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And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered. But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils. And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven. But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth. If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub. (Luke 11:14-18)

43 A few nights ago, I got a little letter of criticism, which was fine. A man told me, said, “Brother Branham, you are just a boy, yet.” Said, “I was preaching the Gospel before you was born.” And he said, “I…All my forty-six years, but yet…” He—he was a teacher of some Bible school. He said, “But a man, that of your kind, that teaches people, and yet would make a remark that you made the other night.” Said, “I think it’s ridiculous.” Said, “You said that the devil didn’t have no power to heal.” He said, “Perhaps, what if I’d tell you that the devil has got power to heal.” Said, “Now you would ask me, if you were standing present, why I know.” Said, “I’ll tell you.” Said, “In our town, there’s a woman lives there which has a—a bad spirit. And she…People comes to her for healing.” Says, “She’ll pull hair out of their head, and she’ll pump blood from their veins, and wrap it up in this hair. Walk down to the river, and cast this thing over her shoulder, and not look back. If she looks back,” said, “then the disease remains with the person. But she has to throw it in the river, like it was forgetfulness, and walk away.” And said, “Sixty percent of the people, we kept count, are healed.” Said, “Now, if the devil can’t heal, what about that?”

44 So, I answered him back. I said, “My kind, beloved brother, with all due regards to your years,” see, “all due regards to your years of teaching, but I’ll tell you now that Jesus Christ said that the devil has no power to heal. And if Jesus said it, that settles it, with me. He said, ‘If Satan cast out Satan, then his kingdom is divided and it has an end. And he cannot cast out Satan.’ Then you would ask me, ‘Why was these people healed?’ Why, it’s not the person. The witch had nothing to do with it, no more than I’d have to do with it, or any other man. It’s the people that’s approaching, thinking that they’re coming God’s provided way for their healing. It’s their individual faith in God, that does the healing. See? That’s the approach that they think. It isn’t the witch, for no more than it would be the man.” Yeah.

45 So, therefore, the Gospel can only maneuver, or it can only reach out as the Word of God is taught. And men base their hopes upon God’s Eternal Word. “Faith cometh by hearing, hearing by the Word.”

46 Dr. Adair, here in the city, my beloved friend, said to me one day, he said, “Billy, don’t you think if people had faith to touch the tree out there, they’d get the same results?”

47 I said, “How could you have faith in that? If you could have the equal amount of faith, believe…believing that it was God’s provided way, for you to touch the tree, and it would do it, then they could do it. But who has got faith in the tree?”

48 I got faith in what God said, and I just take that. So faith isn’t built upon the shifting sands of—of emotional conceptions. But faith is built upon the standard, God’s Eternal Word, the Rock of ages. There is where faith takes its solemn resting place and never moves, when it’s built right there.

56-0304 - "Making A Way"

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In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight. All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him. (Luke 10:21-22)

6 The Scriptures does not contradict Themselves. And there’s no Scripture in the Bible that contradicts Itself. I’ve asked for that for years and years. No Scripture, no statement that can contradict Itself, ’less it can be straightened with the rest of the Word of God to rightly put it together. Which Jesus thanked God for, that it was hid from the eyes of the wise and prudent and would be revealed to babes such as would learn. See? Now, we got to be humble in this. We’ve got to throw away our ideas about it; we’ve got to accept God’s plan of it. That’s the only way you’ll ever be able to get anywhere with God for salvation for soul or body. It’ll have to come through God’s provided plan.

Now, if you’ve got a artesian well on this side of the mountain, spurting water by the millions of gallons a hour, and a crop on the other side burning up for water, now, you could stand and scream until you’re took your tonsils out, and would… and screaming, “Oh, great water, come over here and water my crop.” It won’t do it. No, sir. It’ll stay right there. But if you’ll work according to the laws of gravitation, and get this water to come around the mountain and water your crop, it’ll do it, if you’ll work according to the laws.

