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Balm In Gilead (61-0218)
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E-1 Say much... Let's just remain standing a moment for prayer. I always like to speak to the Author before I open His Book. Don't you think that's a good idea? Someone was talking one time. I said something or another, and--and the man said... It was a fine friend of mine; most all of you know him; and he preaches in seven languages. Booth-Clibborn, you've heard of him, I guess, William Booth-Clibborn. And he said to me; he said, "But, Brother Branham, you just don't know your Bible."
E-2 Our heavenly Father, the Author of this Word, the Author of the Word of God, "The Word was God and made flesh and dwelled among us." We approach Thee in the Name of Jesus, Thy Son, our Saviour. We love Him, Father, because that He was obedient unto death. And the wrath that was supposed to come upon us was poured out upon Him on Calvary. And there He suffered in our stead that we might go free. No wonder people has never been able to express what love the Father had for the fallen race of Adam, to give His Son to suffer to redeem us by His grace. E-3 This is such a grand privilege to assemble in service of God. And you know, about the time we get all the funny feeling drove way, then it's about time to leave. You see? When we come in and just constantly, and saying, "How do you do?" And then the ministry's all new, and I'm new, and first thing you know it takes a little while to get us all kinda acquainted with one another. Let the Holy Spirit move among us to see that we're brothers and sisters (You see?), that there's nothing wrong with us, and we're just God's children. And the ministry that God gave me, why, it's for you, and it's love, expressions of love. And then we say, "Bye-bye," and take off up to somewhere else. And I've tried... I can't think of that name of that place; I call it... Billy says, "Where you think we're going, daddy?" I said, "Venezuela." That'd be a long ways a way, wouldn't it? However, we've been to Venezuela, been over, we never had services there.
E-4 But--but we're expecting the Lord willing... I met my good friend Brother Kopp back there. And one invite us back to California again, and--and then--and different places around the nations. And we've got to finish up all of our interviews that--that... How we do that, the pastor was saying something the other day, how them interviews that we talked about. Well, there's--there's things in people's lives that they don't know which a way to go. They're just--they're just at the end of the road; that's all. They don't know... I believe that the Word of God solves everything that we have need of, don't you think? That's right. But now, for instance, if we'd say something about salvation, then the Word of God explains it. E-5 And way we do, people write in home, and then we get their addresses, and then sign a name, and send them back a card. And anywhere in that community, in that community, then we send them word who--who to come. Well, then during the time of the day, like here the reason many of you didn't know why we wasn't having these discernment services every night, why, the day time takes it all up. See? And you're so weak and tired, till you can't do it at night. And so we... The people comes in and sets down. I don't know who they are; I don't ask them. And we just wait there until the Holy Spirit comes and brings the whole thing out, tells them what they have done, where they made their mistake, what they're supposed to do, and--and everything just the way it's... And you'd be surprised: doctors, lawyers, businessman, and everything from all over the country, from Africa, from Asia, from Germany, from Switzerland, they come from all over the country, set in there waiting, months and everything else. And we just write them. Instead of them all piling up there, and many of them go home disappointed, we just wait till their time comes and then we bring them in.
E-6 Now, in California here we have meetings. And here some people been waiting as much as three years or more. And then, as soon as we can get to them, we don't leave, we stay right there until the Holy Spirit speaks. And then they know what to do, and tell them how to do it, and way it is. And it never has failed one time, because it's God. We're thankful for that, very grateful to our heavenly Father that... And ministers by the hundreds... So we--we have a room we take them to, and they know when their appointment, and just exactly when it is. Then it's--we come just... E-7 Now... But we're so glad to know that our heavenly Father, of the Old Testament, the same One that was in Jesus Christ His Son, is the same One in His church today. See? Oh, doesn't that just thrill your heart to know that in the day that when there's so much... They say--well, the different organizations says, "We've got it; come over here." The different nations say, "We got it; come over here." But He's the One's got it. So we're so glad that He comes down and proves us by the Bible, just what He's going to do, and come down and do just what He said He would do. Then look back there in the Bible and see it just page by page unfolding like He said He would do. Wonderful, wonderful.
E-8 How many got the Business Men's Voice this time? Chri--The Business Men's Voice? I appreciate that little article, that vision. He put part of it in there which is very nice that, I suppose was wrote up by Brother Tommy Hicks. That--that made a change in me. I was always afraid of death. I thought I would--didn't want to be a spirit. I--I never know nothing... That's the reason that the Angel of the Lord Who speaks to me I know is of God. Because He had... First place, if He'd tell me one thing that wasn't God's Word, I would not believe it. No, sir. I don't care what it is; it's got to be God's Word. See? And there's all kinds of angels you know; we know that. But the... Paul said, "If an angel come and preaches any other Gospel than this that I preach..." See?
E-9 And I met them women there. And honestly, I--I feel sometimes I've been a little hard on my sisters. I... Not--not to try to be cruel, but I--I don't want them to be like the rest of the world. I'm--I'm jealous of them. See? I just... I--I want them to be real Christians. I want them to look like it, act like it, and be like it, and be genuine. And that's the reason I'm zealous of my brethren. I don't want them off in little old social gospels like you get out of some incubator out here. I want them to be real men of God, stand and not compromise on that Word, and really lay it out there. That--that's... It don't that I try to hurt my brethren; I--I love them too much for that. I love people too much for that. But really love cuts, did you know that?
