<TITLE>01. Par 1-5</TITLE>58-0325, Faith By Experience, Middletown High School, Middletown, OH, no tape
L-1 [Tape.begins.incompletely--Ed.] ...ing into Thy Presence with our petitions. And for the--the assurance that we know that what we ask, we shall receive, because Jesus gave us the promise, that if we ask the Father anything in His Name, He would grant it to us. Therefore, we would ask tonight, Lord, that You would not let one person leave here disappointed. May those who have come to surrender their lives to Thee, may it be done tonight. Those who have come for a closer walk, may it be granted, God. Those who've come for healing, may each of them be healed. And when this service is over, may we say like those coming from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He talked to us along the road." For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen. May be seated.

L-2 Is it this...[Brother Branham steps away from the microphone--Ed.] This is the live one? I have not a bad cold, but I'm just a little hoarse from speaking so much, indoors, outdoors. And I've been constantly in revival since Christmas. And now we go from here up to the Ne--New England states, back down to Texas, and then from there to Durbin, South Africa. Then up into Switzerland, Germany...
And to you businessmen I was just talking with Demos Shakarian, and he gives you an invitation to come to the convention at Philadelphia, the thirtieth of June to the--through the 4th of July, this coming year, at the International Convention of the Full Gospel Christian Businessmen. I'm sure you'll be blessed by coming, because people are coming from all over the world. The last few years, I've been their night speaker, and I'm to be there again this year, if God being willing.

L-3 So now I do not wish to keep you very long, but just to speak to you a little on the Word, and then the prayer line. And I trust that, being that the crowd is kindly congested in here, that God will help us now to give just as much attention to the Word as we can. I want to take a Scripture reading tonight, found in Saint Mark, the 11th chapter and the 22nd verse.
And Jesus answering said unto them, Have faith in God...
He had just done something to cause the people to have faith. My subject tonight is "Faith by Experience."

L-4 And now, it's been said, and it's true, that cowards die ten thousands times where a hero never dies. God wants people who are brave and can take their stand. If anything that Christ could not use in His kingdom, would be a coward. Now, we see here, He said, "Have faith in God."
The first place, we should find out what faith is. The Bible says that faith is the substance of things hoped for; and it is the evidence of things not seen. This little word "faith" gets mixed up, lot of times, with "hope," and "hope," "faith." They are just as much difference as day is from night.
Faith is the substance and hope is what you're hoping for, faith delivers. Faith, being the substance of things hoped for, then it would not be just a thought. [Brother Branham clears his throat--Ed.] (Pardon me.) It would not be a thought; it is a substance. Now, a substance is something that you can--you have.

L-5 Now, the human body is controlled by five senses: see, taste, feel, smell, hear. But faith is the sixth sense. Faith is something that you do not feel, taste, see, smell, or hear. For instance, there's a lady setting here at the organ. Would you just give us a little chord of some familiar hymn, just a little chord. The old saying has been, "Seeing is believing." How many's ever heard that remark? There's music playing. How many believes it? Well, how many seen it? Thank you. Music was playing and you never saw it; then seeing is not believing. I believe it just as much as if--if I saw it.


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