PERFECT FAITH #15

every answer to everything

that James said we'd consider.

It would be better to put it into the proper context, and that is every promise which,

considering our condition, that would be why we wanted it, what would be

the answer. Brother

Branham, however, in perfect faith, referring more to the thought of a... We're going to read, first of all, page 8, paragraph 39, and he says, now, I want you to get this. The church has got to lift itself in the power of God. How? We are too close to the end now, and I believe the church is in a condition to teach it some little deeper things and rub some of these make -believes out and get into something real. See, it's got to be something you know. Read

here. So when a man lives by faith and walks by substance, isolated from the entire world and becomes a new creature in Christ. There, now you're going to get into bride material, see? You're getting into rapturing condition now. Now, you know the rapture could not take place until a certain period of time. Paul could believe for it, no use believing. It was going to happen, didn't it? Radius could believe for it, and he did believe for it. It

didn't happen until the end of the seventh church age, when the fullness of the Gentiles is completed. So, when Brother Branham is talking about this, you know that when he refers over here, which I just read, on page 8 and 39 he said the church has to have the power to lift itself in other words the power of God has to come into the church somehow and the church would have to be in a position to receive it and of course the first position would have to be the hour you must understand that because no matter how perfect your faith is or how wonderful it would be you can't have God going ahead of his plan so he's mentioning here then And we're looking at this perfect faith in relationship to the rapture itself. Now, I want to go back to page 8 again, paragraph 39, and the last sentence when he's talking about this faith that the church has to have, he says it's got to be something that you know. Something that you know. Now, that defines a characteristic. of rapturing faith the characteristic of rapturing faith is something that you know okay the word knowledge comes from the latin word skill which means to know science and the science of course is based strictly upon that which you can prove you have a way of proving because you handle it you see it there's something there that is very definitive so when brother grana speaks of something that you have to know, he would be seemingly contradicting what is said on page, paragraph

228. Now, he's not contradicting, but just listen. Now, we want to speak at this time upon faith and a different type of faith, perfect faith. That's a great thing. Now, about faith, we're told in the Bible, faith coming by hearing. Now, you notice this is now about faith, and he doesn't say perfect faith. He's talking to you. What's the faith that's mentioned in the Bible? Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word of God. Without faith, it's impossible to be God. Faith, some things hope for, and the other things not seen. Just to live by faith. All right. That's Bible commentary. But you cannot find actually a word in there that says a perfect faith. I looked it up in the concordance this morning. The closer you're going to come to is James, that faith have a perfect way, a perfect work. And things like that. You can come to a place. So he said, now that's a great thing. Now, faith, we're told in the Bible, faith comes by hearing. Now, you cannot be saved without faith. And faith has to do with something that you have to believe is there. That's really nothing else will declare it's there but faith. Now, you're getting away from science. You're getting away from knowledge. There's two kinds of knowledge. There's faith knowledge and there's science knowledge or sense knowledge. But we have to watch carefully what he's saying here because we want to bring it right back. do something you can know of course if you're blind to it you know you can walk into a telephone post with your eye now i'm trying to bring faith to you so that you can be ready for this prayer line the next few minutes okay that's the faith we're looking at now concerning faith either come up to god must believe that he is and it's impossible to please god without faith and if you say you believe god and you have never but you've never seen him then you've got to believe it by faith and if you could see him it would be no more faith see Anything that the census declares no more faith. It's a scientific fact. See? It's no more faith. But you have to accept him by faith. And he that cometh to God must believe God, and faith comes by hearing the word of God. See? You must first believe this is God's word, and you must come to God by his word. See? Just take the word, what it says, and that's right. Everything else, contrary to it, is not right. And that's good. Abraham had to believe just what that voice told him. now you're getting into your senses there because you've got a hearing of course you realize the person standing beside abraham would not

there's nothing that says that the people heard what the apostle paul heard and wrote to damascus they knew there was a light and there was some kind of a sound the same as when god spoke to jesus they said it's thunder he said no it wasn't thunder at all he misunderstood god speaking to moses on sinai was the same effect same effect they said it was thundering and lightning all right Abraham had to just believe what that voice told him when he was 100 years old. 25 years later, he was stronger believing it than he was 25 years before it was given to him. See, he believed it. And he staggered not at the promise of God to unbelief. In other words, relying upon his senses or any knowledge which is apart from a faith knowledge. See? But was strong, giving praise to God, knowing that he was able to perform what he had promised. If you want to really see this, you should have seen Brother Bosworth just before he died.

more if you're near your atmosphere than what you had to live like that and

God was more real to him in his physical deteriorated condition than he'd ever been before and two hours before he died he was sitting up shaking hands with all the departed saints he'd known you

can't

put God in the test tube pretty close to do it this last hour all right and that's the way everyone must be you must come with an unfailing faith believing that God made the promise god made the promise in his integrity all right but now you have to be in a position to have that faith and that's we're going to talk on see to receive that faith now you notice all along here he's talking it's almost like a mixed metaphor actually you've got your channels interweaving he's going from simple faith to a perfect faith he's going back and forth you'll just watch this as we go along here all right so it would seem that he's i'd like to say well He said, there's something you've got to know, and knowledge comes by senses. And he turns around and says, there's no way your senses can apprehend it, and yet you can know. Now, there's got to be a place in there where they come together. That's

what we're looking at in this message, and that's what we're trying to get to you all along the 14 other messages I've been taking from this. Now, let's go on then and see what he says concerning faith, the perfect faith, and that's going to be page 52 to 92.

