<TITLE>11. Par 40-42</TITLE>L-40 Now, Jesus said that as Moses lifted up the brass serpent, just the same purpose, the same reason, so must the Son of man be lifted up. And if the type would let the people get well, how much more ought the antitype to do. If the brass serpent and a shadow would do it, what ought the reality to do? My. Amen. Well, here we go. I will... Oh, I just feel... I feel pretty religious right now. I really do. Yes. All right. The Lord bless you.
God's provided way for you tonight, no matter how many unbelievers, they could build big ecclesiastical troughs and run all the water off here, and all the water off there. But just the same the rain is a falling, "for whosoever will, let him come and drink." That's right. For Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever...
41      When you hear somebody say, "Brother Branham, a divine healer?" You know that man needs to go to the psychopathic cells, because he's not right here. Something's wrong. For anybody that would know a--think a man to be a healer, that's just a... The man is working under the inspiration of the devil. I could prove that by the Bible. That's exactly right. It was the devil who always put as question mark across the Word of God.
Looky here. When Jesus was on earth, He was a prophet. Do you believe it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] He said, "I don't do nothing till the Father tells Me."
They said, "Come down here and heal this one. Come over here and heal this one, we'll believe You." That same old ecclesiastical devil still lives, live right on: people, unbelievers. That's exactly.

L-42 Notice here. They put a rag around His face, and they hit Him on the head. Said, "Now, if You're a prophet, tell us who hit You. We'll believe You then." Jesus never opened His mouth. He didn't clown for people. Yet He knowed the woman at the well where here sin was. He knowed where Nathanael was when he was under the fig tree, what had happened. He knowed where a fish was had a coin in his mouth. He perceived the thoughts of the people. Is that right? But when it come to clowning for somebody, no, no, He didn't do that. He only done what the Father told Him.
Then they pinned Him on a cross. And here come the holy, renown scholars of the day. Let that soak in. Scholars, holy, renown, without a blemish, teachers, high-ups, come and said, before Him said, "Now, we'll give You a proposition in this wise, "You come down off the cross and we'll accept You as the Messiah."
Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, they don't even know what they're doing." There... He could've come off of there.
I believe that's an Angel setting in every bush, saying, "Lord just point Your finger; we'll change this scene here."
They said, "He saved others, but Himself He can't save." The greatest comment was ever give Him, if He save Hisself, He couldn't save others. He had to give Hisself to save others. But how little did they know it: blind leading the blind (See?), the same spirit.


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