E-10 Now, organizations, you hear me spank at them once in a while. Now, I don't mean to say the organization's not all right. No, sir. But you see, you get just to a place you say, "I belong to the Church of God." "I belong to the Assemblies." That's just the same as you used to make fun of the Methodists saying that, and the Baptists and the Presbyterians, and we got right in the same rut. See? Now, them's all right; Methodists is all right; Baptists is all right; Assemblies of God, Church of God, them's all, all right. But brother, when you see... No matter where it is...
E-11 See, that's the same thing. Martin Luther had a real revival. When Luther was living he kept it straight. You know Martin Luther spoke in tongues? Yes, sir, sure did. And he had great signs and wonders. But when Luther died, what taken place? The church organized and there she went. Another round come up through the incubator, and all away they went. Now, see, Martin Luther, he happened to see the great Pillar of Fire, and he followed It. And... But what did he do? What did they do? They organized right under this Pillar of Fire, and you can't organize God. So the Pillar of Fire moved, and Luther couldn't move with it because he was organized.
E-12 But remember, brother, that message is supposed to shake the nation or shake the church. Don't you look for some great something to come down on corridors. The message of God will be exactly to the elected church. These signs and wonders will never be done before the world; they're not supposed to be. E-13 I want to say here while I'm in the church; this is certainly been a wonderful time for us; we appreciate Brother Buntane and to his--the coworkers, brethren, all of you people, and especially you people. When non-healing services, just coming and standing here plowing away and just letting it fall anywhere it wants to, and--but just staying true to the Word. I haven't said one word that I'd back up on, and I haven't said one word that the Bible doesn't say (That's right), or I can prove it by the Scripture, so it's been right with the Word. And the blessed Holy Spirit's come right along all the time, confirming the Word right along just exactly. And you dear people has come every night, and packed this place out, and come right along. I appreciate that. That's really nice. I pray that not one of you will be lost, every one of you would be in the Kingdom of God, and I pray.
E-14 I pray that they'll--this revival will never end in this little Assembly of God church here on the corner. I pray that the light and power of God will spread from this, till it takes the whole west coast. And I--I trust that this will be a church of example. I do. And other Assemblies of God, and Baptists, and Methodists, and everywhere, and just catch a fire everywhere.
E-15 Now, we're going to have a prayer line tonight and pray for the sick. And so I'm sure that that would be a good way for closing of the service here in the church. And they tell me that they give me a love offering here at the church. Well now, I--I didn't ask for that, friends. I didn't come here for that. I come for fellowship with you and with your little pastor here. That's what I come for, not an offering. If you never give one red cent, you'd--I'd be just the same. I--I appreciate it just the same. See? And it's not where...
E-16 I love the Lord. That's it. See? It's not money; it's not them things; it's to--it's to try to get the church of God and all of us together to go up in that great rapture. I'm watching the end, is what I'm watching, as I've told you about riding the bicycle. If you're looking here what's going on now, you'll--you'll certainly run off the board. But if you just keep your eye on the end and hold steady, just keep watching the end (See?), you won't get so nervous. See? "Oh, how's this going to be? How is that going to be?" E-17 Now, we're going to read a Scripture and just have a little--a little few words tonight. And tomorrow night now, we're going to be down at the Municipal Auditorium. And I'm sorry that--that we made this little junction right quick, way we did, change, rather. I--I think, the brethren, some of them thought that maybe it would give the people more room so they could attend the church. And I hope that no one that goes to these fine churches around here, will--will miss their services tomorrow night; I--I hope they don't do it. If they got a post of duty, stand at that. That you stand to your post of duty at your church, wherever you go to, and pay your tithing into it, and you love your pastor, and pray for him. And if you need to be prayed for, ask him; he's a man of God; he will pray for you. And He will answer his prayer same as He will mine or anyone else's, 'cause after all, it's your own faith in God that does the work. That's right, just exactly. E-18 Now, all of you be good, and God ever be with you. And I hope to be back on the coast here again, visit down through here again at this little Assembly of God, come up and knock on your door, I hope you let me in. And I come in and preach for you again and we have a little time of fellowship around. And you tell your pastors and so forth around, you that visit around, give them my love and regards, and try to explain to him what I'm trying to do, is trying to hold the church of the living God together as one unit, one big body. I love that song, "We are not divided, all one body we; one in hope and doctrine, one in charity. Onward, Christian soldiers! Marching as to war."
E-19 And now, the prayer cards will be given out tomorrow night at six o'clock at the Municipal Auditorium. And now, on those, the reason we do that, there's too many crowds in; then they go to shoving and pushing, one saying, "I was here first." You know how they do; you just can't do it, you have to give them a card. And the card hasn't got nothing but just a little number on it, so you just keep your number. And when your number's called, come up.
