“FAITH MUST HAVE A RESTING PLACE”

JAMES 2:19

Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

Mark 9:17-24

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And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit;

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And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.

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He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me.

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And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.

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And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child.

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And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.

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Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

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And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

James 2:14-17

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What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?

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If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,

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And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?

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Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

25 Now, faith is not based upon the shifting sands of man’s ideas. If I come here and told you there was an Angel of the Lord that was in the building, and these things happening, if I didn’t have something to prove that to you, you’d have a right to doubt it. If I said God gave a gift to do a certain thing and you seen it come right back around and fail, fail, fail, you’d say, that’s wrong. But when it comes back and God proves it every time to be perfect, then that’s right; God has proved it. Faith has to have a resting place. 26 If you were going to get married, some of you young men…If you were going to get married, the woman that you’d marry, you’d have to have faith in her; she’d have to have faith in you, ’cause it can’t be based upon anything else, you’ve got to have faith in what we’re doing. And the only solid resting place for faith is on God’s Word. God’s Word is a solid Rock. Of any faith that anybody wants to have in the supernatural, it must be placed first in the Word of the living God. How, it’s been through the age, how that when men of old in all ages, when they would really find the Word of God and could grasp It, faith went into action right away. 27 Look at Noah way back in Genesis. When God spoke to Noah that day, the Word of God came to Noah and told him to build an ark for the saving of his household. And you know, the world stood upright before the antediluvian destruction; it wasn’t leaning back like this to bring water. And when God told Noah He was going to send a flood, a rain, why, you know he had critics. But faith doesn’t look at what circumstances is; faith looks to what God says. Faith don’t try to reason. Faith just takes it at its face value. Now, there’s two different kinds of what we call faith today. And I’m sorry to say this to my audience tonight, but I’m real sure of this, that’s there’s too much intellectual faith in the stead of being heart faith.

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Note; Faith in more than a feeling-

28 See, so many a revivals are going across the country and people are claiming to be saved, and great evangelists saying they had so many thousands saved and so forth. And then you go back and find out those people don’t stay. {They have}just an emotion in the meeting, and their worked away. Many people in the meeting raise up and claim healing and walk away, more by emotion or more by psychic than they do by real Divine revelation of the Lord Jesus. And the first little pain strikes them, they give up and say, “Well, I didn’t get my healing.” Now, if you really believe that with your heart, ten thousand pains would never make you give it up. That’s right, ’cause you, your faith is already went to motion. You, you’re in action right then.

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(If you come on the bases of the word you can have perfect faith of your healing and your salvation)

29 Now, when God spoke to Noah and told him the impossible…Now, there was no rain, never had rained, and never was a cloud in the sky or anything else; but Noah knew that it was going to rain because God said so. Now, he was considered fanatic. He was considered a little crazy, I suppose, in his day, a real fanatic. And most always, when you find people that’ll dare to take God at His Word, they’re considered neurotics or fanatics. That’s right. The real true believer has never had the world to pat him on the back; it’s always against him, because he takes God at His Word. And God has never been a friend to the world in the way of the world a being a friend of God, I mean. they’re against God because they can’t understand God. And you’ll never know God only by faith. 30 But Noah, he moved with fear, knowing that there was coming a destruction; and he built an ark because he had his faith rested upon God’s Eternal Word. No matter how much the people said it can’t be done, no matter how much science combed the globe and said there’ll never be clouds up there, there’s no rain to come down; if God’s Word said that it’s going rain, it’s up to God to make a way for the rain. If God said so, that settles it. That’s what we ought a do. That’s what this—this little group in here ought to do tonight. Take God just for what He says, Don’t make no difference how it looks; don’t reason it. If you’ve only got intellectual faith, you’ll reason God’s Word; you’ll try to reason It, say, “Now, let me see. Now, the doctor said I can’t get well, and if the doctor said so, that ought to settle it.” That’s reason. Faith don’t reason; faith believes it anyhow.

