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He That Is In You (63-1110E)
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1 Thank you. The Lord bless you. Let's just remain standing, just a moment while we pray. Let's bow our heads now, and all that'd like to be remembered in this prayer, raise your hands and say, "God, it's me." 2 Most holy and gracious God, we bring this people before You with the requests that they have. They asked to be remembered; and, Lord, my hand up also. I pray Thee to be merciful to us. Thou knowest our needs, and we would pray as You have taught us to pray: Thy Kingdom come. Thine will be done on earth, as it is in heaven." And, Father, we would ask tonight for mercy, and for liberty of spirit, that we might be able to bring to the people the Gospel truth, and the--what we believe to be the message of this hour for Your Church; Lord, praying that we are a portion of that Church that's to be called out in the last day. And, Father, if we are not that portion, then reveal to us what we must do to be that portion, and give us grace, power, in this trying hour that's upon the earth to try all them that dwell here. Give us of Thy Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us, that we might finally, at the end, come to Thee in peace for that Eternal Life that all believers has looked forward to since the beginning of time. Help us, Lord. We ask in Jesus' Name. Amen. (You may be seated.)
3 I am indeed grateful for the privilege of being out here tonight--tonight and for the grace of God that's been given to us through Jesus. 5 There was one thing that I did, this morning, that I'm sorry that I said it. I--I called a brother's name that I think is in error. I shouldn't have done that. I never call a person's name. And if the tape would happen to fall in his hands, and I--I want to see him and talk to him, because I think the brother, a great man, a good man, that's preached right here from the pulpit, Brother David duPlessis. And I didn't mean to call his name; I was worried about the message and so forth, about whether "what if it is this time?" and I called the brother's name. I don't do that. I'm sorry I did it. I love Brother David duPlessis. He is our brother, and I--I do think that a smart man like that should be more instructed in the Scripture. 6 I tell you what it is. It's... The talk that David and I had, he once spoke for me in the meetings. He preached right from this pulpit, or in the old church, right here from the pulpit. And his brother, Justus, was my interpreter in South Africa, where I'm returning. And they're out of a fine family, a Pentecostal home, a real fine person. David was, I believe, the chairman, at one time, of the World Pentecostal Assemblies, and at the Pentecostal World Conference. He was one of the chairmen. And later he come to the United States and settled in--out in Texas with Brother Gordon Lindsay, and then just started preaching around different places. 7 But what it was, where I think that our precious Brother made the error, just like I'm subject or anyone else, he started dealing with the ups-and-ups. He kept talking about the Princeton University and the places that was inviting him, thinking that he was doing what was right, and was feeding fodder right into the machine. See? And such rejoicing... And not only that, but the Full Gospel Business Men which sponsors my meeting worldwide--wide... See? I--I love those man (See?), but I certainly don't agree with them upon the principles that they--they are--they're... They have--they have left from where their principles they started, and now becoming just like any other organization or anything. See? And what it is, they're not trying to remain Pentecostal, but they're trying to mix Pentecost and the rest of it together. 8 And looks to me like that Brother duPlessis, a wonderful, fine man like that, would know enough about the Scripture that when he sees the sleeping virgin trying to buy oil, the time is passed. See? Remember, when she came to buy oil, there was no oil left. That's the Scripture. And she said, "Give us of your oil," to the church, but she did not receive it. She might jump up and down, speak in tongues, and whatevermore, but according to God's own Word, she did not receive it. See? And she was out into outer darkness, and there was weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth, when the elected Bride had done gone in; the--the wise Virgins had oil in their lamp.
9 Now, I--I know another man, something that happened just the other day... What it is, it's these fine people (See?), getting a little, you know what I mean, a little hold among the people. And the first thing you know, they feel that that's God doing that. And many times, that's the Devil doing that. See? 11 God, keep me little and humble so that He can reveal His truth. See, I never want to do that. No bright lights, no flare and flash of the world; let me take the way with the Lord's despised few. Let me stay with the Word. 12 Now, talking about the Ecumenical Council consolidating with the Vatican... Do you believe that they could consolidate on the Word? They might in organization, but they can't on the Word. See? That's right. So there's nothing to compromise. See? A organization, it's all the same (See?), everything the same. It's perfectly in line: mother and daughter. But when it comes to this Word, I'm just as firmly against Methodist, and Baptist, and Presbyterian, as I am against Catholicism, 'cause it's mother and daughter according to this Word. It's this Word that I stand by (See?), This, every Word of It. 13 Now, this precious brother, he and his wife are my close friends. Many of you seen the magazine where how that that precious, God-sent brother could ever let his wife... Somebody told her she looked like Jacqueline Kennedy, and she bushed up a--one of them great big haircuts, and then... What is it? She associates with them kind of people, all the time, and finally... A good man taking a bad woman, she'll either become a good woman... Or, I mean, a good man taking a bad woman, she'll either become a good woman or he will become a bad man. Show me your company; I will tell you who you are. See? Birds of a feather, flock together. Keep away from shiny stuff. 14 I climbed down in a mine, the other day, way in the top of the mountains on the Arizona and--and Mexico line; Brother Sothmann and I (setting here) was up there together. And I got in there and dug out a bunch of what... It looks just exactly like gold. But the only way you can tell it isn't gold, it shines better than gold. It shines; and gold does not shine; it glows. See? And what it's called, it's fool's gold. It's not even worth as much as the rock that it's in. It's called iron pyrite. I think in the--the--the scientists claim that the waters and the leaking acids and things never got there quite enough to harden it and bringing it into a place to make it gold; so it--it shines better, but it don't have the chemical in it. And that's just the way a lot of make-believe Christianity is. See? It'll shine, and like Hollywood; but the Church glows with the Gospel. See? 15 Now, some sister here, Billy just showed me, was nice enough to go get this Life magazine, this picture, and blow it up, of that... of this--of the seven Angels, and had it taken and sent to me. That is the picture. And now, if you'll notice here, as it was a-leaving, ascending back, when the Angels had brought their message, it was in the form of a pyramid, just exactly what I told you three months before it happened, the way it would be. Is that right? And the notable Angel, with His wings back on the side, back, laying back, you remember me, said, "He had His head... coming to speak." Don't you even see the wings there? And there's the Angel there, just exactly the way it was said.
