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Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour. (Isaiah 43:10-11)

176 When, “God,” in the Bible, the word in Genesis, Genesis 1 said, “In the beginning God…” Take that name God in the Hebrew, and see what it means. It’s spelled El, Elah, Elohim, which means “the all, self-existing One, the all-sufficient One, the strong One.” There was nothing before That. There was no air. There was no stars. There was no moisture. There was no—there was no atmosphere. There was no atoms. There was no molecules. There was nothing before That. It was God, the Eternal One. And in Him were attributes, to be a Saviour, to be a Father, to be God. There, He wasn’t God, then. He was—He was God, but there wasn’t nothing else, no worship. So, God is “an object of worship,” and there was nothing to worship Him. So there was attributes in Him to be that, to be a Saviour, to be a Healer, to be all these things that He is.

177 So, the first thing He created. Now, some of you want to know about my Genesis story. God said, “Let us make man.” The first thing He created was Angels, to worship Him, then He become God. Then when He said, “Let us make man after our Own image,” what kind of a man did He make? Spirit man. Then, when He made that man, He give him control. Then He made man out of the dust of the earth. Then, he fell; then He become a Saviour. A God, then a Saviour. Sin brought on sickness, then He become a Healer. Hallelujah! There ain’t nothing going wrong. He knowed all about it, before the world was ever formed. He knew we’d have this meeting tonight. He knowed every gnat would ever be on the earth, and how much tallow he would make, and how many times he’d bat his eyes. He’s the infinite God. He knows all things. Amen. Aren’t you glad, tonight, that your name is on the Book? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.]

60-0911e - "Five Definite Identifications Of The True Church Of The Living God"

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And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole. (Mark 6:56)

22 Now, what we try to do, is—is try to get the people to believe the Lord Jesus, just accept Him, without being hands laid on. Now, we know there is a Scripture that says, “Lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” And we don’t try to belittle that Scripture, because that was the commission Jesus Christ gave to the Church, to “lay hands on the sick.” But, if you’ll bear with me, that was more like a Jewish tradition. Now, remember the—the girl that was laying sick, she died, Jairus’ daughter. He said, “Come, lay Your hands upon my child, and—and she’ll get well.”

23 But the Roman centurion, a Gentile, said, “I’m not worthy that You come under my roof. Just speak the word, and my servant will live.”

24 And Jesus turned around and said, “I never seen faith like that in Israel.”

25 See, the Gentile way is to believe Him, just absolutely believe Him. Now, we lay hands on the sick, of course, we do. But we try to—to bring the—the reality, by the Scriptures, of Jesus Christ being present; then when you, by faith, reach up and touch Him, yourself, see, like the woman with the blood issue touched His garment.

“Well,” you say, “if He was here, I would touch Him.”

26 The Bible says, in Hebrews 3, that, “He is now a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities.” He can be touched just as well tonight as He was then. So we want to touch Him.

27 Usually somebody say, “Well, you know Brother So-and-so,” some minister, evangelist, “laid hands upon me, and, oh, the Lord healed me. They lay…Brother So-and-so laid hands.” See? That makes everybody want to see that brother to lay hands on somebody. After all, it wasn’t a brother’s hands that did it. It’s your faith, that’s what does it. So, then when the evangelist leaves town, the pastor is just a little bitty fellow, in the sight of the congregation, usually. Some things happen, the healings and so forth. They think they have to have that evangelist back in town before anybody can be healed. Listen. Don’t you never believe that.

28 It’s your faith in God that does the healing. See? You must believe God. And now if you can touch Him, then, nobody laid hands on you. It was your faith that touched Him, and your faith brought the reality. So then it wasn’t no one touched you, but your faith touched Him. And so that brings real genuine testimony to Him then. That’s what we’re here for, to—to magnify Him.

64-0415 - "Christ Is Identified The Same In All Generations"

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And Moses said unto the Lord, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the Lord? Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say. And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart. (Exodus 4:10-14)

181 Did God feel sorry for Moses with all of his weaknesses, said, “Poor little Moses, something—something sure has happened to you, you fell from your degree. Oh, my! Here, yeah, you was a great man, an intellectual, and there wasn’t nothing going to stop you. Brother, you had all your Ph.D.’s and LL.D.’s, and everything else, and now here you come confessing that you are nothing, you can’t do a thing. You’re—you’re just so weak”? No! God wasn’t sorry for him. God never took pity on him. God had him cured then of all that stuff. He wasn’t sorry for him.

