How will you judge the Word of God? Will you be like Mr. Unbeliever and deny God’s promises? Or will you be like Mr. Skeptic, laughing at the Word of God and trying to find mistakes? How about Mr. Impatient? If your prayer is not answered right away, will you lose faith?
Or, will you have the faith of a believer like Abraham who called those things that were not as though they were? Will you be a witness like Joshua who stood against Mr. Impatient and waited forty years to cross over to the Promised Land? Noah, Abraham, Moses, Joshua, Brother Branham, and even the Holy Ghost are called to the stand to defend God’s Word.
Brother Branham is back at the 4H Club Barn for the closing of services in Louisville, Mississippi. If you listen closely, you can hear the rain pouring down on the tin roof of the building. He dedicated the service to praying for the sick, but before doing that, he raised the people’s faith by putting them to the test and encouraging them to judge whether the Message is true or not. Yes, the Holy Spirit came down that day in Mississippi and testified for Himself that the Message is absolutely the truth.
Mr. Unbeliever: He complains this, that, "All of God's promised Word is not true."
Mr. Skeptic: He takes the Scripture of God's Word, of James 5:14. And he said he was in a place where they claimed that the elders was called, and he was anointed with oil and prayed over. And that was over a month ago, and there has been no change in him yet, so he knows that that's wrong. He is calling God, and indicting God, for it.
Mr. Impatient: He claims that he read out of God's Word, in Mark 11:22 and 23, that when if you prayed, if you believed that what you've prayed for, you receive, you should have what you asked for." And he said that he asked to lay down his crutches, after he read the Word and asked God to heal him. And he asked to lay down his crutches, and that's been five years ago, and he's never been able to lay them down since.
Here are a few things Mr. Believer said:
Oh, what ought that to do to us! Though we be alienated, though we're in a dark world of unbelief, and sorrow and sickness and death, yet let's act like sons and daughters of God. We are the sons and daughters of the King. It ought to change our attitude, everything. No matter what the rest of the world is, we must hold up the rights of God. We remember that this is not our home. We are not of this country. We're not of this world. We're born of the Spirit of God, which is Above.
God fortified His children behind His Word. And the very first time you step from behind It, you're a target to the devil. But he can't get you as long as you're fortified by the Word.
You be the judge. Your mind is the jury. Every jury has to make up its mind. I'm closing the court. You be the judge. Your mind is the jury. And your actions from hereafter, this afternoon, when we lay hands on the sick, that'll spell what your verdict was.
Now remember. Let me quote this again. Listen close. Your mind is your jury, on this case. And your actions from here out, will be, will pronounce what your judgment is.
Remember, now, there is no power in none of these ministers. There is no power in me. There is no power in any man, to heal. But we have authority from God, to do this. We don't have power; we have authority. Here is our authority, God's Word, and the Presence of Jesus Christ proves that He's here. What? You should be healed, every one!