16 Now, only God can do that. They have a photograph laying here too, of a woman that said... Many times, people say... In the discernment, say, "This person is shadowed to death, a dark shadow."
20 How many remembers, old times, they used to can it "Star"? When It appeared down here on the river, when He said, "As John the Baptist was sent..." 23 Now, standing here, told you that the Angels was coming. Brother Fred, being one... (I seen Brother Fred awhile ago. I thought he was right over here, but I've missed him somewhere. Oh, back here, that's right.) He was standing within a--a two mile, or a mile and a half, or two mile of where I was, heard the explosion, felt the rock and everything else, when it went off. That right, Brother Fred? And there went the Angel that sent back with them message. And here it even is in the pyramid form, as I showed you what it would be in here, told you how they'd be standing before I left. Photograph after photograph across the country took it, plumb into Mexico, be thirty miles high and twenty-seven miles across it. And it's so high that even moisture or nothing can... Moisture don't travel over about eight or nine miles high. Then you's out to a place where there's nothing to make moisture. See? And this was, I think it was either twenty-seven miles high and thirty miles across it, or either it was--it was twenty--thirty miles high and twenty-seven miles across it, one or the other. The "Life" magazine packed it, or "Look." Which was it, "Look" or "Life"? "Life, Life" magazine. I think, May the 17th, issue. That's it. 24 Now there it is, scientifically, proof that it is the truth. So therefore we--we don't worry about whether it's truth. Both scientifically and spiritually, and what was said come to pass. So the message of the Seven Seals, in their closing, that's the message of the entire Bible. The Seven Seals closes the New Testament and sealed it up, that is true. Now, we know that that is by prophetic utterance, by scientific, and by the Word. Three has give the witness to it, that it's the truth. 25 Therefore, we know that we're at the end time; we're here. I don't know how far away; I--He--I... He will never let us know that, because His coming will be as a thief in the night. But, friend, my brother, sister, let's us be ready regardless. Let's just chaste ourselves. See, because the world will go right on. They'll never even know it's happened. When the doors of mercy's closed, preachers will be preaching salvation, be (See?), causing people to repent, going right on just like it always did. It did in other ages and it did in--it will in this age. And the rapture will be so sudden and so quick that the world will never even miss them, that they're gone. That's right. They'll know nothing about it. He comes and slips Her away. It'll be gone; they know nothing about it. So be in prayer. Pray for me. I pray for you. We don't know when that hour will be, but we believe it'll be soon. And stay away from shiny things. Stay with the Gospel. See? Stay right there now and pray.
26 Now, Billy wrote me a letter here, or a note rather, and said someone wanted to dedicate a baby. If that's right... Is it? Raise up your hand, if some... Yeah, two babies. All right, bring them up that way. And Brother Neville... And I wonder if our sister at the piano would come over here just a moment for baby dedication. We don't want to leave out any... 30 I want to thank you all for your kindness. That lady that sent me that candy up there, I--I appreciate that. Don't know who the lady was, someone sent me a box of candy and some little puffballs like that. It was really, really delicious. I'm filled up on it right now, and I--I thank you. And you think them little things don't mean much? It sure does; little token. And different ones handing me their little love gifts, and showing Billy Paul; and giving them, and things. I--I get it (See?); you don't know how I appreciate it. God bless you. I'll remember it (See?); how much more does He remember it. "Insomuch as you have done unto the least of these, My little ones, you have done it to Me." See? Now, mercy will be shown when mercy is given.
31 Now, we have some fine little fellows here. Would you... I want you stay there and sing "Bring Them In," afterwards. All right, you brothers come up here just a minute.
31a You know, my little Sharon looked like that. I don't guess there's anybody here remembers her by how she looked. She had little a--brown eyes like that, like her mother, real sweet, little girl with dark hair, just about... How old is the baby? Five months. She was eight months when God called her up. I seen her a little after that. You know the story. You have it at home on a tape.
31b How do you do...?... You talk about a friendly little thing, look at this. She's just all smile. Let us bow our heads.
31c How do you do, brother. Now, let's see. I--I... Arnette, Arnette... That's right. Is that right? William? William Arnette, James William Arnette, that's a fine boy. You know, some things we have in common, he and I already: names, and then we part our hair alike, just as plain...?... He's a fine boy, Jimmy? Guess that's what you call him, James? James, James. All right. Wonder if I could hold him. I don't know now; I...?... Remember we're real buddies. You know that, don't you? Well, let us bow our head.
31d Bless you...?... Got two more? Oh, these are the same ones. All right. I believe you could almost take me instead of me take you. Now, this is Alvin, and Al, and Martha. Just let the congregation... I like for you to see children. I think when they're little and young, they're sweet. Now, let's lay our hands upon them. Likewise, Almighty God, we, Your servants, lay our hands upon these children, the little brother and sister of this little boy that's just dedicated here. We lay our hand upon them for a--a dedication from the mother and father to the arms of Jesus Christ for a life of service, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
31e Is this young fellow, my, he's a good boy. I used to be able to part my hair like that. What's his name? Terrell Keith Walker. What a fine boy. I wonder. I just don't know. He looks at me kinda like he might... Wonder if I could hold him. Is that right, Keith? Oh, he's a fine boy. Isn't that a darling little boy? Harrell? Terrell--Terrell Keith Walker.
31f All right, sir. [The brother has a conversation with Brother Branham--Ed.] Yeah. This little girl is... Brother Grimsley, our... Grimby. I--I get that mixed up. I got a Brother Grimsley; I can't think... Brother Grimby brings this little girl. And when she was born, she had a big knot in her face. And I prayed for her and the knot healed. And now... They want to pray because... Is the parents Christians? They're not Christians, and they're afraid that a evil spirit is taking the child over. And they want it moved. 32 I love Him. Don't you? He is wonderful. Now, everybody, I promised tonight that I would be out by eight-thirty, so that gives me a half hour. I don't know now, about that; I may be just a little bit later than that. But let us now...
