<TITLE>01. Par 1-13</TITLE>64-0412, A Court Trial, National Guard Armory, Birmingham, AL, 88 min
L-1      And I hope to be back someday, if Jesus tarries. Now I guess you wonder why... Someone said the other day... I stood by a very famous man. I love the man. There is no need in me call, not to call his name. He was my, one of my bosom friends, Oral Roberts. Oral come to my meeting. Brother Jack Moore was along. He had a little, ragged tent setting up across the field, over there on the--on the east side of Kansas City, and I was over in an auditorium something a little bigger than this. And he come over, sit on the sideline, said, "Brother Branham, do you think God would hear my prayer?"
I said, "He'll hear anybody's prayer."

L-2 Now the man don't know what he's worth, building a fifty-million-dollar seminary, with the three-million-dollar office. And I think that's a credit and a contribution to the faith of one single little Oklahoma boy, for God.

L-3   Tommy Osborn, he was up there that night when that maniac run to the platform in Portland, Oregon, to kill me. And he said, "You deceiver!" Said, "You..." Just called me everything. Great, big man. About fifty preachers, on the platform, fled from him. He was a insane out of the institution. Huge, big arms. Stood six, nearly seven-foot tall. Great, big arms. I weighted a hundred and twenty-eight pounds. He run out on the platform, said, "Tonight, I'm going to knock you plumb out in the middle of that place."

L-4 I knowed better than to say anything to him. And everybody scattered back. And I just stood still. Don't--don't try to inject your own thoughts; if you do, you're going to be lost. I just stood still. And I heard myself say this, that's, the Holy Spirit saying it through my lips.

L-5 Remember, God only works through man. He chose man. He--He could have had the Gospel preached through the stars, or through the trees, or through the wind, but He chose man. That's what He's ever done, chose man. "Revealing His secrets," and His foreknowledge and stuff, "to His servants the prophets," He said.

L-6 Now, the fellow was standing just a few feet from me, and he had threatened what he was going to do. He looked like a Goliath. And there the Holy Spirit said, "Because that you have challenged the Word of God, tonight you'll fall over my feet."

L-7   Well, now you can imagine, a man in that kind of a rage would think about a man weighing about a hundred and twenty-eight pounds, to nearly three hundred pounds of--of like a mountain standing before you, what he thought. He said, "I'll show you whose feet I'll fall over," and he jerked back his big fist. I never moved; just stood there. And he walked up to me, drawed back like this, to hit me.

L-8 And I heard myself, nothing that I had to say at all, said, "Satan, come out of the man." No louder than that.

L-9 And when he drawed his fist back; his hands went up, his eyes pushed way out, and went around and around. His tongue went out, and slobbers fell from his mouth. He turned around and around and around, and fell down and pinned my feet to the floor.

L-10 And then here come the policemen out, and they was hunting for him. I had led those two police to Christ, back there in the dressing room in this big auditorium.

L-11 And so I think we had sixty some odd hundred on the inside, and pretty near twice that on the outside. It pouring down rain. Them standing, up-and-down the streets, with umbrellas.
And he held me on the floor. And he said, "Is he dead?"
I said, "No, sir."
"Well," said, "is he healed?"

L-12 I said, "No, sir. He worships that spirit, you see. And no way of helping him, at all, until he gets that out of his head." I said, "But I wish you would roll him off of my feet, so I can move." See?

L-13   Tommy Osborn saw that, and he went home and nailed hisself in a room for three days.


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