We Would See Jesus
62-0704, We Would See Jesus, Municipal Auditorium, Grass Valley, CA, 98 min




I bring greetings from all the other pilgrims around the different parts of the world to where I've been. And trusting... And many thousands of people are praying for the success of this meeting here, these nights. I'm sure together with the prayers of the rest of them and ourselves, that God will meet with us and bless us.
And we don't come now to represent any certain church, or we don't come to call ourselves healers. We come, representing Christ. And we come to, not to heal the sick, but to pray for the sick, and to do what we can to help make life a little easier for each and every one. And I'm sure that you'll be a blessing to us. And we trust that we'll be blessing to you.


And I got a little thought out of it. You see, the--the rifle really wasn't a Weatherby rifle. It was just bored out to be a Weatherby rifle. It was a model 70 Winchester, to you fellows who hunt. And had been given to me by a good California brother named Art Wilson. He gave it to my son, Billy Paul, a .257 Roberts. And so they... Billy's left-handed, and he never could use it, so he said, "Dad, I'll just give it to you."

But a friend of mine said, "I can take that model 70 and make a Weatherby rifle out of it. Weatherby does it over there, and guarantees it." I said... Said it won't cost me, just about "ten, twelve dollars."
And I said, "Go ahead."
So he gave it, took it out to the company and they rebored it. First, just blowed right up. So it wasn't, must not have been... Something that got pressure somewhere.

And another thing, I'd like to say this; it might get a little doctrinal point in. You see, if that rifle would've been started in the molds, a Weatherby magnum, it wouldn't have blowed up. But, you see, it was something else just part of the way converted; and that's the reason it couldn't stand the pressure.
And I believe in a religion that we don't patch up. We die and are borned again, and then we're a Christian that can stand all the pressure that the Holy Spirit wants to push out. So I--I think we have to get back to the beginning, not just try to make something out of something that isn't. We got too much of psychic religion today, instead of real born again experiences with God. And so somewhere along the road a little something will come along, will cause a little leak, and blow the pressure back, and you find yourself blowed up. So we believe in actually dying to yourself and all your thoughts and everything else, just die right out and let the Holy Spirit remake you. Just, get--you're a born again Christian, that's what you are, have an experience with God that you know you've passed from death unto Life. And that's what we believe.

Now, in the Old Testament, as ministering brothers know, that in the--the Levitical priesthood, they had a way of knowing whether the prophet was telling the truth, or a dreamer's dream was right. They had what was called Urim Thummim. Now, that's been disputed what it was. But the most, the greatest and the most ethical point that I can see, and the most suitable way, was, they took the breastplate that was Aaron wore; which represented the twelve tribes by the birthstones of the tribes, and it hung in the temple on the post. And then when a prophet prophesied, and then they could know whether it was truth, or not; now, if those conglomeration of lights flashed on there, making the supernatural... God is Supernatural, because He's God, a Spirit. And if that Supernatural Light represented on there, like a rainbow flashing from this, then the word, the prophet was right. That's the way he's identified, or the dreamer was right. But if it did not flash on the Urim Thummim, then no matter how real it sound, they would not receive it, because it didn't flash on the Urim Thummim. [Exodus 28:30]


So now, they all can't be right; there's got to be something wrong somewhere. And I find out now, there's about nine hundred and something different denominations, so I think there's got to be something wrong somewhere. 'Cause if this, they all go in by this church...

But the Bible said God is in His Word. And He said that whosoever shall add anything to This, or take anything out of It, the same will be taken out of the Book of Life, for him. So I believe with all my heart that this Word is God in print form. Now, why I say that is because that no man is better than his word; he's no more than his word. If you can't take my word for anything, then don't have no dealing with me (See?), because you can't believe me. And that's the same thing. I've got to believe that This is God's Word, and I do.

Now, we'll have just a short, quick as we get out... What is their, in really times, brethren, of getting out here, about two o'clock or something like that? Huh? Two o'clock? They was laughing, so I suppose about nine or nine-thirty, something like that, is about usually getting-out time. That would be in about thirty-five minutes. [John 1:1, 14]

Like selling a product, if you've got a product to sell, if it's any good, it'll sell itself. You don't have to do so much advertising about it. I got a--so much of that advertisement stuff, that I--I go around, see the... Everybody's the man of the hour, and, "this is the message," and all that, till I wonder who it is. Oh, I believe Christ is the Man of the hour, and always has been. And a--a lot of pomp and stuff is not to be put on.
I got enough of that one time, I'll... For you sisters... I--I got my wife; she's with us, and I really love her and my children. And so I always want to help her, and I'm a very poor hand to help. And I was... I know she has so much to do, and the kiddies to get ready everything to go to bed at night when I'm home. I thought I'd help her wash the dishes, only I just hate to do it as bad as you do. And I thought, "Well..."

But here it is; I love my wife the way I loved my mother, only as a wife, and my mother. Then I thought, "Well, I'm going to help her if I can."
And I seen something on a program one time, a--a television program, where I was waiting in a--for a airplane to go out, and they had a television setting out there and a great big front, a great big glass in it, and it said, "Use this certain detergent, no wash, no rinse, no wipe, no nothing. Just put it in the water, and dunk it down, take it out; that's all you have to do."
I thought, "Oh, oh. My wife's going to really love me from now on, 'cause I'm going to show her how to do the dishes." So I got me a box of it, next day when I got home. I got me a box 'fore I got home, put it under my coat, and went in.