E-20 You know, I was combing my three or four I had left, the other day, and my wife said to me; she said, "Billy, you know you're almost bald-headed?" E-21 Why I ever thought that one time... I'm a great believer; I'm-- shoot, you know how it is, and rifles and so forth, and people give me guns and I fool with them. Gene and I here, we just have a--relax ourselves shooting targets. And--and I can take a--a two-twenty swift, that's one of the fastest firing guns from the shoulder, and can load that, handle that, to five thousand feet per second. Now, think of it. See? But if you put this to one quarter of a grain more powder in it, you can shoot right across to that window and you'd never hit the window. And nothing falls. The bullet turns right back to its original gases like it was millions of years ago. See? Now, see, it was gases; then it became something, and if it lasts long enough it could come right back to a bullet again. See? That's how it is. See?
E-22 It's our... What I--these hairs was before they become on me, they are waiting for me; and every hair is numbered, and not one bit of us will be lost, but, "I'll raise it up at the last days," saith God. I believe that just as true as I believe I'm standing right here.
E-23 Down in my heart I hold many secrets; you know that. You absolutely know that. So you just have to trust me and believe me. I'll never leave the Word; I'll stay right with the Word. But you just measure right up to it now. And when you come back here--when you come back to church, come and... If I come, the Lord let's us live, and Jesus tarries, a year from today I come back, I hope to see this crowd here just shining for the glory of God and the power of God. Then say, "You know what? Every Assembly of God, every Church of God, every Foursquare, every Oneness, Twoness, Threeness, and Fourness, and all up and down the coast, are just one accord, and this revival is, the power of God just shaking this coast like it never did."
E-24 Now, I want to--got some Scriptures wrote down here tonight also; I may refer to them. And I want you to turn over to Jeremiah 8:22, and we'll read these verse, these verses.
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is... the health of the daughter of my people not recovered?
That's a question. Keep that on your heart: Question. "Is there no balm? Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? Then why is the health of the daughter of My people not recovered?" If there's no balm, and no physician... If there is, then why--why is she not recovered is a question.
E-25 I believe if God makes a provision, and a way of escape for His people, does something for His people, and then the people refuse to receive it, He's got a right to ask why. What if you did something for somebody... If you say, "Now, I'll give you my automobile; it's full of gasoline; it's in good running shape; I want you to pick me up on the corner in ten minutes." And you waited all day and night, and the person never does come, and you meet them somewhere, you've got a right to say, "Why didn't you do it?" Is that right?
E-26 Now, if you notice, just before the first World War they received the baptism of the Holy Spirit in this country and other countries. See? Now, when we seen the greatest thing, the greatest revival, the greatest ministries that's ever been known since the days of Jesus Christ, has crossed this nation. Tell me when, where, whereabouts did we ever, ever read in a book or hear or even know of ministry like we have today. Now, what's going to follow it? Judgment, to reject it. E-27 Now, He's done everything that He promised in the Bible. Now, many peoples... I'm not differing with the scholars. No, sir. But I only work by revelation; the revelation has to be the Word. If it isn't according to the Word, then it's a wrong revelation. Many are looking for great things to happen, and they're applying that over into Israel and not in the church. Take the first three chapters of Revelations and you got the church right there. Then John was caught up from the church age. Now, so our day is just about finished, the church. The Gospel will now return to the Jews in Palestine. And then the Gentile age is finished, as far as it is the--the church age, the real, Spirit filled church.
E-28 God makes a way, and then the people doesn't walk in it; He says, "Why?" One time the King of Israel... Because one day he was walking out in his lattices of his porch, and he fell through the lattice, and he--it hurt him, he taken a disease and a sickness from it. And so he took his bed. And being the King of Israel, yet instead of sending to inquire of God, he sent some of his man up to Ekron to require of Baalim--Beelzebub, the gods up there, their prophets, whether he was going to get well or not.
E-29 And that's what's the matter today, all the nation goes into sin: whiskey joints, the people getting cold and formal, uncensored radio programs, uncensored television programs. And it's so fascinating, and sin is so beautiful until it attracts the attentions of the people. And if they're not truly borned again, where their attraction is on Christ and single minded, they'll go after that stuff. They'll act like those people. And they--the spirit of that will get on them.
E-30 I seen a lady walking on the street the other day that any cop that had any decency about him, would've run that girl off the street, the way she was dressed. I never seen anything so vulgar in all my life: people running out of the filling station and things, gawking down the street at this girl. Where in the world has become of the decency of our people? God respected a woman to be one of the jewels of the earth. And how she'll sell herself out to the--the devil is more than... Well, it's because she doesn't know God; that's just all there is to it. See? Know that her body is sacred and she shouldn't do that, and they do it anyhow, because they think it's fine. Ricky and Elvis and all of them, they just glamour that and [Brother Branham whistles--Ed.] wo--wolf whistles. And they enjoy that. That ought to be a disgrace to any woman, would have one of them whistles at her like that.
E-31 Notice how that it's just become... And preachers just let down, let it come right in the church. Finally it just gradually creeping in, a little bit like this. I set and talked to an old Methodist preacher not long ago, used to sing a song,
We let down the bars,
We let down the bars,
We compromised with sin;
We let down the bars,
The sheep got out,
But how did the goats get in?
