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 I have chosen tonight for a short text, or short reading, the Lord
willing, to give us the context of it, out of Saint Matthew 13:24
to 30. And then also I—I want to read from 36 to 40, just in a few
moments. Now Saint Matthew, the 13th chapter, and beginning with
the 24th verse of the 13th chapter of Saint Matthew. Listen close to the
reading of the Word. My words will fail, but His will not.
Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom
of heaven is likened to a man which sowed good seed in his field:
But while he slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the
wheat, and went his way.
But when the blades was sprung up, and brought forth fruit,
then appeared the tares also.
So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir,
didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath
it tares?
And he said unto them, An enemy has done this. And the
servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go…gather them
up?
But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, you root up
also the wheat with them.
Let them both grow together until the harvest: and in the time
of the harvest I will send forth the reapers, Gather ye together
first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather
the wheat into the garner.
2 Did you notice, “Gather the tares first, and bundle them”? Now,
reading this, there was something strange come to me while I was
sitting up on top of the Catalina Mountains the other night, in prayer.
And then I thought, “Where could I gather a word that I could use for
this that I wanted to speak on tonight?”
3 And I went down and found the word of discrepancy, so I got
the dictionary and looked what the word discrepancy means. And it
means it’s “sowing discord,” or—or, “being contrary,” as Webster says,
“sowing a discord, something different,” or, “being contrary to what’s
already been.” So I thought, the text tonight, I’d call it: The Seed
Of Discrepancy. And trust that the Lord will bless His Word now as
we approach It.
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4 And we also know He interpreted, in verse 36 and—and to 43, how
that this seed matured. And while we’re at it, let’s just read that also,
verse 36 now unto 43.
And when Jesus had sent the multitude away, He went into the
house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us
the parable of the tares of the field.
And He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good
seed is the Son of man;
And the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the
kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
The enemy that soweth them is the devil; the harvest is the end
of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall
it be in the end of this world.
The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall
gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which
do iniquity;
And shall cast them into a fire, a furnace of fire: and there shall
be weeping, or be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom
of their Father. Who has an ear…let him hear.
5 That’s Jesus giving the interpretation of the parable, Himself,
therefore we know then what the interpretation means. And now as we
approach this, of this sowing of the seed and—and the reaping, now He
interprets it. And then I believe that Jesus was speaking this parable in
His day, but was meaning it to be at the end of the world, or, the end of
the age, which is this day. And I believe this little text tonight is a very
appropriate for the hour that we’re living in, because Jesus distinctly
said here that “the gathering would be at the end of this world,” that
that’s when the end would be; the gathering of the wheat, and also the
gathering of the tares and burning them, and to take in the wheat into
the Kingdom. And I believe it was this way.
6 And another Scripture leads me to believe this way, I have written
down here, is Matthew 24:24, where it said that, talking about the—
the seed—the seed of discrepancy. Jesus said that the two would be so
close together till it would deceive the very Elected if it were possible.
Almost exactly the same.
7 Another place in the Scripture where it’s written, that the rain falls
on the just and the unjust.
8 I remember my first experience of ever coming amongst the
Pentecostal people. I was at Mishawaka, Indiana. And I was at a great
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convention, a hall about like this, where the North and the South
had come together. Because of them days, of the segregation, they
had to meet up there. They were two great orders of the Pentecostal
brethren. I had never heard of them or met them before. The first time
I ever heard speaking in tongues. And at the end of the row, of the
convention…Me being not a member among them, I was just a young
Baptist minister, I set way back in the back. And I remember the first
time I heard anyone speak in tongues, I didn’t even know what—what it
was all about. And then these two men, mainly, set up in the front, one
would speak in tongues and the other would interpret what the man
said. Well, I just started studying my Bible as hard as I could, there
then, and found out that that was Scriptural. That’s exactly what the
Scripture, the Holy Spirit would do.
9 Well, about a day after that…That night my heart was so stirred.
I slept in a cornfield. I didn’t have enough money to get me a—a—a
bed, so I just had enough money to get home on, and I got me some
doughnuts, couple days old, or rolls, it was, and for my breakfast. And
I was welcome to eat with them, but I didn’t have no money to put
in. In them days, that was in the depression, 1933, so it was—it was
pretty hard going. And so I thought, “Well, I’ll…I don’t want to eat
with them, but I want to know what they got. They’ve got something
that I haven’t.”
10 So that morning I was…they asked me, “All ministers come to the
platform and just identify yourself, who you are, where you’re from.”
11 Well, I—I just said, “William Branham, evangelist, Jeffersonville,”
set down. Well, at that time I was the youngest minister on the
platform. And the next day they called me to the platform to speak.
And then after I spoke, why, we had a great time, and then I begin to
meet different people inviting me to their churches. Then after they…
12 After that, why, I thought, “If I could only get where these two
main men was that spoke in tongues and interpreted!” That was
burning me up in my heart, I wanted it so bad. Well, as I’ve told you
at the beginning, a little gift that you pull over. You know, gifts and
callings are without repentance, you have them all your life, see, you’re
born with them, if they’re gifts of God. So I always, since a little bitty
baby, it always happened to me, people who knows me all my life, they
know that’s true. Well, if I thought…I didn’t know what it was then,
and call it a vision, I just didn’t know what it was. But I thought, “If I
could ever talk to them!” Well, and the spirit that was in the building
felt like it’s really the Spirit of God.
13 So I—I got to talk to one of them, and I asked him a few questions,
and he was a real genuine Christian. There was no doubt about that,
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that man was a real believer. And the next man, when I talked to him, if
I ever met a hypocrite, that was one of them. That man was actually…
His wife was a blond-headed woman, and he had children by…two
children by a black-headed woman. And I thought, “Well, now what?
Here it is, I’m—I’m all mixed up. I’m a fundamentalist; it must be the
Word, or it isn’t right. And here’s that Spirit, one rang out, according to
all I know, genuine; and the other one was no good at all; and the Spirit
falling on both of them. Now, how can that be?” I’d, it had me puzzled.
14 Two years later, I had been praying in a cave where I would go to
pray. Got dusty in the cave, and one afternoon I walked out, laid my
Bible on a log, and the wind blowed It open to Hebrews, the 6th chapter.
Which said, that in the last days, how it would be if we fell away from
the Truth and renewed ourselves again unto repentance, there was no
more sacrifice for sin, and how that thorns and thistles, which was nigh
unto rejection, whose end is to be burned; but the rain cometh upon the
earth, often, to water it, to dress it; but the thorns and thistles would be
rejected, but the wheat would be gathered. And I thought, “Well, it just
the wind happened to blow that open.” Well, I just laid the Bible down
again. And I thought, “Well, now I’ll just…” And here come the wind
and blowed It open. That happened three times. And I thought, “Well,
now, that’s strange.”
15 And then as I raised up, and I thought, “Lord, why would You open
that Bible for me to read that, I…when I get down to that, where
‘thorns and thistles, which is nigh unto rejection, whose end is to be
burned’?” I thought, “Why, would You open that to me there?” And
as looking out across…
16 Now, these real visions come without pulling into any gear. That’s
just God. See? I looked and I seen an earth that was turning out in front
of me, and I seen it was all disked up. There was a man dressed in white,
went around sowing wheat. And after he went around the curvature
of the earth; around come a man, looked horrible, he was dressed in
black, and he was throwing weed seeds all over it. They both come up
together. And when they did, they both was thirsty, because a rain was
needed. And each one looked like was praying, with his little head bent
over, “Lord, send the rain, send the rain.” And the great clouds come
up, and the rain fell upon both of them. When it did, the little wheat
jumped up and begin to say, “Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!” And
the little weed jumped up right at the same side, and said, “Praise the
Lord! Praise the Lord!”
