Story Board of William Marrion Branham

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Story Board of William Marrion Branham

Then Jesus said, "The queen of the south shall stand in the Day ofJudgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the

utmost parts of the known earth at that day to hear the Wisdom ofSolomon."Now, were speaking of the time of Solomon, which was almost themillennium for the Jews. It was when Israel prospered, and greatwonders were done and great signs and so forth had taken place. Andthey built the temple in the reign of Solomon, which was the son ofDavid, a type of the Lord Jesus. David had fought down the nations, tillthey all feared Israel. And to make their golden age for them, God senta mighty gift amongst the people.

And all the people, with one accord, rallied around that great gift that

God gave Solomon. Everybody believed it. What if we all believe ittoday? What if all the churches would believe the Holy Spirit and rallyaround the Holy Spirit the way they rallied around Solomon. And whichis the greater: Solomon or the Holy Spirit? A greater than Solomon ishere. And the people don't want to believe it.

All the strangers passing through Israel, going up to Jerusalem, they'dhear about the great gift of God being in operation. So they'd comeand look. And there's nobody that has got anything at all concerningGod in them that can ever see God's gifts in operation but what itthrills them. So, these strangers passing through Israel from abroad

had scattered worldwide on their journeys. Everybody began to hearacross the world about God's gift of wisdom operating with His peoplein Solomon, a great gift He had sent.

Finally the word traveled all over to the utmost parts of the earth anddown to the queen in Sheba - that up in Israel there was a great gift ofGod and it was in operation. God had showed a great sign to thatgeneration. You see - faith cometh by hearing. That's how you know.It's when you hear. And everybody was talking about what was goingon and it made a hunger come in the little queen's heart.

Everybody would come by and say, "Oh, you should stand up there inthe courts while Solomon, the servant of the Lord God of Israel, standsup there. And you've never seen such discernment. It's beyondanything." You know if they've got any inkling of God in you, well, thatbegins to give you a hunger. And finally she made up her mind thatshe'd go and see for herself. She just wouldn't take everybody's word;she'd go and see for herself. That's a good thing to do. Come, see.


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And then she turned her back on the priest and walked out. If you'redetermined to find Jesus, to get to God, God will make a way for you.

Now, she sets down and thinks it over, "It's a long ways up there. Sonow, what if I go up there and it is right and everything about that God

that I've been told is true - then their God is God. He not only haswritten Word but He gives confirmation of that Word. He makes Hispromises true. That would have to be the Spirit of God working. If it is,I owe all that I have to that Spirit."

That's exactly right. If God is God, we owe our life to Him. We owe ourall to Him. We owe everything to Him.

So she said, "If it is so, I will support it." Just in case it was the Spirit ofGod in operation Sheba ladened camels with gold, with spices,perfumes, and many riches so that she would have something to offer!

She thought this: "If it is of God, I will support it. If it isn't of God, I canbring my gifts back. (And that's good, sound sense.) So I will makeready whether it is or not, I'll be prepared."

Now, she had to travel with all this gold from Sheba down to Jerusalem.It took three months to make the trip on the back of a camel. Nowonder Jesus said she'll stand in the Day of Judgment and condemnthis generation. Some won't come across the street to hear or see agift of God. They'll turn their nose up at it and walk away.

But she was determined. No wonder Jesus said, "No man can come

unless My Father draws him. And all the Father has given Me will cometo Me."

And another thing, because she had all those riches she would havebeen an easy prey to the children of Ishmael - they were robbers in thedesert in those days! They had fleet-footed horses that could fall in onher little caravan there and murder her and her escort. They'd takeeverything she had, all the gold and things.But you know, there's something about it when you want to meet God,that there's nothing will stand in your way. You're going on anyhow;you're blind to the dangers. You're blind to the criticisms. You're blind

to anything else. God is your only motive. And you're going to find Him.

She was determined. She never thought of dangers. The only thing shethought of was getting to God. So she ladened her camels and she gother princes, her bodyguards, hero-guards to walk with her. And theymust have traveled by night, for three months, to see a gift of God. Iwonder if there's that much sincerity in the world today. And Jesussaid, "She's going to stand with us in the day of the judgment."


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Wonder what she'll do to the United States in that day? How will hertestimony weigh out against the Americans, after we've had thousandsof years of testimony of God and a greater than Solomon is here. TheHoly Spirit is here.

Yet finally she made her way all across the desert, not thinking of thetroubles and she arrived at the palace yard. I can see her unladen thetent off her camels, and put up her tents and so forth. So, they werecamped in the courts of the palace and the next day she wanted to goand attend one of the meetings to see what it would be all about.She'd, finally, after three months of travel, after, maybe, a year ormore of hearing about it, she finally arrived.

The next morning, when they brought Solomon out, the servant of theLord, and the elders gathered, she said, "Now, I'm not coming to

criticize. I'm just going to set down and look for my-self and justcompare it with the Scriptures and with the testimonies I've heard."

And then the hymns were sung, the service started and then theybrought someone up to Solomon. He looked just like an ordinary man;that's all he was. Yet there was something about him, like he wasn'thimself that morning. God came down. And they'd never seen suchdiscernment - in every case he was perfect.

She said, "A man can't be that perfect, just can't be. There has to besomething to it that is more than just a man."

Out to the tent she goes. And I imagine all night long she read thoseHebrew scrolls again. The next morning she goes back. Now, she nevercame there thinking, "Well, I'll go in and set down for five minutes andif I don't like what he says, I'll get up and go out." That's the Americanattitude. She came to stay until she was convinced one way or theother. She wanted to examine it and stay with it. She came preparedfor that. So the next day, and perhaps the next day, and for many daysshe watched and thought upon those things that she saw and heard.

