Ten Thousand Worlds

And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night. And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. (Exodus

27 Look, here’s what they had done. They had left the garlic pots of Egypt to eat Angel’s food and was complaining. Could you think of it? Yes, we see it. They had also; they had left the muddy waters of Egypt to drink from that spiritual Rock, still complaining about it. They had left the boasting physicians of Egypt, that boasted how great they were, to be with the great Physician that there wasn’t—even their clothes didn’t get threadbare, and there wasn’t a feeble one among them when they come from the wilderness, still complaining. And then they had left the—they’d also left the people that said the days of miracles is past, to be with the people that’s got signs following the believers.

Now, isn’t that just the same today. You come up out of that old cold formal stuff, got the Holy Ghost, and God fills you with goodness, and you’re drinking from that Fountain that never runs dry, and all them things there, joy unspeakable and full of glory, and then go to complaining. Just the same thing. First thing you know, you’re bypassed off out into the desert. That’s the way God does it. It’s just that way. It… The pe… God doesn’t do it; the people does it themselves. Their own carnal thinking does it.

28 They had seen ten powerful miracles performed down in Egypt: flies, lice, fire, death angel. All they had seen in Egypt. All these great miracles that they’d seen God do, and were still carnal thinkers. And then they saw the Red Sea, that was laying in the path of duty. They were on their road marching then, come out, there was a Pillar of Fire before them, and they marched on to the Red Sea. And when they got there, right in the line of duty laid an obstacle. And first thing you know, fear struck them, and they didn’t know what to do.

That’s the way people does today. When fear strikes them when they’re right in the path of duty… Listen, brother, let me say this: If you’re walking in the light, having fellowship with God, with His people, and the Holy Spirit is upon you, and you meet an obstacle right in the path of duty, don’t stop, just keep pressing on. God will make a way through it. That’s one of the greatest experiences of my life, is to see God. When I can’t get over it, get under it, get around it, or anyway, God opens up a way and I go through it. Somehow or another His grace is sufficient to carry us through it.

60-0723 - "Speak To The Rock And It Shall Give Forth His Water"

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And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, 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, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves. (Mark 11:15-17)

55 Just let me ask you something. You can’t believe nothing, hardly, but the Bible. We still have Christ; thanks to God. See? You—you can’t believe anything. You get on…For instance, when you turn your television on (you that have such), and when you turn your television on and see the—the commercials, well, if a person tried to live by one hundredth of those commercials, you’d die in a week. See, you couldn’t do it. And the very thing that some company will break down, like a product, and say, “This is the thing here, and don’t have this one over here,” and the same company sells the same product. Then another commercial will come on, take this on this side and not that, and the same company. The American people fall for such stuff as that, till the whole thing is become a rotten, until there’s no hopes at all. Nobody knows what to believe. But I’m going to tell you after a while what to believe, if you want comfort, if the Lord willing.

56 The people, they lie, cheat, steal, till you almost have to have a bond of security to borrow five dollars from somebody. It’s a…You know, the Bible speaks that, that there’d be no love in the last days but just amongst the elect people. That’s right. The Scripture speaks of that, that the husband would be against wife, and wife against husband, children against parents. Just among the Elected of the Lord will there be any love left.

57 The churches has got into the same thing out of social life. They brought it into the church, their social life and their politics and their other things, until they’ve got the church so confused that it doesn’t know what to do. They brought politics into church. They brought also social life, their social life in the church, their social activities, bingo or bunco, or ever what they call it, and these suppers and dances, and so forth, in the house of the Lord. Why, it’s—it’s a pity.

They say, “Well, now, that isn’t, that’s on the annex.”

58 Remember, it was the annex also that Jesus beat the—the merchants out with their merchandise, and said, “It’s written, ‘My Father’s house is made a house of Prayer,’ and you have made it a den of thieves.” See? It’s wrong, I don’t care where it’s at. As long as the church…The church is not so much the building, it’s the people in the building. And if those people are anticipating in this, why, it’s wrong. And they’ve brought that practice.

