<TITLE>01. Par 1-6</TITLE>55-0114, Doctor Moses, Philadelphia Church, Chicago, IL, 49 min
L-1 Well, what do you know, just about--about two dozen never been in one of the campaigns before. We certainly welcome you, our beloved friend, and love with the Lord Jesus. May His Spirit stir you tonight and your emotions greatly to love Him more and more.
Now, this is always, fundamentally, the correct Word of God, the Bible, every bit of It inspired. And it's all God's Word, and God is in His Word. So if God is in His Word, then if you receive the Word, you receive God.
Now that is God's plan, God's motive, God's attitude, God's love, God's salvation. Everything rests in His printed Word. And if those Words are just like grains, or seed that you could pick out and swallow, every one of them would produce just exactly what it says it'll do here. But by faith we receive them.

L-2 Now, someone asked me sometime ago, said, "Brother Branham, when those visions come, what is that part of God?"
I said, "That's secondarily God's Word. If that would say something that wasn't according to this Bible, then it would absolutely be wrong. This is first."
And now, this is God. He said, "I'm the Lord that healeth thee." All the healing then comes from God. He's the One does the healing. All the Divine promises come from God, 'cause it's His Word to you and to me.

L-3 But now, perhaps here's a case that cannot mount up to that spot of faith that would believe... You know that's hard to do? Sometimes we in our emotions even try to accept Jesus as Saviour. But that don't mean we're saved.
You say, "Well, I believe." So does Satan. That doesn't mean you're saved. When you're saved, then you're give a seal of your salvation, the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
Abraham believed God by faith and it was imputed unto him for righteousness. But God gave him circumcision as a seal, or a confirmation of his faith. Faith is right. See?

L-4 Like a--a loaf of bread is worth--is worth ten cents, let's say. Well, here's the dime. Well, that's not the loaf of bread. But it's by the ten cents I purchase the bread. So it's by faith that I purchase salvation. Faith is not salvation. Faith purchases salvation. Faith... The dime paid for the loaf of bread, but the dime is not the loaf of bread. See?
So you believe God, and God confirms your faith by giving you back what your faith produces. You say, "I have faith to be healed." If you have, you're healed. God's obligated to His Word. You see it?

L-5 If you say, "I believe I'm saved." Then God gives you the Holy Spirit to confirm it, gives you the witness of the Holy Spirit. That's right. In your heart, every sin passes away, blackness turns to day, and the old man's gone, and a new man's borned again. When you--When you really believe...
But you say, "I believe." And then nothing happens. You go on living the same life, just simply, "I joined church." He never accepted it. See? But when He accepted it, something happened to you and then you become a new creature.
Same thing about Divine healing. You say, "I believe in Divine healing." Well, then you accept it, something happened. If you really believe, something happened. If you don't believe...

L-6 Now, my work for the Lord is to try to bring that person up to this level where their faith becomes, not negative, but positive. See what I mean?
Now, the disciples couldn't hardly believe Jesus. He'd taught so many riddles. He'd speak one way, and then back another way, and look like He contradict Himself and everything. But they couldn't understand those parables and--and no one could seem to understand Him.


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