<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 Someone not long ago said, "For the glory of God, Brother Branham, I got a little girl here that's crippled, and I want you to heal her for the glory of God, then I'll believe you." And just so happened that there's was an infidel standing near.
I said, "What more glory would it be for the little girl to be healed than it would be for a sinner to come to the Lord?" I said, "Here stands a man that's a absolutely an unbeliever, a perfect infidel. You save him, and I'll heal the child." I said, "For the glory of God... This little girl will go to heaven if she dies in that case. But that man can't go to heaven in his case. Now, for the glory of God you save him, and I'll heal the girl."
There you are. See? It's all based on the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. If you was a sinner, you'd come tonight you couldn't be saved tonight. You would have to accept your salvation that was paid for you nineteen hundred years ago. See? Jesus saved you when He died. That's when He saved you. But you have to accept it when He knocks at your heart. Then you accept your salvation; you accept Jesus as your personal Saviour. He was wounded for your transgressions; with His stripes you was healed. You have to accept Him as your Healer on the same basis you accept Him as your Saviour.

L-6 If that isn't the Gospel, I--I don't know it then, 'cause all these years; that's the Gospel as clear as I know. There's no man could save you; he can only present the Word of God to you. That's the only thing he could do. It's God's written Word he could present it. You act upon what you believe, whether it's true or not.
And then in Divine healing is the very same thing. There's no man could heal you. Even doctors don't claim to heal you. They can remove a cause, something that the senses can see or feel. But they can't heal, 'cause God's the only one can heal.
We haven't got a doctor that can build a tissue. If he could, he could build an arm out like this that'd been cut off. See? He could--you could cut a place up and go in the doctor's office and he'd build up a tissue and you'd come back out perfectly brand new.
You go in a doctor's office with a broken arm, he'd set it together, and mend it together, and heal it over, come back out in a few minutes, your arm be perfectly whole. You can't do that. The doctor can... If you got a place cut, he can sew it up. If you got a place broke, he could set it. But God does the healing...?... That's right.

L-7 So God is the Healer. And God is the Saviour. Psalms 103:3 said, "I'm the Lord Who forgiveth all thy iniquities and healeth all of thy diseases." So it has to come through God.
And now we want to approach this my friend sanely, reverently, and Scripturally. It must come from the Scriptures. And if it's not in the Scriptures and the meeting is not carried on absolutely Biblical and Scripturally, then it's wrong. It's just some make-up, mythical, but not real.
So it must come Scripturally. We must approach it sanely, and reverently, and faithfully to believe it.

L-8 Now, in the meetings as they go on, now I have noticed that many times people in wondering why that I can't get to no more than what I do. It's because of weakness, not weak physically. I'm, thank the Lord, very strong physically. And when it comes to a place of--of preaching or to what I... I guess I could preach three of four services a day and not pay any attention to it, as far as being weak.
But one time of a vision will pull the life from me. Surely Christians can understand that. See? It's not me that does the work. It's you yourself. You're the one who does it, your faith in God. I just stand as His servant. And then, when your faith is built to a place till it pulls from--pulls God... And God only uses my lips to say to you what He would say. Do you understand?


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