Finally it came her time to come before Solomon and since she'd

watched so many others go before her she said to her-self, "I believeit's going to be all right." And when she got before the gift of Godwhatever was in Solomon, why, Solomon told her everything the Biblesaid. Said their God never withheld one thing and told everything tothat woman of what she had a desire of in her heart to know.

And when she seen it done on her, she turned and she said to theaudience, a pagan; she said, "All that I've heard was right and more


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than I heard." She said, "Truly God is with you. Blessed is the manwhose face which can see these things daily. Blessed are the peopleand blessed is the God that you serve, who has given these greatthings as a witness."

She believed it. She had an awful time getting to it in her age. That'sall God had in her age for her. She believed it.

Elijah and the Meal Offering 60-0310

I Kings 14:17For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall notwaste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day the LORD sendethrain upon the earth.And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, andhe, and her house, did eat many days.

And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail,according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.

It must have been almost daylight when she was awakened. Sheturned her weary head on the pillow when she heard a mournful, littlecry across the room. And she had not been able to sleep all night; shewas tossed about because of this great tragedy. The little boy hadwakened again, not being asleep over twenty or thirty minutes, and Ican hear his little voice say, "Mama, won't you go out and look in thepantry again and see if there isn't just one little piece of bread? I'm sohungry. I just can't sleep."

And as she looked in his little face with the--his little sinking cheeks,and his little eyes turning yellow, his long hair hanging down fromfailing to be cut, his little ragged nightshirt; the big tears from her eyesspat upon his little face, as she patted him on the cheek and said,"Darling, try to go to sleep and understand."

There had been three years there had been no rain on the earth. Sheknelt down on the floor; I can see her as she cried out to God; she said,"O Lord God Jehovah, Thou art the God of our fathers, Who has fed Thychildren and cared for them through the years. And I've tried to live

true and upright to Thee, and now I am here seeing my little boy cryingfor something to eat, and nothing to give him. For many weeks nowwe've been allowancing ourselves up to a place of one meal everythree or four days, and now it's all gone but one little handful of mealand just a spoonful of oil. And I'm trying to hold it off until daylight sothat we'll not have to die while it is in the night. What have I done, OGod? I, your hands-maid have lived true. My husband was lost inbattle, the battle for the Lord, and I've been a widow for several years


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now, and I've tried to live right and keep Your commandments. And ifit's my time to go, I don't mind; but my little boy, it just tears my heartto pieces to hear him beg for something to eat, with nothing to givehim."

When she'd got finished praying, she raised up. He'd gone back tosleep again for a few moments. And she had her arms up, and theragged nightgown that she was wearing was just about gone. She goesto the window and looks out, and it's just about to break day. Oh, itwas so hot.

The hot winds of judgment were blowing upon a nation that hadforgotten God. That was during the reign of Ahab, Israel's most crueland wicked king. And he'd married a sinner, Jezebel, which was anidolater. And a mixed wedding like that never is successful; it just can'tbe; either the woman will come the man's way or the man will go the

woman's way.

And she was a very attractive little woman, and Ahab, just kind of alukewarm believer, had give in to her ideas and said, "Oh, well, religionis nothing for me; I'm a king." And long had they tore down the altarsof God and put up the altars of Baal. And the cry had been so muchagainst the true religion till the ministers under the great strain hadgiven away.

And so long had the ministers fell under the impact of the king,because sin was permitted; there were no limits. They thought, "As

long as the nation said so, it was all right." That's the way they saytoday, "As long as the nation says it's all right to sell beer, then it's allright to drink it. If the nation permits our women to half dress on thestreet, and the law won't run them in, why, it's all right to do it." Thatmight be all right to the nation, but in God's great books you'reresponsible and will have to answer before God. But they'd fallen andthey had to give away under the load.

And the nation was prospering, and they thought that prosperity was asign that God was with them. That's not altogether the truth.

But the nation had thought, as long as they were eating well and werewell clothed, that everything would be all right.

But there was one who still was old fashioned, that believed that therewas a God that was old fashion, believed that there was a God thatkept His Word, believed that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,was holy and required complete surrender to His holiness. But Jezebel


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and her modernistic crew hated him. He was their pastor, but theydidn't believe it. So he had to hide for his life.

And God had sent him up on the mountain, and said--give him amessage, and said, "Go down and tell that old wicked king, 'THUS

SAITH THE LORD.' It's not going to rain, or even the dew will fall, untilyou call for it." Give it into Elisha's mouth to call for the rain when itwas time for it; but he had the keys of heaven; he could close it oropen it. And He said, "I want you to go up into the wildernessout of this chaos. Get out from among them. You've preached tothem, and they won't listen to you, and they're continually gettingworse. Go on up into the wilderness, and there set down by the brook,Cherith, and Ive already commanded the ravens to take care of you.Oh, if the people won't, God's got crows that can do it.

God can do what He wants to. He said, "I've commanded the ravens,

and they're going to feed you." And they brought him flesh and bread.It came from the creative hand of God Almighty." They brought himfish and bread, the crows, set down and hand it over to Elijah, and heate it, and stooped down and drank from the fountain. God was restingHis prophet.

Oh, I'm so glad that God has a way of escape. And when they thoughthe was crazy, "That old prophet, an old killjoy," always trying to takethe joy out of their little happy parties they were having, telling themthat it was sin. And Him following God's commission went up into themountains and set down on the high place, the driest place in the

country. But God kept the brook running. And they were down theregnawing their tongue for water.

