<TITLE>09. Par 25-28</TITLE>L-25 And the night at the altar call, I made the altar call and I said, "I do not want any evangelicals raising their hand or anybody that goes to church. I want only those who have never went to church." What did He do? The Gospel is a... I said, "He said to John's disciples, 'Go tell John these things,' or show John. 'The lame walk, the blind see.'"
They just rake up arm loads and loads of crutches and sticks and things, where they'd just leave them laying there. Just congregational prayer, when they seen that happen. See? That's all they wanted to know, that it--He really lived, that's all they knowed. And if they... They'd been kept under superstition long enough. When they seen the real Lord Jesus out in His power, and hear Him go out in the audience, say, "The man standing there with so-and-so, his name is," couldn't even speak it, have to spell it out, and like that. And, "He come from a certain city. He's this way, and he did this. And this is supposed to take place. Stand up, the Lord Jesus has made you well." Up he'd go. "Here's another one over here; his name is Pedro so-and-so; he come from so-and-so. He did so-and-so. You did a thing the other day that you oughtn't to have done when you did so-and-so. Now, make that right before God and God will make you well." And screaming away he'd go. Them people just dropped their crutches and everything, throw them away, start running around praising the Lord. That's right. That was Catholic people. See?

L-26 And so when this little... I said, "Don't no one raise your hand. I can't make an altar call no more, and if you raise your hand, be sure that you understand that you are now forsaking your sins and accepting Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour, after you have seen and declared that He has risen from the dead. He still does the same things today that He did." I said, "Once you might've thought there was a Jesus, but He died many years ago and that was the end of Him. But two thousand years has passed and here He is right here now in the midst of you, doing the same thing. 'The lame walks; the blind sees; the poor has the Gospel preached; the dead's raised up. And blessed is he who is not offended in Me,' said the Lord Jesus." I said, "How many now upon--that's never been Christians, that will accept the Lord Jesus as personal Saviour?" And all around... They judged around twenty thousand at one time accepted the Lord Jesus as personal Saviour; twenty thousand people at one time.

L-27 Well, I believe, if it ha... I'd a had to cancel Joseph's meeting here, your meeting, and by the grace of God, I've said... May Satan may get me in such a fix sometime till I have to be packed to the platform, but I'll have to be pretty sick I believe, or something happen that I can't, before I ever want to cancel a meeting of any kind. It's been said that I've been places and advertised here. I can't help that. Somebody else advertised that. But when I promise, I want to keep my word.

L-28 And so they said, "Brother Branham, if you'll stay and make out fifteen days of meeting here, and this just getting spreading out..." And from that night to the next night the trou--crowds tripled, three times what they was the night before, hanging over the walls and everything. It was a--a marvelous... Not setting, standing, standing up just right against each other, like that. Just like an ocean of people.
And now, what would it be for fifteen nights? He said, "Mexico will have a dent put in it for Christianity, that if the world stands in three, four hundred years from now, they'll still be talking about it." But I had these meetings, but I'm going back to Mexico someday. And I want the Lord to send me back so I can go back like I did then in the Name of the Lord Jesus. That's right. What did that? Your prayers. I remembered the Philadelphian church praying for me on those nights. I always remember that, that you're praying for me.


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