Well, I think his song really expresses it; you let down the bars. That's all. Just let down the bars... One come in and he begin to talk it this a way, and--and they begin to look, he prospered a little bit and then say, "Well, if Jones can do it, Dr. Jones, I can too." And first thing you know there it goes.And it's just like the old toboggan slide; you slip around on it. How many remembers old toboggan slide? You set down, keep slipping around real easy, seeing how close you get to the edge and all, before you knew it, [Brother Branham snaps his fingers--Ed.] down you went. That's what's happened to the Pentecostal church. That's right. Don't see how close you can get to it; see how far you can stay away it.
E-32 One time there was a driver had to ascend the mountain, and a man had to hurry and get across the mountains, and so they said... One driver walked up; he said, "I'm such a perfect driver, I can drive these six head of horses and my carriage within six inches of that rim across that big thousand foot ledge. I can drive it in six inches at a full gallop and never fall."
E-33 I was up in Canada not long ago with my good friend Fred Sothmann, setting there. I... One of the great American... I ain't going to call the name of this group. And so they was up there having a--a convention, and whiskey bottles piled all over everything. When I come in that night, started up the--the--got on the elevator, and that boy... It even made me ashamed I was an American. And he looked around; I--I said, "What's the matter?"
E-34 And they come down the hall, and this old guy grabbed this one by the underneath skirt, and tried to pull her, and almost broke one of the straps off her shoulder and she was disposed terribly. She come down, beautiful young women, both of them come down through there, staggering like that. And I just stepped back in a little room like, little hall like this, and watched. They got pretty close in front of me; they had a bottle of whiskey. And she reached around, took this bottle, and turned it up, and took another drink, that wedding band shining on her hand. My heart just went out of me. And I thought, "A beautiful little thing like that and then look what she's doing." And then the other one passed with her and she took--she tucked this little skirt, what she had on her underneath skirt, pulled it way up as far as she could and hollered, "Whoopee, this is life." E-35 God made a way of escape but they just won't take it. What makes people do that? Is because God made a man to thirst. And you... How dare any man to try to satisfy that holy thirst with the things of the devil. Don't you try to do that. You'll never be satisfied; it only brings heartaches, make you pick up pistol and blow your brains out. That don't have real life in it. Real life comes from God. You can never be satisfied and perfectly happy... And one of these halfway Christians, supposed to be, is the most miserable person in the world. "Oh, I can't do this. If my church knowed I did that..." God knows you're doing it; what difference does it make? Right there have your whole heart centered right on God and stay right with it. Then you're happy, walking peacefully with Him.
E-36 Elijah went up, stood in the road. Here come these men up, and said--come to him, he said, "Go back and tell your king, THUS SAITH THE LORD; he's not coming off of that bed. Ask him why didn't he send down here; he's a Israelite. Is it because there's no God in Israel? Is it because we don't have a prophet? Israel doesn't have a prophet nor a God? Why would you send over there to Ekron? Hasn't Israel got a prophet? Hasn't Israel got a God? Then why would you send to Beelzebub or to--or to Baalim? Why would you consult those things? Is it because we don't have any prophet or any God?"
E-37 Oh, it's because, just like it was in the days of the king, it was his own stubbornness. He hated the prophet, 'cause his mammy hated him. He was Jezebel's son. And that's the reason Ahab, a borderline believer... And that's why it was: an old cold formal church he come out of. And that's the reason that he hated the prophet, because the prophet told him the truth. And he didn't pull any punches about it. And he hated him. His mother hated that prophet. His daddy hated that prophet.
E-38 But that didn't just suit Jehoshaphat right. He said, "Haven't you got one more?"
E-39 Went and got him and then... 'Course, they had the deacon board to go get him to hold that revival, and said, "Now, wait a minute, now don't you preach against this, and don't you preach against that. Don't tell the women they shouldn't cut their hair, and don't tell them they shouldn't wear makeup, 'cause all of our women does." I've had them to say that. And I say, "Shut up. You want me--you want me, here I'll come." See?
E-40 Now, why would they take--why didn't they take that one man's word (See?), one man in the whole nation standing out against wrong. And the rest of them... Why? Because they believed the classical bunch. They believe the Ph.D., LL.D.'s, and Q.S.D.'s, and every kind of D.D.'s and all kind, everything went with it. They wanted to believe it because they thought they were smarter, and educated. But watch. Who was right? Micaiah was right, because he stayed exactly with the Word of the Lord; he stayed exactly. How can he bless what the Word of God had cursed?
E-41 The Foursquare church is one of my great sponsors. They've got some of the finest men in there, Dr. Teeford, many of those they're real godly man. But when Sister McPherson and I and Rolf was setting eating one day, was talking about a certain organization, or certain man on this coast had took most of their members. I said, "That speaks pretty bad of you." Why would they go where they're going to say build four, five million dollar church, and you already got yours built, over there to pay that debt? I said, "What happened?"
