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And Their Eyes Were Opened And They Knew Him (57-0421E)
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And Their Eyes Were Opened And They Knew Him (57-0421E)
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In St. Luke's Gospel and beginning with the 24th chapter and the
30--the 31st verse, or I'll say the 30th verse of the 24th chapter.
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And may the Lord add His blessing. My text would be, if I would call it
tonight: "And Their Eyes Were Opened And They Knew Him." 4 But our blessed Lord said while He was here on earth, "A little while, and the world will see Me no more." Now, that word "world' there, comes from "the world order, the peoples of the earth." "The world will see Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." Now, those Words are just as true as any of the other Words that we have spoken through this week out of the Bible, just as true as any other Words in the Bible. "A little while, and the world will see Me no more." They will never have their eyes opened. There's people that's borned in the world, not by the will of God, but by their own selfish choice would not believe Him if He was standing right here talking to you tonight. It's sad to say, but the Bible said that, "They were borned in this world, to this condemnation," Jude, and about the 3rd verse. 5 Now, but to you tonight, who comes out and stands around in the room and packs together in a little hot building like this, you never come just to be seen. You come for some purpose. And to my opinion, you've come with the sincerity of your heart for a closer walk with God, to leave away from here tonight a better person than you was when you come in. That's what I prayed as I entered the door tonight: "Lord, make me a better person when I come out tonight than I am as I go in."
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Now, when He... Before His going away, He made these kind of
statements. He said, "He that believeth on Me..." St. John 14th
chapter, 7th verse. "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall
he do also; more than this shall he do, for I go to My Father. I go,
and come again."
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But we'll notice in just a few moments, what did He do? And I believe
tonight it's the hunger of every one of our hearts from the least until
the oldest tonight to see Jesus Christ. It's my heart's desire. And why
is it? If we claim by the Scriptures...
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If you say this water's wet; I never seen water before. You pour it on
me, and it's not wet, then you--your words are untrue. But if you pour
it on me, and it is wet, then your words is true.
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Now, when He was on earth, He did not claim to be any great healer. How
many knows the Son of God never claimed to be a healer? Exactly right.
He said, "I can do nothing in Myself, but what I see the Father doing.
It's not Me that doeth the works," He said; "it's the Father that
dwelleth in Me. He doeth the works." What kind of works did He do?
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And when he come, Jesus was standing in the line, perhaps praying for
the people. And when Philip come up with Nathanael, Jesus said, "Behold
an Israelite, in whom there's no guile."
21 A little woman come out to draw some water one day. And He spoke to her and said, "Woman, bring Me a drink."
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Look now, the Jew. When Jesus performed that miracle to him, that real
staunch Jew, real true Jew said, "Thou art the Son of God, the King of
Israel." He knew that them signs was suppose to accompany the Messiah.
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On through the Scriptures we could take it, how that He did the things
that the Father showed Him. The Bible said over in St. John, when they
questioned Him about why didn't He heal all those crippled people, and
He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you." St. John 5:19, Verily,
verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself; but what He
sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise. 33 What a beautiful morning, the first resurrection morning, the first Easter that had ever dawned on the earth. Do you realize that this Easter that we are celebrating of His resurrection, is only pointing to a great Easter that's a-coming, the hour that He comes from the heaven? And all that are dead in Christ shall rise and go with Him. We're only looking forward to that great Easter, coming. And today, how beautiful it is, what a consolation, what a proof we have when the Bible declares it, when His omnipresence declares it, when His healing power declares it, when His great Spirit declares it, when everything in nature declares it, His Church declares it, my heart declares it, every borned again man's heart declares it, that, Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and will come again. And He's the same now, yesterday, today, and forever.