So I got this thing and read on it, you know, "Put two tablespoonfuls." And I thought, "My, I'll make a real job out of it," I poured about a--about a half of the box in there, stirred it up like that, got all the dishes and set them down in like that, suds come about that high. I thought, "Mm, boy, just a few minutes now, and all I have to do is take them out and put them on the table again." The kids has eat eggs for breakfast; I pulled them out, there was just as much eggs as there ever was.
So I said, "When I see anything highly advertised, I just bypass it from then on, don't bother it, because I know it didn't work on that."

Now, I trust that you'll get on the phones and call the people. And the main thing here is not pray for the sick now; that's one of the sidelines; but the main thing is to get every sinner we can to know the Lord Jesus as his Saviour. That's the main. Secondarily, is to get every person that has accepted Christ as their Saviour, and has not yet been filled with the Holy Spirit, for them to be filled with the Holy Spirit. And that's--that's our second. Then the third thing, is pray for all the sick people that we can pray for. And through that, we hope that God will give us a great time during this meeting. And I think it's each evening and then Sunday afternoon, I think, is--is right. [John 6:37, 44]

And immediately, a friend of mine, the Arganbright family down here in around Los Angeles, called me and said, "If you haven't made your itinerary completely for going through, I wish you'd stop in Grass Valley."
I called the manager, got him on the line, I said, "Have you passed by there yet?"
"No."
I said, "Drop in." And here we are.
Now, what the Lord is going to do, I don't know. There might be one person here He's for, coming for. I hope it's the whole community that He's coming to save. Now, upon this, let's bow our heads and speak to the Author before we read His Word.


We pray, Father, that every sick person that walks in this building, and those who walk in with others on their hearts, praying, that the blessed Lord Jesus will be present to heal the sick. Fill every one's heart with the Holy Spirit.

We know not whether that we'll ever finish the revival here, or not, until You come. But we know this one thing, that someday You will come, and we don't know what hour that will be. But let us live each hour, that if it was that hour, we'd be ready to go to stand in Your Presence to hear it be said, "It was well done, My good and faithful servant; enter into the joys of the Lord that's been prepared for you since the foundation of the world." We dedicate ourselves with this building, and Your Word to the honor and glory of God, through the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. [Matthew 25:21]

... there were certain Greeks among them that went up to... the feast:
The same came... to Philip, which was of Bethesda--Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sirs, we would see Jesus.
[Hebrews 13:8], [John 12:20-21]The same came... to Philip, which was of Bethesda--Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sirs, we would see Jesus.

And as my good old friend, Brother Bosworth, which many of you Christians knowed, he used to say, "You always... To catch fish, you don't show them the hook; you show them the bait. And the fish grabs the bait and gets the hook."
So that's the way we try to catch Christians for Christ, is by the miracles of Divine healing to show His Presence. And then, in that, they know that a man cannot do those things, so it catches the soul of the believer, and he accepts it upon them basis. So now, to start off with, I want to give the talk of saying that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
And these Greeks said, "Sir, we would see Jesus." [Hebrews 13:8], [John 12:21]

There's something about Christ that it's not with other men. He was different. He was the Son of God. And there was--there's something so differing about Him that other men doesn't seem to have it like He had it. And we have the Spirit, understand, but we have It by measure. He has It without measure; He was Emmanuel, God living in the Body of Christ Jesus, God manifested in flesh. Christ was the expressed Image of God, manifesting God to the people. What God was, they saw in Christ, His Son. He was the anointed One. The word "Christ" means "the anointed One." [Colossians 2:9]

The Scriptures cannot lie. They are the Truth. I believe that. And if these Scriptures was wrong, then I would be doing something else tonight besides standing here representing This. But I believe that They are right, exactly right. They don't need any interpretation. They're just the way They are supposed to be, just written right in here, 'cause God has seen to it that They stayed that way. Now, watch. [Hebrews 13:8]


When God was called on to heal a sick man, He healed him by his faith. And He can never change it. See? And if He healed one man, because of his faith in God to do it, then He'll have to heal the next one, or He acted wrong when He healed the first one, and He acted wrong when He saved the first one. See? So you can't...
We change. We're--we're what you call finite. And He's the Infinite. So He cannot change, because He's perfect. We make a decision, then we see, "Well, that was wrong. I'll make it this way, it'd be a little better." But not Him. His first one is perfect. That's the way it has to ever remain. So He cannot learn more or get smarter, as we think we do, but He is perfect to begin with.

Because like David said, "When the deep calls to the Deep, there has to be a--first, a something to respond to that call, or the call wouldn't be there." In other words, there has to be a Creator before there could be a creation. See? There has to be Something put a creation in you, before there--a Creator to put a creation, and then there has to be something to respond to that. Before there's a--a--a fin on a fish's back, there had to be a water first for him to swim in, or he'd have no fin. Before there was a tree to grow in the earth, there had to be an earth first. And as long as there's a hunger in the human heart for God, there's got to be a God somewhere to respond to that call.
And if many are here tonight seeking Divine healing. Why are you seeking it? Because something inside of you tells you there's a Fountain somewhere. See? And as long as there's something in you, telling you there is a Fountain somewhere, there's got to be that Fountain, or there'd never be that desire in you. See, the Creator to create the creation... [Psalms 42:7]

Now, some today seek God through their creeds. Some people think through their creeds they'll just go through a certain creed that finds God. Some thinks joining certain denominations finds God.

