<TITLE>18. Par 63-66</TITLE>L-63 Now, I see my time's getting away, so I'm going to have to hurry now and have the prayer line. I don't want to keep you too long. See? But this will be the last healing service, as far as I know now, until Sunday night. But now, wait. Let me get one more little--little hammer here to cut this nail in here to make it stick.

L-64 Now, there was the Jews... How did He make Hisself known to the Jews as Messiah? By showing that He was a God prophet. Is that right? All you agree on that. Now, remember, His own, His own. The other Jews, just the regular Jews, them classical ministers, and clergymen standing around there with a D.D.D., Ph.D., L.L.D., standing there, you know, with their collars turned around, so to say, and their turbans on, all like that--they said, "It's--it's mental telepathy. Don't... Look at His class. Look where He come from. What is He to begin with? What school did He come from? Where did He learn this? We have no record of Him even attending our seminaries, so you know He can't be right. He don't belong to the Assemblies. He don't belong to the Oneness. He don't belong to the Church of God, the Baptist, Presbyterian, or Catholic. We have no record of Him being in our schools."

L-65 I know I'm hurting, but... My mama used to tell me... When we was little kids, we--we lived... We was so poor, back there in the mountains, we had to--to take corn bread, you know, and get the grease out of bacon rinds. We'd get and make the cornmeal. And every Saturday night we'd have to take a bath and a dose of castor oil. So we'd get ready for Sunday morning, go back to school. It was so bad, our--our food, we'd get pellagra and everything. Turnip greens, and black eyed peas, corn bread, and sorghum molasses, that's about what we was raised on. So we'd have to take that castor oil, and Mama used to... I'd start to take it, and I'd say, "Oh, Mama. Please, please, it makes me so sick."
And she'd say, "If it doesn't make you sick, it doesn't do you any good."
So maybe this will stir up your spiritual gastronomics somewhere, that'll make you right good and sick; that'll make people search the Scriptures, for They're the truth. They are the Word of God. They are the infallible Ones. They are the Ones that testifies of Messiah. Amen. He stands by His Word. Amen. I'm not "amening" myself, but "amen" means "so be it." I--I believe it with all my heart, that heavens and earth will pass away, but that Word will never pass.

L-66 Notice this Samaritan woman. The Samaritan had to realize that He was the Christ.
Now, "What about the Gentiles, Brother Branham? You're leaving them out." Not one place in the Scripture where He ever done that sign before a Gentile. Find it and show it to me: It's not there. No, sir. It isn't there. He showed His Messiahic sign to those who were looking for a Messiah. Oh, please get this straight. That's the same thing He's doing today. Now, I'll show you why.
Now, notice. Before He left, though, He prophesied of the Gentile age. Now, the Jews, they'd had four thousand years to believe on a Messiah. And the Samaritans from way back in the time of Moses, when they married these Moabite women, and so forth, and broke up and become half-breeds, and so forth... Now, they'd all--had all these years looking for a Messiah, and there was some true in heart in there (Now, watch), His own. You say it with me: His own. He made Hisself known to His own. Now, watch.
Many of the Jews didn't believe Him. Just 'cause they were Jews, that was nothing. But the ones that had had their name on the Book of Life since the foundation of the world...


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