You know, God has a way of answering prayer. This little woman hadlived true. She had not remarried again; she was staying single tomeet her husband in glory. She was an honourable woman. And forweeks the barrel had been going down, down, and her continuallypraying, and still looked like there was no hope in sight nowhere.

And she had met every requirement. She'd lived clean; she'd liveddecent; she'd lived honourable, and she had met all of God's

requirements. But it looked like He was silent. God does that sometimeto test you to see what kind of a reaction you'll have. Don't forget it.

Now, this little woman knew that she had met all these requirementsand still God was silent, it seemed like He didn't even care for her, Hedidn't care whether she lived or died. But all the time God wasworking. She didn't know about it, but God told Elijah. He dried up the


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brook, reached out His hand, and stopped the brook from running. AndElijah said, "Lord, why did it stop?"

He said, "I've commanded a widow woman to feed you." He'd alreadycommanded her; she didn't know it.

Now, it's a very strange thing that God would send His prophet to awidow woman's house. What a place. But she must've been a realvirtuous woman, or He'd have never sent His prophet there. Oh, if aperson was worthy, would've had to be a worthy person to entertain aman like Elijah.

The little woman was down praying - not knowing that walking downthe mountain come the prophet. He'd had a vision where to go to. Goddoesn't lead His people blindly; He tells them where they're going. Hewas looking into the city. Oh, it was terrible. People were starving to

death, and screaming for water, and hungry people everywhere. It's areflection of immorality. It's a reflection of sin.

Now, notice this poor little woman, after she'd looked out the windowand saw that it was about to break day, little did she know what waswaiting for her. She was thinking it was death for her and her little boy.So now, while she's asleep, let's just look at her for a few minutes. Shegoes, after she prays, and she strokes his little hair back out of hiseyes, and said, "Darling little fellow, you look so much like yourprecious, sainted daddy. How he trusted God. How he gave his life forthe cause of Israel out on the battlefield, and you look so much like

him. And, honey, I don't know why the innocent suffer with the guilty,but they do."

Now I can see her go in and say, "I'll fix a little cake now. I've got justenough for one little cake of bread left, and after we eat it, then we'lldie." So she goes into the room, and takes the meal out of the mealbarrel. I can see her just dusting it with that little bony hand, as shestrikes across the little keg that it was in: beating it out, every bit ofdust, and she finally got just enough for one cake, goes over to thelittle cruse and holds it up and drains every bit of the oil out of it, abouta spoonful.

Now, the meal, all those things has a meaning. The Meal representedChrist. Christ was the meal-offering. When they ground the meal forthe wave-offering, for Christ, which was Christ in the wave- offering inthe Old Testament, they ground it with a certain type of burr, thatevery little piece of meal must be cut just the same, because JesusChrist is the same yesterday, today, and forever.


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Now, she got the meal, which represented Christ. And Christ is theWord - Christ the Meal-offering. Then she went and got the oil. And theoil represents the Spirit. So she put the Word and the Spirit togetherand began to mix It up.

The meal, look what she did, she mixed the Word and the Spirittogether. Many people have the Spirit without the Word; some has theWord without the Spirit. But you take and put them both correctly intheir places, there's a cake on the road. There's something in themaking.Poor little widow didn't know what she was doing, but God said toElijah, "I have commanded her."And Elijah's on his road over the cobblestones, coming down to see hisvision fulfilled somewhere. And here she is standing there, tears she'swiping with her old ragged sleeve, and saying, "O Jehovah God, my

faith has never failed, and it won't fail. Somehow or another, I don'tknow how all this is, but we're taught that all things work together forthe good." She's mixing this little meal up; she got the little cake allfixed out and patted up. She said, "Now it's time for me to go out andget some wood." She goes back and opens the door, and said, "O Lord,that poor little hungry belly lying there, and I haven't eaten for two orthree weeks. I've give him my piece of cake."

That's a mother, a mother's love for her baby. There's nothing like it,only God's love. "A mother may forget her suckling babe, but nevercan I forget you. Your names are engraved on the palms of My hand."

There she looks at her baby; maybe she slipped back and kissed hislittle forehead, whether if she fainted and died on the outside. Shegoes out. The sun is just beginning to rise over the Judaean hills. Andshe looks at the sun begin to peep up. Way down the street she hearscursing and going on. And she goes out in the yard, and notice, shepicked up two sticks, not an arm load, two sticks. What is it? The Cross!

Now what's she going to do? Light these two sticks. And the Word andthe Spirit is brought the self-sacrifice on the cross, ready for duty,ready for life. Putting the Word and the Spirit, that's her faith in the

Word of God by the Holy Ghost, leading herself to sacrifice anythingelse to the cross. And when she got the stick under her arm, two ofthem, and started back, she started back, and there was a voice camefrom the gate, "Lady."

Just before that, an old, maybe bald-headed, and gray hanging over hiswhiskers, and his hair hanging down, a little stick in his hand, an oldsheepskin or something wrapped around him, walking down the street,


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saying, "Lord, it's a certain little white fence. There'll be a lovely-looking young woman (She must have been young; the boy wasyoung.) out in the yard. You told me that was the widow that was tofeed me. Now, where is she at? I'll keep walking." The Spirit leads himthis a-way, and then turns him.

Oh, it's so wonderful. Sons of God are led by the Spirit of God. Nomatter how silly it sounds, they are led. He goes down one street andup another, down one street and up another. After while, the Spiritsaid, "Look to your right." And he looks it around like that, just like Hedoes here at the platform, night after night. Oh, God's still the same."Look to your right, to your left, there's someone praying who needsit."