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Now, notice. It was on this beautiful Easter morning. There'd been a
lot of rumor talk. Some women had come back from the grave and said
they saw a vision of Angels. And they supposed it to be a gardener,
Mary, the mother; for she heard a voice speak behind her, and said,
"Who do you seek?" And when He turned... 38 How that seemed to be an idle tale of this Man that they seen embalmed; and died, buried, and this was the fourth day, or the third day since He was dead. Peter got discouraged and wanted to go a-fishing. Two of them said, one by the name of Cleopas, said, "We'll just go back home to Jerusalem." And on their road, walking along that morning when Peter got his fishing line and took off fishing, these two were on their road sad. And as they went along the road, saying, "Well, I guess life is not worth living. Oh, how we believed that He was the Messiah. How could that Man Who raised the dead ever stand and let that high priest make fun of Him? How could that Man, Who could see vision after vision, ever let a Roman soldier put a rag around His face, and hit Him on the head, and said, 'If thou be a prophet, tell us who hit you'? How could He scream for mercy on the cross, seeing that He could even raise up the dead?" Oh, it was discouraging moment.
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And those discouraging times comes to every believer to test you, and
to try you, and to see if you really do believe. "Every son that cometh
to God must first be tested, child-trained."
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I was just setting here looking just now across the audience. And I see
a--a friend of mine, a Mrs. Cox, from down in Kentucky. Had a big
cancer on her face, a few weeks ago, done eat plumb out around her eye.
She was dying. Mrs. Wood, my good friend, called me on the phone and
was crying, said, "I believe it's going to eat mother's eye out in a
few days." The doctor got to tampering with it with some kind of stuff
and scattered it. It was in a terrible fix. Went in and offered a
simple little prayer, with an anchored faith, that it would happen, and
here she sets here tonight, perfectly normal and well; not even a spot
of it left, it's all healed up on her face: setting right here in front
of us. Others around with the same thing... Why? It's because Jesus
Christ raised from the dead, and He lives.
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And as Cleopas and them walked along, discouraged, they were kinda in
one of those sad mornings, seeming like every thing going wrong. And
all of a sudden, Someone stepped out, as He come behind them, walked up
and caught up with them. And little did they know that that was the
Lord Jesus. He was alive, and many people that loved Him didn't know it.
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And as they went along and begin to talk along the road... Jesus, I
want you to notice the first thing Jesus did, went right straight to
the Scripture. He said, "Oh, foolish of heart, is it hard for you to
believe what the prophets said?" For He'd just asked them, "Why are you
so sad?"
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Then's when He begin to open up the Word. Oh, I love God's eternal
Word. He begin to go through the Scriptures, beginning with Moses. He
never left anything uncovered; He went straight to the Word.
51 Now, notice as He drew near the city, evening was coming; He made out like He was going to go on by.
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And when He come in, got inside, shut the doors, then He done something
that no other man could do it that way. He was the only One that could
do it, for they had been with Him before His crucifixion. And He took
that bread, and just the way He did it, that was His Own way of doing
it. And their eyes come open, and they knew that could only be Him. He
didn't tarry with them very long. [Brother Branham snaps his finger--Ed.] He vanished out of their sight, just in a moment.
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Now, friend, if Jesus Christ, the living Son of God, after nineteen
hundred years ago, if the Bible is true, He said, "I am alive
forevermore"; He's just as alive here in this building tonight, as He
was the day of His resurrection. He's just in a body. 61 And now here's what I think. If Christ will come to this audience of people while you are sweating, waiting, and will prove on this Easter, that He is alive and standing in this building tonight; then you've got a right to ask Him for anything that He died for, and believe that you will receive it. You believe that to be the Truth? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Certainly, it is.
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Now, I could speak to you long, but one Word from Christ will mean more
than all the words I could speak: tired and strained in voice, and
weary as it is in voice.
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They said that when He went to His own home; they said, "Isn't this the
carpenter's son? Isn't his mother, Mary, here with us? Isn't all of his
brothers here and his sisters? Don't we know them? What school did he
come up out of? What seminary was he a graduate of? What credentials
does he carry?" And He didn't come through any school, or any seminary,
or any credentials, but He come from God. But they couldn't see it.
They said, "Where does he get this wisdom?"
66 The Pharisees stood by and said, "He is a Beelzebub. He's the chief of the fortunetellers. He's a devil." 70 And I say, under the authority of God's Word, and the feeling of my own soul: that same Holy Ghost Spirit's right here now in the midst of this people. Now, I claim that He's raised from the dead. I claim He's alive, alive forevermore. I claimed He's the same yesterday, today, and forever; the same in principle, the same in power; the same in everything, all but His corporal body which sits at the right hand of God in the Majesty of glory. But the Holy Spirit is here working, moving, performing, doing just exactly like Jesus Christ did, for it's the proof of His resurrection. What a beautiful hour.