to 92. elijah was just as calm as he could be now this is the mount carmel showdown where elijah in the is coming against the 400 prophets of baal and remember elijah is god's prophet he's not just a prophet of god he is god's prophet thing you want to watch here okay elijah was just as calm as he could be and he said to those prophets of baal were screaming and cutting themselves and doing everything cry call a little louder He said, maybe he's pursuing. You know, he said, honey, maybe he's on a fishing trip even, sitting down and gone to sleep. Maybe he's doing something else. I don't know. But he's gone out somewhere. He just made fun of them because he knew what was going to happen.

Oh,

watch

when he got everything in order. He walked out there and said, Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel. Never called him by his name, Jacob the shyster. He called him Israel, prince with God. Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of that Prince Jacob, let it be known today that I am your servant, and I have done this not at my desire, not at my makeup or something I made up, but at your command have I done this. It was your will. You told me what to do. You showed me these things, what would be here. Now, I poured the water upon the altar. I've done all these things according to your command. Now let it be. And when he said that fire fell down from heaven, he was just as confident it was going to fall because he had the substance. why the head said so now this same bible this same bible is the same god's word when you can receive the substance that's perfect faith substance of this promise that god made is yours now dealing of course imperfectly concerning us you know here that you can have from this word without divine intervention the same as elijah had because remember elijah had the

first five books had the traditions of everything that had happened from the judges and from Samuel, which was a great, great personage. He understood all about history. He had divine intervention. The name

of Ezekiel had visions of God. Intervention. Now, Brother Brandes is clearly telling us a divine intervention is not necessary for you and me.

Perfection of our faith. Although with the rapture, we go deeper because we've got to know something we cannot know by our own faith being perfected.

there and see people coming in different languages and things are you afraid no sir no sir he said it never been afraid yet because he told me so what

he told me now

listen he told me tonight to

turn a shade whiter challenge the statement if he told me tonight to go to the presidential graveyard and raise up george washington tomorrow morning i'd invite the whole world come and see it done you say well that's that's a pretty safe thing because god ain't going to do that i

don't

think There you are. You see, you don't believe God at all. He told

you to interpret any part of God's word as though God couldn't do what he wanted to do. God has put his own interpretation on his own limitation.

There's no scripture against

this. You tell me then why God can't do it.

He sure would do it too.

Remember the first man that got taken off of this earth without dying was who? The next man was Elijah. I want you to find someplace in the book of Genesis the word of God said that a man would be taken off the earth or that no man could be taken off the earth. Now I can take scripture right now and prove to you that no man can be taken off the earth because it is appointed unto man once to die. Scripture

balances it. It shows you that we're all appointed to die except under certain circumstances. And that's at the end time as the rapture takes place. We will not die. We'll be standing here made immortal. So God has already typed in Enoch and Elijah.

Adam and the human race missed by taking the tree of death, good and knowledge instead of the tree of life. They both stood there. So he said, I challenge you, come and see it done. Bring every critic you can stand around. You're going to see the glory of God. Actually, he said in another place, if God told me to go and raise Abraham Lincoln, I would challenge the armies of the earth to shoot me down if they couldn't do it. Just like he told that Armenian doctor over there in California. The doctor said, there's no use you praying, Reverend Bradham. You are disturbing her. She is dying. Do not give her false hope. You are cruel. You are a terrible person. He said, listen, doctor, I'm going to tell you something. You put a sign on my back tomorrow morning, she's not living and doing it. And I will go down to the main street of Los Angeles and you honking your horn behind me in your car riding, drawing people's attention. And on my back and my front will be a sign saying false prophet. But if she's risen tomorrow morning and doing her work, then I will ride in the car and you will wear a sign in front of that doctor.

Woman's living. I believe it's your husband gave Brother Brown a certified check for one and a half million dollars. He didn't say hallelujah, God's holding me hostage just to get me out of the pit. I

want you to know, son, brothers, you are dealing with a man, William Branagh, the coward I've never seen in my life. I've met all these men.

I've met all the 20th century big shots, except Billy Graham. I don't need to meet him because he doesn't come into the line of Pentecost. Who cares, man?

He's too cautious in my kind of game anyway. Too

cautious is what I believe. You can't be cautious these days. You've got to commit to yourself. Nice brother, no problem with him at all, but he's too cautious.

I've known men of the last age. No

one came near this man.

Historians are telling the same thing. The perfect ministry since the time of Jesus Christ.

He said, bring the critics. Set that chair over there where you can sit down and rest a while. He'll be here in just a moment. The students are like, huh?