I think that searching God through creed or through denomination, it only thing it does, it gets it so mysteriously fixed up, and then you find out that it comes right back and denies the Word, comes right back and makes the commandments of God of non-effect. For instance, you try to find God in saying the Apostles' Creed. And then you come back to find Mark 16 to be made a reality to you, "these signs shall follow them that believe"; why, they'll tell you right quick, "Well, them days of miracles is past." Then what does it do? It takes the commandments of God and makes them of non-effect (See?); they're not effective, the commandments of God.
His commandment is "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature." Now, the Gospel came not by Word only, but through manifestation of the Word, demonstrations of the Holy Spirit making the Word live. See, it's the Spirit taking the Word. [Matthew 15:6], [Mark 7:13], [Mark 16:15, 17]

And now when the Holy Spirit gets ahold of the Word, It brings It to pass and manifests It, and makes It a reality, every Word of God. No Scripture but what is given by inspiration, and every Word of God is perfect and correct, and It will be fulfilled. Every Word must be fulfilled. "Heavens and earth will pass away," said Jesus, "but My Word shall not fail." Every Word of It must be fulfilled.
Now, then when God does that, and we find our creed then, if we say certain creeds or certain things that we belong to... And I have nothing against that. That's all right.
It's just like eating watermelon, as the colored man said when he eat a slice of it. He said, "What'd you think about it, Mose?"
He said, "It was good, but surely there's some more of it." So it wasn't enough to satisfy. [Matthew 24:35], [Mark 13:31], [Luke 21:33]

And when God gave Israel the promised land, while they were still in Egypt, they had to fight every inch of that land. God told Joshua, in Joshua 1, "Wherever the soles of your foot treads upon, that I've given you for a possession. So footprints means possession. Some people can just get, just barely get to the--to the edge of the land. Some can take the two-handed Sword and cut their way through Philistines and Amorites till they take the whole thing. That's what we should do. Every promise is to us. We got a... Footprints is possession. Walk right up and take it. God gave it to us. It's a promise and it's the Truth, and it's for us.
Now, then in these creeds they come around again, as I say, and make the--with their traditions, the commandments of God of non-effect: makes, takes it away, explains it all away. [Matthew 4:4], [Deuteronomy 11:24], [Matthew 15:6], [Mark 7:13]

Now, then, we want to see Him. I'd like to see Him come in the building tonight. I would like to see Him. Wouldn't you? We said awhile ago, we would. We would like to see Him. Well, then if He promised it to us, why can't we? That's the... Now, if we'll just open our eyes and our minds just for a while, I believe that we'll understand, and He will come in and show Himself with us. Now, and then we could go away tonight, saying, "We would see Jesus." [Hebrews 13:8], [John 12:21]

Now, when He met Satan, He met him on the Word. He--He had--He was God manifested in flesh; but when He met Satan He never used His power of--of His Godhead, what He was. He said, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone.' It is written, 'Thou shall worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shall thou serve.'" When He met Satan, He met him with the Word, because He was the Word. Now, the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. Now, Moses spoke of Him in the Word. Now, in Deuteronomy the 18th chapter, 15th verse... [Matthew 4:4, 10], [John 1:14]


Now, the Bible had taught those Jews, "If there be one among you who's spiritual, or a prophet, I the Lord will make Myself known to him. And--and in prophecies and visions, dreams, and so forth, and what he says comes to pass, then hear him." Now, that's only sense. "But if it doesn't come to pass like he said, then don't hear him." 'Cause God can't lie; He's God. But if a man says a thing, and it comes to pass, and then you watch it in him, coming to pass, coming to pass, coming to pass, then you know that can't be that man. That's got to be God. So God told the prophets--or told the Jews to listen to that man, because he was a prophet sent from God. [I Corinthians 14:37], [Deuteronomy 18:22]

Now, if we would want to see Jesus today, and the Bible said, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever," then there's only one way to do it. Not... [Deuteronomy 18:15-19], [Hebrews 13:8]

But we find out, back there He was the Word, so He's still the Word. Now, I read from St. John. Now, if we turn back here to the 1st chapter of St. John, and we'll just take some of Who, what He was from the 1st chapter of St. John.
Now, we find out that, "In the beginning was the Word," as I have already quoted, "and the Word was God; and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." Now, we find out what He was. Now, we've got the Word being God, and God being made flesh and dwelling among us in those days. Now, the Bible said He's the same yesterday... That was New Testament. [John 1:1, 14], [Hebrews 13:8]

Moses said, now, "He'll be like me, a Prophet like unto me." Then when He come, what Christ that was, He had to be what He... Then He had to be what He was before then. So now, let's start from right there, and then we'll see what He will be forever. That's the only way to make it.