59 Now we find out that the churches, too, are always promising something, like television and so forth, that they never get to the—the thing they promised. As I have often said, an old quotation, “Man is always praising God for what He did, praising God for what He will do (looking forward to what He will do), and then ignore what He’s doing.” See, they—they—they fail. And that’s the way they become history after a while, of the polluted, see, because they fail to recognize now! You can talk of the comfort Christ give once, and say that a comfort He will give in the ages to come, but refuse the comfort that He’s got here now for you. See? It’s on the same basis we find that. Well, it’s become a great thing. Now find out that they—they come…

63-0721 - "He Cares. Do You Care?"

And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him, saying, Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall desire. And he said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you? They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory. But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? And they said unto him, We can. And Jesus said unto them, Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized: But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared. (Mark 10:35-40)

37 When they crossed over, got over on the other side, he said, “Now, you’ve asked. Ask what you will, and I will give it to you.” Perfect type of the Church.

“All right,” he said, “I want a double portion of your spirit.” Amen. Don’t be scared to ask. Ask abundantly. “You have not, because you ask not. You ask not, because you believe not.” That’s right. Ask, ask a whole lot. God will give you a whole lot. Have a lot of faith.

A fellow told me the other day; he said, “He was riding an old model-T Ford, yet.” Said, “One day he happened to get some good faith and God give him a Buick.” Said, “I got a Buick faith, I’m—I’m praying for Cadillac faith.” All right. That’s good. That’s right. Keep on. What you believe, hold on to it. God will give it. He’s got Ford faith, so just stay with the Ford then, that’s all right. And so… Let’s get a little more faith. All right.

38 Now, notice. Then he said, “Nevertheless, if you see me go, you’ll have what you ask.” So he walked on. I can see him keeping his eye on that prophet. I can hear something say, “Oh, Elijah, look over this way.”

“No, no, I’m keeping my eye right on Elijah.” So he walked on, a type of the Church and a type of Christ, Christ being the Church, the Elijah, rather. And Elisha was a type of the Church, single.

A woman came to Jesus one time, and said, “Grant that my sons, one will sit on the right hand, and on the left hand.”

He said, “That is not Mine to give. But can you drink the cup that I drink?”

“Yes.”

“And can you be baptized with the baptism that I’m baptized with?”

Said, “Yes.”

Said, “You truly can. But the right and left hand in not Mine to give.”

39 Now watch. Baptized with the same baptism. Notice. He watched him. After while a chariot of fire come down and parted them, and the old prophet jumped on the chariot and went up in the rapture, as Jesus went up in the resurrection. And when he went up, then as he was going up, he pulled off his coat, and threw it down, and Elisha picked up his coat, put it over his own shoulders, walked down to the Jordan: a very beautiful type of Christ being taken up, baptized with the Holy Ghost. And when He went up into glory, He sent back the Holy Ghost for us to wear. The Church is baptized with the mantle of Christ.

“These things that I do,” a double portion? Yes. What? “These things that I do shall you also, and greater than this will you do, for I go to My Father.” Is that right? A double portion.

Pulled off his mantle and fought, folded it, and let it drop back down on the disciples at Pentecost. And brother, sister, if we’ve got the Pentecostal blessing, then in the Name of the Lord Jesus, let’s walk down there and strike her. Where is the God that was on Jesus Christ? Where is the power of His resurrection? Hallelujah.

53-0508 - "God Commissioning Moses"

For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord. And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. (Exodus 12:12-13)

125 Remember, if that token was not displayed, even the covenant was annulled. That’s right. The covenant was annulled. There was no—there was no covenant as long as that token wasn’t there. The token stood for the covenant. God made a covenant with them, yes, sir, but the token had to be. It wasn’t in effect, the covenant wasn’t, unless the token was there.

126 There might be many Jews could say, “Come here! I ain’t got no blood on my door, but I want to show you something, I’m a circumcised Jew. I am circumcised.” That didn’t mean that. [Brother Branham snaps his finger—Ed.] “When I see the blood! When I see the token!”