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34 So if you just only got a mental conception of the Bible, if you say, “Well, I—I believe it because I read it. God’s got to reveal it to you by your heart. No man can call Jesus the Christ, only by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit deals in the heart. So if a man really believes it from his heart, he’s not afraid to put it to a test. But if you’re just mentally, you’ll reason it out, say, “Well, I couldn’t do that. They might do it; this one might’ve done it. she might a got well, but I don’t know about myself.” But if you’ve really based your faith on God’s Eternal Word and it’s down in your heart, all devils out of torment can’t upset you. No, sir, you’ve got to stay there. 35 I know what I speak of, because I’ve seen it, and I’ve put it to the test myself, and I know that it’s true. Why would I stand here on the platform at night and challenge an audience of many thousands. Stood in Bombay, India, five hundred thousand people and challenged them, seventeen different religions to come to the platform and show me one visible sign of a supernatural being. And stood right in the midst of atheist and unbelievers and witch doctors and everything else, standing out there by the dozens, trying to throw a spell on me. And challenged a blind man, (Hallelujah), and God gave his sight right there and turned the whole thing around. Why, God said He’d do it; that’s all. Only thing you do…God said so. That’s good enough for me, if He told me He’d be with me and help me in these things, He will do it. Amen. He has done it, eight years, nine years has passed in the ministry and He’s still doing it and He will continue to do it because He’s God and He cannot lie. God’s Word is right every time. If you’ll only look and see what the Word says… 36 What if Pharaoh would’ve looked into the Word of God? He would’ve changed his attitudes toward Moses and the rest of—of the Israelites. If he’d have looked in and see where God promised by His Word He was going to bring the children of Israel out of Egypt, he would’ve done it; he would’ve changed his attitude towards the people. But he—he was all so busy; he went to church, sure, a very religious man. And he went to church, and he was a, what you call, a mental believer, a psychic believer, or whatever you want to call it. He had a knowledge of what he was doing in the mental way. But to have a real revelation that God was going keep that Word, if he’d have had that, he wouldn’t have acted toward Moses the way he did.

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Note; faith in action-

38 And Moses’ faith did not rest upon what he could do with the biggest army in the world. It didn’t rest on what he could do setting on Pharaoh’s throne as a Pharaoh. His faith rested upon what THUS SAITH THE LORD said. What did he have to do? If he’d have chose to set on Pharaoh’s throne, there’d have been little maidens come by and given him wine and everything, and they’d have brought him food and everything. 39 But he looked out into that desert. Would take a two million Jews with much—not much more than heathens, to take them out there in the desert where there wasn’t even a—a growing thing. He had to feed them in the journey for forty years. He had deserts and disappointments and everything ahead of him. But God’s Word give the promise he’d take them to the promised land, and Moses took out after God’s Word. 40 Why? If Moses would’ve took the—Pharaoh’s throne, he’d have been known as another Pharaoh. He’d be gone and in torment today. But he’s immortal among men today because he chose rather, and put his faith into action. “How you going to do it Moses? What can you do? How can you a—a one man lead a two million people to a promised land?” “God said so.” And he was a vindicated by an Angel who come down and talked to him and told him that he was born for this purpose. And Moses knew what he was talking about. So he didn’t stand back and baby around with it; he put his faith into action. 41 That’s what it takes. No matter how much faith you’ve got, if you won’t use it, it’s no good to you. That’s right. What good is a God of Moses, if He ain’t the same God today? What good is a historical God? You people who go to church, and your church only teaches that some historical fact about the Holy Ghost coming back on the day of Pentecost, there is no such a thing today, there was healing back there that…What good does that do you? Just no more than reading George Washington once lived. That’s right. Abraham Lincoln once lived according to the history. Abraham Lincoln lived, according to the history. George Washington lived. But they’re dead and buried, according to the history.

