<TITLE>05. Par 8-11</TITLE>L-8 And so, he seen what happened. He locked hisself in a room for three days, nailed hisself up and then come down to my place. And he said, "Brother Branham, I--my heart is stirred. You think God has give me a gift of Divine healing?" I looked at him. He was a promising young man. And I said... Very nervous, he just... You know how he is. Little bitty fellow and he... I said, "Brother Osborn, look. You don't understand what a gift of healing is, brother. A gift of healing is faith in healing." I said, "What you believe. If you believe it, of course, that's right. It's all by faith."
"But" I said, "Brother Osborn, you're a promising little man. And I see that you're--you... I believe you're a good level Scripture teacher." I said, "Let me ask you something. If you want to be a success in life, don't claim nothing you haven't got. It'll be showed anyhow after while that you're--you're falsely." See? I said, "Just be honest before God and go on out." I said, "You know... You believe the Bible teaches Divine healing?"
He said, "Yes, Brother Branham."
I said, "Teach that. God made you a preacher. And you go out and just preach the Word clear..." I said, "You see the old oak tree?" (Which that was Brother Bosworth.) I said, "Get with him and stay with him about a year. Let him teach you all the angles. But" I said, "he's been preaching Divine healing before I was borned. He was preaching Divine healing and holding meetings."
And Brother Osborn stayed with him about a year and a half, and he is one of the most solid man on the fields.

L-9 Now, here's what it's done, Christian friends. How many Holy Ghost people is here tonight, borned-again? Let's see your hands way up high now, Pentecostal people? All right. It's you I'm going to talk to. And I'm going to talk to you from the depths of my heart, which this is going in magazines now. In many magazines it'll go across the world (See?), what I'm going to say.
It's a--it's a pity that Christianity and Christian people can't settle down to real truth about things. It--it is. See?

L-10 Now, I'll tell you what. I have tried to follow the leadings of the Holy Spirit. When I first started praying for the sick, I started out and the people--they all seek after wonders and signs. The tr... I will say as Martin Luther, in his--in his no--footnotes in one of his sermons. He said, "The people goes after gifts instead of the Giver." That's true. See? They go after signs instead of the Giver.
Now, that's a whole lot among we people. I'm glad that if you'll let me call myself one of you tonight, among one of your group. That's what the trouble... Not only in our Pentecostal groups, but out yonder in the fundamental ranks too, it's a carnal comparison, friends. I say this with love. But it's got to a place the people see the--something done, then everybody tries to impersonate that same thing. And when they do that, it's not the truth, brother. They bring things which is unscriptural.

L-11 Here the other day, a man come in... A--a man drove all the way from California to my place with a--a little girl, about sixteen years old. And some fellow said, "I've got the Spirit like that too." Said, "I've got a spirit discernment." Said, "Oh, that girl's got cancer." And like to scared the little thing to death. They drove from California. That child didn't have no more cancer than no--than--than this little boy here is cross-eyed. See? Not a bit more.
The child was all right. Hundreds of people coming into the meeting. And here someone wrote to my secretary the other day, Mrs. Cox. And said, "You... I have the spirit of the discernment too." He said, "Of course, I know, Brother Branham, but" said, "you have gall stone, you have this and you..." Why, the list of things that long. Said, "The reason you're living up in a house that a stream of water runs under it." Friends, no wonder this world scorns and laughs at Divine healing.


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