17 And then the vision was interpreted: The rain falls on the just and
the unjust. The same Spirit can fall in a meeting, and everybody rejoice
in it: hypocrites, Christians, and all together. Exactly right. But what
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is it? By their fruits they are known. See? That’s the only way it can
ever be known.
18 Then you see that now, since wild oats, or wild wheat and grain
sometimes impersonates a genuine, domestic grain, so close that it
would deceive the very Elected. I think we’re living in a timely age,
when these things should be preached on and talked about.
19 Notice in verse 41, the two also very close, so close in the last days
till He didn’t do…He could not depend on some certain church to
separate them, say, the Methodist or the Baptist, or the Pentecostals,
to separate them. He said, “He sends His angels to separate them.” An
angel is coming to bring the separation, the segregation between the
right and the wrong. And no one can do that but the Angel of the Lord.
He’s the One that is going to tell which is right and which is wrong.
God said He will send His angels at the last times. Not angels down
through here, but angels at the last time, and would gather together. We
know that this is the coming harvest time now. Now, an angel is actually
interpreted a “messenger.” And we see that there is seven angels of the
seven churches, and now…no, through the church ages.
20 Notice who He said that the sowers were, and also what the seed
was. One, the sower was He, the Son of God, Who went forth sowing
Seed. And an enemy came behind Him, which was the devil, and sowed
the seed of discrepancy, behind the sowing of the right Seed. Now,
friends, that has happened through every age since we’ve had a world.
Exactly. All the way from the beginning, it started the very same thing.
21 Now He said, “The Seed of God, the Word of God.” Jesus said,
in a certain place, that “The Word is a Seed.” And every seed will
bring forth of its kind. And now if the Christian, the children of God,
the children of the Kingdom has become the Seed of God, then they
must be the Word of God, the Word of God manifested in the age that
they’re living in, for the promised Seed of that age. God gave His Word
at the beginning, and each age has had its Seed, its time, its promises.
22 Now, when Noah came on the scene, and he was the Seed of God,
the Word of God for that age.
23 When Moses came, he could not come with Noah’s message, it
wouldn’t work, because he was the Seed of God at that time.
24 Then when Christ come, He could not come with Noah or Moses’
age; it was His time, for a virgin to conceive and to bring forth a Son,
and He would be the Messiah.
25 Now, we’ve lived through Luther’s age, Wesley’s age (Methodist’s
age), all down through the ages, and the Pentecostal age, and each age is
given a promise of the Word. And the people of that age, that manifest
that promised Word, is the Seed of that age, according to what Jesus
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said right here, “They are the children of the Kingdom.” That’s right.
The manifestation of the Holy Spirit operating through His children is
those Seed of the Kingdom at that age.
26 Notice, the tares was the one, the enemy, Satan, who sowed
discord, or the—or the seed of discrepancy, he was the one guilty of
doing this horrible thing. Satan sowed his seed from the beginning,
when God placed His first harvest of human beings upon the earth.
Adam, of course, as yet knew that there was a—a knowledge of truth,
and of right and wrong, and he had never come to that as yet.
27 But we find out, God gave His children His Word for their Defense.
Their…We have no other Defense than the Word of God. That
is our Defense. There’s no bombs, no shelters, no hiding places, no
Arizona’s or California’s, or wherever it is; there’s only one Defense
we have, and that is the Word. And the Word was made flesh and
dwelt among us, which is Christ Jesus. He is our only Defense. Being
in Him, we are safe.
28 Not even sin is imputed to a genuine believer. Did you know that?
He that’s born of God, does not commit sin, he cannot sin. See? It’s not
even imputed. Why, David said, “Blessed is the man who God will not
impute sin.” When you’re in Christ, you have no desire to sin. “The
worshipper, once purged, has no more conscience of sin,” you don’t
desire it. Now, to the world, you might be a sinner; but, to God, you’re
not, because you’re in Christ. How can you be in a sinner when you’re
in the sinless One, and God only sees Him Who you are in?
29 Now this harvest time. At the beginning, when God sowed His
Seed upon the earth and gave It in the hearts of His children, His
family, to keep that Word, that was their only defense, keep that Word!
Here come the enemy in and broke that barrier, by sowing the seed
of discrepancy, contrary to the Word of God. If that was discrepancy
in the beginning, it’s still. Anything that’ll add anything to the Word
of God, is still the seed of discrepancy! I don’t care where it comes
from, if it’s from organization, if it’s from military sources, if it’s from
political powers, anything that’s contrary to the Word of God, is the
seed of discrepancy.
30 When a man stands and says he’s a Gospel preacher, and says that
“the days of miracles is past,” that’s the seed of discrepancy. When
a man stands and says that he’s a minister, a pastor of a church of
somewhere, and he does not believe that Jesus Christ is the same in
every detail (except the physical body), same yesterday, today, and
forever, that’s the seed of discrepancy. When he says that “miracles
and apostolic age passed,” that’s seed of discrepancy. When they say,
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“There’s no such a thing as Divine healing,” that’s seed of discrepancy.
And the world is full of it. It crowds out and chokes out the wheat.
31 We notice that the first sower of the seed of discrepancy was
branded “the devil,” and we know it was, in Genesis 1. Now we find
out, and over here in—in the Book of Matthew, the 13th chapter, Jesus
still brands any discrepancy to His Word as being “the devil.” And this
1956, anything that sows discrepancy, contrary to the written Word of
God, or puts any private interpretation to It, is the seed of discrepancy.
God will not honor it. He can’t. It won’t mix. It certainly will not. It’s
like mustard seed; it won’t mix with anything else, you can’t hybreed
it, it’s got to be the genuine thing. Seed of discrepancy!
32 Now we find, when God sowed His Seed in the garden of Eden, we
find out that it brought forth an Abel. But when Satan sowed his seed
of discrepancy, it brought forth a Cain. One brought forth a righteous
one; one brought forth an unrighteous one. Because that Eve listened
to the word of discrepancy, contrary to the Word of God, and it started
the ball of sin rolling right there, and has rolled ever since. And we’ll
never get it all out until the angels comes and segregates the thing, and
God takes His children to the Kingdom, and the tares will be burned.
Notice those two vines.
33 If we just had more time on this subject, but just to hit the
high spots, so we can go right into praying for the sick in the next
few minutes.
34 Notice, their seeds grew together just exactly like God said over
here also in the 13th chapter, of our text tonight, of Matthew, “Let them
grow together.” Now, Cain went to the land of Nod, found himself a
wife, and married; and Abel was slew, and God raised up Seth to take
his place. And the generations started moving on, between right and
wrong. Now, we notice they gathered, each one of them, time after
time, and God had to…It got so wicked till God had to destroy it.
35 But they finally came forth until both of those seeds, the seed
of discrepancy and the Seed of God, put forth their genuine heads,
and that wound up in Judas Iscariot and in Jesus Christ. For, He was
the Seed of God, He was the beginning of the creation of God, He
was nothing less than God. And Judas Iscariot was borned the son
of perdition, come from hell, returned to hell. Jesus Christ was the
Son of God, the Word of God made manifest. Judas Iscariot, in his
discrepancy, was the seed of the devil, come to the world, and for
deceit; just like he was at the beginning, Cain, his former father.
36 Judas only played church. He wasn’t really sincere. He didn’t
actually have faith; he’d have never betrayed Jesus. But, see, he sowed
that seed of discrepancy. He thought that he could make friends with
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the world, mammon, and also have friendship with Jesus, but it was
too late for him to do anything about it. When the dead hour came,
when he did this evil thing, he crossed the separating line between
going forward and returning back. He had to go on in the way that he
went, as a deceiver. He sowed the seed of discrepancy, he tried to find
favor with those great organizations of that day, with the Pharisees and
Sadducees. And thought he’d make hisself a piece of money, and would
be popular among the people. If that doesn’t cause so many people
to get in that discrepancy, trying to find favor with man! Let’s find
favor with God, not with man. But that’s what Judas done when this
discrepancies headed up in him.
