<TITLE>04. Par 14-16</TITLE>L-14 If you bought my ticket... I'm fixing to drive home just in a little bit after the services, so I can get the wife and babies and be in Zion by Tuesday. But now... That's about a six, seven hundred miles' trip, right quick. Now, if you'd say, "Brother Branham, I have an airplane ticket laying out here for you. You drive down--go down by plane."
Well, if I never go... And you have taken your money and purchased that airplane ticket, but yet, it'll never do me no good, no matter how much the airlines say, "Here it is. Your name's here, you're ready." Until I accept that ticket, it'll never do me no good. Is that right? No matter how sincere you are, yet it won't do me any good, till I accept it.
Now, your healing is--is just as complete as the airplane ticket, and more so than what the--the... Your healing is more complete than the airplane ticket would be complete, if you'd paid for it. Is that right? Jesus, when He died, He settled the sin question. And in there, He--He did make an atonement for your sickness. "He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we are healed." That's as plain as I know to see... to report it to you.

L-15 And then, the Bible said that He's the same. When He came on the earth, they said He came and fulfilled that in Matthew 8, many people say. Well, if He did it, then He fulfilled it before the atonement was made. So you see, you couldn't ta... you couldn't say that. When anybody tells you that, it's wrong, 'cause that was a year and six months before Jesus died. And how could He fulfill what Isaiah spoke of, there in the 53rd chapter, when... before He'd even been "wounded for our transgressions, or bruised for our iniquities, or with His stripes we're healed." His stripes hadn't been put on Him yet, so how could it fulfill what Isaiah said, in Matthew 8? It couldn't do it. No, sir. It wasn't until after He was... Then if it was fulfilled there, and you say it was a shadow, just of the atonement, then what did Peter heal the man at the gate called Beautiful for--with? What atonement, what a power, and what authority was that by? See? What about with Paul, and the rest of them, on down through the age, and what is this tonight that's a doing it?

L-16 There's people setting here sick, that'll be well in another hour from now. There's no doubt. Like last night, a man went from this building had never walked in all of his life, and went out the door there walking. What was it? Because I prayed for him? No, sir. Because his faith looked up to God, and was healed. That's why it was. He walked because he felt the power of God and accepted it. He didn't have to feel it; he had to believe it, and got up and walked out. He seen it, and he said, "That's good," and he just got up and walked out.
Last night, as I was leaving, here set a man, setting... had raised up there. I was trying to speak to him. I'd see his vision standing before me, a colored man. He was setting there with a cane in his hand, almost blind and crippled. And when I spoke over, I said, "You crippled there, set up... get up." And the man was a sinner, and I tried to talk to him, but I--I was too far gone. I couldn't speak no more, 'cause they'd taken me out. See? There he was there, out there rejoicing. I told him, "Get your heart right with God," (See?) as I went out.


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