7 Now, there’s enough electricity in this room to light the room, if it was correctly, and like would be out in a big field where it’s dark. And we know that Franklin and so forth has proved that science, that electric’s in the air. Now, take a copper wire, and hold it up, drop it down, and you… The static, the electricity pick up, till it will almost light the earth, if it was a mile high in the air, would set the earth a fire.

Now, you could stand out in that field and scream as loud as you wish to, “I’m lost. I’m lost. Great electric, come now and light the way up, that I can see how to get in out of this darkness.” It’ll never do it. But if you’ll work according to the laws of electricity, why, it’ll light the way up, so you could get out. But you have to work according to those laws.

Now, God has a law too. And there’s healing and salvation in God’s ‘termination for you, if you’ll work according to His plans and His laws on such. So that’s the way we must plan the meeting, that’s the way; seven times around the world, I have been of all different races, kinds of people by the tens of thousands. I have seen great things that our Lord has did. But I always notice that it takes people that will humble themselves and lay aside their own thoughts of it, and just take God’s thought of it, and work according to His plan, which is faith in what He said.

61-0409 - "Sirs, We Would See Jesus"

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Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord. For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. (Jeremiah 2:12-13)

123 Any other thing, outside of Jesus Christ and His Word of Life, is a broken cistern. Anything that tries to substitute It; anything that you try to do to bring you peace, anything that you try to do to bring you comfort, any kind of a joy that you receive from anything else, as a substitute for This, it’s a broken cistern full of filth. He gives perfect satisfaction.

124 I remember here, couple summers ago, I stepped out the back door. There was a young snicklefritz out there that said to me, said, “You know, the reason you’re always talking about women like that, wearing those shorts and things,” he said, “because you’re an old man.” Said, “That’s the reason it is.”

I said, “Look here. How old are you?”

Said, “Twenty-seven.”

125 I said, “When I was many years younger than you, I preached the same thing.”

I found a Fountain of satisfaction. He is my portion. Amen! As long as He supplies that, that’s the beauty. That’s—that’s my… That’s my art, is looking at Him, watching His hand work and see what He is doing. There is no other fount I know!

Oh, precious is the flow

That makes me white as snow;

No other fount I know,

Nothing but the Blood of Jesus.

There is a Fountain filled with Blood,

Drawn from Immanuel’s veins,

Where sinners plunge beneath the flood,

Lose all their guilty stain.

126 I’m telling you, no other fount I know but that Fountain. It cleansed me when I was dirty. It keeps me cleansed, because I want to live right at It, drink this fresh Water that’s fills my soul with joy.

I can be so ever so down, and feel that I can’t hardly go no… another round, can’t go nowhere else; then I can kneel down and put my finger on a promise, and say, “Lord God, Thou art my strength. Thou art my satisfaction. Thou art my all-in-all.” I can begin to feel Something bubbling up from inside of me there. I come out of it.

64-0726e - "Broken Cisterns"

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And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? (Luke 9:23-25)

84 You’ve got to repent first, get right, get down there and really cry out. I can remember the times when the old-fashion people would walk down through the aisles, and up and down the roads, crying, and talking to their neighbors. That was Christians of that day; telling them about the things of the Lord.

85 And, today, we put our name on the church book, and go out and stay home, and never say a word about It. Unconcerned. “Just as long as we belong to the church, it’s all right.” I’m sure we’re wrong there, people. Check up. For, that won’t stand in the judgments. No, sir. It won’t.

86 Nothing less, “He that will follow Me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and die daily.” Stay dead, there on the cross. That’s right. Agony! “The way, I’ll take the way,” you sing, “with the Lord’s despised few.”

87 I think today, what a time that we’re living in! That, evangelism, they put it out in great big bright lights, and they try…When you see the evangelist coming to town, you wonder. I, my meetings has been guilty of the same. That’s right. I wonder who is coming to town, sometime, the evangelist or Jesus Christ? Why, they got…

88 I went into a place here, not long ago, where a certain evangelist was supposed to come. And Jesus’ Name…Why, they had the picture of the evangelist, “the man of the hour,” the man’s with this, and the man with that.