E-42 Micaiah couldn't say no more than that, because that's what Elijah said. He said, "I saw the host of heaven all gathered together having a council." And he said, "Who can we get to go down and deceive Ahab?" In otherwise, to make Elijah the prophet's word come true, get him out there so he can be killed, because the dogs has got to lick his blood on the chariot, 'cause Elijah said so; that was the Word of God. God said, "Who can we get to do it?"
E-43 Now, "Go, tell him, he's not coming off of that bed. THUS SAITH THE LORD, he's not coming off of the bed. He's going to die on the bed," and he did.
E-44 Here some years ago I was coming down a telephone pole, and I was working for the public utilities while I was pastoring the Baptist tabernacle. And--and Doctor Brown's a mighty good friend of mine, belongs to a fine denominational church there, and they say they got five hundred members. But they're all over the world, and some of them's been dead for years. But so anyhow, he said that's what they had cards of.
E-45 And she started across the--the floor and she had that old radio on, and this here Clayton Matt Mitchell, or ever what, some kind of one of these here Georgia tom cats, wild cats, or something like that... She had some kind of a--a just sawing this old fiddle, you know, going, playing that little song about five foot two and covered over with furs and all like...?... and all that kind of nonsense. And he was going on playing like that. And she started across the floor, and that poor thing was so possessed with that kind of a spirit, she went, "Tootlely, tootlely, tootlely." all right over the floor. Now, I'm not saying that for a joke; I--I'm telling just what's the truth. And she went around hollering, "Tootlely, tootlely, tootlely, tootlely." And she forgot I was standing at the door. And then when this dance man, you know, that had the fiddle, he said, "Now, all of you come out to the old Greenbrier Ridge tonight, we're going to be out there and we're going to do the rock and roll," or whatever it was. She got down, throwed him a kiss, said, "Bye-bye, old sweetheart," said, "I'll be right there."
E-46 And it hadn't been but a little while when I got some more orders and come up. And I had a place up there where somebody went up and pushed the wires on a meter and just running it without that, and somebody in there ironing. Why if they'd cut a wire across and twenty-three hundred come through there, it'd kill a woman dead with an iron in her hand. So I had to go up and cut them nips off so they couldn't put it in straight like that. So I just cutting it off like that, come down, and Doctor Brown was coming down the street. He said, "Hello, Billy."
E-47 He said, "You know what, Billy?" He said, "The other day... I've got five hundred members to that church down there," and he said, "I sent out five hundred cards to get those people to pledge that they would come six months out of the year to Sunday school. Within the year they'd register six times in--in--they'd register six months in the year, they'd come." And said, "You know how many answered?"
E-48 I said, "You know what, Brother Brown; I want to tell you a little something happened awhile ago." I said, "I was down in New Albany," I was in Jeffersonville then. I said, "I was down in New Albany," (just three miles below), and I said, "I was cutting off the service down there for a person that didn't pay their bill. I went up and knocked on the door," and I told him about the girl. And I said, "That girl, she was so carried away, she went across the floor, after speaking to me, and that music had such an effect on her till she went across the floor going 'Tootlely, tootlely, tootlely,' and--and throwed a kiss to that Clayton Matt Mitchell, ever what his name was on that Greenbrier Patch, or ever what he was going to be out there." I said, "Do you think that somebody will have to sign a card to get her to go there Saturday night?"
E-49 It reminds me like a--a man dying on the doctors doorstep when the doctor has the remedy for his disease: same thing. Right. If a man's got a disease, and the doctor's got a toxine for that disease, and the man comes up and he refuses to take the doctor's medicine, then if the man dies right on the doctor's doorstep, can you blame the doctor? Can you blame the toxine? Who's to blame? Hisself. That's right. Can't blame the doctor; he's got the toxine; he's willing to give it. Can't blame the toxine, science has found it for the disease. So he dies right on the doorstep, but don't blame the doctor. That's exactly right.
E-50 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... and think that he could fix your arm up, it's a dangerous thing not to do that, you should do it. It's dangerous if you don't do it. And there was a time we didn't have much toxine. People died with diphtheria, but they got a toxine for it. Polio, the Salk toxine, that's--that's fine; I--I sure appreciate that. I believe a man would be more humble... You say, "Brother Branham, you believe in Divine healing?" That's all Divine healing. Every bit of it's Divine healing. "I'm the Lord Who heals all thy diseases." Yeah. Every bit of it is Divine healing. If hospitals and the--and stuff like that is not the...
E-51 I was preaching on that one time and somebody said, "What about penicillin, Brother Branham, then for the--for the--a--a bad cold?" E-52 I've said it many a time, what if I cut my hand here? They ain't got a medicine in the world could heal that knife cut, not a one. If it'd heal a knife cut there, it heal a knife cut on my coat or on this desk. You say, "It wasn't made for your coat or desk, it was made for your hand." All right. I have a knife cut on my hand and fall dead. They take me off down to the morgue, and embalm my body with the fluid that makes me look natural for fifty years. They give me a shot of penicillin every day, they put Merthiolate, and Mercurochrome, and sew it up. The doctors come from Germany, and they give me steam baths and whatevermore they want to. That cut will be just exactly like it was when it was cut fifty years ago. Now, if medicine heals the human body why don't it heal it? "Well," you say, "you ain't got no life." Then medicine isn't the healer; Life is the healer. Then tell me what life is; I'll tell you who God is. God is Life. Exactly right.
