<TITLE>05. Par 12-14</TITLE>L-12 Just like today they've tried to bring Christ to the nations by education, by better communities, by YMCAs and so forth. Those things are all right; they got their place. But it will never take the place of the Holy Spirit. Captain Al Farrar, one of the FBI's of the juvenile, one night in Tacoma when he had followed me for three or four weeks, when I made statements that every penny of money went straight to the right purpose taken up in my own campaigns. And they had a--some man there had had a little boy. And they sent him in the meeting with a hip--the doctors x-rayed; he had no hip bone. And when the little fellow was brought in a laying on a cot, the Holy Spirit told him who he was, what had happened, his little faith, and asked him to rise from the cot. And the little lad obeyed and jumped. His mother said, "He can't; he's got no hip bone." And he jumped plumb out of his mother's arms and ran down the street screaming to the top of his voice. His mother fell in the cot the boy was laying in. And they took him down then to the doctor to have an x-ray, Captain Al Farrar. And the doctor say, "He has a perfect hip bone."

L-13 Captain Al Farrar taken me down into the basement where they train those young policemen to shoot. Standing down there he said to me, "Brother Branham, I'm a Baptist, but I would like to know about that Holy Ghost that you're talking about." I said, "Well, Captain, it's for Baptist the same as it is for anybody.
And he said, "Brother Branham, you reckon He would give me the Holy Ghost?"
I said, "Whosoever will, let him come."
He said, "I'll get a nice suite of rooms somewhere, and you meet me there and maybe He will give us the Holy Ghost. I'll get the best rooms there is in the city, Tacoma."
I said, "Isn't necessary, Captain."
He said, "Well, where can I go that He would met me?"
I said, "Right here."
He said, "In this shooting galley?"
I said, "He went in the belly of a whale for one one time, and in a fiery furnace for one, and in a lion's den for one. He will come right here to you, Captain." And there on his knees he gave his heart to the Lord Jesus, become a blessed man, living today, praising God. All of his force nearly, has received the Holy Ghost since he did. Oh, there is something real; men crave for it.

L-14 And this big Goliath said, "Let's have it like that." Now, if any man in the whole army of Israel was able to do it, it was Saul. The Bible said that he was head and shoulders above every man in his army. He was closer to Goliath's size than any man in the army. And then again, he was a warrior. He knowed how to fight. He knowed how to maneuver a spear, how to raise a shield, knock a lick off. He trained men. He was a bishop. He knowed what he was doing. But yet, with all of his schooling and all of his training he was a coward. Because he believed God, but he had never seen God in action, an experience. That's the reason you can't have great meetings in America on Divine healing; it's lack of experience. People don't know what God is; they just take him from some kind of a historical something. He's a present day God.


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