89 I, sometimes I think of my ministry, and see people come. And I’d get in a hotel room, say, “God, who—who is the people coming to see, me or You?” See? “If they’re coming to see me, they’re lost, yet; but, O God, tear me down, take me away. I want to represent You, the One Who we’ll stand before someday, with trembling hands and trembling, feeble body, looking at You. Knowing that my soul hangs by Your decision.” Let us exalt Christ.

90 Today, you say, “Well, I belong to the Baptist. I’m a Methodist. I’m belong to the tabernacle. I do this.” Oh, that has nothing to do with it; not a thing. I wonder sometime.

91 Here not long ago, I seen a—an advertisement up, where a certain campaign was coming to the city. And the word of the man, the man’s name run great big letters all the way around, like that. And on the bottom, in a little corner, said, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever,” way down in the corner. See?

92 They took all the sacredness from Christ, and put it onto some man, or some church, or some organization. Brother, I’m telling, you can get by with glamour, Hollywood clowning, like that, in a…by the church. But, in the Presence of Jesus Christ, He is the One to be glorified. That’s right. Now, that’s the truth, my dear brother and sister.

93 Don’t feel angry at me. You just remember that I’m preaching to you. I want to preach as if this was the last sermon I’d ever preach in my life. I want to preach, every sermon I preach, as if I was a dying man preaching to dying men. And, I am; my light is burning down, every day; yours is, too. And we’re dying mortals. And we got to face the living God, some of these days, and we better be in deep sincerity about this.

54-0509 - "The Invasion Of The United States"

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Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. (Jeremiah 1:4-6)

5 A prophet is a seer who sees the people’s hearts and foretells the things that’s coming to pass. And—and now, there’s a gift of prophecy. That’s in the church with the local members. It falls upon any of them. They give a prophecy. Then it cannot be received to the church until it’s been judged by two or three witnesses. And then, they have to put their seal on that, to say it’s of God. Then they have to watch to see if it happens. Then it may never fall on that brother or sister again. It may be on another one the next… That’s a gift of prophecy.

But a prophet, p-r-o-p-h-e-t, is borned a prophet, always from bef—was ordained that before the world ever even begin. See? Now, you take like Jesus Christ, the King of prophets. He was, from the garden of Eden, the Seed of the woman, prophet. And Moses was borned a proper child, a prophet. John the Baptist, why, Isaiah saw him seven hundred and twelve years before he was born, and said he’s the “voice of one crying in the wilderness,” seven hundred and twelve years before he was born. Jeremiah—God said before he was even formed in his mother’s womb that He knew him, and sanctified him, and ordained him a prophet to the nations. See?

6 Prophets have the Word of God, and are borned a prophet. A gift of prophecy is different. That’s a gift. Now, there’s nine… there’s five ordained gifts in the church: apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists. Now, that is the five gifts that God places in the church by His foreknowledge.

Then there’s nine gifts that’s locally in the church: speaking in tongues, interpretation of tongues, and gifts of wisdom, and knowledge, and—and prophecy, and so forth. Them’s nine spiritual gifts that operates through the church. But then there’s nine—five office gifts that God puts in the church. And, oh, how we love to see them all operating in the…

One of them is the pastor, teacher, and those things. Then the others comes along in confirmation. Gifts are to magnify. And God’s just got it so even a fool will not be excused, will he? He will… It’s so simple the way God has made them. And I like that.

The more simpler you become, the greater you’ll become before God. That’s right. Don’t never try to lift yourself up. When you do, you’re bringing yourself down. See? He that exalts himself shall be abased.

