<TITLE>08. Par 61-68</TITLE>L-61 The life of Saint Martin was--is one of the greatest miracle filled lives of anybody in the church ages. From all the way from Saint Paul out, he was one of the most spiritual men. He was...
One of his first miracles was... He was a soldier to begin with, I believe. And then one day he was coming by and there was someone, a--a man laying cold and shivering, and all the people that was willing, or, not willing, but was able to help the man, they just passed him by like the--the priest and the Levites did in the Good Samaritan. But when Saint Martin come by, realizing his duty as a Christian believer, he had one coat, a cloak over his shoulders; he cut it in two with his sword and gave half of it to the beggar; he took the other half. And that night begin his career, for Jesus Christ appeared to him in a vision, wrapped in that same robe that he cut half in two; which fulfilled the Scripture, "Insomuch as you have done unto these, you have did it unto Me."

L-63 So take that for a lesson. Whatever you do to somebody, you're doing it unto Christ. Just remember. Now, you... Let's say that together [Brother Branham and congregation speak in unison--Ed.]: "What you do to others, you have done to Christ." So no matter what he thinks about you, it's what you think about him (See?), that brings the blessing.

L-64 That was his first miracle and the beginning of his ministry. There's so much to it; I--I wouldn't have time. Because I want you back tomorrow night and every night, so I don't want to keep you too long.
All right, the next miracle that I chose to speak of tonight. He was absolutely demolishing heathenism, and he was firmly against the church of Rome. He absolutely disagreed with all of the first church of Rome's bishops, he--they was getting worldly and so forth like that, and he withstood them. He certainly was against them. That's a miracle that he even lived in them kind of times. Now...

L-67 But he was destroying a pagan grove one day, and a-tearing down a pagan altar, and there was a sacred tree standing by the pagan altar. And he was cutting this tree down, and many standing by was resenting it. He said, "If I be a man of God, tie me the way that tree's leaning and let the tree fall on me. If I be a man of God... If I'm not a man of God, the tree will kill me. If I am a man of God, my God can twist that tree somewhere else." Quite a challenge... So they started chopping on the tree; and when the tree started to fall, it switched around and killed a bunch of the spectators. God twisted it back up the hill: a miracle. Oh, all the time there was miracles in his meetings.

L-68 Another miracle that I thought to speak of, was a dead baby that he laid his body across. And it raised back to life again, after he had prayed for some time for this baby.
Another one's outstanding to me, was the emperor. And he was going to kill some of God's Holy Ghost-filled people. And of course he was the--the right hand of the--of the bishop of the first church of Rome at that time, and he actually was a pope before he was called a pope. His name was D-a-m-a-s-u-r, and he was putting all the Christians to death that he could get ahold of to put to death. And--and this emperor's wife, a pagan, and darkness over her own heart...
And when this sainted Saint Martin came to intercede. His wife put him next to it that he would try to intercede for these Christians not to be killed. 'Course when he finally got to him, didn't do any good, because he was just the right-hand man to this pope; so he killed those Holy Ghost-filled Christians anyhow.


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