Sir, We Would See Jesus
60-0708, Sir, We Would See Jesus, City High School, Klamath Falls, OR, 105 min





And I've always wanted to get back out here and catch some of these trout that you people are missing, but I just haven't had a chance yet. And looks like every time I come, I'm on a--a mission to preach. But maybe I can... No, I can't retire; ministers don't retire, do they, brethren? They just can't retire. So maybe someday, I'll just take off and go with some of my brethren here fishing. I noticed today coming down, everywhere we seen was fishing license, hunting license, and... That certainly looked good to a tired, wore out preacher.

We truly believe that the Lord Jesus will come someday in a physical body just like He was taken up. And it looks to me like that that time is certainly drawing nigh. When we see all kinds of signs appearing of His--His--of His coming, and the Scriptures being fulfilled, and we just wonder how much longer it will be until we'll see that blessed One that we've looked for so long. [Jude 1:3]

And I said to him while I was there; I said, "Brother Bosworth, when was you the most happiest in all your Christian experience?"
He said, "Right now, Brother Branham."
And I said, "Do you realize that you are going?"
He said, "Sure."
And I said, "Why could you say that while you know that death is right on you now?"
He said, "Brother Branham, all that I have stood for and lived for for better than fifty years, I'm expecting Him to walk in that door at any minute to take me with Him."
I thought of the Psalm of Life:
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
With, partings, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
With, partings, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
If that was a footprint to me, to know that after better than fifty-five years of ministry on the field, preaching many years before I was born--that still at the end of the road, Jesus meant more to him than any time in his life. [II Kings 2:12]

And then finally, after meeting his mother and father and all, come back and laid down on a little cot there, folded his arms, closed his eyes, went to meet the Lord. Such a gallant man. I'm sure that if we could ever have the privilege of visiting that great Land before the coming of the Lord, that we'll see Brother Bosworth there with his friends, happy, enjoying Eternal Life to its sublime.

And that's what we're here for purposely. Our main purpose is to see you be prepared for that. Next is to pray for the sick and see that they get well, praying to the Lord. And then another thing, is to... Those who have strayed away from church, to go back to your church and take up your fellowship again among the believers. And then also, we would like to get those who've backslid and gone away, back into the precious fellowship of the church again with the people.

You say, "You know, I don't like the way that preacher wears his tie." Well, my wife doesn't either. So I--I don't... You know, and something and other... I used to say, "The way he combs his hair." But that's out of the question now.
And so we... Just something you have to meet, and meet the person. And then after a night or two, you get acquainted. Then the Holy Spirit moves in and begins to bless us, and all the little (you know, as I call it), the little frictions and the little bugs combed out. And then we... We're ready then to go into the worship. And we got ten days, the Lord willing, for this. We pray that it will be a great thing.

And now, we're going to open this precious Word and read just a verse out of it, or two, for a little text--to find a context. Then I believe that Billy was supposed to give out some prayer cards tonight. I... Did he do it? Raise up your hands if there's anybody got... He did it. All right. [Romans 10:17]

Now, just before we read His Word... We believe this to be the Word of God. We believe this to be the true Word of God. Everything that's in here is God's Word. Do you believe that, the whole church? That's good.

And I said, "I am a Catholic."
"Oh," he said, "I--I don't understand."
I said, "Yes, I am a Catholic."
And he said, "I--I never see you at our church, and you've got a church down here." And said, "I--I--I just don't get that."
I said, "Well, I want to ask you: Is it true that the Catholic church believes that this Bible is a history of the early Catholic church, that Jesus Christ established the Catholic church; Peter was the first pope; and that the acts of the apostles is the acts of the early Catholic church?"
He said, "That's exactly truth." ('Course, many of my people are Catholic. I'm Irish and kindy know their--their doctrine.) So, he said, "That's truth."

He said, "Yes, sir."
I said, "Well, I... See?" I said, "I believe I'm more of a Catholic than you are." I said, "Because you're one of these new--new day Catholics: the one that takes the doctrine of the Catholic church today. And I'm an old fashion Catholic, that believes what the old fashion Catholic wrote and done." I said, "Surely, they ought to know more about it; they walked with the Lord Jesus. And Peter (the first pope) said, 'There's no other mediator between God and man, but the Man Christ Jesus.'" And I said, "I--I just kindy believe that." And I said, "I--I teach just exactly like the early Catholic church did--just what they wrote in the Bible and what they done."
He said, "I believe you got something, son." [I Timothy 2:5]

Now, before we open His precious Word, let's bow our heads just a moment while we speak to the Author.

Bless our ministering brethren, these anointed disciples of Yours, that's held forth the fort here, bringing out the truths of the Gospel and preaching that without favor of men and standing for truth. And how that You have blessed them. We pray that this meeting will be a stepping stone to them, Lord, that it will inspire them in their meeting, and in their churches, and their people. [John 15:16]

And when we leave tonight to go to our separate homes to begin a new day tomorrow, may we say like those who came from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us, as He talked to us along the way?" We know that He did something before them, just like He did it before His crucifixion. No other man ever did it like that. And when He got them on the inside and He closed the door, then He did this thing that He did before, and they recognized quickly that it was Him. [Luke 24:32]

And we've come in and closed (as it was) the world on the outside. May You come among us tonight and reveal Yourself the way You did it before You were crucified. Then we'll know that You are the risen Lord. It'll strengthen our faith, Lord. And we'll give Thee the praise. For we ask it in the Name of our Saviour, the Lord Jesus. Amen.