182 But we find out, if you’re putting it down, Exodus 4:14, “The anger of God was kindled against him.” God wasn’t sorry for him ’cause he was weak.

183 You say, “O Lord, I just feel so bad, I don’t believe I could do it.” God don’t feel sorry for you; feels like kicking you around a little bit. See? See? Sure. God don’t feel sorry for you; He—He gets angry with you. You’re just getting in shape then to where He can use you. Yeah.

184 Moses getting cured up, God can use him. He had the cure, he was away from human abilities then. He didn’t have nothing he could rely upon then, ’cause he—he was ready then for the service.

185 God said, “Forty years out here I’ve had you and Zipporah fussing and carrying around out here in this wilderness, whether you could find out there’s human weakness or not, where you’re standing up there as a big prince, ‘Hello, Doctor Moses. Good morning, Reverend, Sir. Yes, sir. Moses, you’re the coming prince. All…We all think of you.’ Now you’re out here in the desert with a bunch of sheep and a high-tempered wife.” See? That fixed him up. Yes, sir. Moses in an awful shape, but He said, “Now I can use you, when you realize that you’re nothing. Now come on up here by this burning bush, I want to send you down yonder.” Oh, my!

186 God, give us some more of that kind, give us some more weaklings. That’s what we need, some weaklings. Sure!

61-1119 - "Perfect Strength By Perfect Weakness"

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And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. (Exodus 3:2-5)

6 There’s probably a many a man setting here tonight, that if he’d just done what God told him to a long time ago, he’d be preaching the Gospel somewhere. Do something. Don’t just stand still. Get out…?… If you’re not a preacher, testify, do something somewhere. Don’t stand still. If you’re washing the dishes, why, testify to the neighbor. Get out and pass tracts; do something. Don’t stand still. What is in your hand? Get doing something. And whatever is at your hand, use it.

And I can see Moses as he was going along, herding some sheep, one morning, probably thinking about the days. He was about eighty years then.

7 Some people say, “Well, I’m too old.” Moses wasn’t when he was eighty. So he’d been forty years, God child-trained him back there on the backside of the desert, and then, getting him ready, preparing him for the service of the Lord.

And then there was a burning bush. And Moses stepped up to the burning bush to look at it. I don’t believe to criticize it. It was a lot of fire, and burning, and carrying on. So they… He thought, he’d just walk aside to see why it wasn’t consumed. And while he was walking up close to it, the Lord said, “Take off your shoes; you’re on holy ground.”

8 And what if Moses said, “I will just take off my hat, Lord, that’ll be just as good.” But God didn’t tell him his hat, He said, his shoes. I believe we must do just what the Scripture says do, no matter how hard it seems, and how indifferent from our teaching, we’ve got to do what God said do. He said, shoes, He meant shoes.

Moses slipped off his shoes, and started walking up in the… That was the—the Angel of the Lord, Jesus Christ, setting in that bush, the Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel through the wilderness. And any teacher knows that the—the Angel of the covenant was Jesus Christ. He was the Rock that was in the wilderness. He was in the brass serpent. He was in all the patriarchs. He was in David. He was down through the New Testament. And He’s in His Church tonight. Just the same Jesus the yesterday, today, and forever: changes not.

53-0508 - "God Commissioning Moses"

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And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children. Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother. And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it. (Exodus 2:5-10)

244 To you little mothers here this morning, that’s been real mothers, and I know there’s many of you; I think, every one of you. Let me tell you something. God bless you. You’re the fifth Gospel, I think. Let me tell you what now for your children, just a little thing. Cause, Brother Neville will probably preach on the…about mother tonight, or whoever, one of us that preaches, all right, about mother. But, listen, let me ask you something.

245 Remember, when Moses was a little boy, it was a mother who give him his instruction. It was a godly mother who took little Moses on her knees, and said, “Moses,” taught him all. He was her teacher, or, she was his teacher, rather, under Pharaoh, and said, “Now, these things,” said, “Moses, someday you’re going to deliver the children of Israel. You’re the boy that’s called. Keep yourself pure and unspotted from the world, for you’re the one. You’re the one.”

