<TITLE>11. Par 42-45</TITLE>L-42 So my Christian friend, I say this tonight. I'm not an old man, yet I'm not a boy; but if I had a life, and God would come down and say, "Would you forfeit this Christian experience that you have of My redeeming and resurrected healing power..." And your brother tonight standing here was once a blind man.
I was led around by the arms like that with great big thick glasses on, and was so much astigmatism until my head would shake like this, till it'd take me sometimes an hour for the barber to cut my hair. And one moment's time the loving grace of Jesus Christ moved those great, thick glasses from me. I can read newspaper print five feet away from me.

L-43 And today... A few weeks, no it's been about a year ago now, I went to Louisville to a very fine specialist who was going to grind me some glasses for sunglasses to--in Africa and different places. I was going to British Columbia on the snow banks there on a hunting trip on--after I'd come from Africa... And a little doctor friend of mine who lives door neighbors to me, is Dr. Sam Adair, said that he thought maybe it being, said, "You're forty years old, Billy. Your eyes are just actually getting bad. That's the reason..."
I wear any kind of glass and it makes me sick. I said, "No, it's the color."
He said, "Go get your eyes examined." And he sent me over to this specialist; that was the will of God. The man now wants to go to Africa with me and perform operations of cataracts six months free of charge for the natives. He's a Christian man.
See how God works. Sure. And when they--he examined my eyes. Here's what he said, "My eyes 20/20, is good. He tried it on from 20/20 to fifteen-fifteen and then down to ten-ten and my eyes are ten-ten. I sing "Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me."

L-44 Now, of these type of testimonies, God Who is my Judge would know this, and I say it and if I--if I'm exaggerating, God forgive me. I believe that I could stand here, if it was possible enough, and for the next five hundred hours give testimony of things that I know that our Lord has did, and it wouldn't cover it, of things above the thousands that volumes of books wouldn't put it in detail, of what our Lord Jesus has did, that I've seen Him do myself. It's--friends, it's just been hundreds times hundreds times hundreds of everything.
You say, "Why didn't I hear it? Why didn't I know something about it?" That's the same thing that many Jews thought after Jesus was crucified or so forth. Many of them say, "Why didn't I? Why didn't I?" It's your privilege now to believe it now and to accept it. This is your day.

L-45 You might think, "Brother Branham, are you..." I'm not saying because I'm holding this meeting here. I'm not holding it. God is. If--if He would speak to me tonight and say, "Go somewhere else." I'd be on my road right now. Well, that's... I never... If...?... to me I couldn't do it. It's Him. I feel that this place needs the Gospel of Jesus Christ and His power. It's true.
Tonight I know places that's calling that right here where they've got as many as fifteen thousand people that can be in the first night we gather in. That's right. Fifteen thousand people. I know of many places where at least a hundred and fifty thousand will be gathered at the first time. That's right.
But it isn't--it isn't crowds that I'm thinking about. The Gospel must be preached in this city, and that city, and to all the world for a witness, then the Lord shall come. Not theology must be preached, but the power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost must be demonstrated in all the world for a witness. Then the time shall come.


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