And now, when He was here on earth, that Pillar of Fire was made flesh, dwelt among us. When He was here on earth, He said, "I come from God, and I go to God." Now remember, "yesterday, today." See? He come from God, from the Pillar of Fire, He goes back to God. [John 1:14]

He said, "Who are You, Lord?" Now, listen.
"I am Jesus. And it's hard for you to kick against the pricks." You remember that. Well, here He is, that same Pillar of Fire that was.
Then if He's the same yesterday, then in Paul's day, today, He will be the same forever. So that great Pillar of Fire, God, the Angel of the covenant, is the same today as It was when It led Israel. Notice.
Now, we're going to start His ministry, in St John 1. We know... We'll bypass His calling and birth, and John the Baptist, and take to His baptism, then into the wilderness, tempted of the devil, come back out after forty days and nights of fasting in the wilderness. He come back out and started His ministry. Now, let's--let's follow His ministry here. Immediately, people begin to get healed from being prayed for by Him. [Acts 22:7-8], [Acts 26:14, 18], [Hebrews 13:8]

God always takes something that's nothing and makes something out of it to... He manifests Himself through nothing, so that anyone can see it's God. See, He takes something that's nothing.
And He picked up this ignorant man. Now, how's He going to make this man know that He is? 'Cause there'd been many fakes had gone on. And we've had them through the ages. [Acts 4:13]


"Now, listen. Now, Simon and Andrew, before that Messiah really rises, there will be lots of things go on under the name of Messiah, because that'll be the enemy. But don't you forget, Simon, you and Andrew always stay with the Word. Don't leave the Word. Remember, Messiah will be a prophet like Moses, for that's exactly. No matter, he might be a great ecclesiastical giant, and he might be able to explain the words, he might be able to do anything like that; but the Bible said He will be a prophet like Moses. (Amen.) Now, that's the way you'll know Him." [Deuteronomy 18:15-18], [Acts 3:22], [Acts 7:37]

And I'd imagine Peter thought like this, or Simon, as he was then, "Now, you've probably gone off on the deep end, Andrew. I'll go over with you, and I'll know."
So as he walked up before Jesus, Jesus said, "Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas."
That was enough. That was it. He believed Him and accepted Him, in such a way that he had the keys to the Kingdom afterwards. He didn't take any schooling or anything; he had the keys to the Kingdom. Because by the revelation of God he knew that that was Messiah, because it was the Scriptural Messiah. He was a prophet, and they hadn't had a prophet for four hundred years since Malachi. They'd had false prophets. But a real prophet who told the Truth... And here was a Man standing here Who, as soon as He seen him, not only knew who he was, but knew who his godly old father was that had instructed him. That settled it. "Thou art the Christ, the Son of God." See?
"Your name is Simon. You are the son of Jonas." That was enough to show him. Now, that's what Jesus did yesterday to prove Hisself, that He was Messiah. [John 1:42, 49]

Around the hill he went, fifteen miles. He had a friend that he'd went to school with, a good man, a man of Scripture, a man of integrity, a man would--that knowed the Scripture and loved God. And I can see him knock on the door [Brother Branham knocks--Ed.] and--and say, "Where is Nathanael?"
His wife said, "He's out into the--the yard out there. He's praying."
He went to find him, and he was under a tree. And when he found him, he said, "Come, see Who we have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph." [John 1:39-41]

He said, "Come and see."
Now, that's a good statement for anybody. Don't stay home and criticize. Don't get up and walk out. Stay and wait, and find out whether it's the Truth or not. See? "Come, see for yourself."
Well, went around the bend; let's think of their conversation. I can hear Philip say to--to Nathanael, "Nathanael, what does the Scripture say Messiah will be?"
"Oh, He'll be a--He'll be a Prophet like unto Moses."
"Surely. That's right. Well, this Jesus of Nazareth that I'm telling you about, you remember that old fisherman that you bought the fish from, and he couldn't sign his name?"
"Yes. Oh, sure, the son of Jonas. I know him well. His name is Simon."
"As soon as he walked into the Presence of this Man, He told him who he was, and about his father. It wouldn't surprise me that He wouldn't tell you who you were," he says.
"Well," he said, "now, just a moment. I'll have to see that." [John 1:39, 42, 46], [Acts 7:37], [Acts 3:22], [John 1:42]

Now, you might've said, "Well, sure, He knows he's an Israelite, the way he was dressed." All the easterners dress the same, all of them are dark complected, and they wore a beard, and turban, and--and cloaks, and so forth, just the same. And how would He knowed he was an honest and just man, with no guile?
He said--He said to him, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there's no guile."
And it astonished that Scriptural man. He said, "Rabbi (which means teacher), when did You ever know me? This is our first time meeting. When did You ever know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." There you are. That's it. "I saw you," fifteen miles around the mountain, day before. "I saw you when you were under the tree." Now, you know what he did? He ran up to Him; he said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel." That's you are. Why? He's Scriptural, that One that the prophet said would come. "Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel." Don't make any difference what the rest of them said. [John 1:47-49]

And Jesus turned to them, and said, "I'll forgive you." See, they called the Spirit of God that was doing that an unclean spirit. Said, "I'll forgive you for doing that. But someday the Holy Ghost will come to do the same thing, and one word against It will never be forgiven in this world, neither in the world that is to come.": one word against It. Now, that was for another age. Look at them. [Matthew 12:24, 31-32], [Luke 12:10]