33 I'm glad to see Brother Dauch here this morning. And I don't know where the other man went; but this morning, if he ever had a second, there was a man setting right back there, was a perfect second to him. I said, "Which is Brother Dauch?" I looked back and forth, and I was going to name him; I was so wrapped up in the message. You know, Brother Dauch, you look just like you always did. I'm so glad to see him in that condition. 35 I remember Brother Dauch, when he come into the pool here to be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, and he didn't even have any clothes here to be baptized in, but wanted to go anyhow. And God has been gracious to that man. Just think, he's twenty years over the time that God promised. See? If that isn't grace... And still laying, the other day, with a complete heart failure, and a heart attack (See?) on top of that. And if God didn't heal that man and bring him up again. I believe...?... And I believe since then his physician has died. Is that right? I under... Yes, they... Even the physician, a Jewish physician that--that was doctoring him and things, and stood in the hall and talked to me about him, he's done gone on. See? My, how much... How deep is Thy love, O Lord. How great is Thy love.
36 Now, we have some handkerchiefs here that we're going to pray over just in a few moments, but I'm going to speak to you a little bit on faith. And then we'll see what the Lord leads, what we're going to do from then on. Well, let's just leave it up to Him; that's the best way.
40 There's so many things I could say, I'd just take up all the time, but I--I don't get to see you so often, and I--I--I just love to talk to you somehow. But if I don't get to tell you, all I think about you, here... See? I want to tell them brothers; some of them dismissed their churches.
43 And while the harvest is ripe and the laborers are few, let's dig right into it, by chance there might be a sinner setting by. There might be someone that tonight might change the whole course. And if it wasn't the time this morning, tonight might close the books. Remember, there will not be one more come in when them names are redeemed. Before... 45 See, all in the Lutheran age, He pulled them out. All in the Wesley age, He pulled them out. All in the different ages, the Pentecostal age, He pulls them out. They're over here, won't be judged with them, they're rapturing. And then, when the last name comes out, that was put on the Lamb's Book of Life, that was slain before the foundation of the world; when that last name has been redeemed, His work is finished. He comes forth to claim what He has redeemed. That makes our heart bleed. But if it went on a thousand years later, there would not be one redeemed. And no one can be redeemed unless they were put on the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the world. Who are they? I don't know. Nobody else knows (See?), just God alone. I'm trusting that every one of us, our names are on that Book. If mine was on there, I'm sure to be there. If it wasn't, I won't be there; that's all. See, it's just--that's just up to God. "It's not him that willeth, him that runneth, but God that showeth mercy." See? 46 Now, let us now approach the Word with all reverence and sincerity. And I think that's one thing we must do. See? Let's stop so much nonsense. Be reverent, sincere. I noticed those confessions sometimes when they--on television, when they had that Billy Graham's meeting, not nothing against Billy Graham. But out there in California, the man preached a wonderful message, that last night, preached the very same thing that I preached here not long ago on Daniel, "Thou are weighed in the balance and found wanting." How many saw it? Many of you, I guess. 47 Look, did you notice those people coming from the aisles, chewing chewing gum, laughing, punching one another? That's not walking up between death and Life. That's not sorry for sin and repentance. See? It's just what Billy said, "Making a decision." And a cold, dry-eyed decision is nothing (See?), not a thing. You've got to be sorry for sin and turn from it. And Billy himself said, "Proves that out of thirty thousand, you can't find thirty in a year." Said other day, "What's the matter with New York? I had that great meeting there and what happened? Sin's worse than it ever was." And it will continue to get worse. 48 There will be no national repentance; the nation is gone; just you individuals, and soon that'll be over if it isn't already. Now, you just mark that down, you young children. See how far Brother Branham (It ain't Brother Branham), that what I've said is right or wrong. Sin will get worse and worse until one day the skies will catch on fire; she'll fall to the earth and the earth will burn with fervent heat. But the redeemed won't be here then; they'll be gone.
49 Now, in the Book of St. Mark the 11th chapter, I John 4:4, and Matthew 28:20, I wish to read.
And on the morrow, when they... came from Bethany, he was hungry:And seeing a fig tree far off having leaves, he came, if happily he might find any thing thereon: and when he come to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee from henceforth for ever. And his disciples heard it.And they came to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and begin to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that sold doves;And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.And he taught, saying unto them, It is... written, My Father's house shall be called the... of all nations the house of prayer? but you have made it a den of thieves.And the scribes and the chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they... for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.And when evening was come, he went out of the city.
And in the morning,... (Now, that's another day.)... as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. (Within twenty-four hours, the miracle had taken place, after He said to it, "No man eat." Nothing, looked like, happened then; but by the next day, it was dried up.)And Peter calling to remembrance said unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou did curse is withered away.... Jesus answering him said unto them, Have faith in God.For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he said shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.Therefore I say unto you, What things soever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.And when you stand praying, forgive, if you have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses. (It's on condition.)
52 Now, I would like to read I John 4:4.
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because... (Listen close.)... greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
May I read it again now.
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them:... (talking of the antichrist)... because greater is he that's in you, than he that is in the world. (Two pronouns... See? He, personal pronoun, and he that's in the world, and He that's in you; He that's in you is greater than he that's in the world.)
54 Now, and the--the 28th chapter of St. Matthew and the 20th verse:
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:... lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world...
Now, a text from that tonight, I would like to use this as a text: "He That Is In You." And on this I wish to build faith, of course, for a prayer service. And...?... just as quick...