And there were certain Greeks... that came up to worship at the feast:
And the same came... to Philip, which was of Bethsaida and desired... of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus. [John 12:20-21]
And the same came... to Philip, which was of Bethsaida and desired... of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus. [John 12:20-21]
Now, our theme is this... been our--my theme since I was here before, or in Oregon: "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. That's found in Hebrews 13:8:. Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever." And now, on this familiar (to many of you people) this little Scripture: "Sirs, We Would See Jesus." [Hebrews 13:8]

Now, I believe that the Scriptures cannot tell anything that's wrong. There's many things in the Scriptures that I only wish I was able with faith enough to make them real to the people. But I'd never stand in the way of anybody that could do it. If I couldn't take a walk like Enoch one afternoon with the Lord, and just get so overjoyed till I'd just walk up home with Him, I--I would not stand in anybody's way that did have that much faith, that could just walk up home with Him without dying or tasting death in this world. [Hebrews 13:8]

Now, we ourselves are finite; we can make many mistakes, and I make more than all, because we are finite. But He is infinite, and He cannot make a mistake. Now, I can promise you something, and with the very best of my ability, I can say, "I really mean that." And then, might not be able to fulfill what I promised, because circumstances would alter cases. But not so with God; He cannot make a promise that He cannot fulfill.
Moses thought the same thing (or Abraham, rather): "Staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong, giving praise to God; for he was fully persuaded that what God had promised, God was able to perform." Therefore, all the Scriptures that God has given to us are promises. [Romans 4:20]

Now, we sometimes wonder why we--He's so great, and yet why we don't see Him more then what we do.

He'd say, "I certainly do."
I'd say, "That's very fine." Well then, I'd say, "Do you believe that He is still the same Saviour that He was?"
He'd say, "Most certainly I believe that."
"Do you believe that He lives today as He did then, only in the form of the Person of the Holy Spirit?"
"Certainly I believe that."
"Then if He died and through His great, holy Blood that He gave at Calvary..." Which was not Jewish or neither was it Gentile; it was the Blood of God. The blood comes from the male sex. And in this case the Male was God created a Blood cell in the womb of the virgin that brought forth the Son of God, in which God spread forth His tent and tabernacled with human beings--Emmanuel. [Hebrews 13:8]

We are absolutely unworthy of any blessing. There's nothing that we could do to merit that. But by unmerited grace, God gave us this privilege to be called His children, His sons and His daughters, sanctifying us as we confess our sin, sanctifying the world from us, that He might work His way through us by the Holy Spirit to do and will His work. [Hebrews 13:8]

I don't care if you don't even know your ABC's; just the only thing you have to have is a humble, submitted heart to God, and God will work His will through you. That's right. [John 14:12]

And the very--the very thing that made you sin and do the things that you used to do has been drove from you by His precious Blood that sanctified you and set you aside for His service, that He might will His will through you, to work through you. It's just as simple... and to believe it.

Now, I might say to this certain person, "Do you believe that He is in every way the same except the carnal--corporal body?"
He'd say, "Well, I--I don't believe that He still performs miracles."
Then He isn't the same. He's got to be the same. He's just as much Saviour today as He was then. He's just as much Healer today as He was then. For the prophet said, "He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed," (See?), past tense.
I do not believe that man has any magic power to heal people. I believe that the power lays within the individual that's being prayed for; it's their faith in Christ that does the healing. Now, the initial and most gracious way of any way to be healed is to hear the Gospel preached and accept it. That's the only way to be the Gospel of salvation, the Gospel of deliverance, the full Gospel--full Gospel for the full man, for the full son, for the full daughter. All of the Gospel, all that He said, all that He done, all that He promised is to every person that will believe it. "Whosoever will, let him come." Methodists, Baptist, Pentecostal, Pr... [Isaiah 53:5]

Now, in the... Now, of course, we have fellowships and organizations; that's exactly fine. 'Cause those brethren congregate together and--and make their organization, which is just exactly right. Sure. But I mean, we... You can't say, "You have to come to the Pentecostal church before you get the experience." You can get it out in the field if you want it, up there in the woods, down on the street corner. Wherever it is, whatever church you're in, if you're still hungering and thirsting for Christ, Christ is here to fill you with the Fulness of His power of His Spirit. That's right. No matter where you are or what you church you belong to, it's for you.

See what His death, burial, and resurrection was? Was to clean and sanctify a Church, set it aside, and fill it with His power to continue the same works that He did, making Him the same yesterday, today, and forever to continue on and on. [Hebrews 13:8], [John 14:19], [Matthew 28:20]

As we see the day approaching, it makes me just shiver to look out upon the streets as I pass trough the cities and see and read the newspapers, and hear the broadcasts and so forth of sin abounding. And the day of drawing nearer and nearer all the time of the coming of the Lord. But you can't do nothing about it, because God said it would be just that way. I can speak a voice against wrong; it's our duties to do that. You and I are supposed to speak against the wrong, the evil. We'll never be able to conquer it and stop it. It's just those who has an ear to hear that will hear it. Whoever... "All the Father has given Me will come to Me. My sheep hear My voice." [Luke 14:35], [John 6:37], [John 10:27]

It reminds me of a little story, a little thing that happened rather in Louisville, Kentucky, about six months ago. There was a lady that had her little baby, and she was in a--one of those five and ten cent stores in Louisville. And they begin to notice the little sister.

Then she'd go to another counter, and another counter, getting more nervous all the time. Finally, she picked up a little jingle outfit. And she shook it, and she said, "Look, darling, at this." Anything that ought to attract a little boy's attention like that. But he just set and looked, stared in space. And she fell down at the counter and begin to scream. She said, "Oh, no. It just can't be."

