everything in the world today. But in the midst of all of it, there still remains a true and a living God.
Though sometimes people see things that's maybe would seem shadowy, a little dark to them, but remember that everything Satan has, it's just a counterfeit of the real. Satan cannot create. Satan can only pervert what God has created. There's only one Creator; that's God. There's only one Healer, that's God.

And if a prophet prophesies, preacher preaches, a dreamer dreams, the evangelist speaks, or anything that's contrary to this Word, we have a right to doubt the man. But everything must come absolutely on THUS SAITH THE LORD out of the Bible.
Now, I'm not here to tell you that God doesn't do things that isn't written in this Bible. He does whatever He wishes. He's God. But to me I don't want anything less than what God has got in this Bible, and I don't want to add anything to It. But I want everything He's got wrote in It for you and I. [Luke 21:33], [Matthew 24:35], [Revelation 22:18-19]

It's all a past tense. It's a finished work. It's something that we just look to Calvary where the supreme sacrifice was made, and there we draw remunerations from His death by our faith in His finished work. Nothing that I could do, nothing that someone else can do, but it's what God has done and what we believe that He has done. Therefore we take it from the Word and base our faith upon the finished work.
And now, I'll say this as I go on record on these recordings, that the right mental attitude towards any of God's Divine promises, will bring it to pass. I don't care what it is. If you can look at it in the right attitude, believe it, God will make every promise that's He made, true. [Isaiah 53:4-6]

I might not be able to walk where Joshua did with a shout that shook the walls of Jericho, and neither may I be able to walk with Enoch who took a afternoon stroll one day with God and went all the way home with Him. I might not be able to have that type of faith, but I'm contending for that faith, and believing it with all my heart, and praying God to give that faith quickly, 'cause that's the way His Church is going home one day, a little afternoon stroll, and the rapture will be on and we'll be gone.
Now, may the Lord add His blessings to what we do and what we say, because that's the integrity of our heart is to do that which is right in the sight of God according to His Word. [Jude 1:3]

But there never was a medicine that ever healed any man, and never was a person who ever said it that was mentally right. God said in Psalms 103:3, "I'm the Lord Who heals all your diseases." If that's wrong, then the rest of it's wrong. Every Word of God is true. There can be no other...
If God's wrong in one place, He's wrong in every place. If He's right, He's right. If this is the truth, then it is the truth. If it isn't the truth, then it isn't the truth. So I would have nothing to do with anything that wasn't the truth. I wouldn't be here tonight, only as I know it to be the truth. [Psalms 103:3]


If I went out here to crank my car and broke my arm, and it--it killed me, and they went and set my arm, put the best of splints on it, rubbed all kinds of liniments and stuff over my arms, and I would look natural for fifty years, that arm would still be broke just like it was the day I broke it. Well, then if medicine is the healer, why doesn't it heal the human body? [Psalms 103:1-3]

Someone said to me long ago, said, "Then what about pneumonia?" If you got pneumonia, the doctor gives you penicillin. So what does penicillin do? I said, "If you had your house full of rats, and they were eating holes through the plaster and all over the floor: rats. And you put out rat poison and killed all the rats, it might kill the rats, but it won't patch the holes that they eat."
I said, "That's what penicillin is. It kills the flu germ, but it doesn't patch the cells that's been tore down. God has to do that." So He's the only Healer. God is the Healer. And then it's your faith in God. And many people have faith subconsciously and doesn't know it. [Psalms 103:1-3]

We people in America are intellectual. We want to be entertained. And it's all intellectual. We're well fed; we're well-educated, too well. And then we get to a place till we know more than God does. The more simpler you can be, the more you'll understand God.