56 Now, it is as I have told you, I like to post you on events that has taken place, and I usually wait until I come to the--the church here to say the events; and then if others likes to hear it, they can pick it up through the tapes, but I wait till I'm here. And there is at least, to this event that I'm going to tell you about just now, there's several men here that's witness of these, Christian brothers. One that was present was Brother Banks Wood. Another that was present was Brother David Wood. Another that's present here was Brother Evans and his son, Ronald. Another one was present is our noble deacon Brother Wheeler. And another present was Brother Mann. Is Brother Mann here from New Albany, a Methodist preacher that I baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ just recently? He was there also when this happened. 57 It's been for some time, for a few years, that I have had a deep burden on my chest that I--in my heart. It felt to me as if I had done something wrong. And I searched my life over and over and over to see what was wrong: "Lord, if--if I've done anything wrong, then You just reveal it to me what's wrong, and I'll go and make it right." But nothing would be revealed to me. I'd say, "Did I hurt somebody? Did I leave something undone? Have I... Do I read enough? Do I pray enough?" And I'd read and pray and--and I'd--I'd think, "Reveal it to me. Did I harm somebody somewhere? If I did, I'll make it right. Just show me; I don't want this burden." And for the last five years since I come off the field, there's been a burden hanging in my heart. 58 I've went to the mountain. I've went to the seaside. I've went everywhere and prayed and prayed and prayed, and it just wouldn't let up. And I've thought of everything, if I done anything. But it still, it wouldn't let up; I was just in bondage like. And it's very strange that this would be lifted just at the time this message come forth (See?), of this morning. Now, was it God holding back for this? I don't know. See, I... These things is all in my mind. You can imagine what's in a man's heart when you put up with that. See? To think of what is taking place, and know to tell the people, knowing that some will get the wrong slant, and some will go this a-way, and that way, and you know how it is; some will believe, and some won't, and... But that's what you have to put up with. 59 How can you say it without hurting? How can you say it, that it'll take effect? How can you say it to show the people that you're not--not picking on them, that you love them? How can you be strict and firm, and yet be loving and... Oh, how you going to present it? And then woe unto me if I don't present it. See? And there you are. See? It... No wonder it keeps you nervous and tore up. 60 I had come down from--from--come up from Arizona to meet a bunch of brethren here, that goes hunting with me up in Colorado each year. Now, some people has wondered, "Why do you go hunting? What makes you?" See, here you are filling up; I'm emptying out. There I'm filling up so I can empty out. See? Now, I don't go just to shoot game. Why, people, anyone here that goes with me, knows that I passed by hundreds of head of game and never even touch them. I don't.
61 Now, here not long ago, I begin to shoot game for the Christian business Men. When they go and say, "Billy, get me a bull, get me a cow, get a elk, get me this, or that, the other." I'd go out and just shoot game from right and left. The Lord helped me so I could see, and find game, and pretty fair shooting, and hit them. And--and they just set around and talk about their business. 63 So I just go to be alone. And any man that ever goes hunting with me, knows I don't hunt with anybody. I go out to myself to get alone. I go with them to have fellowship at night, and stand around and pray and so forth, but there was many other ministers there. There was, up in the mountains this year, was our Brother Palmer. I believe I saw him somewhere awhile... Here he is setting here, Brother Palmer. And a Brother Bob Lambert, he was here this morning; I heard him shouting somewhere. I guess he's still here. And then there was a Brother--the two Martin boys; I guess they're here, are you, Martin boys? Brother--the Brother Martin. You called me the other day, that was good; that boy was healed, that brother minister. 64 Are you here, the one that I prayed for on the phone the other day? I forget his name from down in Arkansas there. His wife called me; the man was all swelled up in his side, and high fever, dying. The same man that was called out, down at the--the Little Rock--or the Hot Springs meeting, setting in the meeting, and it's a fine looking fellow. If he's here, I guess he won't raise up now at all. But I forget his name. I can't think of his name. Blair, Brother Blair, somebody... Well, now, setting in the meeting at Little Rock... How many was at... I mean at the Hot Springs. How many was at the meeting? And the Holy Spirit called that young fellow and told him that the Devil was trying to get him to renounce me, to say I was a false prophet. And the man witnessed it was the truth. You see what the Devil was doing? The man don't go to doctors. He don't believe in going to doctors. But the Satan knew this disease was going to strike him, and he could kill him right there. See? So he was trying to get him to renounce me. And the Holy Spirit, in grace, called him out and told him not to do that (the man being a stranger) called him not to do that.
65 And the other night his wife called me and said, "Brother Branham, I believe he's dying." He's is all swelled out, and his fever... He's out of his head nearly." And said, "The last thing he said, 'Call Brother Branham.'" 67 Now, and about twenty four hours, or less than that, our precious brother, I haven't seen him tonight yet, Brother Roy Roberson... And at once, you know, Brother Roy was kind of a military man. If He's here I--I hope he understands, because I--I--I'm not condemning that. But everything is strict; he was a sergeant in the army, you know, and you have to kinda get in used to handling men like they do in the army. "Well, these spiritual things for somebody else," not him. But the Lord spared him. He would've been dead; they laid him out for dead for a long time. The Lord healed him; he's followed ever since. But all this spiritual stuff, he didn't know about, and visions.
68 And here, not long ago, many know the vision that was give to Brother Roy even 'fore I went out there, about him seeing me standing up on the mountain there; and that Light, and a Voice coming from It. That took all doubt from Brother Roy. 76 As we were in Colorado (See?), as we were up there, we went back, and it'd been rear dry. Game was scarce. Brother Wheeler, the Lord blessed him and gave him a--a fine trophy, and we was so happy about that, is the first time he's ever in the woods hunting. And the Lord blessed him. And then I had shot a big trophy that I had looked for for twenty years, been watching him, Brother Banks and I been after him for a long time. And when I did, shooting my rifle in down in the hot country, bringing it up into a cold, it swelled the stock although it was glass bedded, and it shot it several inches off. And hit the animal, standing between trees, where it oughtn't to hit him; lower than that which would've humanely killed the animal in a second. But it hit him so high, it... He jumped and like he fell like that. 77 And Billy was with me, and he said, "That got him." And I thought it did too; but when we went over there, it wasn't. So he said, "You hit a tree." I looked up and down, there was no mark on a tree. And then I went to searching for it. And then, there come a warning sign. There was practically a hundred men, just above us. And Brother Palmer and them is a witness of that. And Brother Evans, that's right, he was there; Brother Welch Evans and his boy Ronnie (I believe I called them awhile ago.). And great loads of men had went up above us, what they call the "cow camp" up there, where the cowboy stays and rides, keeps the cows separated. I used to stay in that camp myself and herd those cattle and keep them apart. 78 And then... So in there there was about a hundred men. But anyone knows in that country, when a blizzard is forecast, you'd better get away right now. That's why Brother Palmer and them left early, because they only had a three-speed transmission in their car, and they had to get out of there, 'cause weather... You're there, and you might stay for weeks. So they said, "There is a blizzard coming," the forecast, the papers, the radio. Load after load, practically everything from up around in there left out. They'd gone, right now, 'cause they knowed to get out of there.