I think that's a great deal with the church today. God has shook every kind of a gift and things that He could before the church. And it just sets and stares in space. "Well, that was a very nice meeting. Brother Roberts had a fine meeting." "Brother Billy Graham has great speaking." But they don't move. What we need today is a soul stirring revival, something that would go down to cause all night prayer meetings, men and women getting right with God, and cities turning to God. Great signs and wonders would just keep accumulating.

That's not the thing to do. What we need when we see God moving in our midst is to get down to business with it, pray and cry out and do all that we know how to do. Let the Gospel in this last days attract our attention. The Bible promised that this Gospel would just become so each day...

The children of Israel followed a Pillar of Fire. And every time that Fire stopped, they stopped with It. And if they didn't move, they was left in the wilderness. They had to move where the Fire moved. That's the way God's Church always does; it moves with the Fire. [Nehemiah 9:12], [Deuteronomy 9:7, 29]

And what is sin? Unbelief. "He that believeth not is condemned already." There's just two sins, and one--two things in the world: One is faith, and the other one is unbelief. Committing adultery, smoking, drinking, that's not sin. That's the attributes of sin. You do that because you're not a believer. A believer doesn't do those things. You either believe or do not believe. [Hebrews 12:1], [John 3:18]

You owe it to me; you owe it to me as a minister. If you ever see anything that's going on in a meeting that's not exactly with the Scripture, then you owe it to me to come tell me. That's right, you do. I believe that God does things that's not wrote in the Bible. I believe that. God's God; He can do what He wishes to. But as long I know it's staying right in that cover there, and know that God made a promise, I feel assured with that. As long as I can have that, I'll be satisfied with whatever... anything else we... Nothing else will satisfy me like that, as long as I can stay right with that.

I was reading here a few moments ago in Saint John the--the 12th chapter, I believe it was. Yes, sir, the 12th chapter and the 20th and 21st verse. Now, let's go back to the first book of Saint John. I want you to study with me. And through the week, so we won't stay too long...
I guess you heard that go off just then. That was my watch. I have an alarm watch from Switzerland, and I think when I've said enough, I--I have that alarm set. But I haven't got started yet, so I just had to turn it off. And so... [Hebrews 13:8], [John 12:20-21]

Now, let's find out. We get Saint John 1. We'll just quote some Scriptures; I want you to read it. I'm going to go over a few chapters in it tonight, tomorrow night, pick up some more and so forth as we go along the way the Holy Spirit will lead. Well, let's find out what He was yesterday. Then if we can see exactly what He was yesterday, and see Him come into our midst, and do the same thing today, every sick person in here ought to get up and thank God and walk out. Say, "It's all over." [Hebrews 13:8]

You say, "Brother Branham, what do you mean by that?"
All right, sometime I'll say, "How many were saved twenty years ago?" A lot of hands would go up. "How many was saved two years ago?" Lots of hands would go up.
Well, I different with you. You were saved nineteen hundred years ago when Jesus died for you at Calvary. You just accepted it twenty years ago and two years ago. See? That's your salvation. The plan's finished. Jesus said at the cross, "It's finished." The whole plan of man's redemption was finished, and every blessing that he needed in life's journey was completed at the cross. For there "He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity. The chastisement of our peace was upon Him; with His stripes we were healed." You believe that? Now, there we are. [Isaiah 53:5], [John 19:30]

So he brought him into the Presence of the Lord Jesus. His ministry was young now--Saint John the 1st chapter. He brought him to the Lord Jesus, and as soon as Jesus looked at him, He said, "Your name is Simon, and your father... You're the son of Jonas." Is that right? "Your name is Simon, and your father's name is Jonas." This illiterate fisherman, who the Scripture says that "He was both ignorant and unlearned." Did you know the Bible said that the first pope, according to the doctrine of the Catholic church, was ignorant and unlearned? The Bible said it. "He was ignorant and unlearned." Saint John 4. And he... I mean Acts the 4th chapter. (I beg your pardon.) And he was both ignorant and unlearned, but they had to take notice he had been with Jesus. [John 1:42], [Acts 4:13]

Moses said, "The Lord, your God shall raise up a prophet liken unto me."
Is that right? And they knowed this Messiah would be a God prophet that would give the sign of a prophet like Moses was, for that was the prophet they were looking for. And when He said to Simon, "Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas," quickly he recognized that that was the Messiah that they were looking for. [Acts 7:37], [John 1:42]

Then we find... Notice, when Philip had got in contact with the Lord Jesus, he was concerned about all of his friends. There's something about Him, that whenever you get in contact with Him, He changes you so much till you want everybody else to have that wonderful fellowship. There's something about it. Oh, it attracts and makes your heart yearn. It'll drive you to the frozen regions of the north, and to the tropical jungles in the south, in the midst of all kinds of devil worship and everything else, to snatch a soul from the hands of the enemy, whenever you have once found that precious Jewel, the Lord Jesus Christ. [John 1:43-46]

Let's take a little journey and listen at him a minute. I can see him going up to Nathanael's door and knocking at the door, and--and his wife come to the door.
He says, "Well, how do you do?" Said, "Where is Brother Nathanael?"
"Well, Brother Philip, we're so glad to see you. Believe he's out in the orchard; he was out looking his olive grove over."
Out through the orchard he went, and he found under that fig tree back there, a man knelt down praying. Of course, him being a Christian gentleman, he stood still until he got through praying. I want you to notice, he never jumped up and shook his hand, and asked about how everything was going on. When a man meets Jesus, his heart's on fire; he's got no time for nothing else but Jesus. That's it. He's just got to tell somebody about it. [John 1:43-46]

