<TITLE>04. Par 12-15</TITLE>L-12 Now, before you can be saved ... I hear many times, say, "Oh, it hit me in the face like a rushing mighty wind." Well, that might be right, but that wasn't why you were saved. You were saved because you believed. No matter what other experience went with it, first thing, you had to believe. And if you didn't feel anything, Jesus never did ask people did they feeled it. It isn't by feeling; it's by faith; so you believe it. And you get up from there and something in your heart tells you you're saved. You go out and you tell people, "I'm saved." You confess you're saved. You believe you're saved. You act like you're saved, and it works salvation. And after while, the whole world knows that you're--or your associate, knows that you're saved; because you believe you're saved. But the moment that you think that you're not saved and quit testifying of being saved, you go right back down into the same rut. Is that right? Why? He can't work--do nothing for you, 'cause He's the High Priest of your confession.
Now, He's the High Priest of your confession; He was wounded for your transgressions, with His stripes you were healed. Now, when you accept your healing (not here at the platform, right where you're setting in your seat) and say, "Lord, I truly believe that Your Word is the Truth, and I now accept You as My Healer." If you can believe that in your heart, if you can really believe it, then all doubt passes away.

L-13 I find here at the platform about ninety-five percent of the people... Excuse me. May I change that? Ninety-nine percent of the people has hope instead of faith. Oh, say, "I got all faith, Brother Branham." Well, what you doing here then. See, see, see? Your works prove it. See?
Now, faith knows no defeat. Faith is perfect. Hope... You say, "Well, I--I believe there is. I--I'm hoping for that thing." But ho-- "Faith is substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." So when you believe it, then you go out. You say, "I'm healed," 'Cause in your heart you believe it. Then you act like it: confess it to others, and tell people, and it just works healing just the same as it does salvation. You understand that now? Whatever He says to do, do it.

L-14 Now, on the platform, when the Holy Spirit's a speaking, and He's speaking through mortal lips, He always does... I believe these are ministers behind me. And, brethren, you never preached a sermon in your life: the Holy Spirit preached through you a sermon. That's right. See? See that? See? We don't preach. The Holy Spirit does the speaking. Oh, we might write out something and read it, but that--that isn't preaching. Preaching is when inspiration comes and (See?)--and it's preached by inspiration and the Holy Spirit gives the unction.
Now, we can read something, and it just doesn't matter, but when the Holy Spirit gets ahold of it and takes it out to the people, then something takes ahold. See? And that's the Holy Spirit. That's not your pastor preaching; that's the Holy Spirit preaching in your pastor out to you, giving the message.

L-15 Well then, somebody speaks under inspiration. That--he doesn't know what he's saying. Another man interprets under inspiration, and directs the message straight to someone and tells them where their trouble, what's happened, and--and different things to do. That's all inspiration. It's the Holy Spirit. Then He--He sends those gifts into the church. Pastor, preacher, teaching, apostles, prophets, and all those things are gifts of God, that goes together for the perfecting of the church, or the saints then. It all is one big unit of God. No matter whether we belong to this church or that church or that church, as long as we're borned of the Spirit of God, we're sons and daughters of God. Isn't that wonderful? Wouldn't it be nice tonight, if all Christians could see that? Wouldn't that--wouldn't we have a revival?


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