<TITLE>13. Par 42-45</TITLE>L-42 And one day two blind man... I'm only resting now just for a moment. The two blind man came through the streets and crying for mercy, and He never paid them any attention, because the Father hadn't showed Him nothing. And they went on into the house, and they brought the blind man to them and they cried for mercy, and He touched their eyes, saying, "According to your faith be it unto you." Is that right?
The woman, the Syrophenician woman, said, "As thou has believed, so be it unto thee." See? But now when the Father showed Him anything, He pronounced it.
Look at Him going through... How many believes He was loving and full of compassion and loved the people? Didn't look like very much of a display of that when He passed through the pool of Bethesda where great multitudes of impotent folks laid there: lame, halt, blind, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

L-43 And Jesus come right by every one of them and never touched a one. Full of love, full of compassion, He was more than that He was God. He was God invested... God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. You believe that? And He was... He moved right through there, the great Emmanuel, right through all those crippled and afflicted people and never touched a one of them.
But He knew where there was the man laying on a pallet that had had an infirmity thirty-eight years. Is that right? Could you imagine Him passing a little water-head baby, a poor old father drawed with arthritis, a blind mother with a bunch children at the home, Him passing right by? And He healed that man on a pallet. He wasn't going to die with that disease. He'd had it thirty-eight years, but the Father had showed Him where that one was.

L-44 And He healed that one, passed the rest of them by and went on about His business. The Jews questioned Him. The 19th verse of the same chapter, He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing. Whatever things the Father doeth, He showeth the Son and He doeth, the Son also. The Father worketh and I worketh hitherto."
See what I mean? Now, if He is risen from the dead, He said the things that I do, shall you also. Is that right? Now, He could perceive their thoughts, catch what they're thinking, so forth like that.
Well now, if He's risen from the dead and living in His Church, not just in here. I'm just one of His members. You're His Church. We're altogether one unit of believers.
You say, "Well, Brother Branham, I'm a Methodist though, but--but I've been borned again. I got the Holy Ghost." You're a believer. You're one of them. Say, "I'm a Presbyterian, Baptist or what..." That doesn't matter. As long as you've got the Holy Spirit, brother or sister, you're my brother and sister, you're God's son and daughter. See?

L-45 And the Spirit can move through us. Now, these things by our teachers is just cheated us from them. We ought to have been way up the road. How can we ever go in the rapture... Do you believe the Church will be raptured someday?
"We which are alive and remain shall not prevent them which are asleep. The trumpet of God shall sound; the dead in Christ shall rise first." How are we going to have rapturing faith when we haven't got healing faith? Hear me.
There's coming an hour that when the Church of Jesus Christ shall rise in Her beauty, signs and wonders will fall from everywhere, and I believe that hour is at hand. Amen.
How do you do, lady? I'm a stranger to you, lady. You're a stranger to me. I know nothing of you. God knows you, but here's a perfect case again of our Master talking to a--to a Samaritan woman. It was a woman of another race. The Samaritans was a different race from the Jews. Just like we're two races. I be a white man. You're a colored lady.


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