E-53 Now, medicine, so much for... It's dangerous to take. But oh, you might get by with not taking the doctor's toxine, but you can't get by without God's Toxin, His Balm. Can't do it. It'll--it... You sure can't do it. And then, how do they find toxine? Well, some science reads up a whole lot of stuff and they boil it together, and put it in test tubes and so forth, and boil it. After awhile when they get down to they think they got it, they shoot it into guinea pig. And if he survives it, then they shoot it in you. Right.
E-54 They say number one killer is heart trouble. Huh-uh. I--I different with you. Number one killer is sin trouble, unbelief. That's number one killer. Oh, yes. You know, people say, "I just can't quit smoking; I just can't quit." Man saying, "I've been untrue to my wife, Brother Branham, but I just can't quit it; one woman's not enough for me."
E-55 You know, the new birth's what people want to dodge; they want to dodge the issue. So the devil patches it up, says, "When you believe, that's when you're born again." That's not right. Listen, any birth, as I said before, any birth is a mess. I don't care where it's at. If it's in the pig pen, it's a mess. A mess of pigs being born out there, it's a horrible thing. If it was out in the field when a calf's born, it's a horrible thing, nasty mess. If it's out in the pink decorated hospital room, it's still a mess. And the new birth is a mess. But you have to have that messy thing to bring forth new life. Amen. That's what's the matter with the people today. They're afraid it'll wash some of the paint off their face and make them straighten up. They got the toxine, but they don't want to take it. And God's going to ask you why someday, didn't you do it? Why didn't you?
E-56 Reason we get many out calls from these services, so called healing services. You get down there in the line, watch that discernment, reach down and find that thing till it finds the cause of it. When you find the cause... "Here's what it is: you're doing this; you're doing that." Immoral living and things, people coming to the platform... You've seen it in the meetings, haven't you? Raise your hands if you've seen the Holy Spirit discern those things and call them sins out: men are living untrue to their wives, and things like that. Has it ever failed? It's always the truth. You've got--you could pour oil on their heads, and stomp and holler, and have shivers and chills, and everything else, that devil will lay right there, as long as he's got a right to stay there, until you confess that sin and make it right and let the Holy Ghost come in. Hallelujah. Back to Pentecost.
E-57 You know, as I said, when doctors wants to try their toxine, they squirt it into a guinea pig and see how he acts. But you know, when God brought His Toxine down, He didn't put it in a guinea pig, He put it in His Son, Hisself. He made Hisself a body; you believe that? He overshadowed the virgin Mary and created Himself a body, changed His cast from God Jehovah to a Man here on earth to express Hisself to a body. And He didn't give it to a guinea pig. And I want to straighten some of this here social doctrine out that they call that He was just a prophet. He never give it to a prophet. He give it to Hisself. Any good doctor will try his own medicine out, see if it works.
E-58 But on Easter morning it proved it was God. The toxine He gives is Eternal Life. How can you keep it in hell? How can you keep it anywhere else? The gates of hell, death, and the grave couldn't hold it. He rose up again on the third day, proved that the toxine was real. Amen. He rose. Oh, when they seen Him rise up... The prophets died and was buried, but Jesus rose again. God's toxine had came down like a dove from above, lit upon His own Son, and He lived a life peaceful, went about, not being a showman, a big stiff shirt somewhere, stepped out, "See what I can do?" He hid Himself, and restrained, and come back from the people and so forth. Was called everything that could be called, And He ministered right on to the humble, the sick, the prostitutes, and everything that there was; it held. Every temptation it held. And in death it held. In life it held. In death it held. And it proved in resurrection that it was Eternal Life. That's God's own Life. The word "eternal" comes from the Greek word of "Zoe," which means "God's own life is in Him." And when you receive the Holy Ghost It's Eternal Life, and God's own life is in you. You can no more die than God can.
E-59 What happened? After that all of them seen that that was that same Jesus. Thomas said, "I've got to put my hand in His hand and in His side." Then he said, "My God, my Lord and my God." The rest of them seen it; they believed it. He said, "Would you like to be inoculated fellows?"
E-60 But when He sent the toxine down, there all of a sudden came a sound from heaven like a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were setting. And God inoculated a hundred and twenty, toxine come into them, Eternal Life. A bunch of cowards, they wasn't cowards any longer. They went through windows, doors and everything else, out into the streets and was staggering...
E-61 Yes, they was all staggering like drunk men. The--they was standing out laughing at them, saying, "These men are full of new wine."
E-62 Now, what it is, if your doctor writes you a prescription for it, and you better take it to the right druggist. 'Cause you take some quack druggist that don't diagnose that prescription just right, he could kill the patient. I think that's what's happened; we got too many old dead formal churches; they ain't using prescription. That sounds rank, but it's true.