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Rev. William Marrion Branham

42 What we need today is some real genuine faith put into action. Yes, sir. We need real faith and men who dare to put God’s Words to their heart and apply it to themselves. You try to apply it to the generation gone by, but the Bible says that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and forever. He’s forever God. He never fails. He’s the same in principle; He’s the same in power. He’s the same tonight that he was when he walked on the banks of Galilee, and appears nightly on this platform and proves Hisself alive from the dead. Amen. You don’t have to take any history about it; it’s a right now present time fact that we see it. Amen.

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What good’s it going to do you to read of a historical God if He isn’t the same God today? What good’s it going to do to read about old George Washington if he’s dead and gone? It’s just a history fact. But Jesus raised from the dead, and He’s the same today. 44 What good does it do to—to paint fire to a freezing man? Show him a picture of a nice big warm fire and the man’s a freezing; that’s something that was. That’s what people are trying to keep you alive by today. No wonder we got a failure in America of—of religion. No wonder the magazine says the spiritual on-go is a burst. Is because that they failed to represent the right thing to them. They’re trying to teach them of a historical God. But what we need today is a God resurrected from the dead and on hand right now to do whatever He promised He would do to confirm His Word. And we need delegates out there in the audience who’s willing to rest their soul on any Word that God said and put it to action. Amen. That’s what we need today. That’s what we need is men and women who stand up to the forefront there and call the devil a liar, and say, “Jesus Christ stripped you and robbed you of every right you had, and I’m in Christ Jesus, and the world belongs to me.” Amen. Right. 45 What good does it do to have a bird to have wings as long as you’ve got him in a cage? He can’t fly, he don’t need no wings. If you got him in a cage. Oh you…That’s the way a lot of these people are. They’re in a cage, taught the days of miracles is past, “Oh, there’s a God, oh, yes we believe that Jesus was His Son; I’ve accepted Him as personal Saviour. But I tell you all those things is back there in the old days, they’re past. The days of miracles is past.” What good’s your wings going to do you? What good’s your faith going to do you, if you can’t turn it loose? What good’s your faith going to do if you can’t put it in action? Certainly, if I believe Jesus lives today, I’ll put it in action. Amen. 46 He lives today; He’s the same Jesus; certainly He is. If the blind Bartimaeus could trust Him, I can to. If the woman with the blood issue could touch His garment, I can to. For He’s open and willing; He’s begging and accepting. “Whosoever will, let him come and drink from the Waters of Life freely.” What we need today’s a revival of that type. Oh, you might take your bird and feed him very good orthodox food, oh, yes. You might give him fish bone birdseed and everything else, but what good is it going to do him? What does fish bone do, what does birdseed do, develop wings. What good’s his wings, if you got him in a cage? That’s the way it is today. You—you might send your seminary boys in there, and teach them all kind of theology, and all about this, that, or the other, but if you’re afraid to turn your faith loose to trust God, what good does it do to teach them. Amen. What we need’s to turn loose. Let your faith go in action. 47 I like David. He knowed that the—Samuel the prophet had poured the oil on his head. Come up there to the army that day, and there stood old, big old Goliath over there making his boasts, and the armies of God all backed up with their theology. That they were Israelites and circumcised and so forth, but a-scared. Oh, that reminds me of the church today: scared to make a move. He come out and made a boast, but the wrong man heard it ( ’fore them). A little old scrawny, runty looking boy about like that, with a little piece of sheepskin wrapped around him, said, “You mean to tell me, you cowards will stand here and let that uncircumcised Philistine defy the armies of the living God?” He was ready to put what he had to action. Hallelujah. 