<TITLE>21. Par 246-262</TITLE>L-246 And so he got real frantic then, he said, "Bring that Divine healer forth and let me see him perform!"
Said, "Brother Best, do you believe in people being saved?"
He said, "Sure!"
Said, "Would you want to be called a Divine saviour?"
Said, "Certainly not!"

L-247 "Neither... That wouldn't make you a Divine saviour because you preached salvation of soul."
He said, "Well, certainly not!"

L-248 Said, "Neither does it make Brother Branham a Divine healer by preaching Divine healing for the body. He's not no Divine healer, he points people to Jesus Christ."

L-249 And he said, "Bring him forth, let me see him perform! Let me look at the people, a year from today, and I'll tell you whether I'll believe It or not."

L-250 Brother Bosworth said, "Brother Best, that sounds like another case at Calvary, 'Come down off the Cross and we'll believe You.'" See?

L-251   And so, oh, then he really blew up. He said, "Let me see him perform! Let me see him perform!" The moderators made him set down. He walked over there, and there was a Pentecostal preacher standing there, he just smacked him all the way across the platform. And so they stopped him then. (So Brother Bosworth said, "Here, here! No, no.") So the moderators made him set down.

L-252 Raymond Richey raised up, said, "Is this the attitude of the Southern Baptist Convention?" Said, "You Baptist ministers, did the Southern Baptist Convention send this man over here or did he come of his own?" They wouldn't answer. He said, "I asked you!" He knew them, every one.

L-253 They said, "He come on his own." Cause I know Baptists believe in Divine healing, too. So then he said, "He come on his own."

L-254   So then here's what happened then. Then Brother Bosworth said, "I know Brother Branham's in the meeting, if he wants to come and dismiss the audience, very well."
So Howard said, "You sit still!"
I said, "I'm sitting still."

L-255 And just then Something come around, begin to whirl around, and I knew It was the Angel of the Lord, said "Rise up!"

L-256 About five hundred people put their hands together like this, made an aisle, come down to the platform.

L-257 I said, "Friends, I'm not no Divine healer. I'm your brother." I said, "Brother Best, with no..." Or, "Brother Best," I said, "with no disregards to you, my brother, not at all. You have a right to your convictions, so do I." I said, "Course, you see you couldn't prove that, your point, by Brother Bosworth. Neither could you by anybody that's well read in the Bible, that knows those things." I said, "And as far as healing people, I cannot heal them, Brother Best. But I'm here every night, if you want to see the Lord perform miracles, come on over. He does it every night."

L-258 And he said, "I'd like to see you heal somebody and let me look at them! You might hypnotize them with your hypnotism, but" said "I'd like to see it in a year from there!"
I said, "Well, you'd have a right to check them, Brother Best."

L-259   He said, "Nothing but you bunch of numbskull holy-rollers believe in such stuff as that. Baptists don't believe in no such nonsense."

L-260 Brother Bosworth said, "Just a moment." Said, "How many people out there, in these two weeks meeting here, that's standing in good standing with these fine Baptist churches here in Houston, that can prove that you've been healed by Almighty God while Brother Branham's been here?" And over three hundred stood up. Said, "What about that?"

L-261 He said, "They're not Baptists!" Said, "Anybody can testify anything, that still doesn't make it right!"

L-262 Said, "God's Word says it's right, and you can't withstand that. And the people says it's right, and you can't back that down. So what are you going to do about It?" See, like that.


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