79 But my brethren had two deer license, and they--they didn't want to go. So I--I said, "Well, we'll stay." But I had a meeting coming up in about six days, and I had to go back to Tucson. 82 So that day was our anniversary. And Brother Mann... I said, "Now, if you brethren..." I stood to the fire that morning, "Now, if..." that night, rather, "If you an want to stay now, remember, we may be in here for a month." 'Cause I've seen twenty foot of snow fall just in a little, just overnight, just... You'd go out there and you--just as dry and nice, and the next morning, snow is this deep, over--maybe over top of your tent. So then I said... And then you stay there till that melts off. So you're about fifteen to twenty miles back in the wilderness. And so then I said... And if it gets emergency, 'course they send in helicopters and get you out, but usually they just, nobody perishing, they just have to wait there. 83 So everybody scats just as soon as they hear that broadcast, and or forecast, rather. So we were back there, and I said, "Now, you make up your mind. If you want to stay, I'm here to hunt with you, and I'll call my wife and tell her 'Happy Anniversary!'" But I said, "Then in that, I will also... I'll... We well--we'll get some groceries, 'cause we might have to stay in here." We was out of bread then. And I don't want to see anymore flapjacks for a long time, them pancakes. So then... I'd been eating them in Canada for about twenty-one days, and I sure had a fill of them things. And so then, I wanted to get some bread.
84 So they just said they wanted to stay. So there wasn't nothing to do to stay. But Brother Mann and I went out, and we went down there, and I got the groceries. And I called the wife, and the phone wouldn't answer. No one answered; so I waited about a hour till we got the groceries shopped, went back, called; she didn't answer. And I had to call Sister Evans. I believe Sister Evans is here. And I told... Yeah, Brother Evans and Sister Evans is here. 86 Well, I said to the brethren that morning, "Now, the first drop of rain starts to fall, the first snow, the first sleet, anything, take for the camp just as hard as you can, 'cause within fifteen minutes you can't see your hand before you. See? And it'll just twist and blow, and I don't care how well you know the country, you--you're going to stay right there, and you'll perish. 'Cause sometimes you can't even breathe, the sleet blowing so, you die right there." And I said, "As soon as it starts with that sleet, you take for the camp just at hard as you can; I don't care where you are."
87 Well, I said, "Go up here and set in these gulches, and I'll climb way high and roll rocks over the hill and so forth, scare the deers off the top and run them down; you pick out what you want."
89 How many experiences have I had. I pointed out to the brethren, Brother Palmer and them, the places where the eagle, you know,... I seen him rise up that day, you know, and how... That's the places where it all taken place in there. It's a temperamental thing to me in there. I've had so many great experiences with my Lord up in them mountains. So you just can't go there without seeing Him; He's just everywhere. 92 Brother Tom is here. Brother Tom Simpson, coming down from Canada, heard the forecast, and he was advised not to go through that part of the country, 'cause this forecast said. "It'll be blizzard." Where are you, Brother Tom? I think that... Yeah, right here. And he... The blizzard was coming. Everybody had done set in for it. 93 Well, I put my gun back under my shirt, like this, my red shirt, started walking down the mountain. And as I started, got about half a mile from the saddle; and oh, my, those big drops of snow like that, and the wind twisting up on that mountain and blowing. I couldn't see the bottom no more. I could see about twenty feet in front of me, or thirty, and I knowed to come right down this little, what we call a little hogback, little ridge, and I'd come off to the creek, and then I knowed to follow the creek, and where to go to if it got real bad.
94 And so then I started down, and got about half way down there, and Something said to me, just as plain as you hear me, "Stop and go back."
97 "Go back through that storm, a half a mile or more back up the mountain into that dark timber where you..." Can then hardly see as far as that organ... But I'm getting to be an old man, and I been a Christian now for thirty-three years; and I know no matter what, how ridiculous it seems, mind the Lord. Do what the Lord says.
99 And I just waited a few minutes. And I started to get up again, and just as plain as I've ever want to hear, a voice said, "I am the Creator of heavens and earth. I make the wind and the rain."
106 It was just gushing, just going "Whooosssh," like that. And it started go--going, "Whoosh"; and then went "whew, whew, whew, whew." Stopped... I stood real still. My brethren up there, wondering what was happening. And the sleet and rain stopped. There came a wind whirling down through the mountain, lifted up the clouds, and one went this way: east, north, west, and south. And within a few minutes, the sun was shining nice and warm. That's truth. God knows that's truth. I just stood there, just looking around with my hat off, looking.
112 And as I did, walked along, down along these game trails, I felt like, "I believe I will go up to the place where... yesterday was our anniversary, and I will stand there just a few minutes, just as a little salute to Meda, at where there's a little bunch of quaking asp upon a little knob." And I said, "I believe I'll walk up there, just as a salute to our anniversary. Then I'll go back down on this other side in these dark timbers, and walk around, and go right over by--towards Corral Peaks, and come back down that way."
114 Even to when I come out of the mountains, I stopped at filling stations, and I said, "Beautiful day," three days later. It never rained in that part of the country until the four days was over. The sun shined every day. Is that right, brethren? See? And not a cloud in the sky...
