<TITLE>19. Par 51-52</TITLE>L-51 Every religion... When I stood there that afternoon before seventeen different religions, I said, "Gentlemen, every one of your founders is dead and in the grave: Buddha, Mohammed, and all of the rest of them. Sikhs and Jains and all of them, your founders are dead and been buried for hundreds of years, but our God is not dead."
They said, "Well, they crucified Him."
I said, "But He raised again." I said, "If He will prove Hisself alive, will you receive Him?"
"Yes. If you show it's alive."
And it's hard. I don't know how many thousands received Him, when they seen that He was alive.
The little article of Mr. Graham not long ago. As the paper come out behind, said, they said that, Mr. Graham took down and wouldn't pray for the sick back there to this Mohammedan with his child and said, "Now, how, what about Durban, South Africa," said, "when William Branham was over there, when ten thousand Mohammedans fell to the altar at one time?" When they seen a man that was so afflicted, he was in every way. Told him who he was, and where he come from, and all about it, and healed him, and raised him up on his feet...?... Not even when... Not even in his right mind, he come to his own normal sense. And the big tears dropped off on his black belly. And there he was healed. I seen ten thousand Mohammedans at one time, and all together thirty thousand unbelievers fall at the cross.

L-52 Not build churches, but preach the Gospel. That's the commission. That's it. Churches is fine; schools are fine. All the doctors are fine. Hospitals are... I'm not criticizing that. But that's not the message of the Church. It's "Preach the Gospel. These signs shall follow them that believe," said Mark 16. There we are.
Now, with this taken place, the waves begin to--back and forth. And the sad thing was, it's a whole lot like it is today. When they saw Him coming, walking on the water, they thought it was a spirit. They thought it was a spook of some sort. And they got scared. The only thing that could help them...
And, my loving friends, if that ain't the situation of today, I don't know it. The only thing that can help the people, they're afraid of it. They say, "Well, that's a bunch of... That might be holy-roller. That might be the Pentecostal tongues group. It might be, you know, it might be spiritualism. It might be the devil." See? They're scared of the only thing that can help them.
There He come walking. And--and they seen it was... It looked like Him, but, oh, they cried out for fear. They thought it was a spirit of some sort.
He said, "Be not afraid; it's I; it's Me."
Now, if Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, then He will do the same today, as He did then and will forever. Is that right?
Let us bow our heads while we think on this Scripture.


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