246 No other place do we know, where he ever went to any seminary, any teaching at all, he ever got. He stayed right in Pharaoh’s palace, which was a heathen; but his mother taught him. [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit three times—Ed.] That’s a real mother. She taught him the precepts of the Lord. She told him how he must be holy. She told him how and what he must live, and how, what God must do, would do for him. And it stuck with Moses all the days of his life.

247 And any good, true, loyal mother that’ll take her little babies, instead of send them to picture shows and dances, and so forth like that, and she’ll put them on her lap and teach them about the Lord Jesus Christ.

248 Here the other day, I was talking to a mother on the telephone. And the mother said, “Oh, Brother Billy,” she said, “my poor boy is in trouble.” Said, “Oh, what a trouble he’s in.”

249 I said, “Yes, I know about it, sister, dear.” And she said, “He may be wrong. I don’t know.” Said, “One says this and one says that. I don’t know. But,” said, “no matter whether he’s wrong or right, I love him.” There you are, “I love him.”

250 He said to his mother, said, “I’ve been so deceived by this and that.” Said, “Mother, I believe you’re about the only sweetheart I really have; a woman that’s true to me, and sticks to me.” That’s mother’s love. That’s a real mother that’ll put her arms around her baby. Regardless whether he’s right or wrong, she goes right on through. And if God…If a mother can think that of her baby, how much more will God think that of His. You see? You stay right with Him. Go right.

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

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Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. (Isaiah 40:28-31)

9 Now, we want you to turn tonight on some notes that I have here, in a way of a little… What I’m—want to do, trying to do (It’s no secret.), is to try to build a faith in the people to where we can have a great climax and something really take place that’ll stir the whole country.

Now, we did that by the grace of God at Grass Valley, where there wasn’t one feeble person left in the midst of the whole congregation in that big auditorium: wasn’t one. I never prayed for the sick. I just kept building faith, just kept on with the Word, in the simplicity of the Word, in the simple way I have of putting it. But the people just hung right on and stayed right on. And then the great time come. And just everything in the building lifted up.

And it was that way again at Spokane the other night, when the whole front was laying full of wheelchairs, and stretcher cases, and things like that. And completely down that row went the Holy Spirit, delivering every one just as It come to it, right along like that. There… They laid there in those wheelchairs and sweated it out and everything, listening, holding on to that faith, just grasping it, and searching, and finding out. And then after while, all at once the Holy Spirit dropped right down, come right down the row like that, and every one of them got right up and walked away. See, see?

10 The trouble of it, with we people, we’re in too much of a hurry. It’s just got to be done right now, can’t come back no more. See? And when you get that in your mind (See?), that—you’re going to lose right there. You’re—you’re on losing grounds right there. You—you have nothing to stand on. You must be patient. “They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength and mount up with wings like an eagle.” I—I like that. Just be patient. Wait.

God’s in no hurry. He let the Hebrew children walk right into the fiery furnace before He ever turned a finger. That’s right. And let Daniel go right into the lions’ den, let Jesus go plumb into the grave, and His soul descend into hell, then raised Him right up through the bottomless pits, right on out through the grave, and cut every avenue of the devil off, and went straight into glory with it. See? Sure. He’s in no hurry. He’s God. See? He just… We just get in a hurry, is the only thing. You see? We miss it.

So don’t be in a hurry. Wait and watch; listen. Take the Scripture, examine It, see if It’s right. And if It’s right, hold on to it. If it’s not, tell me so I can get it right.

So we—we see that every work must be the Holy Spirit’s work. It must be His work. It’s His. And it must come out of the Bible. We mustn’t draw anything from some conception or reasoning. We must draw it from the Bible.

62-0719e - "Perseverant"

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And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence. So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. (Genesis 50:24-26)

37 Notice, when Job died, here’s just a little drop, and then we will go right on with redemption. Notice, when Job died, before he died, specifying in the place that he was buried… That had something to do with it. And along came Abraham. And when Sarah died, his sweetheart and wife, when she died, it was strange, but Abraham goes up into the land to where Job was buried, and buried Sarah in the same land where Job was buried. Now watch, they were prophets. Now, this wasn’t written in the Scripture now.