117 I come on down, on the New Mexico line. Billy and I, my son, we went into a little place there to get some--the morning we left, and I said, "Sure a pretty day." 123 Walking up there, I was going along... Now, this part, I hope my wife don't get this tape. See? But I'm going to tell you something. And now, I--I don't tell you... I just tell you the truth. See, and that's the only way to do it. I've often wondered why she didn't complain about me going on these trips on an anniversary. You know what I had made up in my mind? I said, "There's so many people around the house. And then I'm always, you know how I am, nervous, and everything I talk, I want to talk about is God, the Bible, or something. Maybe she just thinks it's a little rest for her. She'd get me away for a few days, go hunting." I, half thinking that, going along there.
124 Now, that I'm... I--I apologize to her, and I'm--I'm ask God to forgive me for such thoughts," 'cause I was going away. I thought, "Well, she thinks... Well, my goodness, she--she's a worker, you know, and--and all the time when she's out in the kitchen or somewhere out in the..."
130 As I was walking along, something happened to me. As I started, first I was thinking about when I taken her on the honeymoon up there, she was a pretty, little, black-headed, brown-eyed girl, and I was lifting her over these logs, you know, and everything, and trying to get her up there in this place where I'd kill some bear. And I wanted to show her, you know, and so where I got these bear. And she had on my cowboy boots. And that's about twenty-two years, or twenty-one years before that, twenty-two years, I believe it was, ago. We were married on 1941. And I was picking her up, you know, over these logs.
132 And so, as I went along like that, something taken place. All of a sudden, in every motion, principle, I was a boy; I thought as a boy. I had my head down, and I looked up and just as plain as I ever saw her, there she stood before me with her arms out. And I stopped, rubbed my face; I looked. Said, "Meda, is that you, honey?"
135 And I just started walking on. And as I climbed this little knoll, just about thirty forty yards in front of me; I started up this little knoll, I begin to feel real weak. And there was a little quaking asp about ten inches through, come up and made like a "L," and then went up again. And just as I got there, I felt so weak I was staggery. So I just... I had my cap back on again. And I just laid my head up against this; fit me just right to lay my head right here against that little quaking asp, like this. It's really a poplar; it's like--looks like a birch. You see? And it's--it's a... I was laying against there. And I was just standing there with my head down, that warm sun hitting me in the back, and I think, "The very God that departed that rain and that wind..."
138 I said, "God, I'm not worthy to be Your servant." I said, "I--I'm sorry; I--I made a... I've made many mistakes. I didn't mean to make mistakes, Lord. You've been so good to me." 145 And those deer stood there and looked at me. And I thought, "They can't get away. There's no way for them to get away. They're not thirty yards from me, and I got this rifle. Standing here, and there's three deer. Aw, I can't do it. I--I just can't do it." It was a doe and two big fawns. So I--I--I just couldn't take the rifle. I said, "I can't." I--I never moved. I just stayed there. I said, "I can't do it, 'cause I promised God I wouldn't do it. Though them brethren, they--they don't need them deer. (See?) Now, I can't do this. I just can't do it."
146 And that doe come, walked... Now, listen, there'd been a hundred men shooting at them up there for four or five days. Scary? The first sign of red (and I had a red shirt, red cap), the first sign, they're gone; but they were standing there, all three of them, looking right at me.
149 I wiped my face like that, and just then something happened. A voice spoke out just as clear, right out of them blue skies, not a cloud. It all been within just about--just a little bit of time. And a voice spoke out, and said, "You remembered your promise, didn't you?"
153 If we only could receive this truth. Now, just a moment. If we only could realize what this Scripture means, "He that is in you is greater than he that's in the world." We can't understand that, yet we say we believe it. And we know it's true, but we really don't understand it. "Greater is He that's in you, than he that's in the world." What is in you that's greater? It's Christ, the anointed; God that was in Christ is in you. "Greater is He that's in you, than he that's in the world." 155 Now, that doesn't mean He has to do it to everybody. In the time that Moses led the children of Israel, there was one: that was Moses. The rest of them just followed the message. See? Some of them tried to rise up to impersonate it. And God said, "Separate yourself," and just swallowed them up. See, see?
156 Now... But He that's in you is greater than he that's in the world. God in you, like He was in Jesus Christ, because what all God was, He poured into Christ; and all Christ was. He poured into the Church. See? That's God in you. "He that's in you..." 158 The wind... Now, remember, God created the winds; it's air. God created the waves; it's water. But when the Devil got into it, he got it tumbling to bring destruction. God created men to be sons of God, but when the Devil gets into them (See?), it's trouble. Now, that was the Devil that got into the winds that sent that storm. Couldn't the Creator that created the wind, say, "Go back, where I created you"? Isn't that the same Creator was standing on Colorado hill the other day? See? Isn't that the same One that could take a piece of fish and break it, and another piece grow on? He didn't actually have to have that. He could've said it. Isn't that the same Creator that created squirrels? Then He that was in Christ is in us. See? For It does the same works He did, the same thing. The dead could not stand in His Presence at His Word. 159 Look, we have five bonafide statements of people dead, and the Lord giving vision, and going to them and raising them back. Here sets one right here now, that died right where he's setting right there. And here he is alive. Now, he fell in a heart attack. There's his wife, a nurse. We went down; and everything was gone, his eyes was set and gone. Here he is alive. See? For greater is He that's in here, in us, than he that's in the world. See? 160 Greater is He. It's God the Creator. The winds and the waves had to obey Him. Demons become paralyzed. All nature obeyed Him, because He was the Creator of nature. Oh, when we think that, it takes the bite out. Then we understand these things. You see? What is it? It isn't man. Man cannot do that; man's part of the creation. See? But it's the winds and the waves that obeys the Creator. See? And it takes the Creator to do it, "For He that's in you is greater than he that's in the world." He that can cause the turmoil, that's he that's in the world. He that's in you is the Creator Who made the wind; He can rebuke the Devil out of the winds, and there's a calm. He can rebuke the Devil out of the storm, and there's no storm. He's the Creator; "and greater is He that's in you, than he that's in the world."
