<TITLE>13. Par 51-54</TITLE>L-51 Well, they put a big piece in the paper. Brother, I wouldn't fuss with no one. But Brother Bosworth said, "Let me have it." And I thought of old Caleb when I saw him, that old man standing there, seventy-something years old, to test his wits against a new scholar just out of cemetery or seminary; same thing.
So then he... standing there with this young Doctor of Divinity, Brother Bosworth said, "That's all right, Brother Branham. I won't argue." That night, you all know how cool the old patriarch set there before those thousands and thousands of people.
He said, "Brother Best, I'll just ask you one question. If you'll answer me yes or no. We'll just... It'll settle it." Said, "Was the redemptive Names of Jehovah applied to Jesus, yes or no?" That settled it.
He said, "I'll answer that when I get up."
Said, "I ask you to answer me now, and you won't have to get up." That's right. Well, there wasn't nothing could be said. He said, "I'm sorry, Brother Best, that you can't answer that. And I got six hundred questions here in the New Testament, claiming that Jesus Christ was the same yesterday, today, and forever."

L-52 Said, "That's one of my weakest." And he proved it to be his weakest. But if he said, "No," then he wasn't Jehovah-jireh, the Lord's provided Sacrifice, He wasn't Jesus Christ.
And if He was Jehovah-jireh, He had to apply the other redemptive Names, then He was Jehovah-rapha, the Healer, the same yesterday, today, and forever. That settled it. So that was all.
And that night when this Mr. Best got up and slapped that preacher standing there, then he said, "Bring forth that Divine healer. Let me see him perform and I'll believe it. Let me see it." Brother Bosworth shamed him for it.

L-53 So then, he knew I was up there in balcony thirty. He said... I'll... No one knew it. 'Cause the wife was setting up there and some police I believe. My brother and them had taken my up. And I was setting up there with my coat pulled up. And they... And my brother... Brother Bosworth said, "Now, I know Brother Branham's in the meeting. If he wants to come down and dismiss the crowd, all right. If he doesn't, well, that's up to him."
And my Brother Howard said, "You set still."
I said, "Well, ain't I setting still?" So they was... Just then I heard something go, "Whew." Here He was. Right. I just couldn't set still. I raised up.
And my wife told him, said, "Don't." See?

L-54 And the people started crying. They... Big line of ushers, several hundred put their hands together. I come to the platform. I said, just to dismiss the audience, I said, "I--I... Mr. Best, don't think hard of him. He's got just as much right in America, as being American, to believe what he has. He has a Scriptural right to believe it. But he has as much right as being an American to believe it as--not believe it, as I have to believe it. That's why we're fighting Korea now and so forth," I said.
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I have never one time said I was a Divine healer. I said, "That same old devil that met Jesus Christ the first time, said, 'If Thou be the Son of God, do a miracle here before me and let me see You do it.'"


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