<TITLE>13. Par 137-150</TITLE>L-137 And on my road up to his place, I was praying. "God, I hate to go tell him "good-bye." I know if he just lived till I get there, that I can tell him 'goodbye.'" Under oxygen, complete heart failure, ninety-one years old. I stepped outside of a filling station, and I looked, and, when I did, I seen Bill coming down the street and shook hands with me.

L-138 Here he sits tonight. The doctor that told him that, is dead. And here sits Bill Dauch himself, from Lima, Ohio, driving down through the sleet and snow, follows every meeting I go. Why? We looked; we saw something. That same God that I talked about last night, yonder in Colorado, in the time of a storm, I looked, I seen that He was the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-139   Here sits Mr. Way, an Englishman, setting here on the side, right here now, just noticed him setting here. He is come from Indiana. He is an Englishman. His wife is a--a registered nurse. Fine man! One day, I talked to him. I was preaching in the meeting, he resented what I said, in his heart, and, when he did, he dropped dead right in the audience. There he died. His wife took a hold of him and felt him; his eyes, face turned dark, his eyes... not put on, his eyes pushed out and went back into the back of his head. I said, "Stand still." Looked down there at him, and I thought, "Oh, there lays that man, dead."

L-140 Went down, put my hands upon him, he was just as cold as that desk is. He was gone. Mrs. Way said, "Oh, Brother Branham, he is gone! He is gone." Screaming at the top of her voice.

L-141   I looked away. I saw the resurrection and Life. I prayed the prayer that Jesus told me to, and Brother Way raised up. Here he sits right here tonight, come up from the dead, sitting right here tonight.

L-142 That's right, Mr. Way, if you will just stand up just a minute, so the people will see. And here is Bill Dauch sitting here.

L-143 What is it? Because we look to Him Who is the same that raised Lazarus, He is the same as he was. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Yes, He don't change.

L-144   Here sits a little preacher sitting here in front of me, by the name of Blair. His little boy was in an accident the other day, and his wife sitting there, wiping their eyes now from tears. They called me on the telephone down there, and he said, "Brother Branham, our little boy was in a car and run over the hill, and he is mashed, concussed his brain, and everything. He is gone, just about; just barely breathing." Said, "Will you pray?"
I said, "Let's pray."

L-145 And started, looked, this on the phone, and started praying. I said, "Lord God, what shall I say to them?" I seen a little boy going, running and skipping a rope, running down like that. I said, "He is going to be well." And here he is tonight. And here they are sitting here. Why? Because Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-146 Look! Look! What do you see when you see Him? I see the same healer. Amen. I see the same One that walked in Galilee. I see Him in His power. I see Him discerning the thoughts and the secrets of the heart, a showing--showing the sign just before the end time. How we could go through this audience and across the nations, saying what He is today!

L-147   You know what I think? Like the old negro said one time, in the slave time. One day, he come around, he said, "You know, the... I'm free now." So he got to telling amongst the other slaves, and the slaves said...

L-148 And it got back to the owner. And the owner said, "Come in here, Sam." Said, "What's that you're telling amongst the slaves out there?"
He said, "Boss, I am free."
Said, "How are you free?"

L-149 He said, "I am free from the law of sin and death, for Jesus Christ has made me free."
He said, "Sam, you mean that?"
He said, "Yes."

L-150 Said, "I'll go down and sign your release, and let you go tell your brethren about that."


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