127 You might say, “I am Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist,” or whatever you want to be.

But, “When I see the Token!”

128 You say, “I’m a believer. My mother was a member of this church. My daddy was a member of this church. I’ve been a member there since a child.” That don’t mean that. [Brother Branham snaps his finger—Ed.] “I don’t lie, steal. I don’t do this. I…” That don’t mean that. [Brother Branham snaps his finger.] “I belong to Branham Tabernacle. I do this, that, or the other. I believe all the Word.”

129 Them Jews could say, “I believe Jehovah!” He’d a listened to the Message of the hour, if he did. Certainly.

They’d had a lot of messages, but This was the Message of the hour. See? I believe the Message of the hour. Yeah. The blood was applied in the evening time.

They might have said, “I, I’m a Jew.”

130 People say today, “I’m a Christian. I can show you my long membership. I want you to tell me where I ever stole anything, was ever in law courts. Show me where I ever committed adultery, I ever done all these things, or something like that. Show me one place.” That don’t mean a thing now. Oh, no. See, no matter how much covenant he was, the covenant is without effect. It’s non-effective.

You say, “Well, I’m a Bible student.”

131 I don’t care what you are. Without that covenant, the wrath of God is upon you. That’s right. It’s caught up with you. Yeah. “Your sins will find you out.” What is sin? Unbelief. You’ve disbelieved the Message. You’ve disbelieved the Word. You’ve disbelieved the witness of the Token, Itself, when It’s identified Itself in the midst of us. And have you disbelieved That? No matter how much you disbelieve It, It’s got to be applied.

63-0901m - "Token"

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And Moses said, Thus saith the Lord, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt: And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts. And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more. (Exodus 11:4-6)

113 And I tell you, brother, if there ever was a time that the death angel is riding the land, it’s tonight. He comes to the church door where the priest stands. And a church that’s denying the Blood and the power of Jesus Christ, there’s going on there, “the glory of God has departed,” the death angel goes in and that settles it. They become formal and dead and denying God’s power. And the first thing you know, death is all over the whole group of them. You’d never get them to believe anything. They can’t believe it.

114 Now, watch this death angel. I can see the father. Now, they were supposed, when the sun went down and darkness set in, they once come under the blood of that lamb, they had to stay under there until marching orders was give. Brother, this is good for you Nazarenes, now.

115 Look, coming under the blood… Once under that blood, put it on the lintel of the door and on the post. But every time a man come through that door into this home, he stayed there until marching orders come to go out of Egypt. I like that. Stay there.

116 How I can see the young ladies going to the parties that night, to the young Israelite girls, saying, “Come on, Rebekah,” and so forth, “come on out, and we’re going to…”

117 “I can’t do it.”

118 “Why?”

119 “Well, we’re under the blood.” Oh, my. “We’re under the blood.”

120 “Oh, come on, let’s go. Nonsense, that old crazy religion your daddy’s got there.”

121 “But look, Something in my heart tells me that I mustn’t go beyond that blood.”

122 And on they went to their big parties and so forth. Then along about midnight there begin to come a strange feeling, just like coming over the world again now, we spoke of a while ago. Something’s wrong: great, howling darkness set upon the earth; winds begin to blow. I can see the little boy in this home here where we’re going to go. Look at him, he says, “Say, what is that? I—I—I kind of feel funny. I see all the young girls was at the dances, they’re hurrying up home.”

123 Oh, my. It’s too late to pray then. Now, the first thing you know, he begin to—he begins to look around. I can hear the little boy say, “Daddy, did—did—did the Word say that the elder son was going to be killed in the home?”

124 “Yes.”

125 “Well, Daddy, what about our home?”

126 “Son, we’re just as safe as we can be.”

127 “How do you know you’re safe?”

128 “We’ve obeyed God’s Word. We got… we’re under the blood.”

