"Then I went out and prayed all night; nothing happened. Come back the next morning; nothing happened"

Like the little Stadsklev baby, when they sent over here to... Mrs. Stadsklev said, "Brother Branham, I called from Germany." There was an American army, with one of their jet planes setting out here at the field, would fly me to Germany and back in a day. He was a chaplain. And the baby was laying dead. And that little mother screaming, she said, "Listen..." Said, "I know; I stood right there and seen that woman hold that dead baby in her arms that died that morning. And I seen Brother Branham walk right out there and lay hands on that dead baby, and it come to life." Said "This is my baby, Brother Branham." Never been a death in their family. See? And this little thing took sick one morning and died that afternoon.Here was all of them standing around and giving prophecies and things, "The baby was going to raise up." and all like that.
I said, "Well that's mighty nice, Sister Stadsklev, but let me see what Father says." And I went out to the woods, and I prayed. Come back in, she done called two or three times 'fore I got back the next morning. Nothing.
The doctor said, "All right, if that's... If you have faith like that, lady, we'll never let the baby leave the hospital. Let it lay right here. You stay right here with it. That's all right."
Brother Stadsklev went and seen the army and major, and they said, "Sure, we--we'll fly him over and bring him back."

And there was a plane setting waiting to take me over that morning and bring me back that night to Germany, to Heidelberg, Germany, for the resurrection of this baby. I said, "Sure God can do it, but let's see what His will is."Then I went out and prayed all night; nothing happened. Come back the next morning; nothing happened. And I started into the room. Just then I looked there, and there stood that Light hanging near the door, said, "Don't put your hand on that. Don't rebuke that. That's the hand of God."
I got her on the phone; I said, "Sister Stadsklev, bury your baby. It's the hand of the Lord. It's God's will. Something would happen to that baby down along the line. You let it go right where God knows where it's at. You can't go to it now. If it lives, you won't. You leave it right like that."
That great Lutheran preacher in Germany wrote a letter and said, "How I can appreciate what Brother Branham, waiting for that clear-cut decision of God before he said anything." That's it. Hold to God's decision. No matter what others say, or whatever it is, don't proposition with Satan at all.

WMB~How can I overcome  [63-0825M]

"I've always been afraid of death" bro. Branham's confession in a tape he made for condolences to Stadsklev family

Condolences to Stadsklev family
William Branham - [JEFF IN] TAPE: 60-0924

This is the evening of September the twenty-fourth.  Brother Julius Stadsklev and Sister Stadsklev, David, and Deborah, way across the sea tonight in Germany, broken hearted, I'm sending this little message to you, Brother Julius and Sister Stadsklev, David, and also to Grandpa and Grandma. Hasn't been long since I was talking to you on the phone. Doesn't seem possible that things can happen just as quick as they did. You know, that reminds me, Jesus said, "Be prepared, for we know not what minute or hour."
Been a terrible day for us, Brother Julius, Sister Stadsklev, because that our sorrow's for you. How we feel so sorry for you. And knowing we're limited, just so much that we can do... But we want to express to you our love and gratitude.

Around home today, pretty near everything I looked at was something that you all had give us or something. I went in my den room, there hung that rifle you gave me. I looked setting over there on the--my study desk, and there was the rocks that David had ground out and made a--a--a Bible carrier, or book end ever-what-you-call-it. Went into the room to pick up the telephone, and this
morning and today when I was talking to you and praying with you, and that telephone is setting right on the sewing machine that you all bought for us. Just everywhere I looked, it looked like it just... I guess it's because of the sorrow that I had in my heart for you. My heart goes out to you.

 And this morning, Brother Julius, as I prayed yesterday afternoon and last night, and I'd sleep a little while and wake up and wonder, "Lord, will You speak to me?" Then about six-thirty, Meda got
up to go into the kitchen to get the children's breakfast. And when she got up, and just as she left the room, I heard a voice, spoke into my heart and said the words that I told you. "Don't rebuke this.
This is the hand of God." Then it brought a little comfort to me to know that whatever... It wasn't something that Satan slipped up on you. It was the plan and program of God.Brother and Sister
Stadsklev, how can I make you see that now? No more than I could when I went in the room there to pray for little Sharon, and God refused to hear me. That... I couldn't understand then how that
would be His program. But look what that little story has done: brought thousands to Christ.

