02/04/2022
CHRIST CAME TO SET THE CAPTIVES PEOPLE FREE
Isaiah
Chapter 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
37 God sent His Son, preaching the Gospel. That’s right. The Gospel is the good news. In Isaiah 61, to you who are taking down the Scriptures, God said there, speaking…Isaiah, rather, of Christ’s coming. He said, “God has anointed Me to preach the Gospel, to bring good tidings; and to set the captives free, and to open the prison doors, and let the captives go free.” God sent Christ to open the prison doors of men who are sitting in darkness. And if you notice the—the type that He spoke to, “setting them free,” it wasn’t the illiterate. It was the scholars, the educated one, Christ come to set them free.
40 Many of you, sitting here with cancer, with tumor, and blindness. Some of you, sitting in all kinds of conditions. Yet, God sent Christ to open the prison doors, to set you free. You say, “Is sickness a bondage?” Yes.
50 Christ come to set the captive free. You don’t have to be bound down with habits, halfway Christian life. God don’t want you to be that way. He wants you to be free. God anointed Christ to preach freedom, to open the prison doors. And every time you…
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24 I had a dream, the other morning. I don’t dream very often, I’m not a dreamer. But I—I dreamed that I seen a man, a young fellow in shackels, and he was trying to get out, and—and I said…Somebody told me, said, “Those are horrible people, don’t have nothing to do with them.”
25 And I seen this young fellow getting out of his shackel so I just let him alone. I thought, “I’ll just see what he does.” So when he got out, he was a nice fellow. And I seen others trying to get out.
26 Now, this is only a dream. And I walked over this way and I seen a—a brother, Roy Borders, a very good friend of mine, lives in California. Looked like there’s something wrong, his eyes was half closed, and great big…maybe cancer or something over his eyes. And I…someone was trying to pull me away from him. I screamed, “Brother Borders! In the Name of the Lord Jesus, snap out of that!” 27 And he just barely could speak, saying, “Brother Branham, it’ll have to take something more than this. I just can’t grasp it, Brother Branham. I just can’t grasp it.”
28 I said, “O Brother Borders.” I love him.
29 And someone pulled me away, and I looked, and it was a lady standing over here that I, when I was a little boy, I—I used to haul groceries from the grocery store to the peoples. And her name was Mrs. Fenton, she lives in Jeffersonville yet, a personal friend to the wife and I.
30 And she said, “Brother Branham, deliver us from this.” Said, “This is a house of hell.” And said, “You’ve been misunderstood.” And said, “These…And you—you misunderstood these people, too.” Said, “These are fine people, but…” And I looked over there, and like a great big cellar, or—or big walls, down beneath a great big cave; and great iron bars, eight or ten inches thick. And people, out of their mind, twisted arms and legs, beating their head like that. And she was crying, saying, “Deliver the people, Brother Branham.” Said—said, “Help us, we’re in trouble.” She herself, I know her, she belongs to the…I believe the church of Christ, or the Christian church, called Church of the Brethren. So she…
31 I looked around, and I said, “I wished I could.” And go on, looking around; and I…my little, bitty body and—and them great, big iron bars; and those poor people in there. And you couldn’t get to them, them iron bars was setting close together. And I looked, and they were beating their head like they were out of their mind. 32 And I seen some lights flickering around in there. And I looked up, and there stood the Lord Jesus with a—a—a lights of rainbow around Him. He was looking right straight to me, said, “Deliver those people.” And He went away.
33 And I thought, “Well, how could I deliver them? I—I haven’t got strength enough in my arms to break those bars.”
34 So I said, “House of hell, give way to the Name of Jesus Christ.” 35 And all the creaking and popping, and—and rocks rolling, and—and bars falling; and people running, screaming, “Delivered!” and screaming at the top of their voice, and was all delivered.
36 And I was screaming then, “Brother Roy Borders, where are you? Where are you? God is delivering His people! Where are you, Brother Borders?” I’ve wondered about that.
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CHRIST WILLIAM MARRION BRANHAM CAME TO PREACH THE FREEDOM TO THE CAPTIVES PEOPLE