56-0101 WHY.ARE.PEOPLE.SO.TOSSED.ABOUT_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN V-2 N-14 SUNDAY_
« 29-3 † A young fellow come to me not long ago. He was a Pentecostal. He'd seen too many of these meetings. And he goes in, and his wife is a staunch Lutheran. She said, "Well, I guess you all went down and shouted last night." Said, "I guess you was all speaking in tongues and doing all this last night."
He got out on the floor and said, "God, cast out--I cast the devil out of her. I cast the devil out of her." Almost a divorce case, man, a fine man.
He come to me, and he said, "Brother Branham, we're going to have a divorce, I guess." He said, "I just can't get that devil to move out of her."
I said, "Brother, you're going at it the wrong way." I said, "When she starts like that, say, 'All right dear, bless your heart, honey.' And be real kind to her. Just see how much you can do for her."
He said, "Brother Branham, well, how will I ever get the devil out of her."
I said, "You do as I say, and just keep praying in your heart." See, I said, "God will take care of the rest of it."
He called me up about two or three weeks later and said, "My home's revolutionized." He said, "My wife is a different person."
I said, "Which is the most powerful? Screaming, and kicking, and stomping; or putting your arms around in love?" God is love. God so loved the world...
Ever since by faith I saw the stream
Thy flowing wound supply,
Redeeming love has been my theme,
And shall be till I die."
That's right.
Wednesday 22 June 2016
Just be real sweet...
I give a little illustration this morning about a person that... One time this little woman had--had received the Holy Ghost. And she was a very sweet little person. They... She said... Well, she'd had a hard life, and her husband was an alcoholic. And so, she just kept on; she bore with him. He says, "You want to go to church, honey, take off. But I just go down to the saloon, down at the old Brown Derby, down here. Go and--on." So they hung out down there all the time, used to be Bonifers. Many of you old-timers here remember when Bonifer had there on the corner of... It's called Brown Derby now, I believe it is.
64-0830M QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.3_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN COD SUNDAY_
« 117 † So, hanging around down there, and the first thing you know, one night come up a question about church and about Christians. One of the old drunks setting there said, "There ain't no such a thing as Christians any more." Said, "There is no such a thing. All this bunch of hypocrites," said, "you see them out here smoking, drinking, doing the same thing that we do," and said, "call themselves Christians. There is no such."
This one drunk raised up and said, "Just a minute. There's one that I know about. "
Said, "Who is it?"
Said, "It's my wife." See? She'd become salty. He was catching it all the time.
He said, "I bet if she was put to a squeeze..."
He said, "No, she's still a Christian; I'll prove it to you." Said, "I tell you what let's do; let's go up home, and I'll show you whether she's a Christian or not." Said, "Let's go up home, and now, let's really be drunk. We're going to act like we're really drunk." Knocked at the door, come in staggering over everything and--and... "Why don't you set around this a-way," and everything. And she set them all a chair and (his guests, you know)--and tried to make them just as welcome as could be. Said, "I want you to fix us some supper." And so they--she went out and fixed some. Said, "we want ham and eggs." He knowed they had it, so they fixed the ham and eggs. When he got there at the table, he looked at them like that, picked up his plate, and slammed the stuff on the floor, said, "You know, I don't like my eggs like that. Come on boys let's get out of here anyhow," like that--like that.
64-0830M QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.3_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN COD SUNDAY_
« 119 † They went out and set down like that, you know. And she come out; she said, "Dear, I'm--I'm sorry I didn't get them fixed; I'll fix some more for you."
"Oh, nonsense, you knowed I didn't want them that way in the first place," just carrying on like that. They went out there, and set down, and act like they was drunk. They heard her in there kind of snubbing to herself, singing real low voice:
Must Jesus bear the cross alone,
All the world go free?
There's a cross for every one,
And there's a cross for me.
This consecrated cross I'll bear,
Till death shall set me free,
One drunk looked at the other one, said, "She's a Christian; she's got it." And that little woman led her husband, plus these others to Christ that night. See? Why? See? Just be real sweet. Just remember, He knows all about it.
64-0830M QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.3_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN COD SUNDAY_
« 117 † So, hanging around down there, and the first thing you know, one night come up a question about church and about Christians. One of the old drunks setting there said, "There ain't no such a thing as Christians any more." Said, "There is no such a thing. All this bunch of hypocrites," said, "you see them out here smoking, drinking, doing the same thing that we do," and said, "call themselves Christians. There is no such."
This one drunk raised up and said, "Just a minute. There's one that I know about. "
Said, "Who is it?"
Said, "It's my wife." See? She'd become salty. He was catching it all the time.
He said, "I bet if she was put to a squeeze..."