A few weeks ago I was coming down off of a hillside where I went one afternoon in the woods to hunt. And I was setting up on the hillside thinking of the time when I was a little boy and used to
squirrel hunt. And I thought, "Well, things has changed a lot since then. But look at the sorrow. If you'd go through it, would you do it again, if you had to go back over life?"I said, "Yes, I would."
First, I said, "I don't believe I would, because I'd have to go through the sorrow of seeing Hope my first wife go, and little Sharon, and them."
And then Something said, "But look at the thousands of souls that's been saved." I said, "God, yes, I'd go through it again: anything for Your Kingdom."

Now, Brother Stadsklev, it said, you know, in the Scripture, like Job when he had all these troubles and everything, "Every one that cometh to God must be chastened and tried." And Job, in all of his suffering, and in his troubles and temptations lost all of his children, and all of his--all of his wealth, and everything. He said, "The Lord gave; the Lord taken away. Blessed be the Name of the Lord." God straightened everything up for him.Did you ever think there, Brother, Sister Stadsklev, he said, "And He restored to him his children." After He restored the camels, and the--the sheep and
everything, and He restored his children. Do you ever notice where them--think of where those children were? They were in glory waiting for him. Remember he'd made a sacrifice, and had for his
children, "peradventure they might have sinned," he said.

When Sister Stadsklev told me this morning that the little baby had gotten so it could put his hands over its eyes and praise the Lord, now that--that was making the sacrifice. Christ made it, and
you was teaching it to that baby as a little bitty thing. It's in glory tonight waiting for you. Brother Julius, I just got a little tape here I want to send you, and I want you to know that we thinking today if
we could get flowers over, or something or another, we just don't know what to do. Anything we can do, brother, just let us know.

I want to make a confession here, of something that just recently happened. I've always been afraid of death, Julius. I always afraid to die, because I didn't want to become a spiritual body. I thought I only knew as human being, and I wanted to remain that way. And I wanted to live to see the coming of the Lord Jesus.And here a few weeks ago I was laying on the bed one morning after coming in from a great meeting, and I thought, "Well, my wife's asleep, so I'll just study about if I've--being fifty-one now, could I possible live to see the coming of the Lord?" And just then I heard something say to me, "Just keep pressing on. The reward's at the end of the road. Keep pressing on."

Now, Brother Julius, I don't want to call it a translation; although I believe it was. But I'll call it a vision. Something happened. Now, I left where my body, where I was at. And I come into a place, looked like they had a little hill-like. Coming down through there was tens of thousands of young women. They were all running to me, and throwing their arms around me, and hollering, "My precious brother."Well, I thought, "I don't understand this." And something said, "This is perfect love, what you're speaking of."

Now, we realize, and I know that no human being, the male and female, can put their arms around one another without having a human sensation. But, Brother Julius, it wasn't so there. There's no human sensation there at all. It's not... About like a mother hugging her baby or something like that... It was beyond that. It was perfect. It was beyond perfect. I don't know how to express it.Then I heard the--looked like a voice coming from the other way. And I looked, here come tens of thousands of men. The women was all young, and the men were all young. The women had long hair, down around their waist, and was wearing white dresses and barefooted. The young men seemed to have kind of a shaggy hair down around their neck. And I thought, "What is this all about?" And just then, they lifted me up and set me on a great, high place. And I said, "Have I died? Is this it?"

And just then, he said, "This is perfect love. What you've taught." And I said, "Why would you put me up like this?" And they said, "Because in earth, you was a leader." I said, "Well, if I've passed on, I want to see Jesus." And they said, "You can't see Him now. He's a little higher. But someday He'll come." And said, "Then when He comes, then He'll come to you and--and you'll be judged by the Gospel you preached."
I said, "Well then, did--did... Will Saint Paul have to be judged this same way and stand before his crowd?"
Said, "Yes."
I said, "Well, I preached the same thing he did."
And millions of voices, sound like, rang out at the same time, "We are aware of that."

Then I looked and I thought, "What is this about?"Just then a voice said, "You have been gathered to your people just like Jacob was."
"Gathered to my people?" I thought, "What is this?" And I said, "Do you mean I can't see Jesus at this time?"
Said, "No, not now." Said, "We're here in this form."
Now, they had bodies, because I could feel their arms around me, and--and--and I... They were real people.
And I said, "Well, this is wonderful. And I was afraid of this?" And then... And I said, "I--I don't understand this, but it--this is wonderful."
And just then, It said... There was a young, beautiful woman come up, put her arm around me. She said, "My darling brother."