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Now, I guess you see where I stand. Now, not only with this little,
about a hundred people, or two hundred people here in--in this little
building, jammed in here tonight, but I've made that statement before
thousands times thousands, and hundreds of thousands: held the Bible in
one hand, and the Koran in the other, say, "one's right, and the
other's wrong," and challenge every Mohammedan priest to come and
prove; or any other, Buddha, or whatever he might be, against the
Koran, and against their religion. But everybody keeps quiet.
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Right in this building now is many, many Angels. You say, "Is that the
Scripture?" That is the Bible. Let me show you. How many Christians are
here, raise your hands? All right, you may put them down. The Bible
said that the Angels of God are encamped about those who fear Him. Then
there's Angels here. 76 I can prove to you that radio's coming through here too, voices. I can prove to you that pictures are coming through here. It won't hit on this tube here; it won't hit on this, this crystal, on this mike; neither will it come onto this piece of material, 'cause it wasn't made that way. But there is a piece of material who will reproduce that picture. 77 And God set some in the Church, first apostles, then prophets, teachers, evangelists, and pastors, all for the perfecting of the Church. How could we turn one down and say the other one isn't so? God does it Himself. It's nothing in the world but just yielding yourself to the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit takes over from there, and you don't know what you're doing. It's the Holy Spirit's sovereign work. 78 Now, friends, my home town... And I want to say this now, before closing this revival. One of these days there won't be even an ash left in Jeffersonville; there won't be one left in Charlestown, won't be one left in Louisville. This world's ripe for judgment. They've got a hydrogen bomb now that Russia can shoot from Moscow, land it on Fourth Street, and take every one of these powder plants around here, and sink it seventy-five feet under the ground with one bomb: one bomb; fifteen miles square, it'll go to a hundred and fifty feet in the ground. The hand's on the trigger. The clock's ticking away. It's later than you think. Why wait till that time?
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Remember if this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already
waiting. Don't be scared of hydrogen bombs or no other thing. As long
as you got Christ in your heart, that's the best bomb shelter I know
of. It's made out of feathers: under His wings we'll abide. So don't
worry about those things, if you're a Christian. 81 The other day in Oakland, wife and I was over there in--by San Francisco; that great earthquake shook. And the earth begin to belch and hiccup there, until the buildings rocked, and the chimneys fell off. Great balls of air went up like that with smoke in it, or soot, whatever it was, out of those places. And the people run in to the streets, screaming. I thought, "What will it be when the Lord really appears?" The liquor joints went on, putting up their liquor, back on the shelves, and selling it. The people come in to buy it. The man couldn't sell it if nobody bought it. That's right. 82 It's... We are the guilty ones. Let me tell you, brother. I'm an American, and I love my country. But this old nation is weighed in the balance and found wanting. She's sinking, as certain as I'm a minister behind this platform tonight. Now, I'm saying that to find favor with God. I'm saying it because God puts it on my heart to say it. And the best thing for you to do is make ready for the coming of the Lord.
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Now, believe Him; have faith in Him. Now, all the words I could say, I
say again, wouldn't mean one thing to what Jesus would say. But do you
realize where I'm standing? With this group of people tonight, I have
either misinterrupted--misinterpreted something or told the Truth. Now,
if Jesus Christ is arisen from the dead, and promised the same things
He did we'd do also... And I have claimed, from a little baby boy... 85 Now, tonight I claim that Christ raised from the dead. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Now, the Lord bless you. If He'll do that, then you're... If you believe it, God bless you. Ask Him then when He comes on the scene. If Christ will appear here at this platform... Here's a challenge. If Jesus Christ, God's Son, will appear right here at the platform and do the same things that He did when He was here on earth, will you believe Him? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
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Look at Him, on the road to Emmaus, how them boys, broke... When He
broke that bread, He did something there that no other man could do. It
was something that Christ alone could do. And they recognized it. 88 Let me tell you; just don't join church now. That won't work. You've got to be borned again, not an emotional workup, not some little something you said, "Well, I shouted. I spoke with tongues. I done this, that, or the other." When really down in your heart, Something comes to change you, and you become a new creature in Christ Jesus, you receive the Person, Christ Jesus, when old things die out, and new things are borned again; you make things right, that you did wrong; you love your enemies; you pray for those who despitefully use you. That's when you're a Christian. The tree's known by the fruit it bears. 89 May the Lord bless you now, as we bow our heads. I'm going to ask the sister to go to the piano, slowly play "The great Physician now is near, the sympathizing Jesus." And you on the outside now, that's got prayer cards, move up close to the door, we'll start just in a moment. Let us pray.