62-0725 - "A Greater Than Solomon Is Here"

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Thou, even thou, art Lord alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee. Thou art the Lord the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham; (Neh. 9:6-7)

45 Now, and many times, names are in the Bible. We don’t notice it no more, today. We…You’ve often heard me scorn this name, of children calling…or people calling their children “Ricky.” Now, Ricky is a horrible name! See? And it’s a…you mustn’t call them that. If you got a child named Ricky, for goodness sakes, change it to something else. Ricky, or—or Elvis, or something like that…Ricky means “a rat.” See? And so you—you go…And—and what you call a person, that impresses that. A little lady, the other day, had a little boy out there called “Ricky” and his name’s Ricky, James Ricky. And because it was so popular (Ricky), they called him “Ricky.” I said, “Change that name!”

46 I notice some people setting right here now that’s got a little grandson, and his name is…the one—one little boy’s a sweetest, pleasant little fellow; and the other one is Ricky, and that’s what he is. You just watch him, his nature’s just like that. And he…I said to some of his grandparents, or someone, I said, “Tell the mother change the name of that boy, just change that name over and watch what happens to the kid.” See, you people don’t want to believe that. We think we’ve lived too long for that.

47 If there isn’t something in a name, then why as long as Jacob was called Jacob, which means “supplanter, deceiver,” that’s what he was? But when he wrestled with the Lord all night, and the Lord changed his name, and about…when he was about sixty years old. He changed his name from—from—from Jacob to Israel, “a prince before God,” and that’s what he was.

Why was Abram called…had to be called “Abraham” before the baby could be born? Why was Sarai called “Sarah” before the baby could be born?

Why was Paul…or call…his name was Saul, but when he met Jesus, He changed him from Saul to “Paul.”

When Simon was changed from Simon to Peter, which means “little stone.” And—and all their names were changed, is because what you are called is something about it. When you speak something, it identifies itself. I don’t want to get in there, ’cause that’s coming up next Sunday night, see, identification of a word. And, but now, we find these things so true.

63-1222 - "God's Gifts Always Find Their Places"

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The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord. (Isaiah 65:25)

241 That great City setting there (now, see?), it will not…You think, “Fifteen hundred miles high?” That’s what the Bible said. Now, it will not be fifteen hundred miles right straight up like that. See? We have another geographic measure that all sides are equal; that’s a pyramid. See?

242 And the City will start probably about a sixty degree. And if it starts, fifteen hundred miles of that, just think how high that will be, but how long it’ll take to be there. You’ll hardly know you’re walking up the hill. For fifteen hundred miles high at a sixty degree, you’re just about like this. See? And the City’s all on this hill. And it’s just as high as it is long; it’s just as long as it is wide. The height, by the depth, by the breadth, it—it’s equal; all the walls are equal. A pyramid has four walls, and these four walls will be…

243 Now, the walls around the City will be—be two hundred and sixteen feet tall, hundred and forty-four cubits, and each one of them is a stone. Just think of that City, friends. Oh, my! What—what do we set here in this hot place? What do we do these things? Why do we drive like that? Why do we—why do we toil? It’s worth every inch of the way.

Oh, the toils of the road will seem nothing,

When I get to the end of the way.

That’s right. And, oh, what a time that’ll be.

244 And there Jesus will set on the Throne. And out from under the Throne will flow the river of Life, trinkling down these four walls into little chasms, and into little branches, and come form up a river, and down through by the City. It’ll go right down through the streets like that, and on each side stands the trees of life that’ll bear—or change their fruit every—every thirty days. Oh, what a City.

245 And remember, God, the Creator, that created the heavens and earth, is in Glory right now preparing that City. Abraham looked for It. He left his home; he separated everything that was dear to him and looking for…Why? He was a prophet. And being a prophet, he was connected with the Spirit and part of the Spirit. And Something told him within him, “There is a City,” and he started looking for It. Said, “I’m a pilgrim, a stranger. I’m looking for a City whose Builder and Maker is God.” He knowed that City was somewhere. Oh, my! And I believe that right on the grounds where he looked for It, right there in Palestine, there’s where It’ll raise up, for It’s on Mount Zion. There’s where She’ll be.

246 Look where She’ll stretch out into the—into the sea, from sea to sea. Think of that fifteen hundred mile City setting out there on the mountains of the Lord. Oh, that’d be wonderful!