 And I seen my first wife coming; I thought... But of course she died when she was just a girl, twenty-two years old. And I thought she looked natural. And so I said, "Maybe she'll call me her husband when she gets here."And when her time come up, for her around--put her arm around me, she called me her darling brother. Then she put her arms around another girl there and said, "Isn't it
wonderful? He's with us."
Well, I--I didn't know what to make of it. And just then, this young, beautiful woman run and threw her arms around me, another one. He said, "These are..."
And I said, "Is this my people? Are all these Branhams?"
He said, "No. This is your converts, trophies of your ministry."
There was millions of them. And I said, "Trophies of my ministry?"
Said, "Yes." Said, "That woman, that beautiful woman that just put her arms around you, young and beautiful," said, "you know how old she was when you led her to Christ?"
I said, "I have no idea."
Said, "She was past ninety. Now, she'll never be old no more. She'll never be sick, or have sorrow no more."

And there they all were, just perfect. And I thought, "Well, my, this is a most wonderful thing to know that--that we gather into a place like this, and are saved and in a body like that." I thought,
"This is a--the--a glorious thing."So then I thought, "Well, this is--this is beyond anything that I could think of." It was just such a beautiful place. And everything so perfect: perfect love, perfect health, sin could never be there. There can be no death. There could be no sorrow. There could be nothing.
There was no yesterday, no tomorrow, and there was no tiredness. Everything is just perfect. I thought, "This is wonderful."

 And just then, I looked, and coming down across the hill I saw my old dog, my old Fritz; he put me through school. I'd hunt with him at nighttime, and--and he'd, you know, catch some opossums
and coons, and things, and--and--and I'd sell fur. And--and that was my old dog coming. And just then, I looked, and here come my little old horse.Now, a minister once said to me not long ago,
when I was referring this, said, "Do you think that animals would be in heaven?"
And I said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "Where do you get that for Scripture?"
I said, "Where's the horses that taken Elijah up into heaven on that chariot? Where's the horse that Jesus will be riding on the earth, upon a white horse, and His vesture dipped in blood? When will it
be when the wolf and lamb shall feed together and lay down, and a little child shall lead them?
When--when will all these be, when the ox and the lion eat straw together, and lies down together?
When will all these things take place?"
And then, when it--when I got through saying that, then he was convinced that it was true.

Then, Brother Julius, my old dog when I... He got poisoned, and when I buried him, I said to,
"Fritz, if there's a--a resting place for dogies, you'll sure be there." And here he come up and licked me on my hand.And old Prince, my horse, come up and put his neck across mine. Just then I heard
a voice speak out of the heaven and said, "All that you ever loved, and all that ever loved you, God has given you. And they're all waiting here for the coming of the Lord."
Then I felt real strange. And I heard a voice then, said, "Keep pressing on. Keep pressing on."
Something happened. And I looked back towards the bed where I could see my body, and I was moving around. A few moments I was back normal again.

Brother Julius, that did something to me. I've never been the same since. I don't believe I ever could. To know that our gracious heavenly Father let me look a past the curtain of time, to see a
land where there's--he's been perfect. Imperfection that we live in now has been changed. Then we're perfect, nothing to worry about no more, Brother Julius. Just waiting for that glorious hour, that
when our God and Saviour shall appear.And, Brother Julius, I don't know where I was. Wherever it was, isn't far away, 'cause I could look back and see myself. And wherever that is, your baby is
tonight. She's no more a teeny baby as she was. She's a young lady, beautiful, maybe looks like her mother. Some glorious day you'll see her again.

Deborah, honey, David, little sister's not dead; she's asleep in Jesus. She's waiting for the time that when you'll all be together again. When the... Gathered with your people... When the great Stadsklev family comes together, the Petersons, and all that's associated in your family, you'll see little sister there again.I know how you feel, honey. I know how I felt when I gave up my little girl. Not
long after that, I saw a vision of her. And you who have... You'll read it in my life story. And I'll be with her again some glorious day when the family's gathered together. And then together we'll meet,
wherever we are, scattered across the world. If you notice, the order of the resurrection: They which are asleep (and that's dead). Christians don't die, you know. But saying in our way: dead. "Dead"
means "separation." "Death," rather, means "separation."