And he looked to his right. "Say, there's the little white fence. That's just right. I just won't move from here, because there's the old tree

standing there. There's everything just the way I saw in the vision. Thedoor opens up and a little thin woman comes out.

Now, remember, she's just going to pick up two sticks. She couldn'thave picked up three, takes two to make the cross. She picked up twosticks and put it on her arm and she started back, thinking, "I'll havethe little cake done when Sonny wakes up. And then I'll feed it to him, Iwon't eat any myself. And I'll put my little boy in my arms, and therewe'll set and die." And she started into the house.

She heard a strange voice across the gate, said, "Woman, would you

fetch me a little drink of water in a vessel?"

And she turned, and she thought, "There stands a kind old man at thegate." She looked at him real close, and maybe wiped the tears fromher eyes; it was quite early yet. You know, God does things so strange.She was willing to sacrifice. Water was a scarce thing; it hadn't rainedfor three years and six months.

"Would you fetch me some water." Maybe God told him to say that, tosee what she'd do, trying her reaction. "Would you fetch me just a littledrink of water in a vessel?"

And she looked at him. "He sounds different. There's something aboutthe old man that I feel sorry for."

And so this woman, she said, "I'll just share my water. We're going todie, so I'll sacrifice my drink of water, and give it to the kind oldgentleman standing there, 'cause he looks thirsty and tired." She said,"I will bring it." And she started walking on.


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And again she heard a voice, said, "And in your other hand, would youfetch me a little morsel of bread?" Oh, my, now, now what? Her lasthope of the life of her child, the last hope that they had, and the breadwould be gone, the oil gone, everything would be gone now.

But she looked back, and she wondered; she said, "I just have a littlebit of meal left in a barrel. I've got just enough oil that I've dampenedit, and I've already mixed it. (I've got the Word and the Spirit mixedtogether in there. I've got the cross here to lay it upon, to make it intoa cake to give Life.)" And that's when the Spirit and the Word getstogether on the cross; it makes a Life loaf for you. That's right. "AndI've got it together, and I'm going in now to bake it, and give my littledying boy in there, that's cried all night for something to eat, I've gotto give it to him. I'm going to sacrifice mine, and I'm going to give it tohim. And then I'll take him up in my arms, and we'll both wait for

death."

He said, "But you make me a little one first." Isn't that strange that aman would ask a widow woman, dying, for the last bit of meal she hadin the house, with a dying child? God does things so strange. Said,"Make me a little one first."

She studied, "You know, the Bible says that we have entertainedstrangers. We've entertained strangers; they were angels, not knowingwhat we were doing. Well," she said, "I'll do it."

And as she turned, he said, oh, my, there it was, the greatestconsolation that any believer can ever listen to, "For, THUS SAITH THELORD..." That's the Word she was waiting for. "THUS SAITH THE LORD,the barrel will not go empty; neither will the cruse go dry, until the daythat God sends rain on the earth.'"

She knew then that was the prophet of God speaking to her. Oh, howher heart must've jumped. She ran in and made that little cake andbrought it to him with the water, trembling hand over that old sunk-incheeks; she knew that God had come to the rescue, over a little pieceof bread.

Mary's Belief 60-0311

Luke 35And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall comeupon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee:


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therefore also that holy thing which is born of thee shall be called theSon of God.And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she has also conceived a son in herold age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.For with God nothing shall be impossible.

And Mary answered and said, Behold, the handmaid of the Lord; be itunto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.

I believe that the sun had already come up and was bathing across theGalilean skies, drawing up the fragrance of the roses, for the night hadbeen quiet, and sweetness came on the air. And she was making herway down along the side of the street to the city well, where thepeople came to gather their supply of water. And as she made her wayalong with a little crock under her arm, she was studying, thinkingabout the day before and the great mighty message that the rabbi hadpreached. And it was about this message that she and Joseph, her

engaged husband, had spoke on their front porch after the middaymeal.

As they set there, looking across the little hill to where finally the littlehouse would be erected where they were to spend their life in this littlebuilding (as far as they knew). Joseph was a carpenter; and he lovedhis job, and he loved to do things just right. And being a believer inGod and he knew that there was someone who watched over him, hewanted all of his work to be just exactly right. But oh, this little housewas a special one; the doors had to be just perfect, and the closets in itset just right, because he was bringing the sweetest woman in the

entire world there to be his bride.

And they, as the customs were, would set out there and look at thelittle house, and plan just how the roses would be at this little spot, andat the gate must be a little heart, because they were so in love. Andthen perhaps just behind the house, there was going to be thecarpenter's shop, where he would do all of his cabinet work, to makehis doors, and the little odds and ends that was brought to him. And inthat, they would have their livelihood.

And this Sabbath, as soon as they had come out and set on the front

porch after the midday meal, it must've been Joseph that said, "Thatwas a striking message this morning, Mary. I'm so thrilled when I hearour rabbi speak of the greatness of Jehovah. And oh, how he told us ofthat great, mighty God that came down into Egypt and took our peopleout, how He opened up the Red Sea when it got in His way. And howHe rained bread out of the heaven and blew the quails in out of thefield, leading them by a Pillar of Fire by night and a Cloud by day. Andhow the children of Israel camped under this great Light as they


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All night, she couldn't sleep over it. "Unto us a Child is born; unto us aSon is given." And the next morning, she'd slept late; so she was lategetting to the well. That's why the sun was up. And as she made herway down the street it seemed like no one was around.

