<TITLE>16. Par 53-55</TITLE>L-53 When they got to the mountain, Abraham said to the boys that was holding the mules, he said, "You stay here; watch the mules. The lad and I, we're going yonder to worship, and the lad and I will return."
How are you going to say that, Abraham, when you're going there to kill that boy. What is it? That's that faith. It doesn't know how it's going to happen, but he knows it's going to happen. Oh!
You say, "Brother Branham, you act silly up there." Well, maybe I do. But I'm feeling awful good. I feel better this way than I did in the old carnal intellectual, so I'd rather stay this way.
"You boys wait here with the mules. The lad and I are going yonder to worship and we will return." What if the Angel stood there and said, "Abraham..."
Well, what if the devil stood over on one side, said, "Abraham, you told a lie."
"Oh, no. There's something down in here that tells me if I even have to kill him, I receive him as one from the dead, God could raise him back to earth again. The lad and I will return, because why? God already told me that through this lad would be the seed that would save nations. And He changed my name and put h-a-m on the end of my name, and I'm a father of nations through this lad, and I don't know what God's going to do there, but He's going to do it."

L-54 Whew! Oh, my, That puts fire... that gives you something to stand on. That's not one of these Catholic Santa Claus stories of some fictitious something that never happened. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD God Jehovah. Amen. "Makes me no difference how we're coming back, we're coming back. That's all."
"How you... Now, if he'd say to... Here's a man, setting with a cane, blind. "How're you going to receive your sight, sir?" Just let God speak to his heart one time and watch what happens. Maybe there's one over there with a cancer, dying. One back there with heart trouble, just had an examination. The doctor said, "Can't live. Going to die." Let that little buzzer whirl down here one time: "I'm the Lord that heals thee, gives thee thy sight, takes away the cancer, makes thee to walk." Huh! It's all over. I don't care what any scientific... what anything... No matter if the doctor put a... give him a cardiogram and told him his heart had already stopped, he'd still be believing it. Yes, sir. He's going to do it anyhow. There's nothing can stop it. That's... that's what faith is.

L-55 You know what... Forgive me, brethren, sisters, I don't know why I'm going to say this, but it's choking me to say it. I know something's fixing to happen to me, so I'm just unloading. That's right. Glory to God. Brethren, I have seen so much make- believe, super-duper, American, so-called faith, till it makes me sick at my stomach. Evangelists running people through lines and saying, "O-o-o-oh, feel it." How are you going to do that?
I got a letter from Germany the other day, of a German Lutheran minister, the head of the association in Germany, in a certain district where an evangelist was. And he called this evangelist's attention to it, said, "The thing that you done was beat the people for money. And it'd be better if you Americans stay out of here." And that's right. That's right, I'm agreeing with him. Said, "What about little Deborah Stadsklev, up there, if you say all this super-duper faith's for everything?"


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