<TITLE>11. Par 30-32</TITLE>L-30 Oh, my. That's just what the paper wanted: great big headlines, Ecclesiastical Fur Will Fly."
So then, the next day they set the debate in the Sam Houston Coliseum. Thirty thousand people gathered.
Listen, we may be divided today. But listen to this, one of these days we'll be one. God will see to that, if communism... It's something that has to force us together.
The churches was at one another's throats there, the different churches. But when that come in the paper (in the paper), we--we had everything in common then. Them that believed in Divine healing, train loads come in. Planes flew in. They come from everywhere. Why? A principle, what we all believed in was standing at stake.
That night, I would not go down. I stayed in the hotel. All at once, something said, "Go down."
I put on my overcoat, four policemen, 'cause we was having great meetings, they got from the front of me, and back of me. And I walked in with my coat up, like way in balcony 30.

L-31 And while I was setting up there, all the ministers, about five hundred, all around... And then, the Dr. Best, which was the debator, he said, "Let Mr. Bosworth have first."
Mr. Bosworth said; he said, "I have six hundred statements concerning Christ's attitude towards the sick. I will place these to Mr. Best. If he can take one of them and disprove it by the Word of God, I'll turn the debate to him." He wouldn't do it. He said, "Then I'll ask Mr. Best (Mr. Best), the Baptist preacher, I'll ask him one question. If he will answer me, yes or no, just say, 'yes or no,' then I'll turn the rest of it over to him."
Mr. Best said, "Ask on."
The moderator give him release. He said, "Was the redemptive Names of Jehovah, the seven compound redemptive Names of Jehovah applied to Jesus, yes or no?" That settled it. Now, did they get that? [Brother in congregation ask Brother Branham to explain it again--Ed.] You get that? See? Yeah, see? Let--let me get it. He wants me to get it again, so they'd be sure. I--I don't know who's here.
"Was the redemptive Names, the--the seven compound redemptive Names of Jehovah applied to Jesus, yes or no?" Say, "Yes or no." He couldn't say it. If he said, "Yes." He was Jehovah-jireh, the Lord's provided Sacrifice. And if He was Jehovah-jireh, then He also--also Jehovah-rapha.
Now, listen, I want these ministers to catch this. You understand what I mean? See? Jehovah-jireh. (You see, you know, he said.) Jehovah-jireh, Jehovah-rapha... One... All right...?... you know it. Okay.

L-32 Now, if he said, that He wasn't Jehovah-jireh, if He wasn't Jehovah-jireh, then He also... If He wasn't... If He was Jehovah-jireh, then He had to be Jehovah-rapha. You can't separate them (See?), can't separate them. So if He isn't Jehovah our Healer, He isn't Jehovah our Saviour. That settled it. He couldn't answer. They could not answer it. (Get it? All right. Now, you see he could not deny one, and accept the other, because they're inseparable. So if He's still Jehovah the Saviour, then He was the Son of God, and if He is, then He's Jehovah the Healer, the same yesterday, today, and forever.)
Oh, he become angry, the Baptist minister. And he kept jumping up-and-down, and he said, "Let me up there." And he preached on the resurrection. He didn't believe the miracles that Jesus performed. He played--put it off in a millennium. And he preached a Campbellite sermon. I'm a Baptist. I know what Baptist believe. But he was in such a fix, he couldn't get out of it. He--he--There was nothing could be said. Then he kept saying... He walked over to a minister and smacked him with his hand, in his mouth, and they had to pull him off of the minister.


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