In the garden of Eden there were two trees, one were science, the other one was faith. When man left the Tree of Life, faith, and took a first bite off of the tree of knowledge, science, he destroyed his fellowship with his Maker. Every time he bites a bite off of that tree, he still separates himself from God.
So you don't know God by education. You don't know Him by the scientific researches. You know God by simple child faith. That's the way you know God, forgetting your education, forgetting all the other things and just simply know that you're a creature of His creation. There you know God by that, simple as that. [Genesis 2:15-17]

Now, the American people has been taught an old Jewish custom, laying hands on the sick. Someone has said to me many times, "Brother Branham, Oral Roberts will pray for five hundred while you're getting three. While you're praying for three people, Oral will pray for five hundred." [Revelation 1:8]

Now, we've been taught a--a custom, laying on of hands. "Lay your hands upon me." That was a Jewish custom. If you'll follow in the Scripture, the Jew said, "Come, lay Your hands on my daughter, and she'll live."
But the Gentile, he said, "I'm not worthy that You come under my roof; just speak the word, and my servant will live."
Jesus never said to Jairus, "Great is your faith, Jairus." But He said to the Gentile, "I've never seen such faith as that in Israel." That's what we can't hardly train the American people to do is to receive Christ and what He said. [Luke 7:7-9]

My hands would mean nothing. I'm a man. But once His hand on you, something takes place. Mine might be psychology; mine might be sensation or a feeling. His is faith and power. Whose hands do you need then, mine or His? You need His. That's what we're here to try to bring you to: a recognition of His omnipresence.
Now, each night there's prayer cards give out. And the reason we give out prayer cards, is to line the people up so it'll be not like an arena. It's to be, come into the prayer line with respect one for the other, each man taking his place. While there's one healed in the prayer line, there's fifty healed out of the prayer line, always. [Mark 16:16-18]

The next I did then was send a man down and let him give out prayer cards just all the first day, maybe several hundred cards. Well, then if you wasn't there the first day, you'd never get in the prayer line. There was complaint for that.
Then I'd send them down and let them give out so many prayer cards each day, and then I would call beginning with number 1 or something like that, and then go the next night number 2, on the next line of cards, and the next night start from wherever I left off at. Believe it or not when the man would give out the prayer cards, they would... If they didn't get the number within ten or fifteen they sure wouldn't have it. They'd throw it on the floor.

So one night in prayer the Lord revealed to me just to go down each day, give out prayer cards, start from anywhere that He laid on my heart from the time that I got to the platform. Therefore no one knowed where to give a person a prayer card would put him in the prayer line.

I brought my brother with me. I knowed he wouldn't do that. When my brother got married, I brought my son. There's three people gives out prayer cards. My son, if it's a small group like this. If the groups get heavier, Mr. Mercier here, my associate, Mr. Goad. They are tape boys, who has the tapes of the meetings. They give out the prayer cards too to help Billy along.

Then everyone gets a chance if their prayer cards, night or... And that doesn't have one thing to do with it. It only gets somebody up here. If the anointing of the Holy Spirit begins to come into the meetings, and then all out through the audiences everywhere, the Lord God begins to call the sick and the afflicted.

And if there's anything you lack of understanding, something that you do not understand, my associate Brother Vayle here, is available at all times to explain anything that seems mysterious to you ministering brethren, or wherever you are, or any lay member, anything.
If there's a question, if we ever preach anything, or do anything, that's not a promise of God in this Bible, you got a right to come to us and ask us like brethren. And we ask you to do that. We ask you as our brothers and sisters to come to us. We want to be servants of Christ. That's what we represent the world around.

Let us bow our heads just a moment now, and before we open this sacred Word. Any man physically can turn his hands, can open this Bible. But no one can open the revelation of It but Him that wrote It, the Holy Spirit. So let us pray now.

So, Lord, we would ask You to search out our hearts tonight, and if there be any evil about us, take us down to the refining fire of Calvary and there cleanse us from all unrighteousness, that our lips would be cleansed like the prophet at the temple when he seen the Cherubims with their wings covering their face and covering their feet, and as they cried, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty."... [Revelation 4:8]

We would ask You, Lord, that You would fulfill and manifest Thyself in the presence of this people tonight and the resurrection of Your dear and beloved Son, the Lord Jesus. We would ask that every man's heart, Lord, would be a freshly sprinkled with the holy ashes of Calvary, that they might see Him Who gave the promise, and know that He is present, and by doing so would accept Him as personal Saviour, and the sick and the needy would be healed.

