<TITLE>09. Par 29-33</TITLE>L-29 In the Book of Matthew the 4th chapter, the 17th verse, we read these words.
And from that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
I'm going to take the little subject, and watch that clock, the subject of: "From That Time."
Now, there is times that we can say, "From that time." There's times when as a young child, these ministers here could say, "I was at a church," and... Or, "I was out in the field," or "I was reading the Bible, and from that time."

L-30 A little boy, an old man, we have a certain time that something happens, and then we say, "From that time."
The little boy can say, "You know, I--I never lied in my life. And one day I made a corn silk cigarette, and I got out behind the old fire chimney, and--and I smoked this cigarette, and got some coffee, and put in my mouth so mama wouldn't smell it. And--and she said, 'Junior, have you been smoking?'" A red light...
"Don't lie little boy, don't lie." Conscious, "Don't lie.
"No, mommy." You broke every barrier then. "And from that time I begin to lie."
That's the way we start. We have to mark it from some time, something happened. And from that time, it changed things. We all have those kind of times.

L-31 The immoral woman walks on the street, she might've said, "One time I was as pure as a lily and as radiant as after the rain, when the heavenly dew had fell upon me, and I was as pure as that lily. I was out with a boy that I thought to be a gentlemen. One night he give me a spiked Coke. He kissed me in a way that he should not have kissed me. Instead of pulling away from him, and slapping him in the face, and going home, I throwed myself into his arms; and from that time..." See, it was always something. "Then I throwed my life away."

L-32 I talked to such a woman the other day. They had her in a psychic ward. I went in to pray for her. They said, "Go back." In straight jackets... That's really what last night would've been. The visions were going right along calling those people from cots and things; but when the glory of God fell in that building, I couldn't even hear no more. You know the way I sent them ministers down there? I want this audience to know, and these people to know when I leave here, that they don't have to send for me to pray for them. I wanted the people to know that these servants of God can lay their hands on the sick. It ain't nothing to one person; it's we are a group of people. We are a family of God.

L-33 Going into this emergency room, there was a beautiful young woman setting there, great brown eyes and dark hair. She looked like she'd have been queen for any man's palace.
"How do you do?"
She said, "How do you do, Brother Branham."
I looked around, and there they was in straight jackets, and screaming, and cursing, and a woman using the bed pan and wiping her face in it. Excuse that, for after eating your breakfast, but just insanity.
And there's what your faith has... when you preach Divine healing.
I said, "Well, I just don't know where to start first."
The young lady said, "I wished you would start with me first, if you don't..."
I said, "You're not a patient?"
She said, "Yes, sir."
I said, "Well, what's the matter?"
She said, "Mr. Branham, I was raised in a Christian home. I was raised to honor God." She said, "One time I got out with a boy. My mother and father warned me not to go with such a boy." But said, "He was cute; he had, you know, hair pretty."


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