And the defense Witness also wants to call to your attention here, this afternoon in this court, that the Word of God is said, by Jesus Christ, to be a Seed. And a seed can only grow when it falls into the fertile enough ground to quicken the seed. And if this Seed falls into a ground, and it’s fertile with faith, it’s got to quicken It. But if there’s nothing there…
Just like if you wanted a blood transfusion. You went to a turnip, stuck a tube in yourself and in a turnip, how you going to get any blood? There’s no blood there.
No more can the Word of God ever be quickened in an unbeliever’s heart or a skeptic. It’s got to fall into genuine faith that believes that heavens and earth will pass away, but that Word shall never fail, like Abraham, that called things which was not, as though they were; hoped against hope. He believed God.
Now we find that this defense Witness wants to call this to the attention, that the Word is a Seed that a sower sowed. It’s written in the Scripture, that the Word is a Seed. And a seed must fall. And the Scripture says, “Some did fall on stony ground, and the birds of the air taken it away. Some fell just long enough to get enough roots to spring up, and the thorns and thistles choked it out. But some did go in good ground, and it brought forth a hundredfold.” He wants to call your attention to that.
And He wants to say, that, “If this Word, in this Holy Ghost meeting, where people were having hands laid on, it only applies to believers. There is no promise in here but Eternal separation from God, to unbelievers. It’s only to believers!”
Someone said to me, not long ago, said, “I don’t care how much. I don’t believe.”

William Branham, sermon «A Trial»
https://en.branham.ru/sermons/64-0427