He said, "No, she's still a Christian; I'll prove it to you." Said, "I tell you what let's do; let's go up home, and I'll show you whether she's a Christian or not." Said, "Let's go up home, and now, let's really be drunk. We're going to act like we're really drunk." Knocked at the door, come in staggering over everything and--and... "Why don't you set around this a-way," and everything. And she set them all a chair and (his guests, you know)--and tried to make them just as welcome as could be. Said, "I want you to fix us some supper." And so they--she went out and fixed some. Said, "we want ham and eggs." He knowed they had it, so they fixed the ham and eggs. When he got there at the table, he looked at them like that, picked up his plate, and slammed the stuff on the floor, said, "You know, I don't like my eggs like that. Come on boys let's get out of here anyhow," like that--like that.
64-0830M QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.3_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN COD SUNDAY_
« 119 † They went out and set down like that, you know. And she come out; she said, "Dear, I'm--I'm sorry I didn't get them fixed; I'll fix some more for you."
"Oh, nonsense, you knowed I didn't want them that way in the first place," just carrying on like that. They went out there, and set down, and act like they was drunk. They heard her in there kind of snubbing to herself, singing real low voice:
Must Jesus bear the cross alone,
All the world go free?
There's a cross for every one,
And there's a cross for me.
This consecrated cross I'll bear,
Till death shall set me free,
One drunk looked at the other one, said, "She's a Christian; she's got it." And that little woman led her husband, plus these others to Christ that night. See? Why? See? Just be real sweet. Just remember, He knows all about it.
But what I do know about the Word, I like to talk to somebody else about It
51-1003 BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS_ NEW.YORK.NY WEDNESDAY_
« E-13 † Remember one time my mother, they went west and she lived in Texas, Oklahoma. So my dad was fancy rider; he really could ride, and a very good shot with a revolver. And so he used to go to rodeos and things, and he would ride. And he used to try to teach me to shoot a revolver. He'd take those big clay marbles and roll one out like that, and had two revolvers; and he'd take one, shoot under the marble and knock it up in the air and burst it with the other one 'fore it hit the ground." I couldn't hit a lard can setting still, so I--I knowed I could never do that. But he could ride good.
And so I always wanted to be like my dad. So we as kiddies on a farm (You know?) and we had an old plow horse. And so of a evening after he'd get though plowing, I'd go down along behind the barn. They had an old watering trough hewed out of a log. How many ever seen a watering trough hewed out of a log? Say, now we're coming home, getting right down towards home now.
And so I'd get all my little brothers and set them along out there on the side of the bank, and I'd get the old horse, where dad wouldn't notice it. You see? And I'd go down there and pick me a big handful of cockleburs, and get the saddle, and throw the saddle on the old horse, and put these cockleburs up under there, and pull down the hinches (You know?), and climb up on him. Why, the poor old horse, so old (You know?), and stiff and tired, he couldn't even get his feet off the ground. He just bawl with them cockleburs under there. You know? I'd set there and take off my hat and say, "I'm a cowboy." Ride on this poor horse, and he's just bawl (You know?), and just jump like that.
51-1003 BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS_ NEW.YORK.NY WEDNESDAY_
« E-14 † When I got to be about nineteen, I run away from home, going out west. I was going to be a cowboy. So I landed in Phoenix, Arizona, just in time of a rodeo. I went down to get me a pair of chaps, and when I buckled them on me, there was about eighteen inches of leather laying out on the floor. I looked like one of these little bantam roosters (You know?) with them feathers back... I said "Um-um, too long legged out here for me."
So I got me a pair of Levis and went out to the stalls, and they let me in with a pair of Levis on. I... So I was watching around. So after a while they said this Kansas outlaw was going to be rode by a certain famous rider. I seen when they pull--got that horse in that chute, I knew that that wasn't our old plow horse by a long ways. They got him up in the chute like this, and you have to catch-as-catch-can when he come through. They opened the bull chute there to let him out. And when he did, this famous rider jumped onto the horse, and as they jump--he jumped onto the horse, that horse made about one buck, put all four feet looked like in a wash pan, and he could've thrown the saddle over the corral fence. And when that guy fell, when that horse threw him, the blood was running from his nose and his ears. The pickups got the horse, and the ambulance got the rider. Well, this fellow come by, said, "I will give anybody a hundred dollars who will ride him a minute: one minute. Anybody." And there was a whole big bunch of cowpokes setting along on the fence. You know? I was setting up there with them. You know? Boy, I thought I was a cowboy. And I seen that. He looked, come right up to me, the caller did, and said, "Are you a rider?"