37 And we know that Jesus was the Word, Saint John 1, said, “In
the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt here among
us.” Then, the Word is a Seed, then the Seed become flesh and
dwelt among us.
38 If Judas was the seed of the enemy and the discrepancy, it also
become flesh and dwelt among us in the person of Judas Iscariot. He
never had no real, real faith. He had what he thought was a faith.
There’s such a thing as having faith; and a make-believe faith.
39 And a genuine faith of God will believe in God, and God is the
Word, it’ll never add nothing to It. The Bible tells us if we add one
word, or take one Word away, our part will be taken from the Book of
Life, Revelation 22:18, the last closing chapter.
40 In the first beginning, the first Book of the Bible, God told them
not to break one Word of That, “every Word must be kept,” they must
live by that Word. Jesus, in the middle of the Book, come along and
said that in His age, and said, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but
by every Word that—that comes out of the mouth of God.” And in the
closing age of Revelation, foretold to us, that, “Whosoever shall take
one Word out of the Book, or add one word to It, his part will be taken
from the Book of Life.”
41 Therefore there can be nothing shadowy, just a genuine,
unadulterated Word of God! That’s sons of God, daughters of God,
who’s not born by the will of man, or by shaking a hand, or some form
of baptism; but borned in the Spirit of God, by the Holy Ghost, and the
Word manifesting Itself through them. That’s genuine Seed of God!
42 The enemy joins church and becomes very orthodox in a creed
or something. But that’s not…That’s discrepancy, anything that
interferes with that strain of genuine Truth of God’s Word.
43 And how do we know? We say, “Well, they, you’ve got a right to
interpret It?” No, sir! No man has a right to interpret God’s Word.
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He’s His Own interpreter. He promises it, then He does it, that’s
the interpretation thereof. When He promised It, then He fulfills It,
that’s the interpretation of It. Anything contrary to God’s Word is a
discrepancy! Absolutely!
44 Now, as I’ve said, Judas had no real faith. He had a make-believe
faith. He had a—a faith that he thought that that was the Son of God,
but he didn’t know that was the Son of God. He wouldn’t have done
it. And a man who will compromise on this Word of God being the
Truth, he’s got a make-believe faith. Genuine servant of God will hang
on that Word.
45 A few nights ago, a certain minister, of Arizona, of a great, famous
school here in this city, came to me and said, “I—I want to straighten
you out on something” (I said…) “when you get a chance.”
I said, “This is the best chance I know of. Come on over.”
46 And so he came over, he said, “Mr. Branham, you are trying…I
believe you’re sincere and you’re honest, but you’re trying to introduce
to a world an apostolic Doctrine.” And said, “The apostolic age ceased
with the apostles.”
47 I said, “The first thing I’d like to ask you, my brother, do you believe
that every Word of God is inspired?”
He said, “Yes, sir, I certainly do.”
48 I said, “Then, would you show me in the Word where the apostolic
age ceased? Now, you show me where it is, I’ll believe with you.”
And I said, “The writer of the apostolic, the one that had the keys
to the Kingdom, on the day of Pentecost when the apostolic age was
introduced, they said, ‘Men and brethren, what can we do to be saved?’
He said, ‘Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of
Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift
of the Holy Ghost, for the promise is unto you and to your children,
and to them that’s far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.’
Now, how can the Word contradict Itself ?”
The man said, “I have an awful cold tonight.”
I said, “I think so, too.” See?
49 Now you tell me, is God still calling? If God is still calling, then
the apostolic age is still in existence. Certainly! As many as the Lord
our God shall call, ever call, ever will call, as many as He shall call,
it will still be the apostolic age, for Jesus Christ is the same yesterday,
today, and forever.
50 Now, we find today that this discrepancy has been sowed through
every age. If it was possible to get it in the next ten or fifteen minutes,
I would do it, but you can’t. Down through the ages…We are all,
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most all of us read the Bible. And now like when Jesus come, and He
found that discrepancy, contrary. He was the Word made manifest, He
was God’s interpretation of the Word, because He said, “Search the
Scriptures, for in Them you think you have Eternal Life, and they are
they that testify of Me.” There you are. He—He was the interpretation
of the Word. And every borned-again son and daughter of God of this
age is the interpretation of the Word. You are written epistles, read of
all men. Yes.
51 Notice, He said, “In vain they do worship Me, teaching discrepancy
for Doctrine. In vain do they worship Me, teaching for Doctrine the
discrepancy, doctrine of man, creeds of man, teaching that to be the
Word of God, when it has nothing to do with the Word of God.”
52 Look, each age produce such a crop, every age has did it, and ours
is no excuse. We have the same thing, and a greater age of it than all the
other ages put together, for this is the ending of world’s history. This is
the great discrepancy that’s ever been upon the earth, is on the face of
the earth today. Discrepancy in other ages pulled them away from the
true and living God, to idols. Today, Jesus said in Matthew 24:24 that
it would be so close, it would deceive the very Elected if it was possible.
Talk about discrepancy! Oh, it’s so cunning. Satan is among the people,
and just such a theologian, such a Doctor of Divinity, can teach that
Word almost perfectly. Jesus said so. But just watch him, there’ll be
somewhere. Said, “Well, now, that wasn’t for this.” Oh, yes, it is, too,
see, because God said it was.
53 Look what it did. Them same discrepancy brought God’s wrath
upon the days of Noah, when God sent His prophet out and preached
as a flaming fire, called repentance to the people, and the discrepancy
drowned out. Then what did Satan do? Come right behind, in Ham,
and started sowing it again. That’s exactly right.
54 Along come Moses, the great prophet, to bring the children of Israel
up out of the wilderness. What happened? Moses, the great prophet of
God, bringing them the absolutely Truth, vindicated Truth. He had
met God. God proved that he had met Him. How those people back
there, those priests, and they had their religions, their rituals, their rites
and everything, but Moses stood as a vindication of the interpretation
of the Word. Don’t forget that! Moses was God’s interpretation of His
promise. He said he would do it; he was God’s interpretation.
55 What happened? The church just got started out of Egypt, on
its feet a few days, and what happened? Satan come along with his
discrepancy in the person, the second Cain, which was Balaam, and
he sowed discrepancy amongst them. We know that’s right. That
Balaam, the teaching of Balaam, that “we’re all the same, we serve the
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same God you do,” fundamentally, he was right, because he offered a
sacrifice that God offered; seven rams, seven bullocks on seven altars,
and prayed to the same God just as perfect as Moses did down in
the wilderness, just exactly the same. But they were not the same!
Foreshadowing to us what would come to pass. There was, again,
Cain manifested in the…this person of Balaam. And there was God
manifested in the person of Moses, interpreting His Words through a
human being, making Hisself known, His promise, through a human
being. And the discrepancy raised up.
56 So did it do it in the time of Judas, there he come with
his discrepancy.
57 And, remember, this sin that those people believed, that “we’re all
the same, we worship the same God, we should all belong to the same
church, we should be the same people,” that sin was never forgiven
Israel! Jesus said, Himself, “They all are dead!”
58 They perished, all but three of them. That was the ones who held
on and believed the promise. When the weakling said, “We cannot take
the land, and it’s too much for us,” and so forth, Caleb and Joshua
stilled the people, and said, “We’re more than able to take it, because
God promised it to us! I don’t care what the opposition is!”
59 And we still can preach Divine healing, and the baptism of the Holy
Ghost, and still have the power of God to separate us from the things
of the world. God said so! The apostolic age has never ceased, and it
will not cease, it goes on.