And she was thinking of the Scriptures, that Scripture was beingconfirmed to her: "A Child is born, a Son is given." And about that timeshe saw something that flashed before her, and a Light--no doubt inmy mind, like the Pillar of Fire--and standing there was a Angel, themighty Gabriel. He's a messenger to the Jews. Remember, Gabrielannounced the first coming of Christ; the Angel Gabriel will announcethe second coming of Christ. The Bible said so.

Now, there... It frightened the little lady. And she looked at Him and Hesaid, "Hail, Mary. Blessed art thou among the women. Thou art highly

favoured of God, for God is with thee." And He told what was going tohappen: that she was going to bear a Child, and they should call HisName Jesus, for He'd save the people from the sins. Now she had aright to know that that was the right kind of a Messenger. First thing,He was an Angel standing there; the next thing, He told her who shewas: Mary. She knew that was a sign of God down through the age.

She looked at Him, and she said, "How can these things be, seeing thatI don't know a man?"And he said, "The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the Most Highshall overshadow thee. And that holy Thing which will be born of thee

shall be called the Son of God. That's how He's coming. You don't needto know no man; God's going to do this. For with God, nothing isimpossible. Oh, what that little lady had to believe. She had to believesomething that was impossible; she had to believe something that hadnever happened before.

Hannah, when she was told by the priest, "The Lord gave thee thydesire." why, she went home and in nine months brought the child.That was wonderful. As He said, "Thy cousin Elisabeth, who was calledbarren, is already six months to be mother." And he told her that withGod, nothing was impossible.

And she said, "Behold the handmaid of the Lord. Be it unto meaccording to Thy Word."

God, when He says anything, it's impossible for it not to happen.Therefore when God says in the Book, "All things are possible to themthat believe," it's got to happen! No way to explain it away. You canbelieve God will perform every promise that He made.


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Now, she had to believe something that had never happened. But lookat her little childish heart... I'm going to think her to be just a youngwoman about eighteen to twenty years old. She never took the secondthought. As soon as she seen and knew that was the Angel of the Lord,

that knew those things, and told her exactly according to the Scripturethat she had been thinking on, and told her what her name was, sheknew that Messenger came from God. And the Scripture that she hadbeen thinking on was confirmed right there to her.

"Mary, the Holy Ghost will come upon you, and the Almighty shallovershadow thee. And that Holy Thing that'll be born will not be ofman, but He will be called the Son of God."

She threw her little hands up, and the tears running out of thosebeautiful eyes, said, "Behold the handmaid of the Lord. Be it unto me

according to Thy Word."

She didn't wait till she was positive of this; she didn't wait till she feltlife, or some kind of a sensation to prove that she was to be a mother.She just took His Word, and that was enough.

"Behold the handmaid of the Lord." Why she was so happy about it,she just couldn't stand still, and nothing had shown up yet. But sheknew it was going to, because God said so.

Then she started on her way. She heard good news of her cousin,

Elisabeth, an old woman, around sixty-five, seventy years old, herhusband the same age, around seventy or seventy-five years old. Andshe'd conceived in her old age, because she had believed God wouldgive her a child. So, little Mary takes out up into the hills of Judea, upover that rough path to meet her cousin, to enjoy fellowship together,because God had overshadowed both of them!

Mary wanted fellowship. No need in going down to the synagogue,because they didn't believe it. She went to somebody that had anexperience like she had, and she went there to fellowship. So on herway she went to somebody that believed God was still just as great as

He ever was.

Up over the hills--I can see her going--her little cheeks a blushing andthose little eyes sparkling, as she thought, "I'll keep this a secret fromJoseph. I just can't wait; I've got to go."

And up into the hills she went, on up into Judea, up to the house of hercousin. Elisabeth, her cousin, had hid herself, because she was very


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weary. Because little John in the wombs of his mother, was six monthsand no life had shown yet. Now, that's altogether unnatural. It isn't justexactly the regular routine. Life appears in three or four months, andthis is six months. And she was a little weary about it.

I can see her setting back in a room, and there she set prayingsomething like this, "God, I've waited all these years, and I believed inmy heart that something was about to happen. There sets my husbandout there, dumb. And he can't speak, and he keeps writing on a slate,and saying, 'I saw an Angel; I saw an Angel. An Angel spoke to me atthe right hand of the altar; something great is going to happen.'"

And she looked out the window, and she saw Mary coming, her teethshining like pearls, and her eyes just a glistening with joy.

And she said, "I ought to know that child."

And she had her robe wrapped around her, running as hard as shecould. Zacharias stood in the yard; he said, "Oh, hail. I know who youare. You're Anna's daughter; you're Anna's daughter."

"Yes, that's who I am."

And Elisabeth runs out; she had been setting in there making littlebooties for the baby. Somehow or another, she believed way down inher heart that God wouldn't let her down. No matter what it appearedto look like.

And she laid the little booties down, and she ran out into the yard. Andshe grabbed Mary around the neck, and began to hug her and kiss her.You know - people then felt for one another different than they do now. You know, there's not much feeling amongst people no more, nofellowship.

She said, "Oh, Mary, why the last time I seen you, you was a littlefreckle faced girl; and here you are, a beautiful woman. And now, Iheard that you were going with that fine boy, Joseph."

She said, "Yes, that is true, Elisabeth."

"Well," she said, "I'm so glad to see you. Why, honey, why don't youcome set down, why Zacharias has gone to fetch some water, so I canwash your feet. You must be tired; they're bleeding. Is there anythingwrong? Are you in a hurry? You seem to be so happy, but yet you looklike you've been hastening."