I said, "No, sir." No, sir. I wasn't a rider then when I got around where there is a rider at. And that's the way it was by a preacher. I was a preacher as long as I was in the Baptist church down there in...
51-1003 BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS_ NEW.YORK.NY WEDNESDAY_
« E-15 † But one day I went to St. Louis. I heard a Pentecostal preacher preaching. That man would preach till he'd turn red in the face; he would buckle his knees together, and sink plumb to the floor, catch his breath; you'd hear him about two squares, come up preaching. Somebody said, "Are you a preacher?"
I said, "No, sir." My old slow Baptist ways don't think of it that fast. That's all. So I don't... Never be careful about calling myself a preacher from then on. So I just... I... But what I do know about the Word, I like to talk to somebody else about It,
« E-13 † Remember one time my mother, they went west and she lived in Texas, Oklahoma. So my dad was fancy rider; he really could ride, and a very good shot with a revolver. And so he used to go to rodeos and things, and he would ride. And he used to try to teach me to shoot a revolver. He'd take those big clay marbles and roll one out like that, and had two revolvers; and he'd take one, shoot under the marble and knock it up in the air and burst it with the other one 'fore it hit the ground." I couldn't hit a lard can setting still, so I--I knowed I could never do that. But he could ride good.
And so I always wanted to be like my dad. So we as kiddies on a farm (You know?) and we had an old plow horse. And so of a evening after he'd get though plowing, I'd go down along behind the barn. They had an old watering trough hewed out of a log. How many ever seen a watering trough hewed out of a log? Say, now we're coming home, getting right down towards home now.
And so I'd get all my little brothers and set them along out there on the side of the bank, and I'd get the old horse, where dad wouldn't notice it. You see? And I'd go down there and pick me a big handful of cockleburs, and get the saddle, and throw the saddle on the old horse, and put these cockleburs up under there, and pull down the hinches (You know?), and climb up on him. Why, the poor old horse, so old (You know?), and stiff and tired, he couldn't even get his feet off the ground. He just bawl with them cockleburs under there. You know? I'd set there and take off my hat and say, "I'm a cowboy." Ride on this poor horse, and he's just bawl (You know?), and just jump like that.
51-1003 BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS_ NEW.YORK.NY WEDNESDAY_
« E-14 † When I got to be about nineteen, I run away from home, going out west. I was going to be a cowboy. So I landed in Phoenix, Arizona, just in time of a rodeo. I went down to get me a pair of chaps, and when I buckled them on me, there was about eighteen inches of leather laying out on the floor. I looked like one of these little bantam roosters (You know?) with them feathers back... I said "Um-um, too long legged out here for me."
So I got me a pair of Levis and went out to the stalls, and they let me in with a pair of Levis on. I... So I was watching around. So after a while they said this Kansas outlaw was going to be rode by a certain famous rider. I seen when they pull--got that horse in that chute, I knew that that wasn't our old plow horse by a long ways. They got him up in the chute like this, and you have to catch-as-catch-can when he come through. They opened the bull chute there to let him out. And when he did, this famous rider jumped onto the horse, and as they jump--he jumped onto the horse, that horse made about one buck, put all four feet looked like in a wash pan, and he could've thrown the saddle over the corral fence. And when that guy fell, when that horse threw him, the blood was running from his nose and his ears. The pickups got the horse, and the ambulance got the rider. Well, this fellow come by, said, "I will give anybody a hundred dollars who will ride him a minute: one minute. Anybody." And there was a whole big bunch of cowpokes setting along on the fence. You know? I was setting up there with them. You know? Boy, I thought I was a cowboy. And I seen that. He looked, come right up to me, the caller did, and said, "Are you a rider?"
I said, "No, sir." No, sir. I wasn't a rider then when I got around where there is a rider at. And that's the way it was by a preacher. I was a preacher as long as I was in the Baptist church down there in...
51-1003 BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS_ NEW.YORK.NY WEDNESDAY_
« E-15 † But one day I went to St. Louis. I heard a Pentecostal preacher preaching. That man would preach till he'd turn red in the face; he would buckle his knees together, and sink plumb to the floor, catch his breath; you'd hear him about two squares, come up preaching. Somebody said, "Are you a preacher?"
I said, "No, sir." My old slow Baptist ways don't think of it that fast. That's all. So I don't... Never be careful about calling myself a preacher from then on. So I just... I... But what I do know about the Word, I like to talk to somebody else about It,
We forgot the keyword.
60-0417M GO.TELL_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN EASTER.MESSAGE.BOOK SUNDAY_
« 44 † Sometime ago I was reading in a book of a little boy that was--entered a contest. And in this contest he was to make himself a famous name; any little boy who could keep the password in his mind till he got to a certain place, and he would speak this password, and the gate keeper would let him through. That was to test the IQ of the child. And when he got to the place, speaking the passwords that was given him, the gate would open and he would win a great honor.