60 So, we find the same old sower of discrepancy. And remember, that
sin was never forgiven. Now, brother, if it was never forgiven then, what
about now when the—the real seed of all the ages is coming together?
61 Notice this great thing that Balaam did, it went on and on, and
finally ended in the coming of—of Judas Iscariot, and Jesus. What was
it? Judas and Jesus was just exactly a figure of Cain and Abel. For, as
Judas was religious, so was Cain religious. Cain built an altar, he made
a sacrifice, he worshipped God, he was just as sincere in it as the other
one was. But, you see, he didn’t have the revelation of what the Word
was. He thought it was Adam and Eve had eat some apples or some
fruit. And Cain…Abel, by revelation, knowed that it was wrong; it
was the blood that brought them out, and he offered a lamb. And God
testified his offering was right. Then he got jealous and tried to kill
his brother. And as he killed his brother upon the same altar that his
sacrifice died on, the lamb died upon the altar, so did Judas Iscariot
betray Jesus Christ upon the altar of God, and killed Him just as Cain
killed Abel. Because, Cain was the seed of discrepancy.
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62 And so was Balaam, the hireling prophet, a man who ought to
knowed better. And God warned him through signs and wonders, and
even a mule speaking in unknown tongues, and still he went right on
just the same. He was born to be a—a sower of the discrepancy.
63 And if Jesus predicted this age to end up in the greatest discrepancy
that ever was, the Laodicea church age, lukewarm, that put Him out
of the church, how can it be anything else but that: Discrepancy!
Certainly, it is. It ends in that age.
And it was Cain and Abel again on Calvary.
64 Now notice, as ever, as soon as Jesus went away, went into Heaven,
the Holy Spirit was sent back. That was the Seed, the Life-Giver unto
the Word, as we spoke last night. It’s the One that quickens the Word.
Quicken means “brings to Life.” The genuine Holy Spirit only brings to
Life the Word that It is. It won’t bring a creed to Life, It can’t, because
It’s nothing of the creed. It is the Life of the Word of God, for It is
God. See? And It quickens that Body.
65 Now notice, as they did. Then, and the Bible said, and—and John
spoke to his children and said, “Little children, you have heard of the
antichrist which was to come into the world,” said, “which already is
in the world, and it working in the children of disobedience.” Now,
that was along about thirty years after the coming of the Holy Ghost.
We find, when the Holy Ghost come, the real Seed, real Life-Giver to
the Seed, then here comes that discrepancy in again. And notice, on it
went. It had…
66 The real Word had been vindicated, them prophets of old had
vindicated the Word of God to be the Truth as they went down. If
anybody ever read the Nicaea Council, or the Pre-Nicaea Council, them
fifteen days of bloody politics, when them bunch of Romans down
there wanted to bring in and make a denomination out of that church.
Prophets came in, wrapped in sheepskin, eating herbs, and stood for
that Word! But what did it do? It had to be like Cain, it had to be like
Abel, one had to die. Certainly, it did. And the Word lost Its influence
amongst the people, and they all voted out the true Word and took
in dogmas of discrepancy of the early Catholic church. They added a
pope, they added a bishop, they added this, that, the other. They taken
away the real true meaning of Peter, and of—of—of Mary, and—and
all the rest of it; and made idols, and made nothing but just a pagan
ceremony out of so-called Christian religion. What was it? Seed of
discrepancy! And organized, organized, for the first time on earth, a
church. What was it? That seed of discrepancy which started sowing,
something adding to, taking away.
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67 Who ever heard, in the Bible, not eating meat on Friday? Who
ever heard, in the Bible, of anything of sprinkling instead of baptizing,
immersing? Who ever heard of those things, a “Hail, Mary” or
something? Who ever heard of some of this rotten tommyrot of these
Protestants, too? Pot can’t call kettle greasy. Right! Just, guilty of the
least is guilty of the whole! Who ever heard of God ever dealing in
an organization? Show me one time that one ever organized and ever
stayed alive. They died immediately, and never did rise again! It’s time
that something takes place, it’s time for God to move. It killed the
influence amongst the people.
68 Same thing has been done today. They kill the influence, say, “Oh,
that bunch of holy-rollers, there’s nothing to them.” And, why, it’s
discrepancy! Meet the Word face to face and see what It is, see if God
interprets His Own Word. God’s able of these stones to rise children to
Abraham. Amen.
69 The Word had been thoroughly vindicated by them early
Christians, how God delivered them from everything, and diseases, and
they had prophets, and they spoke in tongues, interpreted, and gave
messages that’s proved to be exactly the truth every time. But in the
face of all that vindicated Word, the people voted It out, and voted a
denomination. That’s the mother of all organizations.
70 Both are fully matured now. They started seeding again. It died out,
but it bloomed again in the days of Luther, as we know from the former
message here on the morning of the breakfast. It bloomed out in the
day of Luther. Now what did they do? Immediately after that great
man died, they made an organization.
71 It bloomed out. And again in the days of John Wesley, when them
Anglicans, with all their eternal securities and everything had bound it
up into a place to what’s almost universalism, and what happened? God
raised up a man named John Wesley, and slayed the whole thing. And
as soon as he died, him and Asbury and them, what happened? They
organized, and now you got all kinds of Methodists. Then along come
one or the other, Alexander Campbell, John Smith, and what-more.
72 Finally, out broke the Pentecost, coming out of all of it. What
happened then? They did run well, what did hinder you? You went
right back in the same mud you come out of, right back in the same
slop, went back to discrepancy and to make organizations, you had to
compromise on the Word. And every time God would send something
new, you couldn’t receive it. That’s right! Discrepancy again! And,
notice, as I said the other day, that first little husk that come forth from
this root, comes up into the leaves and up into the tassel, then back into
the stalk again, and comes out. That little husk of wheat almost looks
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like the grain itself, and we thought it was, but when you open it up,
there’s no grain there at all. It’s only a supporter for the grain to grow
by, and it dies also, and the life goes right out of it and goes into the
grain. Notice, so they call the churches that sowed…
73 We find out today that our so-called churches, even to our
Pentecostals, we went out, we couldn’t be satisfied, we had to make
groups of our own. Everything come up, we had to have this, we had
to have this, we had to have another group. And this fellow raised up,
said, “He’s coming on a white cloud.” Another one say, “Uh-huh, He’s
coming on a white horse.” “All right, we’ll make two groups.” See,
what is it? Sowing of discrepancy! When He comes, whatever it is,
He’ll interpret His Own Word when He comes. Let’s wait till that time.
Catch the…Talking about that, you don’t even get the Message of the
day. Always pointing to what God’s going to do, or what He has done,
and ignoring what He’s doing. That’s the way we get discrepancies in it.
74 Now we notice that today our churches, all—all of our churches has
sowed to the winds, and are reaping the whirlwind. We don’t have the
prayer meetings, we don’t have the services we used to have. What’s
the matter? We’ve let down the bars on everything. Look, even to our
Pentecostal churches, setting full of bobbed-haired women. That used
to not be permitted. Painted faces, wearing fingernail polishes, all kinds
of stuff; get a man out here with…like Rickys and so forth; married
three or four times, and deacons; oh, what a discrepancy! It’s filth! How
do they do it? God wouldn’t have it in His Church, they have to go to
an organization to get into it. Somebody afraid to say something about
it, ’cause they’d be kicked out of the organization. God, give us men
who’s not connected with nothing but God and His Word, that’ll tell
the Truth about it. That’s exactly what we need. What have we done?
Sowed discrepancy. We’ve sowed to the winds, and now we’re reaping
the whirlwind.
75 Notice that they’re now being gathered together for the burning.
Did you notice, Jesus said, “First, gather them together, bundle them,
and then put all the bundles in one pile, and I’ll burn them.” There’s a
little bundle called Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, they’re
all gathering together in the World Council of Churches. What is it?