We would ask You'd bless this school, Lord, who has let us have this auditorium. And we now dedicate this building to the glory of God. And may the Angels of God minister day after day, and night after night, until when we enter the place we would feel it would be holy grounds that we're treading on.
Bless every minister, those who are cooperating, who's dismissed their churches. Bless those who have drove long ways to get here. All the local people, give unto them, Lord, Thy riches, we pray, in salvation, and spiritual blessings, and in physical blessings. And may this little meeting start an old fashion revival that'll sweep from one side of this state to the other. Grant it, Father.

Forgive us of our sins now, and help us as we go entering this service to read Your holy Word. May it be said as we leave here tonight, like those who came from Emmaus when You did something kind of in a mysterious way, in the way that no other man could do it, and Cleopas and his friends said, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He talked to us along the road?" [Hebrews 13:8], [Luke 24:32]


Jesus Christ the same yesterday, to day, and for ever.
I wish to read out of the Book of Saint John the 12th chapter, for a portion of his reading, or his writings. And we believe the Word to be infallible. It's found in the 12th chapter, the 20th and 21st verses.
And there were certain Greeks among them, that came up to worship at the feast:
The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desiring him, saying, Sirs, we would see Jesus. [John 12:20-21]
The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desiring him, saying, Sirs, we would see Jesus. [John 12:20-21]
May God add His blessings to His Word. This Word that I have just read, after there is no world, when there is no more sun, nor moon, nor stars, this Word will remain the same because, It is the Word of the infinite God. [Hebrews 13:8]

Now, Philip was one of His ministers, and Philip was the one who introduced them to Jesus. And the question was not, "That we might see His power." Not, "That we might see some glorious miracle that He would perform," though He did. But the question was, "Sirs, we would see Jesus." [John 12:21]

Now, we're taught that He was not a forceful preacher. The Bible said His voice wasn't heard in the streets and He so forth. And--but His words were so perfect until the Father honored everything He said.
There was many great men in that day. In the great churches, great priests and scholars, holy men, that seemingly by knowledge, were far more able, if knowledge is what God requires, to introduce this great Messiah. But did you notice, He come to a fisherman, just a humble peasant like man. And said, "We would see Him." And any man, or a woman, boy, or girl, that's ever heard anything about Jesus, that's their hearts desire. We would see Jesus. [Hebrews 13:8], [John 5:37], [John 12:21]

Sometime ago on the Ohio River where I live, there was a little boy who asked his mama one day, "Mama, is God so great, could a man see Him?"
She said, "You ask your Sunday school teacher."
And the Sunday school teacher was not able to--to produce to the little boy his satisfaction. So she said, "You ask the pastor."
So he went to the pastor, which was the head of the church and said, "Sir, I want to ask you a question. I've heard your magnificent sermons of the great God, and I have heard you describe Him in such a way till setting in my seat as a child, it seemed like He should be right at my hand. Pastor, could anyone see God?"
He said, "No, sonny. No one could ever see God."

And as the storm over, a rainbow come out into the eastern horizon, and the old fisherman looking up towards that rainbow, as the little boy setting in the stern of the boat, the little fellow was attracted to tears running down his cheeks over his gray beard, dropping off on his clothes.
And it--it was so thrilling until he jumped up, and run up to the center of the boat, and knelt down at the old fisherman's feet. He said, "I'm going to ask you a question that seemingly no one can answer." Said, "Could a man see God?"
And the old fisherman, overcome with the enthusiasm of the child, he pulled his oars into his lap, and his arms around the little lad; and he said, "God bless you, honey. All I've seen for the past forty years has been God."

So now, there would be only one way that we could sufficiently answer this question. If I asked in here tonight, the different denominations, perhaps, Baptists, and Presbyterian, and maybe some Catholic, and Pentecostals, and Pilgrim Holiness, and so forth, "Do you believe that a man could see God?"
You'd say, "Certainly."
Well, I'd say, "How would we know whether it was God or not? How could we understand if it was God?" [Matthew 11:25]

One would say, "I see Him in our creeds of our church."
Others would say, "I see Him when we sing the doxology."
One would say, "I see Him as we quote the apostle's creed," or repeat it, rather.
Others would say, "I see Him when I see the saints rejoicing."
Others would say, "I hear Him in the music."
Which all those things are good. And I have nothing against any of them. And I'm thankful that you can see God in such. But let's lay that aside just for a minute and take what the Scripture says. That's the Urim Thummim again. If Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He's got to be the same in principle. He's got to be the same in power. He's got to be the same in attitude. He's got to be the same in every way that He was. [Hebrews 13:8], [Exodus 28:30]