One little boy, being very swift-footed, and knowed good and well that he could outrun all the rest of the boys in the contest, or he thought he could... He practiced day after day, of running. How he pumped up his little lungs, got his physical body in trim, so that he wouldn't tire as he run. And he practiced how to start with his feet, and get a head plunge ahead of the rest of the boys. And how that he must breathe during the time of his running, in order to hold the oxygen that came to his body to keep him pumping on, that it wouldn't slow up his heart too much. He studied it from every angle that he could.
60-0417M GO.TELL_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN EASTER.MESSAGE.BOOK SUNDAY_
« 46 † And in the morning that the race started, there was more than a hundred and fifty little boys lined up at a certain age. This little boy was rather a good-sized boy for his age. And he remembered all of his training. And he got ready. They got on the line, put their little faces against the--the string that come along, pushed their little nose up against it. He'd studied all the rules of that, making hisself ready.
And then when the gun fired, and the line was broken, the little boys jumped forward. And this little guy so physically fit until he jumped way ahead of the rest of them... And down the track he went with a terrific speed, well trained, until he could outrun every boy that was in the race. And he was there, oh, quite a long time, maybe a minute or more, before the best of the other runners ever reached the place.
But all of his physical training, he had forgotten the password. He had forgotten the very thing that he was to say to let him in the gate. And he paced back and forth, and stalled and had searched through his mind. He'd been so interested in the natural--natural physical conditions of his body, till he had forgotten the main thing. On down the line, some boys that didn't run so fast, remembered the password and entered in.
60-0417M GO.TELL_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN EASTER.MESSAGE.BOOK SUNDAY_
« 49 † So is it today. We are so interested in building great shrines, and churches, and buildings, and so forth, and so interested in keeping our churches in good trim, with fine buildings, and nice plush pews, and fine organs, our ministers so well trained from... They've got Doctor D.L., Ph.D., LL.D. degrees, but we forgot what we're running for. That's the trouble. "Go tell My disciples that I have raised from the dead and I'll meet them in Galilee." We forgot the keyword. We been so busy with other things, making big churches, building big denominations, till we're forgot the keyword.
« 44 † Sometime ago I was reading in a book of a little boy that was--entered a contest. And in this contest he was to make himself a famous name; any little boy who could keep the password in his mind till he got to a certain place, and he would speak this password, and the gate keeper would let him through. That was to test the IQ of the child. And when he got to the place, speaking the passwords that was given him, the gate would open and he would win a great honor.
One little boy, being very swift-footed, and knowed good and well that he could outrun all the rest of the boys in the contest, or he thought he could... He practiced day after day, of running. How he pumped up his little lungs, got his physical body in trim, so that he wouldn't tire as he run. And he practiced how to start with his feet, and get a head plunge ahead of the rest of the boys. And how that he must breathe during the time of his running, in order to hold the oxygen that came to his body to keep him pumping on, that it wouldn't slow up his heart too much. He studied it from every angle that he could.
60-0417M GO.TELL_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN EASTER.MESSAGE.BOOK SUNDAY_
« 46 † And in the morning that the race started, there was more than a hundred and fifty little boys lined up at a certain age. This little boy was rather a good-sized boy for his age. And he remembered all of his training. And he got ready. They got on the line, put their little faces against the--the string that come along, pushed their little nose up against it. He'd studied all the rules of that, making hisself ready.
And then when the gun fired, and the line was broken, the little boys jumped forward. And this little guy so physically fit until he jumped way ahead of the rest of them... And down the track he went with a terrific speed, well trained, until he could outrun every boy that was in the race. And he was there, oh, quite a long time, maybe a minute or more, before the best of the other runners ever reached the place.
But all of his physical training, he had forgotten the password. He had forgotten the very thing that he was to say to let him in the gate. And he paced back and forth, and stalled and had searched through his mind. He'd been so interested in the natural--natural physical conditions of his body, till he had forgotten the main thing. On down the line, some boys that didn't run so fast, remembered the password and entered in.
60-0417M GO.TELL_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN EASTER.MESSAGE.BOOK SUNDAY_
« 49 † So is it today. We are so interested in building great shrines, and churches, and buildings, and so forth, and so interested in keeping our churches in good trim, with fine buildings, and nice plush pews, and fine organs, our ministers so well trained from... They've got Doctor D.L., Ph.D., LL.D. degrees, but we forgot what we're running for. That's the trouble. "Go tell My disciples that I have raised from the dead and I'll meet them in Galilee." We forgot the keyword. We been so busy with other things, making big churches, building big denominations, till we're forgot the keyword.