“Gather them first!” Hallelujah! Did you notice? He gathers the tares
first, gets them away from the wheat, separates them: “Gather them
together and burn them.” They’re all to be burned with the judgments
of God, for sowing discrepancy among the people, things that they…
Having a form of godliness, and denying the Power thereof, denying
the Word, just to hold up some religious rites, of some dogma that
somebody’s injected in, trying to put in the Word of God. It won’t
work. It’s a discrepancy.
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76 I scream today, as it was, the great prophet of long ago, Amos,
when he come down into that city, said, “I’m not a prophet, nor a
son of a prophet. But if the lion roars, who can but fear?” He said,
“When God speaks, who can but prophesy?” He predicted judgment
upon that generation, said, “The very God that you claim to serve will
destroy you.”
77 You put this, it’s on tape, and you remember. The very God that…
These people now that’s gathering all this great big harvest of—of
World Council of Churches, and you’re going to have to go into it. You
can’t stay out of it. You’re either going to be individually get out of it,
or you’re going into it. There ain’t going to be no middle grounds. It’ll
be the mark of the beast. No man could buy or sell, except he that has
the mark, or has got the discrepancy. Now, stay out of it! Get out of it!
Flee it! Stay away from it! The God that they claim they’re serving will
destroy them. The great God of love who won’t…
Said, “Well, Jesus prayed that we should all be one.”
78 Then He also said, “How can you walk together, two walk together,
’less they be agreed?” He said “one,” like He and the Father are One.
And the Father was the Word, and He was the Word made manifest.
He was “One” with the Father, because He was the manifestation of
God’s promised Word. And so is it today, or any other day. Yes, sir. The
God is One. He wants us to be one.
79 How can this be one, this one denying the virgin birth, and this
don’t, deny Divine healing, and this, that, all of them in a mess like
that? Some of them even don’t even believe in God, believe He was
the Son of God; believe He was the son of Joseph, called the Son of
God. Certainly. The twin brother to the Lutherans, Zwinglies, believe
that, that He was absolutely just a good man. The Christian Science
said He was a prophet, just an ordinary man, He wasn’t Divine. Why,
if He wasn’t Divine, He’s the greatest deceiver the world ever had. He
was God or He was nothing. He was Divine! He was Deity, Himself,
made flesh among us, in the person of the Son of God. Certainly, that’s
what He was.
80 Now we see the discrepancy has come in. We know that it’s here,
nobody can deny it. Oh, my! Just notice. He will destroy that group that
claim they’re serving God. You watch it.
81 God planted His Seed. I’m closing, ’cause it’s time to start the
prayer line. God planted His Seed, and His Seed is Christ. I’m going to
preach on that in a few night, where God decided to put His Name, the
Lord willing, maybe at one of the breakfasts when I have a little more
time. Look, He is the only Way of escape. He is the only true Potentate.
He’s the only true God, none other besides Him. “I am God, and God
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alone,” He said. Jesus said, “This is the commandment: Hear ye, O
Israel, I am the Lord your God, just one God. I am He. Why do you
look for another? Another will come…I come in My Father’s Name,
and you receive Me not. But another will come in his own name, and
him you will receive.” And they did it at Nicaea.
“Are you a Christian?”
“I’m Baptist.”
“Are you a Christian?”
“I’m Pentecost.”
“Are you a Christian?”
“I’m Methodist,” another name.
82 But when it comes to that Name of “Jesus Christ,” they walk just
as far from It as they can, they don’t want nothing to do with It, for
He is the Word and the Word declares Itself. Notice, the only Way of
escape! He is the Rose of Sharon, the Bible said He was. Every title (in
the Bible) of God belongs to Jesus Christ. He was Alpha, Omega, the
Beginning and the End; He that Was, which Is, and Shall Come; the
Root and Offspring of David, both Root and Offspring of David; the
Morning Star, the Rose of Sharon, the Lily of the Valley, the Alpha,
Omega, Father, Son, Holy Ghost, all in Jesus Christ! He was the full
manifestation of Jehovah God made flesh to dwell among us. Exactly
what He was.
83 He was the Rose of Sharon. What did they do with the Rose of
Sharon? They squeezed It out, mashed It out, to get the perfume out
of It. A beautiful rose has to be squeezed down to get the perfume from
the rose. That was a beautiful Life, there never was a life lived like It,
but It had to be squeezed out on Calvary.
84 See, they took the—the anointing of the Rose of Sharon and put it
upon Aaron, he had to be anointed with that for to go in before the
Lord in the holy place, in the holy veil. He had to be anointed with the
Rose of Sharon, to go in to sprinkle the mercy seat each year. And
that anointing must be upon him, a sweet-smelling savour unto the
Lord, packing the blood of the lamb before him, after he had also been
sprinkled by the lamb. Pomegranates and bells around his garments, he
had to walk a certain step, playing “holy, holy, holy unto the Lord.”
85 Notice, He is that Rose of Sharon, that sweet-smelling Savour, the
Anointing upon His people. You cannot come before Him with any
creed, any other thing, but anointed with that Rose of Sharon, the
Word. He also is the Lily of the Valley.
86 Now, how do you get opium? You get opium when you take a
lily and squeeze it out, you get the opium. Doctors use it in their
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laboratories. Take a man that’s nervous and flusterated, or a woman,
she feels like she’s going to go crazy, she’s walking the floor and
screaming, she’s in hysterics, a doctor will take a little of his lily opium
and push it into her arm or vein somewhere, or his, and they quieten
down. It’s all over for a while. But just as soon as that opium dies out,
here they come again, worse than they ever was.
87 But I’ll tell you, friends, that’s only a type of the genuine Opium
from the Lily of the Valley that I know of. He is the Lily of the
Valley. He was squeezed out on Calvary. He was wounded for our
transgressions, with His stripes we were healed. In that, that squeezing
out of the flowers, He was a Flower. He was the greatest Flower that
ever growed, was this Lily of the Valley, and this great Rose of Sharon.
Now He hangs tonight, spanned between Heavens and earth, I believe,
He was that time, rather, to—to take away the sin of the world and to
bring healing back to the world. And the Bible said that He’s the same
yesterday, today, and forever.
88 Friend, when God told Moses, in the wilderness, which was
a—a type of Him, to lift up a brass serpent. And brass represents
sin judged, the serpent represents, the brass serpent represents “sin
already judged.” As, brass is “Divine judgment,” like the brazen altar
where the sacrifices was laid. And also Elijah looked up and he
said the skies was like brass, Divine judgment upon an unbelieving
nation that had backslid from God. Brass represents judgment, Divine
judgment. And the serpent represented sin already judged; and Jesus
was that serpent made sin for us, and took the judgments of God
upon Him. He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our
iniquity, the chastisement of our peace upon Him, and with His stripes
we are healed.
89 Oh, God’s got His cabinet full of Opium, tonight, for you. Christian
friend, you are sick and suffering. Oh, you’re weary, it’s just too hard
for you. You can’t stand it much longer, you’ll—you’ll go wild in this
modern day that we’re living.
90 Did you just hear Life Line tonight, that what they said, that—that
Russia says, in ’55, that they’ll “absolutely take full control of the whole
world”? Before that can happen, the Rapture has to come. So how close
is it, friend? It’s right here close now at hand.
91 Won’t you seek Him tonight with all your heart? He is the Lily of
the Valley, and He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. He’s here
tonight to lift Himself up among His people, just like Moses lifted up
the—the sin sign, judged. And not only sin, but sickness. Remember,
Jesus said, “As Moses lifted up the brass serpent, so must the Son of
man be lifted up.” What did Moses lift it up for? For sin, unbelief, and
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for sickness. Jesus was lifted up, also, for sin, sickness, and unbelief. He
was the same thing.