Then them which are asleep shall not prevent those which are awake at the coming of the Lord.
"For the trumpet of God shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. And we'll be caught up together with them to meet the Lord in the air." You notice the order of the resurrection? "We which are alive and remain to the coming of the Lord (II Thessalonians, I believe about the 5th chapter) shall not prevent (or hinder) those that are asleep. The trumpet shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first." And notice the next, "Then we which are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them."See, we meet them first. Now, I wonder, how God in His great mercy, when
He'd be worshipped perfectly there, and when... He knew that. He knew that if we got there first to worship Him, and then we'll go to look around, wonder where baby is, and where mother is, and
where this one or that one; but (You see?) He lets us meet one another first. So when you go up to worship before the Lord on that day, she'll be with you. See?

 "We not prevent or hinder those which are asleep, for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first, and we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them, caught up together with them to meet the Lord in the air." And then we meet one another first and then stand before Him to crown Him the King of king and the Lord of lord. Oh, what a worship.When I see those precious ones. I preached and labored through the years, my loved ones, and meet them all, and then together hand in hand, stand in His Presence, won't we worship Him? To know when we take off our crowns and lay them before His feet, and say, "It was by Thy grace, Lord. We--we didn't merit a thing, but You brought us all together again with Eternal Life. We could never be separated no more, never have no more heartaches. Never will there be a funeral service among us. Never will there be flowers strowed along in the graveyard. Never will there be an ambulance, or a--no medicine to be taken. There'll be nothing but just living with the Lord, with each other, to enjoy the Eternal Life. And 'course, that's for eternity.
I'm waiting, watching for the coming of that grad-glad day, that when Jesus will come.

Now, may God's rich blessings be with you. Now, this morning, it was rather shocking. After you said to me yesterday, Sister Stadsklev, on the phone about praying for the baby, I had a real
strange, odd feeling. I went in and prayed, and come back out, and took the Bible in my hand. I said, "Lord, could You even show me a Scripture to start with?"When I opened up, it had--it opened to
that flyleaf that's in the middle of a Bible that says, "Death: Record of death." Then I prayed again. And I don't remember just where the Scripture was, but it was something about a death of someone else. I never opened it no more. I went to the woods, and later I found out the baby was even dead before you called. And then this morning, when these words came, "Do not rebuke this. This is the hand of the Lord."...
You know, many times, when I'm called to a--a case, why, I'll stand up there if it's sickness and say, "Sickness, I withstand you. I adjure thee, or rebuke thee, in the Name of Jesus." That, like the little
boy raised in Finland and other places, you know, withstanding it, because that's when God has told me to do it. Then it's not my word that rebukes it; it's the Word of the Lord.

And then, this morning when I was seeking, and last night, seeking the Word of the Lord for you, the Word of the Lord came unto me saying, "Rebuke this not, for it is the hand of the Lord," so sweet and kind. So as I said this morning to you, Sister Stadsklev, "Sleep on, little one. Take your rest. God has called. He knows what's best." And confide yourself into the will of God. Humble your
hand--your--humble yourself under His mighty hand.
My heart bleeds for you, as I think of you away from home, way across over there tonight in a strange land, among strange people, know no one. And your little, precious darling's gone on. But
how God knows, and how to take care of these situations. How He knows what to do. He knows what's best.

And, Sister Stadsklev, way I thought about my little Sharon, the way children are today, may be God had to say this. "I have to break your heart for a little bit, Julius, Gloria, David, Deborah,
Grandpa, and Grandma, and all your associates; I'll have to break your heart for a little bit. But you love that baby. I never give it to you. I just lended it to you for a little while to bring a little joy in your home. I've got to have it up with Me now. If I leave it there, Satan will make a great stumble out of it, and you'll lose it. So I can keep it better than you can. I'll just bring it up to Me, let it stay up here until you come, where you cannot lose it no more."God bless you, Brother Julius, and your family.
Anytime I that can be a favor to you, do anything for you, if the Lord would ever reveal anything more to me, I'll certainly be glad to send it right to you. And now, I'll write you a letter pretty soon.
And I thought this tape you'd hear it, and it might make you, you know, be a little closer to us, and we'd be a little closer together.