A man that weighs a hundred and fifty pounds is worth eighty four cents in chemicals.
55-1008 THE.RESULTS.OF.DECISION_ CHICAGO.IL SATURDAY_
« E-47 † Now, look, this may make you a little bit sick at your stomach, but... You know, when I was a little boy... We was raised poor. Mama used to have to take and put a bread pan in the stove and render out meat skins, that she'd pick up down at the store, to get the grease to pour on the corn bread, to make the--to make the hoecakes. And us kids would eat the hoecakes and sop sorghum molasses for breakfast. I don't know whether you ever did it or not, pretty good. But, you know, we'd have to do that.
And every Saturday night, I know what it was, take a bath in an old cedar tub; and never change the water, just pour some more in and warm it up for the next fellow. Now, that was right. But we lived over it. I tell you, brother. It ain't so much about the outside. If you'd take care of the inside as well as you do the outside, you'd be better off anyhow. Amen. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
55-1008 THE.RESULTS.OF.DECISION_ CHICAGO.IL SATURDAY_
« E-48 † Not long ago, I was standing by a big museum. It had the estimation of a human body. A man that weighed a hundred and fifty pounds was worth eighty four cents in chemicals. Ha-ha. Put a ten dollar hat on eighty four cents. Boy, I'm telling you. Put a five hundred dollar mink skin coat around eight four cents and stick your nose up, if it'd rain, it'd drown you. Then you think you're somebody, and worth eighty four cents. You sure take care of that. But, brother, you got a soul that'll never die, somewhere. You'll take any kind of old dogmatic stuff for that. Amen.
I don't know what's the matter with me. But--but it's... [Congregation applauds--Ed.] Your pastors are suppose to do that. But... Bless the Lord. But what we need is to get back in the path. See? We're... That's the reason we're not over there tonight, enjoying something. That's the reason we're all broke up and everything. Certainly.
« E-47 † Now, look, this may make you a little bit sick at your stomach, but... You know, when I was a little boy... We was raised poor. Mama used to have to take and put a bread pan in the stove and render out meat skins, that she'd pick up down at the store, to get the grease to pour on the corn bread, to make the--to make the hoecakes. And us kids would eat the hoecakes and sop sorghum molasses for breakfast. I don't know whether you ever did it or not, pretty good. But, you know, we'd have to do that.
And every Saturday night, I know what it was, take a bath in an old cedar tub; and never change the water, just pour some more in and warm it up for the next fellow. Now, that was right. But we lived over it. I tell you, brother. It ain't so much about the outside. If you'd take care of the inside as well as you do the outside, you'd be better off anyhow. Amen. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
55-1008 THE.RESULTS.OF.DECISION_ CHICAGO.IL SATURDAY_
« E-48 † Not long ago, I was standing by a big museum. It had the estimation of a human body. A man that weighed a hundred and fifty pounds was worth eighty four cents in chemicals. Ha-ha. Put a ten dollar hat on eighty four cents. Boy, I'm telling you. Put a five hundred dollar mink skin coat around eight four cents and stick your nose up, if it'd rain, it'd drown you. Then you think you're somebody, and worth eighty four cents. You sure take care of that. But, brother, you got a soul that'll never die, somewhere. You'll take any kind of old dogmatic stuff for that. Amen.
I don't know what's the matter with me. But--but it's... [Congregation applauds--Ed.] Your pastors are suppose to do that. But... Bless the Lord. But what we need is to get back in the path. See? We're... That's the reason we're not over there tonight, enjoying something. That's the reason we're all broke up and everything. Certainly.
From That Time ... 61-0415B
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I love to fish. And I go way high in the mountain sometimes to fish. Now, I got a lot of brothers here, I know the same thing; I just looked at them watch one another then. So, sister, don't argue with him. Let him fish; that's good for he's... Go with him.
I said the other day that my little girls, Rebekah, she said, "I... When I get married I'll never marry a hunter. Hum." Said, "I see what my mother has went through." That's all right.
"Then marry a golf player, and let him get out there on the--out there with them half-dressed women, and everything all day long. Do that."
She thought about it, come back, said, "You know, daddy, I just happen change my mind." Said, "I want to marry a preacher, and let him be a hunter, then I want to go with him." So she had it all figured out. But that's all right.
I love to fish. And I go way high in the mountain sometimes to fish. Now, I got a lot of brothers here, I know the same thing; I just looked at them watch one another then. So, sister, don't argue with him. Let him fish; that's good for he's... Go with him.
I said the other day that my little girls, Rebekah, she said, "I... When I get married I'll never marry a hunter. Hum." Said, "I see what my mother has went through." That's all right.