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Our blessed heavenly Father, oh, my poor voice, four months of
speaking, I'm just so tired in my voice. But I pray that You'll help me
just now. Here will be another milestone at the Branham Tabernacle.
Here'll be another witness arise in the last days at the day of the
judgment. Many standing inside and out tonight, many of them are
wondering, many are thinking, "Is it true, or isn't it true?" 93 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... not what she wants me to pray for. No, it is not the cancer, for she's healed of that. But she wants me to pray for a back trouble she's got. That's right. It's a trouble in her back. Is that right? Now, do you believe He raised from the dead? Now watch. If I'd talk to her just a little longer, maybe something else would be said. I don't know. Now, I had no idea what's your trouble. I don't know now what it was. See? But the recorders has got it; you can find out what He said.
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Let's talk just a minute longer and see if He will tell me something
else. I see a woman that looks something on the order... It's another
woman, and she's praying for her. And she's in some kind of a
institution or a hospital; it's kind of a... It's a mental place. It's
Madison, Indiana. It's--it's a--it's a--a sister that you're wanting
prayer for, that's in an institution. And if you will believe with all
your heart, and all that is within you, God will deliver her, and will
heal your back and make you well. You believe it now? All right, come
here. 96 I might say this. There's a vibration coming from there, from right back here. Just a moment, stand there just a minute. I noticed that Light left you. There's too many too crowded around me here. Everybody's a-pulling. But I see It moving to you. It's somebody that you've got's got a female operation coming up. That's right. I seen two or three people appear, and the Light flood right back there and hit that person standing right back there. It's them praying for that. See? That's right. And you've got; it's a condition of a lady that's got a female operation. That's right. Now, go and receive your healing, and the Lord God make you well. Amen. 97 Would you come? The lady, do you believe on the Lord Jesus? Do you believe that He raised from the dead? Now, to know you, I don't. I might've seen you if you're from around here. I don't know. People come and go; I'm not around the Tabernacle here enough to know. But, you--you are from the city? You're from the city. All right then, but I don't know you. But Christ does know you. But if He will reveal to me, standing here, what you're here for, will you believe it and accept it? And you know I don't know what you're here for, have no idea. Only thing, you might've seen me around town, or something, or--or something, I don't know. That's up to God to--to know that.
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Right back there, do you want to get over that bowel trouble you been
having? You believe the Lord Jesus will make you well? If you believe
it, you can have it.
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Now, look this a way, sister, just a moment. Believe that the Lord
Jesus is present to help you. You are suffering with a trouble that's
in the rectal, and a doctor has examined you. And he told you it was
hemorrhoids. I see you also trying to move across the house, and you're
going real slow. You have arthritis. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. The
doctor said that you must be operated on. That's exactly right. And I
seen him sign that little card there at his office: Rebekah Baker, 509
Graham Street. That's exactly right. That's in his office on the
record. That's right. Do you believe? Then you can have your healing.
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Now, the lady standing here, that you might... I don't know you, as far
as I know. You don't know me, and I don't know you. Is that right? All
right. Then here's somebody that doesn't know me, and I don't know
them. I didn't know the other lady. But this lady's a total stranger,
as far I know. If that's right, raise up your hand, lady.
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The Presence of the Lord Jesus is here. If the woman's sick, I couldn't
heal her. She's already been healed; Christ healed her when He died for
her. Do you believe that? But if He was standing here now with--and
where I'm standing, and He would--could reveal to her, or do something
to bring her faith up to meet... Now, she might be standing here for
financial trouble. She might be standing here in domestic trouble. She
might be standing here dying with a cancer. She might be standing here
with TB. I don't know. I can't tell you.