247 And the lion and the lamb shall lay down together. The lion will eat straw like the bullock. And the bear will be gentle, and the wolf will be tame. What a time it will be! Nothing shall hurt or destroy; everything will be in peace and love. There’ll be no more old age; there’ll be no more sickness, no more dying.

248 Folks, this is not some Santa Claus story, some mythical something, it’s written in the Word. And never has the Word failed. And to think of the very promise of…Not back in the Bible day, but in this day, the day that God—today. Not one iota has ever failed of His Word. Oh, I’m bound for that City. I love It, don’t you?

64-0823e - "Questions And Answers #2"

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And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind? But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts. But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet. This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he. (Luke 7:24-28)

77 Now a lot of people has the wrong impression of Christ. Some people thinks that Christ was a sissy. Christ was the greatest of all men. He was the example man. Not only was He man, but He was God-Man. He was “God with us; Emmanuel.” He was the humblest of men. But, you can be too humble, you can get so humble until the devil would make a puppet out of you. He was humble enough to wash the disciples’ feet. He was forgiving enough to pray for those who drove spikes into His hands. But He was Man enough to plait ropes and to run the money changers out of the house.

78 Yes, John was man enough to be meek and humble. He was man enough to stand on the banks of Jordan. He didn’t need a great synagogue or a place to preach. He was humble. He took the bright blue skies. He was humble enough that he didn’t call upon the people to have to have so much money, to pastor their church.

79 He lived off of grasshoppers and wild honey, locusts. In that country, they can them. They’re great big, long grasshoppers; pickle them, smoke them, every other way, to eat them. That’s what he lived on. And his raiment was a piece of sheep skin wrapped around him.

80 Jesus said, “What did you go to see? What did you go to see? A person that would give in with the Pharisees; a reed shaken by every wind? Go in with the Sadducees when they come in? One day he’s this, and the other day he’s that”? Said, “You didn’t go to see nothing like that.” Said, “Did you go to see somebody dressed fine? No. An intellectual? No. What went you to see?”

81 He said, “Go show John what’s happening here. The lame walk. The blind see. The deaf hear. The dead are raised up, and the poor has the Gospel preached to them. Blessed is he who is not offended in Me.” Oh, my! That was the sign of the Messiah. That was the sign to show him.

82 That’s the sign that the true holiness church today, as much as they’re falling, still it’s the mark of the calling of Jesus Christ. The men and women who stand for the unadulterated Gospel, of salvation to the soul, to the poor, to the needy. Not aristocratic bunch that’s dressed so in their churches that a poor man feels out of place, but a humble bunch of people. There’s where the Gospel is preached. The sick get well. They pray for the sick. God confirms their ministry with signs and wonders. There’s the Gospel being preached to the poor.

“Go show John these things.” Oh, my!

59-1001 - "What Went Ye Out To See?"

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For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved. But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. (Isaiah 64:4-8)

299 And I know, that day when I walked into that hospital, when I had my great challenge. I seen my wife die; me calling for her life. “And what have I done but stand on the street corner and preach, and pray for the sick?”

And then Satan said, “Well, He won’t answer your prayer.”

300 I seen her die, but I know that in her was that resurrection power. Them bones shall rise again.

301 I seen my little baby lay there. And I lay my hand on, say, “God, don’t take it.”

302 Look like He pulled the curtain down, said, “I won’t even hear you no more.”

303 Satan said, “There it is. Just one word…” He knowed better than tell me there was no God, ’cause I knowed that. But he said He don’t love me, He don’t care for me. See? Every reason thing, said, “You’re just a young man, yet twenty years old. There lays your wife laying down here in a morgue. And here is your baby going there. And—and just…You said He was a great Healer, and He’s all this. And, look, what does He do? One word, He wouldn’t even have to speak it, just look down there and say. Just nod His head, that’s all would take place, and it’d be healed. But, you see, He don’t love you. He don’t care for you. Letting your baby die right there now, and even refuse to hear your prayer in this dark hour.”

