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There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. (John 3:1-3)

19 No matter how much you go to church, how well your name is engraved on its stained windows, or whatmore, or on its book, it’ll never mean nothing to you, until you are a witness of the resurrection of Jesus Christ by the infilling of the power of the Holy Spirit. You are taking somebody else’s word. Why, I’d say…

“Well, Brother Branham, I know that Jesus is the Christ, ’cause the Bible said so.” The Bible is right, but what do you know about it? See? It’s an individual affair with every individual. It must be a personal witness that every person must have in order to know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, is when His Spirit bears record with your spirit, in an experience of the new birth, borned again and you cry, “Abba, Father.”

20 Oh, my. If we had a world like that tonight, the Millennium would be on, wouldn’t it? That’s right. When your spirit bears record with His Spirit that you’re sons and daughters of God, then you are witnesses of God.

Someone said the other day, said, “Brother Branham, you believe God by faith. Abraham believed God by faith and that’s all that you can do. There is no experience with it.”

I said, “Oh, yes, my brother.”

He said, “How… What more can you do than believe God?”

I said, “That’s all you can do.”

Said, “That’s what I thought.”

I said, “But Abraham believed God. By faith he believed God and God gave him the confirmation of his faith by the sign of circumcision. And we believe God by faith, and God gave us the baptism of the Holy Ghost as a sign of the seal of the promise of our faith.” See, see? Ephesians 4:30 says, “Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby you’re sealed until the day of your redemption.” That’s the seal of the covenant now, is the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

21 You believe God and say you believe God, and haven’t received the Holy Spirit, there’s something wrong with your faith. ’Cause God’s under obligation to give every believer that repents and is baptized, is under obligation to give you the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And He’s more willing to give it to you, than you are to receive it. That’s right. So there’s something wrong somewhere. You just got a mental faith and instead of a heart faith. For God’s under obligation to keep His Word.

He said, “Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and your children, to them that’s far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.” That’s true. And God’s got to keep that promise. Yes, sir.

54-0303 - "Witnesses"

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And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage. And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come. His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it. And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece. Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim. And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it. When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom, And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now. This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him. (John 2:1-11)

23 Now, let’s just pray just a moment. Now, Father, anoint these words that’s been read, and may They sink deep into the hearts of these sick people, and all that’s in the building, we ask in Christ’s Name. Amen.

I’d like to take this just for a—a moment or two here, just a—for the—a—a little time. You’re so good out here and respond so much to the ministry of preaching, till I just couldn’t hardly leave without saying a word or two, like that.

So now, let’s take it was the just beginning of His ministry. He’d just went out and performed a miracle and turned water into wine. How I’d like to beat on that just for a minute, to show what He will do in the resurrection. How it eventually would’ve been wine. It would’ve been wine, all right, and it went up through the vine, into the grape, out to the vat, soured, fermented, come on out and was wine. But He just bypassed every bit of that, and made it from water to wine. See?

That’s the way He will do in the resurrection. I won’t have to live to be a twenty-two or twenty-three years old at my best again. My, be an old man shaking, broke down like that. He will just change it. Amen. Just bypass all that. Mrs. Branham and Mr. Branham will not have to be constituted or anything involved in my birth. He will just call me from the dust, and I’ll be just what I was at my best, so will you.

24 Every person in here will turn back to a young person again. When you got to be your… You take dad and mother setting out there, many of you. It hasn’t been too long.

I’m looking at an old couple setting here now, many of you, hair turning gray. Wasn’t long till you led her down to the altar. She was a beautiful young girl. You was a strapping young man. He… Holy wedlock, you was united together by God Almighty.

And first thing you know, it was… Oh, how strong, how she admired him as a beautiful young man and him a—her a pretty, young girl. But, first thing you know, you got up one morning, you said, “Mama, you know, there’s coming little wrinkles under your eyes.”

She said, “Dad, I just happened to notice the gray hair coming.” What’s happening? Death set in. Right. It’s going to get you. God’s ordained it so.