May the Lord ever richly bless you, my precious brother, and comfort you now in this great and dark hour that you're going through. And write me and let me know how you're getting along. And I'll be praying for you. Until I see you, may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ ever be with you. I'm going to have a little prayer before this little tape runs out. Lord Jesus, give peace, and satisfaction, and rest to my precious friends who this tape is designated to, the Stadsklev family, and the Petersons. May they know that You've called, and You know what's the best thing to do. Grant it, Lord. I commit them unto you. In the Name of Your Son, Jesus Christ.
Amen.

DID YOU KNOW THAT ONLY FOUR PEOPLE (and I mean 1, 2, 3, 4 -only four) ATTENDED THE BURIAL CEREMONY OF JESUS CHRIST?

DID YOU KNOW THAT ONLY FOUR PEOPLE (and I mean 1, 2, 3, 4 -only four) ATTENDED THE BURIAL CEREMONY OF JESUS CHRIST? Joseph of Arimathaea, Nicodemus, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary (mother of Joses).

John 19: 38-42 (KJV)
38 And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus. 39 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight. 40 Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury. 41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid. 42 There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.

Matthew 27: 57 -61
When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple: 58 He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. 59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed. 61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.

Mark 15 : 43 -47
43 Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. 44 And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead. 45 And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph. 46 And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre. 47 And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid.

"No. No. There's nothing wrong, no, not a thing wrong. Only thing's wrong is you."

There was a lady came down the other day from--from Zion City; she may be here now... about a month ago. That little woman, her little husband, a beautiful little couple, and they came down to my place, and--and they come down with some good friends of mine, Simmses, from up there at Zion. And they may all be setting here tonight as far as I know.And she had a little baby; I think it was born with it's foot hanging up like this and--and couldn't get its foot down. And--and she just said, "If I can only see Brother Branham put his hands on this baby, that foot will drop down." Why, she brought its shoes to wear home and everything. She... that's... Yes, sir.

So I was praying up at the Tabernacle at--or preaching, and then when I got through, I was trying to make a way to get out to another meeting and--or over in Bloomington, Illinois. And then, the first thing you know, when I started to leave the platform, I believe we was going in to take footwashing.We're... We believe in footwashing. I--I believe that the Bible teaches that. And we're supposed to do it until He comes. And so we try to keep every Word that He said. And we was observing this at our church, which we always have, for thirty years now.
We were going in for footwashing, and--and my son come up, and said, "Dad, there's--there's a people come from Zion there." Said, "They was expecting to have prayer for the sick tonight." He said, "They got a little baby that, that woman believes if you'd ever pray for that baby, that little leg would drop down. It's got a bad leg."
I said, "Bring it here." And the little, beautiful little mother.
She come up and she said, "My baby, Brother Branham. We have believe, husband and I, when you lay your hands on this baby, that the leg is going to come straight. It's going to be all right."
I said, "Do you require me to find a vision from the Lord?"
She said, "No, sir. Just lay your hands on her."
I said, "All right, I'll do that." Laid my hands upon it, prayed for it, went on in the room.

And the next day I was out at the office. When I was setting out there and--and answering some calls, and--and doing some work there at the office. A car drove up and the little lady got out, her, and her husband. And here they come. Said, "Brother Branham," said--said, "something went wrong."And I said, "Oh, what--what do you mean?"
"Why," she said, "the--the baby's leg's not down yet."
And I said, "Well, what's that got to do with it?"
And she said, "Well, I--I--I believed, Brother Branham. I believed if--if you'd ever lay your hands on my baby that God would heal it." Said, "I believed it." And said, "Something went wrong somewhere." She said, "Maybe you'd better have a vision for it."
I said, "No. No. There's nothing wrong, no, not a thing wrong. Only thing's wrong is you." See? I said, "You just believe it."

She said, "One thing I'll ask, Brother Branham, do you think it's God's will for my baby to be crippled?"I said, "I do not believe it's God's will."
She said, "That's all I wanted you to say." Out of there she went.
And few days ago they called up. And now, the baby's leg's back normal. Come down. They... See, we just get a flusterated; that's all. Everything's running all right. Everything's just according to time.
WMB~ FORGOTTEN BEATITUDE~61-0425E

"Sir, I defy that statement. God healed the boy."