Did you notice Peter with the keys to the Kingdom? The first one he opened it to was the Jews, at Pentecost. Is that right? And Philip went down and preached to the Samaritans; they had been baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus, but had not received the Holy Ghost as yet; and they sent up and got Peter to come down and laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost. Is that right? Acts 10:49, "While Peter yet spake these Words, the Holy Ghost fell upon them that heard the Word." See? Now, notice them three people: Jews, Gentiles, and Samaritans. [Genesis 5:32], [Genesis 9:18], [Acts 10:44]

Now, remember St. John 5:19, Jesus said, after passing the pool of Bethesda, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." Did you get it? Jesus said, "The Son can do nothing in Himself (That's Him.) but what I (not hear the Father, but) see the Father doing." Now, that Scripture is right, or the rest of them might be wrong. He said, "Before I do anything, I see by vision what the Father shows Me to do, and then I go do it." See? It was just all around them. "But you--no man can come unless the Father draws him." That's true.
So He had need go by Samaria, and He went up around Samaria. And it was about twelve o'clock. And He sent His disciples in, when He come to the city of Sychar, and He sent His disciples in to get vittles: food. And while they were gone, a woman of Sychar come out. [John 4:4], [John 5:2, 19], [John 8:28], [John 6:44]

And when she did, she stopped, and was letting down the windle, it's got two hooks, and just put it over the pot handle like this. It's not a bucket; it's kind of a pot like made out of clay, and they let it down into the well, and windle it back up. And so she started to let the bucket down, and she heard Someone say, "Woman, bring Me a drink." And she looked over. It was kind of a little panoramic like this here, where the city public well is out there, out of Sychar. And then she looked over there, and there set a middle-aged Jew. Now, He was really only about thirty-two. [John 4:7]

He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." That's right. They didn't understand It, yet being as ecclesiastical and intelligent as they could be. But intelligence ain't to know God; you have to forget all that to know God. No. [John 8:57]

He said, "Woman, if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. I'd give you water you don't come here to draw." What was He doing? Contacting her spirit.
Now remember, He had need go up to Samaria. The Father just said, "Go up to Samaria." He did nothing till the Father showed Him. [John 4:4, 9-10]

She said, "I have no husband."
He said, "That's right. You've said well, for you have had five, and the one you're living with now is not your husband. In that thou saidst the truth." [John 4:16, 18, 20]

The priests and the educated said, "You are Beelzebub, a devil, fortuneteller."
This woman said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a Prophet. We know when Messiah cometh, He'll tell us these things."
If that was the sign of Messiah yesterday, and He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, it's got to be the same.
She said, "We know Messiah, which is called the Christ, the anointed One; when He comes, He'll tell us these things. But Who are You?"
He said, "I'm He that speaks with you." That was enough. She saw it. [John 4:19, 25], [Hebrews 13:8]

He said, "I'm He."
And away she went, into the city, said, "Come, see a Man that told me the things I done. Isn't this the very Messiah?" Amen.
There you are. What was He yesterday? That's the same He is today and will be forever. See? He was. [John 4:19, 25, 28], [Hebrews 13:8]

That was Christ in Joseph, that made him portray Christ, exactly: sold for thirty pieces of silver, loved by the father, hated by the brethren, in this prison house like Christ was on the cross, one was saved; and the butcher and the butler, and one saved and the other one lost, the same thing. Set at the right hand of Pharaoh; and every time he went forth, a trumpet sound, "Everyone bow the knee. Joseph's coming." No man could get to Pharaoh, only through Joseph. That was Christ in Joseph. [Matthew 26:15], [Genesis 14:9]

It was Christ in those people, anointed ones, coming up till this perfect anointed One come. The sin-offering wasn't made. He couldn't come into all flesh like that, because it was just under the... They was anointed. But now, the Holy Spirit's come, which is Christ in Spirit form. Now, notice. [Matthew 23:37], [Luke 13:34]

And the unchangeable God... Now, we've had two thousand years of scholarship and all kinds of things, and now it's come evening time, and now the Gentiles are looking for a coming Messiah. Now, if He's the same... He appeared the same them--to them two tribes, He's got to appear the same way there, and promised so. One more Scripture, and I'll close.
Always remember, keep three classes of people in your mind. They're always there, that's believers, make-believers, and unbelievers. They're in every crowd. See?

That's what He's fixing to do again. Is that right? Now, watch. Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man." Remember, them were Gentile nations. See? The end, as it was in Sodom. Now, here's the Gentiles coming up. The Jewish time was destroyed by water. This time, Gentiles is destroyed by--by fire. Notice, "as it was in Sodom," let's just watch. [Psalms 105:42], [Luke 17:26-30]

Now, down in Sodom was the lukewarm church: Lot and his bunch. Abraham and his bunch was the elected Church. Notice. And then the Sodomites, the unbelievers...