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"Oh," she says, "Elisabeth, I just can't wait to tell you. Oh," she said,"you know, I'm going to have a Baby."

"Oh, you and Joseph already married?"

"No, we're not married yet."

"Well, Mary, I'm shocked."

"Oh, but Elisabeth, on the road to the well the day before yesterdaymorning, I was going along, thinking about the Scriptures that Josephand I had been talking about the day before. And I saw a great bigPillar of Fire stand before me. Stepping out of It was Gabriel, the Angelof God, Who called me by my name, and told me that I'd found favourbefore God, that the Holy Ghost was going to overshadow me, and that

the power of God would be upon me, and I'd have a Child, and He'd becalled the Son of God." And said, "He told me that you were to be amother also, old age like this, and said you were already six months."

"Oh," she said, "Mary that is the truth. I'm to be a mother, but honey, Iam so worried. I'm already six months to motherhood, and the babyhas never moved; it hasn't had one bit of life yet. And I'm just soworried about it."

Oh, I can hear Mary say, "Don't worry, because everything will be all

right, that Angel knew you and called your name too, 'Your cousin,Elisabeth!' Oh, everything will be all right. And He told me... He evengave me my Baby's Name."

"Oh, He did?"

"Yes, He gave me my Baby's Name. He said I should call His NameJesus."

Just about the time she said, "Jesus" for the first time that that Namewas ever spoke by human lips, little John received the Holy Ghost, and

begin jumping and shouting in his mother's womb. Oh, my! Little Johnbegin to leap in the mother's womb for joy. If the Name of Jesus Christ,the first time it was ever spoke through the human lips, brought a deadbaby that had never had no life, brought him to life, what ought it to doin this church tonight, with a born again bunch of people that's filledwith the Holy Spirit.

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Blood of the Lamb. How that great, wonderful, immaculate, Name, thatindescribable Name of the Lord Jesus...

It made this little baby come to life in the womb of its mother, and leapfor joy. And the Bible said that John was born from his mother's womb

full of the Holy Ghost. Not only that, but while he was in the womb andthe Holy Ghost upon him, his own mother received the Holy Ghost andgave a prophecy concerning him and concerning the Lord Jesus.

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Matthew 14:22And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, andto go before him to the other side, while he sent the multitude away.And when he had sent the multitude away, he went up into a mountainapart to pray: and when evening was come, he was there alone.

But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with the waves:and the winds were contrary.In the fourth watch of the night, Jesus came unto them, walking on thesea.And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they weretroubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear.But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of a good cheer; itis I; be not afraid.

It must have been close to sundown when the big fisherman began tomove the boat back and forth to push it from the bank. I can see his

great, brawny muscles, as he had the boat loaded with the rest of theapostles, as he pushed away from the bank, and shoved it free fromthe sands of the shore of Galilee. And it moved out into the water, thebig rugged fellow climbed over some of their feet, and took his placeby the side of Andrew, his brother, picked up the oar, and they startedaway from the shore.

And as they moved steadily out to sea, the people who loved themwere standing on the bank waving as the sun was going down; it musthave been about twenty minutes before they disappeared out of thesight of the last one waving. I can see each one drop his oar, wave,

and then pick up his oar, and start again with the little ship. Way backin the west it looked kindly red and low, as the sun sank over theJudaean hills.

There must have been a long silence, then I believe it was the youngJohn that must have let up on his oar, and said something like this, "Iremember when I was just a little boy, how that my mother used totake me on her lap and read me the story of God. And how that she


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used to read that story of God loving His people so well that Heprovided for them when they had no way to provide for themselves."And said, "That one day when God had called His people to take ajourney from the land of bondage to the land of freedom, they run outof bread out in the wilderness, and there was no corn or flour for them

to make bread." And he might have said this, "I remember when shetold me that every night God rained bread down out of heaven. And ofa morning as people would go out and get that bread." And I said tomy mother, "Mother, dear, where did God get that bread to feed somany people, two million people or more, out in that wilderness? Howdid He send it down through the skies when they were asleep, andrained it upon the ground? Where did He get the flour, mother, tomake the bread?"

Well, she used to say something like this, "My dear son, God is theCreator. He is able to make bread or create whatever He wishes to.

When some requirement that God requires, He is so great, John, till Hejust speaks and it's there, because He is the great Creator."And now he might say this, "My brethren, did you notice His face thisafternoon when all those hungry people were standing there?"

And one of the disciples might've said, "Yes, I noticed way down alongthe creek, there was a little boy playing truant from school, and had hislunch, and--and he had five little barley loaves, and two fishes. Andwhen He took the bread into His hands, and broke that bread, handedit out, took those fishes that were fried, and broke them fishes, and

handed them out, and when He reached back to get another piece ofbread it had already grown on there, already cooked and ready. Thefishes were already fried. And out of that little bitty lunch of fivebiscuits and two pieces of fish, He fed five thousand people. Did itremind you of the story of God feeding His people? So there must besome great connection between this One that we're walking with, andJehovah God, because there is something about Him that He does thesame thing God did. He takes care of His people."

They were in a wilderness. "And I am persuaded, brethren," might haveyoung John said, in his youthful way of about--he was about thirty

years old, I suppose, maybe thirty-five. He was younger than the rest.He might've said this, "That it was strange when I watched His eyes.There was something godly about Him. He never had one doubt butwhat when He reached back for another biscuit it would be there. AndHe pulled one biscuit off of another. Now, brethren, tell me where Hegot it at? He must have some connection with that great Creator, thatcould make bread, and could make it already baked, and could makethe fish already fried, and ready. Bringing it from five biscuits and two


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fish, enough to feed five thousand, and take up five baskets full offragments left over... There must be something about Him that we yethave not understood, but I know that He's some connection with God,because no man could do that unless God would be with Him."Jesus had said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then believe Me not.