"Then marry a golf player, and let him get out there on the--out there with them half-dressed women, and everything all day long. Do that."
She thought about it, come back, said, "You know, daddy, I just happen change my mind." Said, "I want to marry a preacher, and let him be a hunter, then I want to go with him." So she had it all figured out. But that's all right.
Monday 13 June 2016
Whose Book is that?
Unfortunately
many homes, yes even so-called Christian homes, are like the one in
which the little girl pointed to the Bible on the mantle that was never
opened, and said to her mother, "Whose book is that?"
Her mother quite startled by her daughters question replied, "Why honey, don't you know? That is God's book!"
The child demonstrating that she had a very practical turn to her mind said, "Don't you think that we had better give it back to him? No one around here ever reads it."
Her mother quite startled by her daughters question replied, "Why honey, don't you know? That is God's book!"
The child demonstrating that she had a very practical turn to her mind said, "Don't you think that we had better give it back to him? No one around here ever reads it."
Wednesday 8 June 2016
Why? Because He said so ...
So if God did, in fact, send a prophet, shouldn’t we believe all that he says?
The serpent’s objective was to get Adam’s wife to doubt just one word of God’s instructions. He knew that once the seed was planted in her mind, he could have his way with her. And we all know what happened next.
Eve believed God, but instead of standing firm, she stopped for a moment to listen to the serpent’s argument. He reasoned with her, getting her to disbelieve one thing: “thou shalt surely die,” and added a little to it to make the Message more acceptable to reasoning: “thou shalt not surely die.” Then he had her under his control, and her doubt exploded into sin, death, and destruction. That old serpent’s approach in the Garden of Eden has been successful for 6,000 years, and he’s become a master at planting the seed of doubt. He learned a long time ago that he doesn’t need to tackle the entire Bible; all he needs to do is cause his victim to disbelieve one word. Then doubt has an open door to spread from Genesis to Revelation. True to form, he is doing the same thing with the Gospel today.
You’ve probably heard about the recent attacks on Brother Branham’s Message through various websites and forums. Their tactics use the vast information that is so readily available through the internet to seduce believers into doubting. What they are not saying is that there are thousands of websites, books, and other publications by atheists that use the exact same methods to discredit the Bible. It’s the old trick from the Garden that has taken on a new form.
What is the tactics of Satan? Reasoning. “It’s just reasonable.” And when you hear anything that reasons against the Word, get away from it. It’s the devil. Don’t care how old fashion it is, how strange it looks, when God said so, that settles it eternally. Get away from anything that reasons against the Word.
62-0713 FROM THAT TIME
Another fiercely contested testimony is Paul on his road to Damascus and his experience with the Lord Jesus.
In Acts 9, the men with him “stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man.” In Acts 22, Paul retells the story and says the men “saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me.”
This seems like a direct contradiction, but the skeptics don’t stop there. The same story is told three times, and every time the Lord’s instructions to Paul are told slightly different. Acts 9 is brief:
“Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.”
Acts 22, when Paul is talking to the Jews, he goes into a little more depth: “Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all things which are appointed for thee to do.” Then, when he was speaking to Agrippa in Acts 26, he went into even more detail:
“But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee; Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee, To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.”
The critic would argue that some 30 years after the experience, when his life is on the line, Paul “embellishes” to justify his ministry, and says that Jesus, Himself, commissioned him to preach to the Gentiles, even though there was no mention of this in the previous accounts.
So which account of Paul’s experience is true? They all are. The natural eye would think that the telling of this story is different decades after it took place, so it must be false. In reality, the Book of Acts is written exactly the way God wanted it. There are many who claim to believe the Bible but are critics of Brother Branham’s Message because Brother Branham described the seven visions from 1933 or his commission from the Angel of the Lord slightly different at times. The “inconsistency” is not in the Message, but in the way they judge the Message.
Were Paul’s different testimonies false because they were told slightly different? Of course not. Further, if they judge the Message by the Bible, then they will see that it is precisely in line with the way the prophets spoke. That is why we listen to so many tapes and read the entire Bible. We don’t read Matthew, and leave out the other three Gospels, and neither do we listen to the Seven Seals and leave out Daniel’s Seventy Weeks.
We take it all because it ALL is the inspired Word of God.
Get Brother Branham's downloadable sermons at http://branham.org/en/MessageAudio
What? Who is William Branham? Here: http://branham.org/en/williambranham and http://themessage.com/messenger.
God bless you.
The serpent’s objective was to get Adam’s wife to doubt just one word of God’s instructions. He knew that once the seed was planted in her mind, he could have his way with her. And we all know what happened next.