92 Now, tonight, in the days when we got this great discrepancy, Jesus
Christ promised in Luke, that in the days of the…before the Coming
of the Lord, would be like it was in the days of Sodom, and when the
Son of man would reveal Himself, like the Son of man revealed Himself
to Abraham down there; Elohim, God, made flesh among people, and
dwelt there with Abraham and showed him, told him what Sarah was
thinking of (setting behind Him) in the tent, that He had never seen.
Told her what she…And called her name, “Sarah.” “Abraham,” not
his—not his name Abram, he started out with, but Abraham. Not Sarai,
S-a-r-a-i; but S-a-r-a-h, “Where is thy wife, Sarah?”
Said, “She’s in the tent behind You.”
93 Said, “I’m going to visit you according to the time of life.” And she
laughed. He said, “Why did she laugh?”
94 Now, Jesus said, “Just before this great discrepancy is gathered and
burned, that the Son of man will reveal Himself in the same manner as
He did then.” And that’s…What is it? It’s a lifting up, afresh, before
you, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Do you
believe it? Let us bow our heads then for prayer.
95 Dear God, we love You. Your Word is so—so Food-full with us,
Lord. We just love It! We live by It, Lord. It seems that our capacity
is never sufficient. We just love to set at Your table, around Your
Word, and enjoy the blessings, Lord, when we come together like
this, brothers and sisters who’s been Blood-bought by the Son of God,
who is the purchase of Your Blood. And we come here tonight, Lord,
we’ve dedicated these nights for praying for the sick. And according to
the Scriptures, You said that “by the stripes we were healed.” It isn’t
necessary to pray then (only confess our sins), for by Your stripes we
were (past tense) healed. Oh, what a day of salvation! What a—what a
promise by Emmanuel! That It’s certainly Truth.
96 You said, “A little while, and the world won’t see Me no more, yet
you’ll see Me, for I” (the personal pronoun of “I”) “I will be with you,
even in you, to the end of the world.” And at the end of the time, this
great consummation, You said, just before it happens, it’ll be just like
before the fire fell in Sodom and burnt up the Gentile world, that there
would come a revelation again of the Son of man just like it was at
Sodom. Father, may the people not miss it.
97 And I pray, God, as a crude little thing, (if I said wrong, forgive me),
pulling into a gear. I love them, Lord. I—I pray that they won’t miss it.
Let this be one of the great nights, Lord. May every sick, afflicted,
blind, whatever it is in here, Lord, be healed tonight. May every sinner
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be saved. Right in their hearts now, if they’re an unbeliever, and may
they accept Christ at this moment. Grant it, Father. It’s all in Your
hands. We commit ourselves to You, to see You come among us.
98 And You said, in Saint John 14:12, “He that believeth in Me,
the works that I do shall he do also.” How we know that You made
Yourself known to the people, for You was that Prophet that Moses
said that would raise up. They hadn’t had prophets for hundreds of
years, discrepancy was on every hand, but yet the Word of God had to
be fulfilled; so the Word become flesh, and so did the discrepancy. And,
Father, we see it again today, the discrepancy becoming one great big
bundle; and we see the Word coming the same way. Bless us tonight,
Father. We commit ourselves to You, with Your Word. Whatever You
have need for us to do, do with us, Lord. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
99 [A sister speaks in another tongue. Blank spot on tape—Ed.] We
don’t know what He said. He may be wanting to tell us something, so
just be real reverent just a moment. [Blank spot on tape. A brother gives
an interpretation.]
100 Amen. Did you ever read…? [Blank spot on tape—Ed.]…
Scripture where the enemy was coming, and they were all gathered
together, and they…the enemy was such a great force. And the Spirit
of God fell upon a man, and told him, and he prophesied, and said
where to go and lay in wait, and they destroyed their enemy. There
it comes again. There’s the place to destroy your enemy, see, take the
hand of God. The hand of God is Christ, of course, the Word, so take
That in your hearts tonight while we call the prayer line.
101 I believe Billy give out prayer cards again today. B, B’s, let’s take
B, eighty-five. Last night, we had fifteen last night. We usually try to
get about fifteen a night. And then hold your cards, we’ll get them,
now. Let’s try about fifteen. Eighty-five. B, like Branham, you know. B,
eighty-five to a hundred. And we…Let’s see, who has B, eighty-five,
raise up your hand. You’re sure…Oh, in the back, all right, eighty-
five come up.
102 Now, my son…So that there might be strangers here, wouldn’t
know how this was done. My son comes down here, or someone; if
he isn’t able to come, Brother Borders, somebody else. Some man will
come down, and take these cards, a hundred of them, and standing
before the people and mix them up together. So therefore he gives you
a card, he can’t tell you you’re going to be up here on the platform,
he don’t know that. And neither do I know. I come at night, just pull
out about ten or fifteen, somewhere along, in the cards. That doesn’t
have one thing to do with your healing. You can sit right there. Look,
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last night. How many was here last night, let’s see your hand? How the
people was just healed all out through the meeting!
103 Now, that was eighty-five, eighty-six, eighty-seven, eighty-eight,
eighty-nine, ninety. Let’s have them come right now. B, eighty-five,
eighty-six, eighty-seven, eighty-eight, eighty-nine, ninety. That’d been
one…Surely, we need…And if somebody’s…Here’s another one,
yes, that’d make it right. Ninety, ninety to a hundred now. Ninety,
ninety-one, ninety-two, ninety-three, ninety-four, ninety-five, ninety-
six, ninety-seven, ninety-eight, -nine.
104 If you can’t move, if you’re…I see we got a couple, three
wheelchairs here now, four of them, I believe, I can see. If you got
a prayer card, that’s—that’s your number’s called, and can’t move, just
raise your hand, we’ll wheel it up here.
105 And if you haven’t got no prayer card, just set there and pray, and
say, “Lord Jesus, let—let—let it be me tonight.” How many in here
doesn’t have a prayer card, raise up your hand. Oh, my! All right, now
let’s just say this, I hope it don’t sound sacrilegious. But there’s a little
woman one time that didn’t have a prayer card, we’d say. She went
pressing through the crowd, she said (now listen close), “If I can touch
that Man’s garments, I’ll be made well.” How many knows the story?
All right. And what did she do? She touched Him, and went over and
sat down. And Jesus turned around, He knew where she was at. Is that
right? He knew what her trouble was. Is that right? He knew what her
trouble was, so He told her what her trouble was. And she felt in her
body that the blood issue had stopped. Is that right? Because why? She
had touched Him.
106 Now, how many Christians here tonight that know, according to
Hebrews, the Book of Hebrews, that Jesus right now is a High Priest,
the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmity?
Is He? All right, if He is the same High Priest, the same office, High
Priest, how would He act then? He would act just the same as He did
then. Do you believe that? He would act just the same as He did then,
if you can believe that. All right. How many believe that, raise up your
hand, say, “I actually believe it”?
107 All right, before they form the prayer line, let’s have a prayer line
out there. I know He’s here. I—I—I feel His Presence, and I—I know
that He’s here. Come. Prayer line ready? I was going to call out there.
You just—just pray, just look this way and pray, just believe.
108 A little lady sitting here looking right at me, sitting next to a lady
that’s got glasses on. Can’t you see That hanging over that woman?
Look here. See? She’s suffering with heart trouble. You believe that
God will heal you? If you do, raise up your hand. That’s what your
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trouble was. That’s right. Now if that was your trouble, raise up your
hand so the people can see, raise up your hand like that. Now, you don’t
have it no more now. Your faith made you well.
109 He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. Oh, there is a
discrepancy; but Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Is this…Now just keep praying, see, you don’t have to be up here,
that you might know.
110 Now, this is a lady. As far as I know, I never seen her in my life, she’s
just a woman standing here, and got a prayer card, and didn’t know
whether you was going to be called or not. Somebody just give you a
prayer card, and you—your number’s called, so you just come up here.