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And if Christ will perform the same thing here, the infallible proof,
like He's raised from the dead, and proved that He's the same Jesus
that talked to the woman at the well, how many in here say, "I will
receive Him right now as my Healer, or whatever I have need of"? Raise
your hand, say, "I will receive Him if He'll do that."
109 Now, do you believe? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Now, have faith in God. While I'm praying for her, pray for yourself out there, and believe God. He's here, omnipresent.
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I'm not sure, but I believe I know this woman. I believe you're from
Georgetown, because I'm... Aren't you Brother Arganbright's relation?
'Course now this anointing, it--it's different. You realize that
there's difference right now. When I talk to you somewhere else; it's
different right now. You feeled a real pleasant feeling like. It's the
Holy Spirit. You're not here for yourself. You're here for somebody
else, and that's a little girl about four or five years old. She's got
kidney trouble, and she lives in northern Indiana. That's true. That
what you've got in your hand, send it to her and she'll be made well.
Believe with all your heart now, and receive what you asked for, in
Christ's Name.
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Here's a lady that's a stranger to me. I don't know you, never seen you
in my life. We are strangers to each other, many years apart, maybe
many--been born many miles apart. I don't know you, never seen you. But
Jesus Christ knows you.
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Now, here's a little woman. I never seen her. She's older than I.
She... I don't know who she is, where she's from, nothing about her. I
am a perfect stranger to her. But Christ knows her.
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Have faith and believe. Don't doubt. Just only believe. Can you
recognize the omnipresence of the Lord Jesus? How wonderful. What's the
matter?
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I don't know you, lady. I never seen you in my life, know nothing about
you. That's true, isn't it? Jesus Christ knows you. If God will reveal
to me what you're here for, will you believe Him, and believe me to be
His prophet? If He'll do that, you know Something's got me anointed.
You would have to know it's That. Now, if I said, "I'm going to lay my
hands on you, be healed," you'd have a right to doubt that. But if God
tells me something that you know to be the truth, then you know whether
that's truth or not. Is that right? It's a female disorder. Operated, I
see you coming off the operating table with something white over your
face, but it wasn't successful. That's right. But that devil hid from
the doctor, but it can't hide from God. Go home and be well, lady;
Jesus Christ has healed you and made you well and...?...
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I'm a stranger to you, lady. Do you believe Jesus Christ, God's Son, is
here? You believe He'll make you well? Diabetes is nothing for God to
heal. Do you believe He'll make you well? Then go home and receive your
healing, in the Name of Jesus Christ, God's Son. Amen.
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Come, sir. That old kidney trouble and stuff bothering you, you believe
God will make you well, heal you of it? Then in the Name of Jesus
Christ, receive your healing, and go on your road, rejoicing. Amen. God
bless you, brother.
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Just a moment. Way back down the line, setting right down here, sets a
young man. Your faith's greater than you thought you had, son. You had
a heart trouble, didn't you? If that's right, stand up on your feet;
Jesus Christ healed you, son. You're well. Go on your road and be well.
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Do you believe? You believe that God will do it? "If thou canst
believe..." I challenge your faith. Way back in the back, wherever you
are, look and live. Have faith in God wherever you are. "If thou canst
believe, all things are possible." If you can believe... Watch. Look
this way. Pray. 135 Oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord. May the Lord Jesus reveal Himself to... Do you believe He is here? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Then let me tell you: every one of you right now, if you can believe it, Jesus Christ makes every one of you well, right now. If my words is true here, it's true there. If you'll do what I'll tell you to do, you can be healed right now. Do you believe it? [Congregation says, "Amen."] Then put your hands on one another. Just lay your hands over on one another, inside or out. Don't you doubt. I heard a deaf spirit leave. Here He is, the resurrected Christ.
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O eternal and blessed God, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, I challenge
every unclean spirit, in the Name of Christ the Lord, that it'll leave
this place, go out of these people. And may the great Holy Ghost now
baptize everyone in here with great faith to believe. |
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