Eve believed God, but instead of standing firm, she stopped for a moment to listen to the serpent’s argument. He reasoned with her, getting her to disbelieve one thing: “thou shalt surely die,” and added a little to it to make the Message more acceptable to reasoning: “thou shalt not surely die.” Then he had her under his control, and her doubt exploded into sin, death, and destruction. That old serpent’s approach in the Garden of Eden has been successful for 6,000 years, and he’s become a master at planting the seed of doubt. He learned a long time ago that he doesn’t need to tackle the entire Bible; all he needs to do is cause his victim to disbelieve one word. Then doubt has an open door to spread from Genesis to Revelation. True to form, he is doing the same thing with the Gospel today.
You’ve probably heard about the recent attacks on Brother Branham’s Message through various websites and forums. Their tactics use the vast information that is so readily available through the internet to seduce believers into doubting. What they are not saying is that there are thousands of websites, books, and other publications by atheists that use the exact same methods to discredit the Bible. It’s the old trick from the Garden that has taken on a new form.
What is the tactics of Satan? Reasoning. “It’s just reasonable.” And when you hear anything that reasons against the Word, get away from it. It’s the devil. Don’t care how old fashion it is, how strange it looks, when God said so, that settles it eternally. Get away from anything that reasons against the Word.
62-0713 FROM THAT TIME
Another fiercely contested testimony is Paul on his road to Damascus and his experience with the Lord Jesus.
In Acts 9, the men with him “stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man.” In Acts 22, Paul retells the story and says the men “saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me.”
This seems like a direct contradiction, but the skeptics don’t stop there. The same story is told three times, and every time the Lord’s instructions to Paul are told slightly different. Acts 9 is brief:
“Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.”
Acts 22, when Paul is talking to the Jews, he goes into a little more depth: “Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all things which are appointed for thee to do.” Then, when he was speaking to Agrippa in Acts 26, he went into even more detail:
“But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee; Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee, To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.”
The critic would argue that some 30 years after the experience, when his life is on the line, Paul “embellishes” to justify his ministry, and says that Jesus, Himself, commissioned him to preach to the Gentiles, even though there was no mention of this in the previous accounts.
So which account of Paul’s experience is true? They all are. The natural eye would think that the telling of this story is different decades after it took place, so it must be false. In reality, the Book of Acts is written exactly the way God wanted it. There are many who claim to believe the Bible but are critics of Brother Branham’s Message because Brother Branham described the seven visions from 1933 or his commission from the Angel of the Lord slightly different at times. The “inconsistency” is not in the Message, but in the way they judge the Message.
Were Paul’s different testimonies false because they were told slightly different? Of course not. Further, if they judge the Message by the Bible, then they will see that it is precisely in line with the way the prophets spoke. That is why we listen to so many tapes and read the entire Bible. We don’t read Matthew, and leave out the other three Gospels, and neither do we listen to the Seven Seals and leave out Daniel’s Seventy Weeks.
We take it all because it ALL is the inspired Word of God.
Get Brother Branham's downloadable sermons at http://branham.org/en/MessageAudio
What? Who is William Branham? Here: http://branham.org/en/williambranham and http://themessage.com/messenger.
God bless you.
Message Of Deliverance
63 Now, we would notice that it was a message of deliverance. He went down and tried to deliver the people, and they refused to hear Him. And today, it's the same thing in our nation, among our people. I've had the privilege of seeing our Lord Jesus in the meetings, do signs, and wonders, and great things. And the people will actually stand at the platform and know beyond a shadow of doubt, that the—that the great, immortal, infinite God, is present and performing the same kind of a miracle, and they'll stand there and chew chewing gum, and walk off the platform, unconcerned; they don't care.
65 It looks to me like if a man had any kind of a spirituality about him, or the Spirit of God in him, and when he seen the Lord Jesus do just what He said He would do, it would thrill his heart in such a way, that he couldn't hold his peace any longer. He would set the nation afire with the message. "As it was in them days," He said, "so will it be." That message went forth, and they merely laughed at it, and mocked at it, as someone who was telling some kind of a idle tale. But it was of mercy, and it was of grace, and it was of deliverance. Oh, my. And the Angel said, that morning, to Lot, after He'd give the message, He said, "Hasten, come hither, for I can do nothing till thou hast come hither."
67 I want you to notice this now, 'cause we have to cut short here on account of the prayer line. Did you notice what the Angel said, "I can't do nothing till you come hither." What was it? Was a message of deliverance. And before one speck of fire could fall from heaven, Lot had to get out of Sodom. And before one drop of rain fell from heaven, Noah went into the ark. And before the atom bomb can strike this nation, the church will go in the rapture to meet the Lord Jesus. And if the sputniks, and the missiles are set, and the hammers are pulled back, the Angels are all standing in order. Hallelujah. The great corridors of heaven is crowded full. The harps are all in tune. The great bands are already practiced up. There's a homecoming time pretty soon, for the church of the living God, who's been waiting His coming. Everything's in order. I'm so glad.