Not "How do you do?" or "How's everything getting along? Is the... Is the fig trees bearing good this year?"
Not--no, sir. The message was urgent. And if it was urgent then, what about now? If it was urgent then when we had two thousand years yet for the Gospel to be preached, and this is the end time. How much more is it urgent today? Too many social affairs, too many parties, too many other things besides the real Message of the Lord Jesus straight to the core, "Come, see what I found. Come, get this experience of the precious Holy Spirit that's come into my life, that's changed me, that converted me from what I was to what I am now." Oh, how thankful we are for this. [John 1:39]

Well, I can imagine this great orthodox believer rising up, dusting off his Palestinian garment, the dust from it. He said, "Now, Philip, I know you to be a good, sane man. And what's this that--that you're telling me? 'Come see Jesus of Nazareth'? Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
Well, I think that Philip give him the best answer I ever heard in my life. He said, "Come, see."
That's the idea. Don't sit home and criticize; come, see for yourself. "Search the Scriptures; in them you think you have Eternal Life, and they are they that testify of Me," said the Lord Jesus.
Now, he said, "Come, see." [John 1:39-41, 46]

"Why," he said, "when It started, It was just that Pillar of Fire that was following the children of Israel as we come to this land. And then when It got closer, It looked like a dove. Then the next thing, It was in three different symbols. Then It fell into Him and a Voice spoke, saying, 'This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased.'" [Matthew 3:17], [Matthew 17:5]

"Yes, I remember it."
"Well, just yesterday before I left, was... He came up before the Lord Jesus. His brother went and got him. And so he brought him up here. And when He saw Peter--or Simon--He said, 'Your name is Simon, and you're the son of Jonas.' Oh, it wouldn't surprise me, Nathanael, but when you walk up before Him, He will say, 'Your name's Nathanael.'"
"Oh, now just a minute now, Philip. You're going just a little bit too deep with that. He will never read my mind; I'm--I'm one of them strong minded men. He will--He will never read my mind. I'll never believe that." [John 1:42, 47]

Jesus turned His eyes and looked out into the congregation, and into the line, wherever it was, and said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile."
Well, some critic might say, "Sure He knowed he was an Israelite; they was in Palestine."
There were Greeks; there were Arabians. They were all... They all dressed in the eastern garment. Not the way he was dressed, not his color of brown; it would've not made any difference. But Jesus knew that he was an orthodox believer. He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile." [John 1:47]

He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." That was Jesus yesterday. If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, that's Jesus today.
You know what Philip said when He... I mean, Nathanael said when He did this? He said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel."
Jesus said to him, "Because I've told you this, you believe? Then you'll see greater things than this."
You get it? There it is. See? He believed it, because he knew that the Messiah would be a God prophet: A man that stood and would prophesy and could foretell, foresee and forthtell. Also He would be Emmanuel.
He said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel."
He believed it, and he--his name is immortal among men tonight and his soul is immortal with God. He will live forever, because he recognized it at the beginning, and said, "Rabbi, You're the Son of God." [John 1:48-50], [Hebrews 13:8]

And they said, "He is Beelzebub, the prince of the devils. He does these signs through that." Beelzebub, a fortuneteller, and anybody knows that fortunetelling is of the devil. That's the devil and the devil's works. All right. [Matthew 12:24]

Jesus turned around and said, "You say that against Me, the Son of man; I'll forgive you for it. But (in other wise like this) there's coming a day that when the Holy Ghost will come, and He will do the same thing. And whosoever speaks one word against It will never be forgiven, in this world and neither in the world that is to come." See? It was new to them then. Now, Christ has died. Now, the Holy Spirit's here.
Then, read the next verse. "Because they call the Spirit of God an unclean spirit," called the Spirit of God, Who knew those things and was revealing it to the secrets of the heart as the God prophet was supposed to do, they said, "He is a evil person. It's a bad spirit in him. Some kind of a Beelzebub, a devil, that's in Him that's reading the minds of those people. That's what's doing that." [Luke 11:15], [Luke 12:10]


Now, there was three classes of people in the world then. There's three classes of people, three generations of people, or classes of people, rather, in the world today. And them was the--out of the three sons of Noah. If we believe the Bible, the whole world, the generations, all the people in the world, come down from those three children: Ham, Shem and Japheth, those three sons, Jew, Gentile and Samaritan.
Now, the Samaritans was looking for a Messiah also. And when the Messiah come, He comes to those who is looking for Him. You believe that? I believe when He comes for His Church, He will come to the Church that's looking for Him to come. Now, don't let it parallel that one: "He came to His own and His own received Him not." But then, He had made Himself known to the Jews by performing this certain sign, that they knowed that He was the Messiah. [Genesis 5:32], [John 1:11]

And there was a woman. Let's think that she was a ill-famed woman. And she was living with her sixth husband. And she came out to the well to get some water. No doubt your pastor has preached on it a many time. But I'm trying to say what He was yesterday, so that you can see what He would be today.
Now, He's made Himself known to the Jews. (Many other places, we'll get to later, but just to hit the point, and in a few minutes we'll call the prayer line.) [John 4:4, 18]