But if I do the works, then you believe the works."

And young John must've dropped his head, and took back his oar, andit must've been Simon then, the big fisherman, that said, "Yes, thatwas enough to convince anybody that God was in that man, becauseno one could've done it. That Man could've not have done it Himself,but God was in Him." And then he said, "When I was convinced, I wasrather a rugged, little fisherman on the sea. Brethren, you know I hadbetter training than to what I was doing first, because I had a godly oldfather. He was a Pharisee, but he was a great man. And I canremember down on the sea shore when he would pick me up in his lap,

and set me down, and would say, 'Simon, my son, you're just a lad, butmaybe in your generation, if your father doesn't see it, there will comesomeday a Deliver, which we know as to be the Messiah. And Simon,many people will misunderstand Him. Our churches will misunderstandHim. And He will be a Man that will be a strange sort of a Man. ButSimon, my son, I never want you to forget this: You'll have to know theMessiah by the Scriptures that wrote of Him. Don't ever leave theScriptures, my son. And Moses, our leader, has told us what theMessiah would be. For it is written in the Scriptures that, 'The Lord, ourGod, shall rise up a prophet among us.' And when this Messiah comes,He will be a God Prophet. He will be different from other prophets. He

will be a God Prophet. But you'll know Him, Simon, because He will bethat Prophet, and He will do the sign of a prophet.' And when I heard ofthis Galilean Man, this Jesus of Nazareth, I thought it was just anotherquack, just another pass overnight. But one day, when He borrowedmy boat, been talking to me, as soon as I come into His Presence, Hecalled my by name. The first time I ever saw Him, He told me who Iwas. And not only that, but He knew that godly old father of mine. Hesaid, 'Simon, you are the son of Jonas.' And when He said that, I knewthat was the One my daddy had spoke about, that the Scripture saidwould come, because He was a God Prophet. I knew His signs werebeyond a prophet, so He was a God Prophet. And I knew that would be

Him. That's the reason that I fell on my face. When Andrew told meabout it, I didn't believe him, my brother setting here."

Young John brushed his hair back, few tears with it, and then smiledand said, "When I seen Him break that bread, I knew He was God."

But Peter said, "When He told me who I was, and who my father was, Iknew Who that was."


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Well then, it must have been Philip, who shoved his shoulders a littlebit, and looked around, and said, "But, brethren, you should have seenthe face of Brother Nathanael here, when I found Him. And I knewbeyond a shadow of doubt when He told Simon that day whom he was

and who his father was; I knew that was the Messiah. And when I heardHim say that, there was something burned within me, that I knew ourgeneration had a visit. And I was going to be determined that everyfriend that I knew, that I was going to get him to Him just as quick as Icould. So I thought of Nathanael, my bosom friend. And when I wentaround the mountains about fifteen miles, running that day, and overthe cobble stones, and the sun was hot... And I heard much talk aboutit, pro and con, as I went along the sea shore of Galilee to see myfriend. I came up and knocked on the door, and his wife came to thedoor, and I said, "Where is Nathanael?" Said, 'Why, Philip, he had justwent out into the olive grove. I think he's gone out to see about the

irrigation or something.' Quickly, I run out into the grove, and I foundhim on his knees as usual." That's a good way to find a man.

"I found him on his knees, and I--the message was burning in my hearttill I could hardly wait to tell him, but yet, I let him finish his prayer.And when he got up, not knowing I was there, usually I would go to himand said, 'How is the grove getting along, Nathanael? How iseverything up at the market? Have you done any trading with thecaravans that's coming through?' That is what he usually did, becausehe was rather a business man. But I had something to tell him." That'swhat we need today, brethren: A message that's so burning that

nothing else takes its place.

Quickly, he didn't say, "How do you do, Nathanael?" He said, "Come,see Who we found."There's something about when you find Jesus, that it's the--it's yoursubject day and night. You can't talk about nothing else.

"Come, see whom we have found. Jesus of Nazareth, the Son ofJoseph."

And Nathanael being a just man, and a level thinking man, he said,

"Now, wait just a minute. Now, you know that there could be nothinggood come from Nazareth. And if there was such a thing as theMessiah that was coming, He would come to the high priest first, andmake Him self known. He would come to our church."

And then when, I told him that if he was going to be critical, the bestthing to do was just come, see for him self..."


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And he said, "Come see for your self." Then he looked back over hisshoulder to find Nathanael setting there weeping for joy. And he said,"Brother, do you remember our conversation along the road? I told youthat the Scripture said that the Messiah would be a Prophet, a God

Prophet that Moses said, 'The Lord your God shall raise up.' And all ofour people questioned him, 'Are you that prophet?' And he left themkindly in a daze not telling them exactly what he was." And he told,said, "You remember the old fisherman by the name of Simon?"

"Yes," said Nathanael, "I remember him."

"You remember when we bought that fish from him that day, and youwanted him to sign a receipt, and he didn't even have enougheducation to sign his own name. But that same illiterate man camebefore this One that we know to be the Messiah, and as soon as he

came, He told him who he was, and what his father was."

And Nathanael said, "I'll come see for myself. He will never tell meanything. My mind's stronger than His. He will never read my mind.He's no mind reader."

"And when we come up into the Presence, and then I can hear him say,'Just a moment.'"