And notice, when Abraham died, he slept with Sarah, the same place. Abraham begot Isaac, and when Isaac died, he was buried with Abraham. And when Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob died down in Egypt. But before he died, he made his prophet son, Joseph, come down and put his hand on his hip where the Angel had touched him, and changed his walk, and swore by God that he’d not bury him down in Egypt. Wonder why? Wonder why?

38 Now, it wasn’t written, but they were spiritual man. They read between the lines. And he said, “Take me back up into Canaan. Bury me up there with my father Abraham, with Isaac.”

And when… Watch Joseph. When he died, he said, “Don’t you bury my bones down here. But someday God’s going to visit you, so you take my bones before you and bury them with my father,” the same place where Job was buried, same place where Sarah and Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and Rebekah, and Leah, and all was buried up in the promised land. I wonder why? God…

Here it is, God hadn’t promised a resurrection down there in Egypt, but they knew that the resurrection was going to be in the promised land. And on the day when Jesus finally come, the Redeemer, they did to Him like they said they would. He died, buried, and on the third day, He rose. And those that were buried up there with Him, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the saints, come out of the grave. They knowed the resurrection was going to take place in Palestine. Because it was spiritual revealed to them.

That’s the reason, tonight, I say you can have all your world you want, all your fancy, fandangles, all your educations, and things you want to, but bury me in Jesus Christ: For those that are in Christ, God will bring with Him in the first resurrection. So it… Just let the Holy Spirit reveal that to you. Redeemed by His Blood, those that are in Christ, will God bring with Him at His coming.

What difference does it make what the world wants to call you? Fanatic, or whatever it may be, just stay in Christ.

55-1119 - "Redeemer, Redemption"

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And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee. And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren? And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother. (Mark 3:32-35)

67 Notice how infallible the Word is. Mary and Joseph…Now to you, my dear Catholic friends, that said Mary was the mother of God. Mary wasn’t even the mother of Jesus, let alone being the mother of God. How could she be? Right. Not one time did He ever address her as mother; not at all.

68 They come to Him one time, and said, “Your mother and brothers wait outside.”

69 He looked on His congregation, said, “Who is My mother? Who is My brethren?” Looked at His disciples, said, “The ones that does the will of My Father, that’s the same as My mother, My…”

70 On the cross, when He was dying, He also spoke the same thing. He said to John, John here, this man, “Son, behold your mother!” Not, “Mother, behold thy son.” “Woman, behold your son!” Not, see, she wasn’t no mother of God.

71 She was just a borrowed womb that God used; no more than any other woman that God take a notion to use. He might use (your) the womb of your heart, to declare His Son, if you—if you’d just let Him do it. See? Not no mother of God. There would have to be a sensation, even to be a seed of Mary. He wasn’t even a seed from Mary.

72 It was, the whole thing, was God, the Creator. If the first Adam back there was created without father and mother, the Second Adam was the same thing. And anything less than that wouldn’t put Him on equal with Him. That’s right. The same God, He created a body that He Himself dwelt in.

73 Now we find, look how, look, if Mary was the mother of God, how she slipped up, there. She said, “Thy father and I have sought Thee with tears.” Denying the virgin birth, “Thy father, Joseph, and I, have sought Thee.”

74 Watch that twelve-year-old Boy, twelve-year-old Child, saying, “Don’t you know that I must be about My Father’s business, debating with them denominations up there?” Now, if He was with, about Joseph’s business, He’d have been down at the carpenter shop. Joseph wasn’t His father. God was His Father. “Don’t you know I ought to be about My Father’s business?” Up there, at twelve years old, with them learned priests. Not a day in school, but yet they were astonished at the wisdom. And look at the…

75 He was the Word. When He was born, He was the Word. He is still the Word. Notice, the Word will not take counterfeit. She said, “Thy father and I have sought Thee with tears.”

76 Said, “Don’t you know that I must be about My Father’s business?”

77 Rebuked His Own mother? Why? He was the Word. There would be a question in somebody’s mind, if Mary here, who once said the “Holy Ghost” overshadowed her and brought forth a Son, and then here calling Joseph the father. The Word is infallible. It can’t fail.