Now, do not listen with any selfish motive. Let your objective be right. Let your motive be right. For anything outside of the right motive and the right objection, God can't use it. Jesus said once, "If you say to this tree--if you say to it--to this mountain rather, 'Be moved,' and don't doubt, but believe that what you've said is being done, you can have what you said." What could move a mountain? [Matthew 21:21], [Mark 11:23]

If your objective is right and your motive is right, then it's not you speaking any more. It's the Father that dwelleth in you. "Take no thought what ye shall say in that hour; for it's not ye that speaks; it's My Father that dwelleth in you. He doeth the speaking." [Mark 11:23], [Matthew 10:19-20]


He could've done that. But you know, the devil still has the same kind of motives and objectives. "An old man down at the corner that's blind, or he's deaf, he's in a wheelchair. Let these Divine healers go down there and heal him. Then I'll believe."
When you sees or hear of such things being said, just remember it's the same devil that put a rag around the eyes of the Lord Jesus and hit Him on the head with a stick and said, "Prophesier, tell us who hit you." It's the same one that said, "If thou be the Christ, come off of the cross. Just pull your hands loose. Turn these stones to bread. The spectacular, do something that I'd see You do it." They'll never see it done. There's nothing in them to see with. They're blind. [Matthew 4:3], [Luke 22:64], [Matthew 27:40]

Oh, may I say that again? For there hangs the campaign; there hangs the keynote; there hangs the thing that will shake the nation; there hangs the question that will put every church in Ohio in a revival in the next few days. There hangs the one and all sufficient thing. What He was, He is.

When His public ministry first started... Let's quote the Scripture now from Saint John the 1st chapter. We started in Saint John 12. And you who are taking notes might read it. And we're going to use just a few things for the next few moments. And look at Him yesterday and see if He's the same today.
As soon as He was on His public ministry, there was one Andrew who got converted and went and got his brother Simon: Saint John 1. And when Simon come up into the Presence of the Lord Jesus, Jesus knew who he was. And not only that, but He told him what his father's name was. Now, see if that's right. Search it in the Scriptures. He said, "Your name is Simon, but I'm going to call you Peter. And you are the son of one Jonas." That startled this old fisherman. [Hebrews 13:8], [John 1:42]


And if any of you here has ever been at the holy lands, mark the place where Jesus was at preaching, and where Nathanael was under the tree, about thirty miles. And he went thirty miles to find a friend to bring him in the Presence of Jesus. I wonder if we'd go thirty steps today. But he was sold that Jesus was the Christ and he wanted his friend to know it.
And he went around the mountain and found Nathanael under a tree. And now, notice their conversation. He said, "Come, see a Man. Come, see this Fellow. We've found Him. He's Jesus of Nazareth, He's the Son of Joseph."
And watch this orthodox believer, this good church member. When he got up and shook the dust from him, he said, "Now, could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth? Or could there be anything come out of a group of people like that, that'd be any good?" [John 1:42, 46-48]

And when this man who had held the custom of the elders very dear, he said, "Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"...
I think Philip give him the best answer that any man could. He said, "Come and see." Don't stay home and criticize. Come, find out for yourself. And on the road around, no doubt but what he instructed him. Why, he said, "I seen... You remember the old fisherman on the river, the old fellow Simon?"
"Yes, I remember him."
"Why, when he come up in the Presence of this Messiah, He told him who he was and who his daddy was. Oh, I can say that... or feel that a... [John 1:42, 46]

Well, I can hear him say, "Don't you know the Scriptures has declared that the Messiah is none other but Jehovah?" And Jehovah knows the heart.
And as soon as he got into the Presence of this Man... Now, Jesus was just an ordinary man. And when he got into the Presence of Him, Jesus turned, the first time He'd ever seen him, and said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom is no guile."
It astonished that man so much until he said, "Rabbi, when did You know me?" All man dressed alike. He might've been a Greek. He could've been an Arab. He said, "When did You know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." [John 1:47-48]