304 Everything he said was absolutely the truth. “So what have you done? Work all day long, till you couldn’t hardly stand up. And then sit up all night, till twelve and one o’clock. Standing on the street corners, preaching. Making calls to hospital. Just come in and sit down, a chair, sit there and sleep an hour or two, and go back to work again. Next night, the same thing. And here you are, about twenty-one, twenty-two years old. Every friend, every young lady, every young man that you ever associated with, called you a crazy crank. What have you done? You made a fool out of yourself. Don’t you see it?” I was just about ready to agree with him.

305 And Something down in me, that was that quickening power. I said “The Lord gave, and the Lord taken away. Blessed be the Name of the Lord.”

When all my hopes give way,

Then He’s all my hope and stay.

For on Christ, the…

[Blank spot on tape—Ed.]…sinking sand.

Oh, He shall come with triumph sound,

Then may I then be in—in Him be found,

Wrapped in the robes of His righteousness.

306 Not in my own; I don’t have any. Mine is filthy, dirty rags. I’d hate to try to go to Heaven on my preaching. Hate to try to go to Heaven on my visions. I’m going to Heaven because I hold His grace in my heart. His grace, that’s why I’m going. That’s how we go.

65-0410 - "The Easter Seal"

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Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like: He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock. But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great. (Luke 6:47-49)

235 Not long ago, in London, England; taking a little walk. And England is, the British Isles, are so covered with people! In England, you can’t hardly find a place, hardly, but what’s got a house on it, and they’re raising their…Like in Germany, and so forth, there they’re the old countries, and the grounds are wore out, and they got a little garden. In Germany and places like that, you don’t find, in the back yard, some nice mowed grass and a lot of trees. You find tomatoes and beans and potatoes, something to eat. They have to. And the grounds are so taken up till…

236 The little limey soldier that was taking me around, we went up over top the hill, Brother Baxter and I, and this boy. We come to a place that was a beautiful spot. There were trees, and the green grass, and everything. I thought, “Isn’t that a pretty place!” I said to this limey, I said, “Sir, I—I would like to ask you a question. I see that your island here is so covered. Why would a large space here, for several acres, a beautiful spot with trees and a valley, and everything like that, why would you leave that, and no one would ever build a house here?”

237 He said, “Reverend, I—I want to say this. About two hundred years ago, there was an epidemic of blackwater fever, broke out here in England.” And said, “They had no serum, and the people died like flies.” He said, “The wagons, they tell me, come day and night. They couldn’t even bury them. The clergymen would just come out here, once in a while, raise up his hands and pray, and go back. They throwed them all in this valley here. They couldn’t even bury them.” Said, “They died, and they died, till thousands times thousands, of children, grownups, teen-agers and everything, died. And they just took them out there, and then they just took and sprayed dirt over the top of them when the plague had ceased.”

238 And he said, “You know what?” He said, “From that day, to this, the Englishman is so sure he’ll not plant his foundations on where a thing like that once was. He’ll not plant his foundation upon things like…He’ll never set his house on a place where death laid like that.” And I stood there a little bit, and I thought. No need telling him, he wouldn’t understand it.

239 But how, in the world, that a person will face so sincerely; till, if black fever, two hundred years ago, laid on that ground. But you are so suspicious, and so concerned about you got to live a little longer, and you might take black fever if you ever planted your house there. And then you will plant your Eternal destination upon some man-made creed that died hundreds of years ago, upon some theology, theology of some church that’s been laying on a shelf for hundreds of years; not a thing, not a move of God in them, and everything else. And you will stick your name and creed, and everything, right on there, and go on living. Listen, friend, don’t you do that.

240 “Upon this rock I will build My Church, and the gates of hell can’t prevail against It. The works that I do, shall you also. Lo, I am with you, even in you, always, to the end of the world; Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever.”

241 God is a God of reality. Don’t just take a creed. Don’t just take a sensation.

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