And she looked over, and she seen a middle-aged Jewish Man, setting over against the well. Perhaps He looked a little older than what He really was. I believe when He was about thirty, they told Him that He looked fifty.
They said, "You are a man yet, not no more than fifty years old, and You say that You've seen Abraham?"
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM."
So they--they... But He looked fifty when He was only thirty. And so He might've looked a little aged setting back there. Maybe a little streak of gray in His hair or beard, because the great burden, the sins of the world was placed upon His shoulders. And there He set there. [John 4:7], [John 8:57-58]

Then she said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask a Samaritan woman such a thing as that." Said, "We have no... We have no dealings with one another."
Listen at the Voice come back. "Woman, if you knew Who it was that speaks with you, you'd ask Me for a drink. I'd give you water you don't come here to draw."
And she said, "The well's deep, and You have nothing to draw with." [John 4:9-11]

She said, "I have no husband."
He said, "Thou has said well, for you have had five husbands. And therefore, the one you're living with now is not your husband."
Now, did she say, "That man is Beelzebub"? No, sir. Did she say, "He's... He must be a... something wrong with Him. He must have a--a horrible case of mental telepathy"? No, sir. She knowed more about God than half the ministry does today. That's right. [John 4:4, 21]

He said, "I'm He that speaks to you." Too bad that we don't know the same thing, isn't it? That's right.
She said, "We know--we Samaritans know--that when that Messiah cometh, He will be a God prophet. He will tell us these things." She was taught. Yet in her sins, she knowed what to look for when she seen it. And she said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. And I know that when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things."
He said, "I'm He that speaks to you."
And she dropped her water pot and ran into the city. Listen at her: "Come, see a Man that told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?" And the Bible said that the men of that city believed on Him because of the saying of the woman. Oh, my. [John 4:19, 25, 28-29]

Jesus said over in there (just before we close)... Jesus said over in the Scriptures, when He's telling about the coming of the Lord, His second coming. The sea roared, waves and every so four things taking place, mighty signs to be taking place. He said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of Man." [Luke 21:25], [Luke 17:29-30]

We've always had three classes of people, three races of people, three different stages of the people. Look, there was a Sodomite sinner to who wouldn't have it. There was Lot, the lukewarm church member down there preaching in Sodom. And there was Abraham, the called out and elected. I feel religious right now. All the called out, the separated people... The church means "separated, called out from the world." [Matthew 11:25], [Luke 10:21], [Luke 17:26, 29-30]

Abraham looked real quick. He walked out where They was, and said, "Turn aside. Come, set under the oak a little bit and let--rest Yourselves. And I'll fetch You a little water and wash Your feet, and I'll give You a morsel of bread. Then go on Your way." [John 10:3, 27], [Genesis 18:4-5]

He run out, and felt around, and got the fattest little calf he could find, slayed it, and had it dressed, and come out and fed Them meat and milk and bread. And I can see old Abraham with the fly bush, you know, as it was a shoo--shooing the flies. How many Kentuckians are in here, difference, knows what a fly bush is? No, I'm too far away from home. Oh, no, I am not. No, that's right.
Yes, sir. Well, I've stood many times at the table with a--a... Mom used to make a paper thing on a stick when I couldn't get a green brush, you know, and shoo the flies when we didn't have no screens, little old cabin door, and no floor on the thing. And just a little old bed in the corner made out of shucks, and... Why, certainly, corn shucks. I seen my daddy with a corn shuck shaving brush like that--take that corn shucks for--make a shaving brush. We lived hard. [Genesis 18:1-18]

Abraham said--begin to notice One of Them begin to look over towards Sodom. He knowed something was going to take place. Two of Them got up.
[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... these two to bring a message--a modern Billy Graham, if he ever was, to preach repentance. And repentance always... No--no miracles, only the blinding of the people. And the preaching of the Gospel blinds the unbeliever. That's exactly right. There he was down there, preaching, went to the church, to--to Lot. And with Lot, he tried to bring conviction to that... Why, the blinding of them... They still felt through the night to find Them, to find these Men. They were absolutely polluted if they ever was. [Genesis 18:1-18]

But now wait, there was an Angel stayed; One of Them stayed behind. How many knows that's true? One of Them stayed behind with Abraham, the elected church. Let's see what He did. He never called for no repentance. Let's see what He did. Jesus said the same thing would repeat. And I want you to notice, after this Angel done what He did and was taken out of--out of the sight of Abraham, Abraham...
[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] flesh, foreshowing what He would do in the flesh of His Church in the last days. "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." God, living in the flesh of His Church. Doing what? What He did there; what He did when He come on earth. Watch Him. What did He do? [Luke 17:26-30], [Genesis 18:1-18]

And Abraham said, "She's in the tent behind You."
And then the Angel said, "I'm going to visit you according to the time of life. (As we know, the twenty-eight day... )" Said, "I..." Sarah was an old woman. Said, "I'm going to visit you according to the time of life, and you're going to have this child by Sarah, that I said that you was going to have. I'm going to fulfill My promise."
And Sarah, in the tent behind Him, laughed to herself. Is that right? And the Angel looking this a way, said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" [Genesis 18:9-13]

Jesus said in Saint John the 14th chapter, I believe about the 8th verse. He said, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also." [Luke 17:26-30], [Hebrews 13:8], [John 14:12]

He's raised from the dead. He is not dead; He is a living to perform and to do the same as He did yesterday in His Church that will yield itself and let the Holy Spirit move.