Remember, Nathanael when he answered, he answered for every believing Jew there was. What did Nathanael say? He said, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God. You are the King of Israel."
If that was Jesus yesterday, He's got to be the same today to remain the same. And He said, "Because I told you this, you believe." He said, "You'll see greater things than this."
Now, what did the great starchy orthodox Jew believe when he seen it done? He said, "This man is possessed with the devil. He is Beelzebub." How many knows that to be the truth? "He's Beelzebub, a fortuneteller." And anyone knows that fortunetelling's of the devil. "He's reading their minds." [John 1:49-50]

We haven't time to go to all the characters that I was going to mention. But one more, and that was there's... We know there is only three races of people. That's Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people: Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan. How many knows that to be true? Watch Peter with the keys to the Jews, Pentecost, to the Samaritans down in Samaria. Peter at Cornelius' house, the Gentiles, Acts 10:49. From then it was over the world. [Matthew 12:32], [Genesis 5:32], [Acts 10:30]

When He went up to Samaria, the woman come out and set down on the well for water, and she seen this young Jew, looked to be about fifty, the Bible said, when He was thirty, setting over against the little panoramic of the well. And notice the conversation. He said, "Woman, bring Me a drink."
She said, "The well's deep. You have nothing to draw with. And besides, it's not customary for You Jews to speak to Samaritans. We have a law of segregation." [John 8:57], [John 4:7-11]

And the conversation started. What was He doing? Contacting her spirit. As soon as He found out what her trouble was, He said, "Go, get your husband and come here."
And she said, "I have no husband."
Jesus said, "That's right. You've got five, and the one that you now have is not yours. You have said true."
What did she say? "He's a Beelzebub?" She said, "Sir, I perceive that Thou art a prophet." Watch. "We (Who? The Samaritans.), we know when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things. But Who are You?
He said, "I'm He that speaks to you." [John 4:10, 16-19, 25-26]

Now, to you ministers, and to you Bible students, not one time did He ever perform that sign before Gentiles. Search the Scriptures. Not one time... But He even forbid His disciples to go to them. But that's the way He manifested Hisself as Messiah to both Jew and both Samaritan.
How many is willing to say that that's the truth, that you know the that you know the Scriptures well enough to know that to be the truth, let it be known with your hand up. The Scripture says so. Search the Scriptures and see if there's any other way that He made Hisself known. "Oh, our traditions..." But the Scripture says it. [John 4:28], [John 5:39]

And God has to act the same every time. When a situation arises, and if God is called on the scene, the action He takes then, He's got to take it every time when the same situation rises, or He did wrong when He did it the first time. You see, we get smarter. God doesn't get smarter. He's perfect to begin with. He's infinite to begin with. He has no more knowledge now than He had then, because He's a perfect knowledge.
And the way He acted then, He has to act the same today. Therefore, the Bible says that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. If Christ manifested Himself any other way today to you Gentiles then what He did back there, He did wrong, when He made Hisself known back there. [Hebrews 13:8]

Jesus said, "Do you now believe?"
Now, He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. One day there was a woman touched His garment, and she... That's also Saint John. And so when she touched His garment, she said within herself, "If I can touch Him, I don't care what the Rabbi say and what the people say; I believe He is the holy One. And if I can touch Him, I believe I'll be made well."
She'd been years with a blood issue and could not be helped by any doctor. She touched His garment, and went out, and set down, or stood up, or wherever she was in the crowd. Jesus turned around and said, "Who touched Me?" He didn't know. He was not a hypocrite. He didn't know, or He wouldn't have asked the question. [Hebrews 13:8], [Mark 5:25, 28-30]

He said, "But I perceive that I have gotten weak. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... said has went out of Me." Virtue's strength, power had left Him. Said, "I've got weak." And He looked around until He found the woman, and He told her her condition, and said, "Your faith has saved you."
That same Jesus lives today. And the Bible says in the New Testament, the Book of Hebrews, that He now is the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Do you all believe that? How is it then? Touch Him, not touch the pastor, not touch the evangelist; but touch Christ.
And He has got to act the same that He did then. If He doesn't, then we're serving another Christ who is similar to the One that was. The Bible said, "He is the same Jesus, the same power." So it isn't the virtue of some man's hands. It's the virtue of your own faith in the resurrected Christ.
My brethren, I have nothing wrong with laying on hands, anointing the sick, anything you want to do. But the real thing is--is to believe Him that He's raised from the dead, and He's present to manifest Hisself and every power that He ever did. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. If God will do that and manifest Himself in the same way He did then, how many will believe Him? Say "Amen." [Congregations says, "Amen."--Ed.] [Mark 5:30-31, 34], [Hebrews 4:15], [Hebrews 13:8]