That night when that little boy in Finland that day, they'd been lying there half an hour mashed, blood running out of his eyes, nose, ears, his little legs broken up in his stockings, feet brought to the ends of his stockings, shoes gone. They looked and thought, that ought to be that boy. I said, hey, look in that Bible back there, Brother Merle. It was in the vision. They wrote it down. It was in the Bible they were carrying. We've got Brother Lindsey, Brother Merle up there, right in the back of the Bible. It'll come to pass that the Lord, oh my, there will be a land where there's lots of everything's growing, rocks heaped together, a little boy with a cropped haircut, a little panty waist button up here, his stockings pulled up high, have brown eyes, be turned back, and he'll not be lasted. But laying hands on him, he'll come back to life. There it was written in the Bible. There he laid, amen, just waiting the word. And I said, if this boy's been lying a couple of minutes from now, then I'm a false prophet. Run me out of Finland. But he's alive. If he is alive, fall on your face, repent. That boy is.

I said, death, you can't hold him. I called for his spirit according to the word of God. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, he jumped up.

Faith took hold. God said so. Now, that's God speaking in this day through

William Branham. If

that vision was contrary to this Bible, this Bible is more than

a man ever knew to say that.

Everybody gets something, they run with it. Penny Colson went plumb away from the Word of God. It

runs there. That as soon as somebody gets something whereby he thinks he has a vindication, then he takes a position he should not take. Which lowers the word. Brother Brannon never ever lowered that word. He used everything to exalt the word.

Watch what he says. This is more than the vision. It's contrary to the word. Leave it alone. It isn't a God. God doesn't contradict his own word. So if this word told you something. Then you can have the same confidence. Then what's. That's going to happen. In other words he said. Came in addition to me. It happened a hundred percent. Now he said that's great. But that's still not it. This. it and he says you have in your lives the same thing and greater than I've got even in my life if you only take it and understand what being said now let's apply then this Bible you need they shall lay hands upon the sick and they shall recover well brother if faith that perfect faith got hope in other words if you let your own faith come to that position in this realm of faith look there's nothing you will ever do to bring about a rapture

believe in Gideon. I told you right back years ago I had this back problem. I've got a back problem every day. I'm not worried about it anymore because I'm going out there anyway. Back in those days, I had more than a fighting chance. That back was bad. I lay in bed one night, and I think, oh, man, that's about, oh, I'm going to, so after he got to the place, I said, phooey. So if I lay in a certain position, I would, you know, get the pain. So I deliberately lay in that position one night, and I was going to fight the devil, fight the pain, fight everything. After about 20 seconds, I

said, that's okay, devil. Round one, you won. Coming up, round number two. And I fought that all night long. Perfect

faith, that's just a matter of using faith. And you can use your faith if you use the Word of God, understand the principles. You can come to a place where you can receive the promises. But there are certain things, it's outside of you entirely. That's what comes to you, and you believe that. And that becomes a perfect faith that you can use as a launching pad to go further in your own faith. Follow what I'm saying. So try to follow me 14 times, and I'm sure you've got it by now. All right.

the hands of one sick, they shall recover. Well, brother, it's faith. That perfect faith got a hold of that. When you passed by this prayer line, you'd be jumping and shouting when you left here. Now, he's already told you what? That this little boy, through a vision, brought back from the dead.

And that vision was not to be compared with this book. Out

of the book, on the grounds that it specifically states in the book that this is possible. Don't you understand? He said, look, I'm standing here now the same person. You now come to this line and breathe. You now come to this line and breathe. You're not laying hands on yourself. Will

you not be healed? You see, what he's doing here is using this. God, in his grace and mercy, has given this 20th century church a position in the Laodicean age, taking her from a small corruption, a complete undone -ness, a mental, a physical, and a spiritual insanity, to a wholeness in God if she wants it.

Understand what I'm saying. This is what God says about this.

You're going to come to this sometime.

Because, he said, here, I know your works. You're neither hot nor cold. You're lukewarm. You make me vomit. Because he says, because you say, I'm rich, increased with goods, have need of nothing, and don't know, you're wretched, you're miserable, you're blind, you're naked. He

said, I count you come to me. And the church evidently,

that's the end of this age. Now, God giving grace. A

vindicated prophet to let you know that these promises are yours.

word of God that doesn't need to be proved. Setting the church in order. If he says they lay hands upon the sick, they shall recover. Well, brother, if faith, that perfect faith, got hold of that, this

prayer may be jumping and shouting. When you left here, you'd say it's over, it's over, it's all over, it's finished. If you had a request in your heart and believed that when that prayer was made for you, that was going to be answered, there isn't anything to stop it. That's what's going to happen, like the little woman with the blood issue.

Now, what he is presenting here, is about himself as a prophet because it is based on Jesus the prophet.

We got the understanding from the Bible on that. We'll read what he says. Okay. Page 12, 71. Now,

the only thing you have to do then is have faith in what you are. Have faith in what the word says you are. Now, he's making a statement here, how to bring your faith up to where it hasn't been in your experience. But you maybe have had problems with you. What

are the principles? Now let's watch it. Now the only thing you have to do then is to have faith in what you are. Have faith in what the Word of God says you are. Because you can't have faith in what you are.

