You are in a worse shape than I thought you were. You’d be better off if you was crazy

I was speaking the other night with George Smith, the boy that goes with my daughter, Rebekah. A fine kid, he sang here in the tabernacle, a Baptist boy that’s just told, “Take my name off of that thing; I want nothing to do with it.” And there was a young lady.... They was having a conference at a certain Baptist church up in the hills, and they’re so firmly against me---all of them out there. And about.... They’ve not got nothing against me; it’s against this Word. Me as a man, they can’t say nothing against me; I never done them any harm, but that’s what they’re afraid of, see.
 
 Now we were.... They was having this meeting up there, rather, and they was going to have a missionary to the last three nights of this great conference up in the hills where it’s cool. Happen to be this missionary got up and come on to Mark 16, and he said, “There’s many people today who can’t believe in divine healing.” Said, “I was in India. I’m an Indian, and I was in India when a man here in the United States by the name of Brother Branham come.” (The pastor begin to move over.) Said, “My wife was dying with cancer; I was blind (or something like that). He prayed for one of us and the other, he called out in the audience, not even knowing our own language, and spoke the power of God. And said, ‘You’re healed.’”

85 Well, they tried to shut him up, they couldn’t do it. That’s, see, right in their own conference. Then they even denied of anything.... And some of the people, even my ... this boy’s sister.... Them on the ground wouldn’t even have nothing to say. They wanted to know if she wasn’t connected someway they could get down to find out.

One of the ladies said, “Why, I believe it.”

Rebekah and George went to see this lady. She went, got a girl that was suffering with a ... kind of retarded a little. So they had me come over there to see the girl the other night. And I went over there; the little lady was sitting there, and I said, “Are you a believer?”

She said, “I don’t know whether I am or not.” Well, she wasn’t retarded, just a devil spirit; they don’t realize it. See, it takes you and you don’t know it. It comes in.... Violence overcomes a person and they don’t know it.
 
 Women that walks out here on the street with these shorts on, they don’t realize. They might be ... they might could prove and swear to it that they’ve never done anything evil against their husband or so forth like that, but in their heart they don’t realize, but the spirit of the devil has took them over. They’re possessed of it. What would a woman want to strip her clothes off before a man? There’s only one person who done that in the Bible, and they were insane. Others try to cover themselves. They don’t realize; it’s so cunning, so subtle. You have to watch, weigh yourself with the Word of God and see where you’re standing. 

This young lady said, “Oh, they told me that I was baptized when I was a kid.” Said, “I don’t know whether to believe that stuff or not.”

I said, “Don’t you believe Jesus Christ?”

And she said, “Well, I don’t know whether I do or not.” She said, “Some of that hocus pocus stuff, I don’t believe it.”

I said, “Well, of course, you don’t believe hocus pocus stuff.” I said, “But do you believe that He was the Son of God?”

“Oh,” said, “He could have been.”

I said, and I said, “Do you believe He’s the same today, the God that would save you?”

She said, “Is any of that there stuff about that there miracles and stuff like that? I don’t believe nothing about it.”

And I said, “What would you do if you were sitting in a meeting and seen God, the Holy Ghost---which is the only God there is, working amongst the people---God in the Fatherhood, the pillar of fire ... of the prophets, God in His Son, and then God in His people? It’s just attributes of God---one great God---it covers eternity.” I said, “What would you see if He---among His people ---made the blind to see, the deaf to hear, look out upon the audience and tell the people what was wrong with them, like He did when He’s here on earth?”

She said. “I believe it would be horoscope.”

I said, “You are in a worse shape than I thought you were. You’d be better off if you was crazy, see; you wouldn’t be accountable. But,” I said, “you’re just possessed of an evil spirit.” I said, “When Jesus told the woman at the well about her husbands, when He looked upon the people and perceived their thoughts, would you call that horoscope?” See, just so wrapped up in a denomination called Lutheran, that anything contrary to that would be wrong. Now God wants men who’s wrapped up in the Word. Anything contrary to that’s wrong.

Jesus said, “Let every man’s word be a lie and mine be the truth.”

There was a man in a very scientific age by the name of Noah. He wasn’t ashamed of God’s Word. God met him. He talked to Him, he knowed it was God. And He said, “It’s going to rain.” It never had rained, but he believed it was going to rain; and the faith that he had, he wasn’t ashamed to exercise it. He took 120 years to build an ark when the world was against him. He wasn’t ashamed of God’s Word in his day; God saved him and his household for it.
 
 There was a.... How foolish it might have seemed to be to other people, but to him, he met God. No matter how scientific the other was that was contrary, how it said it couldn’t happen, it couldn’t happen; he met God! That’s what it is, when you know that you’re talking to Him!
 
 You’d think it was a foolish thing when somebody ... when I know that there’s a few people in the world holds on to what I say to be the truth, to stand here and say, “Thus saith the Lord, I’m going to Arizona. There I’ll meet seven angels in a cluster.” Well, there’s a group of men standing there to see it happen.

 
WMB  ~ Ashamed - Jeffersonville, IN USA - July 11, 1965

'Every person in this town will hate you!' .......'But I’m loved greatly at home by my people!'

I was reading a story sometime ago on a judge. He was a just man, a good man-he was loved. And there was a bunch of people in the city that thought they could get by with anything, so ... they had plenty. So they opened up a house of ill-fame, run a liquor store, liquor-everything like that, that was illegal. And they was caught by the law, the federal man, and was brought to court. And when all the people of the city, the little city, gathered in, they knowed this man had done a lot of things around there-the man that had run the ill-fame place. And they ... the jury found the man guilty, ‘cause he was caught open handed. And so then the judge found them guilty and sentenced them for so many years, without bond, without appeal, or anything, he sent them, because that’s what the law read.

The people outside the court raced him and said, “You know what? Every person in this town will hate you!” Said, “They hate you for making that decision on them men.” They was all gamblers themselves. And they said, “We’ll all hate you! We’ll never elect you again! We’ll never be a one of us vote for you!” booing him as he went down the street.

And he stood, “Just a minute!” said, “Let me have a word!” He said, “I’ve done exactly what was my duty.

The man was guilty, no matter who he was. And I had to sentence him according to the law that I swore I’d uphold!”

He said, “You’re hated in this town!”

He said, “But I’m loved greatly at home by my people!”

We might think the same thing, if you’ll pardon the expression. I’ve stood for what I have been saved to do, uphold this Word of God! I know the denominations hate me for the things that I say, but I’m greatly loved in his house, among his people.

WMB ~  Going Beyond The Camp - Jeffersonville, IN USA - July 19, 1964