25 I asked a doctor the other day; I said, “I want to ask you something, doctor. Every time I eat, I renew my life. Is that right?”

“Yes, sir,” he said.

I said, “When I was a young man, I kept eating, eating, and every time I get stronger, stronger. All at once I eat the same food; I’m getting older all the time. Why is that?” I said, “Figure that one out.

54-0221 - "At Thy Word, Lord"

One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone. (John 1:40-42)

27 Now, when Jesus took His earthly ministry, let’s follow Him a few minutes, and watch what kind of a thing He did to prove He was the Messiah; and watch the attitudes of the people. Now, not to be rude, but let me repeat that again, so that you’ll be sure to know it’s a double statement that I’m making, the same statement twice: Let us see what He did in that day to prove He was the Messiah. And what He did then to show He was Messiah, if He’s the same today, He will do the same today. See?

And remember, He did not visit the Gentiles, and forbid His church to do the same, only the Jews and the Samaritans. And the Samaritans was half Jew and Gentile. And there’s only three classes of people on the earth, any way you want to take it; that’s Ham, Shem, and Japheth’s people; that’s Jew, Gentile and Samaritan. That’s the tribes of the earth, after the antediluvian destruction. Noah’s children, we all sprung from them. The places we live changed our color: white, black, brown, yellow, whatever it was, but all together, one human race. One can give the other one a blood transfusion and live.

28 Now notice, then Jesus, the first thing He… We find Him in Saint John 1, there was a man named Andrew, who saw Jesus, and believed on Him as the Messiah, and went quickly to get his brother, Simon. And when Simon, who later was called “Peter, Cephas” which is by interpretation “a stone, little stone…”

When he found Peter, he said, “Come now, and go with me.” And he brought him to Jesus. And we learn that Peter was an ignorant man, unlearned; I doubt whether he could sign his own name. The Scripture says, “He was both ignorant and unlearned.” Then why do we have to have so much scholarship? I’d just like to ask that simple question to you ministers; I don’t know which side you’re on. I want to ask you a question.

29 When Paul was converted, no doubt the church at Jerusalem said, “We’ve got the man now who can match the wits with these Pharisees. He’s smart; he’s intelligent. We got the man now (after Paul had been saved), and we’ll send this ignorant fisherman—who’s the head of the church here now at Jerusalem—we’ll send him out amongst the ignorant.”

Do you notice what God did? He took Paul, the educated, and sent him among the ignorant, and took the ignorant one and sent him among the educated ones. See, God does things in His own way. It’s simple faith to believe God; that’s what it takes.

But as soon as Jesus laid eyes upon this man, Peter, He said, “Your name is Simon, and your father’s name is Jonas.” How that must’ve struck him. Your… “Your name is Simon.” Never seen him before in his life… “And your father’s name is Jonas.”

And by this, it struck Simon. “This must be that Prophet.” And he accepted Jesus as his Saviour, was filled with the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost and become the head of the church, because he recognized that was the sign of the Messiah.

60-0109 - "Sirs, We Would See Jesus"

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But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. (John 1:12-14)

26 Not long ago up in the mountains, I met a man, an old trapper. And he told me, he said… He was supposed to have a real education. He was a scientist, had been. And he come up there in the winter and went to trapping, and just liked it much better; so he stayed because it was peaceful.

And he said to me; he said, “You believe that story about the virgin birth?”

I said, “Every Word of it.”

Said, “You don’t really believe that, Billy.”

And I said, “Yes, I do, every Word of it.”

He said, “Why, it’s impossible.” Said, “He couldn’t have been born like that.” Said, “That’s against all scientific research.”

I said, “I don’t know what scientific research it’s against, but it’s not against God’s Word.” And I said, “God said that He was His Son, and I believe it.”

He said, “Well, depends on who you think God was. If you want to say Joseph was God, it’s all right.”

