Something Real
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In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, And a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord.
And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt: For they shall cry unto the Lord because of the oppressors, And he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
And the Lord shall be known to Egypt, And the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day, And shall do sacrifice and oblation; Yea, they shall vow a vow unto the Lord, and perform it.
And the Lord shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: And they shall return even to the Lord, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
Introduction.
Introduction.
Man was created to worship. The Ancient Egyptians worshipped many gods, none of them real.
When the Apostle Paul went to Athens he stood on Mars Hill and was moved by the things he saw to preach a sermon.
Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
He said, “let me tell you about something real.”
We do not declare a new theology, or another denomination, we declare there is something real, and that is the Resurrected Lord Jesus Christ.
In India Bro. Branham stood in front of the representatives from 15 different major religions and a blind man stood before him. He was blind from worshipping the sun. Man was created to worship.
He thought, “There is nothing I can do for this man”, but then he saw a vision of the man receiving his sight. Now he knew where he stood.
“Oh, brethren, our religion is not a fiction. It’s not some Santa Claus story. It’s a real living Jesus. Don’t be afraid to put Him to the test on His Word, ’cause He will keep His Word then. That’s right. He will keep His Word.
I said, “Here stands a man of the worship of the sun, who testifies of being blind for twenty years.” And I said, “He is now here seeking his sight.” I said, “Surely, the God Who made him, the Creator who made him,” I said, “could give him back his sight.”
I said, “Now, of course, you Sikhs, and you Jains, and Mohammedans, and Buddhists, and so forth, you say that He’s wrong.” But I said, “What would you do? You’d say, ‘Come over to me.’ What would you do? You’d change his way of saying his prayer.” I said, “What would you do? You would only change his philosophy.”
I said, “You would have him to worship something else, or do something, or change of his way of praying.” I said, “We have the same thing in America,” I said, “but that wouldn’t help the man.” I said, “You’d only proselyte him.”
And I said, “If he come over here to change from a worshipper of the sun, which you say…He worships the creation instead of the Creator. That’s what he did, and through ignorance he did this. But what would you do if you made him a Jain? What would you do if you made him a Mohammedan?”
I said, “Why, he would be no better off. He’s still blind, and you would only change his philosophy, his way of praying, change his idea, change his denomination.”
I said, “We got the same thing in America. All the Baptists wants to convert every Methodist he can to the Baptist church. And every Methodist wants to covert the Baptists.
And the Baptists to the Presbyterian, the Lutheran. The Pentecostal wants to take them all.” And I said, “That’s the way it goes. But I said, “What is it? It’s purely psychology.”
But I said, “We have one God where you all have many.” But I said, “That’s the way it is in America. They’re proselyting, and pulling, and fussing, and everything trying to get all to come this, all to come to this, a build a million more in forty-four and all these slogans and things like that.” I said, “What is it? It’s pure human psychology in building up of organizations.”
I said, “I challenge any religion here to come and give him his sight, and he will join your religion and so will I.” I said, “Surely, the Creator Who made him, if He’d seen that he’s worshipped the creation instead of the Creator, surely He would bring him back to his right conditions, to bring him right, if He did this through the ignorance of his worship.”
That was the quietest crowd I ever talked to. Thousands just as far as you could see laying there on each other, and piled together. It was quiet. Every man set on his pillow, of the great priests and them. No man made a move.
He made his challenge.
Jehovah God has raised up His son, Christ Jesus, Who has stood here by me this night and showed me a vision that this man is going to receive his sight, and it’s, THUS SAITH THE LORD. If God doesn’t give that man his sight, I’m a false prophet.”
And I said, “Then my religion I’m representing, I’m falsely representing Christianity. But if the God has said this; then if He does it, how many here will forsake your superstitions and serve the living God Who can restore the sight to the blind?” And as far as you can see, those hands raised in the air.
There’s the showdown. That’s the proof. As the old saying, “The proof of the pudding is the eating thereof.” There it is. Not our theology and not our psychology, but the truth of the real true Creator Who made the heavens and earth.
And as the Holy Spirit brood us from the earth, surely the brooding of the Holy Ghost can restore us back to our right conditions.
And there standing in that place, turning then with a heart just assured as much faith as I believe I could walk to that microphone. Yes, sir. Because, not ’cause it was me. No, brethren. That had nothing to do with it. It was Jehovah God ready to move on the scene.
That’s right. And He’d just showed me by a vision, through a gift. And He wanted to use it at that time. Surely before a bunch of heathens that He would use His gift. There, standing there, walked up to the man and put my hands upon his face, like that.
And I said, “Heavenly Father, You Who showed the vision a few moments ago,” I said, “I feel like Paul of old when he was on the ship, and said, ‘Be of a good courage.’ See? For I know that You’ll give this man his sight, because Thou has said so.