The church of the Lord Jesus It's broke up in denominations. It's broke up in creeds, sectarian, until God can't move in His church. Your denomination don't make you a Christian. Nothing against your denomination, nothing against your creed, but to know Christ is to know the Person of Christ. [John 14:19], [Matthew 28:20], [Hebrews 13:8]

If it's a pumpkin vine, it'll bear pumpkins. If it's a watermelon vine, it'll bear watermelons. If it's a grapevine, it'll bear grapes. If we are the branches of His Church, we'll bear the fruits of the Lord Jesus. "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do, shall he do also." The same kind, not a different, "The same works that I do." God help us. Forgive us of our unbelief while we pray.
Heavenly Father, the next belongs to You. We are just men and women who love You. And, oh, this is a crucial moment. A man can say anything, but if You're not there to back it up, then the man's word's wrong. But Thou hast give a promise, and Thy promise is true. [John 15:5], [John 3:3], [John 14:12]

Grant then that our hearts as in our former prayer, will be as we go home, saying, "Did not our hearts burn within as He made Hisself manifested? He done something." He did to Cleopas and his friend, in their presence just like He did before His crucifixion. Therefore they knowed no other man could do it. And they knowed He was the risen Son of God. Grant the same tonight, Lord. May Your children's heart be tender and open; for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
Just about seven minutes late. Maybe we'll hurry. We're going to call a prayer line. I believe Billy told me he gave out T's or W's, which was it? T, prayer card T's. Now, let's begin tonight and just stand up a few people here and pray for them. And I want each person to look at your card and just...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] [Hebrews 13:8], [Luke 24:32]

Now, if I've told you the truth, Jesus Christ will work in His Church, you and I, just the same as He did when He was here on earth in a physical body. How many knows that His physical body sets on the throne of God? And His Spirit returned to the earth to live in the Church to energize It as a Vine to the branches? Certainly. Then He has no hands but mine and yours. He has no eyes but mine and yours.

Apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers, five spiritual gifts that's predestinated, that by foreknowledge God set in the Church. That's exactly right. Gifts and callings are without repentance. All those gifts are in the Church. I'm not a preacher, not much of one. I'm just a spare tire more or less. Brother Vayle is the preacher. [Ephesians 4:11], [Romans 11:29]

Now, now, in these next few moments all that I've said tonight is either going to be found a lie or the truth. It's exactly right. If any person wishes to take my place, you're perfectly welcome to come here and do so.

What's wrong with this woman? She looks good and strong and healthy. But there's something wrong somewhere. Now, all you out there that doesn't have a prayer card, you just humble yourself and look and say, "Lord, I truly believe it." And see if Christ isn't the same, if your faith doesn't touch Him, turn right around in the audience to every person that I... here and find out if that isn't the truth. You put God to a challenge. I...

The girl was a batty-eyed wretch, complete total alcoholic in a terrible condition, tried to... And inside of her coat was a pint of whiskey to live on it daily. She was at the meeting and in the balcony, I believe, or however it was. Then Fred Astaire's dancing partner was there, a dope fiend. And this young lady, Rosella Griffith from Joliet, Illinois, and I believe that's her. Is that you, Rosella? I'm not sure.

And Fred Astaire's dancing partner... Isn't she studying missionary now, Rosella...?... A missionary on the field also... When they resented it, I believe her father did at first, but she said, "Oh, no, daddy, he's right." The Holy Spirit never makes a mistake. He's perfect, if He's the Holy Spirit.

