<TITLE>14. Par 32-34</TITLE>L-32 He did--did not do a thing within Himself until God showed Him a vision of what was being done. That's His own Word, Saint John 5:19. "Verily, verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing: that doeth the Son likewise. And He will show you greater things that this, that you may marvel." In other words, that man healed was diabetic, or prostate trouble, or whatever it was...
Now, watch when He went for that one man. He'd had a vision. Look at Him when Lazarus died. When He knowed Lazarus was going to die, He went away from the city. They sent for Him; He went another day's journey. They sent for Him; He went another day's journey. And then one day, He stopped, when He knowed the vision was just about fulfilled, and said, "Well, our friend Lazarus sleepeth."
And the disciples said, "He doeth well."
He said, "He's dead. And for your sake, I'm glad I wasn't there. But I go wake Him." Amen. What? God had showed Him what was going to take place, showed Him what was going to take place. "I go wake Him."
When Martha come and met Him on the road coming, she said, "If Thou had been here, Lord, Thy... my brother would not have died; but even now, whatever You ask God, God will do it." See? Jesus knew that He was going to wake Lazarus, for God had already showed Him. And He didn't do nothing but what the Father showed Him to do. Is that right? That's His Own Word.

L-33 Well, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He's working the same in His Church today, as He was yesterday, today, and forever. Is that right? He does what the Father shows.
All the prophets of old, some of them said, look at Elijah, lived to be nearly in his eighties, I guess. And he only done four miracles or eight, something like that, in all this time. He only done...
One man said to me, not long ago, said, "Why, Brother Branham, if that power was back on the earth, he would be just going through the hospitals, raising everybody up."
I said, "It did... Never did do it."
He said, "How about Elijah when he went up there and said, "Come up here and prove, and I'll show you Who is God."
He said, "If we had that same God in the world today, doing that," said, "the God of Elijah would come down."
I said, "Yes. If God, of Elijah told his prophet so, he would do the same thing."
He said, "Elijah done that for you?"
I said, "No, he never. When he made his sacrifice, and laid his stuff in order, and everything like that, he stepped out there, and said, 'Lord, I've done all of this at Your command (Amen.), Your command, what You say do, Lord, that I'll do.'"

L-34 Then Jesus in His Church today, would be just as powerless as your faith is, and just as powerful as your faith is. He'd be limited to whatever God would tell him to do, that he could do. And if Jesus was here tonight, He might stand before you, or you stand before Him, He'd tell you your life. He might know what was going on. He might know what you've done, or what sin's your life, or whatever it is wrong with you. But you're healing would have to come by God. Is that right?
Now, He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He's in His Church today. He puts His Church in order.


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