53-1201 - "God's Provided Way"

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Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. (Mark 9:23)

Now, when the Angel came to your servant here, he said, “If you’ll get the people to believe you.” Now, there’s the hard thing. “If you’ll get the people to believe you…” How many believes God? All of you, don’t you? You believe Christ, you believe the Holy Ghost.

24 Now, that’s not the question tonight. I’m glad you do that. That makes you a Christian. But that is not what I’m trying to get to you—you now. I get to that when make my altar call. You must believe Them first. If you’re not in connection with Them, you’ll never know this.

But as much as you believe in Them, you still got to believe that I’m telling you the truth, and what I say is the truth.

Jesus was the… He was… His hands was bound and tied to any miracle, or anything, any kind of a miracle, because the people did not believe Him.

And the very people that believed God killed Him. Is that right? No matter how much they believed in God… They were very religious, orthodox. Very religious. And they believed God. But to believe Him, oh, no. Uh-uh. See? That was too much. Ma… A Man? They couldn’t believe no Man. They could believe God.

25 And tonight, so many people can believe God. Sure. You believe Christ, you believe the Holy Ghost, and so forth. But when a man comes to you and tells something, that’s hard to believe. “I don’t know whether I can believe you or not, friend.” That’s where it’s at. See there?

That’s the reason God can’t… That’s the reason your pastor sometimes, when your pastor comes to you. The reason he can’t help you, you’ve got to have faith in your pastor. You’ve got to believe that he’s a man of God, sent of God to do these things for Him.

26 Now, Divine healing died out for a while here a few years ago; it just let down, as it happens through the age of the history. It’s let down so often. And during that time, cancer broke out, sickness in the church. Oh, my.

Eighty percent of the people are sick now. And the people… Medical science, I salute them. They do great things. They make medicine to sell. And… I said, “to sell.” All right. It’s all right for those who want to take it. It’s all right for them.

But look. But in the phase we got today, the best doctors we ever had. Do you believe that? We got the best hospitals we ever had. Have we? We got the best drugs we ever practiced with, haven’t we? And we got more sickness than we ever had, haven’t we? Because we got more unbelief than we ever had, haven’t we? That’s right. Exactly. Only God is the Healer. That’s right.

And did you ever notice? Right in the days when we got all these fine drugs, and operation, and surgeons, and so forth; constantly they are building infirmaries for the incurable. Is that right? And there never was nothing that ever come before our Master, Jesus, but what He was more than a match for it. And no incurables to Him. All things are possible. Is that right? And He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is that right? Then nothing too incurable for Him.

50-0110 - "Moses"

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For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? (Mark 8:36-37)

40 When the Angel of the Lord touched Jacob, he walked different from then on. He was a big fine running coward on one side, but a limping prince on the other side of the brook. You walk different; and you think different. He wasn’t afraid to meet Esau then, because he had wrestled with the Angel. Think on your ways.

It was Moses who was living peacefully, marrying the sheik of Midian’s daughter, Zipporah. And while he was out there herding the sheep, one day on the backside of the desert with a familiar old path he was walking down, herding the sheep, at peace. Israel was in bondage under slavery. He was thinking on his ways. “This is not my job as a sheepherder. God called me to be a preacher.”

How do I know that I’m not preaching to a Moses tonight that’s out yonder in a steel factory, or down here at the pulp factory, or out yonder driving a truck somewhere, that God hasn’t commissioned you to save souls. Instead of doing it, you’ve got you a job to make your daily bread, living at ease, and thousands of souls going into destruction.

41 How do I know that I’m not preaching to a man or a woman that’s called to the mission field, and yet you’re selling that birthright for a morsel of bread. Come to yourself. Think on your ways. See what it will gain you… What will you prosper by it? If you gain the whole world and lose your soul, what have you done? Think on your ways.

