<TITLE>25. Par 316-329</TITLE>L-316   And Brother Carlson, them, looked at one another. I said, "You think you're hiding that from me? I know why you won't do it." I said, "Listen. It's because that Association has got something that they're going to question me on." And they both looked like they could drop through the floor.

L-317 And when they did, I said, "Certainly, it is. But, let me tell you, Brother Hank."

L-318 He is setting here somewhere now. He is right around here.[A brother affirms it--Ed.] And so he's setting right here. I said, "Brother Hank..." You let him testify. [Another brother affirms it.] And so we just got through talking about it, a while ago, in there.

L-319 I said, "Brother Hank, listen. You got that hotel room rented, haven't you? But THUS SAITH THE LORD, they're going to turn you down."
He said, "Brother Branham, got my deposit."

L-320 "I don't care what you got up. You're not going to get it. We'll go into a place... That's got green room, and this is a brown. And Dr. Meade is going to set down here, and so-and-so," and just exactly where they'll be setting. And I said, "I don't want you try to pull any punches for me. Just introduce me to the audience, and let me do the rest." He said...

L-321   And that morning when he come up there, every man setting just exactly. They canceled the place out. And he had to get the Town and Country place out there, to--to get the place, a brown room, just exactly. There set Dr. Meade and all the rest of them, just the place that they...

L-322 I looked over to him, and Brother Tommy Hicks looked at me. He--he--he--he said, "Brother Branham, I feel like fainting." And he said...
I said, "Don't worry."

L-323 And so Brother Carlson got up, said, "Now, I know a lot of you men is going to disagree with Brother Branham, and things like that," but said, "there's one thing, he's not afraid to stand here." And said, "Now, I'll just turn it over to him."

L-324 I said, "Now, each one of you, here is what you got against me." And I called over, four or five different things. I said, "I want some man to take His Bible and come here, stand by my side and disprove It. Certainly. And if you can't do it, then stay off of my back." Uh-huh. That's right. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Uh-huh! That's right. [Congregation applauds--Ed.]

L-325   I was standing yonder in Bombay, India, on the same thing, when a blind man standing there. Them magis and everything else setting out there, and they, the holy men, and the Mohammedans, and Buddhists, everything. I had done seen the vision this man was going to get his sight. I said, "Lets, one of you people out there, come up here and give him his sight. I was entertained today by seventeen different religions, and every one of you denying Jesus Christ." I said, "If your religion is so great, come, give this man his sight."

L-326 What would you say? He was a sun-worshipper. Like, the Holy Spirit, but they thought It was "telepathy," you see, and I was "reading their mind."

L-327 I said, "Why, surely the God of creation, if a man wants to do right, surely that the God of creation will bring him back into his right state."

L-328 I wouldn't have said that, for nothing, if I hadn't seen that happen in a vision. But, I knowed, then. See? You don't want to take something you imagine. You want to be dead sure that you're right, then you don't care what comes or goes. He is standing there with you, and so what difference does it make? There, you know what happened, and the blind man received his sight.

L-329   About two or three months ago, I was standing in the room. I heard a voice speaking in the corner. I tried to wake my wife, to look at it there. There, it's been going before there, was a hideous thing standing there at the bed, accusing me. After He had told me... I had seen a big mamba running. That's an African snake, and he was trying to kill people, and was after my brother. And I screamed out, "O God, what can I do?"


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