You've got to have faith in what God says you are. And Jesus had faith in the Word of God that said what he was. It is written in me. David and the Psalms and the Prophets all that speak of him that Jesus the Christ. I am the bread of life that came from God out of heaven. Amen. I am that tree of life in the Garden of Eden. I am all these things. I

am that I am.

with that perfect, that he was the anointed Messiah, that the Spirit of God was upon him, and he said, now what perfect faith lay, knowing who he was and how it happened. Now I in myself do nothing, but it's my faith in God. And God was in him, the Word made manifest. When the Word of God comes in you, it's made manifest, as you are a believer see, is the faith of God that moves in you. In other words, you are a believer because the faith of God is actually in you. And that's true because that's what the Bible said, have the faith of God. You don't have your own. The Bible says the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ. It does not give you credit for your own faith. It is the first thing that's born into you when you're born again. Step

in 1 Peter. Knowing who he was without a shattered doubt, he knew he was the Son of God. He knew it. For the Word identified him. The Word of God identified who he was. He said, If I do not the works of my Father, then don't believe me.

If I don't do the works, don't believe me. But if I do, then believe the works. For they are the manifest Word promised. Certainly. Man's Word will not do it. being done that's the point oh if you could just wake up to that get it you see the word itself identified him who he was and he said who can condemn me of sin in other words who can show me that my life and my works don't fulfill exactly what messiah should do nobody could say anything for he was then

whatever he said in other words is letting you know in the ministry of jesus christ before he became fully identified with god himself

And the scripture. In order to present. Well he was identified. In order to present himself to the people. God had to deal with him. Specifically. And the specific dealing. Made him to know. Progressively. That God heard every.

Exactly how it was said. Now then he turned and said. The works that I do shall you also. A little while the world sees me no more. Yet you shall because I'll be with you even in you. Take no thought what you shall say. For it's not you to speak. It's the Father running in you. He's the one who speaks and is speaking. It is not I, it's the Father that dwells in me. He does the work. See what I mean? Now, after the identification of scripture of Christian, these words said Jesus. These signs shall follow them that believe. Now look, I know people are going to get thrown on that statement, and it's not the kind of statement you think it is, because automatically the mind goes to signs. To

bring a sign condemns you. The mind must go to what you are, a believer. You do not produce. You are not a sign person. You are not a sign producer. You are a believer. So

your categorization is, first of all, believer.

And if you never saw a sign, it

doesn't have too much to do with it.

Now, signs are there. Any church that doesn't accept them and doesn't try to follow is a pretty poor church. But

remember, the statement is this. You are a believer.

Out of your believing can come different things. Out of your believing can come not one single sign, my brother and my sister, that you are a Christian, according to miracles.

shoot up for God,

shreds by wild animals, open a leather bag with serpents,

like a time of the Inquisition. In other

words, you could suffer every single thing the church would heap on you, or someone would because they got mad at the church.

You wouldn't show one sign except what? Your perseverance, your testimony. Get carried away. Keep

them in their perspective. Keep them right with the word all the time, or you will botch up your

identification, and

signs will believe, will come. You'll have some. You'll have some. How can you call yourself a believer and deny any of this word? Now, there you are right there.

Any person will have signs and disbelief. So

we've got a very narrow road to travel here, a very narrow to look into. It's not some big broad light. It's a spotlight.

You're not a believer, therefore signs can't follow you because you just accept what you want to believe and leave the rest of it out. You won't and don't believe it, but you've got to take the whole thing and believe it. And when you truly believe, not make believe, but really believe, these signs will surely follow those believers. Now,

on page 26,

I want to get to paragraph 148.

pleased God. That's Jesus. He knew there was nothing, no blood in his life. God had already testified that by saying, this is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. Hear me. This is my beloved son in whom I'm pleased to dwell. In the day of his baptism, I'm pleased to make my abode in here. There's no condemnation in him at all. Now when the same God comes to you and is pleased to dwell in you, pleased to honor your word, what your decision is, now watch. We're trying to get very deep here, so don't get carried away too far. What was Joshua's decision? Stand still, son. Now he's first of all talked about Jesus. Now he's talking about this man who made the sun stand still. He stood still there. Sure, amen. What was Moses' decision? How did he stick over the river? Called it open. It opened. See, it's whatever you ask, and if you say that this mountain be moved, and don't doubt, say it in your heart, but believe that what you've said will come to pass. You can have it, what you said. Now how are you going to go before God? that you know is going to come to pass just because you said it.

There's no way. You

have to have God's own words somehow given to you.

It's just like prophecy. The prophet does not make anything come to pass. The prophet is only a voice to you and to me. God uses him in on what God's going to do.

If you say to his mom, be moved and don't know.

Remember, Jesus said, my words are of God. My words are God's words. I hear him say, I say what I see him do, I do. That puts you back in the word. Now, that's not skimming.

I know it's going to jump over the top of you here, see, because it can't anchor. Same

ability, because God puts his words in my mouth. I'm

not thinking my own thoughts. I'm not asking my own desires. But

you notice something? Joshua needed that son to stand still. He

needed that son to stand still. What did God do about it? The son had to stand still. Fellas would have got away. Night would have come. They would have got away. That's just true. God doesn't say, now look, General, I'm going to expect you to have, you know, cat's eyes in the dark or something. What's the logical thing? Now, if the sun would stand still, so the sun should stand still. Night should not come on. Something should happen. That's all. What does a man do? In his mouth comes the word. The sun stands still.