64-0119 - "Shalom"

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In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live. Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the Lord, And said, Remember now, O Lord, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah, saying, Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years. (Isaiah 38:1-5)

16 Now, God has ways of doing things. Looked like He would have spoke right back and told him, “But I—I considered your case, again; I’m going to let you stay for that, if you’ll do that.” But He didn’t. He spoke to the prophet, and sent the prophet all the way back up there again to tell him. Said, “All right, God heard your prayer.” See, God revealed to the prophet what was going to happen; he come back, “Your—your days is considered, and you’re going to come off the bed now in three days.” You got some poultices and so forth, put on him. And Hezekiah come off the bed and was made well.

17 Now, see what prayer does? Prayer is not exactly bringing God down to man. It’s bringing man up to God. See? As you pray, you lose—you lose sight of these earthly things. You sway out into somewhere else, way beyond, and on and on and on, till you be come into His Presence. And then a—a faith that you have laid it out before God, said, “Now here, God, here it is. And I—I want to get well for, this cause.” Or, “I want You to do this for me, for this cause. I want You to heal me from—from—from this cancer, or this TB or—or this anemia condition,” or whatever it is. “I will walk before You, I will—I will do everything I can. I will give this testimony everywhere I go. I will be happy to do that, Lord. And I will use my life, not for myself. I will—I will use it for Your glory, to help others to see You.”

18 Now, then you lay that before God, and say, “God, will You consider my case?” I believe, just as Hezekiah was… O God, yet today, don’t you believe so? Every night He confirms it right here in the building. I believe He will do it again tonight, don’t you? He will come right down here among us tonight and confirm the same thing. As men and women, I don’t know no one here.

52-0716 - "Thou Knowest All Things"

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No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse. And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles. (Mark 2:21-22)

92 The intellectuals! The old lady, they give her a face lift; she is still the same old woman. The old man, they give him a face lift; he’s just the same old man. “I’ll turn my new page, on—on New Year’s, and I’ll start life new. I’ll throw away my pipe,” and pick it up the next day. See? That’s just you. It isn’t a face lifting; it’s a Birth, the church needs.

93 Now you can’t preach This in the old church. She won’t stand It. Jesus said that in Luke, about the 5th chapter, about the wine in the bottles. He said, “You can’t put new wine in old bottles. If you do, they’ll perish.”

94 That used to wonder me, that used to startle my—my boyish mind, when I used to think, “How could the bottle perish?” Now what we call the bottle, being old, it makes no difference, because it’s glass.

95 But, in Jesus’ time, what He was speaking of, was the bottle that they used then, which was made out of an animal hide. And an animal hide had been tanned. And when the animal hide was old, why…When it was new and young, and just had been tanned, it was flexible. But when it got old, it got dry. Now, many of you people know what a hide is when it gets dry. It gets old and dry, and it’s all shrunk up and real hard. Now, if you put new wine in that, it hasn’t got any life in it; it’s going to burst.

96 It’s just like trying to preach the baptism of the Holy Ghost, in the real genuine power of the—of the resurrection, is trying to place that before the people. When you do, what happens if you put it in? The new Wine has got Life, and the new Wine is still fermenting. Oh, I hope you see it. The new Life is fermenting.

97 The new wine is still fermenting. And if it’s in a new flexible bottle, where the oil of the animal is still in the skin, when the new wine goes to pushing out, the skin will stretch.

98 In otherwise, when the Bible said, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever,” the new skin will say, “amen,” stretch out with It. And when the new Wine says, that, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, “I am the Life of God that’s working in you,” the new skin will say, “amen,” stretch out to It. When the new Wine says, that, “the Holy Ghost is sufficient for our healing today,” the new Wine will stretch itself out, the Wine being the Word. And when It says that, then the new bottle will say, “amen,” stretch out to It.

99 But what will the old body do? “Days of miracles is passed and gone on.” Then, what are we doing? What are we accomplishing? We are…He said, “The old bottle will perish, and the wine will perish with it.” And it’s almost like casting your pearls before swine. They turn and tramp under the feet. Do you see it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”]

57-0120m - "The Impersonation Of Christianity"

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