I was reading an article yesterday (I believe it was), a series of newspaper clippings from Jack Coe, the late Jack Coe, one of my converts to the Lord Jesus, who was a mighty man of valor in his day, and was called to question down in Florida, because of asking a young child to remove its braces from its legs and to walk across the platform. And upon doing so, the child walked across the platform normally and fell when it got to its mother, all being a setup of the enemy of Christ.This young woman and her husband brought our gallant brother into the courts of the land. And when every church ought to have stood by Brother Jack, when every churchman that mentions the Name of Jesus Christ should've stood by his side gallantly, every man that calls on the Name of the Lord Jesus should've fell to their knees in prayer; but instead of that, across the headlines of the papers, one of our great denominations said they joined hands with the atheists to condemn and prison Brother Jack Coe. Could you imagine a church calling themselves the Name of Christ, would join hands with an atheist to condemn a godly man, who was trying with all of his heart to stand for the Bible? But they did it.

And then Brother Gordon Lindsay was at the rescue, and when the unbelieving judge said, "This man is a fraud, because he taken the braces from that child and sent him across the platform, and said he was healed, and he lied, and he did something contrary to the doctor's orders; therefore, he has a defraud case against him."And Mr. Coe raised up, and he said, "Sir, I defy that statement. God healed the boy."
And the judge said, "I will ask any man in this court if that statement could be true that God could heal that boy on one end of the platform, and let him be sick on the other end. If that statement can be proved by the Bible, then I say Mr. Coe has a right for his statement."
And a minister raised his hand and said, "Your Honor, sir, may I state it?"
And the judge said, "State on."

And the minister stood to his feet and said, "One night on a rocking sea, when a little ship was about to go to the bottom; all hopes of being saved was gone. They saw Jesus, the Son of God, come walking on water. And one of the apostles by the name of Peter, said, 'If that be You, Lord, bid me come to You on the water.'"And He said, "The Lord said to the apostle, Peter, 'Come on.' And he stepped out of the boat, sir, walking just as good as Jesus was walking on the water. But when he got scared, he begin to sink before he got to Jesus."
The judge said, "The case is dismissed."  WMB~ Rejected king 60-0515M

In the discussion when the late Jack Coe... Many might have known him. He was a very personal friend of mine. I thought very much of Brother Jack. And he had such a (excuse the expression), like a bulldog faith to just hold on for healing. And he would... Someone would come up with crutches, he had him an axe or something there, he'd cut them up and break them up, before he had them... prayer for them. He wasn't going away on them crutches anymore. If they couldn't walk away, they could crawl away until they got enough faith to...And he had a little anvil and a hammer laying there, and someone would come up with glasses on to be prayed for, for their eyes, he'd reach up and take them off, and break them all up with the anvil, throw them over to one side.

So he got in some trouble down in Florida. Satan set a trap for him and got a child that he took the braces off of. 'Course you know the story. Reverend Gordon Lindsay was down there in the trial when the judge said, "You claim that boy to be healed?"And Brother Jack said, "He was healed"
"Oh," said, "there's no such a thing as that."
Said, "When I took the braces off of him, he walked across the platform. He said he was healed."
Said, "Now, if you can produce one Scripture where God ever did anything like that--would be healed here, or something, and it'll just last a moment, why, I'm willing to take down on it."
Brother Lindsay raised up and said, "I can produce a Scripture."
Said, "Let's hear it."
Said, "One night on a stormy sea, Jesus told Peter to come walking to Him on water. As long as he walked... He was on top of the water as he believed, but when he got ready to disbelieve, he sank."

So that's right. So the judge dismissed the case. There could be no more about it. That's exactly. See, he was... As long as he was walking he was all right; but when he begin to doubt, down he went.And that's just how long divine healing lasts: as long as you believe it. And that's how long salvation lasts: just as long as you believe it.
Someone said to me some time ago, said, "Brother Branham, I don't care what you would produce, what you would say, or anyone else, that... You might raise up ten dead people, and make every cripple walk," said "I still would not believe it."
I said, "Certainly not. It wasn't for unbelievers; it was just for those who believe." That's all. It's just for believers.
Jesus said, "To those that believe." Unbelievers are not even included, see. You're just to be pitied. Something wrong somewhere. So if you're a believer, why, it's for you. If you're not a believer, then it's not for you.  WMB~ CONFERENCES 61-0410

You can have the baptism of the Holy Ghost every hour in your life and still be lost and go to hell.

The choice of your conduct, you could... You can't mix it now. You're either for God or against God, and the outward expressions shows exactly what's on the inside. See? The cocklebur, many of you think, "I got the baptism of the Holy Ghost; I'm going to heaven." That don't mean one thing that you're going to heaven. No, sir. You can have the baptism of the Holy Ghost every hour in your life and still be lost and go to hell. The Bible says so. See? It's exactly right.

