<TITLE>05. Par 43-50</TITLE>L-43 But look, brother, I heard them on the radio the other day, a fellow, fine Baptist minister tried to bypass Acts 19. He said, "Apollos didn't know Jesus, so that's the reason they had to be rebaptized again." Oh, no.
Apollos did know Jesus, and he was proving by the Word of God, that Jesus was the Christ. Amen. And he said, "Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?" That's right.

L-45 A... God gave Abraham the promise, and he believed the promise, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness; but He give him the sign of circumcision as a seal of the promise. Hallelujah. You believe God by faith, that you are saved, and accept Him; and, whenever you do, God gives you the Holy Ghost as the Seal of the promise that He promised you. The Holy Ghost is a Gift of God (That's right.) that circumcises the heart, cuts away the surplus flesh, and makes you a new creature in Christ Jesus. Amen. All right. There you are. It's nothing you had to do in yourself; it's a gift of God. And when you believe correctly, God gives It to you. It's by faith. You... Now, faith isn't what It is.

L-46 Just like I have a quarter, and a loaf of bread costs a quarter. The quarter... [Brother Branham drops a coin--Ed.] (I'll pick it up after while.) The quarter is not the loaf of bread, but the quarter purchases the loaf of bread. It's the prac... it's the... It's what purchases the loaf of bread. (Happened to be, that happened to be a half a penny from Africa, so I guess that's the reason it flipped.) All right. The quarter is not the loaf of bread; the quarter purchases the loaf of bread.
Faith is what you have in God. And that, in recognition of God, for your faith, gives you the Holy Ghost that circumcises the heart and ears (Is that right?), makes you a new creature.

L-48 Now, God getting ready to deliver. We found out that he was, Moses was taking his own son down, for to deliver the children of Israel, uncircumcised. And Zipporah took a sharp stone, cut the foreskin off her child, and throwed it before him, said, "Thou art a bloody husband to me."
You know, did you ever study that right close? Moses had a temper, you know; that finally kept him out of the promised land: his temper. And God had set him back out there and give him a little high-tempered wife too. I bet they had some trouble on the backside of that desert, don't you? God knows how to tame you down. So He fixed him back out there with a little woman, shows. She cut that foreskin off and throwed it before him, said, "You're a bloody husband." My, He knowed how to fix him up, take that temper out of him. All right.

L-50 Then they went on down, and he done signs and wonders and miracles, And notice. Oh, my, I felt Something strike me. Look how that Jambres and Jannes, them two astrologers, stood there and performed the same kind of miracles that Moses and Aaron did, went right along with them.
Impersonations, brother, we got the world full of it today. The church is full of it today, carnal comparison. And there's one thing. Now, to cut this off, notice. As a great Bible teacher the other day, on the radio, said that Divine healing was of the devil, that the devil did Divine healing... I want you to find me the Scripture where the devil ever done Divine healing, where it was ever promised by him.
God said, "I'm the Lord," Psalms 103:3, "I'm the Lord Who healeth all of thy diseases."
And Jesus said, "If Satan cast out Satan, then his kingdom's divided against." He can't do it. He can't cast himself out. So all healing, no matter where it comes from, comes by God alone.


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