Did you notice, the pyramid was rejected. The stone that went on the top of the main pyramid (if you was ever in Egypt) never did cap it. Why? The headstone was rejected. And what's that stone? Each stone, as it comes up to the end, had to be cut just in order for the headstone. Now, the Church coming up from Luther, Wesley, Pentecost, it'll have to get into shape till the Headstone Christ Jesus and the Church will set together (Hallelujah.) to cap the whole Church together for the resurrection of every mortal that died believing on His Name. Amen.
I believe that we are here today, that Jesus Christ still remains the same yesterday, today, and forever. Do you believe it? [Hebrews 13:8]

Paul said, "If you all speak with tongues, and there be no interrupter, the unlearned set in the midst," said, "then, won't they go away and say you're all mad or crazy?" See? "But if one is a prophet and prophesies and reveals the secrets of the heart, then they'll all fall down and say, 'God is with you.'"
Is that right? Well, we all know that's the truth. Then if they had that in the early church, we got to have it in this church at the closing of this Gentile age. We're at the end time. And I believe that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. [I Corinthians 14:23-25], [Hebrews 13:8]

Did you notice, when Jesus was started out in His ministry, how that He begin to, not say so much about His day then. He was telling more about His second coming than He was His first advent to the earth, speaking what this would be in this day.

A woman pushed through the crowd. Perhaps she... Say they had prayer cards then. (They didn't, but say they did.) She couldn't get to Him; she had no way of getting to Him. She didn't have no means of getting to Him.
There'll people out there in the audience tonight that'll have no way of getting up here to be prayed for. We have to take them just as their numbers come. Well, that's what... We'll get everyone if we can, and before... Every man that's got a prayer card, woman, just hold to it; we'll get to you sooner or later. We don't know how it'll be, but the just the way the Spirit will lead it. [Mark 5:27]

Why, certainly. That's what He promised. All right. Her faith... And then when she touched Him... Oh, everybody was touching Him, my, with their arms around Him, and "Hosanna" and some hollering, and criticizing, and everything. 'Course that's the mixed up crowd again, the multitude. Christ's gatherings always produces the believer, unbeliever, and make believer. Now, when they come...
Then she touched His garment, and she went off in the audience (like you are tonight) and set down maybe. Maybe she stood up, I don't know. However, Jesus turned around and said, "Who touched Me?"
Insomuch, till the apostle Peter rebuked Him, and said, "Why do You say such a thing as that? Everybody's touching You."
He said, "But I perceive that virtue has gone from Me." Virtue is strength; He got weak. She touched Him; He got weak. He looked out over the audience, until He found her and told her about her blood issue. And from that very minute, she believed that she was healed, and she was. Is that right? [Mark 5:28-34]

If you'll believe Him with all your heart, He's the High Priest. Wouldn't do no good to touch me; I'm just a sinner saved by grace. Wouldn't do no good to touch any of the rest of us. We're just sinners saved by grace. [Hebrews 13:8], [Hebrews 4:15]

When He will... If He will come among us tonight, I don't say that He will, but if He will, then you say, "Let me, O Lord God." Then you touch His garment, and see if He don't turn right around and do the same thing that He did yesterday. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Let us pray. [Hebrews 13:8]


Now, let the Holy Spirit come tonight. Anoint us; anoint the congregation; anoint the ministers on the platform; anoint me, Your unworthy servant. And may You use us, Lord, to fulfill Your Word that You've promised that You would do. You said, "The works that I do shall you also. A little while, and the world will see Me no more." That's true, Lord. This meeting advertised up, down the streets, everywhere. The world's still at its going, water's seeping its level. [John 14:12, 19]

So, Father God, come tonight and do something like You did back there. And that was a proof to those coming from Emmaus as we mentioned awhile ago; it was proof to them that You was the resurrected Jesus, not another One, the same One, for You did the same things You did before Your crucifixion. They knew You were alive.
Father God, there may be men and women in here tonight that's never experienced this yet. May they experience it tonight. It's for Your honor, Lord, and Your glory. I commit myself to you, with the rest of the church, that You'll use us to Your honor. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen. [Hebrews 13:8]

Now, how many in here is sick tonight? Raise up your hand. That's sick and needs healing in your body... Half of the audience. Now, my son give out some prayer cards. I... We haven't got room to call them all at one time. But let's just call a few, then later on, we'll get the rest of them, maybe tonight, maybe not, tomorrow night, or next night, or whenever the Lord moves.

Now, let's let the prayer cards... Now, the prayer card's got a number on it and they number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, like that. We can't stand them all up. Or I guess he started from 1; I guess one... Where's he at? Anybody got prayer card number 1? Raise up your hand. Let's see. Boy's not here. Is there a prayer card number 1? Somebody has a prayer card 1? Well, maybe I got... Maybe it didn't start... Or this--this colored lady here? All right. Come right here, lady, right around this side.
Prayer card number 2, would you raise up your hand, ever who has it? The gentleman? Right over here, sir. Prayer card number 3? All right, lady, come right here. Number 4? 4? All right. Number 5? Who has prayer card number 5? Would you raise your hand, ever who has it? Is this lady here got... One, two, three, four, five, six?
Reason I call them one by time, 'cause somebody might be deaf and can't hear it. Number 6? Come on then. If you can't get up, we've got... These are ushers standing here? All--all right. They--they'll pack you if you can't come. All right. Number 6, 7? Would you just raise your hand quickly if you can? Look at your prayer card. Number 7? All right. 8? 8? Prayer card 8? Maybe they...

Eight not here? Don't get one and then leave the building. Stay with it; stay here. All right. 8, 9? 9? Someone with prayer card... All right, bring the lady. 10? 11? That's right. 11? 12? 12? No 12, 11 or 12? 13? 13? No 13? 14? 14? 13? Does that lady have 13? All right. What say? All right. 13, 14? 14? 15?
The reason we call them... It's not an arena. It's a--it's a church, you know, where you... You--you've been in meetings and seen when you... Oh, they just rambling over one another, and oh, very irreverent. So we don't want... We want reverence and respects to the Gospel.