161 See, the Devil is of the world. The world belonged to him. It's always been his. "Why art thou fallen, O Lucifer, the son of the morning?" See, this world belonged to him. That's when he kicked out of heaven, he come back to it. See?
164 He that--that created the heavens and earth, was made manifest in the Person of Jesus Christ: God in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. That say... You say, "That wasn't the Son of God though, Brother Branham." All right, let's find out if He's the eternal everlasting God. 166 He that was in Moses was greater than Egypt. Egypt was the mighty armies of the world; they had the world conquered at that time. But greater was He that was in Moses than Egypt was, because Moses overcome Egypt. Greater was He that was in Moses than even nature itself. Did you ever think that God took His Word and give It to Moses, and said, "Go out there and command that the sun don't shine." And the sun was pitch dark. Is that right? He can make the sun to shine and the clouds to go back, or He can make the sun to be black. He's God; He can do whatever He wishes to, and He is in the believing child. Amen. That's it.
167 There wasn't a flea in sight. It might've been wintertime; there's no flies, but God said to Moses, "Go, speak My Word. Now, I'll put in your mind what to say. And you go out there and pick up some dirt off the ground, and throw it up into the air, the dust, and said, 'Let there be fleas.'" And fleas was crawling, probably several inches deep all over the ground in a few hours. Is that right? The Creator...
170 When he come to the Red Sea and it was in his way, God said, "Speak to the sea." And Moses spoke to the sea; and greater is He that was in Moses than the sea was itself. Is that right? Oh, my. Now, you see, greater was He that was in Moses than he that's in the world. Greater is He that was in Moses than any nature there is in the world. He commanded nature at... Whatever God told him to say, he said it, and that's the way it was. 172 Here the other day they had found a--a--some kind of a dinosaur tooth up here around... of... I guess you all heard about it, up here at the Niagara Falls. Said, "It weighed six pound." I thought they was going to say it come out of a man, but I--I think they finally defined it as some kind of a prehistoric animal. Those animals probably lived one time on the earth. Where are they now? Do you know, God Almighty could command dinosaurs to come upon this earth; in the next hour, they'd be forty miles deep. You know, God could destroy this world with fleas? He could call for fleas. Where do they go when they die? What happens to the housefly? Whatever happens to the grasshopper? Wintertime comes and goes forty below zero; and go out the next spring, grasshoppers all over everywhere. Where did they come from? He's the Creator that speaks it into existence. He's God. Nature obeys His Word.
173 Where many of our brethren gets excited, they get impressed that God says do a certain thing, and they say it's THUS SAITH THE LORD when it isn't. That's the reason it don't happen. But when it's God really telling you, it's got to happen; it's got to be that way. When God speaks it, it has to be.
175 Greater... He that was in Daniel, was greater than the lions. He could stop them hungry lions. So anything you can stop anything is greater than what he stopped. So the lions rushed out, hungry, to eat Daniel; and greater was He that was in Daniel than he that was in the lion.
177 Greater was He that was in the Hebrew children, greater was He that was in them than he that was in the fire. For they was throwed into the fire; and He that was in them, was with them and kept the fire from burning them, when the furnace was het seven times hotter than it ever was het, heated. That right? Greater was He that was with the Hebrew children than he that was in the world.
179 Greater was He that was in Elijah than the brassy skies was, 'cause he could bring the rain out of a brassy skies that hadn't rained for three years and six months. Greater is He that was in Elijah than death, for when it come time for him to die... God seen that old, tired prophet, he'd been rebuking Jezebel and all of her paint and modern things, and he was kinda tired, so He didn't even let him walk home like He did Enoch; He sent a chariot and picked him up and took him up home. Greater is He that was in Elijah, than he that was in Jerusalem, in Judaea, and in the mountains; greater was He, is in Elijah than death itself. Greater is He that was in Elijah than the grave; 'cause he escaped the grave; he escaped death; and he just went up home in a chariot. See? Greater was He, and He was in Elijah.
182 Then what about healing the sick? See? Greater is He that's in you than the sickness. See? Because that's a interruption, interrupting the very laws of God, sickness is. Where greater is He that's in you, that's the Healer and Creator, than the--than the Devil that's interrupted the very program of your life. "Greater is He that's in you than he that's in the world." See? Greater was He that was in Elijah. Greater was He in Isaiah than time was; or any of those prophets, because they seen apast the time. See? 184 Listen, wish we had time to go further on this. But I'd like to ask a question, that I heard remarked the other day, about Christ in you. Now, don't--don't go rest upon something that you've done, say, "I felt a little shiver. I--I--I spoke in tongues. I--I danced in the Spirit." Nothing against that now; that's all right (See?); but--but don't rest upon that. See? Your life's got to be This. This is It. You and This has to become one. See? And then This manifests Itself. See?
185 Now, what if--what if tonight that you could say with all your heart, that the spirit of Shakespeare lived in you, that Shakespeare lived in you? You know what you'd do? You'd do the works of Shakespeare. You'd--you would--you would create poems, and--and plays, and so forth, because Shakespeare was that type of an artist (a great writer, a poem writer). Now, if Shakespeare lived in you, the works of Shakespeare you would do. Is that right?