Now, God, the God Who made the heavens and earth, now You Who raised Jesus from the dead, as we can stand and see gravitation lose its power, for He’s the center of gravitation as He raised that cold form body out of the grave and sent Him into glory. Now, let it be known that You’re God this day. I ask it in the Name of Jesus Christ.”
When I held my hand there, and when the prayer, of course wasn’t interpreted, when I dropped my hands, the man looked. He let out a scream. He grabbed me around the waist. He grabbed the mayor of the city and begin hugging him and kissing him. He could see as good as any man setting in here.
But, brother, the commandments of Jesus Christ is just as true today, and just as vital. He’s just as much resurrected today as He ever was. And He is the same Lord Jesus, and He’s with us today. Don’t be afraid; trust the Lord. Amen. 57-0126B - India Trip Report
Isaiah said “There will be an Altar in Egypt” something real.
Denominations can give you a theology or change your opinion, but where is the Lord God of Elijah? We need something real.
The Women at the Well needed to see something real.
He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.
And he must needs go through Samaria.
Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
He changes the conversation to answer her request.
Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
Only a prophet knows the secret of the hearts.
Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
You are too superstitious.
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?
The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,
Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
She saw something real.
A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
Now, if God raised His Son from the dead, we got a right to look for the sign of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. He promised it to us and we got a right for it. 56-0426 - Jesus Christ The Same Yesterday, Today, And Forever
And brother and sister, we are living today to see the direct witness of the resurrected Jesus Christ performing the same things that He did when He was here on earth. 58-0620 - The Queen Of The South
He did it when He was on earth.
Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.
Almost 2000 years later.
Have mercy is my prayer for you. Now, be reverent. No, you don’t live here. You’ve come a long ways from here. Isn’t that right? You come from the state of Illinois. Is that right? About a two hundred mile journey you’ve took. Is that about right?
And you’re suffering with something wrong in your lungs, a lung condition. And, say, I see you trying to get out of the bed of the morning. You have an arthritis condition too. It makes you stiff. If that’s true?
But now believe. You’ve been in a prayer meeting before. It wasn’t mine. It was a man kind of heavyset, chunky built, with kind of a brown hair. And he kind of has a frown on his face like—very sharp speaking man at the meeting. Is that right? If that’s right, raise your hand up. I seen it come before me. It can’t be nothing else. God can’t lie.
The doctor told you to go home. I see him telling you. Said, “The only thing for you to do is take a long rest in the hospital.” Or, wait. I see a prairie. He said you could go west if you wanted to. Is that right? Is that what he told you? Yeah, that’s right. That’s exactly right.
You have a little son at home, don’t you? And he has a lung trouble too. Doesn’t he? If that’s right, raise up your hand. That’s right. Come here just a moment, please.
Almighty God, Author of Life, Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon this woman, upon her household. While she’s standing here and the Holy Spirit moving through her now, may she go home and get well, Father. As Your servant, I bless her, with my hands laying upon her in the Name of Jesus Christ.
And, Satan, you who bound her, done all this evil, we come tonight as the Christian people in the representative Name of Jesus Christ, and we adjure thee, by Him, that you leave the woman and bother her no more. Come out of her through Jesus Christ’s Name. Now, return. Don’t doubt nothing. You’ll get well. God bless you. 53-0606 - An Ensign
Over a dozen unique things he told her.
Setting right back there, there’s a man praying for a child, setting next there: got something wrong with its feet. That is right, isn’t it? I don’t know you; you’re a stranger to me. But Mr. Farmer, do you believe that God’s going to heal the child and make it well?
If I’m a stranger to you, raise your hands like that. Is that what you was praying about? Is that what your name is and all about it? Just raise your hand. You have your request. 61-0427 - Only Believe
Forest Farmer lives in Walnut Ridge Arkansas and preaches the gospel today.
Lady sitting there, looking at me, right on the end of the seat. She got sinus trouble. She’ll believe it, God will heal her. Mrs. Brown, believe with all your heart, Jesus Christ will make…You’re a stranger to me, but He knows you. Uh-huh. You believe it? Raise up your hand. That’s right. 64-0802 - The Future Home Of The Heavenly Bridegroom And The Earthly Bride
I was Mrs. Brown’s pastor for 5 years, she still didn’t have sinus problems. She’s in glory today.
Do you believe? That’s the identification of the Eternal King’s Presence.
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We could go on and on. Something real. Thousands of times, around the world, and it never one time failed. What was it? The sign of the resurrection. The revealing of the Son of Man.
Conclusion.
Conclusion.
Why has Egypt never accepted the Gospel? Maybe they’ve never seen something real.
(Tell story of Mother Deer. ) She was a real mother. Don’t you want to be something real?
That real God is still here today. You can be a real Christian. Would you surrender your heart to Him? If you can Believe, all things are possible.