Is that right? And I have no way of knowing what you are, who you
are, where you come from, what you want, nothing about it. I’m just a
man, you’re the woman. That’s right. This same picture come one time
in the Bible, Saint John, the 4th chapter.
111 Now you say, “What did you do, Brother Branham, just then, a
while ago?” Just pulled over in that little gear, see. I don’t know, see.
He has to do it. I don’t know. How did that woman out there? I never
seen that woman in my life. She’s a total stranger to me. I believe it was
a woman. Who is the person that was healed just now out there in the
audience? Will you…Yeah. We’re strangers to one another. If that’s
right, wave your hand like this. See? I never seen the woman. But she
was sitting there, believing. Now, she touched Something, didn’t she?
It wouldn’t do no good to touch me.
112 But now can’t you see that the Bible is exactly the Word of God?
He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. We become tabernacles of
that Holy Spirit which is Christ. See? That’s the real Seed. Then if that
real Holy Spirit gets into the real Seed of the Word, not…It just won’t
take part of It (because, the devil uses That), you’ve got to take It all,
see, every Word of It; ’cause, He’s not half God, He’s all God. See? And
that’s what takes place.
113 Now, here’s a woman, I’ve never seen her. Jesus found a woman like
this one time, maybe not the same condition, I don’t know. And He was
sitting at a well. He—He had need to go down to Samaria. And we find
out, Samaria was under the hill. And—and He was going to Jericho,
rather, and He went around by Samaria, and come to a city of Sychar.
And He sat down on the well, and sent His disciples away for food.
114 How many races of people are there in the world? Three. Ham,
Shem, and Japheth’s people. We all come from Noah. And the rest of
the world was destroyed at that time. Only three races of people, that
Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan (which was half Jew and Gentile). And
that’s all the races that’s in the world, see, just three.
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115 Everything in God is perfect in three. Just like these three I was
talking of tonight: three stages of discrepancy, three stages the Word
made flesh, so forth. See?
116 Now, and He—He that talked to the Jews, told Philip, when he
brought Nathanael up, that where he was, and said, “I seen him when
he was under the tree.” He told…Andrew had brought Peter up, He
said, “Your name is Simon, and you shall be called ‘Peter’ from now
on.” Said, “You’re the son of Jonas.” See? Now, them was all Jews.
117 But here He goes to a Gentile…not a Gentile, but a Samaritan.

118 Now is the Gentile’s time. He never performed that one time to
Gentiles. Search the Scriptures. Never. But He promised, in Luke 22,
that He would do it just before the Coming.
119 But He sat down there, and here come a half Jew and Gentile out,
a woman. And He said to her, “Woman, bring Me a drink.”
120 She said, “Why, You shouldn’t ask that, so much. We are…
There’s a segregation here. You’re a Jew, and—and I’m a Samaritan.”
121 He said, “But if you knew Who you were talking to, you’d ask Me
for a drink.” What was He doing? Contacting her spirit. And as soon as
He found what her trouble was, well, He told her to go get her husband.
She said she didn’t have any. He said, “That’s right, you’ve had five.”
122 Now, look, when the Pharisees seen Him do that. Right, that
discrepancy right amongst the Word, what did they say? They said,
“This Man is Beelzebub, a fortuneteller.” See?
123 And Jesus said, “Whoever spoke that on the Holy Ghost when
It come to do the same, would never be forgiven.” There’s your
discrepancy. See? But He said He would forgive them then, because the
Holy Spirit hadn’t come; the Sacrifice, the Lamb hadn’t died.
124 But then the woman didn’t think that. The woman said, “Sir,
I perceive that You are a prophet.” They hadn’t had a prophet for
hundreds of years. Said, “I perceive You’re a prophet. Now, we know
that Messiah, which is called the Christ, when He comes, that’s what
He’s going to do.”
125 Well, if that’s what He did, then He’s the same yesterday, today.
That’s how He made Hisself known then, isn’t it the same thing today?
Has to be! Now, here is a woman and a man meets again. She’s not that
woman, I’m not that Man. But yet the same Holy Spirit is here, and
made the promise that the works that He did, we’d do the same thing
in the days that Son of man would be revealed.
126 Now, not knowing you (and you know that’s true), we’re total
strangers, and you are standing here. There’s some…May be
something wrong with you, maybe there’s not, I don’t know. But if the
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Lord Jesus will reveal to me, by His Holy Spirit, what is your trouble,
will you believe then that It is the Son of God, and not a human being?
This is just a hull, this tabernacle that—that God uses, any who He has
chosen. He—He does that by sovereign grace and election. So, but you
believe. You will? [The sister says, “Amen.”—Ed.]
127 How many in the audience will believe it? Here we both stand right
here before the Light, that we’ve never met in this life, have no more
idea who that woman is, what she is, where she come from, what she
wants. I’ve never seen her in my life, no more than I ever seen that
woman down there in my life. But, see, here’s what I’m trying to get you
to do: get that discrepancy away from you now, and believe the Word
when the Word is made flesh right here among us. The Word becomes
alive in our own flesh, that shows the Presence of God.
128 Now may He grant it to her. She’s wanting a worthy cause. She’s
childless, she wants a baby. She’s about forty years old. That’s certainly
not impossible.
129 They’re setting right out there now, women who were barren all
their life, and come to the platform like this, and the Lord give them
children. Some of you raise your hand out there that know. See? See?
I picked up a little darling girl the other day, Sunday, after I left
here, Sunday afternoon; that her mother was barren, the Lord spoke.
And the little girl, the sweetest little thing, is she here? Where she
at? Yeah. Here she is, right here, setting right down here. The mother
setting there. Here’s the little girl, herself. See her? She was a spoken
Word from God.
130 Now, will you believe Him with all your heart? Do you believe that
that blessing that you have, that you feel in you now, has been God
answering? If God would tell me what your name is, so you could name
the baby, would you believe? Then, Mrs. Thompson, you can go home
and have your baby, if you’ll believe it with all heart.
131 Do you believe with all your heart? Just have faith, don’t doubt,
just believe God. God is God.
132 How do you do, sir? I suppose we’re strangers, too. The only time
I ever seen you in my life, as I know of, is when you was coming
there. And I thought you were Brother Shakarian’s uncle, or who it…
Mashagian, Brother Mashagian, the singer, when you come by. And
then I seen you was going to the prayer line. Now, being a stranger
with you, and, or to you, and I a stranger, each way. Now, if the
Lord Jesus will tell me something that you—that you’re, maybe what
you’re wanting, let’s just say that; tell you what, tell me what you’re
wanting. Now, He’s already give it to you. Only thing is just enough
faith to believe it.
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133Now, how many understands that? Just enough faith to believe that
you get what you ask for! See?
134 Now, now, if you’re up here wanting something, and He can tell
me what your desire is, then you know I don’t know your desire, then it
has to be Something here that’s doing it. Now, according to the Word,
He promised to do that. He knowed the thoughts within their hearts.
Is that right? All right.
135You have a great desire to be healed. One thing, you’re suffering
with a nervous condition, real nervous. That’s right. Another thing,
you got a back trouble, and that back has been very bad for some
time, you’ve even had an operation on it. That’s THUS SAITH THE
LORD. That’s true. See. That’s right. And here’s another thing, your
deep desire, is, you want to receive the baptism of the Spirit. That’s
exactly right. Come here.
136 Dear God, in the Name of Jesus Christ, may this man be filled with
the Holy Ghost, before he leaves these grounds, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Now receive It, my brother. Just have faith, don’t doubt.
