<TITLE>07. Par 25-29</TITLE>L-25 Jesus, went into a city and--where He was borned at, and He said, "Many mighty works He could not do--He could not do because of their?" [Congregation says, "Unbelief"--Ed.] Correct. They had to believe it. Watch the approach, watch anyone. Look at that woman, how she touched His garments, and got healed. But look at the Roman soldier, who put a rag around His face, and hit Him on the head, and said, "Now, if you're a prophesier, see visions, tell us who hit you." He didn't feel no virtue, 'cause he didn't believe it in the first place.
But that woman, felt virtue, or He felt virtue leave, because the woman had faith. She got what she come for, 'cause she approached it right. That's the reason the Shunammite woman, before Elijah, which was God's representative, she got what she asked, because she approached God's gift reverently. That's the reason Martha got what she asked, when Lazarus was dead, because she approached God's Gift reverently. See? You've got to believe it. Without faith...

L-26 Now, it isn't me. You say, "Brother Branham, can you tell me what's wrong with me?" No, sir, I cannot. That's right. But if--if you will believe it with all your heart, now, not imagine it, but believe it with your heart, God will tell you about it.
But now, I don't know what I'm saying. I can hear myself, but I'm in another world--another... It's a--it's a sixth sense, or a fourth dimension, it's--or whatever it is. It's in the dimension that these pictures and things...?... in now. We will just take it like that for a discussion sake. Or the voices, that's coming through here, even taped singers, singing now; there's people screaming; there's all kinds of things going on, air waves going through here, but you can't pick it up. A radio could. These pictures coming through here; you can't see that. There's no way for you to...?... but the television would show them.

L-27 Now, you see, some is set in for television, some set in for voice, some set in for something, and something else, and they can't help that. It's something... Now, the television set is--the television is a--is a mute, and so is the radio, a deaf and dumb mute, unless there's something operating it. There'd have to be a sending station to send forth that wave, or no matter how much radio you had, it would never make a noise. Is that right? It's absolutely a mute. And so would I be towards visions, a absolutely a mute, unless there is a Holy Ghost here to send forth that power of God, to do just exactly what Jesus said He would do in these days. See? Now--now, it's a gift of God. Now, that's what makes me weak.

L-28 Now, for instance, we stand back at the fence, me and these little boys and girls--a few minutes. We're back at the fence again. Now, that's when you're using Gods gift. Now, what if God wants to use His own gift? No strain for me, I don't have to come under it. I will just be walking along the street, or setting in the house, or--or anywhere else, and God appears to me, and He tells me. That don't make me weak, that makes me happy.
And now, at the fence, the ring master, or the owner of the carnival, comes over, the circus, said, "Do you want to see the whole thing? I want to show you something." He just gets me by the back of the neck and raises me up, and said, "You see over here? This is what's going to take place here. This giraffe is going to come around, do this, and this, so-and-so, and here's going to be the whole show."

L-29 Now, on the platform here, it's just merely your--your faith pulling in that gift. And He...?... maybe sometimes, vision breaks, and tells what all is taking place. But now, when God gives a vision, He just picks up like that. I don't know when it's going to happen. And He shows me, "Now, you go to a certain place; you stand there. There'll be just a certain time." I might be in that city, fifty--a hundred--two--or two thousand miles away, it'll happen just like this.


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