Everyone reverent now. Now, no one moving around; be reverent. How many ever seen the picture that the science has taken of the Angel of the Lord that right over the building. (Leo, do you have them, son? Leo?) They've took it. It's at Washington, DC; it's copyrighted--the only supernatural Being that was ever photographed, same Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel. There was one taken right down here in California just recently, when He was there at the platform. Now, He's... That's... He's just... He...

And that same Jesus has appeared even to the mechanical eye. When George J. Lacy, the head of the FBI., of Fingerprint and Document, examined the picture; he said, "The Light struck the lens." Put the testimony, and wrote it down and signed his name to it. The...?... [John 13:3]

There it is, the big photographed picture. They got It four or five more times... Took it in Germany here not long ago, three different pictures: It coming down, when It was anointing, going away. Germany said the same thing under their examination. Germany, Switzerland... See there? It's not...
Friends, we're not playing church. We're living in the Presence of the Lord Jesus. Now, I want you to remember that. Now, the meeting is your meeting.

How many in the prayer line knows that I know nothing about you nor nothing about... Raise up your hands, you in the prayer line. I am a stranger to you. Here's my hands; I don't know any of them. And here lays my Bible.
Now, those people... Maybe they're sick; maybe they're not; I don't know. They may have financial troubles; they may... I don't know what it is, domestic affairs, I don't know. But the Lord Jesus knows. Is that right?

Now, this lady here... Now... If He will do to--the same tonight that He did in the days gone by, how many will believe it's Him here present? Raise up your hand. Oh, thank you. That's... If you keep that up, you'll see a great meeting here in the--in the next ten days. You keep that faith moving... That's what... Just as soon as you did that, something just lifted out of me. See? The anointing dropped on me right then. See? Now, He's here right now, the Presence of the Lord.

And Jesus said to the woman, asked her for a drink. He went to talking to her. What do you think He did that for? It was to contact her spirit. See? Contact... The Father... He said He had need to go by; the Father sent Him by like He did... If you'd turn over to the next chapter, where we'll get to maybe tomorrow night--the man at the well... Man on the five porches, beautiful illustration there, how He would come to that one man--pass by lame, halt, blind, withered--went to that one man, for He knew that He had been this way. See, the Father had sent Him. [John 4:7]

Listen; let me quote it. Saint John 5:19 "Verily, verily (That's 'absolutely, absolutely') I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself. But what He sees (not hear), what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise. The Father worketh, and I worketh hitherto." That's...
In other words, He said, "I do nothing till I see the Father show Me a vision first on what to do, then I do it." [John 5:19]

Said, "I don't know." Seventy percent of the Bible is vision, yet they can't believe. See?
This is just like it was in Samaria: two races of people. I'm Irish; she's African. We meet here for the first time in a little panoramic, two men. In them days there was a segregation. Jesus let her know right quick there was no difference between a man's color before God. We all come from one family: Adam and Eve. The country we lived in to and changed our colors--yellow, brown, black, white--has nothing to do with God. We can give each other a blood transfusion. One blood, man--God made all men. You believe that? Yes, sir. These...
Where one lived in a hot country and the other a cold country, and--and like that--tempered and so forth, it changed their colors. That has nothing to do with the blood, or the soul, or anything else. God let her know that God seeks them that'll worship Him in spirit and in truth. [John 4:23]

Now, if the woman's sick, and I could say, "All right, lady. You're sick. Come up here." Come up, lay hands on her and say, "I cast out the evil spirit," or stomp my feet, or whatever it was. Say, "Satan, get out of her. Go home, lady. Get well."
That could be all right. That's Scriptural. Certainly. "In My Name they shall cast out devils." Many brothers has ministries like that, far more success than mine: Oral Roberts, for instance. See? My ministry don't take in the United States; takes overseas, then it really goes then. I seen thirty thousand raw heathens come to Christ in one altar call, when something happened on the platform, just telling one, seeing a miracle performed. Thirty thousand blanket natives busted their idols on the ground and come to Christ in Durban, South Africa. [Mark 16:17]

You know it couldn't be your brother here; I just have to yield my spirit. I'm just like this microphone, a mute until He would speak. 'Cause what man would know that? None. It takes God to do it. Now, if God will let me know just by talking to you... Yes, sir, I am trying to contact your spirit. That's exactly right. That's just swept from the audience, and that's right.

Now, if anybody can still hear me: I come to take every spirit in here in the Name of Jesus Christ. And this woman who knows now that something's going on... The lady is suffering with an extreme nervous condition. That's right. It's a--just real extremely nervous. Is that right? If that's right, raise up your hand. Now, do you believe?

You say, "Brother Branham, you guessed that."
I didn't guess that. How could it be perfect every time out of tens of thousands times thousands. If you think I guessed it, let me talk to the woman a little longer. It's your meeting.
She--she seemed like a nice person to me. I... You just... I don't want you... Just let your mind be dormant. Just--just... know that... You believe that you're in the Presence of the Lord Jesus? Now, you do feel a real sweet feeling. Isn't that right? If that's right, just raise up your hand to the people. See? I'm looking right straight at a Light hanging right over the woman.