48 That’s what we need tonight is to get somebody who will take what you got and put it to action. Let your faith go. Why, he said, told Saul, said, “Your servant was herding his Father’s sheep, and a lion come up to get a—a lamb, and I took the slingshot and knocked him down; he rose up against me; I took my knife and killed him.” He said, “A bear went after another one, and I took it out of his mouth.” He said, “God helped me to do that, how much more will He, that uncircumcised Philistine who’s defying the armies of the living God.” Amen, I like that. Yes, sir. 49 Now, Saul wanted to send him to a seminary, you know, and get him fixed up. He went and took his great big armor and put on him, it made him bowlegged. That’s what’s the matter today, we got so many theologies and different degrees, and doctor’s, and everything, until it’s…Why, you know Saul found out that his ecclesiastical vest didn’t fit a man of God. He said, “Throw this thing off a me. I ain’t got no use for it. It don’t fit me.” 50 Now, I don’t see where any great big names and so forth fits a real man of God. The Holy Ghost saved me; the Holy Ghost give me this; the Holy Ghost is good enough for me to trust. I know if I just put Him to action, it’s His Word, God will bring it to pass. Certainly, if you only knew what you know and put your faith to work, God will do the same thing for you. The God of Moses is not dead. the God of David’s not dead. This God’s still alive. 51 Jesus come; He knew Who He was. When He went down there to the grave of Lazarus after the Father had showed Him a vision. Told Him go leave the house of Lazarus, was gone for four days, they sent for Him, He didn’t go back. He knew what was going to happen after the time fulfilled the vision. He said, “Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; I go wake him.” When he gets to the grave, He said, “I thank You Father that You’ve already heard Me.” Sure he was crying when He went to the grave, He was sympathy with the people. But when He got to the grave there, there wasn’t a doubt in His mind. Said, “Father, I thank Thee because You’ve already heard Me. But for these that’s standing by, I said. Said, ‘Lazarus come forth.’” And a man that had been dead four days, come out of the grave. Why, He knew where He was standing; He knew that He was the anointed Christ. He knew He had God’s Word. He knew that what God showed Him was the truth. 52 And that same Word…And He promised it to you. Whatsoever you ask in my Name, that I’ll do.” That’s right. He defeated the devil on the Word of God. The devil come to Him and said, “Now, you do a miracle before me; I hear you’re going to be a miracle worker. You do something before me.” That devil still lives. “Turn these stones into bread and eat, and I’ll believe you.” Jesus said, “It is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” 53 There’s where his faith was anchored. There’s where every man and woman faith to be anchored tonight is upon the living Word of God. You believe that, you can put it in action. Jesus when he was here on earth. He said, “Verily, verily I say unto you, I can do nothing in myself; I’m the Son, I can do nothing; but what the Father shows Me, that I do. I come to do the will of God.” And when He went away he said this ministry shall not cease now. “For the very things that I do, you will do also. For I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world.” And this will be a sign,” Hallelujah. “The very things that I do, shall you do till the end of the world.” 54 He that…“There—there’ll be people that will not see Me no more, but you shall see Me. For I’ll be with you even in you to the end of the time.” Jesus Christ is raised from the dead tonight.

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Rev. William Marrion Branham

HEBREWS 11:5-8

5By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. 7By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith. 8By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

59 The heroes of the Old Testament had faith; they put it in action. You’ve got them for an example. Now we’ve got faith, but you won’t put it in action. Ride away on the powers of the Holy Spirit.

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160 And the revelation is the only thing, the revelation of the Word. What is the…What is a revelation? Jesus said, “Upon this rock I’ll build My Church, and the gates of hell can’t prevail against It.” Faith is a revelation; because Faith has been revealed to you.    65-1125 - The Invisible Union Of The Bride Of Christ Matthew 16:16–18 “And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”

81 But Abel, by faith, chose a lamb, for it was blood and life that taken it, and he drug him to a rock and hammered his little throat until he bled to death. God said, “That’s righteous Abel.” That’s right. How did it come to him? By revelation, not by intellectual. Through his heart he knew it. 82 Jesus said, “Upon this rock I’ll build My Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against It.” Spiritual revelation, spiritual conception! “Man looks upon the outside,” says the Scripture, “God looks on the heart.”    58-1221E - The Unity Of One God In The One Church