<TITLE>04. Par 13-14</TITLE>L-13 And when I looked at the man, I heard myself talking. I don't know whether... It may sound strange, but It was the Holy Spirit speaking. The Bible said, "Take no thought what you shall say. It'll be added then." And It said, "Because that you have defied the Spirit of God, tonight you will fall over my feet."
He said, "Well... I'll show you whose feet I'll fall over."
And he drew his great big arm back and started to hit me like that, and I said, "Satan, come out of the man (just about like that) in the Name of the Lord Jesus."
And he had his arm back like that to strike, and he started going, "Ouu-ouu," and his eyes rolled back. He started going around and around like that, and fell down, till he just laid across my feet, and I couldn't move any way. So there both had made a challenge--the Spirit of God and the spirit was in him. Both of them made a challenge, so then something had to happen. The audience was waiting, and the fellow...
And the policeman said, "Is that man dead?"
I said, "No, sir."
Said, "Is he healed?"
I said, "No, sir. He worships that spirit. He won't give it up (See?), but would you move him off of my feet." And so when they got over there, I just turned around to the audience. I said, "As I was saying, faith is the substance of things hoped for," and a man setting in a wheelchair just raised up, and a lady on the stretcher and nowhere... Everything in there was healed right there, and they just packed them away. And the next morning was great big truck going down the street, people singing "Only Believe," walking behind this big truck full of stretchers and wheelchairs and everything.
What was it? The chief of that tribe of demons had made the challenge and lost it. You see? And that's when the Spirit of God struck the building, and everything was healed.

L-14 Tommy Osborn was setting up in the balcony to see that; he went home and nailed hisself in a room for three days and prayed. About two months after that, I was setting at the porch one day, and a little fellow come up... If you ever knowed Brother Osborn. And he's a fine little fellow. So nervous he couldn't stand still going around his car, him and his wife. He said, "Brother Branham," said, "I seen that." He said, "Oh," said, "I'm a pastor of a little church," he said, "but I--I believe that God is moving."
I said, "Yes, sir. He is."
Said, "Do you think I have a gift of healing?"
I said, "I'd forget it, Brother Osborn." I said, "There'd be so much fanaticism tacked to that after while till everything that goes out has to have the gift of healing." I said, "Look. You're a minister, aren't you?"
"Oh, yes. God called me to be a minister."
I said, "That's all right. Every minister that's called is called to pray for the sick too, every minister." And I said, "I'd... What I'd do is set up there under that old oak tree and learn all the tactics of Divine healing by the Word."
And he said, "What old oak tree?"
I said, "That one that's bald-headed up there on the porch, old Doctor F. F. Bosworth. I believe he knows more about Scriptural basis of Divine healing than any man I know of in my life.


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