I said, “Joseph was a man like you and I. But God is Jehovah, the Spirit of God, the Spirit that brood over the earth.”

He said, “Oh, that’s impossible.” He said, “Billy,” he said, “corn can’t even make… or nothing.” Said, “No baby could be born without actual contact between male and female.”

I said, “Grampy, I hate to dispute your word as an old man, but,” I said, “you’re wrong there.”

He said, “You don’t really believe that that baby was born.”

I said, “I believe that Jehovah God overshadowed a little virgin called Mary, and created in her womb a blood cell without knowing any man at all, and from there came the son of God.”

27 And we’re not born into that by His righteous, Holy Blood, without sexual desire. He died at Calvary, giving His Blood that we could be free from sin. Brother, you believe that? If you don’t, you’re lost. That’s all. Because it’s in the Blood.

We’re saved by the Blood of God. The… We’re the blood of our father. Jesus was the Blood of His Father, which was holy, unadulterated Blood, not by sexual desire, but by Holy Ghost was He born, conceived in the womb of Mary, and was born. I believe it with all my heart.

He said, “I just can’t see that that could be so.” Said, “Because it could not produce without actual contact.” And he said, “And no, they had to be…”

I said, “Look, Grampy. Will you admit to me then…” After a few days of argument. He met down there in a—in a little old cabin where there’s a bunch of men. He started again. I said, “Will you admit to me that He had an earthly mother, but it’s impossible for anything to be borned on this earth without having a literal father and mother.”

He said, “That’s exactly right.”

I said, “Well, I want to ask you something then. If you say it’s impossible for Him to be here by Jehovah God, the Creator, without a hea—earthly father, yet you give Him credit for having a earthly mother, then how did the first man get here without father or mother?” He had to have a pappy and mammy somewhere, let him be a tadpole, monkey, whatever you want to call it; he had to have a papa and a mama according to him. He’s never answered me yet today. He… That’s right. And he can’t. God the Creator made man in His own image. That’s the way I believe it.

He said, “Well, Darwin said so-and-so.”

I haven’t got faith enough to believe that. I just believe what God said about it. My faith is what the Lord said.

50-0716 - "Believest Thou This?"

And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God? Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the Lord, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law; And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me: Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour. (Jeremiah 16:10-13)

284 A little story. A little kid, one time, lived out in the country. He never seen a mirror, and he came into the city to see his mother’s sister. And she had a home…and the old-fashioned homes used to have a mirror on the door; I don’t know whether you remember that or not. But this little boy, he had never seen a mirror. So he’s playing around the house, and he looked in the… “Huh?” He looked at that little boy. And he waved, and the little boy waved. And he pulled his ear, and the little boy pulled his ear. And on like that. He kept walking up, close, and he turned around and said, “Mama! That’s me!” That’s me.

285 What do you look like? What are you following? What have we done? You must choose your leader. Choose today. You choose Life or death. Your choice will determine your Eternal destination, what you choose. Remember, Jesus said, “Follow Me.” And you’re invited tonight to do so. And to follow Him to Eternal Life you must come on His terms, that’s right, the Word. Not upon the creed, not upon the public opinion, not upon what anybody else thinks about It, but on what God said about It.

286 You say, “Well, Brother Branham, I know a woman just as good as she can be, she does this. I know a man that went through this.”

287 I can’t help what they done. God’s Word, He said, “Let every man’s word be a lie, and Mine be the Truth.” You’ve got to come on His terms, come on His conditions, the Word. You cannot come through creed. You cannot come through denomination. You cannot mix It like that. There’s only one thing you can do: accept It on His terms, that you’re willing to die to yourself and all your thoughts, and follow Him. “Get rid of all the things of the world, and follow Me.”

288 I know that’s a stern, cutting Message, brother. But I didn’t come here and choose a—a message to the people just to try to make them sing, shout, holler. I been in heathen meetings where they done the same thing. I’m interested in your life. I’m a servant of God that’s got to answer to God someday, and the ministry that the Lord has given me has vindicated itself thousands of times before you.