137 How do you do? I suppose, as far as I know, that we’re strangers
one to the other. If that’s right, why, so that people will know, just raise
up your hand so they see that we’re strangers. I never seen her in my
life, knowingly. And I guess she never seen me, ’less it was out in the
audience. Because the Heavenly Father knows, and here’s His Word
laying here, that I have never seen the woman, knowingly, in my life.
Therefore, I wouldn’t know what you’re here for, have no idea who you
are, what, or nothing about you. I couldn’t tell you one thing.
138 Only thing, it’s just a gift. If I can…As you heard me explain that
a while ago. Just move over, hear what He says; what I see, I can say
it. What He doesn’t say, I cannot say. I’d say that in myself, and it’d be
wrong. See? It’d be wrong. But if He says it, it’s absolutely right. It can
never, it never has been wrong. It never will be wrong as long it remain
God. See? See, because God cannot be wrong.
139 But if God can tell me what you want, what your desire is, or—or
what you’re here for, something you’ve done, or something, something
like that, or who you are, where you come from, or whatever He wants
to tell me, you’d believe? Thank you.
140One thing, you have trouble with your feet. Your feet bothers you.
That’s right. Raise your…You have a lady’s trouble, female disorder.
And you’ve got a great desire in your heart, because you’ve just lost
somebody or something. It’s a boy, and your boy has left home, run
away, and you want me to pray that he’ll return back.
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141 God in Heaven, send her child to her, and healing. Let the Holy
Spirit stop that young man on the road tonight, send him back to his
mother. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
142 He Who knows will send him back to you. Don’t worry. Believe
now, don’t doubt. Just have faith, all your heart. You believe, and God
will grant the rest of it.
143 Now, just those three or four discernings, whatever it was, see, I—I
just went till it gets blind to me. I can’t explain that, there’s no way to
explain it. You say, “You mean, just that was worse than you preached
there for forty-five minutes or more, you think?” Yes, sir. If it was three
hours, it wouldn’t be that much.
144 A woman touched the garment of our Lord Jesus. And them people
are not touching me. Why, this woman here, just look here, she could
just…(Put your hands on me. See?) She just touched me all around,
wouldn’t do a thing, I’m just a man. But she has to touch Him. And I,
by a gift, just—just…it just go, all my self goes away, and I just say
what I see. See? And that’s all. See, touching me doesn’t mean a thing,
but she touches Jesus through me. That’s how that woman touched
God through Jesus, when He didn’t know what was the matter with
her. She just touched His garment, went and sat down. And He said—
and He said, “Who touched Me?”
145And the apostles said, “Why, everyone is touching You. Why do
You say that?”
He said, “But I perceive that virtue has gone from Me.”
146 Now, you know what virtue is? Strength. He got weak on one
woman touching Him, and He was the Son of God. What about me, a
sinner, saved by His grace? You know why it’s more? Because He said,
“These things that I do, shall you do also. More than this shall you do,
for I go unto My Father.” “Greater,” It said there, but the right Greek
interpretation is, “More than this shall you do.”
147 Now, the lady I know not. I have known nothing about her. She’s
just as total stranger to me as the other people were. We’re strangers
to one another. Just so that the people know it, you might raise your
hand, say “we are stranger.” Now, the Son of God, if He one time met
a woman in a little panoramic like this, by a well, and He talked to
her just a moment, and He knowed where her trouble was, and He
told her what her trouble was. And so she knew by that, that that was
the Messiah. Now that—that I’ve…You’ve touched me, I’ve touched
you, and nothing happened. But if my faith (by a gift) and your faith
(by believing in it) can touch Him, and He can speak through us to…
through me to you, then you know that He’s here like He was at that—
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that well at Sychar. See? He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever.
You believe that?
148 You have so many troubles, so many afflictions, complications!
One of the main things that you want to be prayed for is arthritis. That’s
right. That right? You’re stiffening up by arthritis. When you see you
raise your arm…
149 And you did walk out kind of slow, the best of my remembrance.
Maybe just wait just a minute, maybe something else can be said that’ll
take the…Or, you know, you feel things; people, you know, like a
breath coming against It. They say, “Why, he guessed that,” or, you
know, like that.
150 But, you seem to be a fine person, just talk to me just a moment.
Let’s stand here just a bit, because I do think there’s something else
that’s in your heart that you’re wanting from God. Now, I could not
answer your prayer, but He can re-…Because, if you believe it, it’s
already answered. But if you just want to believe; to make you believe.
Now, I tell you, it’s concerning a loved one that’s not here, and that is
a brother, and that brother is not even in this country. He’s in kind of
a wet country, a lot of lakes. I’d say like something like in Michigan
or some…Yeah, Michigan is where it’s at. And he is suffering with a
deadly killer, and that is an uncurable kidney trouble that he’s bothered
with it. That is right, isn’t it? That’s THUS SAITH THE LORD. Now,
the handkerchief that you got in your hand, that you raised to God,
send that to your brother and tell him not to doubt, but to believe, and
that’ll, he’ll be healed now if you’ll believe it.
151 You believe with all your heart? See, then, if you believe, there’s
only one thing to do, that’s, absolutely accept it. Is that right?
152 Now you say, “He’s looking at that, them people. That’s what he’s
doing, looking at them.” You see that so much!
153 But that you might not know this…This lady here, come up this
way, lady, here, the patient, ever who you are. I’m not looking at her.
Do you believe that God can reveal to me what’s your trouble? Raise
your hands, if you do, this lady here, this lady here, the patient. Yeah.
Yeah. All right, then if you’ll believe that with all your heart, that
asthmatic trouble won’t bother you anymore. All right, go home and
believe it!…?…
154 Didn’t look at her, did It? See, He…You look this way, the vision is
there no matter what takes place. Amen! Can’t you see it? Just perfectly
as God can be perfect!
155 You believe, too? Asthma can leave you, too, couldn’t it? You
believe it would? All right, go tell the Lord Jesus that you—you
believe Him.
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156 Someday you’d have to pack a—a little cane around if that arthritis
cripples you up, but it ain’t going to do it. You ain’t, you don’t believe
it is, do you? You believe you’re going to be all right? Go on your road,
and Jesus Christ makes you well.
157 Heart trouble kills people, but it don’t have to kill you. You believe
that God will heal it for you, and make you well? Go believing it with
all your heart, say, “I truly believe for it.”
158 You speak English? You understand English? (Somebody come.)
Yeah, all right. Will you speak to her what I tell her? Tell her if she’ll
believe, the stomach trouble will leave her. She—she will believe it?
Your back trouble will leave you, too, so now you can go on your road
and be healed.
How do you do? You believe?
159 That man setting there with back trouble, looking at me when I said
that. He can be healed, too, if you believe it, sir. All right, sir.
160 The lady setting right next to you there, you got neck trouble,
haven’t you, lady? You believe that God will heal you? You want to
lay hands on the little boy for his knees, and he’ll get well, too. Do
you believe it? You had female trouble, lady’s trouble, you don’t have
it now. Your faith healed you and made you whole.
161 Do you believe Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever?
Then let’s put our hands on one another and pray this prayer of faith,
each one of us, pray the prayer of faith.
162 Dear God, while we’re so covered in Your Divine Presence, to see
You moving out through the audience, healing the sick everywhere.
Thou art God. I pray that You’ll heal this entire audience. Let the
Breath of God fall fresh into their hearts, and let them know that time
is running out. We’re just a little while longer to be here, then we’re
going to be with Him Who we love. And may now His Presence bring
healing to everyone.
163 We condemn Satan, we condemn all of his acts. In the Name of
Jesus Christ, Satan, come from the people.
164 All that will believe Him now, and accept your healing, stand up
on your feet, say, “I now stand up to accept my healing. I believe it.”
Regardless of your condition, if you really believe it, stand up to your
feet. Now raise up your hands, and say, “Thank you, Lord Jesus, for
healing me.” God be with you. Amen. 
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