And if Jesus will manifest Himself to this church, this group of people just as He did, as I preached about tonight, how many will go away and say, "By the grace of God, I'll believe it the rest of my days." Raise your hands to Him, say, "I will believe." Now, just as reverent as you can be. The next now is up to God. If I've told the truth, He's obligated to His Word.
I suppose now, lady, that we're strangers to each other. Are we? All right. Then God knows you and He knows me. If there's anything that... If you're... If you are a--a believer or an unbeliever, He will know it. If you are a critic, watch what happens. If you're a Christian, watch what happens. Then if He does do it...

Now, here's a Bible scene perfectly. Here's a woman that I've never seen in my life, and--and never spoke to her as I knowed of. She might've been in the meetings somewhere. Have you ever been in one of the meetings before? You have been in meetings; but I don't know you. If that's right raise up your hand so the people will see.
Now, one word from Him will mean more than I could say in a million lifetimes. Now, if I've never seen you, and this beautiful picture tonight of the Lord Jesus in His resurrection, a man and a woman meeting for the first time in life... If He knew that woman's fault that she was living with a man that she should not be married to, then if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, if He'd tell me where your trouble is, you'd have to know it comes from some supernatural power. So would this church. [Hebrews 13:8]

Now, if the audience can hear my voice, the woman seems to be going from me. And the lady is here for me to pray for her for a physical condition of her body. That's right. She is a Christian. She's a believer. And you have a nervous condition you want me to pray for. That's right. If that's right, raise up your hand. You believe now?
Now, watch, the more you talk to the woman... Now, you say, "Brother Branham could've guessed that." Just a moment, because there's something else in the woman. The Holy Spirit's moved. Now, if He does something different. It's no guess. Check it. It's perfect. Now, I don't know what I told the woman. The only way I know is my boys here getting the tape. [John 6:44]

Yes, I see the woman fumbling with something; it's a dish or something. She's real nervous. That's what she is. She's been praying too. And she's praying for somebody else. And that's somebody that's very bad that's got a swelling. It's an older person; it's her mother. And she has dropsy of the heart. That is correct. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. You believe, lady? You believe, audience? All right. The handkerchief your bathing with tears, take it with you. God will grant to you the things that you've asked. Amen.

All right, the Jesus that somebody went and got by the name of... I mean, Philip went and got Nathanael. The last person was here, I believe, was a woman, like the Scripture I preached on tonight the woman at the well. And here's another Scripture I use, that somebody went and got someone else and brought them over, and He told them where they was, and the conditions of them. They believed. [John 1:42-51], [John 4:1-21]

Do you believe God knows you, sir? You're not from this city. You've come from the north coming this a way. You're from a place called Hamilton, Ohio. Your name is George Burns, Barns, it is, George Barns. Return home, the Lord Jesus healed you and makes you well. Amen. Your faith did it. Amen. God bless you, sir.
Have faith. Don't doubt. In the meeting be reverent now. Don't move around; be real reverent. Just keep believing.

If the Lord God will reveal to me what your trouble is, will you believe me to be His servant and in His Presence? You'll be all right. The Lord be good to you. You're in a serious condition. The doctors has give you up on it, long ago. You have an infection, besides that I see you trying to push down on your head or something. You got a roaring in your head.

We are strangers to one another. The lady setting here on the end of the seat, right here, heavy-set. Yes. You have need too. You're praying. You believe God will answer prayer? If the Lord Jesus will reveal to me what you want Him to heal you for, will you believe me to be His servant? All right, then that nervous condition, that head trouble that you've been having... That's right. Wave your hand like that if that's right. It's left you now. You can go home and be well.
You've touched Something. Are we strangers to one another, lady? You and I are strangers? We are strangers to each other. I don't know you. If that's right, raise up your hand. All right. Just have faith now. Don't doubt. You might think that...

Just believe. Don't doubt.

I challenge your faith in Jesus' Name. Just what did they touch? Not me, they touched the High Priest, the Christ.
We're strangers to each other, I believe. If that's right would you raise your hand? If the Lord God will reveal to me what your trouble is, you'll accept it? I see the woman in a doctor's office, some sort of a room. It could be a hospital room. And she's being examined, and her blouse is off... It--it's in your breast, and it's tumors. And they're in both breasts. And the doctors wants to take them out. That's exactly right. He said you should do it right away, both the thin man and the heavy-set, both of them.

