<TITLE>11. Par 33-36</TITLE>L-33  "...that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works." And they questioned him one time about some things, 'cause He went through a pool where there was a great big multitude of--of lame, halt, blind, twisted people; the pool of Bethesda. How many remembers the story? Let's see your hands. And He never healed a one of them, and went over to a man laying on a pallet, and made him well. You remember the story? Well, if it--looked like if He was full of love and compassion, He'd have healed all of them. But now, watch. The Jews questioned Him.
In the 19th verse of the same chapter He said, "Verily, verily (That's absolutely, absolutely.), I say unto you, the Father... I do nothing of Myself, but what the Father shows Me, that I do." Is that right? How many knows that's the Scripture: Saint John 5:19? "Whatsoever things the Father doeth, He showeth the Son. He'll show you greater than this that you may marvel." Is that true?

L-34 Now, look. Jesus claimed that He done nothing except the Father showed Him by vision. Now. Now remember, look at the resurrection of Lazarus. He went away when He knowed Lazarus was going to die. He went away. 'Course they criticized that. And they sent for Him. He didn't come. They sent again; He just went on. But He said then on the... After a few--a few days He said, "Our friend Lazarus sleepeth." The Father had showed Him what was going to happen. He knowed after so many days it would take place.
He said, "Well, if he sleepeth he doeth well"
But said, "But I go wake him."
And at the grave look what He said, "Father, I thank Thee, that Thou has already heard Me. But for these that stand by I said it." Is that right? See? See, He'd seen a vision. Now, He knowed their thoughts. He knowed what they were doing.

L-35 Someone said, "Brother Branham, you looking out over the audience and know what the people are doing and so forth out there, did you know that's reading those people mind? That's mental telepathy?" Well, then Jesus Christ read the people's minds. I didn't hear one amen. But that's the truth. Did the Bible say He perceived their thoughts? How many says that? Let's see. Well, what's perceiving a thought? See, it's not that counterfeit that the devil has setting on the corner. That's in a little old psychic hand, guessing at a few things; that's--that's just a pattern. That's just a bogus what the--the Lord has.
God had a prophet named Samuel. Is the witch of Endors could almost do the same thing he did, but she wasn't of God; she was of the devil. See? There's a false gospel that goes out, just a form of godliness but denying the power thereof. It's just the false thing of what God's got of the real Gospel. See what I mean? There's always a true and false. Jesus wasn't a, what you call, a psychic mind reader. He had the power of God in Him that did the thing.

L-36 Did you ever read of the--of the Urim in the Bible where they looked up on it, that breastplate that give the... Where God would talk through that breastplate. Now, the devil made a crystal gazer for his substitute for that. The Urim and Thummim, you--you brethren know it. They looked up on it and the lights changed that when God would ac--sanction something, which is a tip--a type of the Word of God. The three ways that God talks through the prophet, through dreams, through the Urim; through the Bible, through the revelation, through the prophet. Same way today. See? This is the Urim here.
Now, and then if any dream or any vision or anything you have doesn't compare with This, it's not God talking. But if it's right on This, then it's God talking. See? So Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever; in His church, the same Pillar of Fire, doing the same signs and wonders.


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