Here's the Bible lying open before me. I've seen it happen. I know God in heaven knows that I might not live through to finish his name, but I know it happened. I've seen it myself. I'm witness of that word,

and I know it is the truth. Say it. Stand there and see the Creator bring a living creature. So I don't believe that.

Bring on the flies, the flies came. Bring on the fleas, the fleas came. Bring on the frogs, the frogs came. Bring on the murines, the murines came. Bring

the blood, the blood came. The hailstones, the hail came. Where

did he get them?

God did. People are so far removed from the living God, and from the memory he's outside the church,

how he come and talk. The word's the greatest thing that ever happened in this church.

Other churches say they can't work it. I don't know why they can't work it. You people here work it. I

know it's the truth. God brought a creature into existence right in the presence of Christ. Keep shaking your head in wonder. Then look around and see and bring another one just exactly like it because you said so. Come over here and say there'll be another one there. Look, and there it is. Now that's the truth. Oh, where should we be? There's perfect faith. Perfect

faith in this category. Now we want to get your faith in your category. This

is so simple that we've lost the simple.

What's the first thing the teacher did in trying to show you how to write or print? You've

got your tongue out. You've got the balance like that.

You've got the balancing feature.

I never did do that. You're likely to slap me when I ask.

but you know what

example use

example the word of god it all falls to priest this

example okay that's there's perfect thing no vision just speak the word never saw the squirrel he just said this scripture what it was that which what 7 23 say to this mountain be moved speak the word that you say will come so he said to the prophet what do you want now i know

you say well moses is different where

did he get the scripture for it that god couldn't create or people create through god Where do you get it? You've got faith to believe that you giving this word of God to people will mean their salvation. You're sick. You've got to be sick. Creation is nothing alongside of a man's salvation. Walking

in the Red Sea is nothing alongside of a man's salvation. So you believe the great thing because what? Then

deny the lesser. That's what Brother Brannon was pointing out here. All these things like what the prophets and he did or Jesus did.

It's pointing to the great God and his word. So that when you are faced with precepts, which is based upon literally example.

We have never had our hands aimed at this explosive, brothers and sisters.

Now, it'll come to pass. That puts you back in the word. He said that. Now, down here, perfect faith. Here, the way it was done in the word. To get the precept. To get the principle. To get the moral. To get the guidelines.

Perfect faith. No, it didn't just be the word. It never saw a square. It just said, this is scripture. Hebrews 11, 20. I mean, Mark 11, 23. Don't doubt. Now, remember, when Brother Branham, by his own words, admitted that he began to chicken out on what he said, God said, but you said... When he stopped, the two of you were shot in the mark. I'd be satisfied with two of

you. That's fantastic.

And, listen, as your pastor, that's just as powerful as it was when Joshua stopped the sun because the sun was already there, the elements were moving, and he stopped the movement. But this, he brought something there that wasn't there. He created. I'm so glad to be acquainted with the God that can take this dust of the earth someday that I don't see.

And anyway,

he talks about the revival. I'm

afraid this might happen. Here we are.

Someday he'll call me back to life again after I've been planted in the grave. My

faith looks up to thee, thou Lamb of Calvary. You say it and don't doubt, but believe that what you said, you shall have what you said. See, believe that it'll happen. David in the Psalms spoke of him. And with it he took his power and he ministered to others.

Not only was it a treasure in himself, or a power in himself, a gift in himself and to himself, and for himself, but he ministered to others by it. Now how was the gift in himself and for himself? Because in that strength and that faith, people

in the realm where they could breathe things of God for themselves. He ministered to others by it, also saved others. And he can do this. same now and believers in his word john 14 12 mark 11 23 and even mark 16 now watch in this last hour he has appeared to us in the same form he did in the old testament that's when he appeared the pillar of fire to moses the same as he did in the new testament which is to paul the pillar of fire came that's right and showed by the same word the same christ right now remember the bible distinctly says the cloud that followed in the pillar of fire was christ and the rock was christ And when Paul spoke back to the light, he said, I am Jesus.

So what would it be now if this is the truth right there taken by a camera? Well, I don't think God takes pictures by camera. You think anything you want. I

don't know that he did. See, there you are. I declare to you that Christ is the Holy Ghost. The word Christ means the anointed one. Just a person that's anointed. That is the Christ anointed one. Remember, God anointed Jesus and went about doing good things. Anointed with the Holy Ghost. How many know that's true? That's good. The anointed one, that would be a man that'd be anointed. Now you bring it right back to itself. acts 13 tells the same thing okay a man approved to god and god is doing the works in other words back there was god in the man today it's god through a man simple all right now with this i want to continue and

he says here and now we become anointed with the same spirit anointed messiahs messiahs of the last day to shine forth the resurrection of jesus christ to show that he is not dead but in the form of the Holy Ghost. Now, let me tell you something. There's no way. It's got to be one person. He never, ever used a... He never sent a lot of sons down. He said, I'm going to have a lot of bodies down. You want a little group? A little group. And I'll be... Each one of them.

Now, watch. He and his people moving among his bride. In, among, the pillar of fire himself. By

the same God, same word, is making the same manifestations. Now, he said, there's nothing... Now, here's where your perfect faith comes in.

