<TITLE>16. Par 69-72</TITLE>L-69 Look. Here's grace. "I know you're a good man, a righteous man, and everything. But I'll not hear your prayer. Her husband is my prophet." Think of it: a little liar, backslid.
You say, "Brother Branham, I--I done something the other day. I'm afraid the Lord won't heal me tonight." Oh, yes, He will. Don't you get scared. You're a Christian; just set still. Repent for what you done wrong. See? That's right. See? Say, "Well, I--I backslid, brother." That don't make any difference. Repent and go on. See? You're scared.
The first little thing comes along, you turn your head one way. You think God's going to condemn you. Repent, that's all. Get right. You say, "Well, I..."

L-70 Now wait. There was Abraham, and anyone knows that God told Abraham not to leave Palestine. And any time that a person disobeys God, he backslides. Is that right? And because a drought come on, Abraham, instead of standing, facing the music, he went and done exactly what God told him not to do.
So if you do what God tells you not to do, you're backslid. So Abraham was setting out there backslid and telling a lie. But God couldn't turn His child down. He give him the promise, unconditionally.
He said, "That's My prophet. You take his wife back and restore him. If you don't, you're as good as a dead man. And let him pray for you." Who? Hallelujah. Who? Not that 'holier than thou art,' but My prophet setting out there. I'll hear his prayer." Hallelujah. There's the grace of God to the Holy Ghost church, and you don't recognize it.

L-71 The same thing that that hireling prophet Balaam seen when he looked down in Israel and he thought surely a holy God would curse a people that had lived with their mothers and all the things they had did, the ornery vulgar stuff. But He failed to see that smitten Rock, and that brass serpent going before Israel, making atonement.
That's what's the matter tonight. The people look down and say, "Pentecost did this, and Pentecost did that. And they're this a way and that way." They fail to see the smitten Rock, Jesus Christ, going before there in the power of the resurrection of the Holy Ghost. It's still the covenant people.
I know they talk about you and say, "This preacher run off with this man's wife." But over in their ranks they did the same thing. Don't tell me, I come out of it. I know it. They just got a lot of prestige to smother it down. And you have to stand and bear it. That's right.

L-72 But if you've got the Holy Ghost, you're God's child, you're Abraham's Seed. You got an unconditional covenant written in your heart by God Almighty Himself, Who can't take it back. Amen. He swore that He wouldn't do it. Hallelujah.
 Every promise in the Bible is mine,
 Every chapter, every verse, every line.
 I am trusting in His love Divine.
 Every promise in the Book is mine.
God's children, unconditionally... You don't deserve your healing tonight. There's not a one of us in here that deserves to even hear the Gospel. There's not a one of you deserves the grace of Jesus Christ, none of us. We're all all together. But God by grace has did it anyhow. That's right. There's none of you deserve your healing. Every one of you ought to die, me too, all of us. We're not deserved to live on the earth. That's right. We're not deserving to look at God's creation.
But God has promised us and He cannot lie. He swore that He would do it. Healing belongs to us. Amen. Salvation belongs to us. The Holy Ghost belongs to us. Heaven belongs to us. Now we're the sons of God. Now we're setting in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. There's nothing can harm us.


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