Look here, you are a outside person. You have five senses that contacts that outside body. God gave you five senses; not to contact Him, your earthly home: see, taste, feel, smell, and hear.Then you have a spirit on the inside of that, and it has five outlets: conscience, and love, and so forth. Five outlets that you contact the spirit world with that, but with your spirit.
Your physical contacts the physical. Your spiritual contacts the spiritual. But inside of that you've got a soul, and that soul is that gene that come from God.  

It might cost you everything you got. It might cost you your home; it might cost you your friendship; it might cost you your stitch-and-sew party; it might cost you your place at the Kiwanis. It might... I don't know what it'll cost you, but it'll cost everything that's worldly or pertains to the world. You'll have to separate yourself from everything that's worldly. You'll have to do it.Moses laid everything aside and went into the desert with a stick in his hand. Amen. Days after days passed. And wonder if he thought he made a mistake? No.
Many times people start out, and they say, "Oh, I'll do it. Glory to God, I see It." And let somebody laugh at you and make fun of you, "Probably I was wrong."
He said, "They that cannot stand chastisement are bastard children and not the children of God." See, they're worked up on the emotion. See, these seed that I talked about awhile ago, that soul wasn't there to start with. It was anointed with the Spirit, and he done all kinds. Oh, you--they... And when your spirit's anointed, you can... It's a real, genuine Holy Ghost, and you could still be a devil.  WMB ~ Leadership 65-1207 


Notice, we find today that people... There's many people just can't believe it, even Spirit-filled people. I'm going to give you one that'll choke you. The baptism of the Holy Ghost don't mean you're going in, not at all, not on that, don't have anything to do with your soul. That's the baptism. See? Here's the inside soul in here, that has to come from God. But then on the outside you have five senses, and five out--inlets to your contact your earthly home. The inside, you have a spirit, and in there you have five outlets: your conscience, and love, and so forth, five outlets to that spirit. Remember, in that spirit you can be baptized with the genuine Spirit of God and still be lost. It's the soul that lives; that was ordained of God. Didn't Jesus say, "Many will come to Me in that day, and say, 'Lord, haven't I cast out devils, done great and mighty works, prophesied, the great gifts of God?'"
He said, "Depart from me, you that work iniquity, I never even knew you. Many will come in that day." 

If there's any in here tonight, Lord, that's holding in their heart that grain, that gene of God that's ordained to Life from the foundation of the world; I know, Lord, that they're bound to hear at this hour. So I pray, God, that You'll fill their soul and illuminate them with a fresh baptism of the Holy Ghost, and send them on their road, rejoicing and happy.Lord God, they... I give them to You. I don't know who they are; You do. I'm only responsible for preaching Your Word, Lord, as You reveal It. You're responsible for the rest of it: where the seed falls. I just sow it. Lord God, I pray that it fell in good, rich soil tonight, that many will see it, Lord, and rise to shining Christians in this last days, that the great thing that we're looking forward to come, will come quickly. Grant it, Lord. And You'll take Your church, Your Bride, and take Her home.  WMB ~ Modern events made clear by prophecy 65-1206

"How can I teach them algebra when they won't even believe their abc's?"

There was a fine brother, said, "I'm going to lay hands on you, Brother Branham. I love you. You're ruining your ministry." Said, "You ain't got no business telling them women about that." Said, "Let the pastors do it."I said, "They don't do it though." I said, "Now..."
He said, "Well, it's not your business; you just pray for the sick."
I said, "Whose business is it then? I was called to preach the Gospel."
Said, "I'll lay hands on you and ask God to take it away then."
I said, "If you'll let--let me lay hands on you too." See? And I said, "I'll pray that God will open your eyes and you'll see it." So that's right.
He said, "You ought to preach... The people believe you to be a servant, a prophet of God." He said, "You ought to teach them women how to--to get great gifts and prophesy and things."
I said, "How can I teach them algebra when they won't even believe their abc's?" See, see?...?... you do it. That's just in every... That's right. If you can't do the common things, how you going to do the spiritual things, the natural things? Certainly. Brother, sister, it might sound like a joke, but it's the Gospel. It's the Gospel truth. That's right.

WMB ~ Modern events made clear by prophecy