There's something about a real borned again Christian, when you meet one... I was coming through a restaurant today, somebody said, "God bless you." I turned around. I said, "Oh, oh, something wrong." A little lady shook my hand. Now, something about a borned again Christian.
And these Angels walked up there and begin to talk to Abraham. Now, remember, two of Them went down into Sodom to call out, see if they could find ten just people. Is that right? Two of them went away. One of them stayed back and talked to Abraham. Is that right? Now, watch. [Genesis 18:2, 32]

But remember, the One that stayed back with Abraham, done something else with the elected Church; He was setting with His back turned to the tent. Now remember, he had been "Abram" till just a day or two before that, and Sarah had been "S-a-r-r-a." But now she's S-a-r-a-h, and he's A-b-e-r-h-a-m: "father of nations," and "princess." See? Now, how did this Stranger know, when He set down with His back to the tent? And He said, "Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?" How'd He know he was married? How'd He know her name was Sarah?
And Abraham said, "She's in the tent behind You."
Now, watch. "I (personal pronoun), I am going to visit you." What had He done? Set there and had eat a calf that Abraham killed, eat bread that Sarah had baked, and drank milk from the cow. [Genesis 17:15], [Genesis 18:9-10]

I said, "It was God."
Abraham ought to know; he talked to Him. Ask any minister. He called Him Elohim, the--the self-existing One; capital L-O-R-D, "LORD," the self-existing One.
Now, watch; you won't miss it. "Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?"
Said, "She's in the tent, behind You."
He said, "I'm going to visit you according to the time of life," what He promised him twenty-five years before that. Abraham was a hundred and Sarah was ninety. "I'm going to visit you according to life." [Genesis 18:9-10, 17]

And the Angel, with His back turned to the tent, said, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying that these things can't be?" What kind of a telepathy was that? [Genesis 18:12-13]

Jesus said, "Lo, a little while and the world seeth Me no more (That's the unbeliever); yet ye shall see Me (the Church), for I (personal pronoun again), I'll be with you, even in you to the end of the age, the end of the world," Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Our God is not dead. He is a-living forevermore. He's living at the end time when the sun is setting. [Luke 17:28], [Hebrews 13:8], [John 1:14], [John 14:19], [Matthew 28:20]

Now, the prophet said, "There'll be a day that cannot be called day or night, a dismal, foggy day." People has knowed enough about God to join a church, put their name on a book, walk in what Light they had. On a foggy day, there's so much light of the sun, or you couldn't get around at all. But he said, "In the evening time, it shall be Light." What is it? The same sun that rises in the east, sets in the west. And the same Son of God that manifested and appeared in the east is appearing in the west now at the evening time, evening Light to the Church that's called out and filled with the Holy Spirit. [Revelation 21:25], [Zechariah 14:7]



Said, "Oh, no. It'll bring forth grapefruit, lemon, and whatever the branch is."
"Why," I said, "that's a strange thing. You mean you perverted that orange tree into them kind of trees?"
He said, "No. The orange tree's still the same. If it ever puts forth another branch, it'll bring forth an orange. But what's grafted into it like that, it brings forth of its own kind, because it's a citrus fruit."
I said, "There you are."
Denomination can only bring forth denomination fruit. But if that original Vine ever puts out another one, it'll be Jesus Christ the same yesterday... "I will restore," saith the Lord. Amen. (It's time to go home.) [Hebrews 13:8], [Joel 2:25]

If you took the life out of a--a pumpkin vine, and put it over in a grapevine, it would bear pumpkins, if it could live like that. Sure, the life in it...
And that's where the Life is now. The Life of Christ in the Church, produces Christ over again. That's how they see Christ. The... In John 14:12 He said, "He that believeth in Me, not make-believeth; but he that believeth in Me, the works that I do shall he do also. More than this shall he do, for I go to My Father." Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. [John 12:21], [John 14:12], [Hebrews 13:8]



And now tonight, Father, we pray that You will bless us tonight like You did Cleopas and his friend. After that they'd walked with You for three and a half years, and had seen the things that You did; then You were crucified, under Pontius Pilate--Pilate, You suffered, crucified, died. And on the third day, they were on their road to Emmaus. They'd heard a rumor by the women and some of the disciples, that He was risen. But that day You walked with them and talked with them practically all day long. They didn't know You.
Maybe many here has--You've walked with them and talked with them, and they didn't recognize It. [John 10:37-38]

God, will You do it tonight again? Do something among us tonight, Lord, just like You did it before Your crucifixion. Then we'll have confidence and know that our Christ is not dead, but He's risen from the dead, and is alive here among us forevermore. We commit ourselves to You, Father. I commit this church to You, and every spirit in here to You, that You might use us to honor Christ. In Jesus' Name I ask it. Amen. [Matthew 14:2], [Mark 6:16]

Each one of you is a spirit. If you're not, you're dead, See? So then you are a spirit, and then when the Holy Spirit comes down to anoint amongst the people, It contacts, it picks them spirits. See? And you moving, there's a shift.
You say, "Oh, Brother Branham..." Well, why did He lead the blind man out of the city, and so? See, see?
Now, how many that believe Him? "Sirs, we would see Him." [John 12:21]

C-number-1. Number 2? All right, lady. Number 3, number 3? If you can stand up, or raise your hand or something another, so I'll... Number 3, who has prayer card? The gentleman, all right. Number 4, prayer card number 4? All right. All right, number 4. Who has number 4, would you raise up your hand, please? All right, lady, come over here. See, they just...

