<TITLE>23. Par 239-248</TITLE>L-239 Someday, if I die, when they're putting me in the grave, they'll be playing that, you know. When you hear that I'm gone, don't you believe I'm dead. I'm not. But just stop somewhere, if you hear it on the radio or somewhere, read it in the paper, just sing that song (won't you?) and just remember that's it, just "only believe."

L-240   Now, in the audience, there is not one person in that line that I know. If each one of you in that line are strangers to me, and you know that I don't know nothing about you, know nothing what's wrong with you. Just raise up your hands, you say it. Now you're perhaps sick; maybe they're not. I don't know. It might be financial troubles, domestic troubles. I--I don't know.

L-241 But now if the little lady here will just come close, see. Thank you, that's all right. Now here is a woman much younger than I. We're probably born years apart, miles apart. Our first time meeting. Now she is here for some reason. I--I don't know. She, maybe sickness. I--I don't know what her trouble is. Whatever her trouble is, God knows. And if He reveals it, then she'll know whether it's the truth or not.

L-242   Now if the little lady would say, "Brother Branham, I'm horribly sick. I--I... my stomach is bothering me. I--I have convulsions, or--or something another." She looks like a healthy person, but you can't always go by that.

L-243 And if she would say that, I'd say, "Well, the Bible said, 'Lay hands on the sick.'" That would be the way Brother Roberts would pray for her, Brother Allen, or many the men. That's their ministry. Then they'd lay hands upon them, say, "Satan, turn her loose, in Jesus' Name. I rebuke you, Satan," or something like that. Say, "Go on now, you're healed." She should believe that. See, that would be all right.

L-244   Well, now, what if she's got some hidden sin there somewhere? You could pour a gallon of oil on her, anoint her as many times, jump up-and-down, and scream; that devil will lay right there. Unconfessed sin. You'll never move him. No, sir.

L-245 But now if the Holy Spirit can come down and tell her something that has been, she knows whether that's right or not, and then tell her what will be. If what "has been" is right, what "will be" will be right. Isn't that right? Now that's the kindness of our lovely Lord, trying to get His Bride together in this last days, you see, what He promised to do. How many would believe on Him with all your heart, if He would do such a thing? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] God bless you for your faithfulness. Now this is a--a...

L-246 If you want to read, I ask you, if you caught me out of the Scripture, tell me so. See? Write me a letter or tell one of the pastors, and tell me where I'm wrong. I--I don't want to be wrong. I want to be right, and it's got to be this Word.

L-247   Now let's just take just a little like this, let's take Saint John 4 exactly again. Here is a man and a woman meeting for their first time, like our Lord and the woman of Samaria. They met for their first time, and Jesus talked to her a little while until He found where her trouble was. Her trouble was immoral. And He told her what her trouble was, and quickly she recognized that, that He had to be a prophet. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a Prophet." Said, "We know Messiah is coming. When He comes, that's what He is going to do."
Jesus said, "I am He." See?

L-248 Now, if that's the way He identified Himself to the people yesterday; He, if He is the same today, He would have to identify Himself the same way. Now, if the Holy Spirit would say that to her, then she would know it has to come from some spiritual mean. It can't come from natural. Be some spiritual mean. Now she might say like the Pharisees, "It's Beelzebub," then that's up to her. She says, "It's Christ," then that's up to her and Christ again, see, whatever it is.


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