<TITLE>07. Par 16-18</TITLE>L-16 I went to a meeting here recently, and a man very well known (and a Baptist brother was setting with me), and he'd just got what... And you wonder why I'm not in the "Voice Of Healing." That's the reason. Everything going along like that. Why, brother...
A certain person in there that said they were setting before... in the room praying, and said God the Father sent two angels down and picked him up and took him up in the Presence of God. And said, "My son, I'm giving you the gift of Divine healing."
Now, that's wrong. There is no such a thing. There's... might... "a" gift, but not "the" gift. See? And taken before God the Father, no man has seen God and look at Him in His face like that. See? That's right. And said it... the Angels... And said, "He said, 'My son, I'm giving you the gift of Divine healing. And I'm sending you back to the earth and giving you power to open the eyes of the blind, to unstop the ears of the deaf," and so forth like that. And people reading that, shouting. Brother...

L-17 Now, this is kindly cutting it home tonight. But listen, this is what will do you... You might not like me now, but brother, at the day of judgment you'll see I've told you the truth and been one man that's honest with you. That's right.
Now, that's just as unscriptural as it can be. And when this Baptist brother come around, he said, "Brother Branham, I got your paper."
I said, "Not my paper."
He laid it down and said, "Look at this. What do you think of this?"
And I have nothing against the "Voice of Healing." But the trouble with the "Voice Of Healing"... Here's what I got away from it. It glorifies the man instead of the Christ. Christ is what we want to get glory. This man's got a tent, they out-seats this one. And this one out-seats that one. What--who is these men? Who are we? We're nothing but six foot of dust by the mercies of God. If we got what we deserve, we'd be in hell. That's exactly right.
It's Jesus Christ we're trying to exalt and point to. Not whether you got a half a dozen or ten thousand. What difference does that make? If you're looking for numbers, why, the Catholic church has done got us so snowed under... And the world has done got us beat altogether.
It's not numbers. God doesn't dwell in multitudes. He dwells in sincere hearts. Christ--what do you think Christ's crowd would have compared with Caiaphas' would've called over the nation? His little crowd of three or four, five thousand at a time when they gathered together and the people with Christ's day. But Caiaphas could have called three or four million together. So there you are. It don't... Not in crowds, friends. There's... Don't get that on your minds.

L-18 But this--this person said, this doctor of divinity, he said, "Brother Branham, did God do that?"
I said, "I'm going to beat you to it. Now, I can't say whether He did or didn't. I'm not to judge. But I'm going to say before you tell me, let me see him prove it." See? That's right. Let me see it proved, then I will believe it. See?
If God give the man power to open blinded eyes, it doesn't belong to God any more. It belongs to the man. If--if you give me the money to buy a suit of clothes, said, "Here Brother Branham, here's money to buy you a suit." It's not yours any more. It's mine.
If I am a healer, then I can heal. If God give me the power to open blinded eyes, then I can open them. That's my business then; it belongs to me. But God never give it to any man. He hasn't give it to me. And I don't believe there's any man living today that has it. And it ain't coming. Because that lays in Calvary, and it's already been done. It's... Only thing any man can do is point you to what's already been done for you in Jesus Christ. That's right. He is the Jehovah-jireh. He is God's Provided Sacrifice. And everything that you have need of, lays in Him.


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