<TITLE>05. Par 18-21</TITLE>L-18 And compare each one with Elijah. Said, "Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are. He prayed earnestly that it wouldn't rain. It didn't rain for three years and six months." See? That's it. Now, remember that. When you get sick, call your pastor. And if your pastor don't believe in Divine healing, call another pastor who does believe it. If he can't find any in your neighborhood, get that good old Christian mother, lives over there, that goes to prayer every day, or that old dad out yonder, an old red handkerchief sticking out of his pocket, and maybe a hands as calloused as it could be, an old blue patched shirt on. I'm telling you some of the truest hearts that beats, beat under an old blue shirt. It's exactly right. Yes, sir. I'd rather have his company, lot of times, than slickers, sometime, that go around with their collar turned around or something or other, and pat you on the back, and call you Brother Branham, walk away and tell something on you that'll ruin your character. I'd rather have somebody be honest with me, wouldn't you? That's right. I want somebody honest. Just be what you are. And God help the day that when we can come, when we can be just what we are. That's right. Just be just what we are. And God bless you now while I read His Word.

L-19 And now I'm reading tonight, out of Saint John and the 5th chapter and the 36th verse. I want to read this, just a little Scripture so that His Word will be to you as a Lamp to your feet to guide you tonight to His blessings that He has prepared for you.
But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father has given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father has sent me.
And the Father himself, which has sent me, has borne witness of me.

L-20 Isn't that beautiful? Jesus Christ saying, "Now, you all believe John; he was a prophet; he just preached away. You all went and believed him, and you know he was a prophet." Though he never done one miracle. But he was the greatest prophet that ever lived (Jesus said so), until his time. Said, "Never was a man borned of a woman as great as John the Baptist." He never done one miracle and only lived six months. But why was he so great? Because he bore a record of Christ. And when you see somebody giving God praise, and God glory, then you can realize that that person's coming from God. Isn't that... Giving God the glory. That's right.
And John said, "I must decrease and He must increase."
They said, "Are you the Messiah?"
He said, "I'm nothing."
But Jesus come around and said, "Oh, yes he is; he's the greatest from among women." That's better, don't you think? Let somebody else say it. Live so that somebody else will say it. That's the--that's the way to do it; do the right thing. Somebody, God will bear record for you.

L-21 Now, He said, now the... "I have greater witness than John," said, "because the very works that I do bear witness that the Father sent Me. And the Father himself bears witness of Me by the works He does through Me." Now, that's beautiful, isn't it?
Peter, on Acts 2:24, I believe it--22 or 24, he said, "You men of Israel," he said, "Jesus of Nazareth, a Man approved of God among you by signs and miracles which God did by Him in the midst of you all, which you, yourselves are witnesses..."
Now, Jesus, when He was here on earth, He didn't claim to be great. He was just a Man, an ordinary Man. If you'd see Him on the street, He didn't look any different than anyone else. He walked right among men; they didn't even know Who He was. He didn't dre--dress different. He just walked along as a humble Man. No great big man; He was probably a little thin fellow. The Bible said, "There's no beauty we should desire Him." So He just walked along and lived among men: eat, and drink, and slept with them. And where was He with? The poorest of poor, the fishermen down on the river.


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