<TITLE>01. Par 1-5</TITLE>53-1106, Do You Now Believe?, Sports Center, Owensboro, KY, 82 min
L-1 ... power of God to the people, the Gospel will--will never have much effect upon the people. A Mohammedan can have just as much joy, and shout just as loud as a Christian does, and have just as much confirmation that he's going to heaven as a Christian can. That's right. He believes in God, but he's deeply in error. Now, what he has to see is some manifestation.
Dr. Reedhead, which received the Holy Spirit in my room, he said that sent him to a staunch Mohammedan, who'd been educated here in America, he said, "What can... Why don't you renounce your dead prophet and receive a resurrected Lord Jesus?"

L-2 He said, "Kind sir, what can your Lord Jesus do more for me than my prophet?"
"Why," he said, "He is risen from the dead, and He gives us hope of Eternal Life."
He said, "Our Mohammed give us the promise of eternal life too."
Said, "We have joy."
He said, "So do we." So he--he said, "If our Mohammed... You've had two thousand years to prove that your Lord Jesus raised from the dead." And said, "Two thirds of the world knows nothing about it." He said, "But let our Mohammed raise from the dead, and all the world will know about it." He said, "Besides, our Mohammed never promised us things like your Lord Jesus. Your Lord Jesus promised if He raised up the things that He did, you'd do also. Now, let me see you scholars produce that, and we'll believe that the Lord Jesus raised from the dead."
He said, "Brother Branham, I changed the subject."
He had to. Oh, it's... We teach it in theology, but brother, Christianity is a practice; it's a life.

L-3 Let me read some of the words of our Lord. At the 16th chapter of Saint John, 27th verse I read:
For the Father Himself loveth you, because you have loved Me, and have believed that I came out from God.
I came forth from the Father, and am come again into the world: again, I leave the world, and go unto the Father.
His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest Thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.
Now we are sure that Thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask Thee: by this we know Thou comest forth from God.
Jesus answered them, Do you now believe?

L-4 Because that He knew what was going on, they recognized that His testimony was true, for God confirmed His testimony to be the truth. That's the way we believe these things, is a confirmation of truth. Now you say, "What is truth?"
"Christ is Truth." And Christ confirmed in a human life makes it truth. Now, I am not calling any down on, because of unbelief, because it's... I pray God forgive me of my unbelief. I'm ashamed of my--of my faith in the presence of my audience. There's many personal dealings and face to face talks, and the experience that God has by His sovereign grace, given me, and no more faith then I have, I feel ashamed of myself. And I publicly confess it. I ought to have mountains of faith, when I'm ashamed, and therefore I can't rebuke you.

L-5 But the only thing that I say is: "God help us to have faith." And as we see manifestations of God's Presence, increases our faith to believe in Him. For instance, how could Israel doubt God after they seen the Red Sea open up? After they seen Moses do the signs that he did, how could they doubt God? But they did. They doubted Him, and murmured in their hearts and wanted to go back.
Tomorrow, if the printer has them ready, I'm to bring down that picture, the Angel of the Lord in the Pillar of Fire. Scientifically taken, maybe I'll tell you the story of it tomorrow night. Someone had asked my boy if they could use them on radio program. You'd have to get them from the Douglas Studios; they're copyrighted in Washington, DC And I have no control of them myself. I just buy them and let the people have them for what I get them for. But we'll have them tomorrow night. And I'll try to tell you the story of them if I can.


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