Now, come over here, lady. 4, 5. And then who has 5, raise up your hand, prayer card number 5? And then another thing when he... Right down here, lady, this... And then another thing they do in that, then sometimes I call from one place... How many's ever in a meeting before, one of our meetings? Oh, well, I thought I was amongst strangers. Certainly not. All right. 5, 6. Who has 6? All right. 7, 8, 8, 9. I get this, 'cause deaf people, and people is in wheelchairs and can't walk. 9, 10, number 10? 10, how do we say that in Spanish? 10. All right, 11, prayer card 11? Thought somebody in the balcony... Here. All right, 12. All right, 12. 13. Prayer card 13, do you have it, lady? 14, 14, 15. What's... Well, that, let us start like that now. All right.

Prayer card 5 is missing. The usher is calling prayer card number 5. See, if you get up and... Don't get a prayer card 'less you're going to use it. See, don't... You get your number now, 'cause we're going to pray for everyone's got them cards (See?), and we--we don't want you to miss your time. 'Cause now, when we call again now, we left off at 15, that's where we'll start probably tomorrow night, same place. See? We're going to get them every one, so then you'll--you'll miss your time (See?) here. Now prayer card number 5... All right.

Now, now each one of you now that's got a prayer card--or don't have a prayer card, and you believe; now while they're getting the line ready, look this way now.
One time there was a woman, and maybe she didn't have a prayer card, but she had what it taken: faith. And she passed through the crowd, and she said, "If I can just touch His garment, I'll be made well." How many ever heard that story? The woman with the blood issue, now, that little woman was determined she was going to touch Jesus. She said, "I believe Him. I don't care how many of the priests and all the rest of them don't believe Him; I believe Him. And I believe if I can touch His garment, I'll be made well. I believe He's Messiah." [Luke 8:44], [Matthew 9:20], [Mark 5:25-27]


Then how would you know you touched Him? He'd work right back and do the same thing. See? You touch Him and see if He don't speak right through here and say, "Your faith; you had so-and-so," and whatever it is, and tell you what it was, and what happened, and all about it. Now, how many's seen that done hundreds of times, just raise up your hand. See? Sure, never fail, never fail. Why? He can't fail; He's God. See? Aren't you happy to be a Christian, a real, borned again Christian, really with the victory of Christ?

They're, the brethren back there, and ministers and them, is bringing the patients out.
Now, I think, yes, this is alive. Now, if the one on... the engineer on that'll kind of keep it a little high. 'Cause sometime when the anointing strikes, then I--I don't know what I'm saying, You see, I'll have to... It's somewhere else back in life. See? And then when I... Just like you dreamed it. See? And you're dreaming like a dream, if I make it that way to you, yet you're standing right here. You go back for years in people's life, and find what they did, what's the matter, and whatmore, and bring it up like that. See? And that's the Holy Spirit. Then It tells what was, what is, what will be, so forth. You just have--watch it and listen close when you get your tapes, and It'll tell you.


Now, what could I do for that man? Now, I might walk up to him, put my hands on him, say, "Are you sick, sir?" He'd say, "Yes, sir." I put my hands on him, say, "Glory to God, hallelujah. Go, you're going to get well. Hallelujah." Well, now, that could be he'd get well; depends on what he thought about it. No matter, might... Me shaking him and putting my hands on him, wouldn't do nothing. It's his faith in God that would do it. But now, he'd have a right to doubt that. But if the Holy Spirit can stand here and tell him something that he has been, like Moses wrote Genesis, then surely He could tell him what would be. He could believe that, could he?
Now, now if He would do that, if Christ would do that, how many of you would believe with all your heart? [John 12:21]

Then this is just a channel. You don't speak it yourself. He speaks through you. It's a medium in which God uses to speak through. See? It's like this microphone. That microphone is a mute unless something back here is speaking through it. And that's me, how do I know that man, never seen him, but I'm a mute to him? See?


Now, He's here. He's here now. And in the Name of Jesus Christ I take every spirit in here under my control for the glory of God.
I don't know you, sir. We are strangers. But you're present something--or conscious that something is going on. Now, the man could not hide his life. He is sick. To heal him, I cannot. There's no way for me to heal him. The man has been to a--a doctor. He's had an examination. Sure, he's up for an operation. That is right. If that's right, sir, raise up your hand.
You believe?

Watch again. Look this way, sir. Just like our Lord speaking to a woman, It's His Spirit. I'm not Him. I'm a man like you, but It's His Spirit. Whatever He told you, it was right, whatever. Yeah, here it is again. Yes, yes, he's ready for an operation right now, and it's on a bladder trouble and a prostate condition. That's THUS SAITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. That's right. Raise up your hand if that be so. Do you believe now that you're in His Presence? All right. Go, believing and you'll be well. Amen.
You believe? Now, it's just that simple to see Christ moving.


Now it depends on what you think It is. You can say, "Beelzebub" or you can say, "Christ." You, if you say "Beelzebub," you get his reward. See? Say "Christ," it's His reward. You must believe.
Now, what a place it puts you. Does somebody want to take this place? If you don't believe it, come here and take my place once. [Brother Branham pauses--Ed.] Always a quiet audience when that's asked.