187 But He that is in you is Christ. And if Christ is in you, the works of Christ you'll do, if Christ lives in you. He said so, St. John 14:12, "He that believeth in Me, the works that I do shall he do also." If you was in Christ, or if--if Christ lived in you... Then Christ is the Word. Is that right? And the Word come to His prophets. See? And if you--Christ lived in you, the works of Christ would be done through you, the Life of Christ would be lived through you. The works He did, the life He lived, and everything, it would live in you, just like if Shakespeare, Beethoven, or--or whoever it was, lived in you. 189 "When thou prayeth, believe that you receive what you asked for, and it shall be given to you. If you say to this mountain, 'Be moved,' and don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you say will come to pass, you can have what you say. The Father worketh, and I worketh hitherto. 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." See? And when the Father showed Him what to do, walked out there without a failure of anything, and said, "Let it be," and it was. And that same Christ lives in you and lives in us. Then His works we'll do, because Christ is the Word. And a promise of the Word brings healing to you. Do you believe that? Sure. 190 He said, "I will not leave you comfortless," as I pray--asked awhile ago there in Matthew 24 (See?), or Matthew 28:20. See? He said, "I will come to you, be in you. I (the Person, Christ in the form of the Holy Ghost) will come and live in you. Then you won't be your... You won't be yourself no more; I'll be in you. And greater is He that's in you than he that's in the world." See? Hebrews 13:8 says He's the same yesterday and forever. 191 He that was in Noah was greater than the judgment of water. And He that's in you is greater than the judgments of fire. See? He that's in you is greater, because He paid the judgment and conquered the judgment for you. See? There's no fear about it. See, you're in there. Yes. Greater is He that was in Noah, than he that was in the judgments of the water that destroyed the world which believed not, because Noah believed. And greater was He in him that believed Him that spoke to him, than he that was in the world. That Noah escaped all the judgment because of the Word of God was greater than that, and he lifted above the judgment. Greater; how we could hang on that for a while. See?
192 Greater is He that was in David than the bear that stole his sheep. Greater was He that was in David than the lion that come in and took one of his lambs. Greater is He that was in David than the enemy Goliath, the great Philistine that stood there some twelve, fourteen feet tall, with fourteen-inch fingers on him, with a spear like a weaver's needle, and covered all over with two or three inches thick of steel, or metal, brass. But what was in David was greater than what it was in him. He was power and muscles. He was a warrior. He could just--said he'd pick up David by the end of his spear and hang him up, and let the birds eat him.
194 Greater is He that's in you than that wheelchair. Greater is he that's in you than that stretcher. Greater is He that's in you than that cancer. Greater is He that's in you than that affliction. Greater is He than anything that there is the Devil could put on you. "Greater is He that's in you than he that's in the world." Greater is He. Yes.
196 That's how these miracles happen. That's how that wind ceased, the other day. Could a human being do that? No, sir, it's impossible. When I stood there crying, and them waves a-ripping and... How many's in here, was up there? Let's see you raise your hands. Raise your hands up, everybody was up there that--up--up in Colorado then there at that time. All right, Brother Fred, I guess, is the only one that was present then. I thought maybe Brother Mann was here, but he... Brother--Brother Evans, wasn't he? Brother Evans was up there that time. Yeah. All right. And... Yeah. 198 Now, that's why these true miracles can be done, because it's a promise of God: "The things that I do, shall you do also," St. John 14:12. He, Christ, that stilled the winds and the waves, is the Creator of them. He's still just as much Creator as He was then; He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. He healed the sick, and destroyed sin, and changed it all for you, and come to you that He might dwell with you. He conquered all these to come and live in us. He is that Conqueror that's already conquered these things, proved it in the Scriptures, come back and conquered everything, and proved to you that He is the same God; and after nineteen hundred years, here He's still doing the same thing among us that He did then. He conquered death, hell, sickness, and the grave.
199 This Christ, this He, He is... He that's in you; He is Christ. As John said, "He that's in you is greater than he that's in the world." That was Christ. He is greater than all of the world because He conquered the world, and is the greater than all those things because He conquered it for us; and we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us and gave Hisself for us, that He might come back and do His works through us to prove to us that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
200 We know that the dead has been raised, right from the dead. Some of them's been dead for a day and a half, or died one morning and they brought it back that night, and traveled all night and the next day about noon, or a little after noon that come in to where the tent was, a little dead baby, cold, and laying in the mother's arms. See? And the Lord God spoke the Word of life, and that baby warmed up and started crying, and hand it back to its mother's arm.
202 Now, the Word of God promised that He lives; and because He lives, you live. He promised that "The works that I do, shall you also; the same things, only more of it, will you do, because I go to the Father." He conquered all things. He's the One that stopped... He's the One that made those squirrels. That happened two times. Happened once down at your place, Charlie. And it happened; it happened up here, when brethren, Brother Fred and Brother Banks, and them up there with us.
204 And they called the storm, and I... Even that great big tent, setting out like that... Oh, my, cover about a city block; and it built up, built out of two-by-four's, and just canvas tacked over it. The wind got under there and just raised it, like that. That wind and lightening a-flying like that, I just continually preached.
209 And the thunders going, "Bang, bang, bang, went grrrrrr," and rolled away; and right straight over the tent, blowed back, and the sun shined out.
212 Now, I've went way overtime. It's fifteen minutes about after nine. And I know there's people, a long way to drive. Let's bow our heads just a moment.
215 And, Lord, we don't know what this Third Pull, as we have referred to it, will be. I don't know what. But we know one thing, that the First Pull was perfection. The Second Pull, being the five, was grace. And, God, I pray tonight that You will reveal Yourself to us, that after these things, saying, "He that's in you..." And You said, "The works that I do, shall you do also," and said You did nothing till the Father showed You.
217 You told... It was Bartimaeus' blind condition as he stood there; but yet, in his heart he had a sight that he could see that if that was Jehovah manifested in the Sonship of Jesus Christ, that He was able to know his cry. And he cried out, "Thou Son of David, have mercy on me." And it stopped You, and You turned and healed him, O Father, telling him that his faith had saved him.
220 Now, I don't... Is there prayer cards? I--I told Billy not... Is anybody got a prayer card? All right, that's right; I told him not to give them out. I thought maybe I'd get a little long, as I... Oh, I just talk so much. But look... See? And you told me, when I said, "I'll try to be out eight-thirty," you laughed, and I--I knew you knew what you were talking about. And I--I... But I--I love you.
222 Now, how many people in here is sick in their body, don't know me, but you believe that you have faith enough to touch the High Priest, raise up your hand, say, "I believe it." All right. Oh, there's practically everywhere, hands. All right. How many in here that knows me and knows I know nothing about what you have need of, and you want God to touch you, raise up your hand. See, see? All right. | ||||||