289 Remember, Jesus said, “Follow Me. Follow Me. Get rid of what you got, and follow Me.” And that’s the only way to have Eternal Life. That’s the only remedy He give this man, was the only remedy He give this businessman, it’s the only remedy He gives anybody. His choice, He makes His decision, it’s perfect every time. And we must follow Him, is the only way to have Eternal Life. So the leadership of God is: follow the vindicated Word of the hour by the Holy Ghost.

Let us bow our heads.

65-1207 - "Leadership"

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Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. (Luke 24:25-27)

120 Now He might have said, “Cleopas, and your friend here, did not Moses say that in these days the Lord God would raise up a Prophet? And this Man that they crucified, did He meet that qualification? Now, Moses prophesied this. And now you haven’t had a prophet for hundreds and hundreds of years, and here this Man raised up. And what was this Man’s forerunner, did you say?” Get it? And all the prophets said about Him, for His age, He spoke to them. It sure would have been interested to listen at Him. Wouldn’t you liked to heard Him? I’d like to heard Him, to hear Him, what He said that the prophets said about Himself, but He never said it was Him. He just showed them by prophecy. He just said, “The prophet said this would happen.” See?

121 Let’s just go back a few minutes, and now let’s listen to the Words quoted from Himself. Watch here, the Word Itself quoting the Word of Himself. The Word Itself quoting the Word of Himself. Not tell them that He was that, but just let the Word speak for Itself, then they know Who He was. The letter of the Word, quoting the Word in…The Word in flesh, quoting the Word of the letter, being fully identified with Himself. Look here, now let’s listen to Him quote. How…Now, we know that they were all briefed of the late happenings, that is, of the crucifixion and of the story of the resurrection, the tomb, as we just read. Now He goes straight to the Word of prophecy about Himself. Now let’s just think that He said this; He said a lot more than this, but watch.

122 Let’s say Him…hear Him say, “Turn over to Zechariah 11:12. And wasn’t the Messiah to be sold, according to the prophet, for thirty pieces of silver? You just said that this Man was sold for thirty pieces of silver. Turn over…” You getting them Scriptures? Zechariah 11:12. And then He said, “Did you notice what David said in the Psalms, Psalm 41:9? He was be betrayed by His friends. And then again, in Zechariah 13:7, He was forsaken by His disciples. And in Psalms 35:11, accused by false witnesses. You just said He was. Isaiah 53:7, He was dumb before His accusers. Isaiah 50:6, they scourged Him, the prophet said. Psalms 22, He was to cry on the cross, ‘My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?’ Did He do that, day before yesterday afternoon? Psalms 22 again, 18, His garments was parted among them. Did they do that? And Psalms 22:7 to 8, mocked by His enemies, the church. Psalms 22 again, there was not a bone in His body to be broke, but ‘they pierced My hands and My feet,’” He said. Holding His hands behind Him, no doubt, at the time. “Isaiah 53:12 said He would die between malefactors. Isaiah 53:9 said He was buried with the rich. Psalms 16:10 said, ‘I will not leave His soul in hell, neither will I suffer My Holy One to see corruption.’ And was not Malachi 3 the forerunner of this Man?” Oh, I’d like to have heard Him quote that. Look at the prophecies! Notice, then all the types He might have went through, about Isaac, in Genesis 22, how God foreshadowed Isaac, how father Abraham took his own son, packing the wood up the hill, and offered up his own son.