E-63 Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterian, Catholic, cold formal Pentecostals, the rest of you, there's balm in Gilead. And here's physicians here. Hallelujah. What's the matter? There's plenty of them that'll explode every sin and every... Is there no balm in Gilead? Sure there is. Is there physicians there? Plenty of them. They'll teach it just the way she's wrote there. Not just come up and take your letter and say, "I change it from the Methodist over to the Baptist." Oh, my. Stand up and take a salt shaker and throw a few salt shakes of water on you like that, and say, "It's all over, brother, give the right hand of fellowship and six months probation." Nonsense.
E-64 Now, we've poured out the medicine this week as hard as I knowed how to pour it out, and as straight as I knowed how to bring it. Now, if you don't receive it, then God's going to say, "Why?" Someday the Bible's going to lay closed on the pulpit. The preacher's going to play--pray his last prayer. The taps will die out from the bugle, and the sun will set its last time over the hill. Then God's going to ask you to give a reason. When the ones that rejects the message, is going to be asked to give a reason, what then? "What then? What then? When that great book is opened, what then? When the one's that reject this message tonight, is going to be asked to give a reason, what then?
E-65 One time there was an old woman here in the country; she was dying; she was starving to death, poverty stricken. So someone turned her in to the authorities, the charity. And they went to this woman, and they said to her, "We come to investigate your case, and we want to know what's--what's wrong." Said, "Haven't you no relation?"
I'm the child of a King!I'm the child of the King!With Jesus my Saviour,I'm a child of the King!My Father is rich with houses and lands,He holdeth the wealth of the world in His hands!Of rubies and diamonds, of silver and gold,
His coffers are full, He has riches untold. (Sing it.)I'm a child of the King!
A child of the King!
With Jesus my Saviour,
I'm a child of the King!
E-66 Let's bow our heads. "Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Then why does My church still act the way they do? Why does My church continually get away from Me? Is it because there's no balm in Gilead, because there's no physicians to diagnose their case and let them know that they're wrong?" No, we got physicians; we got balm; but the people don't want it. I first started laying it onto the pastors. But I come to find out, no matter how much I preach it, they don't move anyhow. Might not be the pastor; it might be the congregation. That's right. If you want it, there's a balm in Gilead.
E-67 How many would like to come to the Great Physician tonight, have all your sins moved from you, and have joy unspeakable, and full of glory in your heart? Would you raise up your hand and say, "Pray for me, Brother Branham." God bless you, lady, over here. God bless you, young man. God bless you back there. God bless you up in there. That's very fine. Oh, sure. God bless you over here, sir. Up in the balcony, would you want the Great Phys... God bless you, yes sir, I see your hand over to my right. Would... And this lady here, God bless you, young lady. Great decision to make.
E-68 Would there be another before we pray, raise your hand, say, "Pray for me, Brother Branham." God bless you back there, lady. Oh, that's wonderful. Seven or eight hands has went up. Is there some more, say, "Pray for me, Brother Branham; I--I want the balm of Gilead." There is a balm in Gilead. Would there be someone else would like to be--have the toxine of the Holy Spirit brought into your soul? Would you just raise your hand, say, "God, inoculate me tonight from the things of the world, and inoculate me from all my unbelief, that I can have faith to stand out like a real Christian." Raise up your hand, would you? God bless you, sir. God bless you, young man, setting here. God bless you back there, my friend. God bless you, brother. Here, that's good.
E-69 Heavenly Father, simply and lovingly we come to the fountain filled with Blood, drawn from Immanuel's veins, where sinners plunge beneath the flood, and lose all their guilty stains. They raised their hands, Father, because that--that they believe. And we know that they are a spirit in their heart, and then the Holy Spirit came up to them and said, "You're wrong; you're wrong. Why don't you accept Me tonight?"
E-70 Now, while we have our heads bowed, I'm going to ask each one that raised their hand just to stand up a moment for a word of prayer. Every one that raised your hands, I--I don't believe you did that just for the fun of it. I believe you really meant it before God in a meeting like this. Stand up. That's right; stand up to your feet. Everywhere, up in the balcony, wherever you are, stand up to your feet. God bless you. That's good. Just stand to your feet just a minute. Out in the hall, if you'd just stand to your feet, say, "I--I make that confession myself." There's many are standing now. E-71 Now, listen, I'm going to tell you what God said. God said, "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him first. And all that the Father has given Me will come to Me." Now, you've come because you know you're not worthy of coming, but you come because that something in your heart told you that you was wrong, and you don't want to be wrong no more. That's true confession. Now, the Bible said this: "He that will confess Me before man, him will I confess before My Father and the holy Angels." Now, clergymen, is that what Jesus said? He said that. Now, what have you done? You've stood up here before these six hundred people, or maybe more, in this building tonight to make a testimony, "I'm wrong, and I do accept Jesus Christ as my Saviour. I--There's Something spoke to my heart and said, 'This is the night for you.' So I stand up because that I make a witness that I'm wrong. I want to stand here to be a witness of Christ." Now, Christ will make a witness of you. And He said, "I will testify of you before the Father and the holy Angels."