58-0309E - Will The Church Go Before The Tribulation?
Rev. William Marrion Branham
http://table.branham.org
63 Now, we would
notice that it was a message of deliverance. He went down and tried to
deliver the people, and they refused to hear Him. And today, it's the
same thing in our nation, among our people. I've had the privilege of
seeing our Lord Jesus in the meetings, do signs, and wonders, and great
things. And the people will actually stand at the platform and know
beyond a shadow of doubt, that the—that the great, immortal, infinite
God, is present and performing the same kind of a miracle, and they'll
stand there and chew chewing gum, and walk off the platform,
unconcerned; they don't care.
65 It looks to me like if a man had any kind of a spirituality about
him, or the Spirit of God in him, and when he seen the Lord Jesus do
just what He said He would do, it would thrill his heart in such a way,
that he couldn't hold his peace any longer. He would set the nation
afire with the message.
"As it was in them days," He said, "so will it be." That message went
forth, and they merely laughed at it, and mocked at it, as someone who
was telling some kind of a idle tale. But it was of mercy, and it was of
grace, and it was of deliverance. Oh, my. And the Angel said, that
morning, to Lot, after He'd give the message, He said, "Hasten, come
hither, for I can do nothing till thou hast come hither."
67 I want you to notice this now, 'cause we have to cut short here on
account of the prayer line. Did you notice what the Angel said, "I can't
do nothing till you come hither." What was it? Was a message of
deliverance. And before one speck of fire could fall from heaven, Lot
had to get out of Sodom. And before one drop of rain fell from heaven,
Noah went into the ark. And before the atom bomb can strike this nation,
the church will go in the rapture to meet the Lord Jesus. And if the
sputniks, and the missiles are set, and the hammers are pulled back, the
Angels are all standing in order. Hallelujah. The great corridors of
heaven is crowded full. The harps are all in tune. The great bands are
already practiced up. There's a homecoming time pretty soon, for the
church of the living God, who's been waiting His coming.
Everything's in order. I'm so glad.
58-0309E - Will The Church Go Before The Tribulation?
Rev. William Marrion Branham
http://table.branham.org
58-0309E - Will The Church Go Before The Tribulation?
Rev. William Marrion Branham
http://table.branham.org
63 Now, we would
notice that it was a message of deliverance. He went down and tried to
deliver the people, and they refused to hear Him. And today, it's the
same thing in our nation, among our people. I've had the privilege of
seeing our Lord Jesus in the meetings, do signs, and wonders, and great
things. And the people will actually stand at the platform and know
beyond a shadow of doubt, that the—that the great, immortal, infinite
God, is present and performing the same kind of a miracle, and they'll
stand there and chew chewing gum, and walk off the platform,
unconcerned; they don't care.
65 It looks to me like if a man had any kind of a spirituality about
him, or the Spirit of God in him, and when he seen the Lord Jesus do
just what He said He would do, it would thrill his heart in such a way,
that he couldn't hold his peace any longer. He would set the nation
afire with the message.
"As it was in them days," He said, "so will it be." That message went
forth, and they merely laughed at it, and mocked at it, as someone who
was telling some kind of a idle tale. But it was of mercy, and it was of
grace, and it was of deliverance. Oh, my. And the Angel said, that
morning, to Lot, after He'd give the message, He said, "Hasten, come
hither, for I can do nothing till thou hast come hither."
67 I want you to notice this now, 'cause we have to cut short here on
account of the prayer line. Did you notice what the Angel said, "I can't
do nothing till you come hither." What was it? Was a message of
deliverance. And before one speck of fire could fall from heaven, Lot
had to get out of Sodom. And before one drop of rain fell from heaven,
Noah went into the ark. And before the atom bomb can strike this nation,
the church will go in the rapture to meet the Lord Jesus. And if the
sputniks, and the missiles are set, and the hammers are pulled back, the
Angels are all standing in order. Hallelujah. The great corridors of
heaven is crowded full. The harps are all in tune. The great bands are
already practiced up. There's a homecoming time pretty soon, for the
church of the living God, who's been waiting His coming.
Everything's in order. I'm so glad.
58-0309E - Will The Church Go Before The Tribulation?
Rev. William Marrion Branham
http://table.branham.org
58-0309E - Will The Church Go Before The Tribulation?
Rev. William Marrion Branham
http://table.branham.org
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