You've got someone in here too, is in bad condition. That's your husband, He's setting there in the balcony, and he's praying. If God will reveal to me what your husband's got here, will you believe it? He's got arthritis in his hands. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Now, go and be healed in Jesus' Name. God bless you.
How do you do, lady? Do you believe me to be His servant?
What about the lady setting right here wiping your eyes? You believe God can stop that poor circulation, make you well? That's what you was praying for. That's right. Wave that handkerchief if that's right. Who knows you but God would know that. I don't know you, do I?

You believe mother will get well? You do? If you... That's what you're standing here for. Well, that handkerchief you got with you there, she's not with you, but you take the handkerchief, send it to her, believe with all your heart, and she'll get well. Go on your road and rejoice and say "Thank You, Lord."
We are strangers to each other, I suppose. This is our first time meeting? Now, be reverent. Somebody did something. Somebody in here praying, it's a child keeps appearing. Someone's praying somewhere in here for a child. Now, you just, ever who it is, keep praying. Oh, how wonderful to be in His Presence. As David said, "My cup runneth over." Can you realize that Christ the resurrected Son of God is present? Surely our creeds has not numbed our heart till that condition. We don't recognize His Presence. What more can He do? [Acts 3:2-4], [Acts 19:12], [Psalms 23:5]

If I tell you what part of their body's hurt, will you believe? Hurt their back when they fell. That's true. If that's right, raise up that handkerchief to God. Now, go lay it on them and believe with all your heart. Just as you believed, it'll be that way. God bless you now.

But do you believe He will make you well of that arthritis too and heal you and make you well? Do you believe with all your heart? Then go around, turn around, go back home believing with all your heart, you can get well. Or go right across this way if you wish to, and not have it no more. Be made well.
Come forward, lady. Are we strangers to each other? Now, I'll get somebody thinking of telepathy. Now, don't think you can hide your life now. You can't. Now, stop thinking that; that's sin. What is sin? Unbelief. "He that believeth not is condemned already." Here, come here, lady. You. Put your hand just on my hand just for a contact. If the Lord God will tell me out this a way, what's your trouble, will you believe it to be revealed by the Son of God? It couldn't be telepathy. [John 3:18]

"If thou canst believe, all things are possible."
Just to let you know that He knows you, look here just a minute. This lady here had the same thing, a lady's trouble. And notice here, you see that young lady setting right there? Young as she seems to be, setting right there on that second row, hands up to her mouth, has the same thing, a female trouble, young woman. That's right. Raise up your hand if that's right, lady. You were healed the same time that woman was healed. Now, go on your road; be made whole.
If He knows what has been, does He know what the future will be? All right. [Mark 9:23]

You're shadowed with death, which is a cancer. But if you'll believe with all your heart that God heals you... Do you believe it? All right, go on your road and rejoice and say, "Thank You, Lord God."
And you had the same thing. I said, "Had the same thing." You haven't now. Go on your road and say, "Thank You, Lord God." Believe with all your heart.
Do you want to go eat your supper and that's--believe that stomach trouble left you? You believe it? Go, eat your supper then and be whole in the Name of Jesus Christ.
"If thou canst believe, all things are possible."
Lady, you have the killer, which is a heart trouble. But do you believe God healed you? Go on your road and rejoice. [Mark 9:23]

I challenge your faith to believe Him. He's omnipresent. He's here now, the great, not I was, I AM, the great Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God. Do you believe it? What about you people here in these chairs and cots and stretchers? Do you believe?
What about this man laying here? He has their hand up, laying there on that stretcher. Do you believe, sir? All right, if you believe, raise him up in the Name of the Lord Jesus. And if you believe with all your heart, the cancer condition will leave you and you'll go home and be well. Stand up on your feet. Don't be afraid. Rise up.

O Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, Author of Everlasting Life, Giver of every good gift, send Thy Spirit, Lord, upon the hearts of the people and manifest Your great power. Heal them, Lord. Give glory to this meeting. In the Name of Jesus Christ, I ask it. Amen.
Let's say, "Thank the Lord," everybody. The Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, is present. Stand up on your feet just a moment. Stand up and give Him praise and glory. Raise your hands to Him. Give Him glory, all ye people, for His Blood can wash a...