And that creates...

Think how numb we are. Think about that for a minute.

says here the ministry to return back upon this earth and this end time is the absolute

proving it is God letting you know that you are here in a position to have rapturing faith to get out of this world complete restoration back to the tree of life right back to the things of God and at the same time no word of God is left out and the church absolutely knows without flinching it's a proven thing hands upon the sick and they shall recover. In other words, God did not come down and say, look at this fellow, and it's wonderful that I've vindicated him, and I've vindicated myself, and isn't it great now? That's all there is to it. He did not say that. Based

upon what we have seen in 2 ,000 years since the time of the Lord Jesus Christ. Okay, find

it somewhere. He

had perfect faith because

he was the Word, and

you must become the Word, and you do become the Word as you receive the Word. Now, isn't that true? Now, come on. I don't think that's a good statement. On

the 8th chapter, I think I can find it. Well, I don't know.

We're going to look at John 8 here if I can get it.

And verse

36 of John 8, he said, If the Son shall live, therefore the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed. I know you are Abraham's seed, physically speaking, but you seek to kill me because my word has no place in you. Word

members, they become word Christians. So what he says is true here. Now, why did they turn him down? They turned him down because... He rebuked them for their understanding of the Word of God. He

came with the physical manifestations. He had the right to interpret the Word of God as God had given the Word,

and they turned it down. So therefore, they had no place for the Word. You

become this what they couldn't become, which they didn't receive. They said, Abraham is our father. Why? We've got a fine church. We trace our history back generations. We've got in our blood great ancestors. There's no doubt about it. Well, he said, I know Abraham's your father. But if you were Abraham's children, you'd do the works. And had seven sons by Keturah, and gave them all gifts and sent them off. The dice had come along.

You seek to kill me, a man that told you the truth, which I have heard of God. This did not Abraham. To your father, they said to him, we be not born of fornication. Abraham

did not fornicate of his wife, actually. She

was married to Adam, and she built

darkness.

Until the giants came

down and gave himself human blood.

They were doing that. They'd be doing it all the time. Jesus

said, if God were your father, no

doubt there would have been one. But God sure isn't.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word became. He had

in his mind little gods. It's

a manifestation. Because a child's a manifestation of your father because the mother is part of the father. I can prove it.

God's not your father. If he was, you'd love me. What

about him didn't they love? He came against their word. That's what we say here. We accept no love unless it's based on word. I am not interested. I mean,

you know. We

mean love right now. I'm just telling you. Anybody can go through the actions. What

about this, brothers?

Let's not get carried away with some ideas we've got. I'm not just saying my ideas. I want God to correct my ideas and bring me right down to this word. Look, even if I'm a skunk,

skunking myself, I don't want to skunk anybody else up. Leaving anybody astray is a very wicked and terrible thing. He said, why don't you understand me? I said, you can't hear my word. The

lust of your father and so on. Okay, now, we were reading along here, and we were on page 93,

94. I've got to find page 17. I was going to go on 16.

Okay.

Say to this mountain, be moved. And don't doubt, believe what you said. Then you shall have what you said. When you pray, believe that you receive what you ask you to have. Now see what he's saying here? He said, I stand up here in the category of Moses and Paul, Joshua, all these men, Elijah.

Now he said, to me has been given this. I

use for myself and I place myself in scripture and I understand because I must. But remember, it is action.

Now you hear what I am saying. And you don't buy my ministry, which has been vindicated and witnessed to by thousands and thousands of people. The

city of Durban saw a truck taken

down the street in a parade. People

know it. It's on record.

Cases like you can't be. I saw it with my own eyes. I was there myself. He said, that is given that you know the perfect faith in this realm is now taking you to your perfect.

I'm trying to get across, and he's trying to get across, is this. Look, meet

the conditions. They are not all that rough to meet. You have everything now at your fingertips to get what you want, which is indicated here. You will go through trials. Nobody's going to stop that. You will suffer. Nobody's going to stop that. There will be rain. There will be clouds. There will be snow. There will be drift. There will be skinny. There will be ups. There will be downs. No one's going to stop that. Old

age doesn't have a thing to do with healing. It means this. I can't claim to live longer than 70, but it can claim to live healthy. It

can claim the promises. You may... Be like Smith Wigglesworth. He

suffered from terrible kidney stones. He'd go home and line a tub of hot water. He'd get rested up for the next day to preach. And

he felt like most preachers do that pray for the sick. And if he prayed for one whole church full and they dropped dead, he'd move to the next church and pray for those. Some of those wouldn't drop dead.

Because they've got to stand resolutely to Almighty God. So he's saying here, now watch how this blames to the other. Okay.

Okay. Watch

again. And he says, has he done all things well? Has he ever told us anything about what happened just exactly the way he said it? Hasn't he performed and hasn't the great pillar of fire been among him and done exactly what he promised he'd do? Haven't we seen it? Hasn't science taken it after it's been... Go right back there and even have it in the papers and magazines. What is told you a month before it would happen. Hasn't he done exactly the way he did in the Old Testament? Isn't it just exactly the same one that's doing this now in my ministry? The same Holy Spirit comes...