Do you believe with all your heart? Just have faith. Just believe. Now, that's what He was yesterday; that's what He is today. He will always be. Now, as He manifested Himself before Abraham in human flesh, He mani... God was manifested in Christ. Do you believe that? "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me." [John 14:10]

How do you do? We are strangers to one another. The Lord Jesus knows us both. Now, we are men, different ages, first time we've met. If God will reveal to me what your trouble is or something, will you believe me to be His prophet, or His servant, rather? You'll believe it?
You're very sick with a stomach trouble, very, very bad. You're not from this city. You're from another city; it's out in a wheat, level country. You're from Oklahoma, Tulsa, Oklahoma. That's right. You're Italian by and--by your nationality. And you were at one of my meetings before. It was at the Tulsa meeting, tried to get into the line and couldn't get a prayer card. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. You believe with all your heart now? Go eat your supper. Jesus Christ makes you well. Go on and rejoice. God bless you, sir. God be with you.

How do you do? Do you believe me to be His servant? We're strangers to each other. But you believe that God knows all about you? Do you believe that He's able to make you well and to heal you? What if I told you you were healed? Would you believe me? You sure would. You want your husband healed too, don't you? You believe that He will heal him? You want to know what his trouble... You want me tell you what his trouble is? Bladder trouble. You have female trouble. The doctor says a dropping uterus, a fallen uterus. That's right. You're a minister too of the Gospel, a woman preacher. Go receive your healing; Jesus Christ makes you well. [Mark 9:23]

Somebody in the meeting somewhere... You're suffering from a condition that you should be operated on for--they say you should. It's a growth. You believe I can tell you where the growth is by the power of God? On your side, under your right arm. That's right. Go believe with all your heart; be healed in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Just have faith. Don't doubt.

Stomach trouble, throat trouble, and then you've got a burden on your heart. It's a boy. Shall I say it? He's in a juvenile home. He's got a heart trouble. Believe on the Lord Jesus, and God will deliver him...?... Have faith. Do you doubt...
Believe with all your heart? Now, that you might know it's not a telepathy... This lady here...

Now, when I said that to her... You had a real funny feeling when I said that to her, because you had heart trouble too. Go believing with all your heart, and be made well.
Do you believe with all your hearts? All right. Now, this lady must have healing or die. Are you aware of what's wrong with you? You're shadowed for death, a cancer. But do you believe that God can move that cancer? Come here.
Satan, I charge thee by the Blood of Jesus Christ, His vicarious suffering at Calvary, His triumph over you, and all your kind. In the Name of Jesus Christ, come out of the woman and leave her. Amen.
Go, believing with all your heart.

Come, lady. Speak English? If the Lord will reveal to me what your trouble is, do you believe that God will make you well then? You do? All right. It's a lady's trouble, female trouble. Go, believe, and the Lord Jesus will stop all that...?... If thou canst believe.
Do you believe God will heal you of that heart trouble, make you well? Believe it? Will you give up something for Him? You want to give them up any how. Cigarettes? Throw them away; don't smoke no more. Remember, don't come here with sin. He knows it. You see? [Mark 9:23]

Believe it now with all your heart, and see if you don't get well. Now, believe it.
Nervousness is nothing for God. Do you believe He will make you well? Go, believing then, and the Lord Jesus heal you and make you well.
That lady setting there by that one's shouting, got something wrong with her arm. Do you believe that God will make you well setting there, lady? Now, Who did you touch? You touched the High Priest that could be touched by the feeling of your infirmities. He heals you. Go home and believe with all your heart.
Tell me what she touched. She never touched me; she's too far away from me. You believe with all your hearts now? [Hebrews 4:15]

The man setting right back there suffering with hemorrhoids, do you believe that God will make you well, sir? Stand up on your feet; accept your... What did you touch? You're twenty yards from me. You touched the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Go home and be well. Jesus Christ heal you.
Can you believe? Can everyone believe? [Hebrews 4:5]

Turn around and go back off the platform there, sir. The heart trouble left you, and you can go home and be made well now. God bless you.
Do you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ? How many here that's not a Christian, that's not a Christian and wants to accept the Lord as your personal Saviour, stand up on your feet right now while you're in His Presence. Somebody's backslid, wants to come to the Lord, you're right in His Presence. You believe Him? Stand on your feet right now and we'll have prayer for you. If you'll stand to your feet, any sinner, any backslider. God bless you. Somebody else?

Someone else would rise and say, "I want to accept Jesus."
How many of you here is sick, and believe that He's here in His Presence, in His power? Raise up your hand. How many knows the Bible said, "These signs shall follow them that believe"? How many of you's believers? Raise up your hand Now, what we'll do... "These signs shall follow them that believe." Just the same as He promised this would come to pass, He promised that the believers should lay their hands on one another and the prayer of faith should save the sick. You believe that? Then lay your hands on one another. Just lay your hands over on one another. There you are. [Mark 16:17-18]

Our heavenly Father, we bring to You this audience while the baptizing of the Holy Spirit is upon this people. Hear us, O Lord. Hear us, we pray. We condemn all sickness. These believers have their hands on one another. We know that You're here. We know that You're the same yesterday, today, and forever. We know that You cannot fail. We know You've triumphed over the devil, over his power, over every principality and power. You bound every unclean spirit. You cast out every devil when You were here on earth. I pray Thee, Lord, that You'll hear our prayer.
Now, as they have their hands on each other. "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover."
Satan, I charge thee by Jesus Christ, come out of every person in here that's got their hands on someone's hands laying on them. I charge thee through Jesus Christ, the Son of God, leave this building and come out of the people, that they all might go home tonight and be free because the Presence of the Lord Jesus Christ. [Hebrews 13:8], [Mark 16:17]