<TITLE>06. Par 22-25</TITLE>L-22 And now, we found salvation that will save us from sin, that will take the vilest woman or man, drunkard, prostitute, and make them a child of God. Well, that same faith, that same power that will lift up a fallen man or woman with that, it'll work for us in many different ways. It will heal our bodies, if you can just find the right approach. You've got to find how to do it. Like if I had a--a farm over on this hill full of good corn, and it's just about dead on account of water. And I got an artesian well on this side of the hill. Well, I can't make that artesian well throw the water down here and up this side of the hill to water it, but I've got to survey that land and find out how that water will take it's own current and course and come around and water that crop. It'll do it if I'll just let it run in it's own channel.
And that's the same thing the Holy Spirit is in God's promise. If we'll just let It run It's way and not us get in the way, not us throw our doubts there, "cause this didn't and that didn't," just let God's Holy Spirit working in you rest upon the promise, it'll do just exactly what God said it would.

L-23 Abraham was an old man, a hundred years old, when God appeared to him in the Name of Almighty God. The "Almighty" there comes from the Hebrew word of the "El Shaddai" which means the bosom or breast of a woman. Now, he was old; his strength was gone. But El Shaddai is the Almighty, the strength Giver. And all Abraham had to do to obtain this promise was lay right on that promise, other words, like the baby to it's mother, and nurse from the mother, strength for the baby.
And we do the same thing when we come to God and see His promise. We just lay right to Him and draw from His Word the strength of God, given in its course, not taking our own mind; just believing it. "After He had endured, he obtained the promise." Oh, I just love that!

L-24 Now, the same thing works for salvation; same does it work for Divine healing. How God in His great love and infinite mercy give it to us. Now:
... saying: Surely I will bless thee and will multiply thee.
And so, after he had patiently endured, he endured... the promise.
 (Sixteenth verse:) For men verily swear by a greater, and a oath is confirmation (confirmed) is to them an end of all strife.
In other words if the oath is sworn, then that's the end of all things. If you come and say, "Brother Branham, I'll, as a Christian, put my hand upon the Bible and solemnly swear that I'll do a certain thing, if God will let me live to do it, I'll do it." All right. Then to me that's the end of all doubting. See? You have swore to me you that you'd do it.

L-25 And God swore to Abraham that He would keep this covenant with him and with his seed forever. God swore by Himself that He would do it. And in doing so, under the old law, when you made an oath under the old law, you killed a animal, cut it in two. And then, the two men on which the oath was taken by, stood between the animal, and they wrote out on a piece of paper a certain contract. And that piece of paper was torn apart and given to one and the other man, and they took a oath over this dead animal that if they broke that covenant between them, let them be as this dead animal.
So God, having no other to swear by, He swore by Himself, and He took the oath over the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, foreseeing it in a shadow. And in the covenant when He took Christ to Calvary, He tore His body and soul apart. And He lifted up His body to set on His right hand and sent back the Holy Spirit to be in the Christian, to do the same thing here in the church that He did in Christ when He was here on earth, and proving by that, that He will raise us up in the last days to set with Him and be with Him in His kingdom.


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