The same Holy Spirit comes and is a discerner of the Word of God, which is quicker sharp than a two -edged sword, discerns the thoughts and intents of the heart. Isn't that right? The same man you couldn't hide if you tried. I've seen it happen. Horlon is just like this. A brother came up. A man

never got away with it. What do you think this was all for? Some little sideshow? Well, isn't it nice how God did things? Hey, I like the way that

Halloween party he ran. Read

your Bible. Every

time he did a judgment. I

don't think I'll read. That'll stop me from getting it. Tell that to the IRS.

Tell the cop you really stopped when you made a rolling stop at the stop sign. This is the day to get his quotas in. Go

ahead and tell him. Tell

the electric light company that you're going to get your 4 % or 2 % discount. You're going to be three days late. Isn't

it the same God? My

friends have asked me. The

same one is not a stranger far off. It's the same God. He's here, and he does this to create a perfect faith. What perfect faith? I

know he knows all things. The Bible says he does. And I know he wants to do something. He's been doing something to create this perfect faith in this people. Are we going to walk into eternity like it was in the days of Noah with eight souls saved? Sure. Are we going to come like Lot through Yonah's psalm? John the Baptist, six believers. Let us believe for his works are perfect. They're manifested daily and perfectly amongst us, that he is that word. The word of God is that, a discernment of the thoughts and intents of the heart, for the word is quick and powerful, more powerful and sharper than two eggs or a person even dividing his son of soul and spirit. The joint of marriage is in the thoughts and intents of the heart. Also

says, Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight, but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. Brother,

sister, let me ask you a question. How is this going to be? Well, you say, I'm going to put that way back there at the white throne. Not

at all. But I want you to prove it. But

if it's this side of the white throne also, you're going to walk in made

flesh. Hallelujah. Word operating in human flesh by physical signs, by material signs, by scriptural signs, perfectly to bring you to a perfect faith, a perfect rapture.

I could read on and on. I'm not going to do it. Look, you know what this sermon's all about. Brother Branham, 30, knows that he's 30 identified. What spoke to him never lied, never made a mistake. He proved it by telling us thousands and thousands of times. Never any time did he make a mistake. So, well, if he had lived longer, he might have just had one mistake.

you read your Bibles. You

believe that you're not reading your Bibles because you're trying to put a limit and a balance on what you think is in here rather than what is not in here. Because God doesn't have to speak two times once. He

doesn't have to show it two times. Tell me how many times did Elijah meet the prophets of Baal? How many times did Moses go through those miracles?

I'll tell you something, brother, sister,

but you know that Jesus did not do the things that Moses did.

I'm talking now in abundance.

Biggest man that ever lived.

Moses was the strongest man ever lived in Jesus.

Now, Jesus made a statement concerning his own self and ministry. He's a

person who do.

When did Jesus have a parade in Jerusalem? Probably

more cancer cases. You

say, well, John said the whole Bible libraries couldn't contain the things that Jesus did. That's quite possible. Where's your record? Here

to tell about. How do I know the Bible is not something just somebody made up? And

the church made a tradition, said, well, you know, we keep it up to date and God speaks to us. I want to know who God speaks to. That's a laugh. I can stand here before you all and make this claim. There's none of you, all of you put together cannot have my record. The

voice of Almighty God based upon one thing. The thing came to pass. You say, well, maybe the devil makes things up. But

here was a man who had a world record greater than Jesus. Not individual point per point, but in magnitude of numbers. Like Jesus said,

something worth reading. 14th

chapter, you know. Verily, verily, I said to you, he works

and I do shall he do.

So, what we're looking at here is this. In the message of perfect faith, from the subject material that Brother Branham has built around his sermon title, it is evident that he has taken from his own life experiences. This material makes thee.

He has taken from his own life experiences, drawn from and rooted in the Scripture. This faith he now exercises and presents to us, not only for our edification and evaluation, but as a working principle in our lives, so that we can come all the way from the prayer of faith to the revealed faith, for rapturing. I believe that this message is taken from 1 Corinthians 13, though he didn't say so, where

we read, beginning in verse 9, For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, but when that which is perfect is come, then shall that which is in part be done away. I was a child, I spoke as a child, I'm just a child, thought as a child. A man that put away childish things, in other words, he stood up and was counted with his own words. For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then shall I know even as I am also known. Now abide with faith, hope, and love, these three, but the greatest of these.

At the time when the whole is in view, the

face -to -face, faith

is going to be magnified, our hope is going to be magnified, our love is going to be magnified, because we are going to see the earnest expectation in full view, which is the word of God promised us. We are going to see the fulfillment on the grounds of faith. We're going to see the love of God manifest because he took time off in this age to come down and get us out of our mess. And that same faith and earnest expectation and love is going to multiply in our lives and does multiply. Now, you people know that over the last year, the last few months especially, you have felt a mellowing towards your family.

You're not too concerned anymore. You're just mellowing.

Something is happening. There's only one reason it's happening, because the life in the Word is

now cannot help but believe. What we've talked about for the last... We

have an understanding now. We know. Exactly what has transpired. And that is literally the spark that fires our own faith. There's

conditions we know. The conditions can't.

Life is released from the word. The con has

a con. It is the

one down from God. The final con. We

know that God.