Now, if the Holy Spirit, like Jesus speaking to the woman at the well, here we are, just a little panoramic like the well at Sychar, I was talking about. Now, being that we're both believers, and we're standing here, the Holy Spirit on both of us. Now, He's give... I'm not a preacher. But He gives me a gift; that's my preaching. It's a prophetic gift. And these are just temporarily; it'll take your faith to do that; like the woman that touched His garment, said, "Thy faith has saved thee." See? Now, that's the same thing that takes now (See?); it takes your faith. Then He tells me something, where to go and certain places. [Matthew 9:20], [Luke 8:44], [Mark 5:27]

Now, if He'll reveal to you something that's in your life, you'll know whether it's the truth or not. And He'll make you believe then for whatever you're asking for; 'cause a Christian wouldn't stand there like that; you're--you're in need of something or you wouldn't stand there.
Will everybody else believe? Does anybody know the person? Yeah, lots of people knows the person. [John 4:4], [Hebrews 13:8]

You believe with all your heart? See? Jesus Christ. Sirs, we would see... You say, "How that?" Well, that's no more than what He told the rest of them. Do you believe? "Sirs, we would see Jesus." That's Him. Now, go talk to the woman; ask her. [John 12:21]

That little lady setting right back over here towards where I'm pointing my finger, suffering with that eczema. If you'll believe with all your heart... You believe it, lady, with all your heart? Little gray-headed woman with glasses on, got--she suffers with eczema. She was standing there, or setting there, rather, thinking about what was wrong with her, praying in her heart. And now, if that's right, and you believe that God will make you well, stand up on your feet.
What did she touch? I ask you: What did she touch? She's twenty yards from me. She touched the High Priest, and that High Priest is here. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Don't you see? Don't doubt it. Believe it. Have faith. [Hebrews 13:8]

Oh, if this church, if this group of people would just believe right now, and just have faith, what would happen, what would take place.
Sir, we're strangers to one another. Just want to speak to you, in order just contact your spirit. Here, you're not here for yourself. You're here for somebody else; that's a--a little fellow, a little fellow, little boy been wrecked in a automobile accident, cut all to pieces, lacerated, very bad, serious condition. You're here standing for him. That's right. If God doesn't help the little boy, he's got to die. Will you do me a favor? Take that handkerchief out of my pocket; go, put it on him, in the Name of the Lord, and don't doubt. And let me hear from him, as the meeting goes on. Have faith.

Sister Borders, is that you setting out there? I can't make out. Looked like Sister Borders setting there. I can't... Roy, Brother Roy Borders' wife. I guess it isn't. It went right, stood over that lady. Now, just a minute, and maybe It'll call back again, see what It is.
I'm a stranger to you. The Lord knows both of us. If the Lord will explain to me, and do something here, that what you're here for, will you believe with all your heart?

Anything wrong with your wife?
All right, it just keeps coming here. And there's a bunch of people, somebody by her, and I keep wondering.
You are suffering with a tumor. That's right. You believe God can tell me where the tumor is? On the hip. You believe with all your heart. You have complications too, many other things. You believe. That's right. You believe with all your heart? Go, believing like that, and you'll--it'll all be over, and God will heal you and make you well. [The sister says, "Brother Branham. That woman came with me, with eczema, came with me. And I didn't know it until we set back there, she said she had eczema."--Ed.] Her getting thrilled of getting in a prayer line probably is what done it, prayer for one another.

If you don't believe me to be a prophet, or, excuse me, servant (That stumbles the people), lay your hand on the woman sitting next to you, because she suffers with varicose veins. You see, that's right. All right. Amen.
Believe with all your heart now. Tell me what they're touching; some little woman setting there praying for another one; it keeps appearing on the platform. Just believe with all your heart. All right.

What do you believe? You believe God's going to heal that back trouble, them kidneys, and make you well? Go home, believing, say, "Jesus Christ makes me well." Just have faith; don't doubt.
Come, sir. You were awful happy when you come out of the line there, when your number was called. God heals heart trouble and can make you well. You believe it? Then go on your road, believing, and it'll all leave you, and you'll--you'll be made well. All right.
Have faith. Don't doubt. Lady, what do you think about it? You think if I laid my hands on you, you'd get well? Just didn't say nothing, just lay my hands on you? Go ahead. "Don't have to," all right, that's good. Go right ahead. Amen. That's the way to do it. All right.

All right, sir. Come, sir. I'm a stranger to you. Everybody tells you, "Get next to yourself," 'cause you're nervous. But you can't get next to yourself; there's something there that makes you nervous. That's right. But you're standing on the spot now where it's left you now. Go, believe it, and it'll never come back again. Go, believe it, Amen. Have faith. Don't doubt. All right.
Many things, lady's trouble, arthritis, now, you believe God will make you well? Just go, saying, "Praise be to God," and--and believe with all your heart.

You believe "lay hands on the sick, they shall recover"? In the Name of the Lord Jesus, go, get well now, and believe with all your heart.
All right, come right on, sir. You believe God can heal heart trouble, make prostate trouble, everything, that nervousness and everything go away from you? Then go, believing in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Amen.
You believe with all your heart? What about the rest of you, you believe? [Mark 16:18]



Satan, in Jesus' Name, leave this audience, come out of here. You've lost the battle. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, may they be healed, every one of them. [John 12:21]