E-72 Now, while you are standing the way you are, I want you, each one, if you believe that Jesus is the Son of God, and on Calvary when those black clouds was floating over the cross, lightening was flashing, Jesus dying, thirsting, crying, God was pouring out His fierce wrath upon Jesus and He took it for your place... Do you freely believe that to be true, that He took it in your place? And you now will accept His pardon, not how you feel, but what you believe, that--that He did that for you... If you'll accept it and say, "Lord, that--I can't do a thing; I--I'm just an awful sinner, but I do accept Your pardon for me. I--I'm accepting that You died in my place; I believe that with all my heart." Raise up your hand, you that... Yeah, that's good. Every one, every one. Now, as far as I know in the Scripture, that's all I have to go by, you are saved from--you'll never come to judgment, but passed from death unto Life.
E-73 I want you now to find some good Full Gospel church. Let some man baptize you in Christian baptism. Then seek the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Now, that inoculates you from the very thing that condemned you tonight. You just pass on above it. See, inoculation keeps you from the disease. Inoculation of the Holy Spirit gives you power to overcome all the temptations of the world. Is that right, clergymen? It's your--it's the balm--it's the balm of the inoculation that... You say, "I--I tried Brother Branham, but--but I failed." But you see, it's not what you do; it's what He done for you. It's not what you are; it's what He is. You believe Him. E-74 Now, when we do that, the great Holy Spirit's here... While I was watching out over the audience, I could guess--I just know we're going to have a great prayer meeting for the sick. Before we call that, let's just have... How many doesn't have a prayer card? I don't want anyone with a prayer card, 'cause I'm going to pray for you here. Ones without prayer cards that's sick, raise up your hand. All right. Now, just hold your hand so I can just look around. Hold your hands up in this district. E-75 Here's a lady, is right here. She's putting her hand down now. Yes. You don't have any prayer card. Well, so that them newborn babes would know that this Spirit that's been preaching wasn't me, it was Him. See? To let him know... Now, I want you to look at me and believe me as His servant. Do you do that? Could Jesus look out upon the--the audience... And--and believe with all their heart that God could heal the sick? Do you believe that? All right, what if I told you that your trouble was over? Your kidney trouble and gall bladder trouble and things is going to pass from you, and you're made well. Now, raise your hand if that's right. All right, now just go and believe, and have faith, be made well. "If thou canst believe." Do you believe with all your heart now?
E-76 All right, over in this side. There's a colored woman with her hand up. What do you think, sister? Do you believe me to be God's prophet, or His servant? I think I have enough favor with the crowd to say prophet. All right. Do you believe me to be His prophet? You're an Ethiopian woman. I'm an Anglo-Saxon man. Like Jesus met the woman at the well, talked to her just a moment... Now, if Jesus will let me know your trouble, will you believe it's the same Spirit was upon Him is the One is upon me? You will? Then your high blood pressure will leave you. E-77 Now, I turn my back, and you pray. A lady appears before me. She's setting in this direction. She's suffering with bursitis. Stand up. Her name is Miss Hart. Stand up. Have you got a prayer card? No, you don't. You don't need it. You touched Something, didn't you? E-78 Do you believe with all your heart? Now, how many knows that Jesus Christ said that same Spirit would be here? How many knows that that was the sign of the Messiah when Jesus was on earth? How many knows He promised it to the elected church in the last day? Well, here it is. Now, you see, new converts, after two thousand years... It's never happened in two thousand years, because the evening lights are shining. The Bible said there would come a day that wouldn't be neither day nor night. But in the evening time it would be light. Uh-huh. There He is. Now, what kind of a Light would it be? The same sun that rose in the east sets in the west. Is that right? The evening Light has come. You believe that?
E-79 Now, how many has a prayer card? Let's see your hand. Oh, I guess close to a hundred. Now, where's my son? What prayer cards did you give out? C from 1 to--up to 50. From 1 to 50. Who has prayer card number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Let them stand up first right here. 1, 2. What say? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, I see them. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, let them come. Line up right here. The boy will line you up. Just come according to your number. 10? It's going to be hard to shake from that anointing now. Done started, keeps moving out over the audience all the time. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25.
Only believe,
All things are possible, only believe.
E-80 If any of the Full Gospel Business Men is here, I would like to have a few of those books with that--that... Brother Tommy Hicks, if you're here, you wrote a nice part of that, that's very nice. There's just a little more to it, but you made it just wonderful, I appreciate it. I'd like to have some for my friends, I'll buy them, maybe three, or four, five hundred of them.
E-81 Now, how many Pentecostals are here, let's see your hands. All right. Now, don't the Bible say, Paul said, the great Paul said, "If there be--if all of you speak with tongues, and the unlearned come in, and--and you all speak with tongues, they'll say you're mad. But if one be a prophet and will reveal the secret of the heart, then they'll fall down, say, 'Truly God's with you.'" Is that right? Just exactly Pentecost coming on. See, see? Don't get out in the trend of the world, stay Pentecost. E-82
Now, I believe, (You've done enough, Lord; I believe now.) Now, I believe,All things are possible, (You believe it?) now I believe;Now, I believe, now I believe,All things are possible, now I believe.
Now, let's change it, saying, "Now, I receive." Put one hand on your heart, the other one up to God.
Now... (There is a balm in Gilead, do you receive it?) now, I receive,All things are possible, now I receive,Now, I receive, now I receive,All things are possible, now I receive.
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