Sure we're going to get out. But he said listen. He said that

spirit comes in more and more by this revealed word. As we see it. And that's what the prophet was saying. And he stood before those people. And he said listen. Can you believe the Bible that says about Elijah. Can you believe the Bible that talks about Joshua? Can you believe the word that speaks about the prophet of this hour? Can you believe me on my own record of telling you? And you having seen exactly what happened in my meetings where it never failed once. And I'm telling you now. And he said, this is the third pull. The

third pull in the church, brethren, has taken place. The third pull of the world. The third pull of its manifestation. Will you now take my authority, which is God's own, to believe as you never believed before? He stood there and he said, I is your pastor and you what I said. Those squirrels came into existence and I know that's a tough one for them.

And if God does not create, you tell me.

What would you say if God put a new kidney in your body? And that is authenticated.

There's records on that. New lungs. A man with no kidney had a new kidney put in. That is God's truth.

There's no church I believe anywhere that is bereft. Maybe the church of Christ may be so desperate against the word of God. But you know what? Some of their members do.

There's no church I believe that institutes some record of a miracle of creation. God did it. Test your histories. Wouldn't

God, if that's what God wanted to do.

Now, he said, look, if I, as your pastor, can speak according to God's word, knowing your place and my place, and that comes to pass, then when I pray, I am praying,

and the answer is yes. To God, records have...

Now, you say, Brother Bill, that was fine for William Brannan. What about us? It's fine for us, too. I am not William Brannan. I cannot speak as he spoke, but I can do what he said, based

on what has been done. I can take the same word and

stand on that word. And you

said there's only one little thing. If there's something wrong in your heart, get it out of there. The

second little thing, and

those people were perfect. Now,

if you get what I'm saying, it's

a link in your mind. What has been said this morning, I

am not lying to you. The

grandma said, I've got to decrease, and he's going to increase. Did he go? He left us. Then I want to ask you, who?

Then is not that word then even greater than when we first heard it? Is it not true understanding is richer and reader? When we couldn't apprehend it, we're doing it now. Then is God going to turn around and say, well, listen, I gave you your chance and you didn't get it. Say, Lord, it wasn't even there. Well, too bad, too bad. Well, I wasn't born, Lord. Hundreds of

years in the making and thousands of years in the proving. God doesn't

ask of us anything but simply to believe. As

long as they're not out of here, the doors are not closed and the bride is not gone. We are increasing and increasing and increasing. One

day soon, simply

know that you know.

That's it. And it is. And you know something? Your testimony is a testimony of thousands. But you'll know something that the other thousands don't know. That yours is based upon a vindicated word. You

could be healed a thousand times and miss the rapture.

You can live God's laws like many people do by tithing and giving and become a legitimate millionaire. You

can give your body to be burned. But

how can you miss? There

you are. Lord bless you. Let's rise. Saturday night, 7 o 'clock. 7 o 'clock at 730 because for watching me takes long time. Heavenly Father, again, we want to thank you for your kindness to us. Lord, we know we could just go over and over in many messages. Brother Brandon preached, they all say the same thing, that you are a gracious and wonderful God that thoroughly exposed yourself by your wonderful works to the view of the people. And there's only one pronouncement we can really make, and that is that you are a wonderful, wonderful Lord, that you should condescend to do this, and we are so grateful. And we marvel, Lord, that you gave us the opportunity. to see it and to open our eyes to it. And we are indeed sorry, Lord, for those who do not see it and do not understand. And we pray for them, Lord, and ask, O God, that as the Apostle Paul was so worried about his own brethren that had the adoption, to whom you came after the flesh, and who had the written word, and the ministry had all of those things, and were missing, were blind to do it. And he said, Lord, if I could die for them in their stead, I'd do it. But we know he could not do it because Jesus died and paid it all. Lord, I just pray today in the sweet spirit of Jesus Christ in this building that there's anybody here without Christ, young, old, rich, poor, high, low, no matter what it is, Lord, we don't worry about anybody at all except the condition of heart. May that heart respond to you and make a full commitment to you, the Lord Jesus Christ, that in genuine baptism with the Holy Ghost, come into that person, that person be lit aflame and alive with the Word of God. Father, heal the sick amongst us, Lord. We're glad for the strength you give us, Father. We appreciate it so much. I thank you, Lord, for strength to stand here and preach. I thank you, Lord, day by day. I ask you, Lord, for more and more strength, not necessarily for myself, but that's fine. But, Lord, the strength for the people, and above all for the people, and inner richness, O God, of soul and spirit and mind, to pass on the word until it's like a pulsation going through the buildings, and every heart and mind merged as one, every soul united in this grace and glory of the love. in the life of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, pressing on until one day we all get out of here, stand in your presence, Lord, at the waiting supper of the Lamb. Father, it's just wonderful to know that something real is absolutely true. And it's getting realer all the time, Lord. And we don't need Brother Brad's vision, but that was wonderful. He got up there and came back. We don't need it. We don't need the vision about what these other things are, Lord. But we do need what came out of it, which is that lovely word, the faith. Bless each one, Father God, we pray. We'll give you the glory in Jesus' name. Amen. The Lord bless you. Take the name of Jesus with you.