And as Moses begin to think on his ways, “I’m a murderer; I’m a coward. God called me to be a preacher. He’s… I was borned a peculiar birth. I was hid in the bulrushes. I’ll never forget my mother’s story when she told me that God had called me. I had the message in my heart. But I got so much theology in me, why, I tried to do it my own way. But still there’s a God somewhere or He’d never spared my life.”

While he was thinking on his ways, he happened to look sideways and there was a burning bush to answer him. God have mercy.

42 There’s a burning bush here tonight to answer every brother away from a call of God. Think on your ways. The Holy Ghost is here to heal the sick, showing signs and wonders and miracles. Many of you people has wanted to be a Christian. Many of you has wanted to do something for God. And you’ve neglected it for the washtub, for a job out yonder in a factory somewhere.

Some of you women that ought to be home with your kids, reading the Bible to them. You got a job out yonder to make a extra dollar. Shame on you. God gave you a job; that’s raise them children. Teach them the things of God. It’s the truth. Think on your ways, woman. What will them dollars do? They’ll ring like Judas Iscariot’s did. Think on your ways and turn your foot to His testimonies, unto His Blood, unto His grace, unto His offer.

“As I thought on my ways,” said David, “I turned my feet to thy testimony.” Sure. Think on your ways as you go.

59-0814 - "As I Thought On My Ways"

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And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod. And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have no bread. And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened? Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember? When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve. And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven. And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand? (Mark 8:15-21)

Sin is so—so enticing. Oh, it’s glamour. And it’s got a very appetizing appeal, sin has. It’s so innocent. Why, it looks so… it looks so innocent. Don’t you listen to it.

15 After while, when Joshua took the land, God told him, “Utterly destroy everything there is there. Don’t leave nothing.” Why, could you imagine some of them Israelite women picking up a little baby? “Oh, isn’t it cute? Look at its… it ain’t even got teeth yet.”

Joshua said, “Kill it.”

The mother said, “Oh, I’m a mother. I can’t kill that baby.”

“You must. Hand it here.”

Why? It might look cute now, but it’ll grow up and be just like its daddy. You can’t baby sin. It’s got to be handled with—not with gloves on, but barehanded. We want to be nice. Everybody does. We want… But what is nice? We want to be humble. What is humility? We want to be full of compassion. What is compassion?

Jesus, a man full of compassion, passed through two or three thousand people, water-head babies, crippled, blind, halt, withered. He had compassion. What did He do? Walked over where the Father showed Him, a man that had maybe prostate trouble, or something, and healed him and walked away, and left the rest of them: a Man full of compassion.

16 Now, people today… Our English words turn the people around. See? That’s human sympathy; that’s not compassion. There’s a lot of difference between sympathy and compassion. They’re two different words altogether. And we use them the same.

Now, the Word doesn’t use any compassion; it’s got to be obeyed. Stay with that Word, no matter how bad it cuts. How would you think it’d destroy babies, and innocent women, and things like that, so-called? One little leaven leavens the whole lump. That’s the same thing started back there with Eve. It looked awful cunning.

“Why, you’ll be wise. Surely you’ll not die. He’s too good. He wouldn’t kill you. But surely you’ll not die.” But God said you would die. That started the whole thing, right there. See? You’ve got to stay with that Word, regardless.

62-0408 - "Presuming"

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And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid. For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter. But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs. And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs. And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter. And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed. (Mark 7:24-30)

18 When the little girl died, Jairus’ daughter, the priest, said, “Come lay hands on her, and she’ll live.” But when the Roman centurion, the Gentile, said. “I’m not worthy You come under my roof, speak the word.” That’s it. See?

19 The Syrophoenician woman, Greek actually what she was, when she—when Jesus said to her, said, “It’s not meet for Me to take the children’s bread and give it to the dogs.”

She said, “That’s true, Lord; but the dogs under the table eats the children’s crumbs.”

