<TITLE>15. Par 149-166</TITLE>L-149 I said, "I am baptizing you, showing to this audience out here, that you've accepted Christ as your personal Saviour. When I baptize you in the Name of Jesus Christ, you take on His Name. You rise for a new life. And when you leave here, you're to walk a new life. Do you understand that, Edward?"
He said, "I do."
I said, "Bow your head."

L-150 I said, "Heavenly Father, as this young man has confessed his faith in You. And as Thou hast commissioned us to 'go into all the world and preach the Gospel, baptizing them into the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,' commissioning them to believe all things which You have taught."

L-151 "I therefore baptize thee, my beloved brother, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ."

L-152 And as I laid him into the water, I come up, I heard something going, "Whooosh!" I looked at the crowd, and it... I heard a Voice say, "Look up!"

L-153 I thought, "What is that? Billy here, his mother, two or three years before we was married, she was standing there. I seen her face, white. She had a camera in her hand.

L-154   "Look up!" I heard it the second time. I was scared. I looked around, the people standing there just looking, just dumfounded. I heard it say again, "Look up!"

L-155 And when I looked, here come that same Pillar of Fire that led Israel through the wilderness. Thousands of eyes looking at It coming right down over where I was standing. And said, "As John the Baptist was sent forth to forerun the first coming of Christ, your Message shall cover the earth and forerun the Second Coming of Christ."

L-156 That went into the newspaper, on the Associated Press. Doctor Lee Vayle, here this afternoon, picked it up, plumb in Canada and around, "Local Baptist preacher, while baptizing, a mystic Light appears over him."

L-157 Right yonder in Dallas, Texas, or Houston, Texas, a few years ago. When people doubted It, and I hardly know what to do. When a fine Baptist preacher wanted to debate with Brother Bosworth, "There wasn't no such as Divine healing." And when he lost the debate, by one hundred percent, he said, "Let me see this Divine healer come forth and perform!" I said...

L-158 I come down. I was in the balcony. I said, "I am not a Divine healer, sir."

L-159   [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] "... Jesus, yes or no? And you can't answer them. Just one question, that was all. If He is Jehovah-Jireh, He must be; if He isn't, He isn't a Saviour. And you can't separate the names. He is Jehovah-Rapha, the healer! 'Same yesterday, today, and forever!'"

L-160 That man could not move, but stand there and stutter. And many of you was there, I guess, to hear it. So the debate was give to Mr. Bosworth. And he never even got one point, and when it was... That was by officials of the city, that's not interested in either side, just knowing what the Scripture said.
And then he just kept saying, "Let him come forth."

L-161 They didn't know I was up there. And I was sitting up there with my wife and little Becky. She's graduates this year from high school. And I was sitting there, she was just a year old. I was holding her in my arms.

L-162 And he said, Brother Bosworth said, "I know Brother Branham is in the meeting. If he wants to come dismiss it, all right." But said I... And everybody begin to look around.

L-163 And there stood about so many hundreds of people, thousands, about thirty thousand people. We was been having eight hundred, all along, over at the music house. And, this, the people come in by planes, by trains, and every...

L-164   And there is where I knew; all the Pentecostal groups come together then. It'll take a persecution, to run you people together. You'll never believe it, but when that time comes...

L-165 See, one thing they believed in common, Divine healing, so the Oneness, Twoness, Threeness, Fourness, and whatever it was, all come together. And there they was.

L-166 And this man said, "There is nobody believes in Divine healing but a bunch of holy-rollers."


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