65-0801e - "Events Made Clear By Prophecy"

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And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family: After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him: Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself. And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him. (Leviticus 25:47-50)

59 Now, here’s a great picture. The first: a redeemer, someone who can redeem a lost estate in Israel (you preachers know this), the man must first be a kinsman. He must be close kinfolks, not a way off kinsman, a near kinsman. And how could God ever become a close Kinsman? When God Himself was made flesh and dwelt among us, He become Kinfolks to the human race. That’s right. The only way it could be. When God was made flesh here among us, He become Kinfolks, not to Angels, but to human beings. He never come in the form of Angel, but He humiliated Himself, and stripped Himself from all of His heavenly glories, and come down, and was made Kinfolks with man, in order to fulfill the law of kinsman redeemership. Oh, what precious love the Father had for Adam’s fallen race. Gave His only Son to suffer and redeem us by His grace. There He is, a near Kinsman, God made flesh and dwelled among us, becoming Kinfolks to the human being, a Kinsman.

60 The next he must be, he must be financially able to do it. And who would be more financial? What kind of a debt could be paid? When God owns all the universes there is, and all the spaces, and all the times, and everything else, He was able financially. Hallelujah! But when He was in the form of Spirit, He could not do it, because He was Spirit, and man was human. And the Spirit was made flesh and dwelt among us, to become Kinfolks to us, in order to redeem us. You see it? Notice…

There’s the spread of welcome to you tonight. When God, stripping Himself, coming out of the ivory palaces, taking upon Himself the form of sinful flesh, to humiliate Himself to come down, to be Kinfolks to the poorest beggar there is in the world tonight, to become a Kinfolks to him, Jehovah Himself, made Kinfolks to a beggar. “The foxes have dens, and the birds have nest, but the Son of man don’t have a place to lay His head.” Born in a manger, wrapped in swaddling cloth, yet the very Prince of Glory, the Dayspring from on high. Humiliating, bringing Himself down, condescending, coming down, to be made Kinfolks with a sinner. Think of it people. How can you reject that matchless love?

55-0223 - "Job"

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And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed. For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession. And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another: (Leviticus 25:8-14)

136 When you receive Light…In the Old Testament…Let me show you the brand now. Listen close, then I’m going to go straight to my subject. Look, in the Old Testament, when a slave was under slavery, and then he had…He was bought over there, with a price. He had to serve that master until the year of jubilee. And when the year of jubilee come, there was a trumpet sounded.

137 And when the slave was out there, him and his kiddies, and wife and all of them wanting to return to the old homeland. They were stomping in the fields, and the taskmaster beating them, and this way and that way. And then when the jubilee priest come by, sounding the trumpet, and that priest sounded the trumpet, and that man heard the trumpet. He could drop his hoe, he could drop whatever he was doing, look in the taskmaster’s face, and say, “You can’t hit me one more time. I’m free.” Walk right away and go home. Why? There is the sounding of jubilee, when they heard the sound.

138 And that’s the Gospel, the jubilee, that you’re free from sin. You’re free from all these filthy habits and things that the world has produced here in the name of religion, under both Protestant and Catholicism, under the mark of the beast. That’s right. You’re free.

139 You don’t have to be. But then if that man refused to receive that, then that man was taken from there to the post of the altar of the church, and had a mark put on him, bored a hole in his ear. And he was a servant to that master as long as he lived.

140 And you refuse to accept Gospel Light when It’s preached in the Power of the Holy Ghost, by the Bible, you can seal yourself to your Eternal destination. Amen.

54-0514 - "The Seal Of God"

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And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him. And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee? And many other things blasphemously spake they against him. (Luke 22:63-65)

77 Now, they asked Jesus for a sign, and He told them that, “A—a wicked and adulterous generation seeks after signs.” And, now, I know there is an interpretation that He was meaning them. That’s true. But I’m going to just carry it on, having a compound meaning.

78 When did we ever have a more wicked and adulterous generation than we have right now? A wicked and adulterous generation! They will say to you, go out on the street, say, “Are you a Divine healer?”

“No. Christ is.”

79 “Well, if you’re a healer, or you believe, you say you’re a healer; I know a guy is down here sick, come heal him. I know you say you raised the dead; a man died and you raised him up? We got a graveyard full of them down here; prove it to us.”