He said, “For this saying, the devil’s left your daughter.” Say good things then. Say something good about somebody. Talk about Jesus. Say something loyal, something real. That’s the way to get rid of devils. He never said—He never prayed for the girl. He never said one thing about her being healed; He just said, “For this saying, for this saying…”

20 Hattie Wright, the other day, she didn’t ask for nothing. She was just setting there, but she said the right thing, which pleased the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit spoke back and said, “Hattie, ask anything that you will, whatever you got and you want. Find out whether this is real or not. Ask anything (the healing of her little crippled sister setting there all drawed up; ten thousand dollars to keep her from digging on them hills over there; the youth restored to her well run-down body); whatever you want to ask, you ask it right now. If It don’t come and give it to you right now, then I’m a false prophet.” That’s—that’s that’s something, isn’t it?

21 Jesus said, “Say to this mountain…” And you’ve heard the—about what’s been taken place; that’s the ministry that we’re entering into. We’re way up the road now. Soon the Coming of the Lord Jesus. And we’ve got to have rapturing faith in a Church that can be changed in a moment in a twinkling of an eye to go out, or we’ll not go. But don’t worry, it’ll be there. It’ll be there. And when the power of this church rises, it’ll bring its brethren; the power of that church rises, will bring its brethren; the power of that church will bring the other brethren; then there’ll be a general resurrection. And we’re looking forward to it.

59-1219 - "Questions And Answers On The Holy Ghost"

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And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation. (Luke 19:41-44)

13 I’m praying, fasting, waiting on God. I want to do my part while I’m here in California. You do your part. Get out and get the people in. God is doing greater things today than has ever been known since Jesus Christ was on earth. That’s right. And it’s going right over the top of the people’s head, and they’re missing seeing it. That’s the bad part.

If they would’ve only knew it, like Jesus said—said about the—the… said, “If you’d have only knowed your day, if you’d have only knew it… Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how oft would I have hovered you, as a hen does her brood. But you would not. If you’d have only knowed your day, your visitation…”

That’s the way it is today. It’s always been; that’s what it is now. If we’d have only knowed the day of visitation… But the visitation goes right through, and the people are looking way over here for something else. And first thing you know, the visitation’s over, and there it is. But as He said, “No man can come to Me except My Father has drawed him first. All the Father has given Me will come to Me.” Amen. Oh, that’s what makes us…

14 Now, we like to talk to people where we can make them feel real good. But the best thing to do, if there’s—there’s something wrong, let’s get that out of the way first. Let’s get the thing down to the foundation. See?

A fellow said to me not long ago, a well-known minister, one of the best in the world; he said, “Brother Branham, you’re making too much of a mistake.”

I said, “Pardon me, my brother. Tell me where it’s at.”

He said, “You cut at people too hard.” Said, “You’re… For instance, you—you’re always bawling the—the women out from the way they dress. And you’re always slamming this and that.” He said, “You better quit that. You’ll ruin your ministry.”

I said, “Any time that the Word of God ruins my ministry, God, ruin it right quick, because I—I want it ruined.” That—that’s right. I want to give something that’s right. The Word of God teaches that. And I say, “God give us boldness, and men that’ll stand for the truth, regardless of what comes or goes.” That’s what we need.

The Gospel’s not something for a sissy; Gospel is for men, God-called men.

15 You never judge a man by how big his hands is, and how wide his shoulders is. I’ve heard them say, “Oh, isn’t he a man.” I’ve seen men that weighed two hundred pounds, didn’t have an ounce of man in him. That’s right. You don’t measure a man by his size. That’s brute. You measure him by his character. There never was a greater character Man than Jesus Christ.

A big body… A mule’s stouter than any man, so he, or elephant. So that’d be brute. But a man’s not how big a muscle he’s got. I don’t measure him by that, but how the bags is in the knees of his trousers, where he’s been praying. That’s the man that’s to be measured: character.

Jesus was a small Man, little Fellow, probably stooped shouldered. At thirty years old; He looked fifty, the Bible said. But there never was a man on earth like Him and never will be. He—He… The Bible said, “There was no beauty for Him that—that we should desire Him. When we seen Him we hid as it was our face from Him,” and all like that.

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