Philip said, "Nathanael, I'm getting filled up. You tell the rest of it."

And Nathanael said, "When I came up in to look at Him, He--I knew byHis looks that He was a different from other man."

And brother, sister, when a man once gets a vision of Jesus Christ, hecan never be the same after that. He's different from others.

And he said, "When I looked at Him, and He looked back to me, and Helooked me right in the face, and He said, 'Behold, an Israelite in whomthere is no guile.'" Well I thought, "Wonder if Philip could have told Himthat He was going after me. Wonder if that could have been the case.So I turned around and said to Him, 'Rabbi, when did You ever know

me. We are strangers to each other, and when did You know me?' Hesaid, 'Before Philip called you. When you were under the tree, I sawyou.'" Said, "That was enough. That settled it. Thou art the Christ, theSon of the living God, the King of Israel. Then that look that He gaveme and said, 'Oh, you believe Me to be such, because I told you whereyou was, and told you these things? Then thou shall see greaterthings.' And truly today, I have seen greater things, when He taken thebread, and broke it, and created bread behind it, and fish. He told me


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the truth. Therefore, I am persuaded above any measure that that isthe Son of God. That Prophet was to come into the world at the endingup of our dispensation."

And they sat quiet for a few minutes, then Andrew setting across from

Peter pulled his oar in, said, "Let's rest for a few minutes, brethren. Letus all share this, because it's well dark, and we're floating along prettylively. And we've got all night to cross this little Galilean sea. So we allwell remember the day that we'd walked with Him so long, and His feetwere so tired. Remember, when we went down to the spring and gotsome water and poured on His feet, and they were blistered fromwalking? Yet He said, 'I have a need to go by Samaria.' It was really onHis road to Jericho around about way. We wondered why He would goaround about way."

Say, "You remember how His precious feet were hurting him? And He

made His way to Samaria, and it was noon time, and we'd been outbigger part of the night. He'd prayed for so many sick, and He wasweary, and walking along the road. And He sat down so tired that Hecouldn't make His way hardly in the city. And He sent us away to getsome food. And the Samaritans wouldn't let us have it. So on our waycoming back, we were astonished to see Him, our Master, talking witha woman marked with ill-fame. But when we seen that we wereastonished, and did not we all slip up in the bush and stand still to seewhat He would say? And He said, 'Woman, bring Me a drink.' Do youremember what she said brethren?"

"She said, 'It's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans such. Wehave no dealings with each other.' But now listen brethren," They--Andrew might have said. "Listen what He told her.""He said, 'Woman, if you knew Who you were talking to, you would askMe for a drink. And I'd give you waters that you don't come here todraw.'"

"And the woman all excited said, 'Well, where--where can You get thiswater? The well's deep and You have nothing to draw with.'"

"And do you remember, brethren, what He said, 'The water that I give

is Life Eternal bubbling up.' And the woman wanted that water. And Hesaid to her, 'Go get your husband first and come here.'""And do you remember we thought He must be trapped or something,when the woman looked Him boldly in the face and said, 'I have nohusband.' Thought, how could that be our Lord to make such a mistakeas that, when Messiah is perfect? How could it be? This woman isdenying that she has a husband."


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"But then, did you notice the expression in His face, calmly, quietly,said, 'Woman, thou has said true. You've had five husbands, and theone you're now living with is not yours.'"

"How it melted that woman. She thought she could lie out of it. But the

expression on her face, and the tears in her eyes, she said, 'Sir, Iperceive that You are a Prophet.' Now, brethren, listen to what He said.She said, 'You must be a prophet. We know that when the Messiahcometh, He will tell us these things. But Who are You?'"

"And He said to her, 'I am He that speaks to you.'"

"Brethren, when we know that our teaching is that this Prophet wouldbe a God Prophet, and when that Samaritan woman testified againstour priest that she knew that when the Messiah came He'd be a--givethe Messianic sign, He'd be a God Prophet. And even our priest called

Him, 'Beelzebub,' a fortune-teller."

"But this ill-famed woman seemed to have a better understanding ofthe Scriptures than our priest did. Said--she said, 'You must be aProphet, but we know when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us allthese things. But Who are You?'"

"He said, 'I'm He that speaks to you.'"

"And on that--when she found out that she'd had a contact with thereal Messiah, she run into the city and screamed to the men, 'Come,

see a Man Who told me the things that I have done. Isn't this theMessiah? Isn't this the sign of the Messiah?'"

"And how many more things," Peter must have spoke of and said,"could we say about Him that has proved that He is the Messiah ofGod."

About that time, Satan looked up over the rim, and he saw the littleboat out on the sea without Jesus. He thought, "Here's myopportunity." Said, "I'll rid the whole bunch now. I've got them rightwhere I want them. Now, I'll drown the whole bunch of them." So he

begin to breathe in and blow out from his nostrils, greatpowerful winds, that--and his poison breath hit the sea, it hada nervous prostration.

And then, the little boat began to pitch back and forth, and it lookedlike the time had come. I could think the first thing when the windsbegin to blow, Simon being a great fisherman, he said, "Hoist the sail."


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And Satan said, "I'll rip it off." And a lot times, we hoist up some things.Satan just rips it down for us.And then he reached down, and grabbed his oar, and bent his back toit, and broke the oar. Then the great waves begin to fill up the ship.

They thought that maybe they'd made a mistake, that they wereforsaken. But you know what happened? Jesus was mindful of them.After He sent them away, He climbed the highest mountain He couldfind. And no matter how far out they were from the top of themountain where He was at, He was watching them.

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