80 Remember, that’s that same old devil that said, “If Thou be the Son of God, command these stones to be bread.”

81 It’s the same old devil that put a rag over our Lord’s eyes, in the palace that morning, covered up His eyes, and they took a stick, those drunken, brawling soldiers, and hit Him on the head with it, and then passed the stick, one to another, and said, “We understand that You know the secrets of heart. We understand that You’re a prophet. If You’re a prophet, prophesy and tell us who hit You. We’ll believe it then.” See, that’s that same old devil. See? God don’t clown for nobody.

82 It’s the same old devil that said, “Come off the cross. Let’s see You perform a miracle.” That devil lives today.

83 And Jesus said, that, “A wicked, weak, adulterous generation would seek after a sign, and they would get it. For as Jonas was in the belly of the whale, for three days and three nights, so will the Son of man be in the heart of the earth.” Then what kind of a sign was He speaking of? A sign of the resurrection. And after two thousand years of Gospel preaching, two thousand years of criticism, the Bible has rode through all of it. And, tonight, Jesus Christ is in our midst, in the power of His resurrection, doing the same things He did when He was here on earth. This is that weak and adulterous generation.

63-0628e - "A Greater Than Solomon Is Here"

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Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. (Job 10:18-19)

92 There was a man one time, named Job, one of the oldest prophets in the Bible. He was a great man. He had—he had loved the Lord, and he done all he knowed how to do. And Satan desired to sift him, so he said to God one day…Yeah, God said to him, rather, “Where have you been, Satan?”

93 He said, “Oh, walking to-and-fro and up-and-down on the earth.”

94 He said, “Have you considered My servant Job? There is none like him in the earth. He is a perfect man.”

95 “Oh,” he said, “sure, You give him everything, do everything for him. Certainly, he’s a great man. But let me have him one time, I’ll change the tune. I’ll make him curse You, to Your face.”

96 He said, “You can’t do it.” That’s His confidence in a believer. Why? He is Infinite. He is Eternal. He knows the end from the beginning. He knowed Satan couldn’t do it. For, He is the Word, He knowed what Job would do.

97 Now, remember, Job, he broke him out in boils, killed his children, took everything he’s had. His health was gone. Even his comforters came, and they couldn’t do nothing but just accuse him of being a secret sinner. And old Job got in such a place until he got so distressed.

98 You have to get in distress, first. You have to get to a time where you’re at the end of the road.

99 Job got into the end of the road, when he said, “Cursed be the day that I was born. May the sun not even shine, and may the moon not shine by the night, may the name never be called.” And in that distress, then Jesus came along. He looked down, and he said, “I see, as a man, a flower die, and it rises again in the spring. If a tree blows down, it comes up again through the scent of water.” He seen all botany life living again, but said, “A man layeth down, he giveth up the ghost, where is he?” He knowed he was an old man. He said, “His sons come to mourn over him, and he perceive it not. Oh, that Thou would hide me in the grave and keep me in the secret place, till Thy wrath be passed. Appoint me a time and set me a time. We went…” And going on like that, talking. He was at the end, of his distress, “What would happen? The leaves live, they come back in the trees, the flowers come back again, everything else come up, but a man layeth down and giveth up the ghost!” He was in distress. He didn’t know what could happen to him, and him at that age.

100 When he did, then Jesus came along. God pointed his head towards the sky, and he saw Jesus coming in the last days.

101 That darkest of hour when his wife said, “Curse God and die the death,” yet he said, “Woman, thou speakest like a foolish woman. The Lord gave, and the Lord taken away, blessed be the Name of the Lord.” Even his wife turned him down. His church turned him down. Everybody turned him down.

102 In that dark hour, where he didn’t know where he was going from there, Jesus came along. Then he screamed out, “I know my Redeemer liveth, and at the last days He’ll stand upon the earth. And though after the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God, Whom I shall see for myself.” In his darkest hour, then Jesus come along. Yes, sir.

64-0213 - "Then Jesus Came And Called"

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